Tuesday, 24 March 2015

Does Yatsenyuk rule corruption schemes in Ukraine?

Great scandal in Ukrainian state! On 18th March 2015 the Head of the Financial Inspection of Ukraine Mykola Hordiyenko named the Cabinet of Ministers of Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk the main source of corruption in the country and asserted that Yatsenyuk ruled corruption schemes in Ukraine. Hordiyenko made such assertion and told about corruption facts in the parliamentary session's hall on 18th March and in "Shuster live show" on Ukrainian 112th TV-channel on 20th March 2015. And earlier on 4th March 2015 A. Yatsenyuk wanted to organize an internal investigation of the Financial Inspection of Ukraine (FIU) and its chief and suspended M. Hordiyenko from his state post for two weeks. As Yatsenyuk said then, the reasons for this suspension of Hordiyenko were the next: the non-objective audit of the FIU of state enterprise "Antonov", the absence of effective control of state money and property, misuses of the FIU's inspectors in their audit of big state enterprises. So two weeks passed after Hordiyenko's suspension and Mykola Hordiyenko decided to tell Ukrainian people all what he discovered about Yatsenyuk's government, holding the post of the Head of the FIU.
I would like to note Mykola Hordiyenko was appointed to the post of the Head of the Financial Inspection of Ukraine on 5th April 2014. So what did Hordiyenko assert about Yatsenyuk and his Cabinet of Ministers last week? M. Hordiyenko reported that the FIU made nearly 4 thousands control measures of Ukrainian state ministries, monopolies, organizations and enterprises during his management and accused Yatsenyuk's government, which damaged Ukrainian state using corruption schemes in the amount of 7 billion 600 million hryvnias! Thus, in 2014 the inspectors of the Financial Inspection of Ukraine checked financial-economic activity of state "Ukrzaliznytsya" ("Ukrainian Railway") and revealed the country damages of 258 million hryvnias in investigating period from 1st January 2014 till 30th September; they audited "Ukrzaliznychpostach" ("Ukrainian Railway Supply") and found out state damages in the amount of 300 million hrivnias in checked period from 1st January 2014 till 13th October 2014; the FIU's employees inspected "Ukrgazvydobuvannya" ("Ukrainian Gas Output") and revealed 358 million 500 thousands hryvnias of the losses to Ukraine in the period from 1st January 2012 till 31st August 2013; they audited "Ukrtransgas" and ostended 219 million 400 thousand hryvnias of the damages for Ukrainian budget in investigated period from 1st October 2012 till 31st May 2014; the FIU checked "Ukrposhta" ("Ukrainian Post-Office") and counted state damages in the sum of 61 million 700 thousand hryvnias in inspected period from 1st January 2013 till 30th September 2014. The FIU's audit is lasting in all Ukrainian nuclear power plants, "Energoatom" ("Energy Atom"), "Atomkomplekt" ("Atom Complement"), but has already revealed precedent damages in the sum of 100 million hryvnias. What about the FIU's investigation of "Antonov", which was called non-objective by Yatsenyuk, the FIU's employees had sent it to Kyiv Scientific-Researching Institute of Court Expretises of Ministry of Justice of Ukraine, who completely confirmed a truth of the Act of the FIU's audit of "Antonov" enterprise.
But what FIU's verification of financial-economic activity of state organization was the most scandalous, that was the Financial Inspection of Ukraine's unscheduled audit of the Ministry of Finance of Ukraine in 2014 for the period from 1st January 2011 till 1st April 2014. Though mainly it was checkup of previous Azarov's government and the FIU's checked 1 billion 46 million financial infringements in the actions of the Ministry of Finance of Ukraine and found out this ministry damaged Ukrainian state in the amount of 552 million hryvnias during the inspection's time. But Oleksandr Shlapak, present Adviser of Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk and former Minister of Finance of Ukraine from previous Yatsenyuk's government, sued on the Financial Inspection of Ukraine, being finance minister and demanding an abolition of the FIU's Act of the audit of the Ministry of Finance of Ukraine, which had been signed on 22nd September 2014. And present Ukrainian finance minister Nataliya Yaresko also doesn't recall her ministry's lawsuit against the Financial Inspection of Ukraine! Why? Why does present Ukraine's government block the investigation of corruption schemes, which had been ruled by Azarov's Cabinet of Ministers? Even more! The Ministry of Finance of Ukraine blocks staff appointments in regional subdivisions of the FIU after its inspection of ministry's actions in the past.
Managing by Mykola Hordiyenko, the Financial Inspection of Ukraine abolished electronic bills for supporting of Ukrainian coal mines in the amount of 1 billion 320 million hryvnias. Using own operational audit, the FIU didn't permit 5 billion 200 million financial breaches in state sector of economics, 4 billion 600 million of which weren't permitted in "Naftogaz Ukrayiny" ("Oil Gas of Ukraine").      
Accounting own activity on 112th TV-channel on 20th March, suspended Head of the Financial Inspection of Ukraine Hordiyenko told that he had reviewed the reports of his subordinate auditors about their inspection of the Ministry of Infrastructure of Ukraine in the day of his suspension from state post on 4th March 2015. It was the first time in Ukraine's history, when the Ministry of Infrastructure of Ukraine (named Ministry of Transport and Communication of Ukraine until 9th December 2010) was inspected by the FIU! Checking 5 last years of the activity of this ministry, inspectors of the FIU found out the losses for Ukrainian state in the sum of 30 million hryvnias during 10 days of the FIU's audit.
And in M. Hordiyenko's opinion, the privatization of "Ukrtelecom" had been done, using corruption schemes in May of 2011. The FIU's auditors revealed the breach of the conditions of "Ukrtelecom" sale contract, according to which new "Ukrtelecom" proprietor had to make state special communication at his own expense in the amount of 220 million hryvnias. But this contract's condition was infringed and it was ostended by the FIU's financial auditors in their inspection of the Administration of State Service of Special Communication and Protection of Information of Ukraine (the FIU's inspected period was from 1st June 2010 till 9th May 2014). So why does Yatsenyuk's government not make any claim to "Ukrtelecom" purchaser, when conditions of that sale contract were breached? Why does present state power not return this strategic enterprise into state property, because the contract can be abolished providing of broken conditions of the contract?  
In general according to Ukrainian laws, the Financial Inspection of Ukraine can check scheduled and unscheduled audits of state enterprises, ministries, etc. only after getting court awards from the General Prosecutor of Ukraine to inspect this or that object of state sector of economics. But it looks like Prime Minister Yatsenyuk doesn't enjoy the FIU's investigations, that's why he created special resolution at the end of the second half-year of 2014, in which he permitted inspectors of the FIU to audit only after getting some errand of  the government or some appeal of this state object, which would like to be checked. Because of such Yatsenyuk's resolution, the Financial Inspection of Ukraine didn't inspect 353 court awards, which were sent by the Public Prosecutor's Office, didn't begin 634 revisions of state objects, didn't send own specialists to prosecutor's offices and police to check common control financial measures. So A. Yatsenyuk blocked the normal work of the FIU!
Reporting in the parliamentary tribune on 18th March 2015, M. Hordiyenko applied to Ukrainian people's deputies to control named facts of corruption schemes in the present Cabinet of Ministers and to initiate discharging of Yatsenyuk's government in the case of confirmation of such corruption facts by the General Prosecutor of Ukraine V. Shokin, to whom the Head of the Financial Inspections of Ukraine has already applied with known facts and accusations of today's government. Hordiyenko also pleased Ukrainian journalists, public organizations and society to support him in the fight against corruption and to protect him and his family from any pursue.
I hope soon it will be known who is right and who is wrong in that difficult situation. On 24th March 2015 the part of people's deputies from parliamentary fractions of "Petro Poroshenko's Block" and "Batkivshchyna", and several people's deputies out of all parliament's fractions appealed to the Speaker of the Parliament Volodymyr Hroysman to organize extraordinary parliamentary session on 27th March 2015 and to invite the General Prosecutor of Ukraine Viktor Shokin and the Head of the Financial Inspections of Ukraine Mykola Hordiyenko to investigate together the work of the Cabinet of Ministers of Arseniy Yatsenyuk.        

