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RUSSIA’S state Duma weighed in on behalf of the Communist Party of Ukraine yesterday, defending its right to exist.
Right-wing elements in the Kiev-based Ukrainian parliament have been organising to ban the party, accusing it of collaborating with pro-Russian activists to overthrow the Kiev clique which took over in the anti-democratic “Maidan” putsch.
Ukrainian acting President Oleksandr Turchynov had put forward a new initiative to ban the party as a “threat to national security.”
However, the Duma said bluntly that it “considers there are no grounds for banning one of the oldest political parties of Ukraine.”
The deputies of the state Duma, in which the Russian Communist Party has 92 of 450 seats, said that pressure was being exerted because of the party’s criticism of the course pursued by the ruling grouping.
The statement was initiated by the Communist Party of the Russian Federation and unanimously adopted by all factions in the Duma.
