Oleg Tsarev, a member of the Party of Regions, has gained approval of his initiative to ban 36 people, including Georgian ex-President Mikheil Saakashvili, US and EU citizens, from Ukraine for destabilizing the situation in the country, Kommersant reports.
The initiative of Tsarev was filed Chief of the National Security Service Alexander Yakimenko and Foreign Minister Leonid Kozhara. He said that foreign specialists were provoking opposition and destabilizing the situation.
hey include Taras Kuzyo, a member of the Center for Transatlantic of the John Hopkins University, Andreas Umland, a German political analyst, US citizens Fink Bryan, Vasilik Miron, Alexander Ros. 29 Georgians are on the black list.
Saakashvili made a speech at the Maidan Nezalezhnosti Square on December 7., encouraging opposition to continue struggles for European integration of Ukraine.
Financial Times says that Georgy Kikvadze, businessman, could not cross the Ukrainian border, possibly because he was on the list too.
Georgian Ambassador to Ukraine Georgy Zakarashvili said that three people could not enter Ukraine. David Kakulya, a journalist of Rustavi-2 TV, and another person could not enter it.
Sergey Sobolev, Deputy Head of the Batkivshchyna Fraction, said that such bans may have international repercussions. He emphasized that if the US, EU and Georgia ban Yanukovych, Azarov and their children, their only place of visit would be North Korea.
