The head of the state Duma on CIS Affairs, Eurasian integration and relations with compatriots Leonid Slutsky said in his own microblog on Twitter the opening of a criminal case concerning ex-President of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych.

"The Kiev authorities are not able to fight the collapse in the economy or unemployment. On the contrary they uncovered a "conspiracy usurper Yanukovych," wrote Leonid Slutsky.


the people's Deputy of the state Duma called cynical accusation of the legitimately elected President of Ukraine in the usurpation of power.

"in the recent history of Ukraine written another shameful page. To accuse legitimately elected President in the usurpation of power is the height of cynicism, " said the politician.


first Deputy head of the working group under the Ministry of justice of Ukraine on revision of the law on lustration Karl Volokh said that the security Service of Ukraine opened a case under the criminal code regarding ex-President Viktor Yanukovych, accusing him and several other high position of persons in a conspiracy to change the constitutional system and seizing power in the country.

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