Vadim Cherny. The eternal shlimazl of District #133.

On September 24, 2014, the Odessa news broadcast reported that, by Resolution No. 1125 of the Central Election Commission of Ukraine (https://www.cvk.gov.ua/pls/acts/ShowCard?id=38715&what=0), Vadik Chernyy had been denied registration as a candidate for the Verkhovna Rada. Vadik Chernyy himself did not comment on this event on his Facebook page or on his Khrabro account, but other Odessa media outlets speculated on a number of theories, ranging from a global conspiracy against Chernyy to an "agreement" between Chernyy and one of the candidates, and, as a result, deliberate errors in the submitted documents to deny registration.

However, as always, our Odessa media outlets aren't naming names, offering any leads, or providing any documents. As always, it's all empty talk. We, for our part, have tried to avoid empty words. We intend to tell Odessans and anyone interested in the Odessa phenomenon known as "Vadik Chornyi" the true reasons for what happened on September 24, 2014, at the Central Election Commission, and what Vadik has truly become. Our investigation, including interviews with people who interacted with Chornyi, will shock readers. Whether he re-registers or has already been fully rejected will no longer matter. Now, let's take things in order.

What associations does the name Vadim Cherny evoke in us? At the very beginning of his appearance in the city's public life, he was an activist, an anarchist, a marginal figure, a fighter against Gurvits, young and promising, a reformer, a schemer. Now he's a radical, a swindler, an imitator, a fighter against Kostusev, a fighter against Dumskaya 1, a perpetual candidate, a disgruntled person, electoral district #133, an anti-Semite, an aggrieved person, Khrabro, whores and Zirka, the demise of Greek Square, lies, slander, envy, evil, a festering abscess on Odessa's image, a malignant tumor, an atheist, hatred, sweet Crook, or simply, in Odessan Yiddish, Shlimazl.

Vadim Cherny, like many agile Odessans, began his career in trade. During perestroika, beginning in 1989, he was one of the first to peddle computers, video, photo and audio equipment, and videotapes on the Odessa black market. However, he only got a taste of real money when he began trading platinum, gold, and diamonds. This became possible in 1993. The young businessman arranged for precious metals supplies from Baku, but for diamonds, he had to travel to Moscow himself. This is where the patronage of Eduard Gurvits came into play, helping the young Jew Cherny enter the Chabad business and establish contacts in Moscow, Dnepropetrovsk, Baku, and the United States. It was in 1993 that Gurvits and Vadim Cherny began their active friendship and joint business partnership.

During Gurvits's first term as mayor, the still-young Cherny was in full swing, amassing connections and planning projects financed by Chabad. He only entered Odessa's political orbit in 1998, when he ran for mayor as a technical candidate for Eduard Gurvits. Later, however, he became mayor of Artsyz in the Odessa region. Media reports at the time claimed Cherny was up to something in Artsyz and "was offered the mayoral post." Vadik's up to something: he brazenly seized a concrete and reinforced concrete plant for upcoming grandiose construction projects.

The mayor's office in Artsyz was most likely given to him with the help of the then chairman of the Odessa Regional State Administration Ruslana BodelanaCherny received the mayor's office in exchange for preserving jobs at the plant and boosting the city's economy. However, Vadik Cherny violated all agreements, drove Artsyz to the brink of collapse, and later pestered the new head of the Odesa Regional State Administration, Hrynivetsky, with his immoral proposals for a program to resettle pensioners from Odesa to Artsyz.

One more thing: during the 1998 election campaign, Vadik Cherny was remembered for his campaigners pumping up drivers' tires for free, standing along the roads with posters. Doesn't it all sound like streetwalkers? That same year, Cherny founded a branch of "Russian Radio" in Odessa, following an offer from friends in Moscow to invest in the media space. It's worth mentioning that the period from 1998 to 2002 proved to be a turning point for Vadik Cherny, as the events of those years completely shattered his psyche and sharpened his radical views on life. What was the trigger that turned Cherny into a schlimazl?

