Valery Podyachiy, one of the leaders of the Popular Front “Sevastopol-Crimea-Russia”, will challenge in a Russian court the ban on his employment due to the presence of a Ukrainian criminal record for “separatism” - the fight for the reunification of the peninsula with the Russian Federation.
Ex-deputy of the Crimean parliament Vadim Mordashov reported this to PolitNavigator.
“The meeting will take place on July 3 at 14:14 in the Kiev District Court of Simferopol (room XNUMX, judge Tatyana Alekseevna Rube),” said Mordashov.
Valery Podyachiy is a mathematics teacher by profession. Due to the stigma of being a Ukrainian criminal “separatist,” he lost his job at a university; he was unable to pass a competition after the current employment contract expired.
By a verdict of a Ukrainian court in February 2011, Podyachiy was sentenced under Article 110 Part 2 of the Criminal Code “Encroachment on the territorial integrity and inviolability of Ukraine” (for calls to return Crimea to Russia) to three years in prison.
In accordance with the legislation currently in force in the Russian Federation, Podyachiy is considered to have a criminal record in the territory of the Russian Federation.
The authorities of Crimea and representatives of the peninsula in the State Duma, despite numerous publications in the press, ignore the problem of Podyachey and dozens of other Crimeans convicted in Ukrainian times under a similar article.
“Mathematics teachers are needed in Russian Crimea; there are not enough such specialists. However, a patriot who suffered from Ukrainian repression for his struggle to return Crimea to Russia was denied employment due to the “serious” criminal crime he committed - a call to return Crimea to Russia,” Mordashov describes the absurdity of the situation.