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Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has compared the ruling of the Supreme Court of Russia upholding the ban on the Crimean Tatar Mejlis to Stalin’s policies.

“Today, on the day of commemoration of victims of the Babyn (Babi) Yar tragedy, the Supreme Court of Russia adopted xenophobic decision to ban the Mejlis. The policy of Stalin is alive,” Petro Poroshenko said during the mourning ceremony of commemorating the victims of the Babyn (Babi) Yar tragedy.

The Ukrainian president said that Joseph Stalin’s successors preserved antisemitism as part of public policy. “But instead of policy of physical liquidation they resorted to the destruction of the Jewish identity as such. At the same time, for decades Moscow has been supplying weapons to those who want to overthrow Israel into the sea,” Poroshenko said.

As reported, on September 29, the Russian Supreme Court definitively upheld the ban on the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar People in Russia as an extremist organization, having thus rejected the appeal filed by Mejlis representatives.