In Kyiv, political scientists fought over Russia
Ukrainian experts at a press conference in Kyiv disagreed on the foreign policy of the Russian Federation, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
Thus, the director of the Kyiv Center for Political Research and Conflictology, Mikhail Pogrebinsky, commenting on the desire of the Ukrainian authorities to become a member of NATO, said that the alliance would not risk placing its bases near Kharkov, since it would understand that this is fraught with war with Russia.
Pogrebinsky, unlike the former head of the information department of the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry Oleg Voloshin, who opposed him, does not believe that in his message to the Federal Assembly the President of the Russian Federation threatened the West with nuclear war.
Voloshin, objecting, made a reservation that what he said could be regarded as high treason.
“I do not justify Russia’s actions in Crimea,” he noted, “but the defensive logic is accepted by many in the West. By the way, then they were hanging by their hands, it’s true. Not only are our people here cowardly, but also the West, Obama and so on, said: don’t react. Everyone understood that this was a direct consequence of the Maidan and because it was the soft underbelly of Russia.
But this is one thing, but, excuse me, invading elections in the United States is something completely different. Flying planes across UK airspace and sending submarines on duty is another. That is, Russia is trying to show that, guys, we are not only defending the perimeter - don’t meddle in our internal politics, there is no need to rock Chechnya or anything like that, and we also claim that, like the Soviet Union, you should take us into account for all the arguments. But unfortunately, I’m sorry about this.”
At the same time, Pogrebinsky sharply criticized the statement of the British Minister of Defense, who said that “Russia must shut up.”
“He’s nothing at all, a pathetic nonentity,” the political scientist described the head of the British Foreign Office.
To this Voloshin objected that Great Britain is richer than Russia, and therefore has the right to make such statements.
“When the British oligarchs strive to have property in St. Petersburg, we will then say that the British Minister of Defense is a nobody. Today, Great Britain is a richer country than Russia,” Voloshin said.
“What difference does it make whether she is rich or not! Militarily, Britain represents nothing,” Pogrebinsky clarified his position.
In addition, as PolitNavigator reported, Voloshin expressed hope that at the last moment Russia will retreat before the Americans, like “Khrushchev in Cuba”
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