Yanukovych Billboards v. Tymoshenko Signs

For there was never a story sadder than that of Romeo and Juliet.


Happy Easter! Party of Regions, Ukraine.



Happy Easter! Joy, peace of mind, God's blessing!
Viktor Yanukovych, President of Ukraine.

Yuli♥
ReVOLYUtsia
Ukrayini!

Freedom for Yulia
Revolution for Ukraine! (creative embed/"she's Ukraine"-style wordplay)

Grand coalition? Anyone?

Well, there's always stadium, street, whoretel (and a football too).



Sources:
http://life.pravda.com.ua/society/2012/04/17/100686/

Tymoshenko, Supporters Removed from Courtroom

Don't mess with The Hon. Rodion "Brute" Kireyev!



A joke of a trial turned into a show of force after the judge stopped tolerating habitual violations of courtroom order. The ax fell on Tymoshenko and some of her supporters, including MP Mykhailo Kosiv (BYuT), 77, a political prisoner in Soviet times.



The judge also ordered live feeds cut off.

It's a shame this country doesn't have laws that work and a judiciary that's credible and independent. Tymoshenko's misdeeds should be adjudicated on their legal merits, not on political grounds.





The guy who wants Tymoshenko convicted is the guy she wanted to do a grand coalition with: Yanukovych.

That's why she's no martyr material.

Sources:
http://www.pravda.com.ua/photo-video/2011/07/6/6361074/
http://tvi.ua

4 Opposition MPs in Hospital, Beaten by Majority

Blood on the dance floor again!

This time, Yanukovych boys beat the democracy out of Tymoshenko's BYuT.






Casualties: 4 BYuTies hospitalized with various injuries (1 in pretty bad shape).



The Party of Regions. The party that builds!

Sources:
http://www.pravda.com.ua/photo-video/2010/12/16/5683362/
http://www.pravda.com.ua/articles/2010/12/16/5683100/
http://stb.ua

Rivals Clash in Local Election Ads

Will the October 31 local elections be free and fair? Go figure!

The ruling Party of Regions will tell you that its approval ratings (41.5% in May v. 29% in Oct) have gone the way of Obama.




Meanwhile, the opposition will tell you everything you need to know about adminresurs (government foul play).

Seven parties should make it, according to the latest Razumkov poll.

Party of Regions (Yanukovych/coalition), 29%
Batkivshchyna (Tymoshenko/opposition), 13.5%
Strong Ukraine (Tihipko/coalition), 12%
Front of Change (Yatsenyuk/opposition), 5.4%
Svoboda (Tyahnybok/opposition), 3.6%
People’s Party (Lytvyn/coalition), 3.2%
Communist Party (Symonenko/coalition), 3.1%

In the chemistry of ads, one can detect a strong prevalence of fingerpointex over populismol.

As for me, I prefer this.



In Kyiv, we had a snap local election in 2008, so we’ll pass on this one.

OK, let's get this party started.

People’s Party: 100% populismol



Vote for the “normal” guys who'll make your life “normal.”
Astroturfing testimonials. Obviously, Lytvyn tries to distance himself from the “abnormal” coalition that he’s a “paranormal” part of.

A couple of more things. He had a role in the Gongadze murder, right? On top of that, he owns luxury real estate from Taxpayer Real Estate.


Party of Regions: “The party that builds”



Don’t let the Orange time machine throw you back, blah blah blah.


Party of Regions: “Building the New Country”



Whinium, fingerpointex, goodtimex, feelgoodex.


Party of Regions: “Building the New Country” (choreography)



Footloose meets Frankenstein...


Party of Regions: We’re left holding the “Hr. 300,000,000” debt bag



Whinium, bullshitium, fingerpointex, stabilnist whoreship, call to apply for gas subsidies (352,000 households approved as of Sept. 1; the rest must be “rich”)


Batkivshchyna (Fatherland/Tymoshenko): “Reclaim Ukraine,” “They’re building the New Country without Ukraine,” “without you”



Not bad, but no meaculpadeine.


Batkivshchyna: “Only Batkivshchyna will protect you”



Anti-government; attacks prices, corruption, land grabs; but too much paternalismin.


Svoboda (Freedom/Tyahnybok): “Who else will protect your rights in local legislatures?”



