Interfax: Initial democratic impulse of Ukrainians devalued by bet on radicals – Naryshkin

PARIS. April 15 (Interfax) – Democracy in Ukraine, as well as in any other country, can not be affirmed via nationalists’ ideology, Russian State Duma Chairman Sergei Naryshkin said.

“The initial democratic impulse of many people [in Ukraine] has been essentially devalued by depending on radicals – those, who rattle their sabers in a domestic civil conflict and do not hide their criminal motives. Democracy cannot be brought upon shoulders of nationalists,” Naryshkin said in Paris on Tuesday at a seminar dedicated to the 60th anniversary of the Soviet Union joining UNESCO.

No referrals to allegedly “noble goals” or faults of the previous authorities can justify this, Naryshkin said.

The timeline of unleashing global conflicts should be recalled and this is especially useful for some modern politicians, Naryshkin said. “Especially those, who like holding various historical parallels mixing black with white all the time. Those, who do not consistently notice the growing neo-fascist threat, the first symptom of which is glorification of Nazi criminals and their assistants,” he said.

Crises, similar to the Ukrainian calls, have taken paths in serious fault with humanitarian policy as well, Naryshkin said. “They highlight malignity of actions aimed not at uniting people but at suppressing the ‘cultural code’ of entire groups of people and depriving them of their right to speak their mother tongue and live in accordance with national traditions,” he said.