I treat my state with contempt,\nbut it is unpleasant to me when foreigners\nshare my feelings\nO.S. Pushkin\n\n\n\tIt is unpleasant to me too, well, unpleasant to the point of tears. I think that all decent people in Ukraine are also uncomfortable when in the eyes of the whole world that sacred thing for which we have striven for centuries is being leveled. Just a few years ago hardly anyone in the world knew that there was such a state as Ukraine, that there was such a people; they knew that there was a "rushen". And then the Ukrainian Maidan arose, which the whole world admired. Such a beautiful Revolution had never existed anywhere: not only was there no violence – no one said a bad word to anyone. And yet the people were different! The uplift was incredible. And when one has to hear that someone has become disillusioned with the Maidan or is handing in the Orange symbols, I think: how could such a thing come into people's heads? I am happy that I am Ukrainian, that there was a Maidan and that I took part in it. After all, WE, THE PEOPLE, rose from our knees, rose above the mundane, we felt ourselves to be People with a capital letter, we said: NO to outrages, and we received Victory! We changed ourselves, changed our country, setting an example for others and influencing world history. So what disillusionment can there be? We, the people of the Maidans, will enter the history of Ukraine forever and future generations will be proud of us. And time goes on: today some are on the ruling Olympus, tomorrow there will be others, but the ideas of the Maidan are immortal. So thanks to the Maidan the whole world knows that there is such a state – Ukraine, that there is such a Ukrainian nation: tolerant, hardworking, beautiful. Are we now worse? Oh no (let us remember the folk wisdom that everything passes, only honor remains. We went out to the Maidans not so much for Yushchenko or Tymoshenko (I am not speaking of others), as we fought for our ideals, for the future of our children and grandchildren, a future without deceit, without poverty, without fear. Of course, the overwhelming majority of us wanted Viktor Yushchenko to lead our struggle, some wanted to see Yulia Tymoshenko beside him. Not everything succeeded? Yes! A heavy legacy fell to them, and besides, people came into the team who were different: both those who believed that "the revolution has a beginning, the revolution has no end," and pragmatists, and people for whom their own mercantile interests were above all. So they did not withstand the test of working together. Of course, each considered himself a hetman and did not want to listen to the other, and so they began to pull in different directions, and to pull actively, persistently, but Shakespeare already warned that "the stronger the passion, the sadder the end." And so it turned out.\n\n\tThe President's patience came to an end. Taking into account the ancient wisdom which says that sometimes kindness is worse than foolishness, he had no other way out than to cut this Gordian knot. But is this a tragedy? In many countries governments change, sometimes often. What is sad is something else. All the people involved in the conflict are extraordinary people, but they are only people and have both great merits and certain flaws (only the Lord God has no flaws), and in this situation the flaws came to the fore. And that is a fact. Pouring dirt on one another is a thankless business.\n\n\tNow hardly anyone but the lazy does not talk about the President, sucking on, as they believe, his mistakes. Of course, there were mistakes too, for only the one who does nothing makes no mistakes.\n\n\tI have thought a lot about those actions of the President which many consider mistaken, and I have my own vision of them (and I, like every cook, and like Baba Paraska, whom they brought in to "bring the President to reason") have the right to my own opinion – democracy is for everyone.\n\n\tSo, regarding the dismissal of the Government. Life experience suggests that if the children quarrel in the house, then until the father takes the belt to both of them – nothing will come of it. If the President had dismissed his "entourage" and kept the Cabinet, there would have been even more scandals, for, as the English say, there is a skeleton in the closet of every house. And this applies absolutely to all those who had or have big business, for not long ago we lived in the Soviet Union and there was nothing to build honest millions or billions from, unless someone inherited the treasures of the Count of Monte Cristo. And even now most of the so-called honest businessmen pay salaries in envelopes, circumvent the law, each as best he can. Everyone needs to understand that big starting capital is criminal capital, and to put an end to it – nothing can be changed anyway.