Positivex (takes pains to reposition itself from negativex)


Strong Ukraine (Tihipko): “The time has come for the strong ones”



Pro-government, economy, “better living,” “hard road,” bullshitium


Front of Change (Yatsenyuk): “Have faith in your country,” “Change your future”



Anti-government; change this, change that; dontgiveupium; attacks soaring prices, taxes, unemployment


CDU: “Yevroremont” (European-style renovation/perestroika)





F**k-me-in-both-ears populismol. From a joke of a Yanukovych-friendly party that Merkel should sue for trademark infringement and foul language (picked up by a sensitive mic on a live broadcast).


Green Party: “The future belongs to the Green Party”





Slice-of-death/light-at-the-end-of-the-tunnel dramedy; another gold-digger, no green credentials except tons of greenbacks spent on ads.

Meet the whole funny farm (30 ads) here.

Sources:
http://censor.net.ua/go/offer/ResourceID/175492.html
http://censor.net.ua/go/offer/ResourceID/172773.html
http://censor.net.ua/go/offer/ResourceID/170646.html
http://censor.net.ua/go/offer/ResourceID/167645.html
http://censor.net.ua/go/offer/ResourceID/177694.html
http://censor.net.ua/go/offer/ResourceID/177103.html
http://censor.net.ua/go/offer/ResourceID/179167.html
http://5.ua
http://ictv.ua
http://inter.ua
http://www.1tv.com.ua
http://durdom.in.ua/uk/main/photo/photo_id/19709.phtml
http://durdom.in.ua/uk/main/photo/photo_id/19705.phtml
http://durdom.in.ua/uk/main/photo/photo_id/19856.phtml
http://www.thefunnybox.com/2006/10/04/fuckitol-de-stress-pill

Harley Davidson and the Mezhyhirya Man

You don’t mess with a lawmaker like him.

Name: Oleksandr Feldman. Net worth: $266.5M.

Tymoshenko booted him from chairmanship of the Kharkiv BYuT chapter. And look how he got his groove back.

He dumped Tymoshenko and joined the Coalition of Carcasses.



His other consolation prize: a rare Harley Davidson, a 50th anniversary birthday gift from his son, 24.

Asked about the price, he said his son, already a father, doesn’t maintain separate finances.

Will the Mezhyhirya Man let him use that special highway?

Video embedded from: http://censor.net.ua/go/offer/ResourceID/159336.html
Original source: http://tvi.ua

Voter ‘Bribery,’ Tymoshenko-Style

If Chernovetsky can do it, why can’t she?



Here you go: 1 kilo of rice+1 kilo of vermicelli+1 bottle of sunflower oil+1 can of condensed milk. Drink responsibly! Courtesy of MP Oleksandr Dubovy (BYuT).

When interviewed, they say it’s from Tymoshenko. They say it’s bribery. They say it’s basically their own money. And they take it.

In Greece, they would have torched the whole place. In Ukraine, they complain and let the slave mentality take over.

In rural Ukraine, they take those hard-to-get certificates of land ownership — a pork barrel cause championed by Tymoshenko and frowned upon by the OSCE.

How many of those who take Tymoshenko handouts will vote for her? I don’t know.

All I know is Chernovetsky scored 32% of the vote — twice — with his handout campaign in Kyiv.

Video uploaded from: http://censor.net.ua/go/offer/ResourceID/144114.html
Original source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOAGDzEzj6w

Yushchenko, Lutsenko Trade Barbs on Corruption

How do they fight corruption in China (CPI: #79)? Capital punishment.

How do they fight corruption in Indonesia (CPI: #111)? Protests.

How do they fight corruption Ukraine (CPI: #146)? Words.




Storyline:

• Yushchenko calls Lutsenko and other law enforcement chiefs “accomplices”;
• Lutsenko calls the allegation “unfair” and walks out the door;
• Yushchenko cites Lutsenko’s unsolved/closed cases;
• Lutsenko cites Yushchenko's cronyism/cover-ups;
• Yushchenko calls for a probe into BYuT’s election employee incentives;
• Lutsenko pulls Yushchenko’s portrait from his office wall;
• Yushchenko asks Tymoshenko to fire Lutsenko.

