SEVASTOPOL. April 14 (Interfax) - Russian Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev has accused the Ukrainian authorities and the West of attempting to worsen living standards in Crimea, in particular, through a water and energy blockade.
"Ukraine and its Western patrons have been imposing various kinds of sanctions and trying to ruin economic contacts and to intentionally worsen the living conditions on the peninsula, in particular, by means of food, energy, and water blockades," Patrushev said at a meeting on the provision of national security in Crimea which took place in Sevastopol on Wednesday.
Meanwhile, "political adventurers are hatching plans for the sociopolitical and socioeconomic destabilization of Crimea," he said.
"There are ongoing calls for protests and propaganda of revanchist and nationalist ideas on the Internet," Patrushev said, noting that radical ideas are, in particular, coming from the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar People (banned in Russia).