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Ukrainian people's deputy (Party of Regions) Sergiy Tigipko has called on politicians to heed the people and stop inciting separatist sentiments.

 “The break-up scenario won’t work, and the Crimea will remain part of
the Ukrainian state,” the deputy wrote on his Facebook page on
Wednesday.

Politicians should “heed the people, stop inciting separatist
sentiments and playing on various sensitive regional issues,” he said.

“Even more unacceptable are the outside calls for our country to be
split. The Ukrainian people will decide on their own, without outside
advisors, how to move on. The authorities must heed the public and do
whatever they can to prevent the unraveling of Ukraine,” Tigipko said.

“Ukrainian citizens are united in their aspirations,” he said. “Their
goal is a modern, independent Ukraine with new, quality politics, a
healthy economy, a transparent power system and a society of equal
opportunities,” the politician said.

He also commented on a rally of solidarity announced by civil
activists from the East and West of Ukraine: “The West will start
speaking Russian, and the East, Ukrainian. It is their answer to the
threat of the breach of the country’s territorial integrity, the
alarming news from the Crimea.”