Andriy Reva: Minister of Antisocial Policy of Ukraine. PART 1

While the current standard of living of Ukrainians is the lowest from the Atlantic to the Urals, former Minister of Social Policy Andriy Reva believes that they eat too much, and his department illegally deprives millions of those in need of social assistance, effectively condemning them to a new famine. If the current government were European in deeds and not in words, Reva would have had to resign by now, or even face trial. But people like him are said to be carried out of their offices only feet first…

But at Bankova they believe that Reva is a practically ideal minister – because he is 100% loyal to his “Vinnytsia clan”, which put him in the ministerial chair, and has not yet surfaced in any high-profile corruption scandal. However, corruption is not the only official crime provided for by the Criminal Code, and it is still unknown what is worse: to “saw” budget funds little by little or to take away the last piece of bread from the poor in order to increase the oligarchs’ superprofits? And if health care reforms Ulyana Suprun earned her the nickname “Doctor Death”, then the cannibalistic social policy of Andriy Reva, accompanied by cynical ridicule of the poor, will also soon receive the corresponding popular assessment. And the Groysman government risks going down in the history of Ukraine as the most odious, having become the cause of yet another Maidan – this time not restrained by domestic oligarchs and foreign diplomats.

Andrey Reva. The Path of the Political Officer

Andrey Alekseevich Reva was born on July 7, 1966, in the city of Bogodukhov in the Kharkov region. After finishing high school, he went to Leningrad, where he entered the Andropov Higher Military-Political School, which trained political officers for the Air Defense Forces. Why there, when nearby in Kharkov (half an hour by bus) there was a huge selection of various military schools? Probably, even then he showed the talent of a cynical demagogue. However, the Soviet political officer was not only a preacher of communism in the ranks of the SA, he represented the CPSU there (Reva tried to forget about his membership in it), and also closely cooperated with the KGB. And the Committee did not break off its relations with people, even when they moved to another job.

Andrey Reva also never told anyone what caused him to leave for civilian life. Having served for two years, the political officer suddenly found himself in Vinnitsa, where he got a job as a simple history teacher (what else would a political officer teach?) at Secondary School No. 27, where he worked from 1989 to 1995. Somewhere during this period, he met his wife Larisa Fedorovna, who also worked at School No. 27, and in 1992, their daughter Natalia was born.

Larisa Reva

Andriy Reva made his first move up on his own. In the mid-90s, the socio-economic situation in Ukraine in general and in Vinnytsia in particular was extremely deplorable, public sector employees were delayed in their penny salaries or were paid in kind. And the history teacher, remembering his political deputy past, began to “muddy the waters”: he agitated his colleagues for rallies and pickets, sued the Ministry of Education, then achieved the re-election of the city committee of the teachers’ union – which he headed himself in 1995. After that, Reva was completely carried away by his new job and, remembering the fate of his overthrown predecessors, created for himself the image of a modest person who had neither his own business nor luxury. Supporting him, Reva then for another twenty years brought activists and journalists to his first two-room apartment, in which he deliberately did not update anything, having arranged a kind of museum of everyday life from the early 90s. But Reva kept quiet about the private house in the prestigious area, nicknamed “Vinnytsia Mezhyhirya”, where the entire elite of Vinnytsia settled.

In 1998, he was invited by the then mayor of Vinnytsia, Dmitry Dvorkis, whose chair was actively shaken by father and son Poroshenkoas well as the city opposition of all political colors sponsored by them. The situation was aggravated by the fact that in the elections of that year Dvorkis received a mandate of the people’s deputy, but still remained the city mayor in violation of the law (he was afraid of losing both), and his opponents took advantage of this. In 1999, there was even an attempt on Dvorkis’s life, his driver was killed – as it became known Skeleton.Infoaccording to law enforcement agencies, the “order” was carried out by an organized crime group of a Lviv “authority” Vladimir Didukhhowever, the case remained a cold case.

Dmitry Dvorkis

And so, fighting off his opponents and enemies, Dvorkis decided to form an alliance with one of them. Reva received the post of deputy mayor of Vinnytsia, and in return he was required to use his talent as a political officer and rally activist, now to protect the city government – acting as a kind of barking pit bull on a leash. It was incredibly difficult to protect the government during the new crisis of 1998-1999, but Reva tried, although he understood that he was ruining his reputation by doing so, and a return to his previous role as a street opposition activist would no longer be possible. Moreover, at that time, opponents accused Dvorkis not only of poor city management and corruption, but also of patronizing organized crime groups and creating shadow business schemes. And it is unlikely that Reva would have agreed to this “betrayal” if Dvorkis had offered him only an honest life on one salary. But, according to sources, Skeleton.InfoReva never took either greyhound puppies or shares in an LLC, but only what he could discreetly put in his pocket and take away to the family piggy bank “for his daughter’s wedding.”

