Åslund has been a vocal critic of Zelenskyy, plus a historic ally of the detestable Swedish RWer, Carl Bildt. He worked with the very problematic Jeffrey Sachs and others to push neoliberal shock therapy economics in Russia under Yeltsin, which lead to the rise of the oligarchs and eventually Putin.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anders_%C3%85slund
Åslund in Sweden
From 1989 to 1994, Åslund worked as a Professor of International Economics at the Stockholm School of Economics; and in 1989 he became the founding director of the Stockholm Institute of East European Economics. On 22 April 1990 Åslund published a controversial article in Dagens Nyheter, drawing parallels between the collapsing communist regimes in Eastern Europe and the social democratic policies in Sweden. He argued that Sweden had too large a public sector; supported communist dictatorships, such as Cuba, in the Third World; and had excessive state intervention in all areas of life. The ruling Swedish Social Democratic Party opposed the views of Åslund in dozens of articles. In June 1990, Social Democratic Prime Minister Ingvar Carlsson voiced public disagreement with Åslund in the Riksdag. However, opposition leader Carl Bildt (Moderate Party -my add, the old Conservative Party rebranded) defended Åslund.
Involvement in Russian economic reform
From November 1991 to January 1994, Åslund worked with Jeffrey Sachs and David Lipton as a senior advisor to the Russian reform government under President Boris Yeltsin and Acting Prime Minister Yegor Gaidar. He worked also with Deputy Prime Ministers Anatoly Chubais and Boris Fedorov. Åslund summarized his views in his book How Russia Became a Market Economy.
Fallout with the Zelenskyy administration
Åslund's work in Ukraine made him a vocal critic of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Åslund was a member of the supervisory board of the Ukrainian Railways from June 2018 until September 2020, when he was "fired" by President Zelensky. Zelenskyy commented on the resignation of UZ Aslund, a member of the supervisory board. He claimed he resigned because Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and members of the Ukrainian parliament "do not believe in good corporate governance." Åslund claimed that the foreign members of the supervisory boards of 13 large state-owned companies "receive only insults and obstacles from the president."
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