Highway Cop Kills Teen Cyclist, Gets Promoted

Catch him if you can.



A reporter tries to reach the cop for comment, and guess what? The cop's moving in the fast lane!

Which finally justifies the $100K we paid for this Ukraine brand.




Outpaced and outraged, the reporter goes all the way to the oblast top brass. Only then does Maj. Voloven become more cooperative.

Maj. Voloven: I have the right to have no contact with you whatsoever, right?
Reporter: And that includes running away?

Voloven: Running away?
Reporter: You were running, weren’t you?

Voloven: Well, I didn’t want to talk to you.
Reporter: Do you feel guilty?

Voloven: Well, yes, in the sense that I could not have prevented this situation, I take full blame for failing to react in this situation.

Teen’s mother: What did you kill my child for?
Voloven: Well, you do realize that...

Mother: Look me in eye! What did you kill my child for?
Voloven: I’m sorry, I didn’t do it on purpose, right?

Mother: Then why are you, a major of the police, running from justice and providing false testimony?
Voloven: I...
Mother: You know I’m telling the truth. It happened right before my eyes.

What can I say? Another success story.

It's got character. It takes character to evade “the justice of the law and the inevitability of punishment” Yanukovych talked about last week.

Sources:
http://censor.net.ua/ru/video_news/view/164138/gaishnika_kotoryyi_sbil_nasmert_podrostka_na_velosipede_ne_posadili_a_povysili_v_zvanii_video http://ictv.ua
http://brandukraine.org/i/

Yanukovych Rebukes Odesa Governor

All was not humor in Odesa.

Yanukovych: Please let the people through, will ya? I asked you. Or I didn’t make myself clear? Or you’re not managing anything?

Freeze! Let the president through!



Sources:
http://censor.net.ua/ru/video_news/view/156680/kak_yanukovich_na_odesskogo_gubernatora_krichal_video
http://censor.net.ua/ru/video_news/view/156687/yanukovich_s_shikom_proehal_po_odesse_odessity_materilis_video

Vice PM Test-Drives Bus, Breaks Traffic Rules, Hits Police Car

From “The Party That Builds”...

Watch Vice PM Borys Kolesnikov test-drive a Lviv bus.



Looking good, isn't he?



Too bad he didn’t notice that highway patrol car parked on the roadside.

Voice from the bus: “It’s OK! It’s OK! Nothing will happen to that cops’ car!”

That’s what happens when you break the law — “business as usual” for Ukraine’s elites.

In Ukraine, to drive buses, you need a D driver’s license. (Which doesn’t quite match Kolesnikov’s B license.)



That same day, Kolesnikov bought a replacement car and proudly declared himself ready to face the law. (Which means no one made him face it right away.)

And what does the law say? It says he should be fined $75 and his driver's license suspended.

But can you really do that to a guy who wears a $420,000 watch?


Not really. Not in Ukraine.


Not unless he lets you.

Sources:
http://tabloid.pravda.com.ua/scandal/4cc9741f0c575
http://tabloid.pravda.com.ua/brand/4cc8293be3e9f
http://www.vgolos.com.ua/videoday/187.html
http://vlaskor.net/news/54636.html
http://ukranews.com/ru/news/events/2010/10/28/30063

A DUI Mayor Hits a Woman in Donetsk Oblast (Updated)

If they don’t kill you in the mine, they can try to kill you outside.





On October 8, Yuriy Anisimov, 58, the dead-drunk mayor of Dymytrov, a town in Donetsk oblast, raced his KIA Cerato into Iryna Tymoshenko, 48, an employee of a local coal mine.

The woman was hospitalized with multiple injuries, including a concussion, broken teeth, fractured ribs and chest trauma. The mayor tried to flee the scene but was surrounded by his constituents, some of whom wished him death.

Police made sure he sustained no further injuries.

UPDATE
On October 20, the mayor was freed on bail. On October 22, the woman died.

Sources:
http://censor.net.ua/go/offer/ResourceID/135570.html
http://pro-test.org.ua/index.php?id=5005&show=news&newsid=46286
http://ukr.proua.com/news/2009/10/12/030115.html

Herman’s Younger Son, 17, Dies in Car Accident (Updated)

Roman was a 17 year-old on his way from Odesa when his BMW-335 collided with a Mercedes truck. He died.

He was the younger son of MP Hanna Herman (PRU).

