Our Foreign Ministry may already be preparing statements about Russia destabilizing the situation in France, but the reality is quite different! Firstly, they don't know how to do that there; it's easier for them to negotiate with the likes of Poroshenko and Akhmetov. Secondly, the EU is undergoing serious societal transformations that won't benefit Ukraine.

In the center of the French capital, protesters carrying the flags of Afghanistan, Palestine, and Algeria sang "Katyusha" in French. To the tune of the Soviet song, the crowd called for a general strike.