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Ukrainian authorities turned the presidential electoral competition, which just has started, into another reason for increasing anti-Russian sentiment, Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs said.
Kiev even decided to close polling centres on Russian territory. The explanation for this was quite strange: Ukraine thinks that its citizens living in Russia might be the objects for “provocations and repressions”, that Russian special services can allegedly arrange. Kiev expressed doubt about Moscow’s possibilities to ensure appropriate conditions for the holding of elections in accordance with the OSCE standards.
Russian diplomats characterized Kiev’s statements as ridiculous and unsustainable. Ministry of Foreign Affairs recalled that for the past several years Russia held several significant international events. The most recent one was World Football Championship. The authorities has always provided the safe stay of hundreds of thousands foreign guests on Russian territory, including Ukrainian citizens.
It is perplexing that Maidan authorities talk about safety after ignoring the attacks on Russian overseas agencies, the absence of resonant crimes investigations and lack of ability to keep normal order in their own county, diplomats emphasized.
Actually, the current regime authorities are simply afraid that the citizens can vote not the same way that Kiev wants. Depriving them of the opportunity to vote, authorities declare their own weakness.
In general, the current electoral campaign has a chance to become the most dirty and scandalous one in the history of modern Ukraine. The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Pavlo Klimkin stated that he would not let Russian election observers in.
МИД выразил надежду на то, что кураторы Киева на Западе перестанут ему потакать и оценят ситуацию, складывающуюся на Украине.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs expressed the hope that Kiev’s curators on the West will stop indulging him and assess the situation in Ukraine.
Russkiy Mir