Wednesday, 18 March 2015

Wounded ATO heroes

War...How many human lives are lost, how many people are crippled in that war in Donbas in 2014-2015! On 6th March 2015 Permanent Representative of Ukraine to the United Nations Yuriy Serheyev named the official ciphers of the losses of Ukrainian warriors: 1541 killed and 6256 injured since the beginning of so-called ATO in Donbas in March, 2014. How many strong and healthy Ukrainian men became cripples because of this war! Here are a few short stories of mutilations of Ukrainian soldiers to understand war cruelty and its possibility to change human destiny forever. 
23-year-old Taras M., a soldier of the 128th separate mountainous-infantry brigade from Ivano-Frankivsk region, he had gotten hard wounds in Artemivsk during one battle with Russian enemies. Nowadays he has wounded abdomen, bladder and rectum and fractured pelvis' bones, and he breathes through special tube...39-year-old Valeriy K., a soldier-volunteer from Kharkiv region, was injured with a bomb in Staryy Aydar during mortar shelling of Russians. He has many fragmentation wounds, fractured ribs, broken thigh. His right hand was amputated to the elbow and his right lung was wounded throughout...22-year-old Viktor L., military man from Lviv region, had gotten heavy mutilations yet on 16th August 2014 in ATO zone, but one fragment of the exploded bomb still is in his spine and he can't walk also because of his wounded left side of the thorax, injuries of spinal cord, left shoulder and left lung, fractures of ribs and left shoulder-blade...24-year-old Oleksandr M., a soldier of the 26th Berdychiv separate artillery brigade from Zhytomyr region, had gotten hard injuries on 8th November 2014 in Donbas, after what had been moved to the hospital, where he was in coma and had two difficult operations earlier, and where stays now with wounded one leg, head, collar-bone and both lungs...22-year-old Volodymyr Sh. from Sumy region was crippled on 6th February 2015 in Debaltseve and then he had lost much blood. Now he can eat only through special tube, has concussion of the brain, face's fragmentation injuries and fractured jaw...21-year-old Yuriy Kh., a soldier of contract from Chernivtsi region, served in the 25th Dnipropetrovsk airborne brigade and had gotten multiple fragmentation wounds of whole body, when one fragmentation grenade tore near him in Kramatorsk on 29th July 2014. Doctors have already took out 47 fragments from his body, but some fragments still go out from the injuries. Besides it soldier is contused, has brain's slaughter and paralysis of the facial nerve, and acute left-sided deafness. Having several operations earlier, he still stays in the hospital and needs to put medical plate on absent part of the skull and aural implant on the left ear...26-year-old Oleksandr K., "Aydar" battalion's volunteer from Cherkasy was mutilated nearly Shchastya on 13th October 2014. Doctors removed him a spleen in the hospital, where he was in 3-days coma and had celebral edema, and now he remembers almost nothing...20-year-old Roman Ya., a soldier of contract from Volyn region, was shelled with bomb thrower on 9th November 2014 and got serious fragmentation injuries, especially in back and neck. He can't see out of left eye and can't hear out of right ear...25-year-old Ivan K., a soldier of the 39th Dnipropetrovsk battalion of territorial defence from Zaporizhzhya, was crippled during military missions in Kramatorsk, when one defective grenade tore in his hands, which he lost both. He also lost right eye and doctors try to save him left eye. And then he got multiple fragmentation wounds of the face and leg's trauma...35-year-old Oleh K., a soldier of the 128th separate mountainous-infantry brigade from Transcarpathian region, had gotten heavy traumas and burns as result of one explosion in Debaltseve. Then 40% of his body was burnt, but his face and both hands were involved the most in a burn...27-years-old Taras K., a soldier of the 80th aeromobile brigade from Ivano-Frankivsk region, was seriously mutilated in Donetsk airport in January of 2015. His one kidney and two lungs were injured and doctors had to remove that crippled kidney, and nowadays he still stays in the hospital's reanimation...31-year-old Roman H., a lieutenant of the 24th mechanized brigade from Lviv region, had been crippled very much in Debaltseve on 13th February 2015. Then he got fractures of the spine in three places and needs operation on his spine. He also has fragmentation wounds, fractures of several ribs and left hand. Doctors have already operated his torn lung, but what is the worst that he doesn't feel his body below breast bone...30-year-old Oleksandr T., a soldier of the 30th mechanized brigade from Zhytomyr region, had been wounded near Rubizhne in June of 2014 and had gotten bullet injury in the head and fragmentation injuries in the left shoulder. Earlier he was in hospital's reanimation and his right side of the body was totally paralysed and now his right hand still doesn't move. Bullet touched his brain and he is teaching to speak all over again, and needs the operations to remove the bullet from his head and to put platinum plate on the skull...52-year-old Kostyantyn M. from Chernihiv region had been mutilated in Debaltseve on 18th February 2015 and has fractures of right collar-bone, right shoulder and right shoulder-blade, concussion of both lungs, through-injury of right lung, subcutaneous emphysema of right side of breast bone...29-year-old Ivan Ya., a soldier of "Aydar" volunteer battalion from Poltava region, had gotten heavy bullet and fragmentation wounds of the head, two legs and one hand in Luhansk region on 15th October 2014. Then Russian terrorists took him in captivity, cut off his left ear and let him go only after 27 days of the captivity. Nowadays he needs an operation to remove one fragment from his head...24-year-old Dmytro P., a soldier-volunteer from Lviv region, had gotten injuries of abdomen and liver, fractures of collar-bones and ribs after one Russian shell of "Grad" on 28th October 2014. Beeing operated, he stays in medium-heavy state in the hospital...34-year-old Serhiy O., a soldier of the 25th "Kyiv Rus" volunteer battalion from Kyiv region, had gotten multiple fragmentation wounds of whole body, especially serious wounds of duodenum, intestine, abdomen after mortar shelling of Russians in Debaltseve on 10th February 2015...23-year-old Vadym D., officer of special service from Kirovohrad, lost left hand in one battle for Debaltseve, and lying in the snow during 4 days and losing the blood, he got deep frostbite of both feet, which were amputated in the hospital later...32-year-old Oleksandr S. from Ternopil had been wounded in Debaltseve on 5th February 2015, when some grenade exploded nearly him and crippled his face and one hand, tore off one leg...46-year-old Yuriy S., a soldier of the 25th "Kyiv Rus" volunteer battalion from Kyiv region, was injured in Debaltseve during mortar shelling of the enemies. His mutilations: fragmentation wound of neck, torn larynx, broken trachea, mandible and its teeth, fragments in right foot and left shoulder. He eats only through medical probe and can't speak...In January of 2015 one shell exploded near 26-year-old Andriy K., a soldier of the 95th aeromobile brigade from Zhytomyr region. That explosion burnt 30% of his body and wounded his right lung, right thigh, breast bone and abdomen. He dreams to find little girl, which he saved from another explosion near Slovyansk in the summer of 2014, when shell killed her parents...35-year-old Vitaliy P., a soldier of the 72nd mechanized brigade from Kyiv region, has strong headache and frequent losses of consciousness after one fight in ATO zone in August of 2014. Doctors operated the anomalous vessels in his head and he had a stroke in 3 days after that operation, and then - another operation and 10 days in coma. Since this time his left side of the body is paralysed and he often has convulsions. Coming back from Donbas, he went grey, began to stutter and get hard psychological traumas...31-year-old Arsen B., a soldier of the 24th mechanized brigade from Volyn region, was crippled in October of 2014, when Russian soldiers fired Ukrainian warriors in Luhansk region. Explosion of the shell mutilated his head and left eye and he can't see out of this eye. Doctors took out one fragment from the head and removed part of his skull. His right side of body is paralysed and he can't speak...26-year-old Andriy Z., a soldier of the 17th tank brigade from Kryvyy Rih, had been injured nearly Popasna on 13th October 2014 and since that time he has terrible pain because of the fragment in his wounded thigh. He had almost 20 operations on the leg, which was amputated above knee at last...24-year-old Oleksiy Z. from Vinnytsya region had been injured and contused on 2nd February 2015. He got injuries of the eyes, concussion of the brain, fractures of left wrist and mandible, amputation of both legs in the different places...20-year-old Oleksandr R., medical assistant of the 101st separate brigade of the defence of the Armed Forces of Ukraine from Vinnytsya region, had been shelled with mortars and "Grad" near Debaltseve on 6th December 2014 and was seriously mutilated: broken ribs, injured lungs, liver and kidney...29-year-old Serhiy D., a soldier of the 72nd mechanized brigade from Kyiv region, was shelled and taken in the captivity for long 7 weeks by separatists of so-called DNR in September of 2014, but then he was exchanged. Bullet wounded his back, pelvis and abdomen and now he must take analgesics every day...21-years-old Vasyl B. from Kirovohrad region was attacked by Russian soldiers, when he was in the armored personnel carrier with other Ukrainian warriors in Debaltseve in February of 2015. He got heavy injuries of the face and broken left hand, and he lost wrist of right hand...
And it's written very small part of all sufferings of these brave Ukrainian men who were wounded in ATO zone, fighting for Ukraine. Those who saw a lot of blood, deaths of their fellows, horror of the war, hospital's reanimation. Who feel terrible pain and must struggle for own life again and again, but not on the field of the battle, but on the beds in the wards. Who became cripples in Ukraine, where the majority of public places is not adapted for them, where it's very hard to find them a job and to be normally integrated in the society like it's easy to do for the invalids in highly developed countries. And it will be unfair if I don't name You another existent problem of injured ATO heroes - frequent thefts of big sums from their bank accounts, which were opened in "Privatbank" to get money for needful operations. There are known at least 5 accidents of such thefts from "Privatbank" accounts of 5 Ukrainian soldiers since the beginning of 2015 year and the thieves aren't caught yet and money, gathered by various people for these Ukrainian warriors, aren't come back to bank accounts' owners. What a shameful treatment of present Ukrainian state power to the defenders of Ukraine, who lost their health in the fight for Ukrainian land.                                                        