That’s all, folks!

Video uploaded from: http://censor.net.ua/go/offer/ResourceID/141641.html
Original sources:
http://tsn.ua
http://5.ua
http://ictv.ua
http://inter.ua
http://www.1tv.com.ua
http://kanalukraina.tv

Another Brawl in the Rada

Both claim they care about the people. One claims he cares more than the other.

Both belong to a caste that loves Ukraine at a rate of $40K per year (10 times Ukraine’s nominal GDP per capita) and change.

For them, change means millions of dollars worth of “unexplained money” that buys them luxury cars, watches, mansions, etc.

Ladies and gentlemen, welcome MP Vladyslav Lukyanov (PRU) and his partner-in-loving-Ukraine MP Oleh Lyashko (BYuT)!



It all began Thursday morning with a routine tie-grabbing brawl, featuring Lukyanov and Lyashko. (Putin clearly missed out on this one.)

Lukyanov then used the occasion to criticize the Tymoshenko government’s refusal to raise pensions, a cause championed by the Party of Regions and President Yushchenko.

Using Lyashko’s battle-scarred tie as an illustration of Ukraine’s giant income distribution gap, Lukyanov led the emotional charge. Ukraine’s average monthly pension — Hr. 680 ($85) — pales by comparison to Lyashko’s tie, worth Hr. 3,000 ($375), Lukyanov hollered.

That’s the price quote that Lukyanov said he had heard from Lyashko in private.

Lukyanov claims to be the proud owner of an $11 tie, which he bought in Japan. Meanwhile, Lyashko argues that his tie costs about Hr. 500 ($63).

Go figure.

Sources:
http://pravda.com.ua/news/2009/11/19/105590.htm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sdy8gGbC790

A Tale of Two Conventions: Yanukovych v. Tymoshenko

They’re working. They want it all.

MP Hanna Herman (PRU): When you’re standing, you feel some sort of movement. And we here are ready to take the first steps.
MP Serhiy Kivalov (PRU): People were saying really sincerely that the only candidacy from the Party of Regions is Viktor Fedorovych Yanukovych.
MP Oleksandr Kuzmuk (PRU): There will be order in the country.

Reporter Mustafa Nayem: What happens if Yanukovych doesn’t win?
MP Nestor Shufrych (PRU): No way!
MP Vladyslav Lukyanko (PRU): What? It’s unrealistic! You know, I think Ukraine will lose everything.

Kharkiv Mayor Mykhailo Dobkin (PRU): Yanukovych will definitely win. It’s just a question of how much he scores in the first round and how much in the second one.
Singer-supporter Taisiya Povaliy: But he will win!
Dobkin: It’s a situation when Yanukovych will be competing with himself.
Producer-supporter Ihor Likhuta [Povaliy’s husband]: All the candidates are decent people, but ours is the most decent one.

Vice Premier Oleksandr Turchuynov (BYuT): It’s a very serious event, one on which our country’s future depends.
Singer-supporter Pavlo Zibrov: I’m a grown-up person and I made a choice, and those kids running back and forth are just making money, I think.

Reporter Mustafa Nayem: Many are saying it’s a Maidan [protests] rehearsal in case Yulia Tymoshenko doesn’t become president.
Turchuynov: You know, Maidan cannot be rehearsed, it cannot be arranged technologically. Either you have it or not. Our Maidan is in our hearts.

MP Andriy Shevchenko (BYuT): Yulya is cute?
Daughter: Yes!

Turchuynov: [Welcome] Yulia Tymoshenko!

Reporter: Don’t you have the reflex to shout “Yushchenko?”
Shevchenko: Hahaha!

Interior Minister Yuriy Lutsenko: No, [incoherent]. In 2004, Yushchenko was the only way for the country not to roll back. Uh...but it’s only idiots and corpses who don’t change their points of views.

Reporter: What happens if Tymoshenko loses?
MP Serhiy Sobolev (BYuT): I can’t even imagine.

Video embedded from: http://censor.net.ua/go/offer/ResourceID/137142.html
Original source: http://kanalukraina.tv

Tymoshenko Campaign Kicks Off (Officially) With Rally in Kyiv

Thousands of people, but not as many hopes.

