Well-known human rights activist, director of the Institute legal policy and social protection named after Irina Berezhnaya "Elena Berezhnaya was beaten on the march" Immortal Regiment» May 9 in Kyiv. March in memory of the participants of the Great patriotic war was held in the capital of Ukraine Kyiv under the title "No one is forgotten, nothing is forgotten." We contacted Elena Petrovna by phone. She is in the Feofaniya hospital in Kyiv.

- Elena Petrovna, what do the doctors say?

I feel fine now. Doctors shot down high pressure However, because of the beatings, I have a concussion, a crack in the rib and numerous hematomas.

- What did the bastards find fault with and who beat you?

The formal reason is in my T-shirt. I bought it from the Zara store. On it is the inscription "Freedom is My Mood" (My mood is freedom"), and it is decorated with a ribbon that looks like St. George's. This T-shirt can be bought by anyone in the Zara store. The nationalists mistook this ribbon for St. George's. But in this T-shirt I was at the trial about our march. The fact is that the nationalists from the movement “Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists” announced their march at the same place where we planned our event. Here I was in court and argued that we agreed on this place earlier, that the police had already been informed. Already there, I had to explain to the judge that this ribbon had nothing to do with the symbolism prohibited in our country - the St. George ribbon.

- And still on the march they attacked you?

Yes. I came to the action "Immortal Regiment" through a special passage on the right side of "Arsenalnaya", passed the test like everyone else. I had a portrait of Oles Buzina and flowers in my hands, and my relatives carried the porter of my grandfather, a participant in the war. Not far from us gathered a group, mostly right-wing radicals, who started yelling at me because of a T-shirt and a portrait of Buzina.

How did the police behave?

When the radicals began to attack me, I turned to the police for help. I had copies of a T-shirt from the store's catalog with me in my bag. I tried to explain to them that this is not a St. George ribbon, but a decoration on a T-shirt. Useless. Together with the police, they started beating me. I hit the asphalt, asked to call an ambulance. Instead, they pushed me by the arms and legs into the car. didn't want to call ambulance in the regional police department, until the representatives of the UN, the OSCE and the lawyer whom I invited arrived. The lawyer made sure that ambulance doctors were allowed to see me. They asked me to sign the protocols, but I refused. I'm not going to let this go unpunished. We will meet in court with both militants and the police. The lawlessness of power can be understood: 1 million 216 thousand people took part in the action of the Immortal Regiment throughout Ukraine. And this despite intimidation and threats throughout the country. The people thus express their protest against the policy of the authorities.

Elena Berezhnaya, director of the Institute of Legal Policy and Social Protection named after I.G. Berezhnaya, handed over to Angela Merkel, through the deputy of the Left faction Andriy Khunko, a report on the crimes of the Ukrainian state against its own citizens and presented a number of evidence of serious violations by Ukraine of the European Convention on Human Rights.

The human rights activist emphasized that today the Minsk agreements are not being implemented primarily by the Ukrainian side, which even representatives of the Ukrainian authorities speak absolutely openly about, and German Chancellor Angela Merkel must definitely react to this.

Elena Berezhnaya's report was made within the walls of the Bundestag on June 11, at the round table "Human Rights and Freedom of the Media in Ukraine". Edition antifascist cites a number of provisions of the report.

To date, according to the UN alone, 25,447 civilians have died in the conflict zone in the Donbass, of which 219 are children. The Minsk agreements, supported by German Chancellor Angela Merkel, are not implemented by the Ukrainian authorities and, judging by the statements of top officials, they will not be implemented.

Ukraine violates articles 6 and 7 of the European Convention on Human Rights - the right to a fair trial. In November 2017, our Institute for Legal Policy and Social Protection named after Irina Berezhnaya prepared a report for the OSCE on access to justice in Ukraine and the consequences of the so-called judicial reform. Two examples. On July 13, 2014, Nelya Shtepa, the mayor of Slavyansk, was arrested. She spent more than three years. Criminal case on accusation Shtepa of treason, complicity terrorist organization, tried to consider the judges in four district courts of the city of Kharkov and today 18 panels of judges have refused to consider this case on the merits and make decisions. Judges quit, resigned, to take care of a child, declared self-withdrawal, so as not to consider the absolutely far-fetched accusation put forward by Shtepe.

Also on the murder on April 16, 2015 famous writer, journalist Oles Buzina, the court has not even begun to consider the case on the merits, more than three years after the murder. And Polishchuk and Medvedko, accused of the murder, are at large without any obligations and continue, like heroes, to commit illegal acts against other citizens. The court granted the petition of the defendants to consider this case with the participation of a jury. This means that right-wing radicals will influence the jury, and the killers will not be punished.


