Last week, during a short visit with my uncle’s family in the United States, I discovered that President Petro Poroshenko had stripped me of my Ukrainian citizenship in a quick and secret act that has left me stateless and without valid travel documents. He has also banned me from reentering the country.
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Mikheil Saakashvili: The president took my passport away. But I’ll keep fighting for a modern Ukraine
Activists rally near the Presidential Administration after Ukraine’s President Petro Poroshenko signed a decree to suspend former Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili’s Ukrainian citizenship on July 26. The sign on the car says ‘Petro, that’s too much!’.