<\/span><\/p>\n According to latest reports, pro-European Union demonstrators who were holding a rally on Kiev’s Independence Square on Tuesday split up with some of them staying on the square and the rest setting off for the building of the president’s office.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n The march to the president’s office, which brought together hundreds, followed an appeal from Oleksandr Turchynov, coordinator of the “National Resistance Committee.” The marchers were going to demand the resignation of the government and early parliamentary elections.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n Marcus Papadopoulus, the editor of Politics First magazine, believes that the Ukrainian government “needs to be left alone to decide what is in the best interests of Ukraine.”<\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n How could you comment or how would you comment on some people\u2019s urge in Ukraine to have closer ties with the EU?<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n -Well, it does seem like they are doing something strange, it seems like they are asking for an insurrection and it seems that they are egging the people on to continue doing this. Let\u2019s step back for a moment. How would you assess the political and economic aspects of Ukraine stands on the EU?<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n -Well, that\u2019s been the big question building up to whether Ukraine last week was going to sign the agreement at a summit in Lithuania. What can the EU offer Ukraine? The EU is a dire state at the moment. You only have to look at Greece and Cyprus where the economies, where the banking sectors have collapsed. So what really is in it for ordinary Ukrainians? Even most Ukrainians that are sane and they have every right to hold this opinion, that they want to be at the EU, just how much do they know about the EU? Just how much do they know that the EU will be good for them economically? And then we need to take a brutally realistic assessments of the situation with the Ukrainian economy. The Ukrainian economy is very closely tied to the economy of Russia. That\u2019s the fact. When we hear talking about the Orange Revolution of 2004 and Viktor Yushchenko coming to power in this revolution, the fact that he failed to do anything meaningful in Ukraine shows that Ukraine not just economically but culturally, historically and politically is tied to Russia. And that\u2019s a very important observation here. Because the Orange Revolution is no such thing as a revolution. If it really was a revolution then Ukraine would be probably well on the vote by now to become a member of the EU. That is not the level of anti-Russian sentiments in Ukraine which western mainstream major outlets are alleging. That\u2019s just not the case. You find regions of the Ukraine where there is anti-Russian sentiment, in the western most regions Chernovtsy for example, Galicia for example, but the rest of the Ukrainian population is culturally tied to the Russians, they are part of East Slavic family. The Russians, Ukrainians and Belarusians are from the same family and they share the same first state in their history \u2013 Kieven Rus. So what Ukraine can really get out of the EU is the $64,000 question. What level of information is given out to ordinary Ukrainians about the benefits- is another big question. I mean, I can say being the journalist in Britain, there is hardly any talk about the EU and what\u2019s it about in the British press. The only thing you find in the British press is the criticism of the EU. So one would suspect that if that\u2019s the case in Britain, a major member state of the EU, it\u2019s probably gonna be even worse in Ukraine.<\/span><\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Ukrainian-protesters-with-international-flags.jpg\" "\\"Ukrainian")
<\/a>I think that Ukraine has come to the crossroads whereby it cannot keep on flirting with the EU and Russia indefinitely and this is being going on for the last 20 years indeed since Ukraine had its independence. But it\u2019s somewhat worrying what we are seeing in Ukraine at the moment because of course Ukrainians need to decide amongst themselves, they are sovereign independent nation, they need to decide amongst themselves whether they want to be in the EU or they want to forge closer relations and become a member of the Customs Union of Russia, Kazakhstan and Belarus. But it\u2019s very unclear as to what level of information is being put out to ordinary Ukrainians about the benefits of joining the EU. All we hear- the EU officials talking about \u2018if Ukraine joins a family of Europe, there will be greater prosperity, more democracy, more opportunities and it will save Ukraine\u2019s future\u2019. But that\u2019s a very simplistic approach to make. And I think that it is a bit early, it\u2019s disconcerting because we have a lot of violent protest going on in Ukraine at the moment and the protestors do not represent the whole of the country. But the way that EU officials and western mainstream tenants are talking about these protests, it\u2019s almost if the whole of Ukraine has made up its mind and wants to join the EU. But that\u2019s not the case whatsoever. And on another note, the fact that there are EU officials and European politicians going to Ukraine to a sovereign independent country and urging for people to rise up, to oppose the government. I mean, that\u2019s completely a violation of state\u2019s sovereignty. That\u2019s completely a violation of the norms of the UN. These politicians shouldn\u2019t be travelling to another country and encouraging, I would argue, effectively a coup against the democratically elected government of Ukraine.<\/span><\/p>\n