Accounts of the accident, which took place in Kirovohrad oblast, at 2:40 a.m. local time, vary. According to kirovograd.proua.com, Roman was driving the car, while, according to UNIAN, the driver was another person, an 20-year old. (In Ukraine, driving a car is illegal for people under the age of 18.)

In the Tabloid comments section, people express condolences, offer sympathy, blast the mazhory, argue with each other and ask questions: How could this kid travel to Odesa and back without parental supervision? Was he driving the car?

UPDATE
According to eyewitness accounts, the two had spent some time at a nearby restaurant, Gazeta.ua reports. The car was moving erratically, indicating that the driver might have been drunk. It even took the opposite lane before entering the right lane and gaining speed, says a local convenience store manager quoted by Gazeta.ua.

The driver was hospitalized and remains stable.

Sources:
http://www.pravda.com.ua/news/2009/6/15/96526.htm
http://tabloid.pravda.com.ua/news/4a35fb1aa0d95/view_comments/
http://www.gazeta.ua/index.php?id=296382
http://www.gazeta.ua/index.php?id=296352
http://kirovograd.proua.com/news/2009/06/15/103133.html
http://tsn.ua/ua/ukrayina/v-dtp-zaginuv-sin-ganni-german.html
http://www.unian.net/ukr/news/news-321012.html

Kyiv Mayor Breaks Traffic Rules, Video Shows

With traffic laws getting tougher, many drivers have rediscovered safer driving, bringing accident rates down.

Still, the tougher laws don’t work for the tough guys (aka mazhory) who remain secure in the belief they can get away with murder. (The tougher laws certainly didn’t work for the tough Mercedes S600 guy who ignored traffic lights and hit a woman at full speed. The woman died. The driver, DUI, attempted to flee the scene.)

A non-lethal yet high-profile traffic violation case involves Kyiv Mayor Leonid “Kosmos” Chernovetsky, whose Rolls-Royce took the opposite lane — at least twice — while driving away from a restaurant.

STB caught the act on its candid camera and took the footage to the top brass at the DAI (spelled da-yi), the country’s highway patrol police.

Cop 1 detected three violations, for a total of Hr. 1,500 ($195) in fines, but added that the footage cannot be used as evidence. Cop 2 found two violations, punishable with a fine of Hr. 255-340 ($33-44), and said the footage must be examined for authenticity.

The DAI will report its ruling within 15 days.

Meanwhile, Mayor Chernovetsky orders cemeteries to charge entry fees and then raids kindergartens to sing “V lesu rodilas yolochka” in front of the cameras.




More “one law for all” updates. Vitaliy Finegold, the Crimean mazhor who killed a 25-year old woman with his Bentley last summer, has been released from custody. Police claims putting Finegold under oath not to leave town, pending investigation of him as a witness, not as a suspect.

In a country where judges harvest bribes, the system holds very little justice for the likes of Finegold.

A week ago, a court in Lutsk summarily amnestied the sons of a Rivne Court of Appeals judge, after sentencing them to 48 and 54 months’ imprisonment for beating a man to death.

The court based its ruling on “extenuating circumstances”: the younger defendant was a minor at the time of the crime, the older defender has two children.

Videos uploaded from:
http://kiev.pravda.com.ua/news/49788149d4ba5/
http://censor.net.ua/go/offer/ResourceID/112177.html
Original sources:
http://stb.ua
http://5.ua

Road Rage: Yatsenyuk Gets Bird from Deputy Chief of Special Highway Patrol Force

While driving about town incognito last Saturday, Speaker Arseniy Yatsenyuk had a unique opportunity to test the street cred of “one law for all” firsthand.

Ukrainian driving culture, characterized by giant power distance and little respect for traffic rules, didn’t keep him waiting.

Absent a police escort, Yatsenyuk got cut in front of a Porsche Cayenne, whose driver flipped an obscene gesture at him, obviously having misidentified the Speaker of the Verkhovna Rada for a non-god.

And you know what? It turns out the funny guy was the deputy chief of Kobra, a special highway patrol force authorized to inspect officials’ cars.

At a MoI staff meeting Monday, President Yushchenko demanded immediate resignation from the top highway patrol brass.

More than 34 thousand drivers’ licenses have been suspended in the first six weeks of 2007 in a nationwide traffic control effort.

Last year, some 9,500 people died from car accidents in Ukraine.

Sources:
http://korrespondent.net/ukraine/politics/379486 http://korrespondent.net/ukraine/events/372135