That’s how I’d compare fall 2004 Yushchenko rallies to fall 2009 Tymoshenko ones, which seek to mobilize the same electorate.










North Donbas for Yulya!

Her “They’re talking. She’s working. She’s Ukraine!” campaign boils down to one real selling point: “They’re worse.” (And she often fails to prove it.)

Her real selling point doesn’t imitate Yushchenko’s 2004 slogans: “The rich will help the poor!” and “The bandits will be sitting in jail!” (Hahaha!) Nor does it emulate her party’s 2006 and 2007 slogans: “Justice does exist. It’s worth the fight!” and “She did it back then. She’ll do it again!” (Really?)

To counter these voter doubts, she armed herself with a panoply of endorsers and performers. On Saturday, they royally descended on Maidan, the heart of Orange Revolution.

Coming from all walks of life that lead to Tymoshenko, dignitary after dignitary waxed eloquent and lavished accolades on their president of choice. A cornucopia of promises, memories and sales pitches flooded a Maidanful of people, many of whom had traveled to Kyiv as party delegates by bus or train from all over Ukraine.

(Tymoshenko’s main rival had unleashed his yanucopia on Friday, delivering a just-name-it-and-claim-it stump speech at a Party of Regions convention. One can compare Yushchenko’s and Tymoshenko’s 2004 and 2009 open-air stump speeches to Yanukovych’s 2004 and 2009 members-only ones.)





Yulya Will Win!




Endorser: Oleksandr Ponomayov


Mariupol
Ukraine Will Win






Endorser: former foreign affairs minister Borys Tarasyuk


Ukraine Will Win!


Tymoshenko collected two endorsements from the European People’s Party (EPP): from Wilfried Martens and Antonio Lopez-Isturiz.








Endorser: Ruslana



Endorser: Borys Paton, 91, chairman of the National Academy of Sciences

The funniest one came from our former president Leonid Kravchuk — an ardent endorser of Yanukovych in 2004! For some reason, Tymoshenko decided that the man who had pissed away our nuclear arsenal, presided over hyperinflation and endorsed Yanukovych would be an asset to her campaign.




Endorser: former president Leonid Kravchuk

Finally, the Queen of the Night steals the show, in a vyshyvanka coat. Her speech, emotionally charged and long-winded, electrifies but a few souls.

At the opening, she credits herself with the blessings of Pope Benedict XVI and the Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem. A prayer, sung by Nina Matviyenko, follows.



After praying, Tymoshenko pays tribute to Ukraine’s heroes, thanks her team, recalls the Orange Revolution and calls for unity.



Then, she blasts Yushchenko and his hobbies. Later, she blasts Yanukovych and his oligarchs. She blames obstruction and corruption. She blasts and blames this and that. She forgets about her aborted grand coalition plans. She sidesteps her Draconian gas deal with Russia. She keeps mum on the Pedogate scandal. She pretends there’s no corruption in her own camp.

What struck me as novel amid these otherwise routine rhetorical escapades was her likening disenchanted voters to special needs people who still can win. Like Olena Yurkovska, the Ukrainian Paralympic biathlon champion who won four gold medals in Turin in 2006. What a nice analogy and pep talk! Coach Tymoshenko dissociates herself from her job, associates me with her failures and inspires me to push the envelope. (And push yet another ballot down her ballot box!)

It’s like saying, “Yeah, I screwed up. I didn’t deliver. But it’s all your fault anyway so shut up and take courage! Your disenchantment cripples you. Just vote for me one more time and you’ll be all you can be!”

She launches into an us-against-them diatribe and proceeds with a massive deja-vu stereotype-busting attack: Don’t think that all politicians are alike. They're not. She’s not like them! She’s moral and can be trusted!

To inject the masses with her “She’s Ukraine!” slogan, she levels with them:

• Small business owners — fed up with red tape and bribery (while running her own small business in Dnipropetrovsk, she had to deal with bureaucracy and extortion);
• Homebuyers — hard-hit by dollar-denominated mortgage loans (she hates the exchange rate);
• Students — suffering from joblessness and homelessness (born and bred in a khrushchyovka, she knows how it feels; while a student, she jockeyed tires “twice my height” at night and, if elected, will make housing affordable, at low interest rates.)