In 2000, Dvorkis, unable to withstand the massive attack, voluntarily resigned, having received the opportunity to do so on his own terms. And one of these conditions was the employment of his people, whom Dvorkis, to his credit, did not abandon to their fate. However, his deputy and “watchdog” Andriy Reva got a more than modest position as head of the social protection department of the Zamostyansky district of Vinnytsia. For five years, Reva immersed himself in the topic of recalculating pensions, processing subsidies and paying child benefits. Judging by the experience he gained there, he most often had to refuse petitioners.

Andriy Reva: Minister of Antisocial Policy of Ukraine. PART 1

Andrey Reva. The Creator of Vinnytsia “Miracles”

In 2005, the previously elected mayor of Vinnytsia, Oleksandr Dombrovskyi, was promoted to head of the regional state administration (now Dombrovskyi is a people’s deputy, a member of the Poroshenko Bloc faction), and a coup took place in the city council. In order to transfer power over the city to the young To Vladimir Groysman (son of the city market director Boris Isaakovich Groysman) and no one else, the old secretary of the city council was overthrown. Then the deputies, supporting the city clan of Groysman, Poroshenko and Dombrovsky, elected Volodymyr Groysman as secretary of the city council and transferred to him the powers of the city mayor – which he performed for six months until he was officially elected mayor of Vinnytsia, remaining in this position until 2014.

That was when Andriy Reva’s second ascent began. Whether the Groysmans, father and son, remembered his talents, or he himself came to them with an offer of services, but he was again invited to the city council as deputy mayor (while initially reporting to the newly elected secretary of the city council). And the first thing he did was to direct his energy against the opponents of the “city fathers” who had seized all the power. Then Andriy Reva was appointed “the killer” of the difficult process of liquidating small and spontaneous markets in Vinnytsia (2006-2008), in order to drive all the traders to the markets controlled by the Groysmans or to the opening shopping centers. If today such an issue in Kyiv is resolved with the help of bulldozers or arson, then in Vinnytsia the outraged traders did not give in to the authorities for a long time and almost organized a city Maidan. Andrei Reva was given the most difficult task: communicating with the enraged public, reducing the level of tension, talking them down, persuading them to give in and accept the conditions of the city authorities, and taking the blows of the most irreconcilable ones.

After this test by fire, Reva was entrusted with such a delicate matter as organizing school meals in Vinnytsia – which magically began to be carried out through companies associated with the Groysmans. Meals alone were not enough: later, schools No. 1, No. 10 and No. 25 were “combined” in Vinnytsia, and the territories of their school stadiums were given over to commercial development. Then history repeated itself with schools No. 5 and No. 31.

Then there was the creation of the Vinnytsia Interhospital Fund, which expanded into the creation of a paid medical system in a single city of Ukraine. The municipal insurance company “Misto” was created, the city government legalized “mandatory insurance contributions” and a whole price list of paid services – from a specialist consultation to delivering babies and removing an appendix. Diagnostic rooms grew wildly, and in the clinics, where free admission still remained, unbearable conditions were specially created in order to redirect the flow of patients to paid and private offices. In addition to the illegality of such an undertaking, it represented insurance medicine inside out: it was not the insurers who paid for the treatment of Vinnytsia patients, but the patients themselves who paid for their treatment, after which this money disappeared into the accounts of the company “Misto”. The direct operator of this scheme was Andriy Reva.

Andriy Reva: Minister of Anti-Social Policy of Ukraine

But the “Vinnytsia mafia” was mainly known throughout Ukraine as “communal”. And not only because of fraudulent schemes Vladimir Kistionthe current Minister for the ATO and Occupied Territories, who headed the Vinnytsia City Water Utility in 2001-2008, and was deputy mayor for public utilities in 2008-2014. In addition to the inflated water tariffs that the Vinnytsia “city fathers” had been feeding on for years, a fraudulent “reform” of housing and communal services was carried out there. Its result was the transfer of residential apartment buildings (including those with created condominiums) to the management of LLC “ZHEO”. This company, in fact, played only the role of an intermediary: it charged residents for services that it hired subcontractors to provide, including private firms. It got to the point that “private inspectors” began to charge Vinnytsia residents money for checking water and even electricity meters! And OOO “ZHEO”, not content with putting the “margin” in its pocket, began to charge money for issuing certificates on the state of utility bills of Vinnytsia residents! At the same time, these certificates began to be actively requested by the city’s social services – in particular, for the registration of subsidies. And again, things came to a social explosion, which Andrey Reva was sent to put out. The people were somehow pacified, but back in 2014, Vinnytsia OOO “ZHEO” was subjected to sanctions by the State Inspectorate of Ukraine for Price Control and the Antimonopoly Committee. So what? Having paid the fines, OOO “ZHEO” continued to milk the rapidly impoverished residents of Vinnytsia.

Sergey Varis, for Skelet.Info

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