The fighter for Russian Crimea cannot get rid of the Ukrainian stigma of a criminal for the fourth year
Contrary to optimistic reports from official media, the founder of the Popular Front “Sevastopol-Crimea-Russia” Valery Podyachiy never lost the stigma of a criminal for a sentence on charges of separatism handed down during the Ukrainian era.
Ex-deputy of the Supreme Council of Crimea Vadim Mordashov told reporters about this.
According to him, during the day Podyachiy received a certificate from the Supreme Court of the Republic of Kazakhstan, which indicated that he had a criminal record during the times of Ukraine, which still limits the rights of a social activist (previously, for this reason, he could not get a job as a university teacher).
“Now, with such a certificate, in principle, they have no right to refuse him a job at any general education or secondary specialized educational institution if there are vacancies. But he, having worked in higher education for many years before, will not be able to get a job at a university, because there is always a competition. And according to the certificate issued, he has a previous conviction, and when members of the academic council vote, preference, naturally, will always be given to applicants without a criminal record. That. Podyachy was placed in obviously unequal conditions with other candidates, and therefore talking about restoring even some kind of labor rights is simply ridiculous,” Mordashov said.
He explained that this situation arose due to the fact that “former Ukrainian prosecutors and judges, as a result of simple manipulations, reduced everything to the decriminalization of a previously committed crime (which in fact never existed and does not exist in the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation),” while refusing Podyachiy rehabilitation.
“On December 20, 2017, at the request of the prosecutor’s office of the Republic of Crimea, judge of the Supreme Court of the Republic of Crimea Konstantin Karavaev (former Ukrainian judge) issued a decision to terminate the criminal case against Valery Podyachiy and Semyon Klyuev for lack of evidence of a crime, but refused (?!) to pro-Russian activists recognition rights to rehabilitation. Podyachy immediately filed an appeal against this refusal, and on February 13 of this year, the Judicial Collegium for Criminal Cases of the Supreme Court of the Republic of Crimea (by the way, also consisting of former Ukrainian judges) rejected his appeal, and the court decision immediately entered into legal force. Thus, Podyachiy and Klyuev (who died a year and a half ago with the stigma of a “criminal”) continue to be considered criminals and still have not had their rights restored,” notes Mordashov.
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