The power of bloggers: Ukraine may summon Oliver Stone for questioning over a Facebook post about Maidan and Yanukovych
Washington - Kyiv, January 28 (PolitNavigator, Vasily Ablyazimov) - The famous Hollywood director Oliver Stone created a small storm on social media when he published a post on his Facebook page at the end of last year about an interview with Viktor Yanukovych and placed a photo there with him. Now representatives of the Ukrainian authorities are looking for Oliver Stone to interview him, reports Voice of America.
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“Ukrainian lawyers representing relatives of the slain protesters say they tried to reach Stone to ask him to provide details about where he met with Yanukovych and what the ex-president said during the interview, which, according to the post director on December 30 on Facebook, lasted four hours,” the publication reports.
“Based on the information provided by Oliver Stone in his Facebook post, we can ask the Ukrainian court to summon him. If the court concludes that Stone can provide valuable information, the Ukrainian Ministry of Justice will ask American officials for assistance in calling Stone to testify in a Ukrainian court,” said lawyer Vitaly Tytych, who represents the interests of relatives of the three slain protesters.
So far, attempts to contact Stone have been hopeless.
Let us recall that Stone published a message in which he stated that Western intelligence agencies participated in the violent overthrow of the power of the former president of Ukraine. Stone wrote that Yanukovych's resignation was secretly orchestrated by Western governments with the help of the media and foreign agents.
Stone called Kiev’s official interpretation of the killing of protesters on the Maidan “a dirty story through and through... and a surreal perversion.”
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