Crimean boomerang

Russian deputies and the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry play each other in the nerves a scandal with American military personnel in Crimea entered a new phase. Yesterday, by a majority vote (61 out of 78), the Crimean parliament at an emergency meeting declared the peninsula with a “territory without NATO”. President Viktor Yushchenko immediately gave a press conference in Kyiv, at which he called the Crimean deputies the “next political provocation” and unequivocally refuted the reports that appeared from somewhere on the readiness of Kyiv for the revision of the temporary agreement on the stay of the Russian Black Sea Fleet in Sevastopol.

The initiator of the application, the deputy from the progressive socialist party of Ukraine (PSPU) Valery Ivanov told Gazeta that for the Crimean parliament “the main thing is to demonstrate his will to the Verkhovna Rada” before today's meeting. On it, Ukrainian parliamentarians should give good to conduct the SI-Briz exercises, for the preparation of which the Americans arrived. Ivanov also noted that the deputies will recommend the Crimean private and state structures not to serve American military personnel. He also said that no sanctions were applied to employees of the Druzhba sanatorium who refused to serve the Americans. The Ministry of Defense of Ukraine "Gazeta", however, did not confirm that there was such a refusal at all.

"Let them roll anywhere"

The deputy confirmed that the pickets near the Theodosia sanatorium of the Ministry of Defense and in the port of Feodosia were organized, among other things, PSPU. According to him, local party members, "along with ordinary Crimeans," supply picketers with food. They now block exits from the sanatorium. “If earlier the Americans wandered around Feodosia and molested our girls, now they are sitting behind the fence and not yelling,” Ivanov’s consequences outlined the consequences of the decision of the deputies. - In the next day, we plan to supplant the Americans from Feodosia in the same way as we ousted them from Alushta. Let them roll, anywhere, at least in the field, at least where. ”

In the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense, however, the deputy was not taken seriously. “The protests did not affect the training schedule at all,” the press secretary of the ministry Andrei Lysenko told the newspaper. The exercises will take place as soon as the Verkhovna Rada will take the decision on their holding. “So it was in the past, and the pose, and I don’t see why we should do it differently this time,” he added.

"Fear of shooting affairs"

The representative of the president in Crimea Gennady Moskal responded to the statement of deputies more emotionally. “What Crimea without NATO? Have we already joined NATO? " - He was surprised, noting that "only people who either sat in prison could come up with such nonsense, or I do not know where."

In his opinion, the Crimean deputies are driven by the fear that Kyiv will begin an investigation into “shooting criminal cases” in autonomy. “And here many empty places will remain within the walls of the Crimean parliament,” Moskal predicted. It is apparently about matters related to the unauthorized seizure of land, initiated by the former secretary of the Ukrainian Security and Defense Council Petro Poroshenko and partially closed, partially not brought to the end after his resignation.

Traces

But more often representatives of the authorities talk about the "Russian trace" of Crimean protests. They ask why these teachings did not bother anyone before, and now they excited. It is reminded that in August Russia will participate in the jointly with the NATO operations “Active Efforts”, in which Russian ships as part of NATO squadrons will inspect ships in the Mediterranean Sea.

“Everyone knows that PSPU is a Moscow project. During the parliamentary elections, his leader Vitrenko did not get off the screens of Russian television, ”the Verkhovna Rada deputy from the pro -presidential block“ Our Ukraine ”Yuri Klyukovsky told Gazeta. The behavior of some Russian politicians who came to Feodosia to support the picketers also cause the nervous reaction of Kyiv. One of the outrageous of peace, State Duma deputy Konstantin Zatulin, in an interview with the newspaper, noted that the accusations of interfering with internal affairs are groundless, and he intends to appeal in court the decision of the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry, which declared Persona Non Grata.

"Rent to go to NATO"

It is unlikely that the small and fairly marginal party Natalia Vitrenko is able to raise the population of the peninsula to mass protests. Most likely, unrest is associated with the activities of the Party of Regions (PR) - its ally in the parliament of the Crimean autonomy, where the majority belong to them. The motive is transparent - its leader Viktor Yanukovych achieves from Viktor Yushchenko personnel concessions in the formation of the government. On Monday, a meeting of the alleged participants of the Orange Coalition was held in Kyiv. After her, Yushchenko made it clear that he could go to the main condition of BYUT (Blok Yulia Tymoshenko) and appoint Yulia Tymoshenko Prime Minister. And the next day, the Supreme Council of Crimea called an emergency meeting.

