As long as the Prosecutor General of Ukraine is a demagogue and ignoramus, Medvedchuk will wipe his feet on Ukraine.
On September 17, Yuriy Lutsenko picked up a glass again. And there wouldn't have been anything wrong with it if the glass had ended up in the hands of some shady citizen like Lutsenko—it happens to everyone, even in broad daylight. But the real problem is that the glass was picked up by someone who, by a cruel twist of fate, is considered the Prosecutor General of Ukraine.
A glass in hand is the perfect excuse to tell the world something intimate. For some, it's "Bud'mo!", for others, "I wish for everyone...," but the troublemaker Lutsenko didn't miss the perfect opportunity to remind the public of his innate gift for verbosity, which even the master of this vibrant genre, Anatoly Matios, envies.
Well, let's listen to the speech at the YES Ukraine 2016 conference on Saturday, September 17:
So, Ukrainian Prosecutor General Yuriy Lutsenko declared that "counting the number of criminals arrested and imprisoned" is not the most important part of his job. Lutsenko then picked up a bottle of water and a glass and visually demonstrated what he meant.
"Ukraine needs water. Our budget (glass – ed.) is empty; the average teacher's salary is $150 a month. The budget was plundered by the previous government and is not being filled due to corruption and oligarchic monopolies today. People want this water, but Ukraine's budget, this glass – it's full of holes... Here at the bottom (of the glass – ed.) is Naftogaz, here is the 'Onishchenko case,' here is the 'Zlochevsky case.' ... Here is the 'amber mafia' – $800 in cash per day. Here is stolen land: we have returned 1500 hectares in Kyiv, we are returning 570 hectares in Kharkiv... Here are forests and other natural resources of Ukraine, and yet the glass is empty. I have nothing to give to a teacher, a scientist, a soldier," Lutsenko explained. "The tasks must be shared, not just for the Prosecutor General, but also for the Government, Parliament, the opposition, and the coalition—to close these 'loopholes'—legally, so that it becomes impossible to steal using existing schemes... Otherwise, I will arrest some, and others will take their place," the Prosecutor General said.
One glass in the company of appreciative listeners wasn't enough for Lutsenko. Two days later, already within the walls of the Verkhovna Rada, during a meeting of the PACE Committee on Science, Education, Culture, and Media, Yuriy Vitalyevich again seized upon this sacred object. This time, it was made of glass.
The essence of what the prosecutor, without a legal background, said this time was little different from his speech on September 17th. The image of the same leaky glass, from which neither the "prosecutor" nor the people could drink due to some external third party, was so deeply imprinted on Yuriy Lutsenko's soul that it apparently became a matter of pure motor control: he saw the "container," grabbed it immediately, and with the glass (the situation requires shifting the stress to the last syllable), he clearly explained to those around him the tragic nature of the situation.
If we look at the situation in the country without the lens of a glass, it becomes clear that everything the Prosecutor General of Ukraine has said is yet another round of demagoguery. Because the very fact of Yuriy Lutsenko's appointment to the position of Prosecutor General of Ukraine, which is beyond his capabilities, through the adoption of a special law, without conducting a background check, despite the existence of a vast number of compromising facts and connections—this is precisely the leaky glass that the state of Ukraine today closely resembles.
They appointed him—and now, go ahead. And now Lutsenko is voicing absolutely delusional—from a statist perspective—ideas about creating yet another "personnel inspectorate" within the Prosecutor General's Office, staffed by the US (?), which would supposedly complement the existing inspectorate and be personally subordinate to the Prosecutor General.
Question: the existing inspectorate within the prosecutor's office is headed by Lutsenko's personal protégé—is he incapable of handling his responsibilities? So replace the idiot and install a professional—why create another, parallel structure? Maybe we could use that money to buy another Apache helicopter, Yuriy Vitalyevich? Or aren't all your relatives employed?
Even an idiot can see that any "internal security service" (unless it's in the army or intelligence—specific, closed structures) subordinate to the organization's top official is simply a punitive squad for eliminating undesirable subordinates. Only a third-party organization with broad powers, independent of, for example, the whims of Yuriy Lutsenko—in our case, the NABU—can effectively serve as a "sanitary enforcer" for any government agency. But as soon as NABU began clamping down on the scumbag "contractors" from the "Kononenko-Granovskyi department" within the Prosecutor General's Office, the prosecutors themselves took NABU operatives hostage, illegally detained them, and even tortured them, extracting "confessions."
In the history of post-Soviet, and indeed Soviet, Ukraine, this is the only and unprecedented case of security officials from one agency seizing the "criminal intelligence" of another agency, abusing and torturing intelligence officers acting according to the law and on orders. And who are these freaks? Prosecutors from the Prosecutor General's Office, who have completely deteriorated over the past decade and become a staunch criminal gang. Meanwhile, senior officials like Shapakin steal evidence from criminal cases—diamonds, take millions in bribes, ruin billion-dollar criminal cases, and quite possibly work for Russia's secret services. And their junior comrades are at the beck and call of the "new government," which is represented by the same unprincipled freaks as the "old government." And to top it all off, there is the “pocket” (property of Petro Poroshenko and Igor Kononenko) Prosecutor General Yuriy Lutsenko, who dreams of having a similar “pocket” internal security service, subordinated personally to him.
