KIEV, May 25 – In a message aimed at preventing Kiev’s increasing cooperation with the European Union and the U.S., Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said Sunday that other countries must stay away from his nation’s relations with Ukraine.

After laying a wreath at the grave of Anton Denikin, who fought against the Red Army after the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution and is now cast by the Kremlin as a patriot, Putin urged journalists to read Denikin's diaries, RIA-Novosti and ITAR-Tass reported.