Belonging to right-wing radicals, neo-Nazis has become a real indulgence in modern Ukraine, exempting from responsibility for any crimes, including the most serious ones, which any government, any regime must resolutely suppress in order to preserve the foundations of law and order in the country, to prevent it from sliding into chaos and anarchy. The Ukrainian authorities defiantly state level support neo-Nazis.

It should be noted that the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine has created fertile ground for the flowering of nationalist and fascist convictions of citizens. Thus, the deputies legally recognized the fighters of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army and the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists as fighters for independence, that is, heroes. In the minds of Ukrainians, the authorities, together with right-wing radicals, are imposing the concept of national identity, which is inextricably linked with the heroes - accomplices of the Third Reich, which led to systemic manifestations of anti-Semitism, Russophobia, xenophobia, and Polekophobia.

In addition, the authorities oblige to propagate the national-radical ideology in preschool and school institutions.

Also, representatives of volunteer battalions are actively engaged in patriotic education of children, which gives rise to interethnic hatred in society. One notable incident happened recently. The leader of the Odessa neo-Nazis Sternenko repeatedly got into various criminal stories. After another conflict with the police, the pledge for him was personally made by the governor of the Odessa region Maxim Stepanov, that is, the representative of the president in the region. And soon a neo-Nazi under investigation killed a man.

However, a criminal case has not even been initiated against Sternenko, the issue of choosing a measure of restraint for him has not been raised. He, on the contrary, as a hero, gives numerous interviews to the media sympathizing with him, which are full of statements by prominent politicians and public figures, the so-called democratic orientation in his support, even though he killed an ATO participant.

For example, the neo-Nazi Volunteer Battalion "Azov" was transformed into a regiment special purpose Ministry of Internal Affairs "Azov", the elite best-equipped unit, whose units are located in key regions of Ukraine and by no means only in the conflict zone in the southeast. Its official symbol is the so-called "Wolf Hook", a well-known symbol that initially served as the emblem of the NSDAP, and later was chosen as the emblem of the SS division "Das Reich". This symbolism is used by this battalion at the state level, as it is officially approved by the Ministry of the Interior.

And another most odious neo-Nazi group C14, which is recognized as a terrorist group by an international organization, recently received the status of a public formation in the Kiev City Council to maintain public order to help the police in one of the districts of Kiev. That is, these Nazis are also kept for the taxes of the people of Kiev.

Also in Western Ukraine, events are regularly held at the state level in honor of the Ukrainian collaborators who served the Nazis, in particular, the 14th SS division "Galicia", the reburial of the Nazi invaders, participants in the Second World War. In this case, the reburial is carried out by persons dressed in the uniform of the Third Reich.

Today, Ukrainian neo-Nazis, together with government agencies, are inciting ethnic hatred, imposing on society members of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army, such as Bandera, Shukhevych and others who collaborated with Nazi Germany, as heroes. In almost all cities of Ukraine, streets and avenues have been renamed in honor of the above-mentioned “heroes”. For disagreement with this ideology, on the part of the authorities - cruel reprisals, accusations of working for the Kremlin. That is, the meaning of the current government's policy towards right-wing radicals and outright neo-Nazis is clearly visible - they are needed as a means of suppressing any dissent, intimidating those who are not satisfied with what is happening in the country. Right-wing radicals are great for "delicate" things that the official authorities seem to be unable to do - disrupt this or that event, organize individual pressure and intimidation of opposition activists.

This happened on May 9, 2018, when during the procession dedicated to Victory Day, I was surrounded by about a dozen militants with Nazi symbols. These thugs began to threaten me, tried to tear out the portrait of the murdered Oles Buzina, to tear off the T-shirt that I was wearing.

As a result, I was hospitalized by an ambulance, and I spent two weeks on inpatient treatment in the hospital, and the police drew up a report on the alleged use of prohibited symbols - the St. George ribbon. Although I was wearing a Zara T-shirt that had a women's jewelry designed by the company.

A similar situation was on June 1 this year, on International Children's Day, when, in the presence of police officers practically in their own apartment, right-wing radicals from Azov doused me with brilliant green with only one goal - to prevent the showing of a charity performance for children "Cinderella" and not to hold an action " Stop war! Ukraine Needs Peace”, where children released balloons with the slogan “We are for peace”.

Over the past four years, neo-Nazism has become an ideology in my country and is actually destroying it. However, almost all EU states do not notice the transformation of the always peaceful Ukraine into a neo-Nazi state. There is no reaction from the deputies of the parliaments of the EU countries, as well as the European Parliament.

Elena Berezhnaya noted that because of her work to protect human rights in Ukraine, she constantly receives threats against her. “I was recently told so - you will not live until August. Therefore, I want you to know about this, ”Berezhnaya said in the Bundestag.

