Press Secretary of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Peskov, commenting on the intention of the Russians, Maria Gaidar to occupy public office in Ukraine, said that in Russia for foreigners legally this is impossible.

"It's not that the head, and that are prescribed on this account in the legislation on public service. In Russia this situation is impossible, " - said Peskov, answering a request of journalists to comment on the intention of the Gaidar become Deputy head of the Odessa region of Ukraine and asked if the situation in Russia, when gosdolzhnosti have the opportunity to be assigned to foreign nationals.

Peskov said that in Russia there is a law that clarify such issues." we have positions that involve access to information constituting a state secret. Getting this tolerance, of course, implies the presence of Russian citizenship, and not weekly, and permanent, and excludes any foreign citizenship, " he added.

last Friday, Ukrainian media said that the former leader of Georgia, and now the Governor of Odessa region Mikhail Saakashvili made the decision to appoint the daughter of a Russian economist and politician Yegor Gaidar Mary on the position of his Deputy. Gaidar has agreed that he wants to obtain Ukrainian citizenship, and consented to this post.

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