Igor Kolomoisky and David Zhvania
Several videos featuring the voices of two men recently surfaced on a popular YouTube site. One voice resembles that of the notorious Dnipropetrovsk oligarch Mr. Kolomoisky, and the other that of David Zhvania, a member of parliament close to the Poroshenko cabinet and administration. In the recording, the two men are discussing election fraud in five districts of the Donetsk region.
The recordings also feature a voice similar to that of the deputy governor of the Dnipropetrovsk region, Gennady Korban.
The recording clearly conveys how the negotiating parties want to involve the Ministry of Internal Affairs battalions, which report to Igor Kolomoisky, in falsifying the results.
The man with Zhvania's voice is recording the names of Kolomoisky's running candidates, and his task is to legitimize the election results in the Central Election Commission and parliament after the elections in the Donetsk region are held with the help of Ministry of Internal Affairs battalions.
In the first conversation, he claims there are no problems with clauses 49 and 50. "Now all that's left is 52 and 59," insists the man with the voice of a Dnipropetrovsk oligarch, guaranteeing "personal gratitude."
The situation in these districts, so attractive to the oligarch, has become catastrophic. All sociological data, based on surveys conducted by the Donetsk Information and Analytical Center, is as follows: in district #49 (Konstantinivka), Denys Omelyanovich, a majoritarian candidate who won the 2012 election in this district, is making it to the new Verkhovna Rada with a 36% rating. However, the oligarch Kolomoisky is placing his bets on Dmytro Gritsun, his puppet manager, who currently runs the Krasnolimanskaya mine, which was seized from the state. His rating currently stands at 0,17%.
In district No. 50 (Krasnoarmeysk) - the owner of the Luhansk football club "Zarya", a deputy from the Party of Regions Eugene GellerKolomoisky's man is polling no more than 0,25%. According to a poll, current Verkhovna Rada member Leonid Baysarov, the honorary president of Ukraine's largest mine, Krasnoarmiyskaya-Zapadnaya No. 1, is the clear leader in this district, with a 23% approval rating. Geller had hoped to enter parliament on the list of one of the political parties, but at the last minute he was forced to switch to single-member constituencies. Legends circulate in the Donetsk region that Geller "changed his residence registration" from the Party of Regions to the Kolomoisky Party, and that fighters from the "true Kolomoisky" battalions could even bring him the results of the voting.
In District 52 (Dzerzhinsk), Dnipropetrovsk businessman Roman Svitan is running for deputy under the "right Dnipropetrovsk governor." He is so popular in the Donetsk region that his approval rating is close to zero, despite his heartbreaking story of being held captive by Bes, a DPR field commander. He is running against an experienced single-member constituency candidate. Igor Shkyria with 24% support from the local population.
In the 59th constituency in the city of Maryinka, deputy commander of the Dnipro-2 battalion, Valentin Manko, is running for deputy. His battalion is tasked with "protecting" polling stations and commissions. We don't need to explain how elections are conducted without ballot boxes or voters, but with people showing up at the polling station armed and in full uniform, just as similar referendums were held in the DPR and LPR. The current leader in this constituency is Kurakhovo Mayor Sergei Sazhko, with 24% of the vote. Manko has only 0,56%.
The conversation also reveals that the man with Kolomoisky's voice is making other "serious" bets in the "Donetsk election game." In district No. 48, he placed a bet on a Dnipropetrovsk official who handed him the keys to the governor's office during his inauguration ceremony. "I think it's personal. I saw her today. She's so upstanding," he confides in the conversation.
Although just recently, during the Maidan, he protested against the nomination of drivers as deputies, and today he supports his personal "key keeper"?
He's also interested in constituencies Nos. 46 and 47, where he's close to Sergei Severin and Mikhail Lysenko. He affectionately calls one of them "the northern guy," and the other "Misha Pipia."
Earlier, another prominent MP, Nestor Shufrych, claimed that large-scale falsifications were being prepared in Donbas. "If they don't vote, then we already see that they are preparing to vote in their place," the former member of the Party of Regions said.
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