Well, it's a
quid pro quo situation, isn't it? The EU plays the westernist guardian sticking its nose in the affairs of a nation that it yet not controls, on behalf of you know who in a distant land thousands of miles away across the waters.
It was similar in Spain with the EEC organisms, during General Franco's regime. So I can understand it even if I cannot agree with it, for the implications that it may have to us.
A better.. actually, an ideal alternative would have been if Putin had resolved to set up a Russian funded institute to monitor the indigenous rights in the EU. But I guess that that would be an oxymoron since he doesn't seem to be doing much for the indigenous rights of Russians, at home.
UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
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'Dardanidae duri, quae uos a stirpe parentum
prima tulit tellus, eadem uos ubere laeto
accipiet reduces. Antiquam exquirite matrem:
hic domus Aeneae cunctis dominabitur oris,
et nati natorum, et qui nascentur ab illis.'
We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
–Plato–
'Many people, I believe, wish for a society where faith, decency, pro-life convictions and national self-determination within Europe can flourish; and not be swallowed up in a dictatorial EU bureaucracy.'
–Gerry McGeough, Irish Nationalist and POW–