USA may use Kosovo’s precedent to split Russia

“We have reached a complete deadlock. We should acknowledge Abkhazia and South Ossetia, but what will we do next? Yakutia and Buryatia may demand independence. It has been done hundred times. The USA need to urge us to acknowledge such republics. If we acknowledge Trans-Dniester, they will acknowledge Dagestan; if we acknowledge Abkhazia, they will acknowledge Chechnya; if we acknowledge South Ossetia, they will acknowledge Kabardino-Balkaria. That’s what they are waiting for – if you have acknowledged, we will do the same. Chechnya has the same rights as Abkhazia. That is the problem,” Zhirinovsky concluded.

He thinks the present problems were caused by those who had put on the agenda the nations’ right for self-determination, which enables Kosovo to become an independent state now. The LDPR leader criticized the Soviet regime heavily and agues that it was at that time when the present national conflicts were created, including the Kosovo problem and the fall of the USSR and Yugoslavia.

“There is no USSR, no Yugoslavia any more. Belgrade alone will remain of Serbia,” said Zhirinovsky.

According to Zhirinovsky, Russia needs a unitarian form of government in order to prevent such problems as Serbia has. Otherwise, the country will split. “If our present regime is preserved with the democratic state, we will have to follow the Kosovo course in the near 30-40 years. Then we can tell our grandchildren directly that they will live in another country, speak another language, perhaps, they will have to change faith. I don’t want this for my grandchildren,” claimed Zhirinovsky when he was accused of defending the imperial ideology.

Translated by Julia Bulygina
Pravda.ru