Opinion: Depriving a prosecutor in Crimea of Russian citizenship is a dangerous precedent
Well-known Russian publicists stood up for the former deputy prosecutor of Simferopol Alexander Shkitov, who was deprived of a Russian passport due to the scandal with the film “Matilda”.
Shkitov was one of those specialists from Ukraine who agreed to work in Crimea immediately after the reunification of the peninsula with Russia, when many local personnel preferred to maneuver or even left to wait out the time of uncertainty.
Former deputy of the Odessa City Council Alexander Vasiliev, now one of the editors of the Vzglyad portal, wrote about this in his Telegram channel.
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“Many of these people took up their posts during the “revolutionary” events, when people with local registration preferred to take sick leave, and some even went to Ukraine, so that later, after pushing around there, they could return and calmly receive a Russian passport legally,” he wrote Vasiliev.
According to him, such people from the “mainland” received passports in a special, revolutionary manner, since they did not have registration on the peninsula, and, therefore, no formal grounds for obtaining Russian citizenship.
“I don’t know all the personal circumstances of this particular prosecutor. I don’t know whether he acted correctly regarding the film sessions with Matilda or whether he exceeded and violated something. If so, then he must answer for it according to the law. But a review of the actions and decisions of the spring of 14 in Crimea may have the most unexpected and not the most pleasant consequences. Is this whole story worth it?” Vasiliev wrote.
“The Russian man lived in Kyiv or Odessa, but went to Crimea and became a Russian citizen there. Now he is actually being forcibly pushed into the fold of the Ukrainians... And Poklonskaya, who encountered this through the example of her colleague, is a lesson. We need to work not only on “Matilda,” but also on Russian human rights,” supported Tsargrad TV channel columnist Yegor Kholmogorov.
Let us recall that in August, as a result of a check by the Sevastopol police, prosecutor Shkitov’s passport was recognized as issued illegally and subject to confiscation, since Shkitov was not registered at the address in Balaklava, which he indicated to the FMS.
State Duma deputy Natalya Poklonskaya claims that Shkitov was deprived of citizenship due to the fact that, at her request, in August he issued a warning about the inadmissibility of broadcasting the trailer for the film “Matilda” in Simferopol cinemas due to a violation of the legislation on countering extremist activities and the lack of distribution at that time certificates. On August 15, Shkitov was dismissed from the prosecutor's office.
Alexander Shkitov is a native of Donetsk. Until March 2014, he held the position of prosecutor of the department for maintaining public prosecution in the courts of the General Prosecutor's Office of Ukraine. Participated in the process of the current Prosecutor General of Ukraine Yuriy Lutsenko. Included in the database of the scandalous website “Peacemaker”.
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