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Pavel Zarifullin, Director of the Lev Gumilev Center
The statement of our government that it is not going to interfere in the affairs of sovereign Ukraine,
is, I think, short-sighted and strange, because it has invested incredible money supporting the regime of Yanukovych,
which is now lost, because the Ukrainian currency is falling with terrible force,
all the rating agencies have lowered the rating of Ukraine.
And today it is not just a failed state, but a state on the verge of collapse.
So certainly, when everybody interferes and meddles in the affairs of Ukraine,
everyone on the globe teaches the Ukrainian people and the Ukrainian authorities
to distance themselves from the events in Ukraine,
to say that this is a personal cause of the people of Ukraine, is unwise, it seems to me.
And whatever our government living in the cosmic heights says,
civil society will certainly be involved in the political life of the country, and, I think, will participate more.
Because today, because of the events of recent months,
there is indeed an official demarcation between the southeast and the west of Ukraine.
The borders have not been well drawn, but there was a subjectivation of the Southeast as a political system.
This space, no different than, say, the Rostov region of Stavropol, in terms of mentality,
i. e. the space from Izmail and Odessa to Sumy and Chernihiv and Kharkiv, lacked a common cause.
When they started to grab the representatives of the party "Svoboda" who were touring the cities of Ukraine
and burned the regional administration buldings, when they beat and sent them off, then a common cause appeared.
And now their eyes shine, they want to participate in something, they want a Eurasian Union,
there is a political will, a political order in society.
Unfortunately, the "Party of the Regions", headed by our "favorite" Viktor Yanukovych,
cannot yet meet this order because of the inertia of its leadership,
and because this leadership is simply not interested in the status quo.
It will continue sitting on two or three chairs, and waste Putin's billions.
And given that that there is a middle stratum in the "Party of Regions" who are for changing the format of the party,
and new leaders such as Tsarev, Dobkin, who already have not only a Ukrainian,
but also an international reputation, however, why then is the disgrace on Kiev's Maidan going on for so long?
Because this is largely beneficial for the leaders of the "Party of the Regions."
Today it is unashamedly discussed by representatives of this party and of society:
this way you do not need to join either the Customs Union or the EU, you can speculate between this and that,
to borrow here and there, to make promises everywhere, and sit in the Kyiv palace,
changing ministers and some leaders and be excited by it.
Now the Southeast feels its separateness, its otherness, it was pushed into this.
They do not want to go back to Galicia, "lesser Galicia", as they see it, they are oriented towards living with Russia,
in the same space.
And it is not enough to think about it, it is necessary to push the process in this way.
We, as a civil society, as a soft power, will do everything to facilitate this, so that such a force appears in Ukraine,
which would focus exclusively on the inclusion of Ukraine or most of the Ukraine into the Eurasian Union.
Because otherwise the country will be flooded by civil war, and the course "both for ours, and for yours",
with endless reaping of the benefits, is not efficient.
The course of endless feeding, training, gratification and salvation of Yanukovych must also be stopped.