What follows is a translation from the Russian of what he said:
“I hear a lot of political rhetoric, I hear a lot of political spinning. And I’m not, in America, hearing anything from the Russians at all. And that’s not because they’re not commenting…Seagal can be seen below opinionating on the Ukraine in another interview:
The thing that I think we have to really keep in mind here is that… recently when Ukraine was, quote unquote, overthrown, you have to keep in mind it was a democratically… voted in… It was a government that was properly elected… Then, all of a sudden… thugs with firebombs started firebombing the whole city… And then of a sudden this government is toppled… Why couldn’t they have… sort of… used proper diplomatic means to change the government?…
In my opinion it’s the European Union, it’s pressure that certain entities are getting from the European Union…
Nobody should be criticizing Obama for not taking military action, I mean are they crazy? At this point, what we really want are cool heads and diplomatic dialog…
First, I would like to return to what preceded this referendum. Yes, Yanukovych accused that he is corrupt, and perhaps indeed it was so. But in general, many of the leaders are corrupt in the world, it is difficult to find someone who would not have been up to something.
Yanukovych accused that he was pro-Russian policy, but what could he do if about 20 percent of Ukraine's population - ethnic Russian, Russian sympathizers? And then suddenly, the European Union came along and spared no effort, money and attention in providing for the needs of the opposition, engaging more and more with the internal problems of the Ukraine…
As for the referendum in the Crimea… whatever the propaganda… the 96 percent who voted for joining the Crimea to Russia was a huge turnout, it meant something…. Democracy, it is the will of people, and they want to live in Russia. In my opinion, this is important… People were asked, they responded.
This was much more correct than the overthrow of President Yanukovych. If he was bad, he was elected legitimately and he represented the interests of the millions of Ukrainian people who voted for him, and he was overthrown by a group of strange, aggressive nationalists, who represent only a small part of the population of Ukraine. Who are these thugs who pelted the building with Molotov cocktails, where did they come from? That is much more illegitimate than what happened in the Crimea…
The coverage of what is happening is disgusting. World politics today is a global game and everyone in this game has their interests… Each country pursues its objectives and the media is a tool…
The policies of President Obama do not appeal to me. In many ways it is not his fault, but the people who are in his inner circle who have views on world politics are diametrically opposed to Russia…
As for the situation in Ukraine, it seems to me the policy of the US administration is idiotic, it is trying to precipitate bloodshed… Those who advocate such things, will never take up arms and go to the front, they will hide behind and watch as Ukrainians die…
Americans today know very little about the situation in Ukraine. Their opinion is formed on the basis of what they see on TV, especially on CNN, which is a mirror image of what the Obama administration wants to show people. I see on our TV constantly criticize Putin, often using speculation and spin. There is an old saying: if you tell a lie often enough, it will become true. Unfortunately, many political regimes have learned how to control the media…
This whole mess began in Ukraine on the eve of the Olympics. It also says a lot…
I first visited Russia in the early 90s. People had nothing to eat, poverty everywhere, industry collapsed, devastation everywhere, it was horrible. Things started to change in the presidency of Vladimir Putin: growing fertility, reduced mortality, there is no unemployment, and new production. Russia in the past decade was transformed before our eyes… Your president, an incredibly strong person, he raised the country.”
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