Welcome to Tymoshenko, Akhmetov, Tabachnyk Beaches!

“Do you know where you are? Rich folks live here. So don't sail any closer!”



Can beaches be private property? No, says environmental law. Yes, says the law of the jungle.

That’s the law that trumps the law that guarantees free riverfront passage and bans home construction within 100 meters of any water body.

In a country where government is private property, nothing is impossible!

OK, here we go. Tymoshenko beach (4:17). Feels nice, but nobody’s home. Oh, she's so busy these days! Not only does she frequently appear in Yanukovych’s court...


...but she also lives next door to Ukraine’s richest man Rinat Akhmetov!

Red: Tymoshenko (former MP/PM/now opposition leader)
White: Akhmetov (oligarch/MP/Yanukovych backer)




Pretty cool, huh? How about an Overboard remake? Best filming location ever!

The final *swim-union* scene (2:04)















Donbas Arena opening ceremony (August 2009)

Anyway, other beaches turned out not so romantic.

Tabachnyk beach guard: “Are you gonna teach law to me? I have my own laws. You understand?”

Sources:
http://censor.net.ua/ru/video_news/view/174946/jurnalisty_popytalis_pozagorat_na_lichnyh_plyajah_timoshenko_ahmetova_i_tabachnika_ty_tolko_za_zabor_vylezesh_ya_tebya_iz_pistoleta_vylezu_video http://tsn.ua
http://www.pravda.com.ua/photo-video/2011/07/14/6386726/
http://www.pravda.com.ua/rus/articles/2009/08/30/4501048/

Yanukovych Walks Pro-Govt Reporters Through His Mezhyhirya Residence

He’s just a guy next door.



Enjoy this long-anticipated but kind of limited-view tour! Get the big picture here.

The show hit the airwaves last night (Constitution Day). Prime time. On just about every major channel.


Out-jogging Tymoshenko

Yanukovych: I believe that every person has the right to a private…life, and there are some areas, like — it’s...doesn’t matter if it’s a politician or not a politician, see — that belongs [sic] to him. And he doesn’t want someone invading…

Kulykov (ICTV): Today, we’ve sneaked a peek into your private life.

Yanukovych: ...to...tou...touching [them]. Well, I do allow…it’s on my permission. I don’t allow just anyone...

Kulykov: And considering...considering...

Yanukovych: ...just anyone. I allow — and every person allows — those whom they allow...those, uh, one has respect for, certain trust in, and you know that this person, they, so to speak, don't carry a big chip on their shoulder. Same with me. I’m like everybody else.

“I’m like everybody else.” Why not put it on this wall?

Sources:
http://www.pravda.com.ua/articles/2011/06/28/6338987/
http://inter.ua

Tymoshenko: ‘Very Big Business’ > 1/2 My Life

She’s not a church mouse anymore. She’s richer, smarter and holier.

Holier than Yanukovych.

Yulia Tymoshenko: Uh...I...uh...spent more than half of my life doing very big business — very big business. That’s a business that had billions of...uh...revenue...

Mustafa Nayem: You have some savings left?
Tymoshenko: Definitely! Definitely! And these savings...they...uh...at that time, I...didn’t have to disclose them...

Nayem: They’re in Ukraine?
Tymoshenko: ...because I was not an official. Uh...all these savings...they do exist, and we as a family are using them.
Nayem: Aha!

Tymoshenko: So the difference is, I was in business, and Yanukovych hasn’t been a single day in business.
Nayem: Aha!

Tymoshenko: Difference number two, you’re now being present at my home. This home is being rented. This home has never in its whole life belonged to the state.
Nayem: How? By who?

Tymoshenko: It’s being rented by my family. Directly. My husband has a rental agreement.
Nayem: Aha!

Tymoshenko: And I want all officials to rent homes like I do — private homes — or let them rent apartments, and not take them away from the state.

So she says she spent more than half of her life doing very big business? Let's do the math here.

Small business became legal in the USSR in 1986-1988.

In 1988, Tymoshenko (b. 1960) and her husband started a chain of small VCR-powered movie theaters, immensely popular amid perestroika’s passion for Western culture.

In 1997, Tymoshenko assumed her first public office, a seat in Ukraine’s parliament.

All of which suggests that:

A. Tymoshenko misspoke.
B. Tymoshenko is a teenager.
C. Tymoshenko (aka Gas Princess) stayed in business after being elected.
D. Both B and C are correct.



What do you think?

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Original source: http://tvi.ua
Image: http://tabloid.pravda.com.ua/photos/471dff6b3c7df/

Yanukovych Sends His New Year/Christmas Greetings

If you live in the land of the “Ukrainian Bell Carol” but speak Russian only, he’s your man.

Presidential candidate Yanukovych: New Year and Christmas are again coming to our house — with goodness, with hope, with faith that we all will be better off. I know we can overcome the difficulties. We’ll find ways to happy and joyful. Our kids will be growing up healthy. There will be tranquility and abundance in our every family. Accord, peace and prosperity will again rule supreme in our state.

0:00-0:33

He forgot to mention one of his elixirs of tranquility and abundance:

• Paid Hr. 16.24 ($3.12) for a 184 sq m apartment in 2003;
• Traded it for a 384 sq m apartment (using his mother-in-law's ID) in 2003;
• Sold it for Hr. 33,416,350 ($7M) in 2008;
• Put Hr. 2,674,910 ($334K) on his 2009 tax returns as a gain on the sale of real estate.

One Mezhyhirya is never enough.

Anyway, z Rizdvom Khrystovym! Merry Christmas!





Video uploaded from:
http://censor.net.ua/go/offer/ResourceID/143817.html
Original source:
http://inter.ua
http://www.1tv.com.ua

Tears for Votes: Yanukovych Follows Lytvyn

Some laugh and sing. Others cry and cry.

