Ex-member of Russia’s State Duma Ilya Ponomarev has announced he has been granted Ukrainian citizenship by outgoing President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko.
“Finally, it has happened! Today, the incumbent president of Ukraine, Petro Poroshenko, on the last working day of his term, signed a decree granting me Ukrainian citizenship, according to state interests,” Ponomarev wrote in the Ukrainian language on Facebook on May 17.
