What is the strength in, brother?

On Friday, April 27, a series of explosions were heard in the center of Dnepropetrovsk: 4 trash cans were blown up near the opera house and on the station square; according to the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Ukraine, 29 people were injured. The explosions were immediately called terrorist attacks, although nothing similar to what usually happens after terrorist attacks happened in the next 24 hours after the explosions: no one claimed responsibility and no demands were put forward, neither political nor any other. The Ukrainian Ministry of Internal Affairs called on citizens to remain calm: “We ask people not to sow panic. The situation in the city is under control,” said the head of the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Vladimir Polishchuk, after which armored personnel carriers with Berkut officers were brought into the city and mobile communications were turned off

On the same day, the Ukrainian Security Service announced “six versions,” but voiced one related to a similar explosion in November 2011. There are at least three versions circulating in the Ukrainian media, of which the most likely is the criminal-economic one: it is about the redistribution of property in the city and some kind of conflict between the “Tatar” and “Jewish” groups. Both “political” versions are predictable and “mirror”: BYuT representatives said that the authorities were thus “squeezing out” various kinds of “negativity” from the information space, mainly the story of the beating of Tymoshenko, and the authorities, in turn, accused the opposition of destabilization of the situation in the country against the background of the notorious “stability”, economic and political “successes”, and, of course, on the eve of Euro 2012.

Even the possible “ban on mass protests” voiced by the majority of the media, allegedly planned for May 1, looks possible, but exclusively situational: we are only talking about traditional “actions” of communists and managed trade unions - it is unlikely that the Ukrainian security forces were so frightened by them , that they decided in response to “scare” everyone and, mainly, themselves - on the eve, we repeat, of the sacramental football Eurocup. Another proposal of the opposition – about introducing a state of emergency and postponing parliamentary elections, which also seems to be beneficial to the ruling party, is also “beating” the Euro: football will take place in any weather. Deputy head of the SBU Vladimir Rokitsky said on Friday evening that they do not plan to introduce any state of emergency either in Dnepropetrovsk or in Ukraine in general.

The “handwriting” speaks in favor of the first – “criminal” version: in fact, ballot boxes have already been exploded in a similar way in Dnepropetrovsk, and the last time was in November 2011, when the financial director of one of the local companies was killed. Even before the explosion, Gennady Korban and his closest partner, the famous Ukrainian businessman Gennady Axelrod, who was killed last week, were “frightened” by the explosion. And in October 2009, Vyacheslav Braginsky, another Korban partner, was killed in an explosion. There is persistent talk about a showdown between the groups of Kolomoisky and Akhmetov and the upcoming “dekulakization” of Privat. Finally, experts linked the explosions and “redistribution” in Dnepropetrovsk with a similar situation in neighboring Zaporozhye, where the explosion of a homemade bomb led to a change in police leadership. It is possible that here, too, there will be changes in the city’s “power balance.”

All together, this is painfully reminiscent of the “dashing 90s” and the then “redistribution” in Donetsk and the same “Dnieper”. And if we seriously talk about “political versions,” then the first and main thing is this: the Ukrainian government is criminal by nature and habits, and crime, in turn, has become power. The criminal government, as paradoxical as it may sound, is weak and defenseless; it is not able to cope with the same crime, but precisely because of the inevitable confusion in functions: what comes first, the law or concepts? And what is the strength, brother?