The cause was a personality conflict between Gurvits and Cherny. Their mentoring friendship degenerated into a total, animalistic hatred. Vadim Cherny was courting Gurvits' daughter, Evgenia. Vadim was making personal and career plans, and it seemed he was just a step away from receiving the prize of his life—Gurvits' daughter. However, his passion for diamonds proved stronger than his word of honor, or Mazal Uvrakha, which is highly revered by Jewish diamond traders. Simply put, Vadik Cherny had screwed Eduard Gurvits. In response, Gurvits forever thwarted his plans for Evgenia.

A little later, when Gurvits became mayor for his second term in 2005, he began to irritate Cherny with his Kyiv LLC and the parking lot on Grecheskaya Street. And from that moment on, Vadik Cherny went on a rampage. Later in 2005, Cherny became the leader of the Ukrainian section of the far-right Jewish organization B'nei Elim. As its leader, he demanded that rabbis condemn Odessa Mayor Eduard Gurvits for anti-Semitic activities. Cherny wanted to prove that Gurvits's actions in the city would lead to Jewish pogroms. Cherny persistently demanded a meeting with Rabbi Rebbe Wolff and a Din Torah hearing.

The Din Torah rabbinical trial took place, and Vadik Cherny lost to Gurvits. However, the Jewish community officially maintains that the trial never took place. One of the Din Torah's decisions was to ban Cherny from wearing a kippah and to warn all members of the Jewish community to be careful in their dealings with Cherny. However, according to eyewitnesses, Cherny "had this decision in mind," as he was seen walking on Deribasovskaya Street wearing a kippah as recently as August 30, 2014.

Din Torah also damaged Gurvits's image in the Jewish world, as it was allegedly not officially held because both parties to the conflict had to be Jewish, and one of them (Gurvits) was a government official. This prompted jokes in the community that Gurvits was no longer Jewish. Later, in 2005, Cherny, with a flick of his wrist, transformed from the leader of B'nei Elim into an activist in the Vetrenko Bloc. That same year, Cherny became the head of the Union of Anarchists of Ukraine, simultaneously forming and coordinating the "Jews against Gurvits" movement. His hatred of Gurvits turned him into an anti-Semite. Vadik Cherny, like a maniac, began trolling Gurvits everywhere (https://www.gazeta-nd.com.ua/rubrics/dela-odesskie/87.php). Over the years, the perception of Vadik Cherny in Chabad circles and the Jewish business world has become that he's a toy anarchist and a disrespected Jew. His beloved Odessa Jews especially call him a shlimazl (Yiddish for "loser Jew").

His radicalization also began to harm the business of his partners in Kyiv LLC. Kyiv LLC, for example, is a subsidiary of the American corporation ANB INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION. That's where the main founders come from. Overall, it's a very complex corporate structure. ANB, in turn, has networks in Moscow, Baku, and Israel—the very same places where Vadik Cherny began his diamond business. ANB has Chabad roots. Consequently, all these stories with Gurvits began to undermine Cherny's position in this community. After all, Vadik isn't the owner of Kyiv LLC's assets; he's merely a hired manager to represent its business interests in Odessa. Cherny, however, maintained his position, arguing that he could rectify the situation under a new mayor, which later led to Cherny's Anschluss with Kostusev against Gurvits in 2010. In general, the scandals surrounding the parking lot on Grecheskaya Street and the legalization of "sex" under the guise of the Tokyo Star and Zirka hotels require special attention and a detailed presentation of the facts, which will be the subject of separate publications. For now, we'd like to continue the discussion about Khrabro.

The Khrabro project was started with funding from Kostusev, who in 2011 wanted to create a website with Cherny, similar in popularity to www.dumskaya.net. However, due to Cherny's resentment and bruised ego, the Khrabro website subsequently turned into a cesspool of information. Kostusev, however, only suffered a blow to his reputation from this project, and, as usual, Cherny swindled Kostusev out of his money. Information is leaked there by city council employees, state administration officials, and law enforcement officials, mostly for free, as Cherny simply gives them the opportunity to vent on their superiors and gleefully observe their reactions from the sidelines.

