Ruling PoR MPs Pelted With Snowballs At Opposition Rally

What good is democracy without 360 degree feedback?




 




It takes balls to play snowballs with the state, considering how it can always play nightsticks with you.

Maybe that little opposition rally did get its point across after all?

While some not-so-opposition MPs sucked it up, Tymoshenko strongly opposes such non-violent snowball protests. In a country where MPs, officials and cops beat, mutilate and kill people on a regular basis, isn't it a bit too much to ask? 

Obviously, not for the Tymoshenko part of the establishment. Wait, wasn't it Tymoshenko's top brass and then-Interior Minister Lutsenko that defended — and even wanted to award — MP Lozynsky? Until it became clear that, contrary to earlier reports, this guy — one of their guys — had hunted and killed an innocent villager?

Maybe they all like democracy? But not if democracy doesn't like them back?
 
Sources:
http://censor.net.ua/video_news/237759/regionaly_tushki_i_lyashko_serezno_postradali_ot_snejnoyi_ataki_pod_radoyi_video
http://censor.net.ua/video_news/237731/regionalov_pod_vr_vstretili_krikami_ganba_i_zabrosali_snejkami_video
http://www.pravda.com.ua/news/2013/04/2/6987114/
http://5.ua

Police Brutality Reminiscent of Pre-Orange Revolution Days

Except that the opposition doesn’t have that much support. At least, not yet.

2004








2012








Not until we have a major devaluation.
 
Sources:
http://5.ua

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/

Pro-Yanukovych Lawmakers Play With iPads, iPhones

Jokes, tabloids, cars... Keeping up with the Tymoshenkos can be fun!



Lawmakers in Ukraine make more in a month than the average Ukrainian does in a year: $4K.

Even so, what many of them make officially doesn’t quite add up to their lifestyles.

















Video of the day: Luhansk city council member Roman Landik beating up a 20-year-old woman (a softcore model, as it later turned out).



That’s the same guy who poses with Yanukovych, Lytvyn, Tihipko & Co plus other celebs on odnoklassniki.ru (classmates).

The crown jewel of his collection: a semi-erased “One law for all” NUNS/Yushchenko ‘07 campaign billboard with “For sale” on it.

Sources:
http://tabloid.pravda.com.ua/photos/4e16ec958468e/
http://tabloid.pravda.com.ua/photos/4e170f89a7755/
http://tabloid.pravda.com.ua/photos/4e18171c98775/

PM Azarov Adores Rent-a-Crowd Rallies

“Hold on with the pics ‘cause we don’t know the lines yet.”



Anyway, if you like Azarov, wave your flag and learn the damn lines!

And don't forget to buy him a bunch of these inflatables.



They look like real reforms, don’t they?

Buy him a whole Potemkin village. Give Washington something to praise!


...For better or for worse,
For richer for poorer,
In sickness and in health...

Sources:
http://censor.net.ua/ru/video_news/view/172295/azarov_iskrenne_raduetsya_zakaznomu_mitingu_v_ego_podderjku_normalno_eto_nashi_lyudi_video
http://1tv.com.ua
http://censor.net.ua/ru/video_news/view/172340/rossiyiskiyi_ekspert_nashi_tanki_i_raketnye_kompleksy_sduvaet_vetrom_vo_vremya_perevozki_video
http://newsru.com
http://durdom.in.ua/uk/main/photo/photo_id/24624/person_id/8.phtml

Smug Pro-Yanukovych MPs Scolded by Struggling Seniors

40 years of work leaves you with $100/month, not enough to pay for utilities.

The rest goes to first-class citizens who worship all things Soviet.

Woman 3: I, Valentyna Volodymirivna, want to particularly address Lukyanov and Chechetov: What do I have to do — how should I get down on my knees before you — so I’LL NEVER SEE YOU AGAIN HERE? HOW CAN YOU SAY THAT, HUH? YOU SHAMELESS ONES! I’ve worked for 40 years, I’m disabled due to cancer, and my father died during the first days there, in the war. He wants to see your flag? He doesn’t want to see this humiliation that you cause us! And you think he has interest in your flag! You can put it wherever you want, put it on, go out, have fun, get drunk in your palaces! But don’t touch us. And you [opposition] keep fighting. As sick as we are, we’ll help you. Trust us. And our grandchildren stand ready to help you. So that we’ll never have to see and hear these “wand wavers” [imitates Chechetov] — illiterate “wand wavers” — because all they have is their big mouths, down to their knees! I’m sorry, I’m sorry.

5:37-6:42

Signing the Soviet flag into law


Shut up, you crazy old Untermenschen!


Go dig a grave and wait for the go-ahead from the AMF!

Arbeit Macht Frei!

