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Stop War! Ukraine needs Peace! " : Irina Berezhnaya's mother, doused with brilliant green, said, despite the threats of radicals to send her from the world - details of the radical abuse of the human rights activist became known.

Director of the Ukrainian Institute of Legal and Social Policy Elena Berezhnaya, mother of the deceased ex-deputy from the Party of Regions, Irina Berezhnaya, was again bullied by the current regime in Kiev. Absolutely because on Children's Day I called on all Ukrainians who understand what is really happening in Donbass to come out with a peace action in Kiev “Stop War! Ukraine needs Peace! " ...

The radicals, having learned about the woman's intentions, decided to rip them off. So, it became known that unknown persons, who introduced themselves as "patriots of Ukraine", on June 1 in the morning blocked the door of the vektorovka apartment. Berezhnaya called the police. When she opened the door to the request of the law enforcement officials, the radicals poured green paint over the entire area and part of the apartment.

“Today at ten to seven in the morning, eight thugs started blocking my apartment and knocking. The 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 they would send me to where my daughter was, and, in general, I had a few days left. I just opened the door to talk to the police officer, in the presence of a police officer I was completely poured 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.

In the words of the woman, she intends to tell the strangers to international organizations, and also to raise the issue of dismissing the Minister of Internal Affairs Arsen Avakov and the head of the SBU Vasily Gritsak from the positions they hold.

As Irina noted on the air of the 60minutes 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. Nodelo in fact, that this conspiracy is the purest. They want us to be unable to hold a protest today. But the action will be carried out anyway, because such provocations will not stop me and frighten me. Our valiant police perfectly saw all these people who attacked me, and did not take anything. On the contrary, the police talked, smoked together and took off. It is clear that this is all planned by the SBU, that the police and these scumbags are in conspiracy. I am raising all international organizations for this reason, "Berezhnaya said.

The Networks are sounding the alarm for what happened. This is what human rights activist Galina Zaporozhtseva wrote about this: “Yesterday, the Ukrainian news feed was full of messages from the Ukrainian media with a complex message, an allegedly pro-Kremlin action on International Children's Day, which was announced by Elena Berezhnaya on behalf of the women of Ukraine. The reason to believe that this was a pro-Kremlin action was the fact that I told it in front of Vremya Pokazhet on the first Russian channel. The Kiev authorities were so scared of this action that they immediately turned on their machine of Gebel's propaganda of hatred, which resulted in today's neo-Nazi attack on Yelena Berezhnaya.

Elena Berezhnaya, director of the I. G. Berezhnaya Institute for Legal Policy and Social Protection, conveyed to Angela Merkel through the Left faction deputy 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 are absolutely open about, and there must be a reaction to this from German Chancellor Angela Merkel.

Elena Berezhnaya's report sounded 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, among other things, by the German Chancellor Angela Merkel are not being implemented by the Ukrainian authorities and, judging by the statements of the top officials, 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, the mayor of Slavyansk, Nelya Shtepa, was arrested. She spent more than three years in a pre-trial detention center. Judges in four district courts of the city of Kharkiv tried to consider the criminal case on Shtepa's charges of high treason and aiding a terrorist organization, and to date 18 collegia of judges have refused to consider this case on the merits and make decisions. The judges resigned, resigned, took care of the child, and recused themselves, so as not to consider the absolutely far-fetched accusation brought forward by Štepe.

Also on the murder on April 16, 2015 of the well-known 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 actions in relation to other citizens. The court granted the defendants' petition to consider this case with the participation of a jury. This means that the right-wing radicals will influence the jury, and the murderers 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, 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 government demonstratively supports neo-Nazis at the state level.

It should be noted that the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine has created a fertile ground for the flourishing of nationalist and fascist convictions of citizens. Thus, by law, the deputies 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 has led to systemic manifestations of anti-Semitism, Russophobia, xenophobia, and polyakophobia.

In addition, the authorities are obliged to promote national radical ideology in preschool and school institutions.

Representatives of volunteer battalions are also actively involved in the patriotic education of children, which generates interethnic hatred in society. One significant case occurred very recently. The leader of Odessa neo-Nazis, Sternenko, has repeatedly got into various crime stories. After another conflict with the police, the bail for it was personally made by the governor of the Odessa region, Maxim Stepanov, that is, the president's representative in the region. And soon the neo-Nazi under investigation killed the man.

