MOSCOW, May 04. /ITAR-TASS/. It’s high time the West should see that it’s the tail wagging the dog situation in the Ukrainian crisis, when Washington and Brussels clients are thrusting a line of conduct in respect of Russia upon their masters, Sergei Rogov, the director of the Institute for the US and Canadian Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, said in an interview with ITAR-TASS.
“Such a scenario creates serious problems for the West bringing the situation to the point of maximum confrontation with Russia, which is in the interests of neither of the parties dragged into the crisis and is dangerous for all,” he said.
“It is hardly ever conceivable for a soberly-thinking person that in the 21st century in the very heart of Europe Ukrainian radicals would burn alive their compatriots in Odessa,” he said. “Such savagery, should it happen in Lugansk or Slavyansk, i.e. in a southeastern region of Ukraine near the Russian border, not deep inside the country, might have triggered an unpredictable scenario.”