The report of Elena Berezhnaya caused a heated discussion and, in particular, there was an opinion that these facts really reach the German authorities and the public, but the German media often present it as “Russian propaganda”.

“If even one of the cases cited here happened in Russia, the whole world, all the German media, would express their indignation. But everyone is silent. Therefore, I believe that we, the Germans, are also guilty of allowing such egregious violations of human rights in Ukraine and not raising these issues, ”ex-deputy of the Bundestag Elena Hofman expressed her opinion.

Contributed by Ruslan Kotsaba

"Stop War! Ukraine needs Peace!” : the mother of Irina Berezhnaya, drenched in brilliant green, said, despite the threats of the radicals to send her to that world, the details of the abuse of the radicals against the human rights activist became known.

Director of the Ukrainian Institute of Legal and Social Policy Elena Berezhnaya, the mother of the deceased ex-deputy from the Party of Regions Irina Berezhnaya was again subjected to bullying by the current regime in Kiev. And all because on Children's Day she called on all Ukrainians who understand what is really happening in Donbass to go to a peaceful action in Kiev “Stop the War! Ukraine needs Peace!” .

The radicals, recognizing the woman's intentions, decided to rip them off. So, it became known that unknown people, who introduced themselves as “patriots of Ukraine”, on June 1 in the morning blocked the door to their apartment. Berezhnaya called the police. When she opened the door at the request of the law enforcers, the radicals doused her face and part of the apartment with green paint.

“Today at ten minutes to seven in the morning, eight scumbags started blocking my apartment, knocking. Neighbors came out and began to find out what had happened. Naturally, I did not open the door. The attackers called themselves patriots of Ukraine. They said that they would send me to where my daughter is, and, in general, I have a few days left. I just opened the door to talk to the policemen, in the presence of a police officer, I was completely doused with brilliant green. I tried to close the door, and they flooded part of the apartment. This policeman turned around and left,” the woman said.

According to the woman, she intends to tell what happened in international organizations, as well as to raise the issue of the dismissal of the Minister of Internal Affairs Arsen Avakov and the head of the SBU Vasily Hrytsak from their positions.

As Irina noted live on the 60 minutes program, she is sure that this operation was planned by the SBU of Ukraine.

« Arrived investigative-operational group. They examined everything, took a sample of brilliant green. But the fact is that this is pure conspiracy. They want us to be unable to protest today. But the action will be carried out anyway, because such provocations cannot stop me and intimidate me. Our valiant police perfectly saw all these people who attacked me, and did nothing. On the contrary, the police talked, smoked together. It is clear that this is all planned by the SBU, that the police and these scumbags are in collusion. I raise all international organizations therefore to the fact, ”said Berezhnaya.

The networks are sounding the alarm about what happened. Here is what human rights activist Galina Zaporozhtseva wrote about this: Ukrainian news full of messages from the Ukrainian media complex message, allegedly a pro-Kremlin action on the International Children's Day, which was announced by Elena Berezhnaya on behalf of the women of Ukraine. The reason for believing that this was a pro-Kremlin action was that I told it in the program “Time will show” on the first Russian channel. The Kyiv authorities were so frightened of this action that they immediately turned on their Goebel hate propaganda machine, the result of which was today's neo-Nazi attack on Elena Berezhnaya.

More recently, she was surrounded by the attention of the richest and most influential men in Ukraine, and she herself was not the last man in business and politics. But the fate of the villain is changeable, and now Irina Berezhnaya has only her past left, which she is trying to somehow adapt to the current reality and have time to lay the foundation for a new future for herself. Replacing the deadly power of the neckline with the intransigence of an opposition politician, she is trying to at least return what she has lost ...

The apple tree that gave birth to the golden apple

If you read her official biography, then before SKELET-info appears an incredible child prodigy with a meteoric career as a legal genius. However, as you know, the secret of the success of most Ukrainian "golden" boys and girls are family and other ties. Here, in this case, you can find out that Irina Grigoryevna Chernilo was born on August 13, 1980 in Lugansk, in the family of lawyer Elena Petrovna Berezhnaya. It was only later, while studying at the university, that she renounced the unsightly surname of her long-disappeared father, taking the surname of her mother, who had long since become famous throughout Luhansk for her numerous scandals. Mom, which deserves a separate detailed consideration, so that you can understand from which apple tree the golden apple of Irina Berezhnaya was born.

Scandals are an integral part of the life and work of Elena Petrovna. Its official business, at least until 2014, was to provide consulting and legal services"for questions commercial activities and management". To do this, she once created a small joint venture "Olit" (EDRPOU code 19084732), where only two full-time employees work: Elena Petrovna herself and accountant Charkovskaya E.V. Why is the law office registered as a joint venture, that is, with foreign capital? It's very simple: in this way she could provide "consultations" on a much larger scale, including on issues of foreign economic activity.