If Yuriy Lutsenko were interested in restoring order to the Prosecutor General's Office and the prosecutor's office in general, he would publicly, without a glass in hand, thank the NABU for its integrity and apologize to the NABU detectives captured and tortured by his subordinates. He would then suspend his subordinates, and then follow the investigation and trial. That's what a statist would do. But Yuriy Lutsenko isn't one of those. He's one of those who seeks cheap popularity among his subordinates and, obviously, fears his partners in the "carve-up" of Ukraine—today, the so-called "Poroshenko group," which includes Kononenko, Svinarchuk, Gontareva, and other "sawyers" of the country as shareholders. And how can Lutsenko, a fundamentally empty man, suspend prosecutors who are carrying out Kononenko's orders? After all, the case—the "harassment," the "squeezing," the "bending over," and the "carve-up"—cannot stand! By the time the newly appointed prosecutors grasp the essence of the required results in seizing assets from the "defeated" members of the "former government," precious time will have passed, and results are needed... yesterday. And who will hand over to the NABU, which is not under the control of Petro Poroshenko, prosecutors—living witnesses to the corruption of the country's top officials, the executors of their criminal orders? Certainly not this clown as Ukraine's Prosecutor General, and not under this government.
Now imagine what both the former and the latter think of Yuriy Lutsenko after this incident with the NABU detectives being captured by "pocket prosecutors." NABU detectives: "The prosecutors are a gang of criminals and complete bastards. Not only are they corrupt and 'customers,' but they're also sadistic, lawless individuals, and they're being protected by this incompetent Lutsenko, this supposed prosecutor with no legal training... Never mind, we'll get even when the time comes." And the "pocket prosecutors" think: "We almost got caught. But no matter, 'Daddy' (Kononenko, Granovsky, etc.) won't let us off the hook; he'll tell Lutsenko to hush it up, to 'sweat it out.'"
And neither will remember Lutsenko with gratitude. For NABU detectives, he's a patron saint of criminals and a "butt" who doesn't make any difference. For the "custom prosecutors," Lutsenko is merely a senior member of a criminal organization, carrying out criminal orders from above just like they do...
Meanwhile, crime has engulfed the country. Such horrific statistics weren't seen in the early "gangster 1990s." Lutsenko himself stated: 1200 intentional murders were committed in the first seven months of 2016. And that doesn't include statistics from occupied Crimea and parts of Donbas, which, for Ukraine as a whole, accounted for between a quarter and a third of this fundamental indicator for assessing the scale of crime. And in the horrific, lawless years of 1989-1994, the number of intentional murders (a figure never underestimated in records) was around 400 per year! But back then, Ukraine's population reached 54 million, with Crimea and all of Donbas belonging to Ukraine. Today, with a population of 42 million, taking into account the rise in crime, that would be over 2100 intentional murders per year. That is, in the 1990s, the era of banditry, in Ukraine there was one intentional murder per 135 thousand residents per year; today it is one per 20 thousand.
This is an almost SEVEN-FOLD increase in intentional homicides! Other crime rates are in the same correlation with the "criminal past."
And now, of course, it's time for Lutsenko to grab a glass and give a public sniping.
And in this new role of soothsayer for Lutsenko, there are both negatives and positives. The negative (for Lutsenko) is that with a leaky glass in his hand, the Prosecutor General is doomed to loneliness and contempt—he won't find any drinking companions with such a glass, and sober, you'll find no one willing to listen to Yuri Vitalyevich. The positive is that the high-ranking position of this clown in the prosecutor's chair obliges his servants to provide him with glasses wherever possible. He reaches out—and there it is. It seems to be his only friend, inspiration, and visual aid to the Prosecutor General's way of thinking. (Perhaps that's why Granovsky was specifically assigned to him—based on his inclinations, so to speak, to complete the image?)
If you want to understand Yuriy Lutsenko, pick up a leaky glass, and you'll see the complete picture of Ukraine's current Prosecutor General. A man who accepted money "for politics" from the Russian FSB's Luzhniki organized crime group. A politician without strong, consistent convictions, who changed parties and partners like socks. A member of parliament who failed to create a single law for Ukraine and Ukrainians. A corrupt official who escaped punishment. An Interior Minister who covered up for criminals. Akhmetov's "fellow traveler." A vain windbag who failed to solve a single high-profile criminal case. A figure in drunken scandals.
And so, the empty, leaky glass in the hands of the Prosecutor General of Ukraine is a symbol not only of Yuriy Lutsenko himself, but also of the times. A time when such people hold the highest positions in the state. And even at its helm.
P.S. And speaking of Medvedchuk, Pavlo Grechkovsky, a member of the High Council of Justice detained yesterday, is a man and official close to Viktor Medvedchuk. He's the executor of his direct will. His ally and accomplice. His quota for the entire Supreme Council of Justice. Untouchable. Almost like Medvedchuk. And that's why we haven't heard any loud, incriminating speeches from Lutsenko. The Prosecutor General's Office doesn't mention the name "Grechkovsky." The masculine, theatrical Matios remains silent...
Lutsenko is ready to take up his glass again: “What have you done, huh?!”
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