Folk singer of the USSR, state Duma Deputy Iosif Kobzon has announced that it will ignore the ban on travel to Ukraine. He has a view to giving speeches in the Donbass and chat with people.
Denial of entry to Ukraine for Kobzon does not exist. This was announced himself a musician and political activist. Previously Advisor to the head of the security service of Ukraine Markiyan Lubkivsky said that the security Service of Ukraine (SBU) has created a list of Russian artists, which will close the entrance to Ukraine in consequence of their support for the annexation of Crimea to Russia. It is expected that the ban will apply to Joseph Kobzon.
"Tell Lubkivsky: let it initially grows in Ukraine to the level of Kobzon. I was awarded the highest achievements of Ukraine for the award of all degrees, third, 2nd and first. I'm going to his Fatherland, in the Donbas, where I was born and where my navel is buried, where I was awarded 3 medals miner's glory all degrees and 3 orders of miners ' courage. I folk singer of Ukraine, and some scum in the face of this worker SBU can't even hint to me that I didn't come to his home. Because I don't care that they made up with drunken eyes. For me prohibitions no. My countrymen are waiting for me," he said, Kobzon "Russian news service".
Note that on 27 and 28 October, the artist has scheduled performances in Lugansk and Donetsk, where he had to sing songs about their homeland - Donbass. Also, in Donetsk musician to take part in the laying of the monument to victims of the war in the Donbass.
As we informed the Melbourne Herald sun, the list of persons non grata in Ukraine consists of several hundred names, currently announced only one of them is Ivan Okhlobystin. According to Lubkivsky, the ban on travel to the countryside of Ukraine for these persons already works, the term of this limitation, the civil servant could not name. He also said that in the foreseeable future names will be made public.
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