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Where the Scoundrels Hide
Disguised “Russian world”: which parties the “regionalists” invented to get into local councils.
Fraudulent pro-Russian projects — “Nash Kray” (Our Land), “Vidrodzhennya” (Revival), “Opposition Bloc”, “Officer Corps”, “Party of Ordinary People of Serhiy Kaplin”, “People’s Right”, “Movement for Reforms”, “Unity”, the “Auto-Maidan” party, “Greens.”
On the eve of local elections, thousands of advertising billboards flooded Ukrainian cities. Besides the usual parties, many new ones appeared. Using Kyiv as an example, we sorted out who they really are. There may be variations in other cities, but the main billboard projects are the same everywhere. The ears of former “regionalists” stick out behind the façades of nearly a dozen party projects.
“Nash Kray” (Our Land)
A project created with the assistance of the presidential administration that gathered many former “regional” politicians and local leaders from Yanukovych’s era. The main financiers of Nash Kray are Kharkiv oligarchs Oleksandr Yaroslavsky and Oleksandr Feldman. In eastern and southern Ukraine, the current authorities promote Nash Kray to siphon votes from the Opposition Bloc. In Kyiv, the candidate for mayor and the Nash Kray representative is former Party of Regions MP Volodymyr Makeienko, whom Yanukovych appointed to perform the duties of head of the Kyiv City State Administration after Popov was forced to resign.
Photo distributed by the community “Baba i kot”. It could not be established whether this is photo-manipulation or real advertising.
“Vidrodzhennya” (Revival)
This party was originally created by the late “purse of Kuchma,” former transport minister Heorhiy Kirpa. Now Revival is a project of oligarch Ihor Kolomoisky from the Privat group. Shortly before the elections, MPs from the parliamentary Revival faction—headed by former “regional” Vitaliy Khomutynnyk, who built a large business during Yanukovych’s time—joined the party. The top-listed candidate and Revival’s candidate for Kyiv mayor is Yuriy Yekhanurov, prime minister during Yushchenko’s period. In Kharkiv, Hennadiy Kernes is running for mayor from Revival.
“Opposition Bloc”
In essence, this is the renamed Party of Regions, or what remained of the PR after Maidan’s victory. Running for mayor and heading the Opposition Bloc’s list is Oleksandr Puzanov — a friend of Levochkin, who, thanks to the then head of the presidential administration under Yanukovych, in 2010 became deputy head of the Kyiv City State Administration and was Popov’s right-hand man until 2014. At that time, the city administration’s legal matters, relations with courts and law enforcement agencies, and the lucrative municipal property department were under young Puzanov’s purview.
The Opposition Bloc’s candidate in Sloviansk is Vadym Liakh. “To love Sloviansk like Nelia” — referring to former Sloviansk mayor Nelia Shtepa, who greeted the occupying terrorists in the city and cooperated with them until her capture and incarceration.
“Officer Corps”
The mayoral candidate and list leader of this party, which grew out of a namesake public organization, is Volodymyr Ruban.
The self-styled “general” engages in prisoner exchanges in Donbas and is essentially a protégé of Viktor Medvedchuk — former head of Kuchma’s presidential administration and godfather to Russian President Putin, who carries out Putin’s policy in Ukraine.
“Party of Ordinary People of Serhiy Kaplin”
A populist project that arose with the support of former head of Yanukovych’s administration Serhiy Lyovochkin, aimed at siphoning votes from the protest-paternalist segment of Maidan supporters.
Parody of an advertisement by artist Andriy Yermolenko
“Party of Decisive Citizens”
The leader of this party and its Kyiv mayoral candidate is Boryslav Bereza (former surname — Blyakher, an Israeli citizen), who entered the Verkhovna Rada with Praviy Sektor’s support; now the PS distances itself from Bereza. Boryslav Bereza began his political career as a politician of oligarch Ihor Kolomoisky, and later, according to rumors, reoriented toward Lyovochkin. It is possible he receives funding from both oligarchs.
Parody of an advertisement by artist Andriy Yermolenko
“People’s Right”
A project affiliated with Viktor Medvedchuk’s pro-Putin organization Ukrainian Choice. The list is headed and the mayoral candidate is Viktor Chernyi — an active member of Medvedchuk’s Social Democratic Party of Ukraine (united) since the times when that party was in power under Kuchma. Besides activists of Ukrainian Choice, People’s Right’s list includes aides to MPs from the Party of Regions (Opposition Bloc) and other representatives of the previous authorities.
Viktor Chernyi posts this on his VKontakte page: “It is noteworthy that the idea of the Vedic State originated in Kyiv. For the matrix of development of the Slavs, the white people, and, finally, all humanity of this civilization will be realized on the lands of Rus ... Through thought-creation ...” And here is Viktor Chernyi on the REN-TV program “Heroes and Bogatyrs of the Slavic Epic”:
“Unity” — Omelchenko
Oleksandr Omelchenko — the 77-year-old Kyiv mayor from Kuchma’s era — was pulled out of mothballs along with his party Unity by Klitschko’s team. The goal is either to siphon votes from competitors or, if possible, to get San Sanych into the second round with Klitschko and there “heroically lose” without a chance, following the scenario of 1999 year “Kuchma vs. Symonenko.” Many questionable figures from Chernovetskyi’s and Pylypishyn’s teams are running for the Kyiv City Council from Unity.
San Sanych and the candidate
Political party “Auto-Maidan”
Apart from the name, it has nothing in common with AutoMaidan from the Revolution of Dignity. The party is led by one Oleksiy Samokhin — formerly a Kyiv council deputy from Chernovetskyi’s Bloc and a member of the predatory “young team,” a person close to Oles Dovhy, who at that time was appointed head of the communal enterprise Svitotch. Despite resistance from real AutoMaidan activists, Samokhin in 2014 registered the Auto-Maidan party in his name, which was previously called Probudzhennia (Awakening).
“Greens”
A project of former Party of Regions MP Oleksandr Prohniymak — a native of Donetsk and Yanukovych’s trusted representative in the 2004 elections. During Chernovetskyi’s time, Prohniymak also headed the State Environmental Protection Department, was a Kyiv council deputy from the Party of Regions, participated in votes on the divisive allocation of capital land, and was accused of seizing the protected territory on Zhovtovyi (Zhukov) Island.
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Dmytro Likhovyi, published in the outlet TEXTY
Translation: Argument
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