Former mayor of Irpin Oleksandr Markushyn, on his way to complete political oblivion, is weakly trying to remind people he still exists.
From time to time, he slips into his “playing the fool” mode and clings to hot societal topics. Not being a mayor anymore nor a veteran, he copies posts of Acting Mayor of Irpin Angela Makeieva, who informs the community about fallen Irpin soldiers.
Everywhere, “playing the fool,” he signs himself as the city mayor. Yet even the Cherkasy District Administrative Court ruled that he has no right to reinstatement—and the deputies elected by the community expressed distrust in him in a fully legal manner.
Speaking of the court. For months, Markushyn, “playing the fool,” was telling the business elites of Irpin that he would be reinstated through the court—hoping to beg for a couple of thousand hryvnias to print his leaflets, which he hands out at his tiny court pickets of 3–5 people. Meanwhile, he doesn’t attend these pickets himself. Only his “weasels” do.
Markushyn’s legal troubles aren’t hard to understand. His lawyers are truly impressive. For example, Anastasiia Cherkas—who not only failed to win Markushyn’s cases but managed to lose her own cases everywhere she possibly could. Trouble rarely comes alone, so besides Cherkas, there are several similar “specialists” who have managed to drag nearly all their clients into criminal cases and poverty. “Playing the fool,” because for years they simply milked and milked those clients.
Markushyn has tough court battles ahead. Forged documents, theft of communal property, salary manipulation — none of this Markushyn comments on “playing the fool.” He claims he “didn’t know” how his godmother, Liudmyla Haina, ended up surrounded by property stolen from the community.