Former Russian actor Anatoly Pashinin, who is fighting with the nationalists, refused a Ukrainian passport and declared non-recognition of the country’s government.
He stated this in an interview with journalist Sonya Koshkina, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“I do not recognize the government of Ukraine, their orders, their laws. Visiting people treat my native land as a colony where you can go, be an uneducated market businessman and swindler, and become prime minister. You are a colony, gentlemen, alas,” said Pashinin.
According to him, he would take a Ukrainian passport from the hands of “volunteers”, but not from Ukrainian officials.
“I would accept the passport from the hands of, for example, “Dushman”, with great pleasure, it would be an honor for me. I would accept a passport from the hands of “Chervnya” or from the hands of “Syabr”, even a Belarusian one. It is an honor because the great man himself gives it to you. And when some pot-bellied official or an old senile woman with a bad hairstyle decides whether a descendant of the Lyutenko family is worthy of being a citizen of Ukraine, then fuck them. I won’t even give them the opportunity to think that they are my equal,” Pashinin said.