Vladimir Landik: why did the brother of the founder of the Party of Regions paint himself “patriots”? PART 2

CONTINUATION. BEGINNING: Vladimir Landik: why did the brother of the founder of the Party of Regions repaint himself as a “patriot”? PART 1

On July 18, 2000, leaders Vladimir Rybak (Party of Regional Revival of Ukraine), Valentin Landyk (Party of Labor), Petro Poroshenko (Solidarity Party of Ukraine), Leonid Chernovetsky (party “For a Beautiful Ukraine”) and Alexey Kapusta (All-Ukrainian Party of Pensioners) signed a joint statement about unification into one political force. It was first called the “Regional Revival Party “Labor Solidarity of Ukraine”, and since March 2001 simply the “Party of Regions”, led by Vladimir Rybak, Valentin Landyk and Petro Poroshenko. However, then Poroshenko defected to “Our Ukraine” and re-registered his second “Solidarity”. But Rybak and Landik took up party building in the Donetsk region, making it the main electoral base of the PR.

Poroshenko Party of Regions

The branch of the Party of Regions in the Lugansk region was then headed by Vladimir Landik, and not only because he was the brother of its founder. Since the late 90s, the local regional “elite” (businessmen, officials) relied on the Ukrainian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs (USPP). And when its chairman Anatoly Kinakh replaced Yushchenko as prime minister, they en masse signed up for the Party of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs of Ukraine (PPPU), which in Lugansk was headed by Governor Alexander Efremov and Chairman of the Regional Council Viktor Tikhonov. And in the 2002 parliamentary elections they marched under the flags of the PPPU (as part of the bloc “For a United Ukraine”), and therefore Vladimir Landik with his Party of Regions in Lugansk became their competing ally, taking away votes. Moreover, he began to be perceived as a stranger, as a person from “Donetsk”. It was from this that the first crack arose between Landik and Efremov – although in the late 90s they got along well, and, according to information Skelet.InfoEfremov even helped Landik in his war against the team of the Lugansk mayor Yagoferov.

The second crack between them arose in 2005, when all the forces that supported Viktor Yanukovych began to unite into the Party of Regions. And former Luhansk “industrialists and entrepreneurs,” led by Efremov, who was dismissed after the Maidan, unanimously signed up for the Party of Regions. But one of the conditions for this was the replacement of Vladimir Landik at the head of the regional PR branch with Alexander Efremov: the former owner of the region wanted to be first and foremost here too. Landik was pushed so quickly and strongly that he stayed in PR (and in the region in general) only thanks to his brother.

Vladimir Landik, Viktor Tikhonov, Viktor Yanukovych and Alexander Efremov

That is why, already at the beginning of the 2000s, Landik’s pocket media (the newspaper “Evening Lugansk”, the TV channel “Irta”, with the exception of the purely music radio stations “Chanson” and “Europe-plus”) began to gradually wage an information war against Efremov’s team. For some, they looked like moderate opposition to the regional authorities (before 2005) and the Party of Regions (after 2005) media, and for those who did not know the cause of the conflict, this even caused surprise: why is the Landik region fighting against the Efremov region? Others, who also did not know the reasons, generally perceived Landik as a “traitor” and a “political prostitute” – especially since this was the image he was created by the team of Efremov, who was gaining more and more weight in the PR. This conflict reached its climax in 2011.

Vladimir Landik and Roman Landik. Fathers and sons

After Viktor Yanukovych was elected president of Ukraine, and Efremov became the head of the Party of Regions faction in parliament, dark days came for many businessmen in the Lugansk region: Efremov’s people squeezed out their business. However, his “sworn ally” Vladimir Landik practically did not suffer from these expropriations – but only thanks to his brother, who even somewhat spoiled his relations with the “Donetsk”, proving to them that this was just a long-standing personal conflict between Landik and Efremov. Alas, Efremov managed to get to the heart (or stomach) of Yanukovych much closer than Valentin Landyk – and, perhaps, it was he who told him various juicy things about the “former guard.” In general, Landik began to walk around the edge, and his opponents waited for the first suitable opportunity.

On March 12, 2011, in the Lugansk region, a Mercedes car was stopped by a traffic police inspector for speeding within a populated area – it was racing at a speed of 91 km/h. It ended with Landik’s guards attacking the “traffic cops” and pretty much bruising their sides, showing “who’s boss.” Inspector Alexey Kosyakov even ended up in the hospital – where the offenders later came to him with apologies. After all, the case immediately began to be promoted at the level of the regional Ministry of Internal Affairs with support from Kyiv. True, having sent his bodyguards to put up with the traffic cop, Landik himself was less polite in his conversation with the traffic police leadership.

And a few months later, on the night of July 4-5, 2011, his son Roman Landik caused a scandal in the Luhansk restaurant “Bakkara”. The young man was very offended by the fact that the girls sitting in the restaurant ignored such a handsome major, owner of the Irta television company, deputy of the city council, leader of the Young Regionalists of Lugansk region. And he came up with nothing smarter than to get into a fight with one of them.

