Roman Fedyk
World classics abound with characters trapped in their own delusions. Cervantes's great madman, Don Quixote, whose "madness" takes the form of paranoid delirium. Nikolai Gogol and Fyodor Dostoevsky fully explored mental illness in their works. Moreover, in describing the madness of an official in "Notes of a Madman," Gogol was actually revealing the moral and spiritual depravity of the bureaucratic milieu of the time. Today, there are many prototypes for such novels. One of the most striking is Roman Fedyk, the prosecutor or mayor (as this profession was popularly known) of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast. While he hasn't yet become a hero in fiction, he has become famous as a man with delusions of grandeur coupled with progressive paranoia.
Urn instead of a crown
After the Verkhovna Rada adopted the lustration law on September 16, 2014, and the subsequent tedious process of signing it by the President, the Ukrainian people, as they say, took the initiative to cleanse the government into their own hands. A wave of "tossing" the most odious politicians and officials (and even some security officials!) into trash bins swept across the country. For the purpose of "cleansing."
Roman Fedyk managed to save his mortal body from public lustration—he stopped appearing in public and practically barricaded himself in his office. But Dnipropetrovsk residents, outraged by the regional prosecutor's office's inaction, came to "visit" him on September 30th.
The conversation didn't work out: Roman Romanovich's voice rose. For this, the lustrators placed a trash can over his head, so he'd cool down and finally listen to the legitimate grievances leveled at him as the head of the agency. And they also temporarily removed his glamorous prosecutor's badge from his lapel (so they could photograph it for the lustration committee). It was gold, studded with diamonds (incidentally, worth several months' worth of a prosecutor's salary – over $5).
We decided to find out for ourselves whether Roman Fedyk really deserves lustration and even his immediate resignation within 24 hours, as the "people's" lustrators demanded.
A prosecutor with a mental disorder
As part of this investigation, we consulted with graphologist Denis Petrenko (a specialist who determines a person's character from handwriting). We showed the prosecutor's signature and handwriting samples to the expert incognito—without identifying the author. We wanted the analysis of the signature to be as objective as possible.
And here are the graphologist’s main conclusions regarding Roman Fedyk’s personality: he is characterized by cynicism, arrogance, and a low intellectual level (to put it mildly).
"Furthermore, this person has recently been in a state of extreme agitation and fear," Denis Petrenko believes. "Moreover, their reactions to events unfolding around them are already uncontrollable and highly emotional. And unstable behavior and breakdowns can only worsen the situation for someone with this signature."
We won't recount the graphologist's entire analysis, but we'll highlight one more important conclusion. Denis Petrenko detected in Roman Fedyk's handwriting, not only signs of paranoia, but also—nothing less!—a split personality.
"Unjustifiably sweeping flourishes, illegibility and carelessness, missing and isolated letters in words, as well as other anomalies, reveal signs of mental disorder in the writer," the graphologist concludes.
In deep defense
Unfortunately, the collected facts can only serve to confirm the conclusions of the specialist who analyzed the handwriting of the chief "posadnik" of the Dnipropetrovsk region.
Judge for yourself what it is, if not a split personality, when a man who speaks exclusively Ukrainian, is emphatically religious, and who recalls the heroes of the Heavenly Hundred at times and inappropriately, suddenly begs for an entire busload of SBU Alpha special forces to guard him around the clock! While their colleagues are dying daily in the ATO zone, an entire special forces team is protecting a "henchman of the Yanukovych regime" from the people.
Isn't it a case of split personality that this same man, appointed to the post of chief lawmaker of the region by the "revolutionary" government, did everything in his power to facilitate falsifications in the recent elections to the Verkhovna Rada in favor of Yanukovych's henchmen and other former members of the Party of Regions who had united in the "Opposition Bloc" party?!
