The organizers of the action in memory of Taras Shevchenko in Simferopol, scheduled for March 9, were given a warning about the inadmissibility of breaking the law. about this on Facebook . writes Pro-Ukrainian activist Leonid Kuzmin
On March 3, the administration of Simferopol refused to hold a rally in memory of Shevchenko on the square near his monument, the Krym. Realities".
Similar activities met with opposition in 2016 and 2015. In 2016, the rally was also not agreed upon, and Kuzmin was summoned to the prosecutor's office , where he was given a warning. In 2015, for reading Shevchenko's poetry under the Ukrainian flag, Kuzmin was given 40 hours of compulsory work (the work was later replaced with a fine ). After that, Kuzmin was fired from his job.