Oleg Voloshin, a deputy of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine from the Opposition Platform, recently wrote on social networks: “As the situation in parliament shows recently, in this Rada, to be in the minority, you need to be not for LGBT people, but for a speedy peace through a compromise with Russia. " Due to my complete and even dense ignorance in this issue, I can not say anything about the attitude to LGBT people in the Ukrainian parliament. But about the peace and compromise with Russia, it was noticed very correctly. On the eve of May 1, the Verkhovna Rada appealed to the parliaments of other countries of the world with a call to continue to condemn the "armed aggression of the Russian Federation against Ukraine and the illegal annexation of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea."
I will not pretend that I like this, so to speak, document. Naturally, I do not like him. But since the fact that I do not like him does not lead to the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine ceasing to stamp such documents, I want to appeal to the parliamentarians of this great (without irony) country with a passionate and directly opposite in meaning meaning: Afftar, go escho! Take even more decisions about the “armed aggression of the Russian Federation and the illegal annexation of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea!” Take them every day! Hammer with these decrees all your channels of communication with foreign parliaments and governments! And then you will have, if not happiness, then at least deep moral satisfaction!
What prompted me to turn to the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine with this, expressing it in a highly polite, not entirely trivial appeal? I’m telling you in spirit. This idea was prompted by my long-standing conversation with a Russian press officer at the embassy of a very large Western power in Moscow. The then chief of my counterpart more than anything in the world loved to give interviews to the right and left. And my interlocutor burst out a cry of the soul: “I wake up in the morning, go to wash, look at the toilet paper roll and think:“ Or maybe my ambassador’s interview is already printed there ?! ”
I am sure that now you have grasped the essence of my plan. If the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine is still not tired of adopting decisions about the “armed aggression of the Russian Federation and the illegal annexation of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea,” then, for God's sake, let them accept it. Let them take it until they get bored worse than the bitter radish - if not by the deputies of the Verkhovna Rada themselves, then certainly their colleagues from foreign parliaments.
Of course, the method of my proposed struggle with the decisions of the Ukrainian parliament, which was written as if by copy, does not at all have to please the Russian deputies who have to respond to all these opuses. Commenting on the actions of his colleagues from Kiev, the Crimean State Duma deputy Ruslan Balbek said: “The appeal of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine to international parliamentarians is pure populism. We don’t trade in our territories, we don’t give back as concessions, in case of a threat we defend ”.
So I sit and think: how many times in recent years have Ruslan Balbek had to make such statements in response to the demarches from Kiev? I believe that not just a lot, but a lot. Has this activity bothered him? I began to express my vague suspicion that I had become bored, but something stopped me. At first I could not formulate what exactly. But then it dawned on me. An old Russian proverb says: "Your burden does not pull." Similarly, "its Crimea does not pull."
In response to the verbal exercises of his colleagues from Kiev, Ruslan Balbek does not need to invent anything, he does not need to squeeze anything out of himself. Once again, it’s quite enough for him to simply state an obvious fact: Crimea was Russian, Crimea is Russian, Crimea will remain Russian.
This is not Sisyphean labor. Sisyphean labor is just what the Ukrainian parliamentarians have been doing for years.
We will help them in this hopeless matter - we will help if not with a kind word (this, you must agree, will already be a bust), then at least with honest advice. One such advice, by the way, is ready for me. The resolution of the Verkhovna Rada used the wording: "illegal annexation." It's a shame, dear comrades! How can one not know that “illegal annexation” is the same as “oil butter”? I give the definition from the dictionary: “Annexation is the unilateral forcible accession by the state of all or part of the territory of another state. According to modern international law, annexation is a form of aggression and currently entails international legal responsibility. ”
Feel the difference, dear deputies of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine? Write, hone formulations, avoid tautologies and repetitions. But please, do not rush too much. You will have more than enough time for this lesson. And keep in mind: it will not help you return Crimea. Crimea is gone forever. Pour therefore from empty to empty as much as your soul desires. The longer it lasts, the more comical it will look. As they say, afftar zhzhot!
The author’s point of view may not coincide with the position of the publisher.