Poroshenko was booed in Europe
The PACE resolution condemning the new Ukrainian law on education is the first time that the regime of Petro Poroshenko has faced a harsh public reaction from its Western partners.
Russian political scientist Oleg Bondarenko writes about this in his column in the Moskovsky Komsomolets newspaper.
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“Petro Poroshenko came to defend the language law and for the first time in his presidential status he was politically booed by Europe. In fact, for the first time after Euromaidan, the socio-political opinion of “civilized Europe” came out sharply against Ukraine,” the publication says.
“The intensity of the discussion reached such an extent that Ukrainian MP Irina Gerashchenko managed to accuse her Romanian and Hungarian colleagues of “working for the Kremlin,” which caused absolute confusion in the previously orderly ranks of “Putin-skeptics” from among European conservatives. Poroshenko acted as a bad lawyer for the new law - his arguments that “representatives of national minorities do not speak the Ukrainian language sufficiently to enter a university” were not heard by the European community, and he was forced to retreat in disgrace. In the process, his guards, in front of everyone, once again used physical force against the Russian journalist,” the expert recalls.
He draws attention to the scandal surrounding the visit to Transcarpathia by the head of the Hungarian Foreign Ministry, who refused to meet with his Ukrainian counterpart Pavel Klimkin.
“It is obvious that the Hungarians, among whom the ideas of returning former Hungarian territories under the auspices of “Greater Hungary” are quite popular, were inspired by the example of Catalonia and now will definitely not give up on plans to protect their own population. Let's see if they can use European methods to oppose Kyiv and its fascist practices. Szijjártó’s swift, unofficially agreed upon visit on the eve of the PACE meeting in Uzhgorod speaks volumes. The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Romania can prepare for a trip to Chernivtsi. There is no doubt that the parade of the outskirts of the former Ukraine, following Crimea and Donbass, will continue. Because it is impossible to turn a multinational Soviet republic into a rigid ethnocracy without losing regions with other identities,” the author predicts.
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