What did I miss? Oh, yeah, she also talked about how she:

• Handed out those Hr. 1,000 worth of Soviet savings to 6.5 million people;
• Reined in the energy and payments crises as vice premier in 2000-2001 crisis;
• Ended up in jail for upsetting Kuchma’s cronies;
• Kicked RosUkrEnergo’s and Vanco’s asses;
• Boosted coal reserves;
• Doesn’t care about approval ratings;
• Cares about stabilnist only;
• Loves the Ukrainian language;
• Will feed the world with Ukrainian agriculture;
• Will make Ukraine the most energy-efficient country in the world by relying on coal;
• Will make Ukraine a full-cycle nuclear fuel state (no kidding, Uncle Sam!)
• Will offer 10-year tax breaks to renewable energy producers;
• Will restore justice;
• Will build a Europe within Ukraine and maintain friendly relations with neighbors;
• Will protect Ukraine’s national interests;
• Will deliver everything she promised;
• Expects winning the respect of future generations;
• Has a dream like Martin Luther King’s;

And guess what? Her dream is to make other peoples’ dreams come true. (With other people’s money?)

She misspoke on the energy issue: “And everyone should know that if we burn coal instead of gas, we’ll triple the cost of heating and hot water for the people.”

She also burnished her idea of “dictatorship,” couching it in Putin’s “dictatorship of law” terminology.

Censor.net.ua offers a full Channel 5 video of her stump speech.

PM Yulia Tymoshenko [final words]: And that’s why this election is a struggle for our Ukraine’ preservation, and not a struggle between politicians. And I know that it is Ukraine that will win this presidential election and it is she that will gain what she’s been waiting for for hundreds of years. And we all will be serving this right and truthful cause. And that’s why I want God to be with Ukraine. I want God to be with every one of you. And that’s precisely why, with great pride, I say: Glory to Ukraine!

I didn’t stay for the concert. I went home, along with throngs of other rally-goers. While not depressed, we were nowhere as cheerful as five years ago. Nobody had the heart to scream “Ty-mo-shen-ko!” again and again like we screamed “Yush-chen-ko!”


She's working. She's Ukraine!

3 MPs in Controversial Child Molestation Case

Forget about Sen. Larry Craig. In Ukraine, sex offender suspects don’t get busted.

Even when it comes to child sexual abuse.

The lawlessness of our lawmakers knows no bounds. In June, MP Viktor Lozynsky (BYuT) hunted and killed an unarmed man. He then posed before the cameras and came close to being awarded for his party called assisting in the “capture of an armed criminal.” As a sign of goodwill, Lozynsky even filed a motion that his parliamentary immunity be lifted pending investigation. But once details of the shocking murder emerged, he ran away and remains on the run.

On top of this comes the case at hand: two kids, a boy and a girl, ages 12 and 9, sexually abused for three years by a number of people whom they may or may not have identified.

Those people are:

Three BYuT MPs: Serhiy Teryokhin, Ruslan Bohdan, Viktor Ukolov;
Four Artek youth camp workers: Borys Novozhylov, Genrikh Ratt, Dmytro Lepeshev, Volodymyr Dunayev;
An Orthodox priest: Vadym Payevsky; and
The kids’ adoptive father: Dmytro Polyukhovych.

Some of the evidence presented so far appears to be incomplete or inconclusive. Claims regarding the MPs originated from the father, the prime suspect, while under arrest, as cited by the mother in the criminal charges. According to lawyer Tetyana Montyan, the kids corroborated these claims in a private conversation with her.

As of this writing, no charges have been officially made against the MPs, all of whom deny wrongdoing.

The videotaped orgies took place at two locations and may have involved other children:

1. At Artek, the famous Crimean youth camp. (The victims mentioned other children, in “old-fashioned clothes,” who came to Artek from orphanages and may have been involved.)
2. At a Kyiv apartment, which, upon examination, fit the victims’ description, according to earlier reports. (A more recent report, however, states that during a crime scene reconstruction on Saturday the boy neither denied nor confirmed being raped there.)

With 98% probability, polygraph tests confirm the kids’ abuse claims, as do child psychologists and medical examiners. Ukrayinska Pravda offers a transcript of the polygraph tests.





