The authors of the bill are members of the BPP faction / Photo from UNIAN
A group of Ukrainian deputies today submitted to the Parliament a draft law aimed to denounce the Agreement between the Ukrainian and the Russian governments on the establishment and terms of activity of information and cultural centers.
As reported on the website Parliament, the authors of the relevant draft law are MPs from the Block of Petro Poroshenko Iryna Friz, Vadym Denysenko and Ihor Hryniv.
The text of the bill has not yet been made public.
At the same time, one of the authors of the bill Iryna Friz wrote in Facebook that the activities of Russia’s information and cultural centers in Ukraine are a threat to national security.
“Considering the use of cultural cooperation by the Russian Federation to carry out expansion, foment separatism, destabilize the political situation in Ukraine, carry out anti-Ukrainian propaganda, and support aggression against Ukraine, the activities of information and cultural centers of the Russian Federation in Ukraine are a threat to national security of the state because of their use by the Russian secret services to continue the aggression, undermine the territorial integrity and sovereignty of Ukraine," the MP wrote.
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In her opinion, the seizure of the museum property in the territory of the Crimea and their partial transfer to the Russian Federation in the Nazi-occupation-style of 1941-1945 makes it impossible to continue cooperation between Ukraine and the Russian Federation in the sphere of culture, demanding the immediate cessation of intergovernmental agreements in this area.