For a very long time I've been madly loving one woman, but the destiny matched us only in 1997. I was trying to turn her life into a fairy tale, but I turned mine into a hell. And our story has started like a real fairy tale- millions of roses, tenderness and caress with each other. Irina has had a diagnosis that told she couldn't have children at all. I was trying to do everything-possible and impossible, I spending all my time and money in the effort to let her born a child. And then, on January the 25th, 1998,the day of Tatyana, we have got a baby, Tanya (I'm still keeping that note from a hospital- and it still don't let me think that Irina could betray me )

I felt like the most happy in the world, and could hardly suspest that our life will become a tragedy. Before that, Irina had relationships with a man that behaved like her owner, he had no principals and no politeness, he humiliated Irina and treated her like an animal. He was 20 years older than her; Irina worked as an account supervisor in his company.He had his own filling station and (it used to be normal in our country when you run a business) of course, the gangsters' "roof " and support of corrupted person in the Comittee of National Security.

When I was talking with Irina that time, lots of times she was noticing that she was under control and depended from him. Anyway,when our relationships were in progress, she left him. When our daughter was 4 months old, something strange began to happen with Irina-she has become .., often she was leaving our daughter at her mother appartment; when she was visiting her friends, she didn't want me to drop her and pick her up later with my car. I understood that something was going wrong and many times I tried to talk with her, asking if there's still the psychological pressure effected by her ex-mate,Vovchuk V., but she kept silence and denied everything. But I felt that the pressure was being effected, that I must put her out from the dependence she has trapped into. And there was the only way out- to move to another region, and also I've been pushed by the fact that there were no prospectives to live in Kazakhstan anymore. There was no sense to put money into something. I requested Irina to go for a while to Crimea, where my relatives lived, just to check out the situation with jobs and housing. Being in Crimea, she was agree to move, but when we returned, she strongly refused, explaining that she didn't like the that region.

My life started turning into hell. My daughter was often staying at Irina's mother appartment for three, four or even five days. All my requests and claims about her returning home were in vain. I offered Irina to move to any region that she like, but every time when she seemed to agree, she provoced quarrels and our moving was postponed. I couldn't stand such a life. There was only one question in my head:"What is going on?"

It was continuing that way for 2 years. From her word-lacked conversations on phone, I understood that she wanted to move to Germany and to stay there. Everything was becoming more and more complicated. In March,2000 Irina receieved an invitation from Germany; I offered her to go there together, but she refused. It was painful and sad, and again, the question-why? Captured by feelings, I told her that I wouldn't give her the permission to take the daughter. Then she provoced a quarrel and went to her mother.

I met her couple of times later, but she was trying to convince me that she wouldn't go anywhere.After she had gone I still had not being let to meet my baby. It lasted for two months, and during this period she gathered necessary documentation and went to Germany. After my inquiry about the legal basis of her actions to official structures I didn't get a clear response. I felt I was loosing them, and sent letters ( to the german consulate in Almaty and, again, to the officials ) in order to return my daughter taken away illegally.

I have tried to talk with Irina's mother about the reason of an appeared situation. But she just told me: "DID YOU SLEEP WITH HER? YES, YOU DID! AND YOU NEED TO PAY FOR THE JOY." After such words my wish to talk with her disappeared. And I just got more questions about what was going on. After Irina's return, I still couldn't see my daughter-and I felt it was aimed at my girl's forgetting me. And I was being burned by the question-why?

I couldn't stand that suffering. It was terribly painful-to know that your baby is near and not to have an possibility to come to her, to hold her little hand... I was interested about the rights I had to my daughter, and the possible results of my taking her away for some days, so I was consulted by different lawyers. And the answers were similar: me and Irina had equal rights; if I take my baby away, I can't be an object even of an administrative punishment.

It was one of October days when Irina's mother was going for a walk with my baby. I have taken my daughter and went in my car to my friends. 4 happy days we were together. All this time I was being searched by all the police of the city, headed by the Comittee of Natonal Security (CNS).They was coming to my friends' appartments, knowing clearly that my daughter is with me ( I've sent a telegram to Irina's adress, following the lawyers' recommendations).The question appears-where this special care coming from, if the family matter is investigated by the CNS? After this 4 days I returned Tanya, with a condition for them to let me see my daughter anytime. But inspite of this there was a year of infinite courts, police representatives, and even the Organized Criminality Control Department(OCCD). My neighborhood police head Utyugenov M. was just chasing me, looking at my pockets, taking my passport, even the driver licence(!) which was given back to me only after my attorney Kuznetsova I. ordered, and he even me, that he would find a way to put me into a prison.

I was called to OCCD, talked there with the an investigator, Noyarnikov A., described the situation to him, and it seemed like he understood me. He advised me neither to try to meet Irina, nor call her, and offered me to apply to ..., which must determine a time for me to see my daughter. In the end of our conversation he told me in a strange voice:"Leave them alone. SO MUCH PEOPLE GETTING INTO PRISON WITHOUT ANU FAULT... "I applied to the court and ... My lawyer persuasively told me that we would get guaranteed (but in a week this guarantees started to disappear somewhere...) 2 or 4 days for the meetings with Tanya ,and that we wold also apply to the Interior Security Department of the Ministry of Interior Matters, attracting their attention to the rights violation actions of Utyugenov M. I've sent a letter to that department and received the answer- there were no elements of violating of rights in the action of my neighborhood police head. In some time, my lawyer began to avoid meeting me, she only told me that everything would be alright and we would meet in the court. Meeting my baby was prohibited in ... before the court's decision. In the court I was dutied to pass the drug and psychiatric test, including my pedagogical and medical knowledge, and firstly it caused ...and then laughing among the doctors. And I had to pass that humiliative procedure of visiting psychyiatric clinics and passing all possible tests-just for meeting my daughter.Expertise results were more than positive. But nevertheless I was given just 3 hours in aweek, and-in Irina's mother appartment. And even my lawyer told me that it's pretty good and enough, and then "we'll see".And again the question appears-why and on which basis I'm given this tiny period of time, without taking into concsideration the fact that there were 3 documents presented to the court, with my perfect characteristics of mine.

