GENEVA, March 29 (TASS) - The West’s disregard for human rights violations in Ukraine led to the establishment of an extremist regime in the country, Crimea's Deputy Prime Minister and the region’s Permanent Representative to the Russian President Georgy Muradov said at the 49th session of the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva.

He pointed to "the tacit approval of extrajudicial executions conducted by Nazis on the streets of Ukrainian cities, a refusal to provide humanitarian corridors to civilians and mass repressions against the opponents of the Kiev regime."

Muradov noted that the Ukrainian authorities had stripped most of the country’s population "of the right to use their native Russian language" and destroyed freedom of religion." He emphasized the need "to activate the special mechanisms of the Human Rights Council in order to investigate the crimes of the Ukrainian authorities."

Russia’s delegation also highlighted incidents involving "psychological and physical pressure on Russian-speaking children in schools and even kindergartens" in Western countries, including France, Germany, Sweden and the Netherlands. "We demand an end to the mayhem of lawlessness and racism," said Crimea’s Deputy Permanent Representative to the Russian President Mikhail Solomentsev.