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Электронное приложение к журналу «Международная жизнь»
We speak different languages; one people fought fascists while the other was either neutral or
served in a certain other army. Some of us are Orthodox Christians while others are Catholics
or belong to the Greek Catholic Church.
Speaking about the efforts Russia poured in Ukraine I should say that it invested about $30
billion into infrastructural projects, commercial and state structures. Joint credits of state and
private banks on the Ukrainian territory amount to over $30 billion (repayment chances are slim).
The same can be said about the energy sources discount of about $100 billion. Americans, who
had spent $5 billion, according to Victoria Nuland, spread the negative attitude to Russia to 80%
of the country's population. This trend should be changed, not an easy task because, in particular,
there are no corresponding media.
I regret to say that Russia has no similar projects to be realized from the territory of Russia, Be-
larus, Crimea or Transnistria. According to the Charter for Regional or Minority Languages, not
supported and not promoted in Russia, transborder transmissions cannot be banned.
I think that the Minsk Agreements will be probably fulfilled if Ukraine lives up to its obligations.
The meetings of Normandy Four took place; the elections in the Donetsk and Lugansk republics
were postponed. They will be carried out according to the Ukrainian laws yet the new law should
be agreed with the republics and adopted by the Supreme Rada; the law on amnesty should be
passed as the first step.
Ukraine will find it hard, if at all possible, to live up to the Minsk Agreements. The fly-wheel of
hatred that Poroshenko and people in Kiev set in motion can be hardly stopped, let alone re-
versed.
I think that Ukraine will need a dictator to cleanse itself of the results of the current chaos. The
situation is far from simple; serious and prolonged perturbations are in store. I think that very
soon Premier Yatsenyuk and head of administration Lozhkin will be removed. The Ukrainian
media are brimming with compromising materials; the campaign is very active. Much in Ukraine
depends on the name of the next premier.
Here is another Ukrainian specific: Ukrainians have flooded Washington via embassies and special
services with mutual accusations in the numbers that shocked both Republicans and Democrats.
As far as I know, Biden allowed Kiev to remove Yatsenyuk. This means that the processes will
gain momentum.
Dmitry Vydrin , writer, TV anchorman, Deputy of the
Supreme Rada of Ukraine, fifth convocation (Ukraine): The
problems in Ukraine and Russia and the problems be-
tween Ukraine and Russia are caused by the fact that
due to the irony of their historical destinies they have
acquired different types of elites or, rather, different
sets of elites that, by definition, cannot agree due to
different architectures of their mentalities, souls,
temptations, and requirements.
By and large, Russian civilization or the Russian World was set up in Yalta in 1945 where the
Yalta World and a new Russian civilization appeared. Any civilization is a place where new Mean-