Woe from Kuma

Why is Ukraine not Israel? On the screen of the President Putin, which was not alien to him, talked with a journalist, worried and indignant, which apparently should explain this unexpected turn and plot from the recent history, which he cited as an example to imitate. Viktor Medvedchuk was too excited, therefore he did not realize what he was saying. Otherwise, he would not, reflecting aloud about the fate of Ukrainian hostages, to recall about Gilad Shalit - an Israeli soldier who was exchanged for hundreds of Palestinians, "convicted of numerous killings, for terrorist actions and banditry." In fact, Viktor Vladimirovich equated those Russians and Ordlo figures who hold Ukrainian citizens in their prisons, to killers, terrorists and bandits. The godfather’s godfather is unlikely to praise him for this.

However, this was only an annoying episode in a long conversation devoted mainly to the problem of the exchange of compatriots Medvedchuk for Russians, and he did not allow such blunders anymore. On the contrary, he properly accused the Ukrainian Ombudsman Lyudmila Denisov of the fact that it was precisely because of her "reckless actions" Oleg Sentsov still languishing in the camp. He correctly condemned the first vice-speaker of the Verkhovna Rada Irina Gerashchenko, who on her Facebook defeated the "Kremlin nonhumans", but they are also people. "Here is such a statement when they read there, between the towers in the offices, how is it perceived?" - The interviewee was indignant, and we vividly imagined these offices and these towers, and these unhanged ones, but in essence of very vulnerable bosses, whom the first vice speaker undividedly insulted.

Even Medvedchuk was competently surprised when the conversation came to the pardon in the name of Putin signed by Sentsov: they say, “what was so terrible” could have happened if he wrote a petition? And unusually competently encouraged the audience, answering the question, the political prisoner will return home from Labytnanga or not. “Of course he will come,” the former lawyer assured us to Vasil Stus, who was tormented in the Soviet camp, and this was, against the background of everything said, it sounded weighty.

Say, behave like Jews in negotiations with the enemy. Do not allow rudeness and tactless assessment judgments. Spare the fragile psyche of terrorists - and all your dreams will come true, and dozens of Ukrainians and Russians who were captured in the war will hug their relatives, and Oleg’s mother, who was not pardoned by the offended Putin, will finally see the son, living and amnesty. Or they will die, as his long -standing client , a person is very intractable, and you will be to blame for this, unrestrained in speeches, who are postponing in their blogs, and the upsetting jailers.

It is possible to perceive the advice of the main Russian-Ukrainian specialist in hostages differently.

With optimism, leaning to the idea that the World Campaign in Defense of the Politzek is bearing fruits: it is not for nothing that Medvedchuk expresses confidence that Sentsov will “come” from the camp, and, as if finally, will be incurred by rude people, due to which the process of liberation slowed down. With despair, finding in the words of the negotiator the final, mortal verdict to Oleg Sentsov and a pre-thought-out control of the Ukrainian authorities: you killed-s. And the sober assessment of the situation probably should be reduced to the fact that the task has not yet been solved and with his Kum Vladimir Vladimirovich is far from shared by all plans. Intuitively, Viktor Vladimirovich probably guesses how endless demands, requests and prayers to free the director and how unpleasant his personal insults, but Knowchuk know, and Medvedchuk.

It is also possible that Putin does not yet know what to do, although time is running out. To kill or not to kill - this, you see, is not easy for politicians of a certain type. It is important to weigh everything so as not to make a mistake.

As for Israeli experience, he is not as clear as it seems to the leader of the public movement "Ukrainian choice". It happens that for the sake of one living hostage or even returning home the remains of the dead soldiers in Jerusalem really agree to let out many sentenced criminals out of prisons. And it happens that in order to combat enemies and prevent new atrocities, the Israelis prevently shoot terrorists. Moreover, the exchanges that Medvedchuk recalled are quite rare - unlike counter -terrorism special operations. This, of course, does not mean that in Kyiv they should blindly copy someone else's more or less successful experience. Alien experience should not be copying blindly.

But what you can’t help but regret is that the former Gray Cardinal Kuchma was slightly late with his advice to our leader. It is terrible in general that Medvedchuk was not next to Putin when the fate of those captured on Dubrovka or Beslan were decided. There is no doubt that he would not advise a bad thing, and if the President of the Russian Federation listened to his warnings, then how many adults and children would have survived. Alas, then the true "Ukrainian nationalist", as he called him later, without hiding specific admiration, the Russian national leader, did not yet feed on hostages and how to properly save people captured by frosts. Well, it is better late than ever, but still it would not be worth talking to him, confusing our glorious terrorists with strangers, so as not to hurt either one or the others.