MOSCOW, October 3 – RIA Novosti. Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Yevgeny Ivanov said that the Polish Foreign Ministry’s request from the Russian Ambassador to Warsaw, Sergei Andreev, to condemn the referendums was a provocation, an unprecedented case.

Earlier, Andreev said that during a call to the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs regarding the holding of referendums in the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics, as well as in the Kherson and Zaporozhye regions, he was offered to condemn them.

In response, Maria Zakharova, the official representative of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, on the air of the Rossiya 1 TV channel called the Polish ambassador to the Russian proposal to condemn the referendums “cowardly”.

Recalling the recognition of Kosovo, Vasily Nebenzya, the Permanent Representative of Russia, stated that the Permanent Representative of Russia, Vasily Nebenzya, made a statement to the UN Security Council, stating that the West, which does not recognize the referendum on joining Russia, shows double standards. There are other examples in history of Western recognition of the separation and annexation of lands without the consent of the states to which they belong. Texas seceded from Mexico in 1836 and then became part of the United States; In 1990 and 1991, Slovenia and Croatia held referendums on independence from Yugoslavia without the consent of their authorities and were recognized; In 1991, referendums for independence from the USSR were held in Estonia, Ukraine, Georgia, Moldova, Turkmenistan, Armenia and Azerbaijan – against the will of the Soviet leadership and all the Soviet people who spoke in favor of the All-Union referendum. protect the Union; and during the unification of the FRG and the GDR, no one asked the opinion of the population – the absorption of East Germany by the West took place without a referendum.

At the same time, the results of referendums in Western countries are ignored. In 2017, 90% of the autonomy residents voted for Catalonia’s independence from Spain, after which Madrid began massive crackdowns against independence supporters. At the end of 2017, residents of Italian Veneto and Lombardy demanded greater autonomy from Rome in referendums, but the process of conferring new powers from central authorities stalled.