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Not that ambassador
Quite unexpectedly, the question of the new Russian after Ukraine was not so simple. Vladimir Putin, recall, decided to transfer to this post the plenipotentiary in the Volga District of Mikhail Babich, but Kyiv was against it and refused to accept the messenger.
You can understand Ukrainian politicians. In the 1980-1990s, Mikhail Babich made a career in the Airborne Forces and is now a colonel of the reserve, and after dismissal from the army, he was connected in the companies of the military-industrial complex. In short, a rather dubious status for the relations of the two countries that are almost at war.
As a result, Ukraine took advantage of the right, which is very rarely applied in international practice - refused to accept the ambassador of another state. The Kremlin seems to have not expected this. In any case, Dmitry Peskov refused to comment on the press.
Mikhail Babich /youtube.comIt should be borne in mind that Mikhail Babich is not an accidental candidate. According to many media outlets, his predecessor Mikhail Zurabov asked for resignation immediately after the Maidan, and in Moscow they were allegedly unhappy that he “missed” the situation. But two years ago, the Kremlin decided to leave Zurabov, because, apparently, there was simply no other candidacy. And the good relations of Zurabov and Poroshenko, who developed before the Euromaidan, could at least somehow come in handy-but did not come in handy, it is difficult to imagine the friendly conversation of Poroshenko and the Russian ambassador during the war in the Donbass.
In general, the post of Russia's ambassador in Ukraine, by tradition, is one of the key in the diplomatic service and recently they have not been trusted to the diplomats. Mikhail Zurabov was appointed to the post of ambassador in Kyiv in 2009, and before that he was the Minister of Health and Social Development.
Almost the entire 2000s of the Russian ambassador to Ukraine was the former Prime Minister of Russia Viktor Chernomyrdin-a man who conducted the reform of the Soviet gas industry in the late 1980s, as no one else, understood the essence of gas disputes between Moscow and Kiev.
Yuri Dubinin, who was an ambassador in Ukraine from 1996 to 1999. In general, he combined this position with the post of Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, a unique case for Russia.
Now, however, the significance of the ambassador has decreased - it is not the power that Ukraine has come down from Russia, but because relations with this country have become so important that the policy in its attitude in the affected details is discussed in the Kremlin. So, it is likely that Sergey Toropov, who is now temporarily attorney in Russia's affairs in Ukraine, like a personnel diplomat, can help even more than a political appointment.
The shelling of the Armed Forces of Ukraine of the Kuibyshevsky district of the DPR. May 28, 2016. / DNR-news.comMoreover, the visible lull in the Donbass can quite easily be interrupted by new battles. The representative of the self -proclaimed DPR in the contact group to resolve the conflict Denis Pushilin in an interview with the Izvestia newspaper that "the situation at any time can erupt and develop into full -fledged combat clashes." According to him, Ukraine does not fulfill its obligations either in the military or in the political sphere. “Over the past five to six days, the situation has become worsened as much as possible. And if Ukraine does not observe at least the first three points of Minsk-2, open clashes will be resumed very soon, ”he said.