MOSCOW, July 7. /TASS/. The European Union has abandoned its declared European values when, during the Baltic States' accession, it ignored human rights violations there, Konstantin Kosachev, deputy chairman of the Federation Council, said in an interview with TASS.
This is the reason for Europe's current silence on what is happening in Ukraine.
"The so-called united Europe, forgive me for saying that, has lost its virginity with its European values. It lost it once, and that was the end of it," the senator remarked. "It all started with the three Baltic states."
Kosachev said that Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia were the first of the post-Soviet countries to be in the orbit of the EU and NATO, but "even then they acted in exactly the opposite way to what is commonly called ‘European values.’
"Where is the respect for human rights, where is the respect for the rights of national minorities, where is the respect for various faiths, where is the honest attitude to one's own history and the rejection of its falsification? None of this happened in the Baltic States at the time of their admission to the European Union," the senator said.
