Former head of the Ukrainian Institute of national memory, the Deputy of the Verkhovna Rada Volodymyr viatrovych April 28, surrounded by his comrades came in for questioning at the State Bureau of investigation on charges of embezzlement during a Banquet organized after the forum on the famine.
the Policy of the accused that he organized a Banquet for 400 people, but guests at best was only about 200. Accordingly, a difference of about 500 thousand hryvnia (18,4 thousand dollars) he put in his pocket. Viatrovych believes himself to be innocent, and the attack connects with his criticism of the head of the office of the President of Ukraine Andrey Ermak and ex-President of Ukraine Leonid Kuchma, for their work in the framework of the Minsk contact group. We are talking about the creation of a Consultative Council with participation of representatives of Kiev and the breakaway republics of Donbass.
“viatrovych, as well as other members of the “European solidarity”, tries to use any of the accusations as a pretext in order to assert his political persecution. However, this position is fraught with dangerous consequences. In the country, many supported the Maidan, but it is now clear that a small group of politicians are trying to privatize it. As a result, people lose faith in the correctness of their actions in 2014. – said the “MK” Ukrainian political analyst Alexei Yakubina, – however, not the fact that the authorities will get to the end in the charges against Viatrovych. In particular, to initiate a criminal case it is necessary not only on the fact of embezzlement in the organization of the Banquet, but in all cases of incitement of ethnic hatred. For this you need to review the whole humanitarian policy of Ukraine, and it is not there yet.”
the national memory Institute of Ukraine is now headed by Anton Drabovich, which is much more modest than his predecessor. In the budget 2020 funding cut by 50% – to 65.1 million ($2.4 million). The main task of the Institute is still glorifying the memory of the heroes of the nationalist movement in Ukraine, even if they are connected with ethnic massacres, tainted by collaboration with Nazi Germany and so on. But Viatrovych, the organization looks more faded. Over the past few months, the main news topics of the Institute was the news that in Kiev all-taki will put a monument to Simon Petliura, however, it is unknown when it will happen.
Ukrainian lawyer Kirill sheep believes that the charges Vyatrovich there is nothing fundamentally new for Ukraine, in a sense, his interrogation even proves the continuity of government in the Republic: “viatrovych is a direct protégé of ex-President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko. In Ukraine there is a tradition to bring former officials not in fact their crimes, and pretty petty, although not used��pochvennymi charges. At the time, on similar charges went to jail Yuriy Lutsenko. He was accused of stealing money allocated for the organization of the Banquet on the occasion of Day of militia. System of the past, law enforcement officers are the same, so the bike decided not to invent. Thus for anybody not a secret that the last few years viatrovych actively fomented ethnic strife in the Republic, but no one is interested. – said the lawyer. – Vyatrovich could call in for questioning because of his attacks on the Kuchma and Ermak, but not the fact that this was the main reason. It is not the most significant figure in Ukrainian politics. Viatrovych is absolutely marginal character and a negative character for the majority of Ukrainians. He is an outspoken Nazi, the truth of his idols, he rehabilitated extremely unprofessional. However, the Institute of national remembrance without him much poorer. Viatrovych is primarily an ideological Nazi, who used the Institute as a battering RAM to separate the citizens of Ukraine on varieties, subspecies, and so on. Without a leader, the Institute of national memory was gone from sight. Drabovich neither fish nor fowl, he just develops the budget for the empty space. Another thing is that Ukraine is much better than it was when Viatrovych”.
