In two or three days, law enforcement agencies will give exhaustive explanations of what happened to Viktor Yanukovych in Ivano-Frankivsk. That is, they will tell who threw what at Viktor Fedorovych and why. However, even today there are grounds to say that what happened was not what was supposed to happen. More precisely, not at all what... \n \nSo, in Ivano-Frankivsk, an egg was thrown at Yanukovych. As Stepan Havrysh continues to insist, the egg was not the only object that hit the body of the head of the Cabinet: "I would like to emphasize: a heavy object was thrown at Yanukovych," Stepan Bohdanovych repeated his statement today. "If you paid attention to the video clip, you saw that he (Yanukovych) is wiping the egg off his jacket with his hand. And count the seconds when he starts to fall – you will see that it is at least 5-6 seconds. This means that at that moment a second, and then a third object hit him in the head." Stepan Bohdanovych explains the fact that the video did not capture this by saying that the filming was done from only one point, and in general, viewers might simply not have noticed such a "trifle" as a ball bearing. \n \nHaving watched the video more than once, and also having spoken with some people from the premier's entourage, "Glavred" developed a new version of the event. Let us note that the Ivano-Frankivsk trip was supposedly thought through in the minds of the same Russian political technologists, whose presence in the election campaign of the government's candidate is carefully masked. \n \nThe essence of the version is as follows: in Ivano-Frankivsk, a real assassination attempt was being prepared against the presidential candidate, with shooting and injury. As a result of the latter, the premier's rating was supposed to become equal to the indicator of the people's love for another, poisoned, candidate. According to the source's assumption, the premier might not have been aware of the event (for the purity of the reaction). We will not even venture to assume that the presidential candidate could consciously take such a largely dangerous step. Therefore, we will not attribute the "sluggishness" of Viktor Fedorovych's fall after being hit by an egg precisely to his being informed. By the way, the egg and the student who threw it are, in this scheme, that very "His Majesty Chance," capable of changing the course of history. \n \nOne of the sources reports that during the egg attack, Viktor Fedorovych was wearing a bulletproof vest. We tried to verify this information once again with Mr. Havrysh. Here is his answer: "It's all visible in the video. He is a big man; if a bulletproof vest had also been put on him, Yanukovych would have been very clumsy. Do you remember the clips where Yeltsin was put in a bulletproof vest?" However, Stepan Bohdanovych's answer did not dispel our suspicions. And even increased them. "He told me that he saw the egg, then felt a sharp pain in the heart area, then someone's cold hands unbuttoning his shirt collar," – this is how Stepan Bohdanovych described Viktor Fedorovych's sensations after what happened. The key words here are: "sharp pain in the heart area." Indeed, why did it hurt exactly there, and not, say, in the head, where, according to Havrysh's version, a ball bearing could have been fired from a slingshot? It is known that a blow received through a bulletproof vest does not reduce, but on the contrary, intensifies pain. \n \nAn attempt to find out from the premier's security service whether he was wearing a bulletproof vest in Ivano-Frankivsk and how often Viktor Fedorovych wears one was not successful. The State Security Service told "Glavred" that such information is practically a state secret and is not provided to journalists. But this did not end the questions to the premier's security service. As one colleague noted, for some reason none of the officials whose duty is to protect state figures was dismissed. Although the security's mistake is obvious. In addition, upon another viewing of the "egg" video, we noticed that the premier's guards were scanning not so much the column of greeters as the balconies. Were they not looking for a sniper? \n \nNow let us look at the version through other eyes. For example, through those of the premier's press secretary, Hanna Herman. Before Viktor Yanukovych had even been brought to the hospital (where, according to some data, security had been posted a day before the incident), alarming phrases flew out. "Terrorist attack," "Yanukovych in intensive care," "a council of doctors is making a diagnosis," "a blunt metal object," "a young extremist," "Yushchenko is behind this," "for now nothing can be predicted" – approximately these were fragments of phrases from official statements. Some of these reports, let us recall, were later refuted. But two things are alarming: first, why was so much unverified information thrown into the broadcast? Should this be attributed to unprofessionalism or to an attempt at provocation? Second, is the speed of the premier's media service's reaction not caused by the fact that the latter had the opportunity to prepare for the information wave the day before? \n\nAnd finally, according to our source, tomorrow the key question will be decided: will the "egg" scandal be buried, or will the version with the assassination attempt be intensified? In the first option, it is planned that the topic of the "terminally ill Yushchenko" will be actively promoted in the media (there are already doctors' comments indicating that part of Viktor Yushchenko's internal organs has supposedly been destroyed, and there can be no talk of him being able to live at least one presidential term). In the second option, the law enforcement agencies' conclusions regarding the "egg terrorist attack" will indicate that it was not hooliganism, but after all an assassination attempt. Sharp objects will be presented, and possibly even bullets, supposedly extracted from the premier's body. How to explain his silence in such a case? For example, by the interests of the investigation. Is it worth saying who will turn out to be the hero in this situation, which, by the way, strongly resembles the story with Vitrenko and the grenade allegedly thrown by a Moroz supporter. Nataliya Mykhailivna then spent two days in the hospital, Oleksandr Moroz never became president, and the "terrorist" is still sitting in prison. There it is, the cynicism that Stepan Havrysh advised journalists today not to resort to... \n
Ab ovo, or What was supposed to happen to Yanukovych?
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