Russia PM today declared to Itar "About 3,000 people are arriving only in the Rostov Region every day. This is an unprecedented situation," Medvedev has said. About 4,000 Ukrainian citizens have asked Russia for a refugee status, he added.

"I've called the Rostov region governor over this topic," Medvedev said at a government session on Thursday" "He (the governor) said, 'These are mostly women and children'," the Russian premier said. (http://en.itar-tass.com/world/734859)

The EU hasn't been very vocal when the most disaffected ethnic Russians were somewhat punished in the Baltics and were asked to foot the bill for the decades these nations had to live under the Soviet rules. Unable to hit back at Soviet leaders their hidden anger turned onto the newly disadvantaged. Knowing the strong possibility to see a repeat of the same pattern of behaviours following the unconstitutional removal of the Ukrainian gov, it was legitimate to expect a more cautious support to the new authorities policies towards the Russian community.

It did not happen and the difficult relations between the new Ukrainian gov and Russia associated with the view they are widely unconditional Kremlin "operatives" in need of a lesson looks to have achieved the admissibility of the most ugly policies otherwise intolerable.