{"id":1319526,"date":"2025-11-12T17:08:21","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T15:08:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/quarter-95-rats-don-t-drown-they-just-transfer-to-another-boat\/"},"modified":"2025-11-13T03:25:15","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T01:25:15","slug":"quarter-95-rats-don-t-drown-they-just-transfer-to-another-boat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/quarter-95-rats-don-t-drown-they-just-transfer-to-another-boat\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cKvartal 95\u201d: The Rats Don\u2019t Sink \u2014 They Just Jump Ship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Source: Author&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/volodymyr.tsybulko\/posts\/pfbid02VQzKLt1HgRs7NoSrSSJYz6SHeBL7BNcPNoe13JNjZcxoz8DdqsYqQXryWrPtE3xjl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Facebook<\/a> page<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>To save the business, \u201cKvartal 95\u201d has been officially rebadged as \u201cRat Incubator 95.\u201d Rats are no longer an insult\u2014they are corporate culture. Even the \u201cKvartal \u201d has renounced Mindich, though \u201crenounced\u201d here sounds about as convincing as \u201cvanished an hour before the raid.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"66\" data-end=\"370\">Half of \u201cKvartal\u201d belongs to Mindich. Does this mean that half of the assets are now under arrest? Will the special services give a legal assessment of \u201cKvartal 95\u201d\u2019s narratives themselves\u2014from 2014 to 2022\u2014at a time when Ukraine was already at war, and \u201cKvartal\u201d was busy attacking opposition ratings?<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"372\" data-end=\"747\">Who will now receive the royalties? And most importantly, why has \u201cKvartal\u201d been so silent about royalties from Russia? If the aggression has been ongoing since 2014, then money coming from the Russian Federation is not \u201cbusiness\u201d\u2014it\u2019s a collaboration with stand-up elements. Every Russian ruble that once flowed into \u201cKvartal\u201d\u2019s accounts now carries the stench of collusion.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"749\" data-end=\"1098\">And then it gets even more absurd. In their statement, Kvartal asks that the brand not be used in political contexts. So the question is: when Kvartal spent years attacking Ukrainian politicians, mocking Ukrainians, and joking about \u201cembroidering a shirt instead of working\u201d\u2014wasn\u2019t that politics? Or was it just a corporate party with an ideology?<\/p>\n\t\t<aside class=\"shortcode-also\" data-title=\"Read also\" >\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/they-re-stealing-money-how-minditchgate-will-affect-american-aid\/\">\u201cThey\u2019re stealing money\u201d: How \u201cMinditchgate\u201d will affect American aid<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\n<p data-start=\"80\" data-end=\"204\">When Zelenskyy celebrated his birthday in Mindich\u2019s apartment\u2014was that not politics too, or merely a \u201cfamily celebration\u201d?<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"206\" data-end=\"344\">When the president outgrew \u201cKvartal,\u201d and his business partner became a NABU suspect\u2014that\u2019s not politics, that\u2019s a tragedy in full view.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"346\" data-end=\"492\">Today, \u201cKvartal-95\u201d is trying to look like it\u2019s off duty. But everyone can see: rats don\u2019t drown\u2014they just jump to a boat with a different flag.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"494\" data-end=\"594\">So the question is: who is the rat? Mindich, who fled, or \u201cKvartal,\u201d pretending it never knew him?<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"596\" data-end=\"685\">If the song \u201cThe House Burned, It Burned\u201d was once a folk tune, it now has a new verse:<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"687\" data-end=\"792\"><em data-start=\"687\" data-end=\"790\">&#8220;The ass was burning, it was burning\u2014those who sold the country and refused to recognize themselves.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Also, follow <strong>\u201cPryamyi\u201d<\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Facebook<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/prm_ua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Twitter<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/+rtV4dxYu2_cyNjVi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Telegram<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Instagram<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><em>\u2022 Materials published in the \u201cOPINIONS\u201d section reflect the opinion of the author of the publication, who bears full responsibility for the accuracy of the information.<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><em>\u2022 The editorial staff of prm.ua may not share the opinions expressed in the author&#8217;s material.<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><em>\u2022 The owner of the webpage in the \u201cOPINIONS\u201d section is the author of the publication.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Author&#8217;s Facebook page To save the business, \u201cKvartal 95\u201d has been officially rebadged as \u201cRat Incubator 95.\u201d Rats are no longer an insult\u2014they are corporate culture. Even the \u201cKvartal \u201d has renounced Mindich, though \u201crenounced\u201d here sounds about as convincing as \u201cvanished an hour before the raid.\u201d Half of \u201cKvartal\u201d belongs to Mindich. 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