Ukraine was in an uproar On Monday over the appointment as deputy interior minister of a 24-year-old woman who made her name by posing nude and working for a Russian-backed party.
The surprise pick was quietly revealed last Thursday and went largely unnoticed until bloggers and politicians found it on the ministry’s official website.
Ukraine’s Interior Minister Arsen Avakov is known as a somewhat controversial figure who often uses Facebook to critique his political rivals and disperse information that does not always correlate with facts.
The new Deputy Interior Minister Anastasia Deyeva had previously served as one of Avakov’s advisers.
She also posted naked pictures of herself on social media sites and later worked as an assistant in the Party of Regions of the deposed Moscow-backed president Viktor Yanukovych.That group has been disbanded but Deyeva’s star has only soared.
Gerashchenko said the main problem was that Deyeva was picked without a public competition or government discussions over the assignment.
Deyeva will be now charged with issues concerning the pro-Western former Soviet republic’s integration with Europe.
Mustafa Nayem — co-leader of Ukraine’s February 2014 pro-EU revolution — said the problem was not Deyeva’s age but the corruption and insider dealings permeating the country nearly three years after street protests appeared to herald change.
Nayem currently serves in parliament and is widely viewed as one of the few Ukrainian politicians willing to fight and expose state graft.
The interior ministry is especially sensitive because it oversees a portion of the troops waging a 30-month war against pro-Russian eastern insurgents that has claimed nearly 10,000 lives. AFP
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