YEREVAN, November 11. /TASS/. Rampant neo-Nazism still persists in Ukraine, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Monday addressing graduates from the Diplomatic School and university students in Yerevan.

"The leading European powers [at some point] took their cues from those who illegally seized power and who consistently encouraged and turned a blind eye to the continuing surge of neo-Nazism in Ukraine," he noted. "There are such trends in Europe as well. Neo-Nazis are actually running the show in Ukraine."

Lavrov noted that neo-Nazis "do not give a damn about any peaceful initiatives by the new Ukrainian authorities."