MOSCOW, March 25. /TASS/. The Kiev regime contributes to the creation of threats to Russia from NATO by using nationalist beliefs, Investigative Committee Chairman Alexander Bastrykin told TASS in an interview.
"Ukraine has become a country whose ideology is built on Russophobia. The current Kiev regime uses nationalist beliefs to persecute the Russian-speaking population of Donbass and contributes to the creation of threats to Russia by NATO," he said.
Bastrykin noted that after the collapse of the Soviet Union, Ukrainian elites tried to impose on their people a new ideology based on Ukrainian nationalism. According to him, all this continued to develop against the background of the glorification of those who fought on the side of Nazi Germany during the Great Patriotic War.
The head of the Investigative Committee recalled that Ukraine adopted laws aimed at denying the Soviet past, as well as discrimination of the rights and freedoms of the Russian-speaking population of Ukraine. Thus, the law providing for the exclusive use of the Ukrainian language in almost all spheres of life violates not only the rights of millions of citizens of this country, but also contradicts the constitution, which guarantees the free development, use and protection of the Russian and other languages.
"In fact, total discrimination on the basis of nationality began, and last year a law was passed on the indigenous peoples of Ukraine, where Russians were not even included. At the same time, looking at numerous videos recorded not by the official media, but by ordinary citizens, we see that quite a lot of Ukrainian residents still speak Russian," Bastrykin noted.