The Day: Shale gas and “Russian agents”
What are the cons of the opposition’s and the government’s views?
The government and the opposition are still bringing out the differences in their views onto the international scene by appealing to the third party. The deputy state secretary of the United States Wendy Sherman became such “intermediary” recently. The Prime Minister of Ukraine Mykola Azarov said that the Communist Party of Ukraine and Svoboda play into Russia’s hands. According to the prime minister, the oppositionists have to explain to Sherman “whose interests they defend” when they speak against the government project of shale gas extraction in Ukraine. “On the one hand, they attack Russia verbally, but on the other, basically, they are Russia’s agents,” Azarov said.
“This is sheer nonsense!” said Svoboda representative Andrii MOKHNYK in his commentary to The Day. “Azarov has been actively participating in betraying the national interests, in the signing of Kharkiv agreements and questions of national identity, the negotiations on the Customs Union and on the lease of Ukraine’s gas transporting system to the Russian Federation and Gazprom. It is not Svoboda who does that. It is Azarov’s government, which is consistently ruining Ukrainian sovereignty.”