But in the 90s, the main direction of its work was privatization, for which the joint venture "Olit" even received the appropriate license from the State Property Fund. Elena Petrovna herself did not privatize the enterprises, but helped others to do it: she started with stores (JSC "Lugansky trading house", JSC "Sports Goods"), then took up large manufacturing enterprises(Krasnodon plant "Avtoagregat", PJSC "Agrostroy"). Her, so to speak, "chip" was the following system: with the help of the director, state enterprise a joint-stock company was created, which took a store or a factory for rent, then the joint-stock company "redeemed" the enterprise and stopped its owner. In addition, Elena Berezhnaya took the created JSCs under her “legal roof”, and in many cases her services were really required, because after some time these enterprises tried to be captured by raiders. And, lo and behold, she managed to repel these raider attacks - for which the owners of the joint-stock company were extremely grateful to her (in the agreed amount of the fee). It was only in Luhansk that it was rumored that Elena Petrovna, perhaps, herself arranged (more precisely, imitated) these “raider raids”.

With the beginning of the new century, the vocation of Elena Petrovna was opened - a "public human rights activist" and a political activist, in whose capacity she now and then gets involved in various high-profile stories. When another squabble over the chair unfolded in Luhansk or there was a "squeezing out" of large real estate by structures associated with some political force, she was right there - protecting the interests of one of the parties. Such activities are associated with a certain risk for people who do not have their own security and armored limousines, however, Elena Petrovna has successfully used state protection for many years - moreover, at public expense. It all started with the fact that in 2000, Elena Berezhnaya, according to her statements to the police, was attacked by hooligans twice. On the basis of which, having found the relevant clause in the law, Elena Petrovna demanded the services of the state security service "Griffin" - guarding her body from 8.00 to 24.00, including the provision of state-owned vehicles and a driver. At the same time, as eyewitnesses said, once Elena Petrovna loudly resented the insufficiently prestigious model of the car provided to her, publicly (at the railway station in Lugansk) chastised the employees of the Griffin. But the most striking thing is that Elena Berezhnaya used state security services (free of charge), at least until 2012! At first, she dragged out the case of hooligan attacks (the trial took place only in 2006). Then, under the pretext of distrusting the Luhansk investigators, who no longer saw a threat to the health and life of Elena Berezhnaya, she insisted on transferring the case to the Investigation Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the Kharkov region. Deputy Chief Lieutenant Colonel Verigin gave her all possible support, sending resolutions to Lugansk on the need to continue providing Berezhnaya state guard. And soon the case of hooliganism smoothly flowed into a new case of threats to Elena Berezhnaya in connection with her professional activity, and then goes into the category of "hanging" - while the order to grant protection has become almost unlimited. In general, Elena Petrovna managed to use the Luhansk "Gryphon" for 11 years (at least) as her personal bodyguards and drivers, which cost the state more than 1.2 million hryvnias (at the rate of 300 hryvnias per day).

A new stage in the turbulent social and political life of Elena Berezhnaya was associated with Yuri Karmazin. Their relationship has become close since at least 2002, when Elena Petrovna attached her daughter Irina to him as an assistant as people's deputy. However, U SKELET-info exists and alternative version: that it was the pretty graduate of the law faculty Irina Berezhnaya, who was attached to Yuri Karmazin in Kyiv, who brought him together with her mother. Whatever it was, but in 2002 Elena Petrovna joined the previously created by Karmazin "Party of Defenders of the Fatherland" (PZO), from where in December 2005 the former chairman of the Luhansk organization of the PZO survived Elena Andreeva - who was a competitor of Elena Petrovna and in the field of business, because he owns his own law firm "Andreeva and Partners". Their direct conflict lasted from 2005 to 2013: the ladies fought over the rented office space of the Luhansk branch of the PZO, which, after leaving the party, Andreeva, before her departure, re-registered it as her own company. civil husband"Arefev and K", then privatized and placed the office of her company there. Elena Petrovna immediately filed lawsuits against her - and a long legal epic began, which was not limited to paperwork. In November 2010, Elena Berezhnaya's man inflicted Andreeva with injuries that led to surgery. On June 10, 2011, a meeting of two rivals in the Andreeva & Partners office ended with Elena Berezhnaya... biting Elena Andreeva! At the same time, she threatened the policemen who stopped her with heavenly punishments from Deputy Karmazin and Prosecutor General Viktor Pshonka ( ). Perhaps that is why the police refused to open a criminal case on this incident at the request of Elena Andreeva.


