Disabulary Donetsk

Diary of a special correspondent of radio freedom in Kyiv

The Ukrainian opposition calls Viktor Yanukovych and his entourage by the "gang", constantly emphasizing the criminal past of the current president. Therefore, on Tuesday, the protesters on the Maidan and freezing on the barricades described the concessions of power with the help of thieves vocabulary. “This is Donetski's wiring”-this is how people reacted to the resignation of Prime Minister Nikolai Azarov and the decision of the Ukrainian parliament to cancel the repressive laws adopted on January 16 and became one of the catalysts of a seemingly dangled protest. According to the demonstrators, Yanukovych is just taking time.

I stand at the stove-bourgeois constructed from several barrels of fuel-lubricants. Firewood cracks loudly in her womb, smoke burns slightly, but warm. The Gazprom logo flaunts on the barrels - even the life of the revolutionary city is not complete without the ubiquitous gas giant.

The resignation of the prime minister became known in the morning, even before the start of the Verkhovna Rada planned at 11 hours. This did not radically affect the mood of the protesters, although it added smiles. People willingly joked, let go of vulgar and not very jokes about the "Donetsk" (although Azarov and originally from the Russian Kaluga), they waited for what would happen next. Seeing my smartphone in my hands, they immediately asked if it was connected to the Internet, and began to be interested in the last news.

I tell you with pleasure: for example, a deputy from the Party of Regions Vladimir Oleinik said that members of the faction can "vote as they consider it necessary." In response, the indignant: "What, this is some kind of privilege of the deputy, how does he want to vote?" I talk about the Russian Duma and running of deputies from "United Russia" in empty rows with pressing buttons. Today, in general, I often had to give Russia as an example. A variety of people gathered near our bourgeois: an electrician from Dnepropetrovsk and a young banker from Kyiv. The latter talks about kickbacks that reach 70%. In Russia, there are often more than 90%, I am fearing. It is necessary to somehow encourage frozen and tired people.

Yesterday they said that we were extremists, and today they get up in the Verkhovna Rada and arrange a minute of silence in memory of our dead guys!

“Golden Eagle” is just a terrorist organization that is paid from the Donetsk Committee, ”one of the men standing nearby is indignant, pointing with his hand to the other side of the barricades. “This is what cynics you need to be!” Continues another. “Yesterday they said that we are extremists, and today they get up in the Verkhovna Rada and arrange a minute of silence in memory of our dead guys!”

The evening on the eve of an important meeting of the parliament was held in Kyiv amid rumors about the possible introduction of a state of emergency. As a confirmation of these rumors, people perceived the construction of barricades by the authorities themselves - on Monday, a wall of concrete blocks brought by utilities, it is not clear why it grew on Institutskaya Street near the Verkhovna Rada building, where it was not even before two strict police checks. However, already on Tuesday, this barricade was dismantled, but the defense of the Maidan, on the contrary, built nearby, on Gorodetsky Street, the very real patrol tower.

A man of about fifty, who is warming up with us, was still not very talkative. "Chalus at one time introduced a state of emergency and was killed four days later (in fact after three. - RS) . We will do it faster."

Chalus at one time introduced a state of emergency and was killed four days later. We will do it faster

While everyone is waiting for news about the abolition of "laws of January 16", a woman approaches us. Her friend works as a guide in the Donbass company train Donetsk - Kyiv. Just now, she says, several hundred “titles” left this train at the station, which paid 400 hryvnias (about 1600 rubles) for participation in promotions in support of the authorities. Later it turns out that those brought only were driven to parliament on the action "Stop Maidan!" . Alas, it was possible to see it only on TV: ordinary people and journalists without special accreditation in the government quarter are still closed.

But going beyond the Maidan becomes truly dangerous. Everyone is discussing a video shot from the window of an office of a company on Institutskaya Street, not far from Khreshchatyk, but outside the barricades. Two military personnel in the equipment of special forces are trying to twist a guy who just walks along the street with a helmet. His friends are trying to interfere with this, other passers -by join them, a car stops, from which the driver comes out in a suit and also enters into a skirmish. After a few minutes, soldiers have to retire, but walking alone outside the revolutionary camp in the city is really not recommended, which the ads that appeared today on the Maidan resemble.

I read the news from Twitter about the abolition of repressive laws. The reaction is already older than to the resignation of Azarov. In particular, because the Communists abstained from voting: "Yes, they must be banned at all!" And one more thing: "And what about the amnesty for our guys? Why are they sitting for violation of the laws that have already been canceled?"

Today's "Judgment Day" in Kyiv stretches at least two - a discussion of the draft law on amnesty and changes to the Constitution continues, and the next meeting of the parliament is scheduled for Wednesday. The fact that even a complete and unconditional amnesty (and the authorities insist on reservations, for example, for the Maidan to divorce at first) will radically change the situation in the Ukrainian capital, everyone doubts. And from the rostrum in Independence Square, where politicians, poets and musicians continue to replace each other in an endless marathon, and only one set of demands sounds from the lips of ordinary people: the appointment of early elections of the president and Rada, and most importantly, the punishment of the guilty of the deaths of activists. "We do not hope for anyone but ourselves." But those concessions that managed to achieve still improved the mood. At the barricades , jokes are told and political rap is singing, the text of which clearly shows what they think about Ukrainian politicians of all stripes:

"How to die, then bury me in the den,

Put Lutsenko and Baloga next to me,

Let them sing me with the " Grinjola ",

Goodbye, Baba Paraska and your favorite bees.

Unscrew the orange bow to the coffin

Let Ukraine remember its guarantor

And for the fact that he chatted nonsense,

You hang on Sickle near me Julia.

Let it swing in that sorrow for 20 years,

So that people remember that it was still ...

With his tongue so far as an automatic

Also, I was sometimes called dad.

And for the fact that we all brought to devastation,

I will lie in the den, and flies will eat Julia.

And what would the miners in the Donbass were satisfied

Yanukovych will throw the path into the adit by the legs.

Let heavy briquettes cut out of coal

And at the same time they will give their Akhmet .

And find an old cart in the village

And tie the old frost for the drawbar.

Let the old man walk without any shame,

At the same time, let it tell you about the new program.

Still listen to your guarantor

And drag a red bow from Simonenko .

Because follow him - the path and a long way,

He is such a communist as I am a gynecologist.

Before my death, I will give you such advice,

Run the toxic gas to the Verkhovna Rada

Let the eternal scum are stalled for centuries,

In those seats, the geeks let everyone die.

There were difficult years, these would be no better

Forgive me people, after all, I'm sinful. "