MOSCOW - Russian President Vladimir Putin condemned the 'so-called' authorities in Ukraine on Tuesday, saying they had stolen power in a coup and had opened the way for 'extremists' who would stop at nothing to determine the future of Ukraine. 'Those who were behind recent events, they were ... preparing a coup d'etat, another one. They were planning to seize power, stopping at nothing. Terror, murder, pogroms were used,' he told a joint session of parliament, calling them 'nationalists, neo-Nazis, Russophobes and anti-Semites'. 'It is primarily they who are deciding how Ukraine lives today. The so-called Ukrainian authorities introduced a scandalous law on the revision of the language policy, which directly violated the rights of the national minorities.'
