Ukraine in response to the Kremlin's demands for federalization should support the enslaved peoples of Russia in the struggle for self-determination.

Such a statement was made on the air of ObozTV by the chairman of the Public League "Ukraine-NATO" Sergei Djerge.

"We need to create an international anti-Kremlin coalition that would give a lot of effort to changes in the Russian Federation itself. The issue of the confederalization of the Russian Federation has ripened. They impose some kind of federalization on us, but Russia itself needs confederalization, "he stressed..

The expert recalled that more than 100 years ago in Kiev the Congress of the enslaved peoples of Russia.

"Mikhail Hrushevsky, after listening to people at this Congress, said - this is the golden dream of the peoples. Part of the people became independent, part is not. Russia remains a prison of nations. Large nations - Kazan Tatars, Bashkortostan, Buryats, Yakuts, peoples of the North Caucasus - have the right to autonomy, "he said..

According to Djerge, the main problem is that Europeans do not even know the names of these peoples.

"If the EU pays much attention to human rights, then no one removed the rights of the people either from the agenda.

People have the right to their own culture, language. We must seek justice, fight for the rights of peoples to self-determination, "the expert believes..

"Russia has done everything to destroy these people, to demoralize, to argue, as it was with the northern peoples. But the national consciousness of the peoples is awakening, and the task of Ukraine, which itself has achieved freedom and independence, is to help it, so that other enslaved peoples too are free, "he concluded..