Sergei Khrushchev: "It's not about East or West...Ukraine is fighting with itself".

Mar 04, 2014, 02:11 AM

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BBC Business has been speaking to Sergei Khrushchev. The son of the former Soviet President Nikita Khrushchev.

He now lives in the US - in Providence, Rhode Island. It was President Kruschev who - in the 1950s - took the decision to transfer Crimea from the Soviet Republic of Russia...to that of Ukraine.

We asked his son, Sergei, for his reaction to what is happening now in Crimea. In particular that reported ultimatum from Russia's Black Sea Fleet for Ukraine to hand over two of its warships....