The European Solidarity Party has nominated Roman Sushchenko, the incumbent First Deputy Chairman at Cherkasy Regional Council and a former Kremlin political prisoner, as a candidate at district No. 197 in the Cherkasy region in the by-elections to the Verkhovna Rada.
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UkrInform: European Solidarity nominates Roman Sushchenko for MP
Ukrainian journalist and political prisoner Roman Sushchenko, whom Russia sentenced to 12 years in prison on espionage charges in June 2018, stands inside the defendant's cage during a hearing in a Moscow court on Nov. 28, 2016.
