The matter is that belligerent Russophobes call the tune among Ukrainian top politicians, power structures involved in the formation and realisation of foreign policy, and the majority of the mass media. They are dominated by the former party nomenclatura; they are not just overactive — they are aggressive and cruel.

This aggression is visible, in particular, in the impudence of these forces today on the eve of the anniversary of the Great Victory to legally recognise the OUN-UPA "war party" during WW II. The scale of' celebration of the "merits" of those bandits and the social benefits promised to them place them higher then those who defeated fascism.

I would be insincere, though, if I did not express surprise or misunderstanding of the position of the Russian authorities and politicians, whose statements and actions, actually help ill-wishers of Russia in our country to kindle anti-Russian sentiments. I am not talking about the clinical cases of buffoonery by prominent clowns in Russian politics. I am concerned about dangerous actions that could happen, if not on the approval of the Russian authorities but without the knowledge, to the detriment of Ukrainian-Russian relations.

Frankly, I myself cannot explain who provoked and for what purpose the conflict around of the Tuzla Island, which gave national extremists in Ukraine grounds for exploiting the topic of Russia's ostensibly aggressive ambitions concerning our country.

What was behind the landing of Russian troops outside Feodosia? Was it a lack of consideration, a conscious provocation, or the desire to check out the reaction of the Ukrainian authorities? And who is to win?

What about the irresponsible statements of some politicians about the status of Crimea, and the stay of the Black Sea Fleet in Sevastopol? Ukraine responded with demands to withdraw the fleet before the expiration of terms stipulated in Ukrainian-Russian agreements and conduct a detailed audit of the observance of agreements concerning the fleet... Relations between our countries are not spotless and becoming even more tarnished.

I had an opportunity to see the work of Russian spin-doctors during the presidential campaign in Ukraine. Only the confusion on this topic throughout the world, on the post-Soviet space (including in Ukraine), can explain the elephant in a China shop type of behavior or these so-called "political technologists". Along with other factors, this has led to Russia's largest foreign policy defeat in the showdown with the USA. Russia has been dealt serious blow and, in the long term, I am sure Ukraine will suffer as well.

It is difficult to not get the impression that responsible for this sector of policy are being guided not by Russia's national interests, and not by the desire to improve define relations between our countries, but by some other forces and for other reasons. Many politicians and statesmen either do not want to or are not capable of understanding that the situation on the post-Soviet space saw cardinal changes and it requres taking an absolutely different approach if we want to salvage normal (not to mention friendly or brotherly) relations between our countries.

Tell me, how should similar statements as the following be interpreted: "In 1991, it was not the USSR which was destroyed but the Great Russia", "the present Russia is stump of Great Russia'" etc.?

I agree with Vladimir Putin when he said that the collapse of the Soviet Union was the largest geopolitie tragedy of the century". I consider destruction of our union a crime not of the century, but of the millennium greatest tragedy of brotherly peoples, first of all Ukrainian people. But I do not want that my native land of Ukraine and other former union republics, be considered a stump of the Great Russia".

I offer a rather paradoxical idea that not every one’s likely to agree with. We see how Europe is integrating it is being consolidated with the ultimate goal of putting an end to the monopolarity of the world, the dictator ship of one super state. In fact, the formation of the EU, with one radical distinction of the social-class basis, goes essenttially on the same organisational-political grounds on which Vladimir Lenin has built our great socialist state, the Soviet Union: namely, preservation of state independense (sovereignty) of the Union member states; a common Constitution; a common currency; and coordinated foreign and defence policies.

In the meantime, instead of abandoning the practice of the USSR of distortions, which led to violation of the principle of federalism and actual transformation of the allied state into a unitary state, we have broken down the Union, created the CIS for a "civilised divorce", now drifting apart increasingly fast. In my opinion no objective processes other than subjective factors work here.

I shall be frank: I am not optimistic. I am not sure that with the domination of westernised, pro-NATO forces in Ukraine and imperial tendencies in Russia that the