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Author : S. Kosenko
Independent expert, Candidate of Science (Political Science), Geneva, Switzerland
For twelve months now, Europe and the world
have been trying to untie the Gordian knot of
Ukrainian developments and their dramatic echo
in the country's east. Rabid nationalists and Rus-
sophobes who captured power in Kiev by force
and, supported by the United States and Europe,
deposed the legally elected President of Ukraine
tied one of the most complicated geopolitical
knots in the post-Soviet space. Today, we all know
that the aggressive and anarchical philosophy of Maidan was knocked together by the the-
oreticians of color revolutions from Washington and those who had implemented their
theories in Yugoslavia, Georgia and elsewhere. They pushed Europe into one of the most
painful and dangerous crises in its postwar history and moved the continent dangerously
close to a total "hot" war.
While Washington deliberately conjured up the crisis as a pressure instrument to be used
against recalcitrant Russia, the "enlightened" European political community which feigns
"total ignorance" of its disgraceful role in the evil designs of the United States causes
amazement or, to be more exact, stirs up indignation and disgust. More and more experts
and analysts outside the official circles of the European Union have started talking about
the pernicious nature of Brussels' Russian policy. It does nothing good for Europe and
causes deep disappointment among Russians in Europe's political and economic impotence
and its masochist acceptance of America's harsh and uncompromising lead.
In 1954, the international community tacitly accepted the transfer of Crimea to Ukraine;
there was no question of a referendum since people in Crimea remained Soviet citizens.
The right of the citizens of Crimea to express their will was ignored or, say, suspended till
the time when it would become meaningful, that is, when their citizenship would be
changed.
The entire system of law has not been created by a supreme legal power; it is based on the
basic principle of free assessments by any sovereign state of actions of another state. Each
state is free to assess its legal status in relation to other states; this means that interpretations
supplied by different states are equally valid.
Confronted with protests of humanitarian organizations and the badly hit economic circles,
as well as with legal inferences, court rulings and UN resolutions the United States agreed
The Maidanian Knot