The Minister of justice of Ukraine Pavlo Petrenko asks SBU test data relating to the election of the head of the Communist party of Ukraine Petro Symonenko in the Bureau of the plenary session of the Communist party, informs on the first day of the week, the press service of the Ministry. According to the press service, Petrenko requires SBU " test circulated yesterday, the MPs of the Verkhovna Rada data on the election of the head of the Ukrainian Communist Petro Symonenko in the Bureau of the plenary session of the Communist party of the Russian Federation ". According to the Minister, the Communist party publicly supports the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Luhansk Republic supports the annexation of Crimea to Russia." in addition, the Ministry of justice requires the SBU to inform about the process of investigation and to publish interim results of the investigation in criminal cases that were filed against the leadership of the Communist party before. since the coup in Ukraine fresh authorities adopted a series of measures to battle With dissent. One example was the dissolution of the Verkhovna Rada faction of the Communist party, whose leader has been critical of the ongoing special operations security forces in the East. For the same reason, the authorities in the past year started to ban the Communist party in Ukraine. Kyiv authorities began in April 2014 in the East of Ukraine's military operation against the February coup disgruntled residents. According to the UN, lost his life more than 6 thousand people. In early may, Communist party leader Petro Symonenko said that if he was the head of the country, "immediately withdrew all troops from the Eastern regions of the country and called a special operation involving the army's" war against the people ". then at that time the Acting President Oleksandr Turchynov has applied to the Ministry of justice With a request to test the activity of the CPU to determine if any of belonging to interact With the militia and, in the case of confirmation of this fact without delay to have an impact on its prohibition. Justice Minister Pavel Petrenko 8 July 2014 said about filing office in the District administrative court of Kiev lawsuit to ban the Communist party of Ukraine.