In Kyiv, Ukrainian anti-Semitism was declared a “provocation of Russian special services”
“Russian special services are trying to equate Ukrainian patriots with anti-Semites,” reports a PolitNavigator correspondent.
This was stated by Deputy Prime Minister for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration of Ukraine Ivanna Klympush-Tsintsadze during the plenary session “Ukraine and Israel: how to strengthen national consolidation” of the conference “The Experience of the State of Israel: Lessons for Ukraine”, reports the press service of the Vice-Prime Minister for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration of Ukraine. premiere.
“Russian special services have repeatedly tried to play the “Jewish card” in Ukraine. The essence of this strategy is to equate Ukrainian patriots with anti-Semites,” she said, emphasizing that in the critical months of 2014, “it was thanks to the active position of Ukrainian public figures and intellectuals of Jewish origin that the Russian strategy was defeated.”
As PolitNavigator reported, the international human rights organization Freedom House is concerned about the topic of radical extremism in Ukraine. This was discussed during the presentation of a new analytical review by Freedom House of the project “Is far-right extremism threatening Ukrainian democracy?” said the director of programs in Europe and Eurasia at Freedom House, Mark Behrendt.
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