"Russian Winter" and Saakashvili

The politician called himself prisoners of war of the Ukrainian oligarch and Putin, and the court released him to freedom

How was Mikhail Nikolayevich was taken out of the SBU Specializer and unhindered to the Pechersky District Court of Kyiv, which is located in Khreshchatyk? The associates who were on duty around the clock at Ascoldov Lane burned bonfires in iron barrels at the gates of the pre -trial detention center, did not notice anything, and did not rush to re -repel the leader of the “rush of new forces”. When a court hearing begins, no one knew on Monday morning - neither lawyers nor journalists. But the approaches to the court of the court were guarded by police and the National Guard, equipped even into battle.

On Sunday, Kyiv passed the planned, second march for impeachment to President Poroshenko. According to the police, 2.5 thousand citizens took part in it, the organizers submitted an application for 50 thousand, the participants themselves insisted on 20 thousand. The column, having formed by tradition at the Shevchenko monument, opposite the Red Corps of the National University, where Poroshenko and Saakashvili studied together, moved by the usual route: Khreshchatyk - Maidan.

The feeling of dejavu grew. Local, to blood, skirmishes with security forces have already taken place. December, snowfall, banners: “Gang gang!”, “Poroshenko - New Yanukovych!”, “We want to live without corruption!”, “Ukrainian - Tsvropa!”, “Freedom to Misha!”

In the square, workers are mounted a Christmas tree. And the practically unanimous silence of nationwide television channels, “not seeing” actions. In the news, only reports from the ATO on the frequent shelling in the Donetsk direction and reports about the vagaries of the weather.

The prosecutor General Yuri Lutsenko, who called the activity of Saakashvili in Ukraine with preparation for the Russian Winter,, by analogy with the infamous “Russian spring” in the Donbass in 2014, also spoke about the weather. Let me remind you: Lutsenko presented audio recordings, of which it followed-the ex-President of Georgia took money for protests in Ukraine from the oligarch Kurchenko, who escaped to Russia with Yanukovych. Experts in the studios reasoned: if the court appoints Apatride Mikhail a preventive measure in the form of house arrest with the wearing of an electronic bracelet, then, following the spirit and letter of the law, it should be taken to Lviv? After all, it was there, in the hotel, he was registered for the last time when he was noisily returned from Poland. The apartment in Kyiv was rented in the name of another person.

They pushed under the court, but did not reach the fight: activists who want to get to the meeting are many times more than places in the hall. The sea of ​​the press, storming the room. Buffonada elements.

They pushed under the court, but did not reach the fight: activists who want to get to the meeting are many times more than places in the hall. The sea of ​​the press, storming the room. Before the line of the security forces, a man was walking in a Yanukovych mask, with a sign dangling on his neck: “Yura, and I?!” The question addressed to the Prosecutor General of Lutsenko was considered rhetorical.

Yanukovych, accused of treason, at the same time was tried in absentia in the Obolonsky district court of Kyiv. The lawyers of the President-Buger pulled time, calling the reasons why the interrogation of witnesses was impossible. The court nevertheless heard two VIPs-the ex-Prime Minister of Ukraine Arseniy Yatsenyuk and the Minister of the Interior Arsen Avakov. Reporters torn between two processes. But Saakashvili was an order of magnitude more lively.

Sandra Rolofs, the wife of Mikhail Saakashvili and from now on his official speaker in the process, struggled to break through the guard into the Pechersk court. At a rally on Sunday, she announced that President Poroshenko had “crossed the Red line”, and that the ex-president of Georgia, the ex-head of the Odessa regional state administration, was delivered to the pre-trial detention center “with a bag on my head”. Sandra is sure: Ukraine and Georgia agreed on a plan for his extradition.

The court began with the singing of the anthem of Ukraine Mikhail Saakashvili, his lawyers and supporters, among whom the Rada deputies Yuri Derevyanko and Viktor Chumak stood out. Without objections, they satisfied the request for protection - they released a politician from the glass “aquarium”. With a slight delay, Yulia Tymoshenko appeared, for whom the trial in the Pechersk Court - Dejavu, and even what.

The current prosecutor General Lutsenko also listened to the verdict here, behind bars, during the time of Yanukovych.

Tymoshenko hugged Saakashvili's colleague under the frantic blits of cameras.

