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"en.20140416.5.3-055-000"2
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"Mr President, we are hearing the 1914 language of self-righteous indignation to imply that one side is completely in the right and the others completely in the wrong. We might not like Mr Yanukovych – and there is much about him I do not like, if it is true – but his removal as President did not fall within the categories in Article 108 of the Constitution of Ukraine, and the procedure for impeachment in Article 111 was not followed.
The civil disturbances in Ukraine were orchestrated from the EU when Yanukovych rejected the EU trade agreement. This was just as much interference in Ukraine, and with less justification, than anything that Russia has done. The taped conversation of Victoria Nuland and Geoffrey Pyatt about who should lead Ukraine was evidence of blatant US interference. It is all very well to call a referendum held by the Crimean Autonomous Republic illegal, but this was no more illegal than the removal of Mr[nbsp ]Yanukovych.
Crimea had traditionally been part of Russia since the 18th Century, until 1954 when it was handed over by Mr Khrushchev, a Soviet leader of Ukrainian descent. The recent referendum was hurried and insufficiently debated, but the result was hardly ambiguous. Large powers, like Russia and the United States, have what they see as legitimate spheres of interest. The United States was not going to allow Soviet missiles in Cuba in 1962. Russia was not prepared to accept with equanimity a member of the EU and NATO within its traditional borders."@en1
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