Moscow relies on endlessly inventive rhetoric when it is a question of defaming its real or imaginary enemies or exonerating itself. There are no boundaries. Some 150 years ago, Moscow proclaimed that the Ukrainian language “did not exist, does not exist and cannot exist,” that the so-called Ukrainian language was invented by Little Russians and especially the Poles, since it is “the Russian language only spoiled by Polish influence”. And some 100 years ago, Moscow stated that Ukraine is an Austrian invention. Now this rhetoric has been successfully developed by Maria Zakharova, the understudy of Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and the official representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation.
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Former Ukrainian Prime Minister Nikolai Azarov looks on during a press conference of the newly created "Committee for the Salvation of Ukraine" in Moscow on Aug. 3, 2015.
