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Tomorrow Parasiuk Will Try to Strip Volodymyr Lytvyn of the Title Hero of Ukraine
This is stated in a press release distributed by the press service of V. Parasiuk.
"28.07.2015 (Tuesday) at 10:00 at the Higher Administrative Court of Ukraine at the address Kyiv, Moskovska Street, 8, building 5, an appeal by People's Deputy of Ukraine Volodymyr Zinoviyovych Parasiuk regarding the Ruling of the Higher Administrative Court of Ukraine in case No. 800/210/15 in the lawsuit against the President of Ukraine (third party – Volodymyr Mykhailovych Lytvyn) seeking recognition as unlawful and cancellation of the Decree of the President of Ukraine dated 09.12.2004 No. 1459/2004 “On conferring the title ‘Hero of Ukraine’ on V. Lytvyn,” which was left without consideration on the grounds of failure to prove a violation of the plaintiff’s rights, freedoms and interests.
On 08.04.2015, People's Deputy of Ukraine Volodymyr Parasiuk addressed President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko with a parliamentary inquiry “On the removal of the title ‘Hero of Ukraine’ from a group of deputies,” in which he asked to deprive a group of current People’s Deputies of Ukraine of the title ‘Hero,’ in particular: Volodymyr Lytvyn, Vyacheslav Bohuslaiev, Borys Deich, Volodymyr Boyko, Leonid Lytvynov, Oleksandr Ryzhenkov, Yukhym Zvyahilskyi, Leonid Baisarov, since the fact of these persons holding the status of Hero of Ukraine is difficult to accept as reasonable, knowing which bills they voted for 16 January 2013. Especially so if contrasted with the Decree of 21 November 2014, which Poroshenko signed during a meeting with families of slain activists on the occasion of the first observance in Ukraine of the Day of Dignity and Freedom, conferring the title ‘Hero of Ukraine’ on 99 Heroes of the Heavenly Hundred, and awarding the Order of the Heroes of the Heavenly Hundred to three foreigners.
However, in the formal response provided to Volodymyr Parasiuk by the Presidential Administration, it was stated that (quote) “in accordance with legislation, deprivation of state awards of Ukraine may be carried out by the President of Ukraine only in the event of the conviction of the awardee for a grave crime at the request of a court in cases provided for by law..."
Understanding that a possible amendment to the legislation governing these relations would not change the situation (pursuant to Art. 58 of the Constitution of Ukraine, laws and other regulatory legal acts do not have retroactive effect, except when they mitigate or abolish a person’s responsibility), V. Parasiuk turned to the Higher Administrative Court of Ukraine. For, in Volodymyr Parasiuk’s view, it is important in this situation to communicate and prove to the public the illegality and groundlessness of awarding state honors to the aforementioned persons", the document says."
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