Tymoshenko, Yarosh, Korchynsky blacklisted by Crimea

SIMFEROPOL. April 1 (interfax) - The Republic of Crimea State Council has added ten names to its list of individuals banned from entering the Crimean peninsula, by including, in particular, Batkivshchyna Party leader and Ukraine's former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, Right Sector leader Dmytro Yarosh and Bratstvo (Brotherhood) leader Dmytro Korchynsky.

"The permanent commission for lawmaking and organizing the work of the Republic of Crimea State Council and public relations has extended the list of individuals whose presence in the territory of the Republic of Crimea is undesirable," a spokesperson for the Crimean parliament said.

Yulia Tymoshenko, Dmytro Yarosh, and Dmytro Korchynsky are among ten individuals added to the 320 already on the list published earlier.

It was reported that the Republic of Crimea State Council published a list of 320 personae non gratae in Crimea. Among them are Verkhovna Rada Speaker and Ukraine's Acting President Oleksandr Turchynov, Prime Minister Arseniy Yatseniuk, Deputy Prime Minister Vitaly Yarema, head of the National Security and Defense Council Andriy Parubyi, head of the Security Service of Ukraine Valentyn Nalyvaichenko, Interior Minister Arsen Avakov, Svoboda parliamentarian and current Prosecutor General Oleh Mahnitsky, head of the Ukrainain Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs Anatoliy Kinakh.

The list also includes two former defense ministers, Oleksandr Kuzmuk and Anatoliy Hrytsenko and former foreign minister Borys Tarasiuk.

Former Rada speaker Volodymyr Lytvyn, Rada deputy Oleh Lyashko, and parliamentarian and businessman Petro Poroshenko have also been declared personae non gratae.

Other people whose presence in Crimea is undesirable are: Party of Regions deputy Hanna Herman, UDAR Party leader Vitali Klitschko, Svoboda leader Oleh Tiahnybok, and Party of Regions co-leader Serhiy Tihipko.

Businessman Vadim Novinsky, who was elected as Verkhovna Rada deputy during mid-term elections in the 224th constituency (Sevastopol), is also on the list.