Oleg Tyagnibok. Sponsors and associates of the Ukrainian nationalist

On August 31, in pursuit of a political rating, Oleg Tyagnibok and his Svoboda party, unwittingly, found themselves at the center of another scandal. During the protest against the adoption of the law on decentralization under the Verkhovna Rada, Oleg Yaroslavovich behaved aggressively towards the National Guard soldiers. In addition, the person who threw the explosive package at the feet of the military turned out to be a member of the youth wing of the Svoboda party. These events dealt a crushing blow to Svoboda’s ratings in Kyiv before the local elections. This is far from the first and, most likely, not the last scandal in which Oleg Tyagnibok is involved, because his entire political career goes side by side with criminal connections.

How Oleg Tyagnibok shouted and swore at the National Guard soldiers near the Verkhovna Rada:

The path to big politics

Oleg Yaroslavovich was born in the capital of western Ukraine, Lviv. Since childhood, he wanted to become a doctor and therefore in 1993 he graduated from the Lviv State Medical Institute, Faculty of Medicine. However, he did not finish his studies there, immediately entering the Faculty of Law of the Ivan Franko University of Lviv.

Oleg’s interest in politics and social activities arose during his student years. As an active student, he first led the fraternity of his medical university, and in 1991 the Lviv Student Fraternity, and three years later he became a public representative in the Lviv Regional Council.

Oleg Yaroslavovich got into big politics during the formation of the Verkhovna Rada of the third convocation as part of the “Ukrainian People’s Movement” faction. In 2002 he joined the Our Ukraine faction. During the III and IV convocations he was a member of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Budget Issues.

“Famous” investors

The most interesting thing in the political biography of Oleg Tyagnibok begins in February 2004, when he headed the VO “Svoboda”. The first years of the party’s existence were unsuccessful in terms of results, most likely this was due to the virtual lack of financial influence in the movement. In the elections in 2006 and 2007, the party failed to get into parliament, and in 2008 the politician failed the local elections in Kyiv, gaining only 2% in the fight for the mayor’s seat (Leonid Chernovetsky became the mayor then, (Read more about him in the article Leonid Chernovetsky: how “Lenya Cosmos” robbed Kyiv and moved to Georgia) with the support of his “young team”).

(Read more about him in the article Igor Krivetsky: criminal sponsors of Svoboda)

Then a miracle happened – investors “entered” the party. One of the important intermediaries in the system of financing Oleg Tyagnibok’s party was Igor Krivetsky, who entered politics only in 2010 and, it should be said, very successfully, because already in 2012 (Lo and behold) he managed to become a people’s deputy from the same VO “Svoboda” , which with the arrival of money into the party was radically transformed.

It was through Krivetsky that the famous Ukrainian businessman-authority Vladimir Didukh (“Vova Morda”) transferred funding to the party. According to him, he invested more than $48 million in it.

“I didn’t personally give Tyagnibok money, it was Pups (nickname of Igor Krivetsky – ed.). So that they don’t say that a crime boss gave money for the party. Thus, Bobblehead would transfer my money on his behalf. I cut off funding for the entire party. It was first 500 thousand, then a million, then two, then three. Then eight were given. A total of $48 million. There were times when I saw Tyagnibok every day. At the “Fashion Club”– said Vladimir Didukh
“When they met with Yanukovych’s people, for example, with Kurchenko, I said: he imports billions of gasoline into the country under the guise of transit, and then drowns it within the country without paying taxes. Get him wet. You must stop such schemes, you are the opposition. And Pups told me: “He gives us more money.” And so our relationship began to break down. They took money from Sivkovich and from others. And when they put Makhnitsky in the chair of Prosecutor General, it’s generally scary to say what started. “Svoboda” began accepting money everywhere and for everything. No one took a step there without “Pups”he added.
Rumor has it that now Igor Krivetsky and his business are closely connected with Dmitry Firtash and his companies, which is not at all surprising, because he also had a hand in financing the nationalists, but more on that later.

One of the “important” members of “Svoboda” was Ruslan Koshulinsky, a very interesting entrepreneur who, without having a higher education, managed to become not only a people’s deputy, but also a vice-speaker of the Verkhovna Rada. It is noteworthy that before joining Svoboda, he was a Komsomol organizer back in Soviet times; this is very strange, because it was Oleg Tyagnibok, who is the most ardent opponent of communist ideology, who nevertheless kept Ruslan Koshulinsky among his comrades.

Another “friend” of the party is Roman Fedyshyn, who, together with the local crime bosses of Lvov, Miroslav Bokalo (call sign “Dushman”) and Vladimir Panasenko (call sign “Vova-landing”), had their own business interest in expanding the market in Lvov, however, because Due to the disunity of the deputies of the Lvov regional council, they could not achieve what they wanted. The issue was very quickly resolved by the coming of Svoboda to power, and in 2011 Fedyshyn and his “business partners” took full control of the Shuvar market. Obviously, Tyagnibok was generously thanked for this by Fedyshyn’s “criminal” friends, who helped promote them in local elections in the Lviv region.

One of Oleg Tyagnibok’s sponsors was also the oligarch Igor Kolomoisky (which is very strange, because the Svoboda party has a very negative attitude towards Jews, and Oleg Yaroslavovich himself is among the world’s top anti-Semites). In support of the party in the Ternopil region, Igor Valerievich spent 100 thousand UAH in direct investment and God knows how many shadow injections, and, of course, he clearly did not deprive the party leader of finances.

Rounding out the list of Tyagnibok’s “friends” is gas tycoon Dmitry Firtash, who made a fortune supplying Russian gas through Ukraine to Europe. As is known, Firtash financed not only Svoboda, but also Vitali Klitschko’s UDAR. Most experts agree that the oligarch wants to achieve two goals: to “attach himself to the gas pipeline” again and provoke the bankruptcy of Naftogaz. It was Firtash, according to research, who invested huge amounts of money in financing the events on the Maidan, and it is on his money that the ratings of both the Klitschko party and the Tyagnibok party depend. Firtash, in turn, pursues purely his own business interests, which are related to the energy sector; it is not without reason that one of the main priorities of building the political program of the Svoboda party is to build a strong energy policy for the state.

As you can see, Oleg Tyagnibok has solid friends and support too, or rather it was for the time being. Now VO “Svoboda” is going through hard times because old friends, especially such “reliable” ones, rarely forgive failures, which lately have been lowering the party’s rating step by step. In the upcoming local elections in Kyiv, as Tyagnibok said, Svoboda has good prospects. Were.

Dmitry Samofalov, for SKELET-info