Tuesday, 10 March 2015

Speculators devalued Ukrainian Hryvnia.

Ukrainian Hryvnia's devaluation of 2014-2015 years looks like purposely and previously thought-out large speculations. Hryvnia's exchange rate was stable during four and a half years and one American dollar equaled almost eight hryvnias since 21st August 2009 till 6th February 2014. But on 7th February 2014 Ukrainian monetary unit began to depreciate very rapidly and then official Hryvnia's rate decreased to 8,70 hryvnias per 1$, according to the official site of National Bank of Ukraine. http://www.bank.gov.ua/control/uk/curmetal/detail/currency?period=daily On 28th February 2014 1$ amounted to 9,98 hryvnias and in the end of March, on 28th March 2014 official exchange rate of Hryvnia was 1$=10,85 hryvnias, and in April of 2014 Ukrainian Hryvnia devalued to almost 13 hryvnias per 1$  (on 14th April 2014 1 USD=12,97 UAH), though afterwards Hryvnia a little bit increased. It seemed that Ukrainian Hryvnia's devaluation was just made up in someone's imagination, then was drawn on the paper by somebody or by some several persons, but it wasn't economically substantiated. 
In April of 2014, before presidential elections presidential candidate Petro Poroshenko promised to stabilize official Hryvnia's rate to less than 10 Ukrainian hryvnias per 1 American dollar in a case of his victory. Here are his thinkings about the exchange rate of Hryvnia and about people who took bank loans in the precedent years, and here is his promise of Hryvnia' stabilization to less than 10 UAH per 1 USD in these April's videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0T7kw3Ag88 and here:       


And on 25th May 2014 P. Poroshenko was elected the President of Ukraine, but he didn't keep his promise and already at the end of August of 2014 Hryvnia continued to depreciate, reaching the rate of almost 14 hryvnias per 1 dollar (1 USD=13,89 UAH on 27th August 2014). Though the largest devaluation of Ukrainian national currency started in November of 2014. Thus, on 6th November 2014 1 American dollar equaled 13,95 Ukrainian hryvnias, on 7th November 2014 1 dollar amounted to 14,47 hryvnias, on 10th November 2014 1 USD=14,80 UAH and on 11th November 2014 1 USD=15,77 UAH! But Hryvnia set its devaluation's record in February of 2015. Look at Hryvnia's official rate in the last month: 1 USD=16,72 UAH on 4th February 2015, 1 USD=18 UAH on 5th February 2015, 1 USD=23 UAH on 6th February 2015!, and the largest depreciation was on 26th February 2015, when 1 American dollar amounted to 30,01 Ukrainian hryvnias, after what Ukrainian currency's rate slowly increased to 22,89 hryvnias per 1 dollar on 6th March 2015. Just unbelievable rates as if National Bank of Ukraine excogitated such Hryvnia's rates how state power wanted, because daily decreases of Hryvnia's value hadn't economic reasons. 
And if president Poroshenko didn't keep his financial promise of Hryvnia's rate (less than 10 hryvnia per 1 dollar after his victory at presidential elections), so he is real lier and isn't a serious politician of global level. Serious politician must be responsible for own words, serious president or serious prime minister as politician of global level must retire, if he/she can't keep own promises, giving to society before presidential or parliamentary elections. So if Poroshenko would like to be serious politician, he must retire and announce new presidential elections in the country. But before it, of course, Valeriya Hontaryeva must be dismissed from the post of the Head of National Bank of Ukraine for such huge devaluation of Ukrainian Hryvnia. While many Ukrainian citizens live in poverty, economic crisis doesn't concern Hontaryeva's family, which lives luxury life. As newspaper "Vesti" wrote two weeks ago, 25-year-old Anton Hontaryev, son of the Head of NBU, traveled with his wife to India, France, Dominicana and Turkey during the last six months http://vesti-ukr.com/svetskie-vesti/90064-gontareva-ezdit-na-pjati-avto-i-uzhinaet-u-bassejna, meanwhile Russian troops kill, wound and take Ukrainian warriors in the captivity. And earlier main banker of Ukrainian state declared that her salary (10000 hryvnias per 1 month) was too small for such state post. It would be interesting to see how Hontaryeva could live with a salary as little pension of many Ukrainian pensioners (1500 UAH/month).
But the biggest quantity of the questions is to Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk, who was appointed on the main economic post in Ukraine by the majority of Ukrainian people's deputies yet on 22nd February 2014 in Ukrainian parliament. On 25th February 2015 A. Yatsenyuk said at the Cabinet of the Ministers' press-conference: "There are a lot of US dollars in Ukraine, but some people bought and buy share of American currency to make speculative activity in the country". How does Yatsenyuk rule in Ukraine, if speculators have more influence than the Prime Minister in the state?