Continuing the war with Andreeva, in September 2011, Elena Berezhnaya met for a kind conversation (according to her own words) with the prosecutor Lugansk region Mykola Beskishkiy is one of the people of Pshonka, who in 2012 was appointed the prosecutor of Kyiv, and on February 24, 2014, he was dismissed from the ranks of the prosecutor's office for "crimes against the Maidan." In the course of that fruitful communication, the “fighter against corruption,” as Yelen Petrovna styled herself, received from Beskishkiy a decision to evict Andreeva’s law firm by police officers. It came to a fight, during which Andreeva again received bodily injuries.

Not tired of pursuing her enemies for years, Elena Petrovna in just a few months dealt with Alexei Danilov, appointed in 2005 as chairman of the Luhansk Regional State Administration. Back in 2004, they worked in the same team: Danilov headed the regional headquarters of Viktor Yushchenko, and Elena Petrovna provided legal support to this headquarters. But already at the beginning of 2005, during the division of posts, the "Party of Defenders of the Fatherland" was left with nothing in both Kyiv and Lugansk. And then Elena Berezhnaya started a war against Alexei Danilov, which ended in a few months with his dismissal. It was said that it was Elena Petrovna who got hold of the old photos of the 90s, in which Danilov was captured in a friendly company with Valery Dobroslavsky, the “Lugansk beholder” (who was killed in 1997). When they were handed over to President Yushchenko and “explained” who was depicted on them, he immediately removed Danilov from his post. Interestingly, the removal of Danilov was associated with the struggle that unfolded in 2005 around Severodonetsk Azot. Danilov advocated a review of his hasty privatization and the return of the enterprise to the state, which was opposed by local "industrialists and entrepreneurs" of the Lugansk region and the new Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council Anatoly Kinakh.

During this conflict, Elena Berezhnaya showed her extremely aggressive attitude towards any incriminating media publications addressed to her. So, in 2005, she showed up at the office of the Lugansk newspaper Rakurs-plus: she accused the editorial office of selling out to Alexei Danilov, and threatened that she and her party boss Yuri Karmazin would “swamp the newspaper like a fly.” And in 2013, she sued the Tarasova Pravda website for publishing the article “How it all began. Under the guise of defenders of the fatherland ”- according to the statement of Elena Berezhnaya, discrediting her honor and business reputation with Karmazin.

The events of 2014 in Luhansk forced Elena Petrova to leave the city, as a result of which she lost almost everything: her job, her vip status, and connections she had developed over the years. Having moved to Kyiv, she was actually left without work and income, and could hang on to the maintenance of her daughter Irina (more precisely, Irina's sponsors), but she soon found herself a new occupation. Although the "Party of Defenders of the Fatherland" refers to the "pro-orange" political forces, Elena Petrovna radically changes her image and becomes a zealous defender of the inhabitants of Lugansk and Donetsk. In fact, according to skeleton info, she chose the position of a “third party” in the unfolding conflict, but she constantly blamed only the Ukrainian security forces and the Kyiv authorities for the suffering of the population of Donbass. This could be mistaken for the personal opinion of the human rights activist, if Elena Petrovna in her interviews would not simply start pouring out quotes from the propaganda of the separatists.

In December 2014, with the help of her daughter Irina Berezhnaya, Elena Petrovna registered the Institute for Legal Policy and Social Protection. She became its director, and Irina is listed as the head of the supervisory board, although she often uses her mother's director's "title" as her own. Then Elena Petrovna actively took up the registration of Ukrainian pensions for residents of the ORDILO territories and spoke out in defense of Ukrainian political prisoners (arrested under various articles for “support or connections with separatists”). At the beginning of 2015, she even tried to organize an action of “reconciliation between Ukraine and Donbass” in Kiev, but the “ATO veterans” (as they called themselves) who arrived at it in an aggressive and rude manner thwarted it. In the end, Elena Petrovna found herself a different audience - in Russia, becoming a guest of the Politics talk show on the Russian Channel One, where she speaks on behalf of "Ukrainians who did not accept Maidan"

Failures in her “peacekeeping” and “human rights” activities did not bother Elena Petrovna, as well as the fact that in Ukraine her speeches are rarely perceived positively. Every month she becomes even more “pro-Donbass”, but they say that Berezhnaya-mama’s true goal is to create an image for herself as a “protector of Luhansk residents from the junta” in order to be able to return to Luhansk and again do their usual business. However, Elena Petrovna claims that she has nowhere to return, since the Ukrainian army allegedly bombed her apartment and office - which is by no means true.

