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Meet Janika Merilo: Ukraine's New Minister For Attracting Investment

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A month ago we discussed the influx of 'foreigners' to help the Ukraine government 'manage' the country. As UA Today reports, foreign appointments have become a key part of Ukraine's mission to reform its economy and crack down on corruption (and ensure American interests are taken care of?) and now boats 3 non-Ukrainian cabinet members. And now a 4th non-Ukrainian - Estonian Jaanika Merilo - will step up to the plate 'tasked with bringing more foreign investment into Ukraine and improving the country's business climate'. We suspect she will have some success...

 

 

As UA Today reports,

3 non-Ukrainians already cabinet ministers including American Natalie Jaresko

 

Jaanika Merilo has become the latest foreign national to join the Ukrainian government. The Estonian has taken up a position as an advisor to the minister for economic development who is himself also a foreigner - Lithuanian Aivaras Abromavicius. Merilo will be tasked with bringing more foreign investment into Ukraine and improving the country's business climate.

 

Foreign appointments have become a key part of Ukraine's mission to reform its economy and crack down on corruption. The country now boasts three non-Ukrainians in the ranks of its cabinet. Alongside Abromavicius are US-born Natalie Jaresko as finance minister and Alexander Kvitashvili, who is now Ukraine's Health Minister. All three were granted Ukrainian citizenship just hours before they took up their posts.

 

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Merilo's appointment means there are now two high-profile foreigners working in the ministry for economic development. They will undoubtedly need all their international experience to help pull Ukraine out of recession, with the economy having contracted by some 7.5% in 2014.

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We wish her luck...

NOTE: The images above have mysteriously disappeared from Merilo's Facebook page

h/t @ValLisitsa

 

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Fri, 01/09/2015 - 21:30 | 5644462 lakecity55
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Nah, too old.

Fri, 01/09/2015 - 16:49 | 5643363 A Fist Full of Fiat
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Fri, 01/09/2015 - 17:02 | 5643434 Panic Mode
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I can tell, she can do a great *lip* service.

Fri, 01/09/2015 - 17:02 | 5643437 swmnguy
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What the fuck are they doing in Ukraine?  This woman was created in a lab.  The pictures are beyond weird.  The CV graciously provided by SickDollar is terrifying, if you're a Ukrainian.  Looks like this vamp was one of the bagmen for the looting of Estonia in 2008.  We've gotten to the point where we're putting actual Bond villains in charge of the countries we're turning into puppet states?  Good Lord.

Fri, 01/09/2015 - 17:36 | 5643570 Bastiat
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I've been thinking about going back and re-reading bond novels I read as a kid - I really think Fleming was trying to tell us something.

Fri, 01/09/2015 - 20:35 | 5644248 UselessEater
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yeh but meanwhile I'm in love with sick dollar, he presented one of the best 'Bond" novels ever without the agony of a book or movie and made it a comedy to boot!!!

Fri, 01/09/2015 - 17:04 | 5643443 Bankster Kibble
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Perfect advert for "misadventures with botox."

Fri, 01/09/2015 - 17:06 | 5643459 Zymurguy
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I'd go balls deep in that!

Sat, 01/10/2015 - 04:20 | 5645145 dreadnaught
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i'd hit her up the dirt route with a metal spiked strap-on

Fri, 01/09/2015 - 17:10 | 5643475 A Fist Full of Fiat
Fri, 01/09/2015 - 17:18 | 5643508 mendolover
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I caught a Tautog once.  Same exact lips.  What a pig.

Fri, 01/09/2015 - 17:38 | 5643534 hoist the bs flag
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lots of haters here...liars too. None of you would kick her out of bed.

Fri, 01/09/2015 - 19:17 | 5643955 swmnguy
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Probably not, you're right there.  But give her any responsibility?  Let her out of my sight for a second?  Let her know where I live or keep my stuff?   Do what you like in your spare time, or whom you like as the case may be, but keep the bunny-boilers away from the Ministry of Commerce.

