A new twist in the death of Lyudmila Bratash. Only in the new program of Channel Five "": the conclusion about the death of a business woman who bequeathed her millions to Nikita Dzhigurda, and photographs from the scene of a possible murder, which have been classified all this time!

- The position of the victim and the attacker at the moment of inflicting the blow could be any convenient for inflicting them ... Bratash Lyudmila Jonatanovna, 56 years old ... death came from a traumatic brain injury, accompanied by fractures of the bones of the base of the skull,- reads extracts from the death report, which were at the disposal of Channel Five.

- Based on the nature of Lyudmila Bratash's injuries, which consist of bruises on the face, bruises on the temples, lacerations and bruises, severe bruises in the chest and other parts of the body; this indicates that her death could only be of a criminal, violent nature,- added lawyer Oksana Filacheva.

However, a criminal case has not yet been initiated. For two years, not a single suspect has appeared. "Why?" - the showman Nikita Dzhigurda is surprised. All this time he is trying to find at least some new clue in the case.

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Experts, having seen the conclusion about death, make an unambiguous conclusion. In the blood of Svetlana Bratash, 1.6 ppm of alcohol was found; according to experts, this is a low degree of intoxication. That is, the woman was sane!

Experts confirm Dzhigurda's fears - Bratash could not fall from a height of her own height and get three head injuries at once! And also abrasions, bruises on the face and a wound in the temporal region: this is clearly visible in the photographs. After all, she was in adequate condition. Is this really murder? Then the question arises - who benefited from the death of a businesswoman?

- And on the 14th, on the surveillance cameras it can be seen, and on other days, that is, in the last week only came to her ... Kuronov with his wife and with some others,- said Nikita Dzhigurda.

Oleg Kuronov is a former driver of Bratash. But why should he kill the mistress of the millionaire, if she made a will on Nikita Dzhigurda and Marina Anisina?

- Two days before the mysterious death, Bratash withdrew 300 thousand euros from the bank, withdrew and did not deliver them. And on February 13, the day before her death, she called me, sobbing, shouting: "They stole the money that I took from the bank."- said Dzhigurda.

The Kuronov family does not deny their frequent visits to Lyudmila Bratash.

“Yes, I went to see her all week before my death, so what? I went - what was that a crime? .. Yes, we drove, everything was fine with her,- said Lianna Kuronova.

Nikita Dzhigurda stands his ground: Lyudmila in recent months was afraid of her former driver and even wrote several statements to the police against him!

The Kuronov family turns from defense to attack: the will, or rather its copy, which Nikita Dzhigurda waves at every corner - in their opinion, a fake! In the USA, where the document was signed, Lyudmila did not go.

- He came up with all this, yes, he just wants to get free money. According to the legislation, there is no document, no! The man was not in America that year. Moreover, this American embassy sent a document that she did not cross the US border,- said the wife of Oleg Kuronov.

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Nikita Dzhigurda has a different version: Bratash went to America immediately after their joint vacation in Turkey.

- Lucy flew with us to Turkey, and from Turkey flew through Europe to America. She had several passports, and the status was such that she could fly anywhere in the world,- said Nikita Dzhigurda.

As for the will - yes, indeed, there is no original. Dzhigurda assures that unknown persons stole him from an apartment in Paris. But there is a copy certified by an American notary.

The death of a person dear in all senses for two years has not allowed Nikita Dzhigurda to sleep peacefully. He and his lawyers insist on an additional and thorough investigation of the mysterious death of Lyudmila Bratash.

- The question is that a criminal case on the fact of her death has not yet been initiated. Why does Romanov support Kuronov in every possible way?- asks the lawyer Oksana Filacheva.

Svetlana Romanova is Bratash's sister. After her death, she started a war with Dzhigurda. Still, such an inheritance is at stake: three apartments in Moscow, an apartment in France and overseas accounts, "crammed" to overflowing. More than 800 million rubles in total!

For two years now, Svetlana Romanova and Nikita Dzhigurda have been exchanging insults and incriminating each other in lies. The artist shows one of the new incriminating evidence - a lease agreement for an apartment, which is included in the inheritance case. The landlord's name is Dmitry Romanov, that is, the son of Svetlana. But this is a direct violation of the law: while the courts are going on, the property cannot be used.

Svetlana Romanova insists: all the troubles in her sister's life are from Nikita Dzhigurda. He pulled money out of her, soldered her, and when she was in an altered consciousness, he forced her to sign a will!

