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Deputy director for development at the National Information Systems company, which produces news programs for the Inter television channel, Russian citizen Igor Shuvalov, has been expelled from Ukraine, adviser to the Ukrainian Interior Minister, MP Anton Gerashchenko has said.

According to him, Shuvalov has been barred from entering Ukraine for five years.

“Today, the Russian propagandist, the actual head of the information service of the Inter TV channel, the chief of well-known provocateur Maria Stoliarova, Igor Shuvalov, has been expelled by Ukrainian border guards from Ukraine with an entry ban being imposed on him for a period of five years,” Gerashchenko wrote on his Facebook page.

Referring to the latest data, the lawmaker said Shuvalov’s activities were used by the Russian special services to spread their propaganda and false information in the media, in particular, containing accusations against the Ukrainian leadership of the forceful seizure of power in 2014, and also aimed at disrupting the Eurointegration reforms in Ukraine.

He also recalled that Shuvalov had already been expelled from Ukraine in March 2014, but under the pressure of the co-owners of the Inter TV channel on the then head of the Security Service of Ukraine, Valentyn Nalyvaichenko, this decision was canceled and Shuvalov continued to carry out the tasks of Russian propaganda for three years, being in charge of Inter’s information bloc.

As reported, in September 2016, after blocking of Inter, the TV channel promised to dismiss Shuvalov and change their content and information policy. Interior Minister Arsen Avakov said that “the ideologist of Inter’s information policy” Shuvalov should be deported from the country.