Lawyers tried to give the prosecutor for abuse of authority during the detention of the client, but they were refused. Mikhail Nikolaevich himself presented the story as follows. The prosecutor turned to him “with a proposal from Lutsenko - just talk” right on the roof of the house on Kostelnaya Street. He promised not to detain.

- But then he takes out a sheet of paper and says: “You are detained!” Meanness of the highest category!

Sbushniki in a car taken on boarding also repeated that they did not delay politics, but just guarded.

Before the break, in the pause of the hearing, Saakashvili called the press the accusations brought against him by the Ukrainian authorities, delirium. I quote from the Ukrainian Truth: “Putin's agent?! Putin will give all the scouts for me! " (means to get Saakashvili for reprisal - O. M. ).

As the media became known, for his part, President Poroshenko and the 1+1 TV channel was offended by Kurchenko and filed a lawsuit to protect honor and dignity. This happened back in October. Kurchenko’s property in Ukraine was arrested at the request of the Prosecutor General’s Office, he is accused of plundering state property of Ukrgazdobych CJSC and abuse in the banking sector. But the new cassette scandal generally brought the “financier of protests”, according to the Prosecutor General, from balance. “Ukrainian news” quotes Kurchenko, who dictated an angry message to Kyiv to his press service: “I don’t know Saakashvili and I don’t want to know. But we are familiar with Poroshenko, and even very good. ” The following is that Kurchenko bought in 2013 the largest UMH media holding from Poroshenko for $ 400 million.

“According to my data, this corruption gibas after the sale did not pay any taxes to the budget of Ukraine. Poroshenko is a deceiver and a coward, and therefore sets everywhere his pocket tsutsyk Lutsenko, ”the press service said in a unique statement.

Meanwhile, the deputy from the Fatherland Alena Shkrum wrote on Facebook: “Yulia Vladimirovna (Tymoshenko - O. M.) is ready to bail Mikhail Saakashvili. “For the purpose of re -education,” adds Mikhail and laughs. Saakashvili holds confidently, cut, despite the hunger strike. He can choose a guarantor! In addition to Tymoshenko, other people's deputies-Alena Shkrum, Dmitry Dobrodomov, Yuri Derevyanko, Mustafa Nayyem, Igor Lutsenko, as well as the Extrapyan Position Party, Anatoly Gritsenko, one of the closest ex-Rostniks of President Yushchenko and Patriarch, offer the opposition. Resistance to all the authorities, starting with the Soviet one, Stepan Khmara.

At the request of lawyers during a meeting, Saakashvili sits next to the defenders. He communicates freely with his associates. Of course, there are no handcuffs on it. Prosecutors ask for, as previously predicted, round -the -clock house arrest.

The judge at the Larisa process has options: agree to a request to the prosecution, release the policy to the personal obligations of the guarantors, or to completely refuse to any extent suppressing if the suspicions presented seem insufficient. This will be - the deputy of the Rada Nayem, the Lakmusova Paper, wrote on Facebook: whether the current court differs from the courts of the times of Yanukovych, where evidence and materials of affairs were falsified for the sake of the authorities, or justice remained, as under Yanukovych, “Pechersky”, in the most inexpensive sense of the word. “Pecher” in Ukrainian means “cave”, the customs there are primitive, instead of the law-force.

The prosecutor motivates his position: there is a great risk that the leader of the “Rukh of the New Forces”, if he remains free, will try to eliminate the special services of the Russian Federation in order to continue the destabilization of the situation in Ukraine.

He says that the Epistle of Kurchenko is a confirmation of this. Protection protests against any limitation measure and calls the matter fabricated from beginning to end. “This is an attempt to isolate Mikhail Saakashvili from society,” they say. Give the word to people's deputies, including Yulia Tymoshenko.

The court refused to arrest Saakashvili, without supporting the request of the prosecutor’s office for round -the -clock house arrest. He is released for freedom to the guarantee of deputies of the Rada. Now the prosecutor's office has the right to protest the decision of the Pechersk court. But the fact is evident: Saakashvili is free.

At an improvised press conference right in the courtroom, the politician once again repeated that "he does not have presidential ambitions, but simply wants to destroy the current oligarchic system of power in Ukraine." The immediate plans answered cheerfully: "Eat after a hunger strike."

Kyiv