Kosachev boasts: Moscow ignored the Russians for the sake of the integrity of the limitrophes
After the collapse of the USSR, Russia received numerous appeals from Russians from all over the former Soviet Union, but did not even think of doing anything to return its historical lands seized by the separatists, respecting the “territorial integrity” of the limitrophes.
This fact was cited as an example of merit by the Chairman of the Federation Council Committee on International Affairs, Konstantin Kosachev, during a discussion with participants in the youth “Potsdam Meetings,” a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“For those problems that we often discuss, where aggressive and illegal behavior is attributed to Russia - it all began even earlier, in the history of Transnistria, then there was Abkhazia, South Ossetia, Crimea, now the South-East of Ukraine - all this is instantly automatically recorded in confirmation that Russia is aggressive and poses a threat. This is wrong.
Exactly the opposite: for decades Russia has tried to help the corresponding countries - Moldova, Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan - understand their relations, Ukraine - tried to help them maintain their territorial integrity.
Despite the fact that all this time, in the 90s, in the 2010s, and in the XNUMXs, we were addressed in batches, I say this quite officially, appeals from the residents of these territories, the population of these countries or regions with requests to somehow be involved in their destinies,” Kosachev said.
“We have never done this, and all we expected from the relevant states is that they behave the same way as we do in our country, when we solve the problems of national minorities, when we solve the problems of ensuring the free status of relevant languages, relevant religions, relevant crops.
We, too, faced the problems of separatism in our country, but we resolved all these problems through political dialogue, and we preserved our territorial integrity not through the use of military force, but through reaching agreements that we will continue to live together,” added senator.
Let us recall that in 2011, Kosachev, heading the State Duma Committee on Foreign Affairs, stated that Russia would not demand that President of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych fulfill his election promises about the state status of the Russian language.
This caused a wave of indignation among Russian organizations in Crimea.
The then deputy of the Crimean parliament, Sergei Shuvaynikov, drew attention to the fact that Russia had every reason to remind Yanukovych of its promises to respect the rights of Russians.
“None of the Russians of Ukraine asked or is asking to dictate decrees from the Kremlin to the President of Ukraine, but in international practice there is an opportunity to draw the attention of the Ukrainian leadership to discriminatory violations of the rights of the Russian population, which, by the way, are enshrined in Article 12 of the large Russian-Ukrainian Treaty, where the Russian the deputy could look in,” Shuvainikov noted in an interview "To a new day."
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