The mother, Olena Polyukhovych, in her own words, had noticed her kids’ depressed behavior sometime ago and even consulted psychologists but they, she says, weren’t able to determine the cause.

A psychologist consulted by Ukrayinska Pravda disputes this claim, arguing that the cause would have been all too apparent to a mother, let alone to a psychologist.

She filed the charges in Kyiv on April 16 but ended up sabotaged and, according to her claims, even threatened. Ukrayinska Pravda offers a copies of the medical examiner’s opinion and “no corpus delicti found” rejection letters from the police.





There's also a copy of the “seek help elsewhere” letter from the Secretariat of the Verkhovna Rada Commissioner for Human Rights.



At that time, the mother was having an affair, trying to get a divorce and going through a custody battle of sorts.

According to conflicting claims, either she or her husband or her boyfriend told the kids about their adoption.

Finally, the story found its way to the public, leaked to various outlets and exploited by renegade BYuT MP Hryhoriy Omelchenko, a retired colonel, and by the Party of Regions. Viktor Yanukovych, leader of the Party of Regions, will be the main rival to PM Yulia Tymoshenko in the January 2010 presidential election.

Interestingly, MP Viktor Ukolov happens to be a Tymoshenko strategist, apparently responsible for her ubiquitous and heavily spoofed “They’re interfering. She’s working” ad campaign. Facing public scrutiny, he now has stepped down. In his latest blog on Ukrayinska Pravda, he described himself as a misled, disappointed and self-exiled friend of the stepfather, and one who wishes him justice.

Prominent Ukrainian lawyer and activist Tetyana Montyan talked to the kids and their mother. Speaking at a press conference Thursday, she said the kids have intimate knowledge of the abusers’ anatomy. And, as we all know, some of the suspects have parliamentary immunity.

Lawyer Tetyana Montyan: On July 7, this woman, having understood that, despite all this, nobody cares that her children were raped, writes petitions to the President, to the Prime Minister and to Commissioner for Human Rights Karpachova. Let me quote the reply from Karpachova’s office. The mother gets a letter from some employee Tarhulova from the secretat…secretariat of the Ombudswoman of the Verkhovna Rada (she acts as an adviser to the Ombudswoman): Tarhulova Iryna Herasymivna [family name, first name, patronymic]. “Dear Olena Valentynivna, your petition to the Commissioner for Human Rights has been reviewed. Let us inform you that your petition concerns inadequate pretrial investigation by an investigator of the investigation department of the Dniprovsk department of the Ministry of the Interior in the city of Kyiv, whereas oversight of the legality of pretrial investigations is the prerogative of prosecutorial authorities. Therefore, we’re forwarding your petition accordingly to the prosecutor of the Dniprovsk district of the city of Kyiv.” This woman Karpachova gets a petition, which you all have read online, citing all the possible facts pertaining to this case. That’s the reply of our Commissioner for Human Rights.

On Friday’s “Shuster Live,” Montyan shared her knowledge of the case, saying that the girl had confessed to being “touched” on April 16, 2009. Upon hearing this, the mother filed the charges immediately but criminal proceedings were not opened until August 14. Ukrayinska Pravda provides a copy of the criminal proceedings.





Montyan describes the mother as naïve, easily manipulated and sexually inexperienced — a perfect match for a husband-father-pedophile. He mentioned the three BYuT MPs while under arrest. The kids identified them based on photographs from the Verkhovna Rada website. In a private conversation with her, Montyan says, the kids referred to the three as “Uncle Seryozha,” “Uncle Vitya,” “Uncle Ruslan” and described their sexual behavior in detail. [diminutives for Serhiy, Viktor, Ruslan]

The kids’ identity, leaked to the public, will make their lives unbearable in Ukraine, Montyan legitimately concludes. After questioning the kids intensely, Montyan became convinced that their statements could not be the product of brainwashing.

An expert in child molestation cases, she would practically stake her professional reputation on the veracity of the kids’ claims.

Speaking with a trembling voice, Iryna Bohdan, wife of MP Ruslan Bohdan (BYuT), made a case for her husband’s innocence. She emphatically refuted the accusations, calling them “a strictly political game,” and expressed her and her husbands’ readiness to take a polygraph test.



