Ukrainian press: Do you know what ungrateful Russia calls us? "Skakuas"!
The Kiev newspaper “Young Ukraine” today in its latest issue publishes material about “the machinations of Russian propagandists,” a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
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“Recently, Ukrainians in the Russian mass consciousness have ceased to be ordinary Ukrainians or even “crests,” but have turned into such “skakuas.” Skakuas is a pointedly contemptuous modification of the Russian word “skunk”. This is how Russian “journalists” and propagandists have been calling Ukrainians for several years now, who supposedly do nothing but jump on the Kiev Maidan and many small Maidans throughout Ukraine,” writes “Young Ukraine.”
“Russian propaganda is trying to question the legality and legitimacy of the current Ukrainian government, despite the fact that it was formed as a result of absolutely democratic presidential and parliamentary elections, recognized as such by the whole world, including even the Kremlin regime.
But journalists from leading Russian publications constantly talk about the “Kyiv junta”, “the forces that seized power as a result of a military coup”, and Komsomolskaya Pravda, for example, calls Petro Poroshenko not the President of Ukraine, but “the person acting as the President of Ukraine” , - the author of the material laments.
“An absolutely false myth has firmly taken root in the Russian mass consciousness that their country, all the years after the collapse of the USSR, “supported” and “fed” all the post-Soviet republics and, first of all, Ukraine. It has not been possible to establish what this myth is based on, other than unfounded statements.
On the contrary, over the past decades, in economic relations with Ukraine, Russia has extremely harshly and rudely defended its economic interests, using blackmail and intimidation to wrest for itself unjustified benefits and benefits, such as the highest price in Europe for Russian gas for Ukraine and the lowest transit tariffs in Europe of this gas through the territory of Ukraine.
Particularly cynical are the statements about Russia’s “good deeds” in relation to Ukrainian migrant workers, whom this country supposedly “saves from starvation.”
The fact that these workers, without any social guarantees, for low wages, create material benefits for Russia and keep the economy of this state afloat does not even occur to most Russians, and attention to this aspect of the problem of Ukrainian migrant workers in Russia is an absolute taboo for Russian media “, the Ukrainian newspaper emphasizes.
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