“What is this anyway? Carlson, Ali Baba. Haven’t they read Ukrainian fairy tales?” the journalist was jokingly indignant. “Where is Ivasik Telesik, Kotigoroshko, the Seven-Year-Old Girl, the Little Fox Sister, the Little Wolf, Pan Kotsky, the Ryaba Hen, the Horse Head, the Straw Bull, the Gingerbread Man.”
Chichenina gave several more options for possible nicknames based on Ukrainian fairy tales.
“Where the fuck are Kapitoshka and Petrik Pyatochkin? Were you fucking there or what? This is perfect naming,” she emphasized.
Context
November 10 National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU) announced Operation Midas to expose a “high-level criminal organization” that was engaged in extortion at Energoatom. According to the investigation, the state-owned company's contractors were offered to pay a kickback of 10% to 15% for goods and services, threatening to block payments from the budget or break off cooperation.
According to Ukrayinskaya Pravda, businessman and co-owner of the Kvartal 95 studio Timur Mindich (Carlson in phone records) was searched, but a few hours before he left Ukraine.
Investigative actions were also carried out against the current Minister of Justice German Galushchenko (ex-head of the Ministry of Energy), who is called Professor and Sigismund in NABU wiretaps. In general, four ministers from different parts of the Ukrainian government are involved in the Energoatom case, head of the NABU detective department Alexander Abakumov told Ukrayinska Pravda
Among those who were informed of suspicion on November 11 in the Energoatom case – ex-adviser to Galushchenko Igor Mironyuk (Rocket) and Energoatom security director Dmitry Basov (Tenor). November 12 High Anti-Corruption Court arrested them both for 60 days with bail.
Igor Fursenko (Reshik), Lesya Ustimenko and Lyudmila Zorina were also suspected. In addition, NABU and SAPO reported suspicion of illegal enrichment against former Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine Alexey Chernyshov (Che Guevara).