And on 25th February 2015 the Minister of Finance of Ukraine Nataliya Yaresko explained that all what happened with Hryvnia had lately been the consequence of speculations at the common press-conference with the Head of NBU Valeriya Hontaryeva. So A. Yatsenyuk and N. Yaresko publicly admitted they knew about making speculations with Ukrainian Hryvnia lately. Why did they not stop speculators? Why do they not say the names of speculators or organizations to Ukrainian society? Why do they not assert about such persons or organizations to police, public prosecutor's office, court? Why does the Minister of Internal Affairs Arsen Avakov not stop speculative actions in bank sector of Ukrainian economy as former banker and owner of liquidated "Basis" bank, who must be well-oriented in bank sphere?
So members of Ukrainian state power say about speculators, but don't catch them!
       
Instead of it in March-May of 2014 Ukraine's government often told about Russian occupation of Crimea as the reason of huge Hryvnia's depreciation. But as counter-argument, Georgia had lost Abkhazia and South Ossetia after Russian-Georgian war in August of 2008, but Georgian Lari didn't devalue like Ukrainian hryvnia did. Searching present and past economic indicators of all world countries on this American site http://www.tradingeconomics.com, we can see exchange rate of Georgian Lari in the end of 2008 and now for comparison: 1,67 lari per 1$ on 31st December 2008 and 2,17 lari per 1$ on 6th March 2015, almost like on 31st December 2003, when 1 dollar equaled 2,19 lari. Practically without changes for 12 years! Do You know what Hryvnia's exchange rate was on 31st December 2003? 5,33 UAH per 1 USD!So, loss of state territories isn't a real reason of currency's devaluation and Georgia is the example of it.
Ukrainian state power also explains Hryvnia's devaluation as the result of long-term antiterroristic operation in Donbas, which is Russian-Ukrainian war in fact. But my another counter-argument here: Libya, where terror and chaos rule nowadays, where two governments and two parliaments function and are at enmity with each other, where armed conflicts occur between different local military formations, from where a lot of unemployed Libyans escape to Europe, searching work and peaceful existence there. In general Libyan state is very close to the beginning of civic war, so present political situation is more than just difficult there, but Libyan Dinar didn't and doesn't devalue. When Gaddafi's regime finally fell in October of 2011, 1 American dollar amounted to 1,24 Libyan dinar (31.10.2011) and now Dinar's rate is a few changed: 1$=1,35 dinar (06.03.2015). So why did Ukrainian Hryvnia devalue in 2014-2015?
Various politicians and so-called economic experts frighten Ukraine's population, talking about near default status in Ukrainian state, what influences on Hryvnia's exchange rate and devalues it. But, as example, Argentina, where state power declared default in the country on 31st July 2014. Then 1$ equaled 8,20 Argentinian Peso on the day of the second Argentinian default, and on 6th March 2015 1 American dollar amounted to 8,74 Argentinian pesos. As You see, small change happened with Argentinian currency's rate after second default in the history of Argentina. And Ukrainian currency depreciated very much...
And what must really frighten Ukrainian nation, that's close friendship between present Ukrainian state power and  American billionaire George Soros, who visited Ukraine at least three times during the last 12 months: in June of 2014, in Autumn of 2014 and in January of 2015 and had private and confidential meetings with the representatives of Ukrainian state power, as Ukrainian media (including presidential 5th TV-channel) talked earlier. Why do these meetings frighten? Because G. Soros is famous in the world for own largest speculations with English Pound Sterling and Italian Lira in September of 1992, when Pound Sterling and Lira were strongly devalued and were forced to leave European Monetary System, and national banks of Great Britain and Italy spent billions of own money from state reserves to stabilize their national currency's rate, though Italy feels consequences of that economic crisis nowadays too.         

Monday, 16 February 2015

Ukrainian nation & Ukrainian politicians live in parallel worlds

I often think that Ukrainian nation and Ukrainian politicians live in some two parallel worlds which don't cross. 
When Donbas settlements are shelled by Russian military forces, Head of Communistic Party of Ukraine, former Ukrainian people's deputy and always big fan of Russian Federation Petro Symonenko recently visited...no, not any city of Donbas region and not any Russian city, but he was noticed and photographed in Frankfurt am Main airport by Ukrainian journalist Serhiy Sydorenko, from which main communist of Ukraine flew in Strasbourg on 26th January 2015. http://tabloid.pravda.com.ua/news/54c60ddcf0fdc/ In general P. Symonenko enjoys to travel in European cities. Thus, Symonenko also visited Germany in August, 2014 http://tabloid.pravda.com.ua/news/53f6e42895ed5/, relaxed in Vienna in July, 2014 http://tabloid.pravda.com.ua/lounge/53d8003de5ecd/ and traveled with his wife in Barcelona in June, 2014 http://tabloid.pravda.com.ua/news/53918eedc569d/ I can't understand why that politician who was and is against Ukraine's entry into European Union, but stands for close friendship between Ukraine and Russia, so, why he doesn't travel in Novosibirsk or Yakutsk, or Vladivistok, for example. 
At that time when Ukrianian militaries and civilians continue to die every day in Donbas, Ukrainian people's deputy and Head of palriamentary fraction of presidential Petro Poroshenko Block Yuriy Lutsenko and his wife and also people's deputy and member of Petro Poroshenko Block Iryna Lutsenko relaxed one week in Mauritus in January, 2015 http://svitske.1plus1.ua/video/personaji/irina-ta-yuriy-lucenki-vidpochili-na-mavrikiyi-406279.html And while many Ukrainian men are mobilized and are sent in so-called ATO zone to fight for Ukraine, son of Yuriy and Iryna Lutsenko Oleksandr Lutsenko had car accident in Kyiv on 9th February 2015 and in the result of collision of two cars, O. Lutsenko's car and car of Kyiv policeman Petro L., that militian died and an investigation very quickly said that O. Lutsenko was innocent, but another driver was guilty.  
While Donbas is becoming a big demolition, the richest Ukraine's person who became an oligarch thanks to many industrial enterprises in Donbas, where he was also born, former people's deputy Rinat Akhmetov moved from Donetsk to Kyiv yet in May of 2014 and, as Ukrainian news site "Vesti" wrote in June last year, the richest Ukraine's citizen lives in Kyiv suburb Koncha Zaspa nowadays. http://vesti-ukr.com/svetskie-vesti/54986-ahmetov-sosedstvuet-s-rezidenciej-timoshenko-v-koncha-zaspe
Meanwhile many Ukrainian children hid themselves in bomb shelters in Donetsk and Luhansk regions, daughter of Ukraine's Prime Minister Sofiya Yatsenyuk took part in the choice of talent show "The Voice. Children-2" (Ukrainian version) on 8th February 2015. Happy child! Because she has time to sing joyful songs in such horrible period of real war in Ukraine, when some children become orphans. And happy parents, Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk and his wife Tereza Yatsenyuk, who have time to visit such music show to see their child, when some Ukrainian parents bury their children, killed in the war for Donbas. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GaJjWVkbeQU
While Donetsk people live in terror and dread, Donetsk mayor Oleksandr Lukyanchenko travels in Brussels (03.02.2015) http://ipress.ua/news/poky_v_donetsku_strilyayut_mer_lukyanchenko_spyt_v_litaku_dorogoyu_do_bryusselya__foto_video_108178.html and earlier moved from Donetsk to Kyiv in July of 2014.
When many Ukrainian warriors were wounded in Donbas and their relatives haven't money for their medical treatment and/or expensive medicine, when thousands of people lost own home and work in Donbas and had to move from Donbas to other Ukrainian regions, then two daughters and one son of President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko, Oleksandra, Yevheniya and Mykhaylo Poroshenko study in England, as their mother and president's wife Maryna Poroshenko said in Ukrainian interview for TV-programme "Svitske zhyttya" ("Secular life") on 6th February 2015. http://svitske.1plus1.ua/video/personaji/skilki-lyudey-dopomagayut-u-hatnih-klopotah-marini-poroshenko-407699.html But they must to study in Ukraine to get general full secondary education, which is obligatory for all children in Ukraine, according to Ukrainian laws. Or three Poroshenko's children aren't Ukrainian citizens anymore, are they? Or do Ukrainian laws mean nothing for president's family? Besides it, earlier Poroshenko's oldest son Oleksiy graduated at London economic school and so what? Did he invent or create something useful for Ukraine with his English high education? Where does he work in Ukraine? O. Poroshenko is Ukraine's people's deputy nowadays. And president P.Poroshenko is similar to president V.Yanukovych in it, who had one son Ukraine's people's deputy too. But, of course, presidents V. Yanukovych and P. Poroshenko are different, for example, V. Yanukovych didn't have business in Russia and his sons didn't have any foreign education.  
And three president's children Oleksandra, Yevheniya and Mykhaylo Poroshenko are officially considered the pupils of scandalous Klovskyy lyceum in Kyiv. Why scandalous? Because in summer of 2014 Kyiv militia began criminal investigation against Klovskyy lyceum's management, who issued diploma of general full secondary education as fine gifts to those pupils of 11th classes who didn't study in this lyceum in fact during one or two years, but studied abroad and visited Ukraine very rarely and official information of State Border Guard Service of Ukraine about border cross of such pupils of Klovskyy lyceum and also information from school class registers were the best prooves in the militia investigation, which was closed soon by General Public Prosecutor's Office of Ukraine...
Yet in May, 2014 Ukraine's media "Vesti" researched and published the information about British studying of two Poroshenko's daughters since November of 2013 in Concord College in Great Britain http://vesti-ukr.com/svetskie-vesti/53903-dvojnaja-zhizn-dvojnjashek-poroshenko According to the site of that college http://concordcollegeuk.com , it's known a price for the next academic year 2015/2016 = 34 200 £, and if P. Poroshenko has three children who study there, cost of studying for all will be 102 600 £. And if today 1 English pound sterling is approximately 40 Ukrainian hryvnyas, so the cost of this British school education for 3 persons = 4 104 000 UAH. And do You know a size of the official minimal salary in Ukraine? 1 218 UAH per month! No comments.      

