He is wrong because precisely "Globalisation" means that "economic independence" doesn´t exist anymore. Ukraine is part of the WTO and adopts economic regulation from the E.U.....and the Russian Federation is doing the same: joing the WTO and adopting E.U. regulation. Integrating and competing in the international market needs an strong base with competitive companies and capital inflows. Privatization of National companies means precisely losing economic independence but that is what most Governments are doing, as did the Spanish Government with Telefonica, Endesa, Repsol etc, which are former State monopolies and now are important multinationals. In fact, now the former National company Endesa is part of Italy´s Enel. On the other side, Repsol (with help from the Spanish Government) bought Argentina´s YPF. So that words "economic independence" are ridiculous, false and against the Capitalist system. Now the National market is the whole World, and what is needed are competitive companies...and if Ukraine doen´s find them, will continue falling into the abyss. Right now, at PPP Ukraine is poorer than Angola, a backward Third World nation. The only market where some Ukrainian companies compete is precisely the Russian Federation, a natural market as a consequence of history, language and links. The same way the "internationalisation" of Spian´s companies (Banco Santander, BBVA, Telefonica, Repsol, Mapfre) took place in Latin America and was successful, so Spain´s former state monopolies and large banks integrated in the World markets thanks to a carefully prepared campaing of expansion in Latin America and now are World leaders (Santander is the largest bank in the Eurozone and Telefonica the largest phone company in the Eurozone), the international expansion of Ukrainés companies only can take place in the former USSR, and first of all with the Russian Federation....That is the TRUE.