Ukraine Today clip on Petro Symonenko's 11-hour interrogation in 2015.
Petro Symonenko, leader of the Communist Party of Ukraine, will not be running in Ukraine’s presidential election. On 2 February, the Central Election Commission refused to register his candidacy, citing a July 2015 decree by the Ministry of Justice. According to this order, the party’s charter, name and symbols do not adhere to Ukraine’s “decommunisation laws”, which, among other things, ban the use of Nazi and Communist symbols.
