Ivan Malkovych, owner and director of the publishing house A-Ba-Ba-Ha-La-Ma-Ha announced the raiders attack on the premises of the publishing house in downtown Kyiv through a report to pravda.com.ua. This is the building on 1/2 Baseina Street, where the Revutsky State Academic Male Choir of Ukraine and the publishing house A-Ba-Ba-Ha-La-Ma-Ha is located.
Svitlana Zorina, head of Chief Directorate of Culture at Kyiv City State Administration reported at the KCSA board meeting that on the night of November 7 employees of LLC Tryhlif began the eviction of Revutsky Chapel. “It was the third attempt to evict the Chapel at night. This building is in municipal ownership. But it was passed from municipal ownership to a private firm LLC Tryhlif that works on renovating this building. Today 70 people (employees) present at the premises are being evicted. It’s been the third time for the Chief Directorate of Culture to begin its work at 8 a.m. with the same issue. Piano and other instruments that should not be moved unprofessionally were taken out from the building,” said Zorina.
Oleksandr Bryhynets, deputy of Kyiv City Council said that this was not the first attempt to seize the building of the publishing house and the chapel. According to him, on August 20, 2011 representatives of the LLC Tryhlif “rushed into the Chapel premises through the hole (3 meters wide) illegally cut in the floor and by doing so turned the monument listed in the Ukraine’s Code of Monuments of History and Culture into an emergency state building.” Bryhynets stated: “People at the Revutsky Chapel have long suspected that the destruction of premises was related to the attempt of one of the businesses, which owns part of the building, to grab some extra space for themselves. The Chapel hoped to resolve the issue peacefully and appealed to the Commission on Technogenic and Ecological Safety and Emergencies at KCSA.” Press service of Bryhynets reported that “Government did not respond to the appeals of the Chapel. Thus, the acts and conclusions of KCSA regarding the examination of the monument building of the Revutsky Chapel led to the eviction of the Chapel.”
Olha Tkachenko, chief administrator of Revutsky Chapel told The Day: “We will fight! I recall when in summer the firm Tryhlif for unknown reasons cut a hole in the floor of our room. Later its representatives told us that the premises are in emergency state. They promised to help us and do the revamp within two months. But it is impossible. We do not understand why would they do anything to the chorus class (now LLC Tryhlif has its office under the Chapel room and according to the company’s plans they want to raise the ceiling for 1.5 meters and by doing so they would take over a part of our space). When we arrived to work at 8 a.m., we saw a horrible picture: the whole floor was removed, instruments and cabinets moved away – it seemed as if though a tornado had swept in there. It is intolerable when the property of others is treated in such a barbarian manner! The company’s goal is to evict us from the building by all means (after the vandal actions they have done today the singers can not rehearse in there anymore) and whatever they think is necessary. We raised the alarm, appealed to the authorities (Hanna Herman, adviser to the president of Ukraine, head of the Chief Department of Humanitarian and Sociopolitical Issues of Administration has been here today, has seen everything with her own eyes, and promised to help), and called for an emergency meeting of KCSA to address the issue. We are also thankful to all mass media representatives for their concern. Only together we can put limits to raider attacks which have become numerous these days!”
