The Ministry of foreign Affairs of Germany prepared for their employees a memo with the name "Test congruence reality: Russian statement ? our answers" where painted as to refute the Russian arguments about the conflict in the Donbass speak German media, citing a copy of the document.
the memo contained the proposed German foreign Ministry answers to 18 common statements of the Russian side in the conflict over the Ukraine. In eight pages painted refutation of the Russian theses about neo-Nazism in the country, about the fact that the deposition of the President of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych was a coup d'etat with the support of Western countries and the fact that NATO is using the crisis over Ukraine to expand their sphere of influence, Deutsche Welle reports. For example, it is reported that by the end of 2013 " peaceful demonstrations in Ukraine grew into numerous protests demanding respect for legal principles, to fight against the illegal activities of officials and stop the violent suppression of a popular uprising "." Western politicians have called for a peaceful settlement of the fall and urged the Ukrainian government to respect freedom of expression and Assembly, and Ukraine pledged to its partners in the global arena to respect fundamental freedoms and human rights, " reads the memo. On the issue of Crimea German diplomats recommended that " Crimea throughout history was inhabited by a variety of peoples ", in 1954 he was transferred to Ukraine as " Very important after the collapse of the USSR in 1991, this region remained of Ukraine's independence, territorial integrity which Russia has explicitly recognized under the Budapest Memorandum of 1994 ". In the memo, the German foreign Minister emphasized that Germany is interested in cooperation with Moscow. The Commissioner of the German Ministry of foreign Affairs in an interview Reuters said that the speech in this case is not about the counterpropaganda, simply, her expressions, the German foreign Ministry often prepares for its diplomats such memos on various topics. Remember, in the Crimea on March 16 last year held a referendum on the status of autonomy, more than 96% of participants were in favour of joining region in Russia. 21 March, the President of the Russian Federation centuries Putin signed the law on ratification of the agreement on joining of Crimea and Sevastopol to Russia, as well as the decree on the formation of the Crimean Federal district.


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