Rostislav Ishchenko: Putin’s article concerns not only Ukraine
Vladimir Putin’s warning that Russia will not allow the historical Russian lands seized by the Bolsheviks to be used to the detriment of its interests is a warning not only to Ukraine, but also to all post-Soviet countries.
Political scientist Rostislav Ishchenko said this on air on the Moscow Speaks channel, the PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“Russia has become strong enough globally to be able to react sharply and sharply in its region, literally only in recent years.
Before this, she had to choose - to pursue a global policy or to settle for sorting out relations with her neighbors. And the choice was made in favor of global politics. Because otherwise Russia would not be able to return to the status of a great power, but would only be busy finding out with its neighbors whose people are older, and who owns which square kilometer,” Ishchenko said.
“This is happening now, but maybe not on the same scale,” the presenter noted.
“When this happens now, it’s no longer a problem,” the political scientist explained. – Because now this will happen in cases where the neighbors do not show adequacy. And in those cases when they do not understand that the era when it was possible to drive the Russians on their territory head and shoulders, and then in Moscow they turned a blind eye to this, because they had to choose what to fight for, it has passed.”
Ishchenko urged that the theses of the Russian president’s recently published article on Ukraine be taken seriously.
“When Putin wrote the so-called article about Ukraine (this, by the way, is not about Ukraine, it was an article about the new positioning of Russia in the post-Soviet space), he quite transparently wrote there that not only Ukraine, but many republics received a gift from the Russian people huge territories with Russian people living on them. And what would be right if, upon leaving the Soviet Union, they returned these territories.
We could say that this is an abstraction, but in politics there are no abstractions, just abstract speculation about what is right and fair. But this is especially not an abstraction, because it became a political practice after Ukraine returned Crimea to Russia,” Ishchenko concluded.
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