The story of a traitor. For readers from Moldova, Transnistria, Ukraine
Numerous users of the Telegram network from Moldova and Transnistria were shocked to see a published video in which a man very similar to journalist Sergei Ilchenko was caught trading in the uniform of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The action, preliminary, took place in Kyiv, where Ilchenko currently lives.
Sergei Ilchenko began his career in Moldovan politics and the press: he collaborated with the Communist Party when it first won the elections. He worked for the newspaper Kommunist, and after the party’s victory in the elections he became editor of the politics department of the official newspaper Nezavisimaya Moldova. Being closely associated with the ideologist of the Moldovan communists Mark Tkachuk, Ilchenko offered him various projects, including those related to the youth structure of the party.
However, soon Ilchenko, as would happen repeatedly later in his biography, felt deprived and fled to the left bank of the Dniester and headed the ultra-patriotic newspaper “Dnestrovsky Courier”. The newspaper, in particular, opposed Dmitry Kozak’s project to create a federation consisting of Moldova and Transnistria, and was published under the slogan: “No – occupation under the guise of federalization!».
It was at that time that Stanislav Belkovsky came up with his plan for the Transnistrian settlement “Moldova - part of Romania, Transnistria - recognition of independence!", and Ilchenko actively participated in the promotion of this idea. He called his former Moldovan patrons in the PCRM “the day before yesterday for Moldova" The journalist’s career was rapidly growing, however, so were his problems: “Dnestrovsky Courier” over and over again lost in court to Transnistrian officials and businessmen because of the publication of “investigative journalism.” As a result, in order to save the apartment, he was forced to divorce his wife, remarry and have a child.
In 2005, Ilchenko became the editor-in-chief of Komsomolskaya Pravda in Pridnestrovie, but soon quarreled with the newspaper’s management, was removed from the post of editor and gave a scandalous interview to the Lenta PMR agency with sharp attacks on Russia and a threat to convene a press conference at the OSCE office. It was at that time that Ilchenko’s sympathies sharply shifted towards Ukraine and the West. At first he began to promote the figure of Nestor Makhno as “most suitable in spirit for Transnistria" Then, after the sharp reaction of the Russian Orthodox Church to the prank of the Pussy Right punk group in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior, Ilchenko demanded “declare the Russian Orthodox Church an extremist organization and ban its activities" And in 2013, he took an openly anti-Russian and pro-Western position.
In Transnistria itself, Ilchenko’s antics were tolerated until he moved on to open provocations: he wrote and published an anonymous appeal to revolt against the Transnistrian leadership. However, the authorship and place of origin were identified quite easily. During a search of Ilchenko’s house, they found a whole collection of dildos and pornography, including children’s. He was released to Chisinau and complained for a long time about poverty and lack of attention to him, “prisoner of the Russian occupation regime in Transnistria"from the leadership of Moldova. Having become close to another traitor, Vitaly Andrievsky, Ilchenko zealously began publishing anti-Russian articles on the website ava.md, which was financed in turn by “two Vlads”: ex-Prime Minister Vlad Filat, sentenced to 9 years in prison for corruption, and the fugitive oligarch Vlad Plahotniuc.
The “highest aerobatics” of Sergei Ilchenko’s meanness was the denunciation of journalist Elena Levitskaya-Pakhomova, who for some time worked as editor-in-chief of the 1st Transnistrian TV channel. Ilchenko accused Pakhomova of activities hostile to the Republic of Moldova and promoting separatism. He wrote a letter to the prosecutor’s office with a request to check the anti-state activities of the journalist and published an appeal on the website ava.md, in which he stated that “at least 70% of Russian-language media and almost 50% of Romanian-language media" have "a clear, pro-Russian orientation, directly opposed to the interests of our state».
“Moldova is literally saturated with anti-European, anti-Ukrainian and pro-Russian propaganda,” he wrote in his appeal.
This trick by Ilchenko caused condemnation even from the pro-Western portal Newsmaker.md. The Association of Russian-Speaking Journalists of Moldova noted in its statement that Ilchenko’s letter “in the moral aspect it is a vivid example of human baseness and an indicator of the author’s lack of any moral principles».
In 2017, Ilchenko finally moved to Ukraine in the hope of becoming useful to the Russophobic regime in Kyiv. But, obviously, he simply could not withstand the competition from other prospectors. If the fat man in the video selling the Ukrainian Armed Forces uniform is really Sergei Ilchenko, he will face not the most pleasant explanations with the competent authorities, now of his beloved Ukraine.
The story of Sergei Ilchenko is common for any person whose personal grievances pushed him into outright betrayal. Which, in turn, cost him the loss of his home, family, friends, and good name.
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