{"id":13785,"date":"2014-04-23T11:47:57","date_gmt":"2014-04-23T11:47:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=13785"},"modified":"2014-04-23T11:47:57","modified_gmt":"2014-04-23T11:47:57","slug":"us-and-west-provoked-ukrainian-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=13785","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;US and West provoked Ukrainian crisis&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_13786\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13786\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/vaclavklaus.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13786\" src=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/vaclavklaus-300x193.jpg\" alt=\"Vaclav Klaus\" width=\"300\" height=\"193\" srcset=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/vaclavklaus-300x193.jpg 300w, https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/vaclavklaus.jpg 460w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-13786\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Vaclav Klaus<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The West and the United States provoked the Ukrainian crisis, former President of the Czech Republic Vaclav Klaus said in an interview to Czech television (CT24).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think that not Russia is to blame for the outbreak in Kiev on the Maidan (Independence Square). Western Europe and the United States aggravated the situation,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI had told them from the very beginning not to exert pressure on Ukraine, as it will only destroy and disintegrate it. Unfortunately, that is exactly what has happened,\u201d Klaus said.<\/p>\n<p>At present, in his view, the country is undergoing a difficult satge, and it is hard to \u201cclearly say whether it wants to rely on the West or on Russia.\u201d However, Ukraine should independently decide its own future.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLet them determine their future for themselves &#8211; without any interference from outside,\u201d the former Czech president said.<\/p>\n<p>Source: ITAR-TASS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The West and the United States provoked the Ukrainian crisis, former President of the Czech Republic Vaclav Klaus said in an interview to Czech television (CT24). \u201cI think that not Russia is to blame for the outbreak in Kiev on the Maidan (Independence Square). Western Europe and the United States aggravated the situation,\u201d he said. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=13785\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8216;US and West provoked Ukrainian crisis&#8217;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13786,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,3],"tags":[7924,12253,66,7484,1638],"class_list":["post-13785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe","category-news","tag-czech-republic","tag-europe","tag-russia","tag-ukraine","tag-us"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/vaclavklaus.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13785"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13785\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13787,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13785\/revisions\/13787"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}