Tits in big politics

Now let's open the story of the apple itself, which in 1997 broke away from its apple tree and rolled off to Kyiv to enter the law faculty of the Kyiv national university named after Shevchenko. About her first two years of study official biography is silent, but in 1999 the student's career went up sharply. Firstly, Irina Chernilo, renamed Irina Berezhnaya, became a business woman: she opened her Scarab travel agency in Kyiv, of course, not with a scholarship, but with her mother's money. Secondly, which was much more "cool", Irina received an internship at State Commission for Securities and Stock Market (SSMSC) under the President of Ukraine (the commission controls all activities joint stock companies Ukraine). Far from all students of even metropolitan universities receive such a distribution, so here she was also assisted - most likely, all the same mother, through some kind of Kyiv connections.

In 2002, Irina Berezhnaya graduated from Kiev University, but she is in no hurry to return home to Lugansk, but goes to work at the state First Notary's Office of Kiev - also a very prestigious institution, which certifies very serious transactions in the capital's real estate and business. And then the above happened. an important event in the career and life of Irina Berezhnaya: she becomes an assistant consultant to the head of the subcommittee Verkhovna Rada on the issues of lawmaking and systematization of the legislation of Ukraine Yuriy Karmazin. How and when they met and how they became close remained unknown, but Irina Berezhnaya received much more from Karmazin than her mother, who remained in Lugansk. For two years, accompanying Karmazin in the Rada, in business meetings and trains, on various events, she acquired numerous useful acquaintances. As eyewitnesses who were present said, Irina Berezhnaya immediately attracted everyone's attention to herself with her cleavage and the ability to "shoot with her eyes." All these acquaintances were already beneficial because Irina invited politicians and businessmen to certify their transactions in her notary office. And yet, “boobs are boobs, but business is business”: VIP clients went to Irina Berezhnaya not so much to look at her neckline (you never know cute girls in Kiev!), but with the guarantees of her mentor Yuri Karmazin - known as an honored lawyer and a great dock in matters of real estate. Already in 2003-2004. Irina Berezhnaya's clients included Ukrsotsbank, VABank, and Mriya Bank. Big boobs of the deal - big fees, so in 2004 Irina Berezhnaya already works as deputy director of the commercial law firm Astraya-Service, and then receives a license from a private notary.

However, in 2005, the aforementioned conflict between Elena Berezhnaya and Elena Andreeva also broke out in Lugansk: as commented on it knowledgeable people, two Karmazinsky passions clashed for the right to be "his eldest wife" in the region. And although Elena Berezhnaya actually defeated her rival, her relationship with Karmazin also cooled somewhat after that. And in Kyiv, at that time, her daughter Irina Berezhnaya moved away from Karmazin. However, after the unsuccessful parliamentary elections of 2006, lost by Karmazin, she simply did not need him. And by that time, Irina had a new, more wealthy and influential patron.

Boris Fuksman is living legend shadow business, and not only Ukrainian ( read more about it in the article). He started in the 70s with fartsovka, was expelled from the USSR, was engaged in smuggling and buying stolen antiques on an international scale, in the 80s he was banned from entering the United States on charges of having links with the mafia and smuggling weapons, at one time he was even a person of non- grata in Ukraine. Once Fuksman "threw" even such a grated roll as Vadim Rabinovich ( read more about it in the article), for "kopecks" by buying out from him a share of the shares of the 1 + 1 TV channel! And since 2006, in the company of Fuchsman - what's there, walking with him by the arm, they noticed Irina Berezhnaya. At the same time, her neckline, as noted SKELET-info became even deeper and more voluminous.

From that moment on, “a simple metropolitan “vip-notary” moves to a new step in his career (and her mother’s position in Luhansk also strengthened). In 2007, Irina Berezhnaya suddenly received a doctorate in philosophy in the field of law - however, according to the Bologna system, which corresponds only to a PhD in the Ukrainian system. In the same year, viewers saw her on the 1 + 1 TV channel (still owned by Fuchsman) in the most popular show Dancing with the Stars: Irina Berezhnaya became the official notary of the TV project, appearing in front of the cameras in every episode, and counted the votes. In 2008, she became an honorary professor at the International Economic University of Vienna - this title can be acquired by every businessman there for a certain financial contribution to the development of the university. And in 2011, Irina Berezhnaya received the title of Honored Lawyer of Ukraine. However, by that time she herself could have forgotten about acquiring this regalia: after all, from 2007 to 2014, Irina Berezhnaya was a deputy of the Verkhovna Rada from the Party of Regions. In what, as the media wrote, Boris Fuksman also helped her - it was thanks to him that Irina became a “regional”, which was in great contrast to her mother’s political affiliation. However, Elena Petrovna not only did not object to this, but also very quickly established business relations with the "Donetsk".

