“The situation when the authorities believe that we went out to Maidan only so that Yushchenko would become President is abnormal,” said well-known journalist Vakhtang Kipiani, candidate for people's deputy No. 25 on the election list of the “Pora-PRP” bloc, during a press conference in Ivano-Frankivsk on February 14.
Vakhtang Kipiani built his conversation with Ivano-Frankivsk colleagues around two previously high-profile topics – the poisoning of Viktor Yushchenko and the topic of the notorious temnyky, about which he wrote the book “The Power of Darkness and Temnyky.”
Vakhtang Kipiani called “the silencing of the Yushchenko poisoning topic not accidental.” According to him, “Ms. Herashchenko erased this topic. And neither Turchynov's SBU nor the Prosecutor General's Office during Piskun's time dealt with the Yushchenko poisoning case. This topic was simply talked to death,” the journalist believes. “It is obvious that people from Yushchenko's inner circle are involved in this topic.”
Vakhtang Kipiani read to media representatives an excerpt from the so-called temnyk dated September 24, 2004, which concerned coverage of event No. 1 – the attack on Yanukovych in Ivano-Frankivsk.
“I do not consider it normal when I give my book to the President, and people still somehow do not understand the loyalty to Yanukovych's gang and the ‘Ne TAK’ group.”
At the end of the press conference, its youngest participant, Vakhtang Kipiani, said optimistically: “We, young Ukrainian patriots of the new generation, will come into politics, and we will come for a long time.”