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Donetsk Judge in Suspicious Car Accident
Judge Ivan Podolyanchuk of the Kirov District Court in Donetsk, who prevented Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko's decision to dismiss two Constitutional Court judges from being enforced, was in a car accident yesterday morning on Ermolaev St. in Donetsk while on his way to work. “Suddenly a VAZ-2102 or VAZ-21013 automobile came onto the oncoming lane and caused a dangerous situation. I drove into the ditch and hot a tree trying to avoid a collision,” the judge recounted. He was taken to a hospital with bruises on the head and chest and later released.
Chairman of the Kirov District Court Anatoly Livada, whom Podolyanchuk contacted shortly after the incident, provided Kommersant with additional details. “Immediately after the accident, two unidentified persons ran from the VAZ and seized a bag with personal papers and food from Podolyanchuk's cars. They threw those items away near the car. But a keychain with the keys to his office were missing from his affects,” Livada said. “The victim doesn't remember the attackers, since he had just struck the windshield in the collision and does not remember the events completely clearly.”
On May 10, Podolyanchuk issued a ruling in a suit by Party of the Region MP Alexander Zats's to have the Ukrainian president's actions to dismiss Constitutional Court Judges Valery Pshenichny and Suzanna Stanik illegal and stopped the president's orders from being enforced. Deputy chief of the president's secretariat Igor Pukshin opined that Podolyanchuk lacked the authority to make that ruling, since the MP's rights were not violated by the president's orders.
Party of the Regions MP Elena Bondarenko called the road incident “banditry.” “The secretariat has turned into a den of bandits, who will, I'm sure answer for their criminal punitive crime,” she said. Igor Zhdanov, deputy chairman of the executive committee of the pro-presidential Our Ukraine Party, stated that he had information that the judge was to reconsider his decision that day. “We do not exclude the possibility that the court would reverse its previous decision… forces that are trying to reverse the orders are the interested parties in what happened,” he said.
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All the Article in Russian as of May 17, 2007
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