However, a criminal case was not even initiated against Sternenko, the question of choosing a preventive measure for him was not raised. On the contrary, as a hero, he gives numerous interviews to the media that sympathize with him, which are full of statements by prominent politicians and public figures of the so-called democratic orientation in support of him, even though he killed a member of the ATO.

For example, the Azov Volunteer Neo-Nazi Battalion was transformed into the Azov Special Forces Regiment of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, an elite, best-equipped unit deployed in key regions of Ukraine and not only in the conflict zone in the southeast. Its official symbol is the so-called "Wolf Hook", a well-known symbol that at first served as the emblem of the NSDAP, and later was chosen as the emblem of the SS Das Reich division. This symbolism is used by this battalion at the state level, since it is officially approved by the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

And another most odious neo-Nazi group C14, which is recognized by an international organization as terrorist, recently received in the Kiev city council the status of a public organization 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 Kievites.

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 wearing the uniform of the Third Reich.

Today, Ukrainian neo-Nazis, together with state structures, incite interethnic strife, impose on society as heroes members of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army, such as Bandera, Shukhevych and others who collaborated with Nazi Germany. Streets and avenues have been renamed in honor of the aforementioned "heroes" in almost all cities of Ukraine. For disagreement with this ideology, on the part of the authorities - a brutal reprisal, accusations of working for the Kremlin. That is, the meaning of the policy of the current government in relation to 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 an event, organize individual pressure and intimidation of opposition activists.

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

As a result, I was hospitalized by an ambulance, and I was hospitalized for two weeks in the hospital, and the police drew up a protocol on the allegedly used prohibited symbols - St. George's ribbon. Although I was wearing a Zara T-shirt, which had a women's jewelry designed by the firm.

A similar situation was on June 1 of this year, International Children's Day, when, in the presence of police officers, right-wing radicals from Azov practically in their own apartment poured green paint on me with only one purpose - to prevent the screening of the Cinderella charity show for children and not to hold the action “ Stop the 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 peace-loving Ukraine into a neo-Nazi state. There is no reaction from the side of the members of the parliaments of the EU countries, as well as the European Parliament.

Olena 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.

Elena Berezhnaya's report caused a heated discussion and, in particular, the opinion was expressed that these facts really reach the German authorities and the public, but the German media often present it as "Russian propaganda".

“If at least 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 guilty of allowing such flagrant violations of human rights in Ukraine and do not raise these issues, ”ex-Bundestag deputy Olena Hofman expressed her opinion.

Olena Berezhnaya, a well-known human rights activist, director of the Irina Berezhnaya Institute for Legal Policy and Social Protection, was beaten during the Immortal Regiment's march on May 9 in Kiev. The march in memory of the participants of the Great Patriotic War was held in the capital of Ukraine Kiev under the title "Nobody is forgotten, nothing is forgotten." We contacted Elena Petrovna by phone. She is in the Kiev hospital Feofaniya.

- Elena Petrovna, what do the doctors say?

I feel fine now. Doctors brought down high blood pressure, but because of the beatings I got a concussion, a crack in my rib and numerous hematomas.

- Why did the scum find fault and who beat you?

The formal reason is in my shirt. I bought it at the ZARA store. It has the inscription "Freedom is My Mood", and it is decorated with a ribbon that looks like St. George's. Everyone can buy this T-shirt in Zara store. The nationalists mistook this tape for the Georgian one. But in this T-shirt I was at the trial about our march. The fact is that the nationalists from the ruk "Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists" announced their march at the same place where we planned our event. So I argued in court that we had agreed on this place earlier, that the police had already been notified. Already there, the judge had to explain to me that this tape had nothing to do with the symbolism prohibited in our country - the St.George ribbon.

- And all the same on the march they attacked you?

Yes. I came to the action "Immortal Regiment" through a special passage on the right side of the "Arsenalnaya", passed the check 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 war veteran. a group of mostly right-wing radicals who started shouting at me because of my T-shirt and Buzina's portrait.

