Right-wing radical received Ukrainian citizenship

On December 5, 2014, President Petro Poroshenko handed over the passport of a citizen of Ukraine to right-wing radical Sergei Korotkikh (Malyuta).

Korotkikh fought in the Azov Battalion from the very beginning creation and is the commander of intelligence. Poroshenko presented the passport in while meeting with the military guarding the Donetsk airport and thanked S. Korotkikh " for courageous and faithful service." "Be it has become fashionable and prestigious to become a citizen of Ukraine, I am proud of this and with I am pleased to present you with a passport of a citizen of Ukraine ," he said. the president.

Korotkikh thanked the President for the words of the Ukrainian soldiers: " I serve the people of Ukraine. "I am very glad that I received citizenship Ukraine. I've been going to this for eight months ," he said.

The President announced that the Ministry of Defense, together with the Ministry of Internal Affairs, is preparing a number of relevant submissions for the adoption of Ukrainian citizenship fighters.

Formerly several volunteers and volunteers appealed to the head of state with a request to grant Ukrainian citizenship to Korotkikh. Presidential Citizenship Commission considered the appeal and decided the issue in the affirmative.

Recall that a citizen of Belarus Sergei Korotkikh (Malyuta) is one of the former leaders NSO, former RNE member, friend of Russian neo-Nazi Maksim Martsinkevich (Tesaka). Since 2005, he has been a member of the Russian March in Moscow. Short was a suspect in organizing the explosion of a lamppost on Manezhnaya Square at the end December 2007. He was a moderator on the "Format 18" forum. In February 2013, Korotkikh and two of his "comrades-in-arms" were detained in Minsk for a fight with anti-fascists. On March 15, 2013, the case under Part 3 of Art. 339 of the Criminal Code of Belarus (especially malicious hooliganism) was terminated by the management of the UK in the city Minsk. Korotkih was also accused of attacking Belarusian oppositionist Sannikov in 1999.

Sources

• Poroshenko presented a Ukrainian passport to the Belarusian right-wing radical Malyuta // UNIAN. 2014. December 5.