Tuesday, 10 February 2015

Losses of Ukrainian warriors and civilians in Donbas for the last two weeks

Reading about everyday losses of Ukrainian warriors and civilians in Donbas, everyone who is honest and objective human can say that it's not some antiterroristic operation against unknown terrorists in Donbas, but real war continues for a long time. It's hard to count real quantity of all Ukrainian victims in Donbas (in so-called ATO zone), because various informational sources and eye-witnesses say in Internet about more victims than Ukrainian military officials' sources tell in their everyday military reports, but even these stingy official reports show us Ukraine's horrible tragedy which is lasting since April of 2014 in Donetsk and Luhansk regions.
According to officially counted losses of Ukraine's citizens in Donbas, the situation was the next during the last two weeks. Losses of Ukrainian warriors: 7 died, 24 wounded (25.01.); 9 died, 29 wounded (26.01.); 3 died, 15 wounded (27.01.); 5 died, 29 wounded (28.01.); 5 died, 23 wounded (29.01.); 15 died, 33 wounded (30.01.); 13 died, 20 wounded (31.01.); 5 died, 29 wounded (01.02.); 5 died, 27 wounded (02.02.); 4 died, 25 wounded (03.02.); 5 died, 29 wounded (04.02.); 2 died, 26 wounded (05.02.); 5 died, 26 wounded (06.02.); 12 died, 24 wounded (07.02.); 9 died, 26 wounded (08.02.); 7 died, 23 wounded (09.02.). Look how are losses of Ukrainian warriors only for the last 16 days! How many Ukrainian women became widows, how many parents lost their sons and children lost their fathers! And how many Ukrainian wounded defenders probably became invalids, getting serious wounds. And it's just an information according to the official data of Ukrainian state power, just published ciphers without names and surnames of killed and injured Ukrainian militaries! How it's a cynical treatment of Ukrainian officials towards Ukrainian defenders and their families! And You know what? Since April of 2014 till today there is no one official list of whole information about dead, injured and disappeared Ukrainian warriors, which could be available first of all for warriors' relatives and for society in general. For example, on 2nd February 2015 Ukraine's military officials told they didn't know destiny of 28 disappeared Ukrainian defenders of Donetsk airport and even didn't say their names and their towns or villages, where defenders lived. Or another example: on 5th February 2015 one alive Ukrainian defender of Donetsk airport was found under the airport's ruins and eight Ukrainian warriors were freed from the captivity, but nobody from Ukraine's state power said who was that found person and who were these freed militaries. Only stingy ciphers. I can't understand such bad treatment of Ukrainian officials towards those humans who defend Ukrainian land in Donbas. 
Another aspect of Ukrainian state power's bad treatment to Ukrainian warriors can be described to You, dear blog's reader, in the next example. On 4th February 2015 Military Public Prosecutor's Office of Kharkiv Garrison accused one battery commander of "Kyivska Rus" battalion Yevhen Tkachuk of non-doing orders of battalion commander and voluntary leaving Debaltseve with battery's warriors and he could be imprisoned to 10 years. Though 55 subordinates-warriors of Y. Tkachuk who were led out Debaltseve by him say that their arrested battery commander saved them a life and there weren't any orders from battalion commander, but instead of it their battery was sent in Debaltseve without necessary military technics and stores, and they hadn't any communication with battalion commander, but they could be killed by the enemies if Tkachuk didn't save them and didn't lead out. These 55 militaries refuse to fight without their battery commander Tkachuk and demand to free him and not to send other Ukrainian soldiers in ATO zone like they were sent. 
Meanwhile Ukrainian parliament voted changes to the law about clearance (or so-called lustration) of Ukrainian state power on 27th January 2015 and president Poroshenko signed these law changes on 30th January 2015. What are that law changes? So, according to voted changes, present and previous supreme officer part of Ministry of Defence of Ukraine, the Armed Forces of Ukraine, State Border Guard Service of Ukraine, National Guard of Ukraine can be free from lustration, which is obligatory for others. Unbelievable changes in the law about state power's clearance! And if someone of Ukraine's supreme officer part was or is working against Ukrainian state for enemies' weal?
And what about losses of Ukrainian civilians in Donbas, which are bigger than losses among Ukrainian militaries, as Ukraine's President Petro Poroshenko said at Munich Defence Conference on 7th February 2015, when he named terrible data - 5638 civilians died in Donbas since April of 2014 till nowadays. Unfortunately, Ukrainian state power doesn't publish everyday report about victims of Ukraine's civilian population in Donetsk and Luhansk regions. It's known such information about civic losses for the last two weeks, which I found on the diverse Ukraine's news sites and briefly write here. Losses of Ukrainian civilians: 2 died and 2 wounded in Popasna, Luhansk region (26.01.); 5 died and 10 wounded in Horlivka and 3 died in Dzerzhynsk in Donetsk region, 2 died and 3 wounded in Popasna, 6 wounded in Luhansk and 3 wounded in Shchastya in Luhansk region (27.01.); 3 died, 10 wounded in Donetsk and 3 died, 2 wounded in Debaltseve in Donetsk region (29.01.); Russian shell of people's queue to humanitarion aid in Donetsk - 7 dead persons, and 7 civilians died in Debaltseve (30.01.); 12 died again in Debaltseve (31.01.); 2 died and 9 wounded in Debaltseve, 2 died and 2 wounded in Krymske (Luhansk region), 3 wounded in Novotoshivka (Luhansk region) (01.02.); 3 died in Vuhlehirsk (Donetsk region), 2 died and 1 wounded in Stanytsya Luhanska (Luhansk region), 3 died in Debaltseve, 2 died in Myronivske (Donetsk region), 2 died and 1 wounded in Popasna, 2 died in Novotoshivka, 1 died in Avdiyivka (Donetsk region) (02.02.); 4 died and 7 wounded in ATO zone (03.02.); owing to Russian shell of Donetsk municipal hospital at least 5 dead and 4  wounded civilians (04.02.); 6 died and 3 wounded in ATO zone (05.02.); 3 died and 3 wounded in Donetsk region (07.02.); 5 died and 2 wounded in Debaltseve, 2 died and 8 wounded in Horlivka, 2 died and 1 wounded in Avdiyivka (08.02.); 3 died and 2 wounded employees of Donetsk railway on Skotovata station, 5 wounded civilians in Debaltseve (09.02.). And many civilian people are considered disappeared in Donbas, their relatives and/or friends search them mainly in social networks or giving announcement in Ukrainian media.    
Another big Ukraine's problem is demolition of Donbas settlements' infrastructure. Thus, on 26th January 2015 pro-Russian and Russian troops shelled Avdiyivka and the city left without heating and electricity; shelled Popasna and damaged multi-storey buildings, school, gas-pipe, lines of electrical transmission; shelled Donetsk and one shell hit in sub-station of Zasyadko coal-mine, where were blocked 496 miners during several hours. On 27th January Russian militaries and pro-Russian terrorists shelled municipal hospital in Svitlodarsk, populated districts in Dzerzhynsk, coke-chemical factory, tram depot, heating plant, piers of electrical transmission and populated districts in Avdiyivka, van-repair plant in Popasna and repair-exploitational enterprise in Luhansk. 28.01-01.02. they shelled Debaltseve with "Grad" - all city and especially railway station; 03.02. shelled Luhansk with cassette bombs.On 4th February the enemies again shelled coke-chemical factory in Avdiyivka, municipal hospital in Donetsk and railway station in Debaltseve. On 5th February Russian militaries shelled Shchastya and damaged main gas-pipe, leaving the city without gas; shelled Stanytsya Luhanska and also OSCE patrol there, and damaged gas-pipe and the building of local administration; shelled bakery integrated works in Dzerzhynsk. On 9th February Russians shelled Mariupol neighbourhoods with cassette bombs and "North" coal-mine in Dzerzhynsk, where were evacuated 63 miners.
In the end there is the next information to understand the essence of present Russian state regime - the news from Crimean peninsula, occupied by Russian Federation in spring, 2014. On 5th February Russian politicians opened monument near Livadia palace in Yalta, dedicated to three members of Yalta Conference-1945 - to J. Stalin, F. Roosevelt, W. Churchill. Here is also the main reason of all global problems after the end of the Second World War: since 1945 till nowadays whole world blames Hitler and doesn't blame Stalin in the same manner as Hitler.That's why it became possible to see Stalin's successor on the top of modern Russian state power.           

