Ukrainian Education Ministry strips academic ranks from 12 people for separatism – Deputy Minister

16:08, 25.08.2015 1 min read

The Ukrainian Education and Science Ministry has started to deprive persons of their academic ranks for separatism, Deputy Education Minister Pavlo Poliansky has said.

"Just recently, the ministry deprived 12 people of their academic ranks, due to separatism. This is the first step," he said at a press conference in Kyiv on Tuesday.