The head of the Ukrainian Center for Ptent Political Studies, Vladimir Fesenko, told Gazeta: “Initiatives to give the Russian language the status of regional and protest against NATO in Crimea - a way to show“ our Ukraine ”that it will not do without the support of the“ regionals ”.” And according to the head of the examination analytical fund, Mark Urnov, the “regionals” and Yushchenko will be agreed on one way or another, since the not in the interests of Yanukovych a serious conflict with the West. “Only Russia will lose, which for the sake of the“ regionals ”intervened in the internal affairs of another state. Ukraine received another reason to go to NATO, because we again showed that it was better to stay away from us,” he said.

The return move

However, Ukraine also has its trump cards in the unfolding struggle of nerves, and not only the question of the stay of the Russian Black Sea Fleet in Crimea. Official Kyiv through the lips of the first deputy head of the Foreign Ministry Anton Butyko unexpectedly proposed to declare the Sea of Azov with international waters. Recall that in 2003, the presidents of the two countries entered into Kerch agreements, according to which the Sea of Azov was declared the internal waters of Ukraine and Russia, and the Duma and Rada ratified them. The Russian Foreign Ministry yesterday said that he was expecting official clarifications from Ukraine.

What does Russia need in Crimea?

Nikolai Svanidze / TV presenter:

“If Russia and Ukraine had a very good relationship, then the Black Sea Fleet could be divided with Kiev - and that’s all. We do not need anything else there, because it is an alien territory. In the case of bad relations, as now, God himself ordered to warm up the antiki sentiments of the Crimeans, who in the majority consider themselves Russian and speak Russian.

Ask the local population: they are the same opinion that Crimea is Russian, not Ukrainian. Crimea will always be an acute question between Moscow and Kyiv. But in case of good relationships, acute issues solve easily, as, say, Alsace and Lorraine between France and Germany.

In Alsace, the majority of the ethnic German population, and it belongs to France. So what? Fine. But before the start of the First and Second World Wars, it was not normal. ”

Alexander Prokhanov / Writer, editor -in -chief of the newspaper "Tomorrow":

"Russia in the Crimea does not need anything, as is not necessary in Moscow or Siberia. Because Crimea is Russia, and it only needs its own integrity and safety.

Since Russia, in the person of its best national, philosophical and political contingent, feels itself within the boundaries of the tsarist or Soviet empire, then everything that has broken through it is today considered as a temporary and defective phenomenon.

30 million Russians who fell off from the main uterus-Russia and live outside the demarcation lines drawn in 1991, are part of the divided Russian people.

When today they say that Russia claims to be Ukrainian Crimea and stirring water there, this is wrong. Russia will recreate its spaces through a complex, slow, but inevitable absorption of those stumps that the voluntarist policy of the corrupt Russian elite implemented in 1991.

Now the United States launches its organizational weapon around the perimeter of Russia, which turns into a hostile zone. True, the last destruction in Uzbekistan failed. And we can master such organizational weapons (especially since America loses its power in front of our eyes). But this needs political will. And these conditions - the collapse of the West, the departure of America from world politics, which is inevitable, and the strengthening of the Russian imperial factor, which is also traced - will help us not with the help of some divisions, rockets and air armies, but with the help of a new culture - organizational weapons - to return these spaces.

For example, today's Georgia is no longer a country: it has neither Ossetia nor Abkhazia, and Eastern Georgia itself is swinging in the balance. This is a micromeria that can be destroyed by spitting from the tube with an elderberry. And Georgia will crumble. The appearance of Igor Georgadze in Moscow is a factor in this organizational weapon. ”

Sergey Ivanenko / First Deputy Chairman of the Yabloko party:

“Russia is different ... It has very strong imperial chauvinistic sentiments, whose adherents say:“ Our Crimea - and Basta! ”

This is very difficult to explain, but such moods are often encouraged by the authorities. However, in the modern world it is much more profitable to establish normal relations with neighbors, then it will be possible to travel to the Crimea as well as in Sochi.

And as a result of confrontation, you can not only get Crimea, but also acquire an enemy. However, in Russia there are also sane people who advocate to reanimate at least an agreement on a free economic zone. And in general, in order for economic relations to be transformed into normal relations between people.

So that you can freely ride, work and receive diplomas in one country and work in another. In a word, to do as in Western Europe. Then the so -called problem of Crimea will leave the agenda. ”

Alexander Shirvindt / People's Artist of Russia:

“It's all about habit. We are just used to the Crimea, and now it’s a shame that he has become abroad. After all, it is always a shame when they select their own. Apparently, our deputies fly there out of habit. How is the current situation there, I have no idea. But, I think, after fifty years, Crimea can become ours again. Again everything will change, and we will make it possible again. And again there will be an eternal world! ”

06/06/2006 / Gennady Savchenko, the material was published in the newspaper No. 96 dated 07.06.2006.