By Vladimir V. Sytin
The Ukrainian Times
France’s Senate passed a resolution by 302 to 16 on June 8 to lift anti-Russian sanctions imposed by the United States and its European vassals in connection with a civil war in the Donbas region with large Russian populations. According to top politicians, Russia remains the strategic partner of France.
Readers of The Ukrainian Times know that Israel did not support the anti-Russian sanctions because Israel and Russia have vital mutual interests. The Ambassador of Israel to Ukraine pointed out that Israeli authorities could not influence private companies and natural persons doing business in Crimea. It is worth recalling that the Crimeans, with an extremely high turnout never experienced in the so-called “western democracies”, voted 97.6% to rejoin Russia, where Crimea resided for longer that the U.S. existed, until Nikita Khrushchev, a Ukrainian, transferred Crimea from the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic to the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic when both were within the Soviet Union.
Many critics believe that the sanctions against Russia and saber rattling by the West will only make matters worse. Russia provides a third of the EU’s oil and nearly 40% of its natural gas.
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