Sunday, 25 January 2015

Tragedies in Donetsk and Mariupol

Terrible tragedies were happened with civic population in Donetsk and Mariupol this week.
In Donetsk Russian military forces shelled trolley-bus station with mortar and  9 humans were killed and 7 humans were wounded on 22nd January 2015. Here is the video from the place of that Donetsk trolley bus station:


Then Russian militaries brought Ukrainian colonel Oleh Kuzminykh (who was captivated on 20th January 2015 by Russians) in the place of shelled trolley-bus and enabled some persons from the crowd to beat him, creating "show" for Russian TV-channels "Pervyy" and "Rossiya 1", which journalists were present there.

On 22nd January 2015 Russian military men also organized in Donetsk so-called parade of captive Ukrainian defenders of Donetsk airoport who were captivated after huge battle for city's airoport on 20th January 2015.

On 24th January 2015 Russian jet system of volley fire "Grad" shelled populatous district "Eastern" in Mariupol, demolishing dwellings, schools, kindergatens, killing (30 persons) and wounding (102 persons) people in the city. And here are three video from Mariupol (24.01.2015)



Today is Mourning Day for these victims of civic population in Ukraine.

Friday, 23 January 2015

Destructions in Donbas settlements.

Here are several videos from YouTube (not mine) to demonstate huge destructions in the cities and villages of  Donbas in the last seven days.It's not some ATO against terrorists, but Russian war against Ukraine and its population.

Popasna in Luhansk region (17.01.2015)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yaw7-gk9WrQ

Stanytsya Luhanska in Luhansk region (18.01.2015)

Debaltseve in Donetsk region (19.01.2015)

Shchastya in Luhansk region (20.01.2015)

Avdiyivka in Donetsk region (20.01.2015)

Stakhanov in Luhansk region (21.01.2015)

Horlivka in Donetsk region (22.01.2015)

Donetsk centre, the district of Donetsk airport (17.01.2015)

Putylivskyy bridge, detroyed by Russian military forces in Donetsk (18.01.2015)

Donetsk school № 88 (19.01.2015)

Ruins of Donetsk airport (23.01.2015) are seen on the photos of Ukrainian journalist Roman Bochkala here:
http://www.ukrinform.ua/ukr/news/gurnalist_donetskiy_aeroport_ne_zdavali_yogo_prosto_bilshe_nemae__foto_2013610

Wednesday, 21 January 2015

Situation is worse than earlier in Donbas.

In August of 2014 I had already written about big necessity of martial law in Donbas here:
But Ukraine's President Petro Poroshenko still refuses to put into place martial law in Donbas, still deny to name war in Donbas as war and not antiterroristic operation, though he signed new decree about fourth partial mobilization on 14th January 2015. Besides it mythical peace plan which was agreed on 5th September 2014 in Minsk is still only a myth, written on the paper. I described situation in Donbas in October of 2014 here:
http://thoughtsanddreamsfromukraine.blogspot.com/2014/10/mythical-minsk-peace-plan-doesnt-work.html
Nowadays present situation is worse than it was in autumn in Donetsk and Luhansk regions. Every day Russian troops shell Donbas settlements and everyday there are several victims among ATO members and several vicitims among civilians, and dozens wounded Ukraine's citizens in Donbas because of this military conflict, which is real Russia's war against Ukraine indeed. During all Russia's military agression Russian troops use their tanks, KAMAZ and URAL trucks, jet systems of volley fire "Grad", "Smerch", "Urahan" and zenith-rocket complexes "Strela" and "Buk" in Donbas. Russian soldiers fire at Ukrainian militaries and buildings with these jet systems of volley fire, zenith-rocket complexes, artillery, mortars, grenade throwers, etc. From the last Donbas news, Russian troops blew up Putylivskyy bridge on 18th January 2015 and flying-landing stripe of the airport on 20th January 2015 in Donetsk.The next video is the fact of presence Russian army in Donbas - not some unknown terrorists or just fans of Putin's regime. Here is Russian marine infantry' shelling of Donetsk airport and that video was shown by Russian TV-channel "Russia 1" on 18th January 2015, its journalists named Russian soldiers as "army of Donetsk people's republic", but video precisely shows badges of Russia's marine infantry on the clothes of this so-called "army of DNR". 
       