Sources:
http://blogs.pravda.com.ua/authors/okara/4dc5998b4d194/
http://1tv.com.ua
http://durdom.in.ua/uk/main/photo/photo_id/24046/person_id/1.phtml
http://durdom.in.ua/uk/main/photo/photo_id/24057/person_id/1.phtml http://durdom.in.ua/uk/main/photo/photo_id/24054/person_id/1.phtml

Not in Ukraine? Let Your Pal Vote for You!

Every time you leave, leave your card in good hands.









That’s the house rule. From coalition to opposition, everybody “plays the piano.”

For all the talk of a foolproof system, the Mar. 17 proposition didn’t pass, falling short by 4 votes. Fingerprint recognition? Why bite the hand that feeds you?

STB names and shames the latest card rentals: MPs Maksym Lutsky and Iryna Berezhna of the ruling Party of Regions. The two went to the Council of Europe and guess what? Their cards back home voted 6 and 4 times respectively, the record shows.

Reporter: How’s your card doing now?
MP Lutsky: It’s not.
MP Berezhna: My MP card is in Kyiv, but it’s not voting.

If only I had veto power...I’d vote for Berezhna as Yanukovych’s spokeswoman! Not only would she be a better match, but she would also be able to match her biorhythms to that of her boss.

I mean, showing up late for work wouldn’t be a problem.



Sources:
http://censor.net.ua/ru/video_news/view/161107/vrut_i_ne_krasneyut_regionaly_berejnaya_i_lutskiyi_iz_bryusselya_progolosovali_10_raz_v_verhovnoyi_rade_video
http://stb.ua
http://blogs.pravda.com.ua/authors/leschenko/4d870e90308b3/

Woman Mayor to Woman Reporter: ‘Bitch’

Welcome to the Cougar Town of Ukrainian politics!

Reporter: Everybody had assumed there would be some changes for the better and novelties, but that didn’t happen.
Mayor: Bitch.

That’s Nelya Shtepa, mayor of Slavyansk, Donetsk oblast, speaking at her “100 Days in Office” press conference.

A member of the ruling Party of Regions, Shtepa denies saying the word sookah (bitch). What she really said was Sanya, diminutive for Olexandr, the electrician she invoked once a nearby heater had gone off. So she says.

Gordon Brown should have known better than to give up like that. He should have come up with an alternative interpretation of his “bigoted woman” remark. How about he meant Thatcher?






Ain't it a bitch to run Ukraine for the People?

UPDATE
Shtepa is now suing YouTube for what she considers defamation.



Try hard as they did, ICTV reporters couldn't find an electrician by the name Sanya in the Slavyansk City Hall.

The good news is, Shtepa recently married her driver, 15 years her junior.

Sources:
http://censor.net.ua/ru/video_news/view/160450/gorodskoyi_golova_slavyanska_obozvala_jenschinu_sukoyi_video
http://durdom.in.ua/uk/main/photo/photo_id/23173.phtml

Regionalist Compares Yanukovych to Skoropadsky

True friends stab you in the front.

MP Volodymyr Vecherko (Party of Regions): Viktor Fedorovych Yanukovych, much like Hetman Skoropadsky, has said it and keeps saying it everywhere, that Ukraine is a nation...and it has the right to determine, on its own, which way Ukraine should go. Is that clear or not?

MP Andriy Parubiy (NUNS): Don’t you equate Hetman Skoropadsky and your chief. I’m begging you.

Host: Gentlemen...

Vecherko: Let me, let me, let me once again...today he’s the president and takes responsibility for the entire nation of the country.

Yanukovych=Skoropadsky? Hope you have a self-fulfilling prophecy there!

(Remember that WW I autocrat whose puppet regime facilitated the German occupation of Ukraine and went the way of the Germans?)

So how do the two compare to each other?

Yanukovych clearly lacks Skoropadsky’s redeeming feature: anti-Bolshevism. Unlike Yanukovych, Skoropadsky siphoned food (not iron) from Ukraine, and thus didn’t need gas from Russia.

Put that issue aside, and Yanukovych becomes a faithful follower of Skoropadsky. He’s the man for the job! As long as Hetman Yanukovych remains in charge, Ukraine will remain oligarch/IMF-occupied territory.

Isn’t it great to have a commodity colony right outside the EU’s door? One with the population of California+Virginia, and the GDP of Utah?

Who wants to lose a steady supply of live-in maids, sex slaves and €5M Courchevel bday parties?




Sources:
http://censor.net.ua/ru/video_news/view/151329/partiya_regionov_viktor_fedorovich_yanukovich__kak_getman_skoropadskiyi_video
http://5.ua
http://durdom.in.ua/uk/main/photo/photo_id/21597/person_id/1.phtml
http://durdom.in.ua/uk/main/photo/photo_id/21850/person_id/1.phtml

Deputy Prosecutor General Plays Gangster Anthem

Gangsta rap. Performed by an assistant attorney general. Can you imagine this?

