I am not sure that every country has a recipe to control crisis; no doubt, we have no receipt yet and we are but extras in the world economic decision making. There is no hope for fresh ideas from Ukrainian administration concerning such modern economic challenges taking into account that we failed to tackle yesterday problems thus far.

Many a man in Ukraine have found and ideal and comfortable method of existence, when laws do not function, money and personal agreements are rated higher than statutes, when everything can be purchased and there’s jack in everything. It is a very comfortable country where you can live high. There is but one little unpleasant nuance for majority: the model of coexistence of power and society, the mode of government is not always just. There is no such thing as justice on the quality management list.

Proceeding from the assumption that public administration is intended to render administrative and managerial services to population we should exert ourselves and re-educate the bureaucracy elite which is expected to become a trustworthy public manager.

No politician after Roosevelt and Churchill managed to carry on such dialog with the nation: heart-to-heart talk, acknowledgements, sincerity, confession of mistakes, and suggestions like “at the moment I think we should do as follows.” We have nothing of the kind.

Our top administration is traditionally irresponsible and permissive. It is easygoing, because it is well aware that nobody brings it to book. Today it is accentuated by the fact that top men are intertwisted with business being confident that they have got it licked. They consider policy as a source of benefits for their businesses, group etc. The question is how long can it last and if the society finds strength to overcome it.

To my mind, the main problem is the present administration does not go about the needs of the country; it goes about its own interests. The politicos fight for their offices, and not for their country.

It is difficult to live in the society which does not trust in top administration and averts its eyes from it. However, there is a hope as far as every tenth understands that there is a need to change the rules of the game and quit shuffling Tymoshenko, Yushchenko, and Yanukovych.

Actually, until now this institute has stayed aloof of the constitutional changes and goes on following the old Constitution, that is, it prefers unconstitutional activity. The moment this problem is solved, the normal political process will begin in Ukraine like in Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, and elsewhere.

The Ukrainian state is very weak; the administration is incapable of quality management, tackling of key domestic problems. Therefore it is natural that society does not trust these administrators. No political force can play the role of Sovereign… the responsibility for common interests including.

Actually, a new state is to be created that can meet social challenges and adhere to certain principles resulting from some constituent process on the basis of defined authority. Meanwhile nobody can find a responsible person if there is one.

Fish not only begins to stink at the head: it forms its body from the head. The authority in its motivation, stylistics, and architectonics inevitably imitates the top man, because all little deputies copy the big president. One can hardly differentiate tsardom from living in idleness and plenty; the tsardom is a quintessence of living in idleness and plenty. And management is about serious effort and efficiency. Both tsardom and living in idleness and plenty are models, in which consumption is greater than efficiency; it is a sort of different power balance. And management means the prevalence of efficiency.

We live in the state controlled by parties-corporations, which for the sake of it are eager to destroy each other, state and society, that is all of us.

The new elite surfaced by some politicians, these new people have no idea what elite is about. These big cheeses cotton on money–power motivation and their tremendous buzz like glamour, pull and haughtiness. They will be more cruel, cynical, and dull rulers, than we used to know.

There are advantages in stagnation and external dependence: the state cannot perish, it can go on like now for 40 years and more, and all the time Ukraine will be a golden ball for "always young Kremlin" and "constantly ageing Washington".

"Reforms under the lash" are rather not half reforms, but imitation of reforms. We have no match creating Potemkin villages and standards of eyewash. I do not believe that the present generation of politicians can carry out reforms: in fact, neither Yushchenko, nor Tymoshenko, nor Yanukovych are reformers and understand the value of reforms.