Today in Ukraine is several thousand political prisoners, said the former Prime Minister Mykola Azarov, commenting on the appeal of the Verkhovna Rada to condemn the political persecution in Russia.

"I appeal to the world community for whom the main argument is the bullet, the brass knuckles grenade" - the politician wrote on his page on, adding that the country has more than 4 thousand political prisoners.

"All their fault is that they consider the government in Kiev illegal

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