Odesa court bans public organization of fugitive MP Markov

The Odesa District Administrative Court upheld a number of claims filed by the Ministry of Justice of Ukraine to ban the activities of NGOs, including Rodina, founded in 2008 by Ihor Markov and Vadym Savenko, both of whom betrayed Ukraine.

According to the court's ruling, Rodina's activities revealed signs of actions aimed at threatening the national sovereignty, territorial integrity and national security of Ukraine, as the organization's activities were anti-Ukrainian in nature.

Traitorous founders

In May 2023, the Security Service of Ukraine reported that it had found evidence of the guilt of former MP Ihor Markov, who assisted Russia in waging an aggressive war against Ukraine. SBU investigators notified him of suspicion of treason committed under martial law.

In June 2022, law enforcement officers notified Ihor Markov of suspicion of collaboration. In 2018, the Prosecutor's Office of Odesa Region, together with the Security Service of Ukraine in the region, sent him a written notice of suspicion of committing a number of crimes against the foundations of national security and public order.

In October 2013, Igor Markov was detained on suspicion of hooliganism with battery, Article 296(4) of the Criminal Code. Investigators believed that in 2007, he and several associates attacked a picket against the reconstruction of a monument to Catherine II in Odesa, organized by nationalists of the Svoboda party. In the fall of 2009, Markov even left the country for several months with the support of the Party of Regions and the Communist Party. He returned, and in 2010 the case was closed. Three years later, the case was reopened, Markov was detained, arrested, and spent four months in a pre-trial detention center. After his release, he went to Russia. In 2015, at the request of the Ukrainian Bureau of Interpol, he was detained in Italy, but refused to be deported to Ukraine, agreeing with the political nature of the persecution.

In October 2022, a court foundVadym Savenko guilty of creating and participating in a terrorist group and sentenced him to 15 years in prison.

After the outbreak of hostilities in the east of the country, the former deputy of the regional council from the party of fugitive politician Ihor Markov 's Rodina went to fight for the DNR terrorist group and led a group of separatists nicknamed "Svat". According to the militants, Vadym Savenko repeatedly traveled to Moscow to get money to organize terrorist attacks and pay "salaries" to the militants. In addition, the unit under Vadym Savenko's command organized a terrorist attack at a checkpoint in Mariupol and the shelling of border boats in the Sea of Azov, which resulted in the deaths of people.

Who else was banned

The District Administrative Court also banned and forcibly dissolved the Kherson city public organization "Russian National Community "RUSICH". The founders of this organization are Tatiana Kuzmich and Irina Agapova.

In 2023, , the SBI searched Kuzmich's apartment and found Russian propaganda materials and symbols, retraining manuals, and awards for active support of Russia.

The SBI investigators found that Kuzmich was promoting Russian education in the region, persecuting teachers who did not side with the enemy, and forcing parents to send their children to "new Russian schools." It also actively campaigned for a pseudo-referendum and assisted the invaders in the forced transfer of schoolchildren to the occupied Crimea.

Also banned was the Crimean Cossack Union, headed by Volodymyr Cherkashyn. As well as the Center for Russian Culture.

Кирило Бойко