- And how did the police behave?

When 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 and asked to call an ambulance. Instead, they pushed me by the arms and legs into the car. They did not want to call an ambulance at the regional police department until the representatives of the UN, OSCE and the lawyer I invited arrived. The lawyer made sure that the ambulance doctors were allowed to see me. They demanded that I sign the protocols, but I refused. I'm not going to leave all this unpunished. We will also meet in court with the 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 across the country. The people are thus expressing their protest against the policy of the authorities.

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

As previously reported, despite all the prohibitions and threats, about two thousand people take part in the action "Nobody is forgotten, nothing is forgotten" in the center of Kiev. There were some arrests. The Ukrainian police have already reported about the detention of three armed men and two women, who were carrying items with symbols prohibited in Ukraine.

As it turned out, one of these women was Elena Berezhnaya, the mother of the deceased former 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's ribbon. During the arrest, Elena Berezhnaya resisted, and law enforcement officers forced her into the patrol police car.

According to the police, at present, the district police department draws 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 famous journalist Oles Buzina. The portrait bore the inscription "Don't be afraid to be honest."

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

According to other sources:



Neo-Nazis and police beat the organizer of the Immortal Regiment in Kiev

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 Kiev, she was beaten by neo-Nazis from C14 and police officers.

She announced this in a commentary to the Newsone TV channel.

According to Berezhnaya, during the rally in the center of Kiev, she was wearing a T-shirt with the inscription “Freedom is My Mood”, 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 emphasized that this was not the first time she had worn this thing and everyone had seen it in it.

“Today, as an organizer (the Immortal Regiment action - ed.), At 9:08 am I passed the check along a special passage on the right side of the Arsenalnaya 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, we, together with the veteran organizations, formed a column. When I approached the orchestra to take it aside, a group of mostly right-wing radicals gathered. They started yelling at me because of the T-shirt and the elder's portrait, ”the woman shared.

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

“I started explaining to the police that we are the organizers. She said, call Krishchenko (head of the Kiev National Police - ed.), But I collaborated with the National Police. I wore this T-shirt. I had printouts in my bag with websites where you can buy this T-shirt. There is no St. George's ribbon on it; this decoration was chosen by ZARA. Despite the fact that I gave such a detailed explanation, right-wing radicals began to attack me. I was told that it was C14, ”she clarified.

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

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

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

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

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

The apple tree that gave birth to the golden apple

If you read her official biography, then before SKELET-info an incredible child prodigy appears with a fast-paced career as a genius of jurisprudence. However, as you know, the secret of the success of the majority of Ukrainian "golden" boys and girls are family and other ties. So in this case, you can find out that Irina Grigorievna 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, she renounced the unprepossessing surname of her father who had long disappeared, taking the surname of her mother - who had long been famous throughout Lugansk for her numerous scandals. A mother who deserves a separate detailed examination so that one can understand from which particular apple tree the golden apple of Irina Berezhnaya was born.

Scandals are an integral part of Elena Petrovna's life and work. Her official business, at least until 2014, consisted of providing consulting and legal services "on business and management issues." To this end, 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 firm registered as a joint venture, that is, with foreign capital? It's very simple: 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 Olit JV even received a corresponding license from the State Property Fund. Elena Petrovna herself did not privatize the enterprises, but helped others do it: she started with stores (Lugansk Trade House JSC, Sporttovary JSC), then she took up large manufacturing enterprises (Krasnodon Avtoagregat plant, Agrostroy PJSC). Its, so to speak, "trick" was the following system: with the help of the director of a state-owned enterprise, a joint-stock company was created, which rented a store or a plant, then the joint-stock company "bought out" the enterprise stopped by its owner. In addition, Elena Berezhnaya took the created joint-stock companies under her "legal cover", and in many cases her services were really required, since after some time these enterprises were tried to be seized by raiders. And, lo and behold, she managed to repel these attempts of raider seizures - for which the owners of the joint-stock company were overly grateful to her (in the agreed amount of the fee). Only in Lugansk it was said that Elena Petrovna, perhaps, herself arranged (more precisely, imitated) these "raids of raiders".

