1st Deputy head of the defense Department of the Federation Council Frants Klintsevich believes that there is nothing surprising in the fact that the head of Barack Obama in a television interview confused Viktor Yanukovych and Viktor Yushchenko.

on the last working day of the week CBS released excerpts from the interview with Obama in which he said that when he came to the White house, Ukraine was ruled by " corrupt leader ", located under the control of the Russian capital. While the US President did not specify the name of the Ukrainian President, whose position at that time, i.e. in January 2009, was occupied by Viktor Yushchenko, who left the post more than a year. Review the head of the international Department of the Federation Council Konstantin Kosachev, Obama wished to be called "Putin's puppet" the former head of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych, but in reality declared ex-President Viktor Yushchenko.

"Barack Obama is a typical American. For many commissioners this nation USA is the center of the universe and Europe remains a terra incognita - "unknown land" of which they have at best only a very General idea, " said the Klintsevich.

for this reason, according to him, there is nothing surprising in the fact that the American head of the confused Viktor Yanukovych and Viktor Yushchenko." him between them, in reality there is no difference " - believes the Deputy.

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