Ship processes against former President Viktor Yanukovych in Ukraine and director of the Library of Ukrainian Literature Natalya Sharina in Russia show countries are in different epochs.

About this in his column on the website of Espresso wrote a political scientist and journalist Vitaly Portnikov.

He notes that despite the fact that Yanukovych's crimes saw the whole world in a live broadcast, but the ex-president refuses to participate in the process, Russia, whose leadership actively participated in attempts to destroy the Ukrainian protest, granted Yanukovych an asylum and is not going to give him or her His associates and relatives.

"The process is like a reminder: if you serve Putin, you can commit any crimes, kill, rob, rape. The Kremlin does not abandon its own,.

And the same time in Moscow, too, continues the trial of Natalia Sharina, who did not even have any relation to the creation of this library, nor to its functioning.

"She was sent to work in the Library of Ukrainian Literature to" clean up "the institution from Ukrainian activists. According to the Russian authorities, from the library created by the Ukrainian organizations of Moscow and actually donated to the state, there was to remain a sign. In fact, Sharin is judged for being the director of a signboard. Formally - for what they found in books that the administration did not have time to remove from the library fund against the backdrop of the war that Russia began against our country, "recalled the journalist.

At the same time, Portnikov focuses attention on the fact that Yanukovych's fault in crimes against Maidan, against the Ukrainian people, is obvious from the political point of view.

"But from the legal point of view, this fault in the absence of the accused and his accomplices is not so easy to prove. Sharina is not guilty of anything - except that she headed an institution in whose name was the "criminal" word "Ukrainian". But she will be sentenced, "the journalist is sure..

Portnikov also noted that those who are indignant in Russia in connection with sanctions against Russian "virtual" business and social networks will not say a single word in defense of Sharina.

"These two processes better than any words demonstrate what Ukraine is and what Russia is and in what different epochs there are countries that ironically turned out to be on a geographical map," the journalist concluded..

Recall earlier Portniky explained how and why Ukraine announced a "divorce" with Russia.

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