The story of the relationship between Nikita Dzhigurda and Lyudmila Bratash is more like a confusing movie script. In the 90s, they even thought to get married, but the artist met the skater Marina Anisina. Bratash remained a friend of the family. Now Anisina and Dzhigurda are fighting together for the will that Lyudmila Bratash left them. If they win, they will appear in the family.

Image copyright UNIAN Image caption All holders of Ukrainian biometric passports, including tens of thousands of residents of Crimea, will be able to use the visa-free regime with the EU

Among those who will be able to take advantage of the "visa-free" are tens of thousands of Crimean residents who received passports with a two-headed eagle on the cover after the annexation of the peninsula by Russia, but retained their blue books with a trident.

For many Crimeans, a Ukrainian passport has previously represented the only opportunity to travel abroad - a number of countries do not recognize documents issued by Russia to residents of the peninsula.

In Kiev, the discussion continues on whether it is worth allowing the residents of Crimea, which is an "occupied territory" under Ukrainian law, to fully benefit from the visa-free regime.

Two passports

“I don’t think anyone can say for sure how many people with both Ukrainian and Russian passports live in Crimea,” Dmitry Tymchuk, a member of the Ukrainian parliament and a member of the national security and defense committee, told the BBC.

In March 2014, after the annexation of Crimea, the Russian parliament adopted a law according to which Ukrainian citizens living on the peninsula were recognized as Russian citizens.

Image copyright Getty AFP Image caption In the spring of 2014, Russia recognized all residents of the annexed Crimea as its citizens

Those who did not want to transfer to Russian citizenship had to report this to the competent authorities. Those who did not do this, Russia automatically considers "its own", even if they have not physically received passports of citizens of the Russian Federation, or if they have valid Ukrainian documents in their hands.

Kiev adopted its own law in the spring of 2014, according to which "forced automatic acquisition of Russian citizenship by Crimeans" is not recognized by Ukraine and is not a reason for the loss of Ukrainian citizenship. "

According to experts, the overwhelming majority of Crimean residents received Russian passports: some for patriotic motives, others because the presence of these documents greatly facilitates life on the peninsula.

But in the same way, hundreds of thousands of Crimeans continue to remain citizens of Ukraine, and the blue passport is kept by both pro-Ukrainian residents of Crimea and supporters of the annexation of the peninsula to Russia.

Image copyright UNIAN Image caption Kiev states: how many Crimeans have both Russian and Ukrainian passports - it's hard to say

"Intermediate state"

"I would not say that I feel like a citizen of Ukraine, but at the same time, I am somehow not a citizen of Russia either ... It seems to me that many people [living in Crimea] found themselves in some intermediate state, when we seem to not Ukrainians, but many do not feel themselves Russians either, "says Oksana, a 24-year-old resident of Sevastopol, to the BBC.

In March 2014, she, like all her friends and relatives, voted in a referendum unrecognized by the world community for the annexation of Crimea to Russia.

Image copyright UNIAN Image caption Some Crimeans defiantly burned their passports, others left them behind. "You never know when you might need Ukrainian citizenship," they said.

However, unlike some Crimeans, the citizen of Ukraine did not defiantly destroy her passport: "It would be illogical to renounce Ukrainian citizenship, because you never know when you might need it."

Soon after the "referendum", it turned out that one of the areas where a Ukrainian passport might be needed is the trips of Crimeans abroad - in particular, to Western countries.

"Visa genocide"

In 2014, all consulates of Western countries operating on the peninsula were closed: the international community did not recognize the annexation of Crimea to Russia.

Accordingly, the Western countries did not recognize the Crimeans applying for Russian citizenship and the issuance of Russian passports to them.

As a result, obtaining a visa to travel to the west with a Russian passport issued in Crimea proved to be extremely problematic.

The embassies of Western states both in Ukraine and in Russia inform applicants on their websites: residents of Crimea, regardless of their citizenship, must apply for visas at Kiev diplomatic missions.

Image copyright UNIAN Image caption Western countries advise Crimeans who hold Russian passports to apply for visas at Kiev diplomatic missions

An employee of one of the Moscow travel agencies tells the BBC that she knows of cases when holders of Russian passports issued in Crimea received Schengen visas, albeit after undergoing additional procedures.

"In general, all consulates are advised to obtain visas with Ukrainian passports, if there is such an opportunity, because they are more loyal to them," she sums up.