Whether spontaneous or staged, tears put a human face on a politician. The Hillary syndrome has now spread to Ukraine. Tears have been shed in our presidential campaign.

Speaker Volodymyr Lytvyn routinely blasts the oligarchs and claims being cash-strapped.

That’s despite privatizing 600 sq m of taxpayer-paid real estate and having a daughter who owns a luxury boutique and a brand new $100K car.

You’d think that makes him a thick-skinned materialist. Hell no!

When a fellow Lytvynite presented him with a rushnyk sewn by her mother, the gift moved the man to tears.

Presidential candidate Volodmyr Lytvyn: In...[fights back tears, falls short of igniting a standing ovation]...in Polissya...in a back-of-beyond Polissya village...[fights back tears, ignites a full-blown standing ovation]...my parents brought me into this world.

Yanukovych found himself in a similar situation during his tour of western Ukraine, where his opponents vastly outnumber his supporters.

An elderly woman mounts the stage, empathizes with Yanukovych’s childhood of growing up without a mother, gives him a vyshyvanka and wishes him the best.

Presidential candidate Viktor Yanukovych: [smiles amid applause, crosses himself, bows repeatedly, thanks the woman, kisses her hands, ignites a standing ovation]: Thanks a lot, Hanna Mykhailivna! I’m deeply moved. I’m very grateful. In the area, in the region, in the land where I grew up, there’s a hu...huge industry. It was there...that I grew up, it was there that I was taught to work, to manage production, the economy. I grew up all by myself among people. Indeed, down there...nobody wore vyshyvankas...[gets sentimental]...and I’ve never worn it in my life. But I...I promise you that I will definitely wear it on holidays. [ignites a standing ovation, steps down, visibly tearful]

It’s the same tough guy who sells his apartment for Hr. 33,416,350 but reports Hr. 2,674,910 on his tax returns.

If you have a problem with that, you can sue him. So he says.

Videos uploaded/embedded from:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSCu2z_rgYM
http://censor.net.ua/go/offer/ResourceID/142467.html
Original sources:
http://5.ua
http://www.vgolos.com.ua

Yanukovych: ‘I Wasn’t Trained as an Artist’

How does Tymoshenko debate with a shy guy like this?

Presidential candidate Viktor Yanukovych: I wasn’t trained as an artist. Therefore, compe-competing...with Tymoshenko...uh...in this profession is something I won’t do. As a matter of principle. It’s not my profession.

Yes, it is. Always has been, always will be. You’re both artists. She just happens to be a better one.

She says her hubby runs a small business, yet she doesn’t even know the company’s name. When she comes home, he’s already asleep. When she goes to work, he’s still asleep. You know the story.

Now what’s your story?

On your tax returns, you say you sold a 140 sqm Kyiv apartment for Hr. 2,674,910 in 2008 — to buy that Mezhyhirya property (339 acres).

But the sales agreement says you actually sold a 384 sqm apartment — for Hr. 33,416,350 (about $7M in ‘08) — to MP Serhiy Klyuyev, a fellow Regionalist.

Moreover, it says you had obtained that apartment as a gift.

Ain’t that art?

Video uploaded from: http://censor.net.ua/go/offer/ResourceID/141394.html Original source: http://ictv.ua
Other sources:
http://pravda.com.ua/articles/4b1ccbcc2226f/
http://pravda.com.ua/articles/4b1aaaefb3d43/

Yatsenyuk Calls for 'Khrushchyovkas 2'

Arseniy Yatsenyuk: The only way to solve this is to actually build some sort of “Khrushchyovkas 2,” that is, cheap and affordable housing whereby, with funding from the community and with minimum down payments from these people, such people could be resettled.

Somebody get him his Lenin Prize in Architecture and Economics!

A much more effective way would be to build khrushchyovkas for the corrupt Ukrainian elites and resettle them to the Zone of Alienation for a year or two.

This program would breathe new life into the government’s anti-corruption efforts, facilitating affordable housing that meets the requirements of the 21st century.

Video uploaded from: http://censor.net.ua/go/offer/ResourceID/111725.html
Original source: http://ictv.ua

The 'Affordable Housing' Race

PM Tymoshenko: I promised that every family that is employed or has an income will be entitled, via a government mortgage agency, to receive a loan, for a period of 25 to 30 years, for the purchase of a home; and what’s more, without a down payment and at an annual interest rate of 4 to 6 percent.

Interviewer: I would like you to clarify, what banks will agree to an interest rate of 4 to 6 percent?

PM Tymoshenko: The thing is, it’s not the banks that will be at work here. The rate of 4 to 6 percent will be the product of the government mortgage agency. It’s the kind of agency that taps the cheapest of money — and there are such mechanisms — and then, through refinancing commercial banks and through special rules that do not allow the banks to ratchet up interest rates — we will give such loans to people. Make no mistake: Our task is to make housing so that people can buy it, rather than watch upscale condos being built and passively observe the other guy having a beautiful life. [Amen to that!]

No sooner had PM Tymoshenko unveiled her plan than the Secretariat of the President rained on her parade with a me-too initiative, dismissing Tymoshenko’s low interest rate plan as unrealistic.

As an alternative, the Secretariat championed the idea of a 30 percent government-subsidized down payment, plus cost cuts via issuing free land permits.

All of which suggests that the housing problem is becoming a major theater in the war for votes that will define the outcome of the presidential campaign 2009.

However, until proven otherwise, my satellites will view these initiatives as promise-packed weapons of mass delusion — brand extensions of “No draft in 2008” and “Bandits will sit in prison.”

What Ukraine needs is a housing SDI that will disempower the evil oligarch empire and will empower the Ukrainian Dream. Whoever gets the job done — or at least makes a good start — will get to be President.

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