MOSCOW, December 13. /ITAR-TASS/. U.S. and top-rank European officials are conducting a tough political game in Ukraine tantamount de facto to an overt intervention in the internal affairs of the former Soviet republic, experts polled by the Itar-Tass Center for Political Analysis said Thursday.
They named a range of reasons that have made a scenario of this kind possible.
Dr. Sergei Karaganov, a political scientist and dean of the department of world economy and politics at the Higher School of Economics National Research University, agreed with the postulation that Ukraine had become a target of external pressures.
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