The Russian Foreign Ministry has repeatedly called this practice of Western countries "visa genocide" of Crimeans and said that Moscow is waging "heavy battles" with Brussels in order to change this situation. However, the results of these battles are not yet visible.

All in Kherson?

Meanwhile, in the unofficial competition of Russian and Ukrainian passports for Crimeans, the latter has one more argument.

This Sunday, June 11, the long-awaited visa-free travel regime for Ukrainians to the countries of the European Union will come into effect. The innovation will apply to all citizens of Ukraine, that is, to residents of Crimea who keep Ukrainian documents.

One clarification: only holders of biometric foreign passports of Ukraine, which Kiev began to issue in January 2015, that is, after the annexation of the peninsula, will be able to travel to Europe without visas.

Did this become an obstacle for those Crimeans who wanted to issue documents of a new type? From the data of the State Migration Service of Ukraine (GMSU) - the body authorized to issue passports, it seems that no.

Image copyright UNIAN Image caption Tens of thousands of Crimean residents have obtained new Ukrainian passports over the past two years

The department told the BBC that, since January 2015, Ukrainian citizens registered in Crimea and Sevastopol have issued about 47 thousand Ukrainian passports.

At the same time, the HMSU noticed that not all of these documents are biometric, and that some of the holders of new passports are only registered in Crimea, actually living in the part of Ukraine controlled by Kiev.

“My old passport was running out, and I often visit Kiev for work. On one of my visits I made a new passport, biometric. Without any problems, delays. Very cool,” says Ivan, 45, a resident of Simferopol.

However, the majority of Crimeans, according to the SMSU, issue passports in the Kherson region - the closest region of Ukraine to the annexed peninsula.

“Here, in Kherson, we observe a situation when buses arrive at the HMSU unit every hour, Crimeans get out of them, get in line. Local residents sometimes just leave there with the words“ It’s not clear whether this is generally a Kherson administration or a Crimean one, ”says Bi -bi-si coordinator of the Kherson branch of the civic initiative "CrimeaSOS" Alexey Tilnenko.

Image copyright UNIAN Image caption Years of negotiations on granting Ukraine a visa-free regime with the EU end with visible results in the summer of 2017

The HMSU emphasizes: legally, the procedure for issuing passports is the same for all citizens of Ukraine, there are no special conditions for obtaining biometric documents for Crimeans.

"Stay at home"

Another thing is that not everyone likes this situation. Quite a few Ukrainians consider the receipt of a visa-free regime by Kiev as "an achievement of the Maidan."

In their understanding, Ukraine "suffered" the "visa-free", and it seems to many residents of Ukraine to "share" it with the Crimeans - people who at a critical moment for the state massively supported the accession of the peninsula to Russia wrong.

The activists even placed billboards in Kherson and near the city, half of which are decorated with an inscription in Russian, which, among other things, says: “Traitors and collaborators! Why did you come? For a Ukrainian passport? interested? "

Perhaps this is the position that the President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko appealed to at his recent press conference, stating that the Ukrainians of Crimea will be able to take advantage of the visa-free regime only when Crimea is returned to Ukraine.

"Now these advantages can be used by temporarily displaced persons after the appropriate procedure. We must be very responsible for each biometric passport issued by the Ukrainian authorities," the president said at the time.

Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Recently, Petro Poroshenko proposed to issue old-style passports to residents of Crimea, which do not allow visa-free entry to the EU.

A few days later, Poroshenko proposed to issue old-style foreign passports to Crimeans that do not give the right to visa-free travel to the EU.

And although the State Migration Service refused to comment on Poroshenko's statements, the president's words discouraged the expert community.

Some observers called the use of a certain special procedure for obtaining a biometric passport by a separate category of Ukrainian citizens a violation of the obligations undertaken by Ukraine to the EU.

Others wondered what to do with the thousands of biometric passports already received by the Crimeans according to the current rules.

Nonetheless, Dmitry Tymchuk of the Verkhovna Rada's National Security and Defense Committee sees logic in the presidential stance.

"On the one hand, the residents of Crimea should have all the privileges and bonuses that the citizens of Ukraine have. But if they have them in full, living in the occupied Crimea, then the question arises: why would they even strive for Crimea to return to the composition of Ukraine? " he says to the BBC.

