(Original translation of this text is from Voice of Russia. You cannot find this speech in any Western media.)http://ift.tt/1eH77G3 Western states will not be able to achieve Russia's international isolation in the wake of the Ukrainian crisis, Head of the State Duma Committee for International Affairs, Alexei Pushkov said. "It seems to me that all talks about the international isolation of Russia are not productive. It is impossible to isolate Russia," Pushkov told Interfax Sunday. He stressed that there are other countries, besides those 28 states united in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). "And we have not heard that any statements were made by the overwhelming majority of countries, including the big ones - the leading countries - such as China, India and some others, over the decisions taken by Russia yesterday," Pushkov said. Therefore, he believes that an attempt the Western countries may take will be doomed in any case. He also stressed that isolation hadn't worked in the case of Georgia's breakaway republics of Abkhazia and South Ossetia. Earlier, the US Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power said that, should the situation around Ukraine continue to deteriorate, the political and economic isolation of Russia will become even much deeper. The West should carefully analyze the gravity of Ukraine's crisis and make balanced decisions on settling the situation, rather than act in the Cold War spirit with regard to Russia, the Chairman of the Russian Duma International Affairs Committee, Alexei Pushkov, said in a statement. The situation in Ukraine is highly unusual, with part of the population refusing to recognize the current government and demanding that they be protected against the ultranationalist trends that have come in full force there, Pushkov said in an interview with the Interfax news agency on Sunday. He feels that now that the West is deciding on its policy on Ukraine, it may follow two ways, - a hysterically aggressive one, with turning a blind eye to the actual problem and reacting in the framework of anti-Russian instincts that the political class of the United States and some European countries is known for; or it may follow a balanced and pragmatic scenario. The Russian MP believes that whatever fellow feeling the western countries may have for Ukraine's current leaders, they cannot ignore the fact that the Kiev authorities have little, if any control of Ukraine, as well as the fact that the ultra-right pro-Nazi forces have gone on a rampage, patrolling Kiev streets in clothes with SS insignia, threatening the non-Ukrainian population and urging Chechen terrorists to pool efforts with them in fighting Russia. "I think Western politicians shouldn't and will be unable to turn a blind eye to that pressing problem of modern-day Ukraine infinitely," Pushkov says. He feels that the western leaders should, besides, admit that the population of several Ukrainian cities has refused to recognize the legality of the current authorities and moves by the Kiev-based government. The Russian MP points out that Russian flags have been hoisted over quite a few regional administration buildings in Donetsk, Kharkov, Mariupol Melitopol, Simferopol, and Odessa. These cities have been the scene of huge rallies of protest against the Kiev authorities, they say they will take no orders from Kiev, and this actually happens throughout eastern and southeastern Ukraine, and one can't ignore that, the Russian MP points out. "If the western countries accepted the Euromaidan protests in Kiev as the expression of the people's will, how can they deny the residents of Ukraine's huge eastern and southern cities the right to the expression of their own will?" Nor can the West refuse to admit, Pushkov says, that the agreement between Victor Yanukovych and the opposition of February 21st, which was signed in the presence of the Foreign Ministers of France, Germany and Poland, has failed to be implemented. "The West should give a thought to the idea of what kind of Ukraine they support. Is it the Kiev-based government, which is incapable of controlling the situation in Ukraine without resorting to violence? They should decide if violence against the people in the east and southeast of Ukraine is the right way to support the government in Kiev. The West should also answer the question of why it recognizes the right of the people of Kosovo, for example, to their self-determination, but denies the right to the expression of their own free will to the people of Crimea. The West should, besides, give a thought to the question of who will pay for the current semi-destroyed Ukraine, which has been left destitute. Nor should the West forget about the fact that Ukraine has been kept afloat to this day thanks to the natural gas deliveries that Russia has been supplying at a reduced price. But there's been no sign whatsoever that the West is prepared to invest heavily in the Ukrainian economy. But is the West prepared to grant Ukraine loans and help settle the country's financial and economic problems, given Ukraine's instability due to the Kiev authorities' moves and appeals by ultranationalist gangs that only serve to further destabilize the situation? Is the West capable of coping with Ukraine's financial disaster without other countries, such as Russia, taking part?" Alexei Pushkov asks.



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