MOSCOW. Feb 21 (Interfax) - The State Duma has stated it will be ready to cooperate with the new Ukrainian authorities even if this cooperation proves uneasy.
"Ukraine is a fraternal nation to us. However inconvenient and difficult the new authorities will be for us, we shall talk to them at all levels," head of the Duma Committee for CIS Affairs, Eurasian Integration and Ties with Compatriots Leonid Slutsky told reporters on Friday.
Most likely, the draft agreement stipulating early elections, coalition government formation with a ten-day period and a return to the 2004 Constitution will be signed by all parties to the negotiating process in Kyiv, he said.
"If this agreement is signed, it will by no means separate us from the Ukrainian people. The new authorities are not a reason for uneasy statements, this is a reason for constructive dialogue," he said.
"We shall be together with our fraternal Ukrainian people every day and every hour," the Russian parliamentarian said. Our country, Russian deputies are not going to make Western opponents gloat, who are certainly hoping to spoil the relations between Russia and Ukraine, Slutsky said.
The aggravation of the situation in Ukraine was provoked by "Western heavyweights" and the draft agreement, the essence of which was unveiled today, was by no means prepared in Kyiv, Slutsky said.
Essentially, the document provides for the Ukrainian president to be elected by the Verkhovna Rada, the Duma committee chairman said.
Under the proposed scheme, Vitali Klitshchko could become the next Ukrainian president, he said.
"It is in the State Department's interests: early presidential and parliamentary elections; the forming of a controlled Rada which elects a controlled president, for instance, Vitali Klitshchko," he said.
Today "a massive provocation" in Ukraine is obvious, and it is going according to the tested scenarios of color revolutions, he said.
Besides, someone is in a hurry to "complete this revolution on a knee" before the end of the Olympic Games, Slutsky said.