Int’l sanctions won’t pose risks to my business – far-right, pro-Russian movement leader

Konstantine Morgoshia, a co-founder and a leader of a far-right, pro Russian Conservative Movement that is  also engaged in anti-LGBTQI activities, on Thursday claimed if imposed, international sanctions would not affect his business as they had been registered under relatives’ names. 

 

Morgoshia’s comment came following the MEPs’ calls to impose sanctions on him, after his activists and supporters broke into the site hired by a domestic NGO promoting the rights of sexual minorities earlier this month and did not allow them to conduct a scheduled festival. 

 

Morgoshia claimed the move was “expected” as “we are in this fight”, adding he would travel toLatin America, which  he claimed “has a much better climate and nature, than Europe, where he travels quite often, if sanctions were imposed on him. 

 

Six MEPs from the LGBTI Intergroup – the largest intergroup association in the European Parliament comprising 157 MEPs from almost all political groups in the body – on Wednesday called for sanctions against Morgoshia.