In an interview with Ukrayinska Pravda, MP Sehiy Teryokhin went as far as to volunteer for a live broadcast polygraph test, provided so does the kids’ mother. He has also appealed to the Prosecutor General to open criminal proceedings against what he called the mother’s perjury.

How much of this accounts for a smear campaign and how much portrays a shocking case of child sexual abuse remains to be seen.

One thing is clear: The government doesn’t care.

Sources:
http://pravda.com.ua/news/2009/10/19/103570.htm
http://pravda.com.ua/news/2009/10/18/103549.htm
http://pravda.com.ua/news/2009/10/17/103539.htm
http://pravda.com.ua/news/2009/10/16/103512.htm
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http://blogs.pravda.com.ua/authors/montyan/4ad6eb7f98dbb/ http://blogs.pravda.com.ua/authors/ukolov/4ad658fbd076d/
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http://kanalukraina.tv
http://unian.net

Tymoshenko: We’re the Team of Salamanders

Her party’s Viktor Lozynsky thrived on medieval rules of engagement. Her party’s 10th anniversary speech thrives on medieval mythology.

PM Yulia Tymoshenko: Both during our first and second terms of office in parliament, there were people who behaved indecently. But today we’re different and we’re capable of purifying ourselves, capable of getting stronger. And all the things that we need to wash and take to the cleaners and renew our white, clean, bright and beautiful color of our banners — I think we’ll do it. We’re the team of salamanders that gets annealed in this flame, in this blaze, gets stronger, builds character, finds ways, restructures its ranks. And today we’re stronger than all the spetsnazes, Alfas, Berkuts, and SEALs combined. Because you and I are a team. No matter what they say about third-party candidates, it’s all a big illusion, a big deception that, you know, as in the case of the third leg: it looks like you have it, but in reality it just keeps you from moving. The responsibility rests with us, Ukraine’s entire pathway rests with us, and we’ll be doing everything to make it worth the while.

So you’re *the* team of salamanders? Then why do your salamanders smell like skunks and behave like hyenas? Why do they mass-troll Ukrayinska Pravda with praise for the Queen of Salamanders?

Video uploaded from: http://censor.net.ua/go/offer/ResourceID/127074.html
Original source: http://5.ua

Land Baron/MP Viktor Lozynsky (BYuT) Chases Man to Death

Want to hunt people? Buy yourself a slot on one of our party lists — and here you go!

Viktor Lozynsky is a land baron and member of parliament who lives in Kyiv and does business in Holovanivsk, a small town in Kirovohrad oblast. Before defecting to BYuT a few years ago, he had been a member of the Party of Regions.

On June 16, 2009, MP Lozynsky joined forces with rayon (county) prosecutor Yevhen Hrebenko and rayon police chief Mykhailo Kovalsky. The three went on safari that claimed the life of Valeriy Oliynyk, an unemployed man, age 53.

When the posse approached him on the road leading to the woods, the man started running away. They chased him into the woods, hit him and broke his leg. Then they shot him as many as nine times.

That’s what the locals are saying. They describe the victim as a man who worked odd jobs, collected things and has never done any harm to anybody.

MP Lozynsky gets totally different reviews.

The locals describe him as the modern-day equivalent of a medieval lord, one who treats country folks as serfs and terrorizes them. His grip on the community can also be compared to that of Latin American drug lords.

This Inter footage opens with the news anchor saying the locals fear for their lives and appeal to the SBU and the President for protection. They don’t trust local law enforcement.


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A woman says that, on that day, many people heard automatic rifle gunfire. Ivan Kucher, a former rayon executive, portrays MP Lozynsky as a man who bragged about his hunting prowess. His list of VIP guest hunters includes former president Leonid Kravchuk (a fan of Tymoshenko) and former speaker Ivan Plyushch (a fan of the Party of Regions).

Towards the end of the footage, Kucher questions Tymoshenko on why she put Lozynsky on the BYuT party list. To stimulate her thinking, he reflects on Ukraine’s turbulent history and predicts a popular uprising.

Wild boar from Lozynsky’s woods regularly attack people's farmlands and destroy crops. People are afraid to go out into the woods. An elderly local hunter with a registered gun who dared venture into the woods recalls being nearly strangled by Lozynsky. He had to find his way back home, some 8 km (5 mi), walking without his shoes and skis. In another encounter, the senior got beaten at gunpoint, had his house raided by police, who, as he says, planted evidence on him. The court gave him a suspended sentence.