And on July 5, 2009, Irina Berezhnaya gave birth to a girl, later named Daniella. Since Irina still does not have an official husband, and even a “civilian”, the question immediately arose about the paternity of the child. Most of the assumptions boiled down to the candidacy of Boris Fuksman, however, Irina Berezhnaya “retracted” all questions, thus not confirming or refuting these rumors. Interestingly, among other candidates, Nestor Shufrich was named ( read more about it in the article) who hit on Berezhnaya not only in the Rada - he introduced her to equestrian sports, which he himself has been fond of since his youth. The version of Shufrich's paternity disappeared when he became godfather Daniella.

In the field of her deputy, Irina Berezhnaya became famous mainly for numerous scandals. Firstly, she was accused more than once of “button-pressing”, then of handing over her voting card to her comrades-in-arms in the faction. Secondly, following in the footsteps of her mother, she showed a very hostile attitude towards freedom of speech. So, while working on single registry judgments, Irina Berezhnaya made the project so that access to the project was limited for wide use, so that the register itself would be the same for the whole of Ukraine (the option of separate registers of local courts was excluded), stored in one place and did not have duplicates on backup sites. At the same time, she lied that she was following the recommendations of the American expert Markus Zimmer, who then refuted her words. And in 2011, she advocated state control of online media in order to "combat slander and misinformation."

Many questions from journalists were raised by Irina Berezhnaya’s numerous deputy requests: in just one year of work in the Rada, she sent out of more than 30 (to the Prosecutor General’s Office, to ministries, to the president), and all but one defended the commercial interests of big business. Then the media wrote that for one such request, the deputy takes up to 20 thousand dollars or protects the interests of his sponsors. The journalist found that Irina Berezhnaya was doing both. In particular, with her requests, she took the side of VAB Bank, which was involved in the history of raider seizures of ZAO Kharkiv Enterprise for the Production of Immunobiological and Medical Preparations Biolik, Donetsk-based Sinbias Pharma LLC, OncoGenerics and the TochMash plant. At the same time, it turned out that the shareholder and member of the supervisory board of VAB Bank is ... Boris Fuksman! Irina Berezhnaya also tried to organize the reprivatization of the Kyiv Central Department Store, for which she organized the process of recognizing its privatization (which took place back in the early 90s) illegal. With her requests, she set the prosecutor's office, the SBU, various inspections on the Central Department Store - and all this was commissioned by the Ukrainian Media Group, owned by the same Boris Fuksman. And that's not all: Irina Berezhnaya also lobbied for mandatory dubbing of film distribution in Ukrainian - however, not in the interests of Russian-speaking viewers, but in the interests of Boris Fuksman, who is engaged in the rental business. Yes, who would have thought!

Chest - an indicator of the well-being and position of Irina Berezhnaya

According to the income statement, in 2011, Irina Berezhnaya earned "only" 249,624 hryvnias: deputy salary, 35 thousand deputy financial assistance, and a miserable 4,000 hryvnias from renting out her apartments - and she had declared 7 of them, plus a dacha with an area of ​​359 sq. meters and the only car Mercedes-BENZ ml350. With this blatant "poverty", Irina Berezhnaya showed up at the Rada with a Ralph Lauren handbag (about $ 17 thousand), a Vertu Monogram Constellation phone for 4,500 euros, and a gold watch "Hublot" (about $ 25 thousand). The source of such an expensive "outfit" costing two annual parliamentary salaries was not only generous gifts from the "sponsor". Although formally, since 2007, Irina Berezhnaya transferred the management of her business to "junior partners", she remained the owner of a number of firms: Irina Berezhnaya's Notary Office, Expert Group (real estate transactions), Academy of Sciences "Real Estate Legal Center", "Olimp" (consultations), "Big" (services in the market valuable papers), "Sports Goods" store, "Scarabey" travel company and "Peak Ukraine" online edition.

In the 2012 elections this rich lady ran in majoritarian constituency No. 169 in Kharkov - later they wrote that Fuchsman personally agreed on guarantees of her victory with Kharkov Mayor Gennady Kernes (read more about him in the article G) that connected its administrative and other resources. And she won the sympathy of voters by distributing beggarly food packages by May 9, the very sight of which offended Kharkiv veterans.

And when she was at the very peak of fame and luxury, having the image of "the main breast of the Verkhovna Rada" and "the most enviable bride Ukrainian politics"(Formally, after all, she was not married), 2014 unexpectedly brought Irina Berezhnaya a complete collapse, as well as for her mother. True, her house and offices did not end up in the ATO zone, however, with the collapse of the Party of Regions and the loss of the former influence of Boris Fuksman and other patrons of Berezhnaya, she was not even able to participate in the 2014 early parliamentary elections. Nevertheless, she did not leave politics, but registered the "Institute of Legal Policy and social assistance”, which became a support for the public political activities of the daughter and mother. In this regard, the former “regionalist” Irina Berezhnaya completely copies the “defender of the fatherland” Elena Berezhnaya, emphasizing the suffering of the Donbass from shelling and blockade by the Ukrainian security forces. But Irina has her own “trick”: as a representative of the younger generation of politicians, she loves to sit on Facebook, where, in addition to her comments on current events, she sometimes spreads panic rumors among her friends about “provocations of the Maidan authorities.”

