Ministry of Foreign Affairs explained that defends the interests of Ukrainians

Ukraine's Foreign Ministry has consistently advocated the interests of our compatriots in Russia as they formulate them, and not as someone trying to impose from the outside. This was stated by Minister Konstantin Gryshchenko. "We are quite rigidly and clearly raised the question about the absolute necessity to ensure the normal functioning of the Library of Ukrainian Literature, which was established by the Municipality of Moscow and is funded by the Russian budget, in order to meet the needs of Ukrainians in full in this particular segment," - said K. Gryshchenko. According to him, the functioning of the Library raised at all meetings of the delegations of Ukraine and Russia, and also discussed with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. According to the head of the Russian Foreign Ministry, the Russian authorities intend to ensure the proper functioning of the Library of Ukrainian Literature in Moscow. Recall that Russian law enforcement agencies previously carried out several raids in the Ukrainian Library in Moscow on suspicion of distributing extremist literature. In late January of this year, Prime Minister Mykola Azarov said that the incident was completely exhausted and the library continues to work normally. Ministry of Industry