Cherny never verifies the authenticity of the information. It's likely that Vadym Cherny, either personally or by hiring commentators, simply makes up nonsense about the city, thereby irreparably damaging Odesa's image. There are plenty of examples of pure nonsense being posted. However, in response, Cherny claims that this is how he keeps all Odesa officials in line and, through blackmail for posting lies, accomplishes his own ends. It's impossible to expose and convict Cherny and his Khrabro. The domain is registered in the US, the administrator is in Israel, and the server archives are stored remotely in the EU. It's worth noting that throughout 2014, his Khrabro website has been plagued by political incorrectness, disrespect for Ukrainian national symbols, and disrespect for Ukrainian President Poroshenko. Especially in recent months, after another flight to Moscow in May 2014 (https://otkat.od.ua/vadim-chernyy-skhidyasya-v-moskve-iz-za/), Vadik Cherny, in his own name, suddenly began posting messages questioning the Euromaidan, the activities of activists, the activities of volunteers, the economic and social policies of the Cabinet of Ministers and Yatsenyuk.

He posts similar taunts on his Facebook page. It was Khrabro that turned Vadym Chorney into a household name, a word that makes everyone in Odesa want to vomit and spit. Chorney doesn't hesitate to exploit Khrabro's cesspool for yet another political gain. Khrabro's latest attacks are slinging mud at all of Chorney's potential competitors in electoral district #133 in Odesa's Kyivskyi district. The site has managed to humiliate everyone in the weeks of the election campaign: Spivak, the Kruk family, Ostapenko, and Presnov.

But strangely, he doesn't touch on Matviychuk, or merely mentions him indirectly. We'll explain why a little later. He also humiliated candidates in other polling stations, like Kivalov, Rondin, Chekita, and Gofman. We'll also discuss Khrabro separately, the lies it posts, and Vadik Cherny's shifting political views. As for the relationship between Eduard Matviychuk and Vadik Cherny, we don't need words or evidence at all; just look at these links.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_Y44tccPV4 и https://timer.od.ua/news/vadim_cherniy_prosit_zaschiti_u_gubernatora_foto_253.html .

This concerns the events of October 2013, surrounding the scandalous arrest of MP Ihor Markov in Odesa. When members of the Rodina party went to Governor Matviychuk for an explanation and questions about why the Markovs were being paid, journalists and television cameras caught our hero, Vadik Cherny, red-handed in Matviychuk's reception room. Then, Oleg Markov publicly and eloquently explained what Cherny was doing for Matviychuk. Cherny was simply leaking all the information about the city to Matviychuk, and Matviychuk, in return, enjoyed the dirty laundry, guaranteed Cherny the inviolability of his parking lot on Grecheskaya Square, and promised to hinder all attempts by the Odesa City Council to stop this construction madness. Vadik Cherny is still doing this today.

Cherny is undermining all the parliamentary candidates in the 133rd electoral district, except for his new patron, Matviychuk. Now, having summarized the situation, we want to clarify the situation regarding Cherny's refusal to run for the Central Election Commission. Cherny simply couldn't clarify his residency status in Ukraine, since in addition to Israeli citizenship (but who doesn't have that in Odesa?) and US citizenship, he also holds a Russian passport, a copy of which we attached to this article. And this is happening at a time when Russia is pressuring Ukraine.

Perhaps the Prosecutor General's Office and the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) should take an interest in Vadik Cherny's frequent visits to Moscow. He's clearly not hiding there, allegedly from assassination attempts, but rather carrying out specific directives to destabilize the socio-political situation in Odesa. By digging a hole and defiling Grecheskaya Square, Cherny is also digging a hole and defiling our city. To be continued.

Yura Dolgoruky, The country's elite

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