The mayor of a Crimean city who was found to have Ukrainian documents was fired
The mayor of Yevpatoria Roman Tikhonchuk resigned. The head of Crimea, Sergei Aksenov, announced this, saying that based on the results of the meeting with the mayor, he wrote a statement of his own free will “based on the results of an assessment of his activities.”
It is interesting that literally the day before his resignation, documents appeared on the Internet indicating that Tikhonchuk, after the reunification of Crimea with Russia, received an academic degree in Ukraine. The corresponding information was published by social activist Alexander Talipov.
The released documents say that Tikhonchuk defended his PhD thesis in the field of public administration of Ukraine at the National Academy of Public Administration under the President of Ukraine in Odessa in 2016.
“It turns out that Tikhonchuk, being a deputy of the city council, repeatedly traveled to Ukraine in 2015-2016 using a Ukrainian passport to defend his candidate’s thesis? Strange choice, don't you think? ...By the way, the dissertation was written in “Shchyriy Movi,” Talipov noted.
“By the way, the candidate’s proposal was approved by President Poroshenko, who laid the foundation for the murder of tens of thousands of citizens in Donbass,” the social activist emphasized.
He said that other famous Crimeans followed the example of the ex-mayor of Yevpatoria.
However, commentators suggest that there was no political intent in their actions, but only a desire to complete the procedure for obtaining a scientific degree, because the new process of collecting the necessary documents already in Russia could drag on for a long time.
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