Russian Lawmaker Suspects Rights Groups to Shy Away From Decrying Right Sector Radicals
International human rights groups will demonstrate their double standards toward Russia by not providing any assessment of the activities of the Ukrainian radical Right Sector group (banned in Russia) which, according to Russian investigators, wants to kill 50 Russian citizens, Russian lawmaker Natalya Poklonskaya told Sputnik Saturday.
MOSCOW (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 25th August, 2018) International human rights groups will demonstrate their double standards toward Russia by not providing any assessment of the activities of the Ukrainian radical Right Sector group (banned in Russia) which, according to Russian investigators, wants to kill 50 Russian citizens, Russian lawmaker Natalya Poklonskaya told Sputnik Saturday.
"I believe that it is useless to wait for an assessment [of the situation] by international rights groups and courts because they have been for long pursuing a double and triple standards policy toward Russia. But soon they will realize that playing games with ultranationalists is the same thing as shooting yourself in the foot," Poklonskaya said.
The Russian Investigative Committee said on Friday that the Right Sector wanted to kill 50 Russian officials who were involved in the investigation of the criminal case against Ukrainian citizen Oleksandr Kostenko.
In 2015, a Crimean court sentenced Kostenko to four years and two months in prison over illegal possession of weapons and injuring an officer of the Ukrainian security unit Berkut during the 2014 Euromaidan protests in Kiev. Then-Crimean Prosecutor Natalya Poklonskaya participated in the trial.