Viktor Medvedchuk at his office in Kiev ( Oliver Carroll )
The Independent: The return of the godfather: How Putin's best friend in Ukraine is staging an improbable comeback
Viktor Medvedchuk counts Vladimir Putin as godfather to his daughter and his looking to put himself back on the political map
He is known to his critics as Ukraine’s Prince of Darkness, a toxic presence. But Viktor Medvedchuk would like people to know that he’s back.
The former lawyer, a man who counts Russian president Vladimir Putin as godfather to his child, was one of the very first people to be included on US sanctions lists.
He was largely sidelined and forgotten after the Euromaidan protests. Yet the pro-Russian operator seems to be engineering an improbable comeback, leveraging in his position as the only Ukrainian capable of negotiating with the Kremlin. First, he was invited to become a special representative at the Minsk peace process – aimed at ending the conflict in eastern Ukraine - and is in charge of prisoner exchanges.
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WNU Editor: If the Ukraine government permits him to vote, he will win the Russian-Ukrainian vote, and with it a huge number of parliamentary seats. In short .... in the legislature he will be in a position to hold the balance of power.
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