Senior Russian TV Host Dmitri Kisiliov: Freed Ukrainian Pilot Savchenko Reminds Me of a Serial Killer

The Russian media has been reporting extensively, with a negative slant, on the release of Ukrainian pilot Nadezhda Savchenko in efforts to predict her political future vis-à-vis the Ukrainian establishment, given her status as a national symbol. Senior TV host Dmitri Kisiliov, speaking on his Sunday evening show on the Russia 1 channel on May 29, said: "Some analysts say that Savchenko will be a nightmare for an unpopular regime, while others say that she will come to a bad end - she will be killed."

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Dmitri Kisiliov: [Freed Ukrainian pilot] Nadezhda Savchenko has declared that she is ready to fight again, which means that she is ready to kill again. Her dream is to drink a couple of liters of vodka, to start with. Personally, this reminds me of the words of the "Bitzevo Park maniac" Pichushkin, who is serving a life sentence for the murder of 49 people:" "If I were released right now, first, I would kill a couple of people, rape a woman, and then have some vodka. After that, fate will tell." What fate will be for Savchenko nobody knows. But they are afraid of her unpredictability, her maniacal decisiveness, and her wild nature. Poroshenko is afraid Timoshenko is also afraid. Parliament members are afraid, and journalists are afraid.

Savchenko, with her exaggerated self-esteem and her fictitious high values, will hardly fit into the modern Ukrainian political reality, where the corruption starts from the top down - beginning with an "off-shore president" - where the state has deteriorated like nowhere else in Europe, and where the slogan "Hooray to Ukraine, Hooray to the Heroes" is as empty as a deafening drum. The political "vinaigrette" in Ukraine is an exotic mixture, including the fugitive former Georgian President Saakashvili, who calls the government "a bunch of mediocre people," and now Anders Fogh Rasmussen, the former NATO secretary-general, who joins as a political adviser to the president. It is worth mentioning that he was the dumbest secretary-general of NATO. Do you remember when he came to Putin with a recording device, and a microphone peeking out of his pocket, like a comicbook spy? Some analysts say that Savchenko will be a nightmare for an unpopular regime, while others say that she will come to a bad end - she will be killed.

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