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Mr Firtash admitted to US Ambassador Taylor during a meeting held in December 2008 that he had been given support for entering into the energy businessman in the 1990s by mafia boss Semyon Mogilevich (http://www.wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/08KYIV2414_a.html) Mogilevich was also protected by the Russian leadership through to 2008 on the eve of the removal of RosUkrEnergo.

The FBI has long had Mogilevich and his associate Igor Fisherman on their top ten wanted list (http://www.fbi.gov/wanted/topten/semion-mogilevich/view/; http://www.fbi.gov/wanted/cei/igor-lvovich-fisherman). The FBI accuse Mogilevich and his associates of laundering ten billion dollars through the Bank of New York, stealing $1.2 billion in World Bank loans and being behind a $150 million scam on the Toronto Stock Exchange.---

Another source of funding for these projects that are close to the heart of patriotic Ukrainians is profits from Firtash’s expanded business empire since 2010 that have established a monopoly in the chemicals industry. Ukrayinsky Tyzhden reported on conditions at Azot, a chemical fertilizer plant in Severodonetsk where ‘the conditions there became prison-like’ and ‘the employees are treated no better than cannon fodder.’ ‘Firtash’s executives have been cutting production lines and letting people go on a massive scale and out of the public eye at all the plants bought by the oligarch, especially in the Luhansk Oblast. Those who remain face new, tougher working conditions’ (http://ukrainianweek.com/Society/62438). ‘Today, Azot is a jail behind barbed wire,’ Oleksiy, a worker at one of the workshops, explains. ‘We are paid peanuts compared to many less profitable plants in Donbas. An average salary here is UAH 3,000 ($375),’ Ukrayinsky Tyzhden continued.

During a visit to Ukraine’s Bukovyna region on Oct. 2, the head of Russia’s Orthodox Church opened a new monastery, prayed for President Viktor Yanukovych and presented special honors to two of Ukraine’s most influential yet controversial individuals: Energy Minister Yuriy Boyko and billionaire Dmytro Firtash.---

Firtash, who kick-started his business career while living in Chernivtsi region in the 1990s, has in prior years been a partner of Russian energy giant Gazprom in the multi-billion-dollar business of supplying Ukraine with natural gas. Firtash and Gazprom co-own Swiss-registered RosUkrEnergo, which controlled the supply of gas to Ukraine from 2004 until Yulia Tymoshenko -- as prime minister in 2009 -- cut out the middlemen trader as part of an agreement with her Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin. Tymoshenko is currently facing up to 10 years behind bars if found guilty by a Kyiv court of exceeding authority while brokering that agreement. Ukrainian prosecutors say the agreement introduced gas import prices that are ruinous for Ukraine's economy.

Boyko served as Ukraine’s Energy Minister when RosUkrEnergo was first brought in to a dominant role in energy relations between Ukraine and Russia.

According to sources and documents, the authenticity of which Boyko has neither confirmed nor denied despite inquiries from journalists, he held power-of-attorney over Firtash’s assets and represented him in a divorce.

Semion Yudkovich Mogilevich (… born June 30, 1946) is a Ukrainian-born [Jewish] organized crime boss, believed by European and United States federal law enforcement agencies to be the “boss of bosses” of most Russian Mafia syndicates in the world. He is believed to direct a vast criminal empire and is described by the FBI as “the most dangerous mobster in the world”.

In spite of Mogilevich’s activities and the warrants issued against him, according to the FBI his primary residence is still Moscow.
The following is from “When Victims Rule”:
Banking throughout the world, and throughout history, has always had a high Jewish involvement. Among the most sinister Russian Jewish thugs today is Semion Mogilevich, who the Village Voice headlined in 1998 as the “world’s most dangerous gangster.” Mogilevich, with a base in Brighton Beach, has also acquired Israeli citizenship and reportedly runs international “torture,” prostitution, and drug rings. He heads a criminal group called the Red Mafia, of which “many of the organization’s 250 members are his relatives.” They also trade in illegal nuclear materials and legally purchased “the entire Hungarian armaments industry.” He also “bought a string of nightclubs in Prague, Riga, and Kiev known as the “black and white clubs’ which became notorious centres of prostitution … After the breakup of the Soviet Union [he] is reputed to control almost everything that passes in and out of Sheremetyero Airport, Moscow’s principal international terminal.”
In 1999 Mogilevech turned up again in the news. The International Monetary Fund was embroiled in controversy when it was discovered that billions of dollars lent to the Russian government had been laundered into private hands. The Wall Street Journal called it “one of the biggest money-laundering schemes to be uncovered in the United States.” The Jewish-centered scandal (never publicly named as such) broke at the Bank of New York where Lucy Edwards (originally named Ludmilla Pritzker; married to Jewish Russian banker Peter Berlin, a “reputed Mogilevech lieutenant”) and Natasha Garfinkel Kagalovsky were placed “on unpaid leave while investigations continued. Both women are beloved to work in the bank’s Eastern Europe department and are married to Russians. The central character in the investigation [is] Mogilevech.”

Around 2,000 Russian supporters gathered in Lenin Square, where there is a statue of the Soviet state founder, clapping along to nostalgic Soviet era songs being sung from the stage, Reuters said.

"Everything is fine. Everyone is in place," Taruta said. "One bit of help that I need to do my job - a rapid response to personnel appointments, because there is sabotage from the side of the security forces, and therefore I need assistance."