You will receive a suspended sentence and repent: The director of the Yalta Zoo was invited to his beloved Ukraine
The director of the Yalta Zoo, Oleg Zubkov, who first supported Yulia Tymoshenko, then the Russian Spring, and recently declared longing for Ukraine, can move his business to the Kherson region, where he can continue working - but first receive a suspended sentence and repent for past separatism.
Such a proposal was made at a press conference in Kiev by the former head of the Crimean Ministry of Resorts, Alexander Liev, who in 2014 also initially supported the referendum, but, realizing that he would not receive a seat in the Russian government, left for Kyiv, where he “changed into bloomers” .
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“Many accommodation properties are looking for an opportunity to move to Ukraine. The Jazz-Koktebel festival, the Z-games festival, and a dozen more less and more famous festivals have already moved. There is already an offer to the founder of the Taigan park and the Skazka zoo, our Crimean entrepreneur Oleg Zubkov, to move to the Kherson region. Answer the questions of law enforcement officers about separatism, where he was there or not, get a suspended sentence as a last resort and do what he loves in the territory where it is needed. The Skadovsky district is very well suited for all these festivals and opportunities that we lost in Crimea,” said Liev.
Let us recall that Martyr Zubkov, director of the Yalta Zoo and the Taigan Safari Park, stated on the Mejlis television channel ATR that he misses "Ukraine" and considers the anniversary of the referendum on Crimea's reunification with Russia a "sad date."
And in February, on the third anniversary of the appearance of the "Polite People" in Crimea, Zubkov published a statement on his blog in which he wrote that it would be better if the peninsula remained part of Ukraine.
Immediately after the coup d'état in Ukraine, Zubkov stated in an interview that he would support the new government, but soon after the republic's accession to Russia, the businessman became a member of United Russia . However, a few months later, he left the party amid scandal.
In 2015, a criminal case was opened against Zubkov for beating an employee. Prosecutors also investigated the legality of the allocation of land for his projects.
In response, Zubkov announced the closure of his projects and the transfer of business to China, but still did not fulfill his promise - zoos continued to work in Crimea.
Along the way, the businessman often complained about life to Ukrainian journalists, and at the end of 2016, in an interview with Radio Liberty’s subsidiary Crimea Reality, he even stated that Crimea is “not part of Russia, an incomprehensible concentration camp.”
Not long ago, Zubkov announced that he had applied for a Turkish citizen’s passport, where he plans to open a new zoo.