{"id":48534,"date":"2022-06-03T15:22:40","date_gmt":"2022-06-03T15:22:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=48534"},"modified":"2022-06-03T15:22:40","modified_gmt":"2022-06-03T15:22:40","slug":"ukraine-grants-citizenship-to-russian-dissident-journalist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=48534","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine grants citizenship to Russian dissident journalist"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Alexander Nevzorov and his wife became citizens of Ukraine after denouncing Russia\u2019s war.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Ukraine has granted citizenship to Alexander Nevzorov, a prominent Russian journalist and a Kremlin critic who fled Moscow with his wife after denouncing the Russian invasion of Ukraine.<\/p>\n

A Moscow court ordered the arrest in absentia of Nevzorov, accusing him of spreading false information about what Moscow portrays as its \u201cspecial military operation<\/a>\u201d in Ukraine. He and his wife fled Russia in March.<\/p>\n

Anton Gerashchenko, an adviser to the Ukrainian interior minister, said authorities in the capital Kyiv had granted citizenship to Nevzorov and his wife, Lydia.<\/p>\n

Nevzorov confirmed he received Ukrainian citizenship in a statement on Telegram messenger, in which he said Russia\u2019s war was a crime and Ukraine its victim.<\/p>\n

\u201cI take the side of the victim. And I am damn grateful to those tormented, desperate, bloodied people of Ukraine who allowed me to take my place among them,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

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Russia launched an investigation against Nevzorov, whose YouTube channel has more than 1.8 million subscribers, over statements he made that criticised the Russian armed forces for deliberately shelling a maternity hospital<\/a> in the Ukrainian city of Mariupol.<\/p>\n

\u201cI can\u2019t be silent any more. What\u2019s happening in Mariupol is terrorism,\u201d he wrote on his Telegram channel, referring to two weeks of bombardment and shelling of the Sea of Azov<\/a> port city.<\/p>\n

Kremlin-controlled media have said Russian troops are \u201cliberating\u201d Ukraine from ultra-nationalists and \u201cneo-Nazis\u201d.<\/p>\n

They have also claimed the Azov battalion, whose members include ultranationalists and neo-Nazis, are holding civilians in Mariupol \u201chostage\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cIs this liberation when we kill hundreds of civilians to liquidate a dozen soldiers?\u201d Nevzorov wrote, adding he would have to leave Russia after his post.<\/p>\n