The crisis in Ukraine " severely shaken " the international situation and its impact will be felt for a long time, said on Wednesday the head of the Ministry of foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation S. Lavrov In..

" The Ukrainian Crisis has seriously shaken the international situation, and its impact will be felt for a long time ", - he said.

Lavrov said that what was in Ukraine, " was not a manifestation of a fundamentally new trends, but rather the culmination of the course undertaken by Western partners the majority of the years in regard to Russia ".


numerous anti-government protests were started in the South-Eastern regions of Ukraine at the end of February 2014. It has been the response of local citizens at the forcible change of power in the country and the subsequent attempt to cancel the Verkhovna Rada of the law, giving the Russian language regional status. The center of confrontation between Pro-Russian-minded people with the government in Kiev has become the Donbass. About that, how is the conflict in the South-East of Ukraine.

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