REUTERS
Russian Foreign Ministry’s Commissioner for Human Rights and Democracy, Grigory Lukyantsev, says the protection of Russians and Russian speakers in Ukraine and the Baltic States remains Russia’s Foreign policy priority. [
The absolutely shocking thing about this on-going rubbish is that there are people in the West who buy it, repeat it, believe it. Several things too briefly stated: (a) In the Soviet Union Russian was the language, everyone spoke it, had to do so. Ukrainian for example was not allowed. Forcing the use of Russian was a fundamental part of the Kremlin’s Russification program – make everything Russian! Now, these thugs want to claim they are protecting people many of whom were forced to speak Russian. Give me a break. (b) The very ill-named Commissioner for Human Rights and Democracy is openly including Russian speakers in the Baltic States!!! Watch the Baltic borders, the Kremlin uses tanks on its “protection” missions. And, (c) Look into how that “protection” has worked out for the people in Crimea and the Donbas. Read the reports of human rights violations. RAM
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“The Protection of rights of the Russian and Russian-speaking population, the protection of our compatriots abroad is one of the priority tasks of our foreign policy,” he told a briefing in Moscow, as reported by an UNIAN correspondent in Russia on February 7. [
This nonsense gets repeated over-and-over as a justification for thuggery apparently because people buy it. Hello! Anyone who speaks Russian in a geographical area the little KGB colonel Putin wants as his own is an excuse for invasion! Putin and his thugs get away with this stuff because the consequences they suffer are insufficient. Sanctions? Nice idea I suppose but once placed Putin watches the West struggle internally to keep them. Sanctions should be increased on a regular schedule until the little colonel withdraws from the illegally seized territories. RAM]
“This is not only the situation with regard to the protection of the Russian-speaking population in the Baltic States, this is also the situation of the rights of the Russian-speaking population of Ukraine, which is being brought to the attention [of related persons] in diplomatic correspondence, in letters from out permanent missions,” Lukyantsev said. [
This clown and all those above him who speak this rubbish not only should be ignored, they should be laughed at – openly, and made fun of. Their “foreign policy priority” is a sick joke. RAM]
In particular, he mentioned OSCE High Commission on National Minorities Lamberto Zannier, the commissioner for human rights of the Council of Europe, and the CoE secretary general. [
Well, here you go, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) outrageously readmits Russia and this type of things starts! Where is the House Resolution condemning PACE’s including Russia? Introduced and stalled. Where is the outrage? RAM
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“We will continue to point out that the relevant actions in the education filed – as for Russian-language schools and access to Learning Russian – will be our concerns as well,” he added. [
How are those Ukrainian language programs going in Russian dominated lands where the population is Ukrainian-speaking. The Kremlin gets away with this stuff because the West is so poorly educated and sadly misinformed. RAM
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Lukyantsey says the Russian Foreign Ministry is striving to go beyond raising awareness of the issue, that the rights of compatriots, and “sometimes citizens,” are being infringed.
“We strive to point out that certain actions may be qualified as violations of the respective obligations these states undertook by signing certain international agreements. This applies to international human rights treaties,” He summed up. [
Talk about outrageous!!! For anyone – anyone – in Russia to raise the notion that others have broken international agreements is beyond outrageous – although routine. These international miscreants violate as a matter of course and in this case go no further than the Budapest Memorandum in which the Kremlin assured – actually guaranteed – Ukraine’s sovereignty and the national borders as they were in 1994. The gall of these people – the international community should skip any diplomatic talk and berate and laugh at these Russians openly when they say this stuff. RAM]
Read more on UNIAN:https://www.unian.info/politics/10864109-russia-to-continue-protecting-russian-speakers-official.htm1
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