Today walking in downtown Kiev nothing doesn’t ring a bell about the bloody terrifying events of Dignity Revolution 2013. But political and social situation in the country has not changed for the better after public protest, quite the contrary are at the lowest point.
The Revolution of Dignity originally was a rebellion against police outrage. Impunity of the Special subdivision of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine gave impetus to an unprecedented uprising of the Ukrainians. But policy of all-permissiveness and impunity still can be seen in Ukraine. People who gathered on Maidan during the Revolution of Dignity demanded to change the system of three components – police, prosecutors and judges. Police plays the bloodiest role in this group.
Today Andrey Krishchenko is the deputy head of the National Police of Ukraine, and the head of the Main Directorate of the National Police of Ukraine in Kiev. During his work on these positions, crime has increased by 19% in Kiev. The capital has topped the rating of the most dangerous cities in Ukraine.
Europe and Ukraine also don’t forget the high-profile murders– these are contract kills of Former deputy of the State Duma of the Russian Federation Denis Voronenkov, journalist Pavel Sheremet, lawyer Yuri Grabovsky, and colonel in Ukraine’s military intelligence Maxim Shapoval who was killed by a car bomb in central Kiev.
Meanwhile, the Kiev police, under the command of Andrey Krishchenko, protect and “keep under wings” the gambling business, which is banned by the law of Ukraine since 2009 and is criminally liable. The personal attendance of Andrey Krishchenko was also placed on record during the attack by the ‘Titushki raid’ on people’s deputies. It happened in the presence of more than a hundred of military law enforcement officers who showed no reaction, as well as the head of the Shevchenko District Police Department of the National Police, whom Mr. Krishchenko brought from Gorlovka (as well as many other officers).
About two years have passed. None of the delinquent was brought to justice. And it is despite the fact attack in the downtown took place in the presence of law enforcement officers, and was shot by more than ten television channels; there are numerous witnesses in addition to the investigative and operational group that was created. While the public activists, fighting with illegal gambling business are detained almost every week.
This is how the new police, under the command of by Andrey Krishchenko, have been working in Kiev. It’s also worth noting almost all gambling establishments were opened during the last year. After the Revolution of Dignity, they were closed. But now they sprout like mushrooms after the summer rains and the head of the Kiev police, Mr.Krishchenko, along with the heads of the district directorates, only helps to develop clandestine illegal business and corruption.
The same situation can be seen with bawdy houses, prostitutes, and trafficking in human beings and related offences. It’s not surprising – the head of the Department for Combating Crimes Related to Human Trafficking is headed by the brother of the before-mentioned Andrey Krishchenko, Lieutenant Colonel Artem Krishchenko.
Great uproar, not only among ordinary citizens, but in police circles as well, was caused by the assignment of Sergei Sotnik to a position of the head of the Internal Security Directorate (ISD) of the Kharkiv region. Society was sure the new ISD head whom the Department selected carefully, would become if not a crystal-clear police officer, at least not an outright corrupt official and a bribe-taker who is directly related to the criminal regime.
Society was shocked when Sergei Sotnikov – person who provides a crime-sponsored cover of the illicit trafficking in drugs, gasoline, prostitutes, led the dispersals of EU integration rallies and organized ‘Titushki raid’ took this leadership position.
It is known in Sotnikov’s young days he managed to make his fortune selling tramadol, and as a result having saved numerous schemes of illegal earnings (prostitutes, gasoline, and contraband).
Ukrainian activists and opponents of the current lawlessness have repeatedly appealed to the members of the relevant Parliament Committee on legislative support of law enforcement with the issue of job competence of Andrey Krishchenko. In addition, society assures it isn’t enough just to cancel the appointment order of Mr. Sotnikov but it’s necessary to conduct a check to identify acts of corruption aimed to obtain undue benefits in especially big amount.
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