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Press TV has conducted an interview with Deena Stryker, a journalist with opednews.com from Philadelphia, about Russia accusing Ukraine of violating the Geneva deal signed recently in an attempt to ease tensions in the crisis-hit Eastern European country. 

Press TV: Do you also blame the authorities in Kiev for non-compliance with the Geneva accord?

Stryker: Obviously they have not complied. On the other hand the Geneva accord is the usual standard refrain - refrain from violence, we strongly condemn, ... - it is so not specific that it is easy not to comply.

Press TV: You see, those who are in the streets occupying installations , the pro-Russian activists, they say that they do not recognize that agreement, that they are going to continue with the occupations and the protests until referendum is held.

I mean as long as that is the situation on the ground, how can any accord, you know be kept alive even if Kiev wants it to be kept alive?

Stryker: Obviously the protesters were not represented in Geneva and there is no deadline for them to leave the buildings.

I think this is all part of an American or if you will CIA plan to destabilize Ukraine by any way possible. You remember that the CIA head was in Kiev just a few days ago and as you announced Vice President Biden is headed there. All these other things are just window dressing.

Press TV: Well the US is leveling the same accusations against Russia. It is saying that Russia is the one that wants insecurity and chaos now. We are working towards an end of this. Russia it says it is secretly supporting these activists and it is ready to even strike if it has to and if things get more complicated. What do you think about Russia’s role?

Stryker: I think Russia absolutely has to be on the side of the protesters if only for its current rising respect across the world. It is seen as being on the side of the little people and it will continue to be on their side.

Press TV: So do you think that those who are protesting now, the pro-Russian activists who say that we want to hold referendums for independence, that they have a right to do that, that this is not threatening the sovereignty of the country as a whole?

Stryker: I do and that is part of the manipulation that is going on, coming from the West.

You will note that the European countries are less and less on the side of Washington. They are in a historic bind. I believe a situation where they were following Washington to the letter ever since the end of the Second World War is now beginning to turn around but they are still not daring to take an independence stand.