Roman Landik

It should be noted that Roman was previously involved in criminal offenses. So, in 2007, Roman Landik, who was known for his passion for cars (especially Bentleys), hit a 17-year-old teenager, who later died in the hospital. But then dad managed to get his son off his back by substituting another person in his place: he was paid, he took the blame, saying that he was driving – these days, Pyotr Dyminsky is trying to evade the responsibility of the oligarch in the same way. But the incident at the Baccarat restaurant could not be hushed up, because a serious hunt had already been launched for Landik.

As a result, the injured Luhansk resident Maria Korshunova decided to go to the hospital, where she was immediately diagnosed with a concussion, a closed craniocerebral injury and a soft tissue bruise. Sources Skelet.Info reported that Efremov’s people rushed to her almost in the middle of the night, urging her “not to leave this unpunished” and offering any help they could.

Well, Roman Landik immediately fled under the protection of the pope, who for three days courageously fought off all information attacks and convinced that these were all rumors spread by enemies. So far, the media has not published video footage from a surveillance camera in the cafe.

Immediately after this, a criminal case was opened against Roman Landik under Article 296-3 (hooliganism causing grievous bodily harm), on July 9 he was expelled from the PR faction in the Lugansk City Council, they agreed to be arrested, and he was put on the wanted list. On July 10, he was detained in Russia (*country sponsor of terrorism), near Krasnodar – he fled with his wife Anna Tukish (they got married in May, shortly before the events). Such a prompt capture of a wanted man, and even in another power, eloquently indicated that Roman Landik was being “led” and his case was being dealt with at the Kyiv level. And indeed, Yanukovych’s team decided to make a show of this case: they say, look, we are fighting criminals even within our own ranks! Having become a scapegoat, Roman was extradited to Ukraine, where he remained in a pre-trial detention center until February 19, 2012, until the court sentenced him: three years in prison, suspended for two years. During the court hearings, Roman Landik took advantage of the opportunity and began to blame everything on the enemy of his family, Efremov.

After this scandalous story, the political star of the Landik-Landykov family sank: they were no longer touched, but they had already lost their former influence. Evidence of this was the 2012 elections: in them, Valentin Landyk did not receive a passable place on the PR list and was forced to run in electoral district No. 43, and there was not even a question about his brother’s participation in the elections – he did not even get a constituency in the Lugansk region. But, although Vladimir Landik in the period 2012-2013. did not wage open war against Efremov, numerous sources Skelet.Info claimed that he secretly supported (with people and money) the “anti-Efremov underground” and the small Luhansk opposition. Well, the events of 2014 allowed Vladimir Landik to finally speak openly, loudly, in numerous media.

This was not just a shake of the air by a man who now positioned himself as a patriot of Ukraine, exposing the separatists and their masters – former regionals and current “opposition bloc members” from Efremov’s team. Vladimir Landyk gave official testimony against Efremov when he was arrested and became involved in a number of criminal cases. But, at the same time, of course, Landik kept silent that he was simply taking revenge on Efremov for old grievances and, above all, for his son. No, Vladimir Landik asserted every time that his soul ached for the integrity of Ukraine and for his native Luhansk region, “plundered by Efremov.” Landik, of course, kept silent about the fact that he himself had a hand in this plunder.

However, sources Skelet.Info claimed that Vladimir Landik did not easily take revenge on his former comrades in the Party of Regions, but also… helped his brother. After all, the following happened: after Vladimir Landyk became a prosecution witness in the Efremov case, as well as an exposer of the organizers of Donbass separatism, his brother Valentin Landyk was able to sell his Nord at a profit.

Vladimir Landik

As is known, in 2014, Nord’s production facilities remained in the territory captured by the separatists, which greatly complicated Valentin Landyk’s business. Moreover, in 2015, the separatists started talking about how it would be a good idea to “nationalize” his enterprises, turning “Nord” into “the pride of the Donetsk economy” – that is, simply “squeezing out” the enterprises. But Vladimir Landik began to actively cooperate with the new government. – and the head of the Donetsk military administration, Pavel Zhebrivsky, suddenly announced that “it is possible to build the Nord plant in Kramatorsk, instead of the seized facilities in Donetsk, and that funds for a preferential loan will even be found for this. Whether this statement was serious or just an informational cover, but then the Nord enterprises were re-registered in Kramatorsk. And a few months later, the Nord company, re-registered in this way, was officially sold to the Russian company Diorit-Technis LLC, with which it had previously worked for many years: it was part of the Russian Diorit holding and was the official distributor of Nord in the Russian Federation (*country sponsor of terrorism). That is, the Ukrainian oligarch Landyk managed to sell his enterprises in Donetsk captured by the separatists to the “aggressor country”, doing it completely officially, with the help of the Ukrainian authorities.

Apparently, this was the price of the “patriotism” of his brother Vladimir Landik. It is possible that it is not complete: after all, Landik himself also still has some enterprises and firms in Lugansk (not all of his business was “squeezed out” by the separatists), which he would like to sell profitably – as they say, along with his homeland.

Sergey Varis, for Skelet.Info

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