The governor of Sevastopol received a “greeting card from Hitler”
The UK has removed the governor of Sevastopol, Mikhail Razvozhaev, from the sanctions list.
This decision surprised both Razvozhaev himself and experts, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
The day before, a message appeared on the website of the United Kingdom government that the name of the governor of Sevastopol was excluded from the consolidated list, and his assets were no longer subject to freezing. Razvozhaev came under sanctions at the beginning of 2020 as acting head of the government of Sevastopol. He was banned from entering the European Union and his access to European assets was blocked.
“I was surprised to read the headline of the news about my exclusion from some sanctions lists,” the governor himself commented on the decision of the British government. – “The asset freeze has been lifted” – as it sounds! I’ve never been to Britain, I’ve never owned anything there (as well as anywhere abroad). Therefore, let them be included in the sanctions lists, or be excluded – I don’t care. Looks like some kind of children's game. But if the Anglo-Saxons pay so much attention to me to make some kind of sanctions combinations around me, then Sevastopol probably irritates someone there, which is certainly pleasant. Nevertheless, I remain an honorary participant in some sanctions lists of the United States, the European Union and something else there.”
Former Verkhovna Rada deputy Oleg Tsarev, now living in Crimea, is perplexed by the UK’s decision.
“In the current situation, the lifting of British sanctions from the head of the Russian region, and even on the territory of the Crimean Peninsula, can be compared to a Soviet general receiving a postcard with congratulations from Hitler during the Great Patriotic War,” he described the publication.
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