That's right from Monday morning, the Russian media went into a triumphant war. Russia filed a lawsuit against Ukraine in the World Trade Organization.
The Russian Minister of Economy, Maxim Oreshkin, bluntly said that Ukraine violated all the basic principles of the organization, so the lawsuit concerns all sanctions and restrictions imposed by Ukraine since 2014, writes Larisa Voloshina for the DS. "The number of anti-Russian measures, their nature, the scope of those falling under the constraints of the industries testify that Ukraine systematically and consciously violates its international obligations, ignoring the rules of international trade, other norms of international law," the Russian minister exhorts..
What can I say?. No one in the world is capable of carrying a cynical deceitful nonsense better than representatives of the Russian government. Especially convincing in this "claim" is an appeal to the norms of international law, with which "something happened" in the year that way, 2014. Before us is another play called "Foreign help us," or "Only European bureaucrats can save the father of Russian democracy". Putin, systematically ignoring international institutions, no less regularly resorts to their tools.
Russia provokes an international bureaucracy to take advantageous decisions. Calculation is simple here. If the WTO succeeds in condemning Ukrainian economic sanctions, the way to abolish the European sanctions will be opened. Approximately so, Russian strategists think, filing lawsuits. The hope of "all replay" does not leave the Kremlin's dreamers. Will it work for them? Of course not. After recognizing Ukrainian economic sanctions as a violation of WTO rules, international bureaucrats risk receiving thousands of lawsuits no longer from Russia, but from their own businessmen.
Russia tries to use the weaknesses of democracy against the West. In this way, she drives herself into a trap. International rhetoric is getting tougher. So, if in 2014 g. The UN General Assembly broke out "supporting the territorial integrity of Ukraine," then in 2016 world diplomacy in its resolution called Russia an occupant. This time, international bureaucrats will either have to admit that economic sanctions are not within the competence of the World Trade Organization, or to play up to Russia and deprive the whole world of such an effective instrument of influence on an international criminal. Trying to annoy Ukraine, Russia once again puts a mine under international law. And we can not doubt that the West will have the instinct of self-preservation, not to play with the aggressor state in the Russian roulette.
The claims of Russia to Ukraine, voiced by Minister Oreshkin, contain an interesting passage, which is worth it to bring it separately. According to the Russian minister, and this is indicated in the lawsuit, "Ukraine restricts the importation of meat and dairy products, fish, wine and vodka products from Russia, impedes currency transactions, and also prohibits the accreditation of Russian news agencies and other media outlets to journalists. We remind you that we are talking about slander in the WTO.
The fact that Russian journalists are mentioned in the angry speech of the minister in the same list as the carcasses of large - and not very - cattle, banned to be imported to Ukraine, should in itself inspire Ukrainians with optimism. We are on the right road,. Even if the enemy can not refrain from obvious parallels between his informants and. Well, you understand.
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