Fresh import – 10 brightest new faces of parliament

They promised Ukraine change and kept their word, turning it upside down. What to expect from yesterday’s revolutionaries who found themselves within the walls of parliament?

Dmitry Yarosh. Brutal buffoon Avakov

Dmitry Yarosh

One of the founders of the VO “Trizub” named after. Stepan Bandera became known to the general public in December last year, leading the Right Sector social movement, which united all radicals and extremists and became one of the main driving forces for the overthrow of the previous political regime.

As it turned out later from the visit log of the Administration of the President of Ukraine, in the hot days of February, Yarosh, in addition to leading the militants, managed to secretly visit Bankova for meetings with Yanukovych.

After the special forces killed his comrade-in-arms Alexander Muzychko, Dmitry Yarosh entered into a protracted conflict with the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Arsen Avakov. During one of the aggravations, the chief policeman told his opponent via Facebook that he, “with his buffoonery of a brutal patriot,” was deceiving people and drawing them into illegal armed groups, turning them into “senseless cannon fodder.”

It is possible that it was precisely because of this conflict that Dmitry Yarosh chose to move from Kyiv to Dnepropetrovsk in the spring – under the protection of the local oligarch governor Igor Kolomoisky, who took upon himself the financing of the Right Sector militants participating in the ATO.

Yarosh took part in both election campaigns this year. The presidential race brought him more than a modest result (0.7%). But in the parliamentary elections, majoritarian district No. 39 on the territory of Kolomoisky’s patrimony gave the leader of the PS the coveted parliamentary mandate. At the very first meeting of parliament, Dmitry Yarosh told reporters about his readiness to head the Verkhovna Rada Committee on National Security and Defense.

Semyon Semenchenko. Balaclava Man

Semyon Semenchenko

The commander of the Donbass volunteer battalion, Semyon Semenchenko, also known as the previously convicted Sevastopol businessman Konstantin Grishin, is also eager to lead the committee favored by Yarosh.

Semenchenko (this is one of the battalion commander’s pseudonyms) became known to Ukraine in April when he offered services to eradicate separatism in the east of the country to the leadership of the Dnepropetrovsk Regional State Administration. The Donbass battalion he formed took part in hostilities in the Donetsk region. At the same time, Semenchenko’s subordinates repeatedly accused their commander of unprofessionalism (due to which the unit suffered heavy losses) and self-PR, expressed in endless photo sessions and loud statements.

Literally on the eve of the tragedy near Ilovaisk, Semenchenko was wounded and sent to Dnepropetrovsk (according to other sources, he chose to leave a dangerous place under a plausible pretext). Immediately after his suspiciously quick recovery, the heroic battalion commander staged a spectacular striptease with a balaclava, which hid his face all the previous months, after which he expressed his desire to continue serving as an ordinary deputy.

It is noteworthy that the Dnepropetrovsk governor Kolomoisky, who in conversations with the Russian pranker called Semenchenko a “scammer” and an “idiot,” did not approve of his self-exposure session: “It was funny when he took off his balaclava. He shouldn’t have done this; his image immediately faded.”

In parliament, Semenchenko-Grishin, who was elected to the Verkhovna Rada on the “Self-Help” list, has already made his mark with a proposal to legalize compensation for mobilization into the army.

Vladimir Parasyuk. The horror of Yanukovych

Vladimir Parasyuk

Member of the Congress of Ukrainian Nationalists Vladimir Parasyuk gained fame after an unplanned speech at a meeting of opposition politicians with Euromaidan participants. Having risen to the podium, Parasyuk, on behalf of his squad, expressed distrust in the policies of the opposition leaders and publicly vowed to launch an armed assault on the Presidential Administration if Viktor Yanukovych was not dismissed.

The next day, Yanukovych fled Kyiv. And although this act was caused by considerations of a completely different order than fear from the threats of some Maidan centurion, the recent videographer Vladimir Parasyuk received his share of all-Ukrainian fame and took full advantage of it. Having led the 4th company of the Dnepr-1 battalion, he took an active part in the battles in eastern Ukraine, during which he was seriously wounded and captured. Where then, if you believe the story of the deputy governor of the Dnepropetrovsk Regional State Administration Filatov, he escaped with the help of military cunning and natural ingenuity.

Meanwhile, knowledgeable employees of domestic intelligence services do not rule out that the real reason for such happiness could be confidential conversations with their Russian colleagues. In any case, Dnepr began to suffer its greatest losses just after the miraculous release of Parasyuk.