\n\n\tNow regarding the signing of the agreement with Yanukovych. As I see it, this should have been done much earlier, in order to unite the country and avoid speculation on the topic of East – West. Let us recall the slogans of the Maidan: "East and West together!" "Donetsk – Donbas! Join us!" The winners of the election race should have raised this question first. And it does not matter who is the leader of the regionalists: today it is Yanukovych (behind whom, by the way, stand more than 2 million people), and we made peace with the Tatars, Germans, Poles, we are friends with them (although oh, how much stone there was in our bosom), so why should we continue to divide people in the country into our own and strangers? The President must be one for all (as in all civilized countries), and it is time to truly bury the axe of war with whomever it may be. If one side of the conflict is criticized and the other is idealized, then this is already pure subjectivism. So, it is not interesting for me to criticize the President; he now has critics to spare. Especially in the name of the Maidan criticize those who never even came close to the Maidan.\n\n\tI want to reflect on the other side of the conflict. Highly valuing the intellectual and business qualities of Yulia Volodymyrivna, one must note that she is indeed a high-class actress, for how masterfully she hung "noodles on our ears" in the program "I'm Going to Vy". Let us begin with the secret trip to Moscow. Question: why secret, when absolute openness in everything is declared? It is very pleasant that all accusations have been dropped from Yulia Volodymyrivna; it would be good if they were also dropped from other of our worthies – there would be less shame. But Mrs. Yulia is being disingenuous. So, without agreements, without preparation, she went to the Prosecutor General's Office of Russia and over the weekend all her questions were resolved positively, questions that had not been resolved for years! These are children's fairy tales. I am interested in whether the state interests of Ukraine will not have to pay for this when Mrs. Yulia takes the helm of the state? After all, we remember how Lenin paid the Germans with the Brest Peace for help in carrying out the October coup. Especially since Russia does nothing for nothing. All this somehow resembles the times of the Hetmanate, when hetmans one after another traveled to Moscow so that it would promote their Hetmanate. How this ended for the Ukrainian people, and for many of them as well – is known.\n\n\tWhat then aroused admiration for the Russian President in the iron lady Yu.: Chechnya, Beslan, Nord-Ost, or after all his active participation in our last year's presidential race? Patriotic, one can't say anything!\n\n\tNow regarding incomes. Thank God that Yulia Volodymyrivna is not a poor high-ranking official – that is nonsense, for Plato also wrote that poverty is the mother of all vices, and we have no need for flawed first persons of the state. But there is no need to mislead us, for the incomes declared by Yulia Volodymyrivna and her standard of living do not coincide in any way and give rise only to unkind rumors, such as, for example, about the wealth of her daughter (who has just finished her studies), about her ownership of the world's richest granite deposits, etc. So, if we are already inquiring about the cost of the mobile phone of the President's son, then it would not hurt to know about the real incomes of the family of the ex-premier (if she becomes Premier again). For evil tongues are more terrible than a pistol (folk wisdom). Now regarding selfless work for the President. Here too there is guile. I say from the heart that it was very pleasant for us to see on the rostrum of the Maidan, beside Yushchenko, Yulia Tymoshenko too. To hear her voice, but the people standing there did not particularly need to be agitated, but as for the obligations that Yulia Volodymyrivna took upon herself, she did not fulfill them, because the regions assigned to her voted almost entirely for another candidate. So, on her side the agreement was not fulfilled (although – this is the specificity of the region), however Yulia Volodymyrivna firmly demanded the fulfillment of the agreements on Yushchenko's side, including what concerned her premiership. As is known, the President fulfilled the agreement. It seems to me that all these conversations are inappropriate, and we have no need for them either.\n\n\tLa Rochefoucauld was right when he wrote: "We always have enough strength to bear the sufferings of others." So they transfer the misunderstandings at the top onto us, people pay with their health, because everyone has become not indifferent.\n\n\tIn the end, I want to address everyone with the words: "Let us be optimists, let us remember that victories begin with defeats." And may we be lucky.