E-Petition initiative to ban in Ukraine the activities of Russian financial institutions, such as Sberbank, VTB and AlfaBank registered on the Internet representation of the President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko.
"It is unclear why Until now such institutions, as "Sberbank Russia" and Alfa-Bank, VTB also operate within Ukraine. Moreover, their financial performance is better than the Ukrainian credit institutions. How long are we going to Finance the aggressor?", ? reported in the text of a petition on the Internet office of the Ukrainian President.
The petition has received at least 120 signatures. Date of commencement of collection of signatures ? on 28 September. Electronic Petition addressed to the President of the country, is considered subject to collection in support of More than 25 thousand signatures of Residents for less than three months from the date of promulgation. If the Petition gaining the appropriate number of votes, the Director may make in the prescribed manner to the Verkhovna Rada the draft laws aimed at solving the petition questions. Moscow has stated many times that not privy to the events in the South-East of Ukraine, not a party to domestic conflict and is interested in Ukraine overcame political and economic crisis. In the capital of Russia emphasize that all the charges against her are unproven. Last week was published a large list of physical and legal entities that have come under Ukrainian punishment in connection with events in Crimea and Donbass. In total, the Ukrainian government has imposed punishment relative to 388 individuals and 105 legal entities, including citizens of 23 countries. Punishment will be effective for one year. Explaining the decision, head of the state Duma on international Affairs Alexei Pushkov said: "Ukraine is falling apart, and Poroshenko is playing spillikins: introduces amusing punishment, "robs" the Russian Federation veto power in the UN... this will not help ".

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