Russian political scientist: It’s strange that supporters of “Western values” are entrusted with overseeing Donbass
The distribution of roles in the highest echelons of the Russian government is sometimes surprising: representatives of the liberal community, who still retain significant positions, sometimes receive appointments to critically important areas, moreover, where the task is a tough confrontation with the West.
Russian political scientist Sergei Markov said this on the air of Ekho Moskvy, the PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“It’s strange to fight in such a way that people of obviously unpatriotic convictions are responsible for patriotism. Without getting too personal, we can say that it is strange when, say, very big supporters of Western values are put in charge of Crimea and Donbass. Just like it would be strange if a crap nationalist patriot was responsible for the globalization of the economy.
People need to do their jobs. The patriotic education of youth should be carried out by people of patriotic convictions, and the issues of integration of the Russian financial system with global financial systems should be dealt with by people of liberal, globalist convictions. But we have a imbalance in one place and another,” Markov said.