[An Nahar] The Russian Foreign Ministry on Monday strongly criticized the new Ukrainian leadership, saying it used dictatorial methods and discriminated against ethnic Russians.We seen dis movie...
"They have set a course to suppress those who do not agree in various regions of Ukraine using dictatorial and sometimes even terrorist methods," the ministry said in a statement. Moscow also slammed new legislation that it said aimed to "restrict the humanitarian rights of Russians".
"Russia stands ready to lend fraternal assistance to oppressed brotherly peoples..."
Earlier in the day, Moscow questioned the legitimacy of Kiev's new leadership,
"Bastards!"
accusing them of leading an 'armed mutiny' in Ukraine and revealing anti-Russian tendencies in the former Soviet republic.
They have "anti-Russian tendencies" because they don't consider themselves to be Russian.
In the strongest reaction yet from Moscow to the transfer of power from Ukraine's disappeared President Viktor Yanukovych to the overwhelmingly pro-European opposition, Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said Moscow cannot negotiate with rebels who "carry Kalashnikovs".
"Unless we're the ones carrying them."
He said that Western countries who think otherwise must be deluded. "Strictly speaking, there is no one for us to communicate with there today," he told Russian news agencies.
"So we'll probably send tanks."
To think the new leadership has legitimacy is "some kind of an aberration of perception when people call legitimate what is essentially the result of an armed mutiny," he added.
"Even Imre Nagy wouldn't have stood for that!... Probably."
The Russian foreign ministry issued an even more hostile statement, saying that the Ukrainian parliament has "set a course to suppress those who do not agree in various regions of Ukraine using dictatorial and sometimes even terrorist methods".
"You might call it 'Dubčekism."
"Militants are not disarmed, they refuse to leave the streets that they de-facto control, to go out of administrative buildings, they continue acts of violence," the ministry said.
"Yep. We're just gonna have to step in to Restore Order™."
It also accused "western partners" of a hidden agenda in Kiev, saying: "We see in the position of some of our western partners not concern for the fate of Ukraine but a one-sided geopolitical calculation."