Besides it I would like to say You, dear readers, about Ukrainian people's deputies Serhiy Pashynskyy, Yuriy Bereza and Andriy Teteruk (all are people's deputies of Ukrainian parliamentary fraction and political party "People's Front") who have ideas of real fans of Stalin and that's why can be considered the enemies of ATO members and of all Ukrainian citizens. Because on 15th January 2015 these three Ukraine's people's deputies introduced a bill in Ukrainian parliament, which could allow military commanders to shoot at their subordinates in the case of non-performance of commander's orders or subordinate's voluntarily leaving of the battlefield. This bill is like a proposition of Stalin's regime in the XXI century and can't be accepted in the future, because it breaks all human rights of Ukrainian defenders as persons! What could be if some Ukraine's commander would be some Russia's friend, giving special mistaken orders to its subordinates? 
And since the beginning of 2015 year the situation is really worse in Donbas than it was earlier in 2014. At the same time in January of 2015 Lipetsk sites announced the start of two production lines of candies and wafers at Lipetsk factory of Poroshenko's "Roshen". How "sweet"! While Russian troops kill, wound, steal and captivate Ukrainian military men and civilians in Donbas, the company of Ukraine's president "Roshen" starts new production lines at its Russian factory in Lipetsk.   
While it's very very difficult situation in Donetsk and Luhansk regions, Petro Poroshenko arrives to Switzerland with official visit (19th-21st January 2015) to give lecture in Europe Institute at Zurich University, to meet diverse politicians, businessmen and economists, to speech about Ukraine at World Economic Forum in Davos...Meanwhile some Ukrainian defender can be dead or seriously crippled by some Russian soldier on Ukraine's territory in Donbas.     

Wednesday, 19 November 2014

Luckiest oligarch after "euromaydan" is...

Except oligarch Petro Poroshenko who became newly-elected President of Ukraine in 2014, in Ukraine luckiest oligarch who has already got and continues to get the biggest business conveniences from "after-euromaydan" state power is Ihor Kolomoyskyy, present Head of Dnipropetrovsk Regional State Administration since 2nd March 2014 and one of co-owners of business empire - "Private", who has at least three citizenships - Ukrainian, Israeli and Cypriote and likes to live in his house in Switzerland, as he has told Ukrainian journalists earlier. 
For example, in June of 2014 transnational financial-industrial petroleum company "UkrTatPetroleum" (one of Private's company) sold its fuel to Ministry of Defence of Ukraine at overcharge 17280 hryvnya per 1 ton and the amount of purchase of the fuel made almost 358 millions hryvnya. Then, 42% shares of mined company "UkrPetroleum" (mining of petroleum and gas) belongs to shareholders of group "Private", who also rule the management of "UkrPetroleum". And 50%+1 shares of "UkrPetroleum", the largest petroleum mined company of Ukraine, which mines nearly 90% of all Ukraine's petroleum, belongs to Ukrainian state. So because "UkrPetroleum" is semi-state company, it must return mined gas to Ukrainian state for everyday requirements of Ukraine's population, but instead of it this company realizes own mined gas to industrial enterprises of Ukraine. "UkrPetroleum" also must pay dividends in Ukrainian state treasury, but company doesn't pay any dividends into Ukrainian budget since 2011 year because of such desire of its "Private" shareholders..."UkrPetroleum" didn't pay the debt of petroleum rent in the dimension of 2.1 billions hryvnya for the period of August-October of 2014, though must pay it too. And it's very strange situation - so profitable petroleum-gas company and doesn't make compulsory payments into Ukrainian budget. Besides it business group "Private" again owns 90% shares of one of the biggest Ukraine's petroleum-gas mined company "UkrPetroleumDrilling". But why again? On 22nd October 2014 Kyiv Appeal Economic Court abolished the sale agreement of 45% shares of "UkrPetroleumDrilling", which were sold through "Private" offshore company "Deripon Commercial Ltd." to offshore companies "Ariana Business Ltd" and "Ares Systems Ltd." (ultimate owners of which were people of President Yanukovych's encirclement - Eduard Stavytskyy, Mykola Zlochevskyy, Andriy Klyuyev) in December of 2012. So oligarchs of group "Private" are real kings in petroleum market of Ukraine. And here is economic nonsense: in the last weeks petroleum prices are still reducing in the world, but petrol prices are still increasing in Ukraine. How do you think for whom it's very profitably among Ukraine's oligarchs?
Further. Man of Kolomoyskyy's team Ruslan Zhurylo, former Deputy Director of state Eastern Mined-Concentrated Plant and former Head of Apparatus Plant "Electron" (both enterprises are situated in Zhovti Vody, Dnipropetrovsk region) was appointed on the post of  director of newly-created state enterprise "United Mined-Chemical Company" by Ukraine's Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk on 12th August 2014. Before it Irshansk Mined-Concentrated Plant (Zhytomyr region) and Vilnohirsk Mined-Metallurgical Plant (Dnipropetrovsk region), very important plants for titanium industry of Ukraine, were rented by Ukrainian oligarch Dmytro Firtash's companies since 2004 and in August of 2014 Cabinet of Ministers of PM A. Yatsenyuk decided to hand these two plants in the rent to "United Mined-Chemical Company", which nowadays is ruled by group "Private". And in October of 2014 business group "Private" very activated to buy strategic Odesa Port Factory and tried to control Odesa Petroleum Remaking Factory, using methods of unfair seizure.
Oligarch I. Kolomoyskyy rules market of airline flights in Ukraine and co-owns such airlines as "International Airlines of Ukraine", "Wind Rose", "Dniproair", though earlier he co-owned also airlines "Airworld" and "Donbasair", which became bankrupts in 2013. But many experts guess that "Airworld" was artificially and specially bankrupted and former employees of airlines "Airworld" are still judging with company's management, because "Airlworld" didn't pay them a salary of last two months of their work. And on 12th September 2014 the largest Ukraine's airlines and monopolist "International Airlines of Ukraine" requested Prime Minister Yatsenyuk to get state stabilizing credit in the dimension of 100 millions U.S. dollars for 10 years. Does it mean that this aircompany is close to bankruptcy or what?
Further. Kolomoyskyy possesses media business "Group 1+1 Media", which consists of 8 TV-channels: 1+1, 2+2, TET, PlusPlus, UNIAN TV, Ukraine Today, 1+1 Inrenational, Bigudi (means "curlers"), and of 4 news-information sites: UNIAN, Telekrytyka ("telecriticism"), GlavredInfo ("editor-in-chief"), Dusya. And this oligarch possesses also ski and spa health resort "Bukovel" in Ukrainian Carpathians, which is too costly health resort for the majority of Ukrainians, who often choose to go to ski in Slovakia or Poland, where the prices are cheaper.
Main co-owners of business group "Private" Ihor Kolomoyskyy and Hennadiy Boholyubov were main investors of the construction of "Menorah" in Dnipropetrovsk - the largest Jewish cultural-business centre in the world. "Menorah" was officialy opened in October of 2012 and special memorable table in honour of these investors was placed nearby building's entry. Besides it Oleksandr Vilkul, Head of Dnipropetrovsk Regional State Administration and the member of the Party of the Regions at that time, partook in "Menorah" opening ceremony. But Vilkul's participation wasn't just a component of official protocols of stateman's behaviour, but it was another proof of kind relationship between Yanukovych's team and Kolomoyskyy's team. By the way, present Head of Dnipropetrovsk Regional State Administration I. Kolomoyskyy was absent at official celebrations, organized and dedicated to 23rd Ukraine's Independence Day on 24th August 2014...
But returning to "Menorah", it must be written that only Russian and English languages are present on "Menorah" site and in the very building, though Ukraine has one official state language - Ukrainian. Moreover founders of this huge Jewish centre Boholyubov and Kolomoyskyy refused to tell journalists about the amount of money, which was spent on the construction of "Menorah". That's very interesting situation! The biggest Jewish global centre consists of seven towers, which all together symbolize Jewish seven-branched candlestick, and the erection's investors don't want to name the cost of "Menorah". So the next questions arise. How did these main investors earn money, which they had spent on "Menorah" construction?Where did they get needful sum to build such great erection in Ukraine?
In Ukraine, where the majority of Ukrainians have no possibility to buy own flat, where citizens can't get qualitative state medical aid and high education without payments, where many people can't allow themselves to have good nutrition, because they haven't money for such things. And frequently seeking a job in vain in Ukraine, many Ukrainian citizens try to find a job abroad.
But as You, dear reader, could read here on this blog, some people, called oligarchs, can live in Ukraine like "in chocolate." What an injustice!     

