Another organization of Ukrainians in Russia will soon be closed, the director of the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry's information policy department, Oleh Voloshyn, has said.
"The process is ending regarding the closure of the second organization that worked along with the union of Ukrainians in Russia," the diplomat said live on Channel 5 on Thursday.
He noted that the Foreign Ministry was doing everything to prevent this process.
Voloshyn said that such decisions would not make Ukrainian-Russian relations more constructive.
As reported, the Appeals Chamber of the Russian Supreme Court on January 27 upheld the liquidation of the Federal National Cultural Autonomy of Ukrainians of Russia (FNCAUR).
Thus, the court resolution entered into force and the organization ceased to exist on Thursday.
Back on November 24, 2010, the Supreme Court liquidated the FNCAUR at the demand of the Justice Ministry.
The FNCAUR was registered on May 15, 1998, as a public organization engaged in charity projects in culture and arts.
The Justice Ministry suspended the organization’s activity in October 2009 in connection with the violations of its charter and economic activity rules.
Another reason was the public statements by organization head Valery Semenenko at events dedicated to "the memory of Ukrainians who died during the Great Famine [Holodomor] years."
The Justice Ministry appealed to the Supreme Court for the liquidation of the FNCAUR early last year, but the hearing was delayed because the organization challenged the ministry’s order at the Moscow Tverskoy district court.
The court turned down the appeal in May, and the Moscow City Court described the decision as founded in September.
The Supreme Court started hearing the Justice Ministry’s appeal after that.
Fatherland Fund activist Nikolai Zhuravlev was a witness at the Supreme Court hearing on November 23.
"The Autonomy offers nothing but politics and says only negative things about my country [Ukraine]. It also glorifies Stepan Bandera and Roman Shukhevych," the witness said. In his opinion, the organization provided information support to Chechen militants.