Fri, 01/09/2015 - 17:45 | 5643587 Son of Captain Nemo
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Is this the reality version of Ms. "Alotta Fagina"?

Like it came from the pages of a Mike Myers Austin Powers sequel!...  And everything else we've witnessed these last 13 years from the "Doctor Evil" establishment in Washington, Tel Aviv and London!

Only the reality version is too weird and certainly not "fucking" funny!

 

Fri, 01/09/2015 - 17:49 | 5643609 YHC-FTSE
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We used to have a word to describe people like her when I was a kid: Spastic.

That entire country has gone full retard. It's a natural progression.

Fri, 01/09/2015 - 18:04 | 5643616 NuYawkFrankie
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Looks like she could suck the chrome off a ZIL Stretch-Limo's tailpipe - and then some....

Fri, 01/09/2015 - 17:54 | 5643626 Al Tinfoil
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If hookers and blow are legitimate additions to GDP elsewhere, why not in Ukraine?

Fri, 01/09/2015 - 18:06 | 5643674 Dre4dwolf
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Where do I shove all these singles? in her g string or in her brassiere?

Fri, 01/09/2015 - 18:07 | 5643680 loveyajimbo
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Those lips are natural and real

 

Farty Marty Armstrong

Fri, 01/09/2015 - 18:11 | 5643697 omi
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Does she do anal?

Fri, 01/09/2015 - 20:29 | 5644222 RyeWhiskey
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Yes

Sat, 01/10/2015 - 04:16 | 5645141 dreadnaught
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and she DEMANDS NO LUBE!

Fri, 01/09/2015 - 18:18 | 5643729 Hamm Jamm
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PUTIN has found his match ....     LOL

they'll have such good looking children

just keep them away from the billionaire Pedo club ...  for some reason billionaires like to rape small children

Ot oh is that another terrorist attack ? ...   shit, i forgot what i was talking about

 

Fri, 01/09/2015 - 18:31 | 5643783 subscriptionblocker
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One of the best threads in a long time.....bet the reality is even funnier.

Owwww...now I go visit the doctor.

Fri, 01/09/2015 - 18:40 | 5643810 MarsInScorpio
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The woman is a whore from the word "Go!"

 

No serious business woman would allow the world to see them in those poses. It's a combination of soft-core slut and hard-core psycho.

 

It's obvious this woman made it up the PR ladder with her eyes - and legs - wide open. Nothing on her list denotes anything involving serious financial decision-making. It's all Chamber of Commerce type fluff - something to make her look like a professional while all she really does is shake hands and sleep with the oligrachs.

 

This just shows the depth of depavity that the .01% is today. Now they have no shame of putting their escorts out there in plain view. It is truly an in-your-face statement that they consider themselves gods - far away from any need to appear respectable.

 

This is the surest sign of the end of Western civilization; total decadence preceeding total collapse.

-30-

 

Fri, 01/09/2015 - 18:50 | 5643859 Romanov
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Then she will fit right in with the junta government in Kiev!

Fri, 01/09/2015 - 18:47 | 5643842 jm
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She is hot and young.  So what? If she is capable, it is a step in the right direction.  Clean shake-out of the corrupt and incompetent establishment is what is necesary. 

I love what is going on in Ukraine.  I wish them all the best in overcoming the history of being shackled to a ruthless and exploitative Russia.  

Superb article in NYT:

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/04/sunday-review/the-next-battle-for-ukraine.html?action=click&contentCollection=Europe&module=RelatedCoverage&region=Marginalia&pgtype=article

Fri, 01/09/2015 - 19:03 | 5643898 Latina Lover
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So you like civil wars, economic collapse, neo nazi's marching in the streets, IMF austerity, nuclear accidents and a disintegrating state? 

You think it's better to be shackled to a ruthless and exploitive USSA instead?  Just ask the average Ukie if they are better off today than they were 12 months ago.

