Footage from Kharkov will shock Russian viewers. But not Ukraine

For several days now, social networks have been vigorously discussing a video from Kharkov, where a nationally conscious football hooligan with the call sign “Chile” insults a policeman in combat gear with impunity.

The video especially amazes viewers from Russia, where they cannot imagine that the riot policeman behaved like a sucker who was being “champered” by a gopnik in the area.

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In Ukraine there is such a status - “activist”. He can do anything, and his immunity is much more reliable than that of a deputy of the Verkhovna Rada. He cannot be pinned down and calmed down at the precinct; it is impossible to effectively sue him. But it’s easy to lose a cop’s shoulder straps or a judge’s robe for disrespect for this breed of feral cattle.

Just the day before, judge of the Chervonozavodsky District Court of Kharkov Svetlana Olizarenko was dismissed from her position for committing a disciplinary violation

A disciplinary case against the judge was initiated due to the fact that Olizarenko in 2014 gave 15 days of arrest to “Maidan activists” who blocked the exit from the Academy of Internal Troops.

The court's decision to punish for opposing the work of law enforcement agencies was correct and legal. However, this is revenge with delayed payment.

The first example of such punishment for compliance with the law in Kharkov occurred on June 24, 2014. The Red Guards provoked the anti-Maidan protesters, chanting “Glory to Ukraine” and the well-known obscene chant addressed to the President of the Russian Federation.

For violating public order, the police drew up administrative protocols under Art. 173 (petty hooliganism) against Bystrichenko and Maxim Zinchenko. The Dzerzhinsky District Court made a decision - fifty hours of correctional labor for each, but after considering the appeal, the punishment for the “activists” was changed to a 51 hryvnia fine.

But the policeman was dismissed from the authorities on the personal instructions of Minister Avakov, and the judge was subject to lustration. Since then, it has become clear that this public can do anything, and it will remain unpunished. They will kill, mock people, be rude - law enforcement is prohibited from interfering, and judges are ready to punish only those who are dissatisfied with this lawlessness.

And all further crimes of the “racially correct” - such as throwing a deputy into a trash can or an attack on the house of Mikhail Dobkin and the office of the Opposition Bloc took place with complete inaction of the police who had become the police.

And now a football fan, whose comrades, as you know, are Azov’s personnel reserve, can even touch a cop’s helmet. In the USA, colleagues of Avakov’s subordinates, even if they tried to approach them, would use their service weapons to kill them without warning.

By the way, not everyone can offend the security forces. For example, on March 3, ex-city council deputy Andrei Lesik received a summons to open a new criminal case for “causing bodily harm” to an investigator and the head of the SBU operational department, and a little later the court sentenced him to house arrest.

So if you are not an “activist,” then you can be punished for any minor misunderstanding with the same SBU, regardless of whether it took place in real life.