For about a year "law servants" were just wiping their feet on me. After the autmn merry-go-round of OCCD, district and area militia departments, where I was considered as worst sinner, who stole his own son. But I still can't understand how can one steal his own? After all these events, there were silence for a while.

One december evening, I've got a phone call from almost unknown person, Burov V.,he asked me for an appointment, but he didn't want to meet at my or his place. We've made an appointment in a neutral territory in the evening. When we met, he started to tell me some crazy things that made me think deeper abot this. After a couple more meetings in a dark time and empty streets , my attention was drawn to the fact that he himself and guys of his environment started to smoke expensive tobacco, drink expensive beer etc. They've been unemployed before that and ate just bread with salt. That was a sign that they were just matched persons and got a lot of money occasionally. Having analyzed my experience of communication with him, I've realized that somebody hired him as a killer and that money-just a payment in advance.

My thoughts like devils were jumping in my head, it was terribly painful, and the main thought was-could Irina betray me? But the fact was a fact. The murder was ordered and the sponsorship could be only from the side of Ira's ex-mate. I've even counted when it would be-on the 15th of december 2000.

On the 14th of december, passing by the house of one of them, I've reached a little shop and went out to buy some cigarettes. Burov V. that time was in the yard. He came to me, sat into my car, thought for a long time, and then asked to go to the another neighbourhood, and he didn't tell me the adress, asked me to wait , murmuring something not understandable-either he wanted to go somewhere or somebody should come. He came out of my car and went back in 10 minutes with two teenagers of about 18 years of age. I didn't see any harm, and I let them get into the car, and we went. When we reached the place they catched me and started to cut my throat. I managed to get rid of them, with scars left on my neck and hands. And again they've made another wrong step, affirming the order to kill me-they stole some things from the car that they couldn't sell but demonstrate as a proof of finished job and get money to disappear from the city. Next evening I went to the place of the appointment, just to be sured, but, as I supposed, nobody was there.In a week I was in militia, and there I was again warned that I could be placed into prison. The question is-why? My killers were considered as usual hooligans and the case was closed.

Even after that I was eager to meet Irina, talked with her and couldn't understand, why didn't she want to live with me, why did she constantly tell me that she "will not", not "don't want"? I still couldn't meet my baby. To know that they're near and not to have a possibility to see her-it was really hard. I've sold my appartment, my car and went to Crimea to my relatives-to forget that horror, with an attempt to begin a new life, though any event in the life leaves a stamp in the soul. I was acting as an entrepreneur, put in my last money, but couldn't really start business when evil destiny reached me even there...

The man who ordered my murder(and now there's no doubt that it was Vovchuk V.) became nervous or was pride of having financial and CNS support. His son occasionally disappears with his car. Disappears daytime in the crowded city , where such a disappearing can't be unmentioned! In 4 months after I went to Crimea(and I called back home every month) I get known that I am the main suspect in search. But I didn't have any conflicts with Vovchuk and with his son-I didn't ever see him.With the impression of these news, to figure out the situation I went home, going through the whole Kazakhstan without being captured. By my mom's request not to jump into wolf's jaws, I was coming back, in a pretty long way again and still free. How can we understand this? If somebody is in official search, then militia usually comes to his house firstly-to his mother, relatives.It wasn't like that...The same question-why?

Analyzing the events of past years, I clearly understand that the reason of all these problems is Irina's ex-mate who have not only effected pressure to her, but holded her in constant fear and probably made her break the family. I can't believe that after the fate has given us a child Irina could do that.

How low can be the man (if he can be called a man ) if he easily decided how to solve 4 human lifes. To hold a man in a fear, to make my mom suffer, awaring of her son's death-it's just a slayer-I can't match any other word for him. He ordered my murder once and he decided to destroy me totally. And with his "roof" it's real. I don't believe that his son disappeared, and as I know his car was found without any damages in the same city. Not long before my trip to Crimea I've heard that Vovchuk wanted to move to Russian Federation. I'm more than sured that his son lives somewhere in Russia.

I've skipped some facts in this story because I wanted to tell the essence. I didn't mention one more attempt of murdering, and several attempts to burn my car and some other facts. Thank you for having read my story till the end.

I'm not afraid of death, but I'm tired of humiliation and anarchy in official structures. Now I can either prove his fault or find his son. But I need a lot of money for that. I don't expect astronomical sums from everybody, but any support will help, and evil can be punished.

I'm asking everyone for whom human life and the family are of value-please, help me to save my beloved one and my child from this slayer, to prove his fault.

I'm thankful to the people who understood me and help me right now. I hope you will hear my words, too. To win the system we need wide publicity. But we need to do that very fast. Help me play to their game. If you will decide to help, please don't postpone...

14 December, 2001.

Ukraine, Crimea
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