A local Orthodox priest recalls confronting MP Lozynsky about an act that couldn’t have better epitomized Holovanivsk’s communist-capitalist “animal farm.”

Right outside the church, Lozynsky recently phased out the Ukrainian coat of arms, the trident, in favor of the Soviet coat of arms, the hammer and sickle. When confronted about the act, he told the priest to mind his own business.

What else would you expect from a former cop, discharged 18 years ago for professional misconduct, namely blackmail and forgery?

An STB report offers more slice-of-death scenes from Holovanivsk.



Lyubov Oliynyk, the victim’s mother, 81, claims that two days after her son’s death, four men and two women visited her house. These “great people,” as they called themselves according to the mother, came looking for some papers and clothes, and made inquiries about Valeriy. The group left Hr. 200 ($26) as an obvious inducement to keep her from pressing charges.

No one except the victim’s classmates was allowed to ID the body. When a female STB reporter raises the issue with an employee at the local prosecutor’s office, he suddenly becomes camera-shy and says this: “You just don’t want to have a normal conversation, do you?”

Oliynyk didn’t get to see her son until they mounted him on a truck, in a manner typical of all countryside funerals. She couldn’t give her son a proper burial for eight days.

In the footage, a friend of the deceased climbs into the truck bed along with the mother and briefly examines the body in the coffin. He reports a shaky head, possibly consistent with internal decapitation. The medical examiner ducks questions and suggests that forensic experts be consulted.

In the same vein, the rayon morgue will not issue a certificate of death. Instead, they forward the request to the office of the oblast prosecutor in Kirovohrad. In the death certificate, which the victim's classmates obtained in Kirovohrad, the cause of death reads: “Severe bleeding as a result of a gunshot wound,” “multiple gunshot wounds to lower limbs caused by a firearm,” “bodily injuries.”

The horrors don’t stop there. At the cemetery, the mother finds out that her son’s body is missing a leg.

Lozynsky’s side of the story: We spotted a man who looked like a poacher. He didn’t identify himself and started firing on us. We requested backup. Hrebenko (the prosecutor) and I chased the man into the woods and caught him and snatched his gun. Next, he pulled a knife on us. We ran away. He then pulled another gun at us. We jumped back into our car. Some 7-8 minutes later, police arrived and surrounded him. After negotiating for 20 minutes, they finally caught him and called an ambulance. (Lozynsky claims having sustained knife injuries.)

At a news conference in Kirovohrad, Lozynsky presented controversial material that he claimed implicates Oliynyk in illegal drug and weapons possession as well as professional misconduct during his service in law enforcement. (Both are former cops?)

He also produced video of an elderly woman (victim's mother?) in which, according to fuzzy news reports, she claims that her son would abuse her and would show her his gun. Asked about whether she believes her son could have fired at a human being, she says she does. (In the Inter report, the victim's mother says quite the opposite.)

Another Inter report shows two fragments of that press conference:

MP Lozynsky: We jumped out of the car and took measures to detain him. He was thrown on the round: I was holding one hand, with the pistol (he had a handgun in his right hand). The prosecutor was holding his left hand. The struggle continued for about maybe a minute and a half or two munutes. During this time, a few shots were made from this handgun...

Next time, we'll get a judge [on board]. There's no problem. But let me assure you: If this situation repeats itself in the future, I'll do the same thing.

Q: How many more handguns did the victim have? Why didn’t he shoot you with at least one of his handguns?

As questions linger, BYuT plans to award MP Viktor Lozynsky — for assisting in the capture of an armed criminal.

Sources:
http://censor.net.ua/go/offer/ResourceID/125124.html
http://censor.net.ua/go/offer/ResourceID/125176.html
http://inter.ua
http://vikna.ua/e107_plugins/videotv/videoview.php?view.13367
http://novynar.com.ua/politics/72683
http://www.pravda.com.ua/news/2009/6/23/97090.htm
http://www.newsru.ua/crime/22jun2009/lozinsky.html
http://podrobnosti.ua/criminal/2009/06/22/611028.htmls