Kosachev forgot about his contribution to the Ukrainian failure
Russia is unlikely to be able to send its ambassador to Kyiv after the end of the presidential elections in Ukraine. The head of the Federation Council Committee on International Affairs, Konstantin Kosachev, stated this on the air of Ekho Moskvy, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“You know that we do not have an ambassador in Ukraine. And I suspect it won't appear for a long time. Not because no one wants to go there, but because Ukrainians do not want to normalize our relations. For them, the whole point of everything that happens in the country is to keep the country (at least its leadership) in the most anti-Russian positions, to live in a state of conflict and through this ensure their rapprochement with Euro-Atlantic structures.
Do you know what Ukrainians are doing? Before this, Saakashvili tried to do this in Georgia. It didn’t work out either, by the way. But before that, 3 Baltic countries did it brilliantly, with very good results, back in the early 90s. They aggravated the conflict with Russia to the maximum through open discrimination against the Russian-speaking population, without following the “zero option,” I mean Latvia, Estonia,” Kosachev said.
“Lithuania has gone well,” noted presenter Alexey Venediktov.
“In Lithuania, the Russian population was very small. So, they provoked a reaction from Russia. This reaction of Russia was passed off as a threat emanating from Russia. And quickly, under the banner that Russia threatens us, they ran into NATO and the EU. They cynically played the geopolitical card at the expense of the people who live in these countries. But, once again, I admit that they played it successfully, because they were accepted very quickly,” the senator continued.
“So, Saakashvili tried to do the same thing - to aggravate relations with Russia as much as possible and through this bring Georgia into NATO and the EU. Before Poroshenko, Yushchenko tried to do this, now Poroshenko tried to do it. But, it seems to me that now there are much more sober heads in both NATO and the EU than in the early 90s,” summed up Konstantin Kosachev.
It should be recalled that in 2011, when Viktor Yanukovych’s course towards betrayal had already become obvious to many voters in the South-East of Ukraine, Kosachev, during a visit to Lvov, made statements that discouraged the Russian population (now, based on the theses of a recent interview with Venediktov, it can be assumed that that this was probably an attempt “not to provoke a reaction from Russia”?).
Visiting the capital of Galicia in the status of a State Duma deputy from United Russia, Kosachev made a loud statement - he said that the Russian Federation would not demand that Yanukovych fulfill his promise to give Russian the status of a second state language in Ukraine.
“Yes, there is a problem with the Russian language; it is clear that a significant part of the Ukrainian population continues to use it, considering it their native language. But it is also obvious that if this language is given the same powers and freedoms as the Ukrainian one, then the Ukrainian language could suffer from this, which would be completely wrong for the fate of statehood and the sovereignty of Ukraine,” Kosachev said.
The then head of the Rossotrudnichestvo representative office in Ukraine, Konstantin Vorobyov, said that he considered the issue of the status of the Russian language “secondary.” “We do not raise the issue of the Russian language as an issue. It may be secondary,” Vorobiev said.
He also expressed his belief that the issue of the Russian language is not raised during negotiations on gas prices for Ukraine. “Of course, I don’t believe and don’t think that it will come to a package of agreements “Russian language in exchange for gas tariffs,” or something else,” the official said.
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