With the beginning of the new century, Elena Petrovna's vocation was opened - a "public human rights activist" and a political activist, in the capacity of which she now and then gets stuck in various high-profile stories. When in Luhansk another squabble over an armchair took place or large real estate was "squeezed out" by structures associated with some political force, it was right there - defending the interests of one of the parties. Such activity is associated with a certain risk for people who do not have their own guards and armored limousines, however, Elena Petrovna has successfully used state security for many years - and, moreover, at public expense. It all started when in 2000 Elena Berezhnaya, according to her statements to the police, was twice attacked by hooligans. On the basis of this, having found an appropriate 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 was loudly outraged by the insufficiently prestigious model of her car, publicly (at the Lugansk railway station) reprimanding the employees of the "Griffin". But the most striking thing is that Elena Berezhnaya used the services of state protection (free of charge) until at least 2012! At first, she dragged on the case of hooligan attacks (the trial took place only in 2006). Then, under the pretext of mistrust of the Luhansk investigators, who ceased to see 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 Kharkiv region. The deputy chief, Lieutenant Colonel Verigin, gave her every support, sending orders to Lugansk on the need to continue providing the Berezhny state guard. And soon the case of hooliganism smoothly spilled over into a new case of threats to Elena Berezhnaya in connection with her professional activities, and then goes into the category of "hangmen" - while the order to provide protection became practically indefinite. In general, Elena Petrovna managed for 11 years (minimum) to use the Luhansk "Griffin" as her personal bodyguards and drivers, which cost the state more than 1.2 million hryvnia (at the rate of 300 hryvnia 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, at least since 2002, when Elena Petrovna attached her daughter Irina to him as an assistant as a people's deputy. However, U SKELET-info There is also an alternative version: that it was Irina Berezhnaya, a cute graduate of the law faculty who joined Yuri Karmazin in Kiev, who brought him together with her mother. Whatever it was, but in 2002 Elena Petrovna joined the "Party of Defenders of the Fatherland" (PZO), previously created by Karmazin, from where the former chairman of the Luhansk organization of PZO, Elena Andreeva, survived in December 2005, who was a competitor of Elena Petrovna and in the field of business, as she owns her own law firm, Andreeva & 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 Andreeva, who survived from the party, re-registered it to the firm of her common-law husband Arefev and K before leaving, then privatized and placed the office of her firm there. Elena Petrovna immediately filed lawsuits against her - and a long judicial epic began, which was not limited to paperwork. In November 2010, Elena Berezhnaya's man inflicted injuries on Andreeva, which led to the operation. On June 10, 2011, the meeting of the two rivals in the office of Andreeva & Partners ended with Elena Berezhnaya ... having bitten Elena Andreeva! At the same time, she threatened the police officers who stopped her with heavenly punishment from Deputy Karmazin and Prosecutor General Viktor Pshonka ( ). Perhaps that is why the police refused to initiate 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 friendly conversation (according to her) with the prosecutor of the Luhansk region, Nikolai Beskishkiy, one of Pshonka's people, who was appointed prosecutor of Kiev in 2012, and on February 24, 2014, 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 Elena Petrovna called herself, received from Beskishky a decree on the eviction of Andreeva's law firm by the police. It came to a scuffle, during which Andreeva was again injured.

Not tired of pursuing her enemies for years, Elena Petrovna, in just a few months, dealt with Aleksey Danilov, who was appointed chairman of the Luhansk Regional State Administration in 2005. Back in 2004, they worked in one 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 Fatherland Defenders” was left with nothing in both Kiev and Lugansk. And then Elena Berezhnaya began a war against Alexei Danilov, which a few months later ended with his dismissal. They said that it was Elena Petrovna who got hold of the old photographs of the 90s, in which Danilov was captured in a friendly company with the "Luhansk overseer" Valery Dobroslavsky (killed in 1997). When they were handed over to President Yushchenko and "explained" who is 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 the Severodonetsk Azot. Danilov advocated a revision of his hasty privatization and the return of the enterprise to the state; local "industrialists and entrepreneurs" of the Luhansk region and the new secretary of the NSDC, Anatoly Kinakh, opposed this.

