Chairman of the State Duma, head of the Russian Historical Society Sergei Naryshkin, hopes the West will sooner or later stop using Crimea as a cause for confrontation.
The politician is taking part in a conference called 'Yalta-45: Past, Present, Future', dedicated to the 70th anniversary of the landmark meeting of the Allied powers of the anti-Hitler coalition - the Soviet Union, the United States and the United Kingdom.
"I hope that international discussions like the one here, at the Livadia Palace, will contribute to better mutual understanding. And our Western partners will finally stop using Russian Crimea as a cause for confrontation and will regard its residents as free people responsible for their choices and entitled to determine their future and the fate of their homeland," Tass cited Russia’s lower house speaker.
According to Naryshkin, "attempts to discriminate against millions of people for political reasons look like a dead-end street, violating not only the letter and spirit of international law, but also Europe’s humanist ideals."
