Kharkiv District Administrative Court on Aug. 20 satisfied a lawsuit lodged by the city's prosecutor's office to ban the activities of the pro-Russian South-East movement.
As reported, the creation of the South-East movement was announced at a meeting in Kharkiv on March 30, 2014.
“The court recognized as weighty all evidence submitted by the
prosecutor’s office and decided to ban the South-East public movement
through its forceful dissolution,” the press service of the Kharkiv
Prosecutor’s Office reported.
According to Kharkiv Prosecutor Yevhen Popovych, when preparing the
lawsuit prosecutors analyzed public events organized by South-East, as
well as public statements made by the leaders of the movement, and
concluded that the activity of the organization poses a threat to
Ukraine’s sovereignty.
Movement coordinator Yuriy Apukhtin said that the movement would seek
the creation of a southeast federal republic within Ukraine with
extended powers and broad autonomy, as well as the granting of official
status to the Russian language.
The movement’s activists are regular participants of pro-Russian rallies in Kharkiv.