Fri, 01/09/2015 - 20:55 | 5644322 jm
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Spare me the crap.  You dare not ask the average Russian if they were better off 12 month ago.  Neo-nazis matching in the streets, what a joke.  The Russian military invaded their country.         

In the immortal words of your challenged compatriot vdav:  "Useless talkings.  Worry about your own country."     

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Most of you kooks have no clue how the real world works because you either live in a white supremacist compound, in a lunatic asylum, under a rock, or are part of an al qaeda sleeper cell.  You know, a kook.

The job is marketing Ukraine to secure foreign investment.  Repeat: she is in marketing.  Marketing is populated by hot chicks. 

Fri, 01/09/2015 - 23:59 | 5644803 MsCreant
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Do you think it is a lie that the CIA went in there to help topple the government that was in place (I know they were crooks, that is not my question)?

Do you believe that the government that is currently in place was elected fair and square?

Do you believe the Russians are just straight up evil, gunning for a war just because?

Your comment on marketing makes sense. I had jobs (not at that level) like that when I was younger. You need to be smart and interesting to get them to sign on the bottom line.

I am sorry you write us all off as "kooks."

Sat, 01/10/2015 - 01:40 | 5644912 jm
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I think the CIA exploited a situation. The situation was that the Ukrainain people had enough.  Enough of corruption, enough of terrible governance, enough of the stooge that Putin put in charge.  This stooge, Yanukovych, was living in a freaking palace that would put Versailles to shame if it wasn't in such miserably poor taste.  This isn't an opinion: a picture is a thousand words.  Yet the general populace was getting poorer and more and more enslaved to the Putin Regime.

http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/2/1a93ade2-e727-11e3-88be-00144feabdc0.html#slide0

Yanukovych's loyalistthugs opened fire on non-violent protesters in Kiev, killing dozens in cold blood.  And when that bastard heard the army was going to end his ass, he ran to momma Putina.  That's the ZH hero.  Hold your heads high.

You know why Putin invaded?  Because he gave Ukraine $11 billion in early 2013 to avert default.  he didn't like that they kicked his murderous lackey Yanokovych out.  He was willing to pay $11 billion cash to bribe Ukraine into pretending the Soviet Union was still in existence.  This is a fact, you can't hide $11 billion.  

Yet you have an army of liars that exist on this site only to twist everything.  I hate it.  It's a peave I have.   

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Note I said "most", but don't take that as backpeddling.  I'm not holding out much hope based on what few the comments I read.  An incredibly lunatic fringe has created an atmosphere hostile to life itself. Tell a lie or scream "false flag" often and kill any vitality and any attempt to honestly figure things out, leaving only dulled and shambling despair. If there is a silent majority that objects to wishing jews or muslims dead, or cities nuked, or doesn't celebrate the taking of life through suicide and murder, or can see nothing good about America yet sees everything that is bad--well, I sure as hell don't hear many objections anymore. 

Junk away.

 

Sat, 01/10/2015 - 04:14 | 5645138 dreadnaught
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are you an idiot or just pretending to be?

Sat, 01/10/2015 - 06:48 | 5645224 Fractal Parasite
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Couldn't get a worthy job that your non-existent friends would respect you for? Was the money so tempting that you were willing to sell out humanity by sucking the cock of its enemy? Well, enjoy the money, son, 'cause no-one's gonna love you, not even your masters.

Fri, 01/09/2015 - 18:49 | 5643844 Anunnaki
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Defiinition of a failed state. Voting in an oligarch to deal with corruption as your president

Fri, 01/09/2015 - 18:57 | 5643878 Other Mr T
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She looks like a fun loving party girl, but Ukraine is Somalia with disintegrating nuclear power plants, oligarch warlords and nazi gangs and foreign mercenaries. Biggest industry is sex slave sales. Does she realize what she's getting into?

Fri, 01/09/2015 - 19:00 | 5643890 Satan
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Please allow me to make the first deposit....

Fri, 01/09/2015 - 22:10 | 5644562 Abbie Normal
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As Satan, you probably have the ability to travel back in time about 20 years to be the first.