During this conflict, Elena Berezhnaya showed her extremely aggressive attitude towards any accusatory media publications addressed to her. So, in 2005, she turned up at the office of the Luhansk newspaper Rakurs-plus: she accused the editorial office of selling it to Aleksey Danilov, and threatened that she and her party boss Yury Karmazin would “swat 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, defaming 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, the connections she had developed over the years. Having moved to Kiev, she was practically left without a job and income, and could have hung on the maintenance of Irina's daughter (more precisely, Irina's sponsors), but soon found herself a new occupation. Although the “Party of Defenders of the Fatherland” belongs 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 SKELET-info, She chose the position of a “third party” in the unfolding conflict, but she constantly blamed only the Ukrainian security forces and the Kiev authorities for the suffering of the Donbass population. This could be taken for the personal opinion of the human rights activist, if Elena Petrovna in her interviews would not just start pouring quotes from the separatists' propaganda.

In December 2014, with the help of her daughter Irina Berezhnaya, Elena Petrovna registered the Institute for Right Politics 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 “title” as her own. Then Olena Petrovna was actively involved in the registration of Ukrainian pensions for residents of the ORDiLO territories and speaking 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 in Kiev to “reconcile Ukraine and Donbass”, but the “ATO veterans” who arrived at it (as they called themselves) in an aggressive and rude manner tore it up. 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 the Ukrainians who did not accept the Maidan.

The 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 it becomes even more “prodonbass”, but they say that the real goal of Berezhnaya-mama is to create an image of “defender of Luhansk people from the junta” in order to get the opportunity to return to Lugansk and re-engage in 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.

Boobs in big politics

Now let's open the story of the apple itself, in 1997, which broke away from its apple tree and drove to Kiev to enter the law faculty of the Shevchenko National University of Kiev. The official biography is silent about her first two years of study, but in 1999, the student's career went up sharply. Firstly, Irina Chernilo, who was renamed Irina Berezhnaya, became a business woman: she opened her travel agency "Scarab" in Kiev, of course, not with a scholarship, but with her mother's money. Secondly, which was much more "cool", Irina received an internship at the State Commission on Securities and Stock Market (SCSSM) under the President of Ukraine (the commission controls all activities of Joint Stock Companies of Ukraine). Not all students, even in the capital's universities, receive such a distribution, so here too she was assisted - most likely, all the same mother, through some of her Kiev connections.

In 2002, Irina Berezhnaya graduated from Kiev University, but is in no hurry to return home to Lugansk, and goes to work in the state First Notary Office of Kiev - also a very prestigious institution, which certifies very serious transactions in the capital's real estate and business. And then the aforementioned important event in the career and life of Irina Berezhnaya took place: she becomes an assistant-consultant to the head of the Verkhovna Rada subcommittee on lawmaking and systematization of Ukrainian legislation, Yuri Karmazin. How and when they met and how they became close remained unknown, but Irina Berezhnaya received from Karmazin much more than her mother who remained in Lugansk. During two years, accompanying Karmazin in the Rada, in business meetings and trains, at various events, she acquired numerous useful contacts. As the eyewitnesses who were present said, Irina Berezhnaya immediately attracted everyone's attention with her cleavage and her ability to “shoot with her eyes”. All these acquaintances were beneficial already by the fact that Irina invited politicians and businessmen to certify their transactions to her notary office. And yet, “boobs are boobs, and 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 to secure the guarantees of her mentor Yuri Karmazin - known as an honored lawyer and a big dock in real estate matters. 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 a deputy director of the commercial law firm "Astra-Service", and then receives a license from a private notary.

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

Boris Fuksman is a living legend of the shadow business, and not only Ukrainian ( read more about it in the article). He started in the 70s with blackmail, was expelled from the USSR, was involved in smuggling and buying up 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 persona non- grata in Ukraine. Once Fuksman "threw" even such a grated roll as Vadim Rabinovich ( read more about it in the article), having bought out a share of the 1 + 1 TV channel from him for a penny! And since 2006, in the company of Fuksman - why, I was walking with him arm in arm, 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 the position of her mother in Lugansk has 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 candidate of sciences according to the Ukrainian system. In the same year, viewers saw her on the 1 + 1 TV channel (still owned by Fuksman) in the popular show “Dancing with the Stars”: Irina Berezhnaya became the official notary of the TV project, appearing in front of the TV cameras in every episode, and was counting votes. In 2008, she became an honorary professor at the International University of Economics in Vienna - this title can be acquired there by every interested businessman 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 woman", which was in contrast to the political affiliation of her mother. However, Elena Petrovna not only did not mind this, but very quickly established business relations with the "Donetsk".

