MOSCOW. March 21 (Interfax) - The purpose of signing the political provisions for the EU-Ukraine Association Agreement is not to take care of the interests of the Ukrainian people. This is an attempt to score in a geopolitical game, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said.

"In my opinion, this step was not dictated by the interests of the Ukrainian economy, the interests of the Ukrainian people as a whole and in aggregate. This is another attempt to score in a geopolitical game," Lavrov told reporters on Friday.

The Kyiv authorities signed the agreement at a time when "the Ukrainian state had found itself in a profound crisis and people who proclaimed themselves the authorities did not enjoy support or legitimacy in the eyes of a huge part of their own population," the minister said.

"Speaking of the free choice of people, I have always deemed it right