But since it would be inappropriate from a political point of view to dispel the myth of the brave subverter Yanukovych, the “hero of the Maidan and symbol of the Resistance” in majority constituency No. 122 (Lviv region) successfully entered the Verkhovna Rada. Where, barely looking around, he gave a proper assessment of his legislative abilities: “You don’t need a special mind to figure out what is good for Ukraine and what is bad. And I think among the three buttons we can figure it out.”

Boris Filatov. Cosmonaut Kolomoisky

Boris Filatov

An honored journalist of Ukraine, a successful lawyer (who worked closely with the Privat group) and holder of a charter from Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Rus’, Boris Filatov became the right hand of the head of the Dnepropetrovsk Regional State Administration Igor Kolomoisky in early March of this year. At the same time, he shared on Facebook his recipe for pacifying the rebellious Crimea: “No landings from the Maidan. No extremist statements. You need to give the scum any promises, guarantees and make any concessions. …And hang them… You have to hang them later”

Sharp-tongued, principled and extremely active on social networks, Filatov did not spare not only ideological opponents, but also supporters of the new government who dared to suspect his boss Kolomoisky of receiving material benefits from the events in Donbass. Thus, the famous journalist Sergei Leshchenko turned out to be “an idiot who has lost his professionalism,” and the former press secretary of the Azov volunteer battalion (now a people’s deputy) Igor Mosiychuk and the “radical” people’s deputy Oleg Lyashko turned out to be “war dogs” and “bastards” ”

Having predictably won the majority constituency No. 27 (Dnepropetrovsk) with one of the best results in the country, Boris Filatov (by the way, a couple of years ago was going to become the first space tourist from Ukraine) immediately set a record short stay in the BPP faction, which he left with scandal a few hours after joining.

Now the non-factional Boris Albertovich, who, by his own admission, lacked air among Petro Poroshenko’s associates, has the opportunity to catch his breath. And at the same time, he would fulfill the long-standing threat to “strangle with his own hands” the deputies Mosiychuk and Lyashko, who were in the same room with him.

Andrey Biletsky. White Fuhrer

Andrey Biletsky

Former history teacher Andrei Beletsky has been actively involved in the nationalist movement since his student days. As the leader of the ultranationalist group “Patriot of Ukraine” nicknamed “White Leader”, he also leads the Social National Assembly, whose goals and objectives include the defense of the white race by creating an anti-democratic and anti-capitalist system of “naziocracy” and the eradication of “international Zionist speculative capital”.

In December 2011, Andrei Beletsky was arrested on charges of attacking journalist Sergei Kolesnik, who was almost beaten to death right in the office of the Kharkov branch of the Patriot of Ukraine organization on Rymarska Street. But on February 24, 2014, Beletsky was released as a political prisoner, and already on March 14, he led a group of armed men who killed two Kharkov residents and seriously wounded a policeman near the same office on Rymarskaya Street.

Then Andrei Beletsky led the Azov volunteer battalion created in May (now transformed into a regiment), the distinctive feature of whose equipment and banners was the German Wolfsangel rune (“Wolf Hook”), which was the emblem of SS units in the Third Reich and is now widely used by neo-Nazis.

The battalion commander did not shine with special leadership talents (several Azov trains were killed at once near Saur-Mogila and Ilovaisk), but the “successes” of his subordinates, such as the shooting of the city police department in Mariupol or the “cleansing” of liberated territories, received international publicity. In September, OSCE representatives spoke about the facts they had identified of mass murder, rape and robbery of civilians, in which mercenaries of the Azov and Donbass battalions were involved. Which, of course, hardly upset Beletsky, who shortly before received from the hands of the Speaker of the Verkhovna Rada Turchinov the Order “For Courage”, III degree, and from the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Avakov – the extraordinary rank of police lieutenant colonel

It is clear that when a person with such merits suddenly decided to run in the Kyiv majoritarian constituency No. 217, the former favorite (businessman Stolar) could only step aside and personally congratulate the winner – and what else to do if the incompetent head of the district committee was being “pressed” with all his might by the security forces? .

Mikhail Gavrilyuk. Cossack Zazhigaiko

Mikhailo Gavrilyuk

Farmer and Cossack of the Fourth Hundred of “Maidan Self-Defense” Mikhail Gavrilyuk became known for the scandalous amateur video of the “Jaguar” special forces, where he, naked and beaten, is forced to pose in the cold hugging a Hutsul hatchet. At the same time, the special forces claimed that they stripped Gavrilyuk because he, having doused himself with gasoline, threatened to self-immolate. And they beat him up, suspecting that it was he who had thrown Molotov cocktails from the roofs of neighboring buildings on their heads the day before.

