Vice Premier Serhiy Tyhypko may well face this choice.
Mr. Tyhypko took his appointment as Head of the Presidium of the CIS Intergovernmental Economic Committee without hesitation or reservation.
Interfax-Ukraine states that he is confident in his new post, following Boris Berezovsky’s promotion as CIS Executive Secretary, giving the Commonwealth “pragmatism,” the lack of which he defined as the organization’s penchant for “impractical tasks and slogans that cannot be fulfilled.” This is supposed to corroborate not only the Ukrainian Vice Premier’s high self-esteem, but also his being versed in CIS objectives and strategy.
Today, however, CIS functionaries are from time to time diverted from their own ambitious lucrative business projects, having to concentrate on a global, even though inherently impractical mission assigned by Russian capital being enhanced by its oil and natural gas transactions: creating what is described as a single economic space. For businessmen of Mr. Berezovsky’s caliber assessing weaker markets is, of course, quite attractive. Why not use a capable Ukrainian economist with a good reputation?
While working under Boris Berezovsky, Serhiy Tyhypko is likely to get involved in designing this “single space,” the more so that the Ukrainian Cabinet passed a resolution recently, ordering certain steps in this direction, perhaps eventually to end in an economic alliance evolving into the Soviet Union which used to be warily respected while causing so much worry in every part of the world spared the privilege of building the communist paradise.
So much for the pragmatic aspect, although money is most likely the crux of the matter, including subsidies for the presidential campaign.