Ladies and gentlemen, welcome Renat Kuzmin!

He serves as one of our deputy prosecutor generals. That makes him a very special guest star to appear on “Ukraine’s Being Had by Talent.” (Nice parody name for an annual gala organized by MP Yan Tabachnyk of the ruling Party of Regions, huh?)

Anyway, watch Kuzmin perform “Murka,” not gangsta rap, but pretty much the anthem of the local underworld. (Lyrics: Female gangster cheats on her lover-fellow gangster, sells out the gang and gets her comeuppance.)



“Murka” became a household name after appearing in “The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed” (1978), a popular Soviet miniseries.


3:53-4:42

Ukraine's being had by talent. Any doubt about that?

Sources:
http://www.pravda.com.ua/photo-video/2011/01/9/5766343/
http://inter.ua
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1f5F3-1wfI

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

Draconian Tax Law Approved (Watch How)

One person, one vote?

Not in Ukraine!







Yes he can! MP Chechetov can orchestrate a vote-for-your-absentee-pal symphony.

Music to His ears!



Sources:
http://www.pravda.com.ua/articles/2010/11/18/5584885/
http://durdom.in.ua/uk/main/photo/photo_id/19917/person_id/1.phtml

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

Party of Regions Ad Features Lviv Mayor Against His Will

Feeling uncomfortable in that upbeat Yanukovych commercial?

Then “We’re Building the New Country” without you. You can count on it!

Deputy Chief of Staff Herman: He said he saw himself in the “Building the New Country” ad and he didn’t agree with it. I told him this: Mr. Andrew, I think the authors of this commercial couldn’t even imagine that the New Ukraine could be built without you. But if you believe that it should be built without you, then I promise you it will definitely be the case. The New Ukraine will be built without you.

Looks like you guys are building the Old Country. The USSR.

Wait, not exactly. The U$$R!

Video embedded from: http://censor.net.ua/go/offer/ResourceID/170943.html
Original source: http://tsn.ua

Yanukovych Face Carved on Watermelon

Children and adults, singers and sculptors, eastern Ukrainians love their leader.



Obviously, the 50% utility hike, effective August 1, hasn’t hit home yet.

If that’s not enough, don’t worry. There’ll be another 50% hike in April 2011.

Contrary to what the watermelon face had promised, the gas-for-fleet discount turned out to be not-so-water-tight when it comes to ordinary people.

Oh, wait, you can try your luck applying for a subsidy.



Just remember: Whatever Yanukovych does to you, it’s all Tymoshenko’s fault.

Here’s a Donetsk businessman who appeals to Yanukovych to protect him and locals from Lozynsky-type thugs who identify with the Party of Regions.



Why not put their faces on watermelons too? Maybe the IMF could even sponsor an art exhibit?

In Russian cuisine, they have creative ideas of their own.

Lenin and his associates consumed Russians and others by the million. Now, how about some Russians consume some Lenin? Piece of cake!


Амелькина "ленина съели". Огромный торт изображающий ленина в натуральную величину. Его режут,

Yummy. I’m lovin’ it!

Videos uploaded/embedded from:
http://censor.net.ua/go/offer/ResourceID/167455.html
http://censor.net.ua/go/offer/ResourceID/167682.html
http://censor.net.ua/go/offer/ResourceID/167645.html
http://www.newstube.ru/media/amel%27kina-lenina-s%27%27eli-ogromnyj-tort-izobrazhayushhij-lenina-v-natural%27nuyu-velichinu-ego-rezhut
Original sources:
http://kanalukraina.tv
http://www.1tv.com.ua
http://www.tvc.ru

Paid Yanukovych Fans Rally Outside CEC Building

If you’re looking for a parody of the Orange Revolution, look here.



They didn’t make it to Kyiv as grassroots protesters five years ago. Now they have their chance — as paid political tourists — outside the Central Election Commission building.

(The practice has gained currency since the decline of the Orange Revolution and has been employed by Yushchenko, Tymoshenko and Yanukovych alike.)

Some look joyful. Some look drunk. Some look stupid. Some blame Yanukovych for going unpaid for hours. Some huddle before the cameras to prevent the reporters from shooting the scene.

Journalist-beater Oleh Kalashnikov talks honesty.

Video uploaded from: http://censor.net.ua/go/offer/ResourceID/145242.html
Original source: http://stb.ua

Yanukovych Promises to Punish His Woman Beaters

No, Shufrych didn’t do it. Some other fellas did.

Woman: Yatsenko Lyudmyla Stepanivna here. Mr. Yanukovych, I’m that woman who, 5 years ago, came showing you a League of Bila Tserkva Entrepreneurs pin and was asking for sound legislation. For that pin, your teammates at the time — when you lost in the first round — would pound me with their feet. They [later] switched to a different party...