As a result, the police officers involved in the abuse were tried, and Gavrilyuk, who had previously worked on the Maidan in the modest position of a transport worker, instantly became a national hero. In the middle of the summer of the year, the media actively promoted a rumor that Mikhail Gavrilyuk, who was engaged in the delivery of humanitarian supplies to the Donetsk region, was allegedly captured by the separatists. And in August the video “Ukraine. Tempered by pain” with shocking footage of him “embroidering” a national Ukrainian ornament on his body with a needle.

After such media promotion, Gavrilyuk easily found a place on the list of majority members of the “People’s Front” – especially since after the release of Liliya Grigorovich and Ruslana Lyzhychko, the place of fire show organizer in the Rada is vacant. And now he, like a real Cossack (leaving his second wife and young son in his native village) moved to Kyiv alone.

At the same time, as it turned out from the first interviews, the newly-minted truly people’s representative (whose immediate plans include obtaining a higher education) has already managed to understand that Ukraine is not ready for the abolition of parliamentary immunity.

Vyacheslav Konstantinovsky. Rolls-Royce for the mandate

Vyacheslav Konstantinovsky

A native of Kiev, Vyacheslav Konstantinovsky, who together with his twin brother Alexander owns the Kyiv-Donbass holding company, the Kyiv Donbas Development Group, the Puzata Khata restaurant chain and Carte Blanche, entered parliament along the beaten path – but taking into account today’s realities.
If in peacetime businessmen bought the sympathy of the electorate with food packages, now patriotism is in vogue.

(Read more about him in the article Vyacheslav and Alexander Konstantinovsky: how the “Russian mafia” joined the “Ukrainian patriots”)

The heyday of the business empire of the Konstantinovsky brothers occurred in the period after the Orange Revolution. Despite the fact that they did not publicly support any of the politicians, they were associated with the pro-presidential circle – after all, it was in the restaurants owned by the Konstantinovskys that the so-called “misunderstandings” involving Andrei Yushchenko took place.

Andrey Yushchenko

With the arrival of the Donetsk team, the twins fell on hard times. An attempt at fictitious bankruptcy of Puzataya Khata (in order to get rid of obligations to creditor banks) was not successful, but it led to troubles with criminal prospects. It is not surprising that in light of these events, the business brothers perceived the new revolution as a gift from God. In August, the central media reported that millionaire Vyacheslav Konstantinovsky, who decided by his own example to demonstrate to ordinary Ukrainians how to defend the Motherland, not only joined the Kyiv-1 battalion and went to the ATO zone, but also sold his own Rolls-Royce car Phantom to help give money to the guys on the front line

However, the game of “war” did not last long: already on October 26, Vyacheslav Konstantinovsky received from the Kyiv residents of single-mandate district No. 220, fascinated by his courage and selflessness, the right to fight exclusively in the Verkhovna Rada for the next five years. Where he can now allow himself not to ache in his heart for the “guys from the front line”, but to lightheartedly joke about the fact that it is high time to legalize marijuana in Ukraine.

Mustafa Nayem. Afghan souvenir

Mustafa Nayem

A graduate of the Kyiv Polytechnic University and simply an Afghan Pashtun, Mustafa Nayem, together with his colleague (and now faction neighbor) Sergei Leshchenko, earned his first popularity on the pages of the popular opposition online publication “Ukrainian Pravda”. All-Ukrainian recognition came to Nayem after he became the co-host of numerous programs of television guest worker Savik Shuster, who has thoroughly taken root in Ukraine in recent years.

In May 2010, the online publication “Dusya” published the material “SCANDAL! Is Lyovochkin digging up dirt on Mustafa Nayem?”, in which it was reported that a detailed dossier on the famous journalist and TV presenter was found on the desk of the then head of the Presidential Administration. Meanwhile, some experts insisted that in reality the situation looked much more harmless, since at that time Shuster and his henchmen were at the complete disposal of the head of the Presidential Administration of Yanukovych, who disposed of their broadcasts at his own discretion. That is, in this case, the owner simply got acquainted with the details of his employee’s portfolio.

Sergey Levochkin

By chance or not, it was Mustafa Nayem who became the formal initiator of Euromaidan, a project whose organization (up to the provocative dispersal of students on November 30, 2013) is attributed to Lyovochkin, who decided in this way to get rid of Yanukovych, who was hopeless in terms of political prospects, in time.

