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Kyiv District Administrative Court has dismissed an appeal by Mikheil Saakashvili, the leader of the Movement of New Forces Party, the former president of Georgia, to recognize as unlawful the decision of the State Migration Service’s branch in Kyiv region, which denied him a status of a refugee or a person who needs additional protection after the deprivation of citizenship of Ukraine.

The corresponding decision was made on Jan. 3, an Interfax-Ukraine correspondent reported.