What's wrong with the charges against the staunch traitors Murayev and Rabinovich?

What's wrong with the charges against the staunch traitors Murayev and Rabinovich?

A star of the pro-Russian movement in Ukraine, Yevheniy Murayev, has been notified of suspicion of state treason. For some reason, this only happened a year and a half into the full-scale invasion.

When Murayev long ago fled and transferred his assets to people quite close to the current authorities — namely to Vadym Slyusaryev, a member of the political council of the Servant of the People party.

The Security Service of Ukraine only now charged Murayev with state treason and discrimination of citizens based on their national, ethnic, and racial affiliation. Under these articles, the former MP and owner of the Ukraine-phobic channel NASH faces 15 years in prison.

Yet I laugh and cry at the same time, because it has long been known that Murayev calmly fled to Moscow. From there he went with his family to Vienna and has a working office in Bratislava. We might never have known this if his young wife Katya hadn’t parked like a lout in the middle of Vienna and insulted the parking attendants.

Also, Kateryna Hordiienko, as an actress, tours with small Russian theaters. A few months ago she was caught in the act by our refugees from Kharkiv in Canada. The Ukraine-phobic woman forces her Muscovite culture on those who have been left homeless.

Were there signs that Murayev is an outright scoundrel whom the SBU should come for and detain as a collaborator? Plenty.

It was Murayev’s TV hosts, first from the channel NewsOne and later from NASH, who said that Ukrainians themselves started the war in Donbas. That Ukraine should negotiate with Russia about a federation instead of pushing into NATO and the EU. On those channels they talked about Nazis wearing the uniforms of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and suggested quickly restoring water to occupied Crimea.

It would be very interesting to raise the archives on how Murayev behaved shortly before the full-scale invasion.

Before the New Year — 2022 — NASH hosts Anhelina Pichyk and Maksym Nazarov ran a lengthy interview about where Murayev had taken his wife Kateryna. Together the couple hinted that they aspired to the role of the country’s first couple. “There will be a change of power and unprecedented changes,” Murayev hinted then. Those words should already have alerted the SBU under the leadership of then-lieutenant Ivan Bakanov. After all, no elections were expected in 2022 year, so the phrase “change of power” should have interested the special services.

Three days before Russia’s full-scale offensive, Murayev loudly declared on Gordon’s show: “I am Ukrainian, everything I have is in Ukraine, my mother lives here, four of my children live and study here and I am not going to leave, and I am ready to fight for my country with anyone.”

And already on 25 February 2022 year, the day after the large-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine began, Yevheniy Murayev stated that Ukraine would have to capitulate and that he had long proposed giving water to Crimea and peacefully parting ways with the unrecognized self-proclaimed republics in Donetsk and Luhansk.

When it became clear that Ukraine, against all odds, would survive — Murayev fell silent.

But here is an interesting fact to consider. In January 2022 year the British Foreign Office published a very interesting statement: “The Russian government hopes to install a pro-Russian leader in Kyiv as it considers the possibility of invading and occupying Ukraine. A potential candidate under consideration is former Ukrainian MP Yevhen Murayev.”

Among the members of the “occupying pro-Russian government” listed were also former Prime Minister Mykola Azarov, former head of the Presidential Administration of Ukraine Andriy Klyuyev, former First Vice Prime Minister Serhiy Arbuzov, and Vice Prime Minister Volodymyr Sivkovych. In other words, all those whom the Revolution of Dignity forcibly drove from office.

But how did the Office of the President of Ukraine react to such statements from Liz Truss? Advisor to the head of the OP Andriy Yermak, Mykhailo Podolyak, said that “Murayev is too laughable a figure for such a plan.” And that in general Medvedchuk and Murayev are a legacy of the previous administration:

“The names of people like Medvedchuk, Murayev, and others like them are a rather dangerous legacy of Poroshenko’s term and those mistaken steps he took in political work... Just compare: where is Medvedchuk now and where was he in 2018 year,” Podolyak said then.

However, intelligence data and additional information that appears about Russian moles lead to the conclusion that this plan existed. And was quite real.

In the SBU’s suspicion there is a very interesting paragraph about Murayev, and it reads like this:

“According to the investigation, Murayev used the TV channel NASH, which he controlled, to widely disseminate Kremlin narratives in Ukraine’s information space.

Thus he purposefully used his media resource to manipulate Ukrainian public opinion in the interests of the Russian Federation.”

So it’s interesting whether the investigation will now raise questions to the managers, editors, and presenters of NASH and other pro-Moscow TV cesspools that are little different from Russian propagandists. It was these people who put on air Shariy, LPR/DPR militants and repeatedly said around the clock that Ukraine is a complete “zero.” Today all these gentlemen work on the single TV marathon, on the Russian-language channels DOM/Freedom, and receive generous salaries from the Ukrainian budget.

I’ll just remind you of a few names.

Tetyana Honcharova — was the first to move to the 112 channel and ZIK after Medvedchuk’s money arrived there. Now this woman works on the RADA channel and receives money from the taxes of the Armed Forces’ soldiers.

Tigran Martirosyan, Olha Tereshchenko, Nazar Dovhy, and others — all these people gladly spread Medvedchuk’s propaganda to the masses.

But I won’t forget when Culture Minister Tkachenko justified hiring propagandists on state funds by saying they had “redeemed themselves.” And when journalist Oleh Bazar directly asked about this farce funded by our taxes, Podolyak’s answer was:

“That’s a matter of your taste. We can’t divide the country. If a person has decided for themselves that for them Ukraine is above all — give them a chance to prove it. Why do you want us to put them in a camp? Why? Throw them out of the profession? They don’t know anything else, they want to work, they want to wash away their guilt in this way, that’s normal.”

One of the speakers of the current government insisted that the puppet circus of Medvedchuk-Murayev “had internally dealt with its demons and chose the side of good.”

So in practice we will see how serious the accusations against Yevheniy Murayev are.

While this text was being written — the State Bureau of Investigation served up another stale sensation. It announced suspicion against former OPZZh deputy Vadym Rabinovich.

“According to the investigation, Rabinovich disseminated anti-Ukrainian propaganda information among the population and political leadership of European Union countries.

“Vadym Rabinovich, in his numerous speeches and interviews, published manipulative statements that harmed the sovereignty, territorial integrity and inviolability, state, economic and information security of Ukraine. His propaganda activities helped the leadership of the Russian Federation achieve its military-political goals and provided the Russian Federation with ideological assistance in conducting subversive activities against Ukraine,” the official statement reads.

It’s only interesting to me how to bring Rabinovich to justice if President Zelenskyy stripped him of Ukrainian citizenship. And the former politician, according to preliminary information, is in Israel. It’s not excluded that he has a passport of that country.

So we have a circus instead of a search for real moles and collaborators. Covering for close people with Russian ties with bar association badges, friendly Telegram channels, and the talking points of the single TV marathon.

If we are talking about Murayev, I’m only curious about one thing in his case: what is the name of the person who allowed him to flee Ukraine?

Marina Danylyuk-Yarmolayeva, published in the ESPRESO outlet