Ukrainian politics has featured many eyebrow-raising characters, including Darth Vader. But a west Ukrainian mayor has made perhaps the most shocking appointment of all—by hiring Vladimir Putin as an advisor.
Alexander Simchshin, mayor of Khmelnitsky and from the pro-EU party Svoboda, has asked Putin to use his security expertise to advise him, news agency Ukrainskie Novosti reported Thursday.
The new hiring is not quite an extension of an olive branch to the Russian Kremlin on the Ukrainian city’s behalf. For Khmelnitskiy’s latest mayoral aide is just the Russian president’s namesake.
Around 20 years the leader’s junior, Vladimir Vasilievich Putin, 44, is …read more
Source: Newsweek