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

In the field of her deputy, Irina Berezhnaya became famous mainly for numerous scandals. First, she was more than once convicted of "pushing buttons", then of handing over her voting card to her fellow faction members. Secondly, following in her mother's footsteps, she has shown a very hostile attitude towards free speech. So, while working on a unified register of court decisions, Irina Berezhnaya made the project so that access to the project was limited for general use, so that the register itself was uniform throughout Ukraine (the option of separate registers of local courts was excluded), kept 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 denied her words. And in 2011, she advocated state control over online media with the aim of "combating libel and disinformation."

Many questions from the journalists were aroused by the numerous parliamentary inquiries of Irina Berezhnaya: in just one year of work in the Rada, she sent out more than 30 (to the Prosecutor General's Office, to ministries, to the president), and all but one advocated 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 did both. In particular, with her inquiries 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 OOO Sinbias Pharma, OncoGenerics and the TochMash plant. 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 Kiev Central Department Store, for which she organized the process of recognizing its privatization (which took place in the early 90s) as illegal. With her inquiries, she set the prosecutor's office, the SBU, and various inspections against the Central Department Store, and all this was ordered by the Ukrainian Media Group, owned by the same Boris Fuksman. And that's not all: Irina Berezhnaya also lobbied for the mandatory dubbing of film distribution in Ukrainian - but not in the interests of Russian-speaking viewers, but in the interests of Boris Fuksman, who is engaged in the distribution business. Yes, who would have thought!

Breast is an indicator of the well-being and position of Irina Berezhnaya

According to the income statement, for 2011 Irina Berezhnaya earned "only" 249,624 hryvnias: deputy salary, 35 thousand deputy financial aid, and a paltry 4 thousand hryvnia from renting out her apartments - and she had declared 7 of them, plus a summer residence 359 sq. meters and the only car Mercedes-BENZ ml350. With this glaring "poverty", Irina Berezhnaya paraded to the Rada with a Ralph Lauren handbag (about $ 17,000), a Vertu Monogram Constellation phone for 4,500 euros, and a gold Hublot watch (about $ 25,000). The source of such an expensive "outfit" cost of 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), Legal Center for Real Estate, Olimp (consultations), "Big" (services on the securities market), "Sporttovary" store, "Scarab" travel company and "Peak Ukraine" Internet edition.

In the 2012 elections, this rich lady ran in the majority constituency number 169 in Kharkiv - later they wrote that Fuksman personally agreed on guarantees of her victory with Kharkiv Mayor Gennady Kernes (read more about him in the article G) that has connected its administrative and other resource. And she won the sympathy of voters by distributing beggarly food packages by May 9, the very sight of which offended the Kharkov veterans.

And when she was at the peak of fame and luxury, having the image of the "main breast of the Verkhovna Rada" and "the most enviable bride of Ukrainian politics" (formally, 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 previous influence of Boris Fuksman and other patrons of Berezhnaya, she could not even participate in the early parliamentary elections in 2014. Nevertheless, she did not leave politics, but registered the Institute for Legal Policy and Social Assistance, which became a support for the public political activities of her daughter and mother. In this regard, the former "regionalist" Irina Berezhnaya completely copy the "defender of the fatherland" Elena Berezhnaya, focusing on the suffering of the infliction of 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 likes to sit on Facebook, where, in addition to her comments on the events, she sometimes spreads panicky rumors among 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, giving preference to 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 very much depends 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 push whole groups of elites out of power, it happens that finding a new "sugar daddy" and regaining the former brilliance of life becomes very problematic, even if you diligently shake your charms. After all, the former aristocracy scattered through their holes, and the new one has its own cute favorites ...

Sergey Varis, for SKELET-info

PS from 09/06/2017: edition 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 the author: creator