Just like her mother, Irina Berezhnaya decided to choose a talk show on Russian television as a platform for her performances, preferring the Rossiya channel. However, in addition to this, she conducts her program “Your Right” on the Ukrainian radio station “Radio Era”.

Well, the fate of political kept women can be very capricious, because it depends very much on the position of their sponsors. That is why they always try to exchange bankrupts for new successful patrons as soon as possible. But when revolutions remove entire groups of elites from power, it happens that finding a new “daddy” and returning the former brilliance of life becomes very problematic, even if you diligently shake your charms. After all, the former aristocracy has fled into holes, and the new one has its own pretty favorites ...

Sergey Varis, for SKELET-info

PS dated 09/06/2017: revision SKELET-info condolences to all friends and relatives of Irina Berezhnaya.

Irina Berezhnaya: the story of how the main breast of the Verkhovna Rada grew and deflated updated: August 6, 2017 by: creator

In Kyiv, the mother of the deceased Irina Berezhnaya was detained by force - the woman was attacked by C14 radicals, then she was taken to the police and beaten there.

As previously reported, despite all the bans and threats, about two thousand people take part in the action "No one is forgotten, nothing is forgotten" in the center of Kyiv. There were no arrests. The Ukrainian police have already reported the detention of three armed men and two women who were carrying items with symbols banned in Ukraine.

As it turned out, one of these women was Elena Berezhnaya, the mother of the deceased ex-deputy from the "Party of Regions" Irina Berezhnaya. According to media reports, the reason for the detention was Berezhnaya's refusal to remove the St. George ribbon. During the detention, Elena Berezhnaya resisted, and law enforcement officers forced her into the patrol police car.

According to the police, the district police department is currently drawing up two administrative protocols against the woman, after which she will be released.

Before being detained by the police, the woman was holding a portrait of the murdered well-known journalist Oles Buzina. The portrait was inscribed - "Do not be afraid to be honest."

The woman herself was dressed in a dark jacket with the inscription "Freedom is My Mood" (Freedom is my mood), she had a St. George ribbon on her chest.

According to other sources:



The organizer of the "Immortal Regiment" in Kyiv was beaten by neo-Nazis and the police

The head of the Irina Berezhnaya Institute for Legal Policy and Social Protection, Elena Berezhnaya, said that in During her detention in the center of Kyiv, she was beaten by neo-Nazis from C14 and police officers.

She announced this in a comment to Newsone TV channel.

According to Berezhnaya, during the action in the center of Kiev, she was wearing a T-shirt with the inscription "Freedom is My Mood" (My mood is freedom), which uses a ribbon similar to St. George's.

It was on this tape that the neo-Nazis got excited. However, Berezhnaya clarified that this T-shirt is from ZARA and anyone can buy it. In addition, she stressed that it was not the first time she put on this thing and everyone saw her in it.

“Today, as an organizer (of the Immortal Regiment action - ed.), at 9:08 am, I passed a special check on the right side of Arsenalnaya Street, like everyone else, because I had a portrait of my grandfather and a portrait of Oles Buzina with flowers . For an hour and a half, together with veteran organizations, we formed a column. When I approached the orchestra to take it aside, a group gathered, mostly right-wing radicals. They started yelling at me because of a T-shirt and a portrait of Elderberry, ”the woman shared.

Berezhnaya noted that she gave the police an explanation about the T-shirt.

“I started explaining to the police that we were organizers. She said, call Krishchenko (the head of the National Police of Kyiv - ed.), but I cooperated with the National Police. I wore this T-shirt. I had printouts in my bag with websites where you can buy this T-shirt. She doesn't have St. George ribbon, this decoration was chosen by ZARA. Even though I gave detailed explanation right-wing radicals began to attack me. They told me it was C14,” she clarified.

According to Berezhnaya, after that, the militants and the police began to beat her.

“Together with the police, they started beating me, twisting my arms. They threw me to the floor - I hit my head on the asphalt. They dragged me to the car. I got sick and asked for an ambulance. Instead, they pushed me by the arms by the legs into the car. They did not want to call an ambulance at the regional police department until the UN, the OSCE and the lawyer who was invited arrived.

She (the lawyer - ed.) made sure that she and the ambulance doctors were allowed to see me, ”Berezhnaya emphasized. According to the woman, in the regional department they told her “sign the protocol and we will throw you out of here”.

Berezhnaya also said that she was diagnosed with a concussion, cracked ribs and numerous bruises and abrasions.