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Here are some more details from our news desk about Maria Gaidar getting Ukrainian citizenship:
Russian politician Maria Gaidar, who was appointed as deputy governor of Ukraine’s Odesa region in mid-July, has received Ukrainian citizenship.
Ukraine's presidential press service said on August 4 that President Petro Poroshenko signed a decree granting citizenship to Gaidar before presenting her with a Ukrainian passport.
The governor of Ukraine's Odesa region, former Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili, announced on July 17 the appointment of Gaidar as a deputy supervising social issues in Odesa.
Gaidar, 32, is the daughter of the late Yegor Gaidar, Russia’s reformist prime minister under President Boris Yeltsin in the 1990s.
She is a vocal critic of Yeltsin's successor, President Vladimir Putin.
Saakashvili, Georgian president from 2004 to 2013, has headed the Odesa region since May.
Poroshenko's government has appointed several foreigners to state posts after antigovernment protests toppled pro-Russian President Viktor Yanukovych in February 2014.
(UNIAN, TASS)
So it seems that Russian politician Maria Gaidar, who was recently appointed deputy governor of Ukraine's Odesa region, has been granted Ukrainian citizenship: