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Alexander Romanovich called the western politicians for a balanced approach to the situation in Ukraine 29 января 2014 A Russian parliamentary delegation is taking part in the winter session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE). Alexander Romanovich, the leader of A Just Russia Moscow-area division, deputy Head of the State Duma Committee on International Affairs is on the delegation. Taking into consideration a steadily growing tension in Ukraine, the Russian delegation launched the discussion of the situation in that country ahead the urgent meeting with this issue on the agenda that was fixed on January 30. Alexander Romanovich spoke at the meeting held within the framework of the PACE Commission on Political Issues on January 28. Having expressed support for his Ukrainian colleagues, he emphasized the significance of further development of the events in Ukraine not only for its neighboring countries but also for the situation in the whole world. The Russian deputy stressed that neither one-sided approach not radical prescriptions are suitable for the solution of this serious geopolitical issue. Reasoning from this fact, Alexander Romanovich addressed the PACE session participants and called them to adopt an appeal to parliamentarians and politicians of the European countries as well as the USA to avoid a single-ended estimate of the Ukrainian situation and suspend from an especially active expression of their political preferences in Ukraine. He warned that at a time when the situation in Ukraine is tricky, such demarches look like interference in the internal affairs of the country and might only aggravate the internal conflict which is escalating as it is. In compliance with the suppositions of the RF delegation members made prior their leaving for Strasburg, an urgent meeting on the situation in Ukraine had already been fixed within the Session framework. The debates are to take place on Thursday, January 30. As it was said by Alexey Pushkov, Head of the RF delegation, Chairman of the State Duma Committee on International Affairs: "The discussion is going to be very fierce. We hope that we will also hear some reasonable voices that realize impossibility of an endless stirring of the situation for the sake of democracy." According to him, The Council of Europe includes not only people supporting the Ukrainian opposition but also those who find it necessary to stabilize the situation in the country. In his turn, Leonid Slutsky, deputy Head o the RF delegation to PACE, Chairman of the State Duma Committee for the CIS Affairs thinks that a liberal opposition in Ukraine has failed to control the anarchical criminal crowd. He said: "The fraternal country is being plunged into chaos." Alexander Romanovich, a member of the RF delegation, the leader of A JUST RUSSIA Moscow-area division, deputy Head of the State Duma Committee on International affairs pointed out that the political split in Ukraine has not emerged recently (like a bolt from the blue). On the contrary, it is a long-standing painful problem, and to be more precise, it is a serious and (to our great regret) inevitable phenomenon that we have to accept as a given. Neither one-sided approach not radical prescriptions will help to solve this extremely complicated geopolitical crisis. "The Ukrainian society has really split on grounds of politics, property and sociality." Alexander Romanovich notes. In addition, there are well-known ‘center away’ geographical and historical factors. All this is aggravated by lack of a deeply rooted democratic tradition which could not have appeared during the USSR existence and which has failed to formed under the post-soviet conditions.
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