it was the year 2011 Denis Vladimirovich Pushilin (Makiivka, Ukraine, 1981), currently in Moscow annexation With Russia, he had much more mundane matters at his disposal. At that time, he was a worker in the MMM company, which is considered the largest. pyramid plan Russian history. He previously worked as a salesperson for other companies.
According to the founder of this company, Sergei Mavrodi, in an interview with Ukrainian journalist Dmitry Gordon, 15 million people were deceived in the 90s before the first closure. Despite the bad reputation, reconstructed In 2011, the year Pushilin started working with them subsidiary Ukraine So MMM-2011 agreed to become a pyramid scheme – put it on them. own website — and promised more benefits to retirees and people with disabilities. Criminal cases filed against the company Moldova, Belarus and Russia.
In 2013, a political party was formed on the basis of the company MMM, with which it shares an acronym – We Can Do A Lot In Ukrainian – and Pushilin was part of it. He only competed in the 2013 parliamentary election, which he won. 77 the votes, 0.08% of the total, are in the 94th district of Kiev.
After this short adventure in Ukrainian politics, he managed to position himself as one of the main voices after the Maidan protests. anti-maidan. This popularity and influence has made him one of the most important politicians of this unrecognized state. He became interim president when his predecessor, Alexander Zakharchenko, was killed in an attack on him in 2018. He finally concluded his rise to power with a presidential election to be held a few weeks later. Currently, the Ukrainian secret services are accusing him. betrayal For participating in the “referendums” of accession to Russia.
From Ukrainian hero to United Russia member
Leonid Paschenik (Ukraine, 1970), president of the Lugansk “People’s Republic”, was not always a welcome person from Kiev. In 2007, under the chairmanship of President Viktor Yushchenko, he was awarded the prize. medal For his military service to Ukraine, for his “honesty and professionalism during the operation”. He made an intrusive name large quantities He was abducted to the Izvarynie border post and refuse to take a bribe.
Years later, in 2014, it positioned itself in favor of the pro-Russian rebels and became part of the government formed to govern Lugansk’s self-proclaimed “People’s Republic”. Minister of Security . Some Ukrainian sources suggest that Moscow has already recruited him. 2006 Russian secret services join hands with the FSB.
After a quarrel with Igor Plotnitsky, the head of the Lugansk “People’s Republic” at the time, he was appointed interim leader of the region in 2017. Plotnitsky was badly injured after an unidentified group of men seized the center of Lugansk in November of that year and the Lugansk leader resigned. to give Power to Paschenik. It then ran for the 2018 election, which it won. He argued from the beginning that he would not return to Ukraine, and in 2021 he took a symbolic step towards annexation: he joined Russian President Vladimir Putin’s United Russia party.
He received his party documents from former Russian President Dmitri Medvedev, Putin’s former dauphin. Ukraine considers both “People’s Republics” as terrorist organizations. The elites of both regions are accused of not respecting human rights in the lands they control.