Paradise for Yanukovych, occupation coal and nightlife in the curfew. Loud investigations of the UP
Journalistic investigations have always been an important component of the work of Ukrainian truth and firmly woven into the DNA of the publication. We publish the information we try to hide, and sometimes it becomes the ram that brings the gates of the corruption fortress.
On the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the UP, the cycle of materials that we mention our most interesting and resonant journalistic investigations continues. They took place under different presidents and warehouses of parliament, under different economic and security conditions, but all were important to society.
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Sergey Leshchenko, 2010.
« A personal terrestrial paradise for the current President of Ukraine will be erected on the site of the former state residence, » the UP wrote in April 2010.
At that time, this name – Mezhigorye, which will later become the most striking symbol of corruption of Viktor Yanukovych’s times, came to the general public. And the words about paradise will be prophetic.
Officially, Yanukovych owns only a dwelling house at the Mezhigorye residence, and the rest of the objects belong to other « owners » – and it seems to have nothing to do with them. However, the UE journalist’s hands fall into the schemes that they plan to build on 129 hectares of land, which was removed from state property with the help of corruption equipment. There is a club house, Elling, and birds enclosures, and a golf field, and a horse club …
For the year journalists They will show the residence From a bird’s view, including a club house. And then they will even get Photos of unprecedented luxury Inside the building.
Matthew Nikitin, Roman Kirichenko, 2016.
The beginning of the war with Russia and the occupation of part of the Donbass caused a shortage of coal where Ukrainian TPPs work. In July 2015, then Minister of Energy and Coal Industry Volodymyr Demchyshyn announcedthat Ukraine will import coal from the South African Republic for $ 80 per tonne.
However, it was found out that instead of African coal, Ukrainian energy enterprises receive Ukrainian – from mines located in the occupied territories. It is masked by contracts for the supply of anthracite from couples.
And the supplies are people close to Viktor Medvedchuk, who at that time was a special representative of Ukraine on humanitarian issues in a tripartite contact group to resolve the conflict in the Donbass. In particular, the name of his closest associate Taras Kozak was mentioned.
In February 2021, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy put into operation a NSDC decision on the use of sanctions Against the People’s Deputy of the Cossack and TV channels Medvedchuk.
Mikhail Tkach, 2023.
The curfew, which with a full -scale war was introduced almost all over the country, but in particular in Kiev, is perceived by society not only as a restriction in the interests of society itself. But as one example of a fair solution: the rejection of the rear of nightlife while the sons and daughters of Ukraine are in the trenches.
But it turned out that for months in the center of Kiev there is an unnoticeable restaurant of Panazian cuisine « Boho », which is not closed during the curfew. Intrexistic, including the fact that his work does not want to notice law enforcement.
Perhaps that is why Michael Tkach’s material has become one of the most resonant in the year – he showed a flashy injustice and an attempt to bypass the rules common to all.
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