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Natalia Vladimirovna, now much time do we have?
You promised it won't take too much time.
OK, then we'll try to make it faster. Just like my colleagues from 5th channel,
I brought a newspaper, that was distributed to people of Crimea.
[quietly] Oh my God...
You're portrayed her too.
Please, tell us...
Can I take a look?
How did japanese caught sight of you?
Did they visit you or something?
No, they never visited me... It's a big surprise for me too,
I never expected reaction like this.
They turned out to be really...
My character caused some unepected public excitement.
So, you ask me of about some comments?
Well, you never met some japanese people, did you?
No, of course. I never did.
I only took part in some general press conferences with common journalists.
I never had any special meetings with japanese.
I see... Do you watch any cartoons* by any chance?
My child does, not me.
How old is your child?
She's 9 years old.
Natalia Vladimirovna, as I know, you were an eye-witness of Maidan events
And not only Maidan, but all the events in Kiev.
What do you think, could ukrainian general prosecutors' office affect
this situation somehow, maybe do something to prevent it?
I mean, did prosecutors' office stay indiffirent or did they act somehow,
when cases of vandalism, violations, gangsterism occured?
General prosecutors' office was fulfilling all its functions in this period of time.
However, unfortunately the goverment our country had
at that time just seems to... Well, we all saw what happened in the end,
I think they just, well, couldn't handle this situation.
I won't assess the work of our goverment, the previous goverment of Ukraine,
because it's my subjective opinion, and while I'm working on this post, I won't
express my subjective opinion on the work of previous goverment...
The only goverment I consider as a legitimate goverment nowadays.
You mean, if we take it simple, prosecutors' office took some measurements,
but it faced suppresion from the goverment?
You know, in this period of time, when events of Maidan happened,
I had a post of a common functionary: senior prosecutor of the second processual
department. And I was fulfilling my administrative duty.
Our department was on duty in connection with Maidan events, we were collecting
all the information, observe and control it.
We were working and fulfiling our duty, and only it.
I don't know what happened in our goverment, what kind of negotiations,
measurements were plannedand whether they were accomplished or not.
As regards the job of common personnel of prosecutors' office,
everyone was doing it scrupulously, and everyone were understanding,
that our state suffers the rise of... Well, not even gangsterism, but total chaos.
Uncontrollable chaos. Those people who were standing on maidan and
commanding, giving orders to the crowd, they never thought about prosperity,
about safety of citizens of Kiev.
It was just an uncontrollable procces, nobody could control it.
So all the personnel, personnel of general prosecutors' office of Ukraine
In this period of time they all were working and fulfiling their duty.
But we cannot change what happened.
Nowadays general prosecutors' office of Ukraine seems to take a defensive stance,
they think offence is the best kind of defence, so they can only assault us,
including myself, start criminal cases, declare wanted, make court decision
of my arrest.
First of all they should estimate their own actions, their own behavior,
were they acting legally or not themselves.
Natalia Vladimirovna, do you interact with you colleagues from Kiev?
Well, of course I communicate with my friends, including those who stay in
general prosecutors' office of Ukraine. They are noble, high-minded people,
very intelligent. But for some reasons they made their choice, they chose to
stay in Kiev and keep working in this... In this prosecutors' office.
And was your resignation exceptional, or your colleagues did it too?
Well, first of all, some chief personnel did: deputy heads of prosecutors' office,
Viktor Pavlovich Pshonka's assistants, as I know, they wrote resignation reports,
some of them, but I didn't see it, so I cannot make any comments.
Nobody ever showed me resignation reports of personnel, of my colleagues.
I only know and can confirm that I wrote my resignation report myself, when all this
events happened, when acting president Turchinov came to our prosecutors' office,
and introduced acting general prosecutor Machnitsky to us.
Right after that I wrote a resignetion report on my own free will.
But nobody signed it, due to... I don't know the reason actually.
Well, they said that I'm tired, I need to take a rest, come to my sences and
everything will be fine somehow, will be OK.
I expressed my position about all the events in Kiev... I can't understand it,
it's a nazism. I said it openly: this is a rise of nazism! It shouldn't be.
I feel ashamed of our society, I feel ashamed of our generation!