Do not create barriers

However, there is another point of view. The already mentioned Kherson billboards also contain an inscription in Ukrainian: "Brothers, Crimeans-Ukrainians! Although you are under Russian occupation, we are always glad to see you here. Europe opens its doors for you. Get biometric passports and travel freely around the civilized world. Good luck! "

Another deputy of the Ukrainian parliament, deputy head of the human rights committee, and at the same time a consultant to the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar people banned in Russia, Georgy Logvinsky, is convinced that Kiev should refrain from creating any obstacles on the way for Crimeans to obtain biometric "visa-free" passports.

“We must fight not for territories, but for people. We must give them some bonuses so that they feel more like Ukrainians in this territory, so that it is interesting and profitable for them to remain Ukrainians,” he tells the BBC.

And the fact that absolutely pro-Russian Crimeans will take advantage of the "visa-free travel" suffered by Kiev is not a problem, he said.

Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Many Ukrainians believe that the use of "visa-free" will increase the loyalty of the Crimeans to the Ukrainian government

"I am very loyal [to all] people who are there [in Crimea]. Even when a person shouts" Crimea is ours! "- this is a product of the strongest propaganda, a product of brainwashing," explains Logvinsky.

Are the hopes of Ukrainian politicians and public figures justified that the active use of blue biometric passports will increase the loyalty of Crimeans to Ukraine and the current Ukrainian government?

On the one hand, says Ivan from Simferopol, an acquaintance of his, who once came to Kiev for a visa to one of the Western countries, "he was convinced with his own eyes that they don't beat people here on the streets for the Russian language, which is already a lot."

On the other hand, there is the opinion of Oksana, a resident of Sevastopol, who plans to issue a biometric passport with a blue cover in the near future.

"I pursue purely pragmatic goals. I want to go somewhere - and it will be easier for me to use a Ukrainian passport for this, nothing more," she explains her motivation to the BBC.

"I'm in no hurry there"

One way or another, the State Migration Service says that after Brussels officially announced the start date of the visa-free regime for Ukraine, in Kherson, unlike Kiev, Kharkov and Dnipro, there is no particular excitement around obtaining biometric passports.

Ivan from Simferopol says that his acquaintances are really in no hurry to draw up new documents, trying to first make sure how the visa-free regime will work.

There are quite a few people in Crimea who are not going to get a biometric passport, although they have such an opportunity.

Image copyright UNIAN Image caption There is no particular excitement in the Kherson passport processing centers, they say in the State Migration Service of Ukraine

Among them is a 46-year-old civil servant from Sak Nikita, who has a valid Ukrainian passport of the old model and a freshly received passport with a two-headed eagle on the cover.

He does not plan to apply for a Ukrainian biometric passport, even after it became known that soon with new documents it would be possible to freely travel to EU countries.

"You can't buy me with these gingerbreads. Let's just say I'm in no hurry to go there," he busily tells the BBC.

“I believe that with my Russian passport I can travel to other places where there is something to see,” sums up Nikita.

EU representative persuades Crimeans to become citizens of Ukraine in order to use "visa-free"

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Press Secretary of the European Union Delegation to Ukraine David Stulik said that residents of Crimea will be able to travel to the EU without a visa only if they have a biometric passport of a citizen of Ukraine. He announced this at a press conference in Kiev, UNIAN reports.

“There is a growing interest in being a Ukrainian citizen, which is a very important message for the residents of Crimea and the occupied territories (Donbass - Rosbalt), because there are many people there, for example, in Crimea, who want to travel to the EU. Now they are given the opportunity - either you travel with Russian passports, apply for visas, pay 60 euros - or you have a biometric passport of a Ukrainian citizen, and you travel without visas, ”Stulik said.

“This message should be used by Ukraine in its information policy for these territories, it shows how important and necessary it is to be a citizen of Ukraine ... I think that for many people this will be a certain argument to change their minds about what is happening there,” added the press Secretary.

“The EU, within the framework of its policy of non-recognition of the illegal annexation of Crimea, also does not recognize Russian passports issued in Crimea after the annexation. That is, you cannot enter the EU with these passports, you can only with the passport of Ukraine ... or with those passports of the Russian Federation that were issued by the consulates of the Russian Federation on the territory of Crimea earlier. That is, there are restrictions for residents of Crimea, because de jure they are residents of Ukraine, ”the press attaché said.

We will remind, on April 6, the European Parliament voted to simplify the visa regime for citizens of Ukraine who have a biometric passport and go to the EU on short-term trips. It was reported that in the first hours after this news, the Ukrainian official website for issuing foreign passports "collapsed".

The liberalization of the departure order is expected to take effect in early June.

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