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The decision by the Kyiv authorities to "preserve Maidan" is absolutely unacceptable, said Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.

“The leaders appointed by Verkhovna Rada openly claims that the
Geneva agreements do not extend to Maidan because the Kyiv city
administration has made a decision that Maidan can be preserved and acts
legitimately. This is absolutely unacceptable,” he told a press
conference in Moscow responding to a question posed by Interfax.

“Legitimacy is determined by the laws, and even by the Ukrainian laws such things cannot be done,” he said.

“If we go down the path of recognizing any city administration’s
rights to do whatever it wants to, then let’s not criticize the
southeastern regions where leaders were elected by the people after
attempts to send them bosses from Kyiv, which they refused to accept,”
Lavrov said.