Yanukovych: I’d like to ask you — I’d very much like to ask you — to name publicly the names of those who dared touch a woman — those fellow party members of mine, as you put it. Please name them. I really want...the names of the specific people who laid a finger on you.

Woman: I don’t know how I’m going to live in Bila Tserkva [if I name them]. [applause]

Yanukovych: Well, in that...in that case...in that case, leave your number and address. As early as tomorrow morning — tomorrow morning — you’ll have my...[nods his head]...people come to you...who...to whom...who will hook you up with me on the phone. And please supply all the papers. We will deal with it. On these issues, I’m telling you, I’m a man of principle...OK? There will be a definite response — a definite one — you can count on it. I don’t know any tough guys in Bila Tserkva whom we won’t find. [applause]

It’s hard to translate Yanukese. We're dealing with a high-context, Freudian-slippery, slang-infested dialect.

Original: имена, людей, которые вас конкретно тронул пальцем
My translation: the names of the people who specifically laid a finger on you
Comment: конкретно (konkretno), as in чисто конкретно can be translated as absotively posilutely, no shit, etc

Original: которые свяжут вас со мной
My translation: who will hook you up with me
Comment: связать (svyazat) also means to tie somebody up

Meet another man of principle from the Party of Regions: MP Oleh Kalashnikov (no pun intended). This man, a then-MP, attacked reporters in 2006.



After a 3-year exile, he now appears to have been pardoned by the Party of Regions top brass, not to mention the Office of the Prosecutor General.

Z Novym Rokom! Happy New Year!

The year of the White Tiger, as some call it.

Video uploaded from: http://censor.net.ua/go/offer/ResourceID/143424.html
Original source: http://shuster.kanalukraina.tv/

Yanukovych Keeps Hearing Things

Have you ever thought of Yanukovych as a genie? Here’s your chance. You call him, and he’ll take you for a magic carpet ride!

Voiceover: Does your opinion matter? Viktor Yanukovych believes it does. And he wants to hear you. Tell him what troubles you most. He’s listening to you.

Quick, what’s the difference between Yanukovych and a genie?

A genie only hears you until you tell him your third wish. Yanukovych only hears you until you vote for him.





Video uploaded from: http://censor.net.ua/go/offer/ResourceID/134539.html
Original source: http://kanalukraina.tv

Tymoshenko Presidency: 47% Order, 53% Dictatorship, Studio Poll Says

From Gas Princess to Queen of Populism to Dictatress. She's coming home!

At a recent Shuster Live studio poll, 53% of respondents viewed a Tymoshenko presidency as dictatorship and 47% as order (or 64%-to-36% in the 18-25 audience). Instead of drawing the line between order and dictatorship, Tymoshenko blurred the line.

PM Yulia Tymoshenko: Savik, what makes you think that after all the chaos that grips politics, after all this disorder, irresponsibility — this whole, if you’ll excuse my non-parliamentary language, barking — people don’t want dictatorship? I already do want the country to have order, regimentation, and perhaps a sufficiently strong system of government, and not what we have today. [applause]
Savik Shuster, host: This…this here…wait, I have a little...I have...I have...I have...I too have...

Tymoshenko: And you absolutely have no idea: whether people want dictatorship or not — because they’re tired of it.
MP Iryna Akimova (PRU) [chimes in]: You saw it! Yulia Volodymyrivna wants dictatorship in our mass media!

Shuster: No, people probably…
Akimova: And she makes it happen, Savik. Or does she?

Shuster: I can’t hear you, sorry.
Akimova: You didn’t hear me? Yulia Volodymyrivna does want dictatorship. She just said it.

Shuster: I...
Akimova: And unfortunately, she wants it in the mass media.

Shuster: Excuse me, Iryna, I’m having a strict commercial break here, and after that Mykola Azarov will take the microphone.
Akimova [continues]: Because she doesn’t allow commentary to the interesting footage that we’ve seen on the screen. It’s called dictatorship, Savik. [show closes for commercial break]

Tymoshenko’s usage of the noun стрункість (stroon-kist) strikes me as particularly dictatorship-driven.

Literally, стрункість means slimness. In the above context, however, it sounds like a derivative of “Струнко!” (stroon-koh), which roughly equals “Parade rest!” In Russian, they say “Смирно!” (smeer-noh). The Russian expression по стойке смирно refers to regimentation. Tymoshenko’s recent mega-Freudian slip, “I want, on behalf of Russia...sorry, on behalf of Ukraine” carries the point further.

If Tymoshenko wins, will we have “one law for all” or “one lady above all laws?” The same goes for the other lady: Yanukovych.

Video uploaded from:
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Original source:
http://kanalukraina.tv/

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.


Original Video- More videos at TinyPic

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