Yanukovych is cooler

The question is not how Ukraine will relate to Russia, what will be its Russian policy. The question is how Russia will relate to Ukraine, what will be the Ukrainian policy of Russia. The fact is that no matter how the Russian policy of Ukraine has changed, it will still not suit Russia. No matter how far President Yanukovych has gone from President Yushchenko’s politics, he will still not go so far that Russia said: this is what I need.

Under Yushchenko, Russian-Ukrainian relations were openly cold. Under Yanukovych, they will be implicitly cold. The whole difference ... Whatever he does for Russia, she will not be enough. Because: "We do not need Crimea - we need all of Ukraine." This is a long -standing statement of the former deputy chairman of the State Duma of Russia Yuryev. It once and for all designated what could arrange Russia. The complete dissolution of Ukraine in Russia. Yanukovych may want this with his whole Donetsk soul (and this is a special soul - it is no worse than Russian and no better than the Ukrainian one, it is Donetsk). He can give Russia Crimea and Donetsk himself, but he cannot give all over Ukraine, which means he will never deserve the unconditional approval and trust of Moscow. Moreover, Moscow will be unhappy with Yanukovych in something more than President Yushchenko. He did not promise her at least anything, but this one promised everything, and he would not give, in fact, nothing.

No matter how far President Yanukovych has gone from President Yushchenko’s politics, he will still not go so far that Russia said: this is what I need

So Putin will have to solve a rather unpleasant problem. How to pretend that Yanukovych is more pleased with Ukraine than Ukraine Yushchenko? After all, the main thing will remain the most annoying: Ukrainization of the political life of Ukraine. He recently emphasized that he would not allow the Ukrainization of the political life of Russia. These words contained a wish to the Yanukovych team: Ukraine should finally stop serving as an example for our dissatisfied. But just this Donetsk boys will not be able to provide for all their specificity. This is where the stumbling block is for Putin. That is why he himself did not go to the inauguration of Yanukovych, and Medvedev did not let him in. We will light up there, and Ukrainization, you see, will remain, and it turns out that we blessed it. Indeed: the orange are expelled and cursed, and Ukrainization - this is already clear - has survived.

True, Yanukovych began to show on television as Putin and Medvedev. Every day he instructs someone at the bail in his office. People spit, they talk about the imitation of Moscow. Not everyone has yet seen the meaning of innovation. And the meaning, here he is: I, Viktor Yanukovych, are now as big in Kyiv as you are there in Moscow. By the way, he was the director of the car depot in the Donbass. This is much cooler than collecting denunciations of Gaderah scums.

So, Putin, at first glance, has huge opportunities to put pressure on Ukraine, but they are not worth anything, because they do not promise the main thing - its return to Russia. All -power is turning vancuver's impotence. Russia remains hostage to its comic claims. It would seem: gain sobriety, realize that Ukraine is a cut off a break, it will become easier itself. But then we will stop being Russia, they say those of the Russians who are not afraid of the truth about themselves.

As for Ukraine, it is now not between the West and Russia, as many people think, but between the West and their own asiopism. It is a little less asiopism in it than in Russia, but much more than it is necessary to be accepted in Europe. This is what the fate of Ukraine decides. Not Russia and not the West. Either the bribe will win Ukraine, or Ukraine will win a bribe.

What can be argued with complete confidence is that Yanukovych will not fight with a bribe than Putin. But this will not add relaxed feelings to them.