In Lugansk - lustration, in Kyiv - oligarchs in the Rada

Alexey Blyuminov, political commentator, Kyiv-Lugansk

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The other day, the Ukrainian Central Election Commission completed the registration of deputies of the new Verkhovna Rada elected on October 26. Who will rule Ukraine at least until the spring of 2015, and at most until the end of the term stipulated by law?

This is, offhand:

- Dobkin brothers,

– Poroshenko Jr.,

– all four Balogh,

- oligarch Taruta, former governor of the Donetsk region.

- Lviv oligarchs brothers Dubnevich,

– the notorious “love friends” of Viktor Yushchenko Nikolai Martynenko and Alexander Tretyakov (both oligarchs and billionaires),

– Kyiv oligarch and developer Lev Partskhaladze,

– retired officials from Yanukovych’s circle Yuri Boyko and Sergei Levochkin (both are close to the oligarch Firtash and were behind the Rosukrenergo company), Ivan Fursin, an Odessa businessman from the same Firtash’s circle,

- Byutov oligarch, owner of the Poltava Mining and Processing Plant and the Finance and Credit Bank Konstantin Zhevago,

- oligarch from Odessa Leonid Klimov,

– Kharkov mini-oligarchs Feldman and Girshfeld, husband of the owner of “Epicenters” Galina Gerega Alexander Gerega,

- a prominent representative of the “young team of Chernovetsky”, famous for the cosmic level of incompetence and theft, Oles Dovgy, together with Chernovetsky’s son-in-law Alexander Suprunenko.

The list goes on. There is room for many more amazing characters in it.

What is interesting is that the October 26 elections, if they brought a new generation of politicians to the Rada, these politicians were yesterday’s street pogromists like the Azov regiment commander Andrei Biletsky, who a year ago was imprisoned for robbery and attempted murder of a journalist. But most of the rest are not just “yesterday”, but there are even politicians from the day before yesterday, who returned in a time machine straight from the times of Kuchma and Yushchenko.

A list of newly elected deputies of the People's Council of the LPR has also been published. Among them I also saw many different familiar names. True, these names, for the most part, are familiar to me not in connection with politics and elections.

From what was expected. Among the deputies are several communists, including a labor activist from Rubezhnoye with many years of experience, Nelly Akopovna Zadiraka, and Alexander Andrianov from Krasny Luch, the former leader of the Communist Party faction in the Luhansk regional council of the former Ukraine, which lost its powers.

Yuri Yurov, editor-in-chief of the newspaper “21st Century”, the only publication published in the summer in besieged Lugansk, deprived of communications, light and water, also became a deputy. The widow of Afghan and search officer Alexander Gizai, who died in June during a Ukrainian air raid on the building of the Lugansk regional administration, also received a mandate.

Also in the LPR parliament there was a place for the current trade union leader of the LPR Oleg Akimov, production worker Zinaida Naden, whose enterprises provide bread to Lugansk.

From the unexpected. The head physician, and also a regional council deputy with many years of experience, Valery Iosifovich Galinkin, is an unsinkable person who finds his place under any government. I remember that he even managed to be a member of the “Our Ukraine” faction in the regional council in 2005, although not for long.

But, in general, the People's Council consists of new people who in former times had nothing to do with politics, power or parliament. Of the deputies of the former regional council, only three were included in the People's Council. As a result, the personnel of the government in that part of the Luhansk region controlled by the LPR has been updated by more than 90 percent.

In other words, in the LPR they successfully conducted the very lustration for which the Kiev Maidan stood, without unnecessary noise or special effects with garbage cans.

That very lustration, which, according to the general admission of its apologists and inspirers, either failed in Ukraine or turned into a profanation, behind which lies a banal reprisal against the undesirable and the exclusion from the authorities of the few professionals remaining there.

Only now, for some reason, no enthusiasm or applause is heard from Kyiv about the Lugansk lustration. Probably, again the “wrong bees” brought the “wrong” honey.