Fri, 01/09/2015 - 19:08 | 5643925 Barnaby
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Let me guess, she's highly allergic to Yulia Tymoshenko's perfume?

Fri, 01/09/2015 - 19:13 | 5643931 Joe Tierney
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She gots a face like a baluga...

 

Can you git any caviar eggs from er?

 

Would you want 'em anyway?

Fri, 01/09/2015 - 19:18 | 5643960 tumblemore
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Ukraine is being enslaved by the banking mafia in broad daylight.

 

Fri, 01/09/2015 - 19:25 | 5643964 layman_please
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am i the only one that noticed that she will not be the minister but mere advisor? since when can't tylers read their copy-paste?

click-bait shit article with no substance. oh, and the comments!

Fri, 01/09/2015 - 19:31 | 5644017 Fuku Ben
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They certainly are pushing the red headed female blood thirsty satan angle at every opportunity

Thanks for contributing to the sex and death cult ZH

Peace sells but who's buying?

Probably not going to happen in the year of the sheep

Odds are greater it will be a year for sheering and slaughtering based on all current global programming

I'm working on just 1 Chart to sum it up. Hint: It has a big black X across it

Fri, 01/09/2015 - 20:01 | 5644121 Yen Cross
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 Poor girl... She probably doesn't even realize how her image is being exploited.

  Time to light the BBQ and enjoy the evening.

Fri, 01/09/2015 - 20:53 | 5644330 Barnaby
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Well, she's an Estonian model, so if her evening doesn't end with a donkey-punch she's prolly sleeping well right now.

Fri, 01/09/2015 - 20:45 | 5644297 zipit
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...trailer hitch.

Fri, 01/09/2015 - 21:01 | 5644364 The Alarmist
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There are hotter Estonian babes out there ... why did they go for the third-tier talent?

Fri, 01/09/2015 - 21:09 | 5644394 are we there yet
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Imagine if she really does get a rise in the economy by pulling in eager foreign assets to inject new life into the Ukraine interior. She will become the worlds greatest newspaper PUN queen.

Fri, 01/09/2015 - 21:23 | 5644438 The Alarmist
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Sorry, but had to down-vote you for too much gratuitous double-entendre.

Fri, 01/09/2015 - 22:12 | 5644569 22winmag
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Sugar mama... here I come!

Fri, 01/09/2015 - 22:27 | 5644599 theyjustcantstop
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looks as if biden & sons gas co., has found a head-hunter, and inside personnel, to arrange for their Ukrainian ipo funding also.

 

Sat, 01/10/2015 - 10:40 | 5645477 IndianaJohn
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A head giver?

Sat, 01/10/2015 - 03:00 | 5645087 BGO
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What's wrong with her mouth.

Sat, 01/10/2015 - 04:31 | 5645135 dreadnaught
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she had plastic surgery to get those "cocksucking lips" they are a requirement in her industry-she also does 'scissoring' too-a Nazi Lesbian

she is also doing that one eyed NWO thing that folks on YT complain of regarding Lady GAGA  UHHHGLY!-see "Plastic Surgery gone wrong" on YT etc

Sat, 01/10/2015 - 06:48 | 5645221 Psv
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Here is more intriguing photo, if somebody is interested: http://tabloid.pravda.com.ua/photos/54af9f41b6a45/, :))

Sat, 01/10/2015 - 09:26 | 5645351 Pumpkin
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Looks a bit Satanic and psychopathic to me.  Is she an offer or a threat?

Sat, 01/10/2015 - 10:33 | 5645456 IndianaJohn
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She looks to be such a jewish princess.

Sat, 01/10/2015 - 12:53 | 5645747 Hamm Jamm
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SHE will PUMP up the economy !    and PUMP, pump, pump till your wallets are dry 

 

is she really any different than any politician on the planet ?   think about it

Sun, 01/11/2015 - 10:29 | 5648086 Ariadne
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At least europe acknowledges their politicians are whores

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