If Seleznyov had not made his visit, it would have been worth inventing

The Ukrainian deputies' reaction was expressed by yelling, applauding and stamping their feet. And Seleznyov did his best.

He said that he welcomes conclusions and evaluations Tkachenko had made during the August 23 grand meeting, concerning the fact that Russians were alerted by the Ukrainian politicians' statements on the possibility of joining NATO, as well as by Ukraine's delay to ratify the treaties on the Black Sea fleet. These factors were called objective grounds for Russia to drag out ratification of the Great Interstate Treaty.

The Russian Speaker also interfered a bit in Ukraine's domestic affairs: "It may not be called a normal practice when parents are denied the right to teach their children in their native language; the fact that some provisions of the law on Education discriminating the Russian language had not been adopted evoked in Russia a positive response; we would welcome Ukraine's joining the alliance of Russia and Belarus".

As expected, the Leftists and the presidium met these statements on their feet with applauds and shouts of "Friendship!", while the Rightists chanted "Provocateurs!" and stamped their feet.

The contemporary history of Ukraine shows that nothing else but the issues concerning language in particular, and an encroachment on sovereignty in general can incite such a struggle between political forces in the parliament.

In other words, if Seleznyov had not made his visit it would have been worth inventing. Or perhaps it was?

When Parliament prepares to discuss very serious issues related to executive activity and intends to examine the problems related to the two budgets, decrees and the government, then it is expedient to cause a split in it. Serhiy Teryokhin said to The Day correspondent that "this visit is absolutely irrelevant, it does not relate to any interstate events".

People's Deputy Ihor Yukhnovsky said that the Russian Speaker is more interested in a split Ukrainian Parliament than in a united one because it will never ratify three treaties on the Black Sea fleet, thus giving the State Duma the grounds to suspend the ratification of the Great Treaty, as they have done until now. So, the Russians completed their homework. It is interesting, but the "Russian homework" may be considered an attempt to export political crisis with shifting a center from one branch of power to another. The Duma Chairman knows that such an action would face a cold reception in Ukraine, as well as in any other country: from the Tahiti islands to the Papuans. We can only be surprised by the lack of sense in his attempts to humiliate the Ukrainian Parliament to such an extent.