What is this, if not paranoia, when Roman Fedyk summons groups of 5-7 people from all district prosecutor's offices to create a human "shield" against the outraged residents of Dnipropetrovsk and orders all entrances to the prosecutor's office building to be welded shut (!), and fire hoses to be put on full "combat readiness" (probably to douse his lustrators, as they doused the Maidan protesters in Kyiv)?!
In Dnipropetrovsk, patriots who fought against the Yanukovych regime commented on this with a bitter smile: "The prosecutor is defending himself not against separatists, but against the lustration committee. Perhaps this man's fear of losing his position has outweighed common sense."
Apparently, the prosecutor really doesn't want to hear accusations that he's covering up local drug dealing spots, cashing in dirty money, turning a blind eye to various forms of corruption, and so on and so forth.
Speaking of separatism and its supporters, our "hero" was so actively involved in these processes that he "earned" expulsion from the regional Defense Council, as a result of which he was denied access to certain categories of classified documents. The regional administration, which has so far successfully maintained peace in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, bluntly told Roman Fedyk that "his actions are aimed at undermining the region's defense capability." Of course, that may be harsh, but in the context of a de facto war, it's fair. Unfortunately, our security forces are already rife with moles and traitors.
It should be checked, and not only by lustrators
However, whatever Prosecutor Fedyk's sanity may be (let the experts sort that out), one can confidently say that he's definitely "sick" with his soul, lacking even the most basic human conscience. For if he had even a shred of it, after the urn was placed on his head instead of a crown, he would have quietly left Dnipropetrovsk.
But no, after the "dramatic" (for him) and comical for the entire Dnipropetrovsk community events of September 30th, Roman Romanovich decided not to leave the chair of his cherished (by the way, expensive, with his signature gold "RR" monogram) – on the contrary, he decided to use it to exact revenge on his tormentors. How? Well, naturally (that's what the prosecutorial tribe is like!), by sending the local Euromaidan activists to jail.
A criminal investigation was launched immediately after the incident, and now a ton of prosecutors—from the bottom up to the Prosecutor General's Office—are listening and conducting other investigative actions with the victim, Fedyk.
Incidentally, Roman Romanovich's interrogation transcripts are truly astonishing and fascinating monologues! After reviewing them, it's hard not to notice, to put it mildly, the peculiar nature of his responses.
For example, the interrogation report reveals that the Dnipropetrovsk region is a pack of scoundrels. Everyone, from the leadership of the regional state administration and the regional council to the lower ranks of bureaucracy, are, according to Fedyk, "bad people." His fellow security officials—the regional heads of police and the SBU—are also bad and not doing their job. He claims they're not protecting him well from protesters, which the regional prosecutor is drawing clear political conclusions from. The full document is provided at the end of the article.
At the same time, since March 2014 (when Roman Fedyk was appointed to the region), immediately after the victory of the Revolution of Dignity, not a single high-profile case has been brought to completion in Dnepropetrovsk, and not a single person guilty of the January beatings and shootings at the local Euromaidan and the beating of journalists has been imprisoned.
"We have several court decisions recognizing Fedyk's inaction," notes Tamila Ulyanova, chair of the Lustration Committee, "when he failed to enter people's statements into the Unified Register of Pre-Trial Investigations into Drug Trafficking and a Number of Other Crimes."
Incidentally, during Roman Fedyk's tenure in Dnipro, Euromaidan activists have repeatedly appealed to the Prosecutor General's Office regarding the regional prosecutor's crimes. Unfortunately, to no avail.
The current position of the Prosecutor General's Office is an outright cover-up of corruption within its ranks.
What if Prosecutor Roman Fedyk, a man with obvious signs of a split personality and paranoia, but endowed with considerable power and authority, orders a shoot-to-kill campaign against anyone he deems suspicious?! Will the Prosecutor General's Office continue to cover for its "posadnik"?
It seems better to strip someone with such a diagnosis of their powers early, before something irreparable happens. And it wouldn't hurt to have them thoroughly examined, not just by lustrators, but by specialized doctors.
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