{"id":1249297,"date":"2025-06-20T10:57:12","date_gmt":"2025-06-20T07:57:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/the-russians-have-foreign-agents-and-ukraine-has-sanctions-whats-wrong-with-the-poroshenko-case\/"},"modified":"2025-06-20T10:57:12","modified_gmt":"2025-06-20T07:57:12","slug":"the-russians-have-foreign-agents-and-ukraine-has-sanctions-whats-wrong-with-the-poroshenko-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/the-russians-have-foreign-agents-and-ukraine-has-sanctions-whats-wrong-with-the-poroshenko-case\/","title":{"rendered":"The Russians have foreign agents, and Ukraine has sanctions: what&#8217;s wrong with the Poroshenko case?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The current government is trying to level the playing field before the elections in Ukraine by imposing &#8220;preventive sanctions&#8221; against the fifth president, Petro Poroshenko. At the same time, Bankova is using mechanisms that the Putin regime uses against opponents, such as the status of &#8220;foreign agents.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> This opinion <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/live\/LNQpO8AMie0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">was expressed<\/a> on the air of &#8220;Pryamoy&#8221; by Ihor Reiterovych, head of political and legal programs of the NGO &#8220;Ukrainian Center for Social Development&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;This is one component of preparing for the elections. When you don&#8217;t know the real level of support, for example, for the incumbent president&#8230; and we don&#8217;t know it, because the level of trust is not the level of support in the elections. When you understand that after the war, again, the end of the war, society simply has a long list of issues, what do you need to do? The ideal option is to simply burn out the competitive field and gain your 20% and win simply because you have no competitors,&#8221; Reuterovich noted.<\/p>\n<p> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/live\/LNQpO8AMie0<\/p>\n\t\t<aside class=\"shortcode-also\" data-title=\"Read also\" >\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/poroshenko-the-authorities-are-trying-to-hide-the-falsification-of-sanctions-documents\/\">Poroshenko: the authorities are trying to hide the falsification of sanctions documents<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\n<p> At the same time, he emphasized that the current government is thus creating obstacles to the activities of political opponents, using similar mechanisms to those used by the Putin regime.<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;This is not a verdict, not a criminal case, or anything else, it&#8217;s just something like that, sanctions that don&#8217;t allow a person to do what they do. I really don&#8217;t like to draw any parallels between Ukraine and an aggressor country, but Putin&#8217;s regime applies similar things there, only they are not called &#8220;sanctions&#8221;, but, for example, &#8220;foreign agents&#8221; or some other things, when people are simply created certain obstacles. That is, they are not found guilty, they are not put in prison, but they are created with so many restrictions that people cannot do their favorite thing. These are, as a rule, public activists, there are no politicians left there, some remnants of journalists there,&#8221; the political scientist explains.<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;This really looks like extrajudicial persecution. The case has reached the court, and we see that the judges are simply in a slight shock, because they do not understand the subject. They need a subject, but there is no subject. There is a decision, but there is nothing else. And this is a very strange situation, and it should not drag on for a long time. Because it may not look so critical now, but then the country will remember it,&#8221; noted Ihor Reiterovich.<\/p>\n\t\t<aside class=\"shortcode-also\" data-title=\"Read also\" data-right>\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/torpedo-from-bankova-why-was-bezugli-ordered-to-incite-ukrainians\/\">Torpedo from Bankova: why was Bezugli ordered to incite Ukrainians<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\n<p> Recall that during the Supreme Court hearing in the Petro Poroshenko case, the judge asked <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/chomu-uriad-ne-vykonav-ukhvalu-sudu-suddia-roznis-predstavnykiv-ofisu-prezydenta-ta-kabminu-po-spravi-poroshenka\/\">why representatives of the president and the government did not provide documents<\/a> on the basis of which sanctions were imposed against the fifth president. Representatives of the authorities were unable to provide an answer, shifting responsibility to other bodies, which caused the judge&#8217;s indignation.<\/p>\n<p> Earlier, Petro Poroshenko stated before the start of the court session that <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/zhodnykh-dokaziv-ne-nadaly-bo-ikh-nema-poroshenko-zaklykav-skasuvaty-sanktsii-zelenskoho\/\">President Volodymyr Zelensky&#8217;s decree on the introduction of sanctions should be canceled<\/a> , because the president&#8217;s representatives have not been able to provide any documents on the grounds for such sanctions for five months. He also emphasized that closing the court session on the illegality of sanctions from the public <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/poroshenko-pro-sprobu-provesty-sudove-zasidannia-shchodo-nezakonnosti-sanktsiy-u-zakrytomu-rezhymi-tse-putin-stayl\/\">means turning Ukraine into Russia<\/a> .<\/p>\n<p> According to the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology, <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/64-ukraintsiv-vvazhaie-sanktsii-proty-poroshenka-politychnym-tyskom-opytuvannia\/\">the vast majority of Ukrainians negatively perceived the sanctions against Poroshenko<\/a> , considering them a fight against the opposition and an attempt to divert attention from the situation on the front. 35% of those surveyed consider this an attempt to divert attention from the difficult situation on the front, and 29% &#8211; an attempt to neutralize the opposition on the eve of negotiations with Russia and possible elections.<\/p>\n<p> Also follow <strong>\u201cPryamim\u201d<\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Facebook<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/prm_ua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Twitter<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/+rtV4dxYu2_cyNjVi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Telegram<\/a> , and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Instagram.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The current government is trying to level the playing field before the elections in Ukraine by imposing &#8220;preventive sanctions&#8221; against the fifth president, Petro Poroshenko. At the same time, Bankova is using mechanisms that the Putin regime uses against opponents, such as the status of &#8220;foreign agents.&#8221; This opinion was expressed on the air of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":1249286,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76871,76872,76885],"class_list":["post-1249297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-policy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1249297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1249297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1249297\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1249286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1249297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1249297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}