- The new President of Ukraine, Viktor Yushchenko, has
appointed multi-millionaire "dual citizen" Yevgeny Chervonenko
communications minister. The 45-year-old holds an Israeli passport and
is vice president of the All-Ukraine Jewish Congress. As communications
minister he will exercise complete control over the development of Ukraine's
media. His department will issue all operational and frequency licenses
for radio, television, Internet and satellite communications.
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- After privatization, Chervonenko gained control of a
variety of businesses, including two large bottling plants, supermarket
chains and a pharmaceutical firm. In 2004, in an interview with the Jewish
Telegraphic Agency, he complained of "anti-Semites" in the opposition
coalition, noting that he accosted one of them, Vassily Chervoni, in a
washroom in the Parliament building. Chervonenko said, "I put his
head in the sink and told him, 'One more bad word about Israel and I'll
really mess you up.' "
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- (Chervonenko was head of candidate Yushchenko's security
detail, and bragged to the AP that he personally tasted all of Yushchenko's
food when asked about the alleged poisoning. He blamed the poisoning on
the "anti-Semitic" opposition who fed his man during a private
government meeting to which he did not have access.)
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- Media mogul Pyotr Poroshenko, also a Jew, has been appointed
secretary of National Security and Defense, despite having no experience
whatsoever. Not even Ukraine's heavily Jewish Communist Party can believe
it. After hearing of Poroshenko's appointment, they issued this statement:
"When national security and the activities of law-enforcement are
entrusted to a businessman whose actions have often contradicted the law,
and who has been caught falsifying State budgets, one can hardly believe
in pre-election promises that all the criminals would be jailed."
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- Oligarch Poroshenko owns Channel 5, the television channel
that during the "Orange Revolution" turned from a relatively
objective news source into a fountain of opposition propaganda.
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- Billionaire Jew Julia Timoshenko, 44, has been appointed
Prime Minister, the nation's second most powerful position, despite an
international arrest warrant. Timoshenko is under criminal indictment in
Russia for fraud and bribing government officials. In 1996-97 Timoshenko
sucked billions from the Ukrainian economy through the re-sale of gas under
the protection of her robber-baron patron, former prime minister Pavel
Lazarenko.
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- (Pavel Lazarenko is serving a prison sentence in California
after being convicted of extortion, money laundering, conspiracy, fraud
and the transportation of stolen property. Lazarenko was also convicted
of money laundering in Switzerland and is wanted for murder in Ukraine.
His American criminal defense lawyer is well-known television legal commentator
Daniel Horowitz. During his San Francisco trial, Horowitz introduced secret
recordings of former Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma that include anti-Semitic
cursing and rants against Lazarenko. The idea was to convince the jury
that Lazarenko was the victim of an anti-Semitic political vendetta by
Kuchma. It didn't work.)
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- The new prime minister's native language is Russian,
not Ukrainian. Timoshenko admits she only learned the Ukrainian language
in 1999. She has absolutely refused to provide a biography, and even her
maiden name is a mystery. However, local Jews have repeatedly boasted of
her Jewish ancestry.
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