The information about opening of the agency of so-called ‘Donetsk People’s Republic’ in Italy has appeared on December 14.

The office in one of the basements in Turin was opened by already known Putin’s friends – the representatives from extreme right-wing parties ‘Forza Italia!’, ‘Northern League’ and ‘Brothers of Italy’ as well as the communities’ Lombardy-Russia’ and ‘Veneto-Russian’.

The list of the participants of the opening of ‘DPR agency’ could be made according to reports in Italian and Russian press:

Ginmatteo Ferrari – Deputy Chairman of the Association “Lombardy – Russia” and the Secretary of the same organization of Luca Bertoni;

Palmarino Zoccatelli – Deputy Chairman of the Association ‘Veneto – Russia’ and the president of the separatist ‘Committee for the independence of the Veneto’;

Eliseo Bertolasi – Sputnik news reporter, often Donetsk visitor;

Gianna Gancia – ‘Northern League’ leader in Piedmont;

Augusta Montaruli – regional council deputy of Piedmont, PdL, right party ‘Brothers of Italy’;

Maurizio Marrone – the deputy of the regional council of Piedmont, the member of city council of Turin, right party ‘Brothers of Italy’.

Gilberto Pichetto) – the deputy of the regional council of Piedmont, the center-right ‘Forza Italia!’

Also, there were the message on the ‘DPR’ social media pages that MP of Euro Parliament from ‘Forza Italia!’ also will be present, but it was impossible to find any confirmation about presence of any of 13 acting deputies.

‘It’s not a Committee, it’s the non-profit foundation ‘Magellan’, which has few members among itself, who claimed yesterday that they are ‘DPR’ representatives. We know surnames of two of them, they during 2015 – 2016 made private journeys on the territories occupied by ‘DPR’. Ukraine input sanctions against them. One of them is the representative of right radical party ‘Brothers of Italy’ of they appointed themselves. But organization can’t have legal entity status’, Eugeny Perelygin, the ambassador of Ukraine in Italy noticed.

Website of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine has no any reaction on the opening of such an agency in Italy. Representatives of Charity foundation Vostok-SOS openly applied to MFA of Ukraine and SSU with the request to accept necessary measures to provide to declare these foreign citizens persona non grata on Ukrainian territory and to send the information about their participation in illegal actions on the territory of Ukraine and beyond the relevant government agencies in Italy.