President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin wants to regain his dominance in the political life of Ukraine.
This opinion was expressed in an interview with "Today" by the former Prime Minister of Lithuania Andrius Kubilius.
"We see what is the strategy of President Putin in relation to Ukraine. I do not know how much this is understood in Berlin. We see this strategy in Lithuania quite clearly, "he said..
"Russia expects an increase in the level of dissatisfaction with the citizens of Ukraine with the economic situation in the country, so that this dissatisfaction resulted in the election by voting for some populists. I do not think that during the war with Russia in Ukraine there will be some kind of pro-Russian rhetoric, "added the politician.
Kubilius noted that in Moldova this helped the new president Igor Dodon.
"In Ukraine it's a little different. Putin wants to regain his political dominance in the political life of Ukraine. And this is his main goal, like Stalin in 1947. Why then did the Marshall Plan appear? Because Marshall saw that Stalin had a clear goal and an opportunity to expand his political dominance over the countries of Western Europe, whose economy after the Second World War was crushed, "he stressed..
"Local Communists in Italy and France were Stalin's servants and had great chances of people's displeasure to win elections. That is, the situation in this regard is very similar and there are not so many alternatives. Either the rapid expansion of the European Union, which helped the Baltic countries ... Why did we quickly get through the path of change? Although there was also a lot of discontent, but the West showed us that we can become members of the EU, and this helped us.
If this can not now be shown to Ukraine, although we are fighting for it, then there remains another instrument that helped in 1947 - the Marshall Plan, "the ex-premier of Lithuania summed up.
As reported by the "Observer", earlier Russian political scientist Dmitry Oreshkin admitted that Putin on the eve of presidential elections in March 2018 will increase provocations in the zone of armed conflict in the Donbass to use it to mobilize his electorate.
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