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SBU opened a case against Anatoly Wasserman
The Security Service of Ukraine opened a criminal case against Anatoly Wasserman on suspicion of separatism. This decision was made at the request of the deputy of the Verkhovna Rada Oleksiy Goncharenko.
According to the deputy, the activities of Wasserman, who has Ukrainian citizenship, are detrimental to the interests of Ukraine. Goncharenko accuses him of encroaching on the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the state.
The request states that Wasserman took a "stable separatist stance". According to the deputy, Wasserman calls for a change in the constitutional order and state borders of Ukraine.
Today, the Ukrainian state is strengthened by the fact that it cleanses itself of pathogenic microbes. You can criticize the state system as much as you like, but questioning the integrity of the country is primitive banditry, unworthy of the title of citizen.
- Anatoly Wasserman has repeatedly spoken out against the independence of Ukraine. He called Ukraine “as much an integral part of Russia as Siberia or the Kuban,” and the Ukrainian language was a dialect of Russian. Vasserman considers most Ukrainians to be Russians.
- Wasserman characterizes the change of power in Ukraine as a result of mass protests in February 2014 as a coup d'état.