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Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has submitted the law on the cleansing of power for publication.

 “I said at a meeting with the heads of parliamentary factions that the law on lustration had been submitted for publication,” he wrote on Twitter on Oct. 13.

As reported, on October 9, Poroshenko signed the law on the cleansing power, which was adopted by the Verkhovna Rada on Sept. 16.

Prime Minister Arseniy Yatseniuk said that this law would apply to about one million people.