Official Kiev opened a new page in its confrontation with the Muscovites. Svyatoshinsky district court of the capital of Ukraine issued the first conviction against a Russian politician. State Duma deputy Svetlana Savchenko was sentenced in absentia to 14 years in prison for “high treason”. Such the Criminal Code considers “subversive activities against Ukraine”, carried out by the deputy back in 2014. Bin Laden in a skirt? Kiev is not funny.

According to the court’s verdict, Savchenko’s “subversive activities” consisted in her participation in a meeting of the former Verkhovna Rada of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, at which historic decisions “On the Independence of Crimea” and “On the Succession of the Republic of Crimea” were adopted, as well as in a meeting of the State Council established in the Republic, adopted the "Constitution of the Republic of Crimea". It was this document that allowed the peninsula to make Kiev a pen.

Savchenko’s reaction to the sentence corresponds to its content. The deputy called him idiotic. “This decision has nothing to do with law and is a political game. “I am proud to have participated in historical decisions that led Crimea to return to its historical homeland - to Russia.” As you can see, it was not in vain that Savchenko, while still in the 1990s, was a deputy to the Supreme Council of Crimea, was part of the Russia bloc.

The question of the press about a possible appeal against the verdict allowed Savchenko to say out loud about what many people in the Russian executive are thinking about. “How can one appeal against cockroaches that they are parasites?” Said the deputy. A worthy and understandable answer, taking into account the fact that these days, as always, complex negotiations on gas transit through Ukraine take place. Sometimes things and people have to be called by their proper names.

It is important, however, to understand why Kiev hastened to condemn Savchenko. Indeed, similar cases were initiated against the head of Crimea, and against former ministers and deputies of all levels, including 250 Crimean Tatars elected to local councils. Plus thousands of military, police, SBU employees and peninsula prosecutors who chose life in Russia after the Ukrainian coup. All of them are criminals for Kiev.

Most likely, in condemning deputy Savchenko, Kiev aimed at the Russian parliament, which has recently become a strong irritant for him. So, the words of the State Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin that the oppression of small nations in Ukraine could lead to the withdrawal of a number of other regions from it, were perceived inadequately on the banks of the Dnieper. Although for a country that has already lost Crimea and part of the Donbass, this is quite a reasonable warning.

Moreover, the subsequent development of events showed the seriousness of this prospect. The information, voiced by the State Duma speaker that Hungary proposed Russia to join forces in protecting national minorities in Ukraine, made Kiev startle.

A mobile reserve of the National Guard was immediately sent to Transcarpathia, reinforced by armored vehicles and helicopters. Rightly afraid of Bandera.

But what if Poland and Romania, who also have claims against Kiev, also join Russia with Hungary? .. Until now, they were kept from this by general Russophobia and the supervision of older brothers - Europe and America.

But it seems that Russophobia is becoming less and less over time, and the growing weakness of Kiev, on the contrary, provokes the appetites of the former periphery of world politics.

Moreover, the legal grounds for the coordinated actions of the Eastern European countries were not slow to appear. Last week, the Venice Commission of the Council of Europe invited Kiev to review the law on the state language. The preferences that this law establishes for the Ukrainian language to the detriment of everyone else, including Russian (36% of Nezalezhnaya residents consider themselves Russian), should be changed. Kiev has no reception against such scrap.

The joint pressure of the EU and Russia may one day deprive Bandera of power. In Kiev, they understand this and try to snap back. The sentence to Svetlana Savchenko is an attempt to counteract this process in the most dangerous - Russian - direction. It’s bad for Kiev to put pressure on the Kremlin, so they are trying to put pressure on the State Duma. Obviously, new sentences will soon follow in relation to the deputies. They will be the tougher, the worse things will go on Zelensky.

And his affairs, as shown in the Norman-format negotiations held in Paris, are not doing as he apparently expected, agreeing to run for president. An attempt to replay the Minsk agreements - to change the order of fulfillment of the conditions listed there - failed. Both Merkel and Macron, not to mention Putin, for accurately following the letter of the document. So you have to execute.

But in this matter Zelensky has the strongest opposition in the person of nationalists who are ready to fight with Russia until the last Ukrainian. Not for nothing that in the course of the recent negotiations in Paris it was not possible to coordinate even the troop withdrawal along the entire confrontation line. We agreed on only three points. Apparently, the presence of Arsen Avakov, the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, who was “watching” the nationalists nearby, prevented Zelensky from displaying common sense.

But Avakov, too, is especially happy with nothing. In the best case, he managed to slow down the development of events. With all the significance of street power in Ukraine, the president’s power still means something. Even as a member of the Ukrainian delegation in Paris, Avakov was unable to take direct part in the negotiations. I had to wait in the corridor.

The limited nature of his influence upset the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine. In any case, nothing peculiar to his peculiar behavior in Paris can be explained. According to the testimony of the assistant to the Russian president, Vladislav Surkov, Avakov made his way to the room where the negotiators had dinner, and "actively drank wine after them." “Pomerolichik,” as he put it, “- revealed the unsightly secret Surkov. Disgusting, of course, the picture.

However, if you recall the former boss Avakov - Poroshenko, then he, too, was not particularly embarrassed by such inclinations. The characteristic bloat of the baggy costume of the former president of Ukraine unmistakably indicated the pocket in which he had a flask of alcohol. Now here is Avakov ... And this is not a household detail at all, but the most political factor. After all, it is with these people that the Kremlin has to deal.

And it is these people, albeit indirectly, through the hands of the courts, who pass sentences on our deputies. The State Duma should remember this.

The author’s point of view may not coincide with the position of the publisher.