Sunday, 9 November 2014

Lawlessness of regional state power in Dnipropetrovsk region

Lawlessness of regional state power dominates in Dnipropetrovsk region and the next incidents are the evidences of it.
On 14th August 2014 Head of State Agency of Land Resources of Ukraine Serhiy Rudyk arrived in Dnipropetrovsk, where he met the local ecclesiastics of Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Kyiv Patriarchate and gave them land documents to build their new temple in the city. Then Rudyk met wounded militaries in Dnipropetrovsk military hospital and talked about selecting of land areas for them in the region. After these meetings S. Rudyk was abducted by several stocky men and was brought in Dnipropetrovsk Regional State Administration, where armed men demanded him to dismiss Vadym Chuvpylo from the post of the First Deputy Head of State Agency of Land Resources of Dnipropetrovsk region and to appoint on this post Olha Huhnina, one of the lawyers of the group "Private", co-owner and co-founder of which is oligarch Ihor Kolomoyskyy, Head of Dnipropetrovsk Regional State Administration. Rudyk refused to do their demands, so armed strangers put handcuffs on Rudyk's hands and sack on his head and drove with him in the minibus around the city some time, and then brought him in some basement, after what - again in Dnipropetrovsk Regional State Administration, where they pledged him to write an assertion about the entry in one of volunteer battalions, formed in Dnipropetrovsk region. During all that time of Rudyk's specific captivity Deputies Head of Dnipropetrovsk Regional State Administration Borys Filatov and Hennadiy Korban said mainly in Ukrainian mass media, controled by Kolomoyskyy, or that Serhiy Rudyk had willingly gone in Donbas to fight terrorists, or that he trained in some volunteer battalion and prepared to go in Donbas. And only because that abduction caused big resonance in Ukrainian society and Ukrainian TV-channels showed the reports about this incident, Rudyk was released from such captivity.
Another incident of lawlessness of Dnipropetrovsk regional state power. Head of Dnipropetrovsk Regional State Administration Ihor Kolomoyskyy dislikes Public Prosecutor of Dnipropetrovsk region Roman Fedyk, about what he said in special press conference, giving the interview in September 2014. Though R. Fedyk dismissed from the public prosecutor's office after the victory of V. Yanukovych at Ukrainian presidential elections-2010 and worked lawyer during Yanukovych's presidency, and was appointed on the post of Dnipropetrovsk region's public prosecutor only on 6th March 2014, while oligarch I. Kolomoyskyy had kind and warm relations with President Yanukovych, and the video with Kolomoyskyy's personal congratulations on Yanukovych's 61st and 63rd birthdays are wonderful prooves of such fine relations between them. That video was published by Ukrainian newspaper "Vesti" ("News") and I. Kolomoyskyy is the first who congratulates V.Yanukovych in 2011 year. 

And on the next video I. Kolomoyskyy is the last who congratulates V. Yanukovych in 2013. Besides it, You can watch so-called "European" mayor of Lviv Andriy Sadovyy between Yanukovych's congratulators in 2011 and 2013.

And in 2014 Head of Dnipropetrovsk Regional State Administration Kolomoyskyy and his team of the officials decided that they had some right to be judges in Dnipropetrovsk region and to make so-called lustration of that people whom they disliked. But what brutal methods of "lustration" they use! For example, on 30th September 2014 so-called "public activists" held a meeting in front of the building of Public Prosecutor's Office in Dnipropetrovsk region and demanded a resignation of regional public prosecutor R. Fedyk. Then they broke the main door of the building and after that - the door of public prosecutor's cabinet. Self-named "popular lustrators" pledged Roman Fedyk to write the assertion to leave his public prosecutor's post, and when he refused, some persons hit him in his face several times, tore public prosecutor's sign off his jacket and strewed the dust on his head from the cabinet's dust-bin. And again Deputies Head of Dnipropetrovsk Regional State Administration B.Filatov and H.Korban brutal call names and very actively criticize R. Fedyk like S. Rudyk in social networks, and even name ultimatums to Ukraine's President Poroshenko witn a demand to dismiss Fedyk from his present state post. Because Kolomoyskyy's team says that candidature of Public Prosecutor of Dnipropetrovsk region Roman Fedyk wasn't co-ordinated with Head of Dnipropetrovsk Regional State Administration Ihor Kolomoyskyy, though there wasn't a necessity in such co-ordination according to Ukrainian legislation. There is only huge desire of oligarch Kolomoyskyy to rule everything in Dnipropetrovsk region. You know, it's the example of some feudalism in the XXI century!  
On 9th November 2014 Head of Central Electoral Commission of Ukraine Mykhaylo Okhendovskyy asserted that district electoral commissions of electoral districts no.30 (Dniprodzerzhynsk, Dnipropetrovsk region) and no. 50 (Krasnoarmiysk, Donetsk region) established the results, which were based on falsified protocols of these electoral commissions and weren't coincided with the voting of ballot papers of electoral districts no.30 and no.50. And, as Okhendovskyy asserted, falsifiers also forced district electoral commissions of electoral district no.38 (Novomoskovsk, Dnipropetrovsk region) to change the results of the voting of that electoral district. That's why Central Electoral Commission of Ukraine (CECU) decided to count votes of the electoral districts no.30 and no.50 at the second time and simultaneously appealed to police and public prosecutor's office. Such decisions of Central Electoral Commission of Ukraine caused negative reaction of the influential falsifiers and M. Okhendovskyy began to get "requests to stop", direct threats and also hints from some people about serious complaints of I. Kolomoyskyy because of the activity of CECU. As Okhendovskyy declared this day, stopping of the pressure on CECU with the purpose to get false electoral results and continueing of legal electoral process on the electoral districts no.30, no. 38 and no. 50 will be the best prooves of Kolomoyskyy's innocence of the falsifiction on three above-mentioned electoral electoral districts. Though I must also to write here that there are many questions about present Head of CECU M. Okhendovskyy, who was elected on this post in July of 2013 and before it in June of 2007 he was re-elected the member of CECU by the quota of the Party of the Regions. 
Anyway, all that Dnipropetrovsk region's incidents are very remote to democracy and lawfulness. Besides it, Head of Dnipropetrovsk Regional State Administration Ihor Kolomoyskyy has not only Ukraine's citizenship, but also Israel's and Cyprus' citizenships, as he admitted in Ukrainian mass media in October of 2014, and he was appointed on his present state post in Ukraine on 2nd March 2014, earlier living mainly in Switzerland since the beginning of the 2000's.
Adding to all, the most of new volunteer battalions and special subunits are forming exactly in Dnipropetrovsk region and the most frequent cases of burials of unidentified ATO's participants are happening in Dnipropetrovsk region too. So there is a few strange, difficult and scareful situation in this Ukraine's region.