A branch of Viktor Medvedchuk's organization "Druha Ukraina" was registered in Serbia
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The Serbian branch of Other Ukraine, opened in August 2023, is headed by pro-Russian activist Dragan Stanojevic, who has been sanctioned and banned by Ukraine.
A branch of the Russian public organization "Other Ukraine" , created by former Ukrainian politician Viktor Medvedchuk, has been registered in Serbia. This is reported by journalists of "Schemes", reports UNN.
Details
Thus, according to the register of legal entities in Serbia, the representative office of the Russian organization "Other Ukraine" was opened in August 2023.
The "Representative Office of the "Druha Ukraina" Pokret" (as the branch is called in Serbian) states as its purpose "to establish mutually beneficial cooperation between the peoples of Serbia, Russia and Ukraine", and the authorized person of the representative office is Dragan Stanojević (Dragan Stanojević).
Journalists explained that Stanojevic is a pro-Russian Serbian public figure and politician. Since June 2021, the Ukrainian National Security and Defense Council has imposed sanctions on him and banned him from entering Ukraine for three years.
The Serbian politician has repeatedly publicly admired the policies of Russian President Vladimir Putin and supports Russian military aggression in Ukraine. He was also outraged by the detention of Viktor Medvedchuk by the Security Service of Ukraine in 2022.
Currently, Dragan Stanoevich is a candidate of the pro-Russian party "We are the Voice of the People" in the early parliamentary elections to be held on December 17, 2023.
In the late 1990s and early 2000s, Dragan Stanojevic lived in Ukraine. He headed the "Serbian Community in Ukraine", participated in public rallies in Kyiv and in meetings of the "Putin's Policy Party".
According to the YouControl platform, in Ukraine, Dragan Stanojevic is still the head of the Joint Ukrainian-Yugoslavian Firm Yug-Ukr-Contract LLC and has property in Kyiv and Dnipro regions.
I have never supported any aggression and I am not going to. Just as I am not going to support the Ukrainian government, which has essentially destroyed the Ukraine I loved, which is destroying the color of the Ukrainian nation with its policies and waging a war against dissent. I warned Ukraine where the Maidan policy would lead
Addendum
Journalists noted that after the creation of the unit in Serbia, the Russian register renamed the organization "Other Ukraine". It was no longer labeled as a "regional public movement" but as an "international public movement."
Viktor Medvedchuk's organization also changed its head - instead of the former host of the 112 Ukraine channel Denis Zharkikh, it was Russian citizen Roman Kovalenko.
It is known that 53-year-old Kovalenko is a native of Donetsk region. In 2021, he appeared in the court materials as a defendant in criminal proceedings for committing a criminal offense under Part 2 of Article 258-5 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (financing of terrorism).
On his social media pages, Kovalenko shares articles by Medvedchuk and states that he is a lawyer, PhD in Economics and chairman of the executive committee of the international organization "Other Ukraine". At the same time, the website states that Viktor Medvedchuk is the chairman of the board of this organization.
As a reminder
On October 8, 2021, MP Viktor Medvedchuk was served with a notice of suspicion of high treason and assistance to a terrorist organization. On October 12, he was imposed a measure of restraint in the form of round-the-clock house arrest, from which he escaped after the outbreak of full-scale war.
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In April last year, the SBU detained Viktor Medvedchuk and then sent him to custody. In September, he was handed over to Russia as part of a prisoner exchange. At the same time, the SBU noted that this would not prejudice the further consideration of his case in court.
In January 2023, Medvedchuk and several other pro-Russian politicians were deprived of Ukrainian citizenship.