If this is true, then Mustafa, who entered the Rada on the list of the BPP, and his former (or maybe present?..) owner, who became a deputy thanks to the success of the Opposition Bloc, will have something to remember during breaks in session meetings. Well, or discuss the real income of deputy activist Nayem, which, by his own admission, is twice as high as indicated in his tax return

Tatiana Chernovol. Catwoman

Tatiana Chernovol

Well-known journalist and public figure Tatyana Chernovol became known for her high-profile and risky investigations of corruption schemes and political speeches – such as infiltration into the territory of Yanukovych’s carefully guarded residence “Mezhyhirya” or a protest action on the cornice of the Kyiv City Council.

Someone explained her desperate heroism by her active citizenship and good physical fitness. The doctors nodded at the certificate with the diagnosis “Hyperactivity syndrome with signs of schizoaffective disorder with a mixed type,” which the future star of Ukrainian politics was given back in 2001.

The certificate, it must be admitted, played a role. Because all her numerous “arts” did not end with anything more serious than administrative offenses in the form of fines. The only exception was the incident in December last year, when Tatyana, who rammed a Porsche Cayenne jeep at a gas station and then tried to escape from the scene of the accident, was severely beaten by its distressed owners (ironically, Euromaidan activists). But every cloud has a silver lining – this episode, correctly presented by the democratic press, only increased the degree of popular hatred towards the criminal regime of Yanukovych, to whose machinations the trivial incident was attributed

During the “Revolution of Dignity” Tatyana Chernovol experienced a deep emotional upsurge. At this time, she bravely penetrated through a broken hatch into a SBU minibus on European Square, and also led the seizure of the building of the Kyiv City State Administration and the central office of the Party of Regions (at that time two technical employees were brutally killed by a raging crowd).

For all her work, on the recommendation of her old friend Sergei Pashinsky (acting head of the Administration under acting President Turchynov), the surprisingly tenacious Chernovol was awarded the position of government commissioner for anti-corruption policy. In her new post, Tatyana developed a vigorous activity: while her masked armed representatives attacked the offices of government organizations and private firms, she herself carried out more delicate assignments. For example, I met with Alexander Muzychko (Sashko Bilym) two weeks before his liquidation, offering him $20,000 to disappear from the country for several months.

After the death of her common-law husband Nikolai Berezovoy, who, along with many other “Azovites,” was killed by battalion commander Beletsky near Ilovaisk, Chernovol briefly fell into depression. And she even left the post of the main fighter against corruption, explaining this by the lack of results of her activities caused by the opposition of representatives of the corruption hydra. However, the sadness did not last long, and already in the fall Tatyana Chernovol, with new strength and plans, joined the ranks of the “Popular Front”, successfully realizing her long-standing dream – parliament, and having already received the unspoken nickname “Black Widow” from her colleagues.

Oksana Korchinskaya. “Brotherly” wife

Oksana Korchinskaya

Oksana Korchinskaya, the wife of the notorious Brotherhood leader Dmitry Korchinsky, is perhaps the least known person to the general public, whose recognition is determined solely by the popularity of her elusive husband.

Dmitry Korchinsky

One of the founders of UNA-UNSO, by the mid-2000s Korchinsky was already firmly on the hook of the state intelligence services – suffice it to say that in the 2004 presidential elections he openly supported Viktor Yanukovych, and a year later his “Brotherhood” merged with the ideologically alien Progressive- socialist party of Natalia Vitrenko and opposed the movement of the new government in NATO and rapprochement with the USA and the EU. At that time, together with Alexander Dugin and Natalya Vitrenko, Dmitry Korchinsky was even a member of the Supreme Council of the International Eurasian Movement.

Alexander Dugin, Natalya Vitrenko

After quite a long lull, this pocket provocateur of the “regionals” appeared in public on December 1, 2013, acting as one of the instigators of the riots on Bankova, designed to show the whole world the inhuman and anti-state face of Euromaidan. The apotheosis of the provocation was supposed to be a forklift that appeared out of nowhere (on which outside observers spotted Korchinsky), which would have run over law enforcement officers, giving them the legal right to begin a forceful action to disperse the peaceful protest.

After the provocation failed, Korchinsky fled abroad (presumably to Russia (*country sponsor of terrorism), although he categorically denies this), and the authorities launched a sluggish and predictably fruitless search for him. Judging by the fact that the wife of the main “brother” was included in its list (and even in the obviously passable part) by the Radical Party of Oleg Lyashko, who has long been and with good reason suspected of collaborating with Sergei Lyovochkin, the services of a professional provocateur may soon again be needed by those who plan his return to power.
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