I feel ashamed of the governers, who govern something incomprehensible now.
What and who do they govern now? Nazis?
Same people who killed us? Who killed our grandfathers? Acted as betrayers?
I expressed my own position immediately, I packed my luggage and left Kiev, even
though I was only given a holiday. But I already understood I'll never return there.
As soon as I came home, to my parents, I asked crimean goverment to be admitted,
to help with any work.
I would even print voting papers, provide any help with public work, anything.
And... I didn't know I will take up this post at this moment.
But I'm grateful to crimean goverment, to everyone who showed me this confidence
I can only say I won't disappoint them, and I will do everything for prosperity
of our Crimea. And there will be no lawlessness like in Kiev.
Natalia Vladimirovna, I have another question: what time were you more afraid:
when you struggled for conviction to member of "bashmaki" gang
or while the events in Kiev? Or maybe now, when you're holding this complicated post.
As my colleagues said, it was resigned by four men already.
Well, about "bashmaki" gang, besides this criminal case I had plenty of another cases
that were no less significant and fearful. So...
Yes, of course I was nervous, nervous about my family.
But it is my job.
It is my job, I acted according to the laws, and all the convictions made with
my support are my... My work, and done it well.
And about Maidan events, it's not like it was scary, it was disguisting.
I was ashamed and disguisted. I was ashamed to live in this weird country.
I was just... I wanted to run or fly away somewhere, where noone knows I'm ukrainian
citizen! How can it be? It is absolutely unacceptable.
You mustn't allow this kind of things! You mustn't legalize nazism!
It is absolutely unacceptable.
May I borrow initiative from my colleague of "Komsomolskaya Pravda" and
we cool down a bit?
Tell me please, what laws do you use in your work now, ukrainian or russian?
And do you have enough books for every detective who work at the local level?
Yes, we have enough books everyone. Nowadays we use ukrainian codes.
But we're looking forward to switch to the laws and codes of Russian Federation.
Russian general prosecutors' office should help you with it, doesn't it?
No, we all have to do it, the acting group is created, we're in transitional stage,
the most complicated stage, when we have to switch from ukrainian laws to russian ones.
It shall be done, everyone will work on it, learn again, and everything will be fine!
The laws will function, the law will remain.
This period will last till the end of the year, right?
According to federal constitutional act of reunion with Russian Federation,
from the day of affiliation of Crimean Republic as a new region of Russian
Federation to January 1 January 2015 the period of transition is established.
During this period all the integration issues of new regions of Russian Federation
in economical, financial and legal systems of Russian Federation should be adjusted.
This period lasts to 1dt January, the most complicated period.
Natalia, I have another question: One my friend, a prosecutor from Moscow...
He also usually stays at work on holidays, he said good prosecutor should be
homeless and lonely. Do you agree?
No, good prosecutor should not be homeless and lonely, because...
He should be versatile and have time for everything.
He should both be a good worker, a good prosecutor, but also he has right to have
his own private life, because...
He shouldn't be devoid of anything. Every citizen have this right, prosecutors too.
I also wanted to ask you about your interaction with police, how is it going?
Do you have enough specialists, experts, medical examiners?
Well, we have no lack of personnel, they proceed their work just like they used to.
We have enough medical examiners, criminalists, experts in different spheres.
I think we have enough personnel. Everyone are working on their places.
I have read in "Rossiyskaya Gazeta" that you visit scenes of serious incidents,
like murders. Is it true?
Yes, recently I visited the scene of actio, it was 18th of March, my birthday, and
moreover, the day the act of reunion was signed, it was the best present for me.
It was a historical date.
For Crimea.
It was your birthday?
Yes. I worked at the scene of incident, and I think... It's a hard time now, and
one shouldn't take his private stuff, some ambitions, desires into consideration,
but put all the effort to this transition, setting up the life and only then
things will sort themselves in all the fields of life.
Do any common crimes, murders take place in Crimea now?
I know they always occur in Moscow, for example, and how about Crimea?
Of course they do. Criminals are on their places too, everyone work as usual.
But we disclose and struggle them.
Unfortunately, they didn't leave Crimea, we wish they would, of course.
But they probably want to become russian citizens and keep living
in Republic of Crimea after it becomes a region of Russian Federation.