Archive for August, 2008
Tuesday, August 26th, 2008
The Russian parliaments recognition of South Ossetia and Abkhazia’s independence, and President Medvedev’s endorsement of this step, changes everything. In effect, we now have a new Putin Doctrine just as had a Brezhnev doctrine in the Soviet era.
The Putin Doctrine could be applied to any region of the former USSR, ...
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Monday, August 25th, 2008
The Russian parliaments unanimous endorsement of the independence of South Ossetia and Abkhazia is a dangerous step towards conflict in the former USSR and another step towards a new Cold War. In both instances Russia loses.
Western and Ukrainian apologists of Russia's new imperialism can no longer say, as they did ...
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Thursday, August 21st, 2008
The sensationalist claims emanating from the presidential secretariat these days have echoes of not only the darkest days of Viktor Medvedchuk’s rule of the presidential administration but also that of Soviet ideological tirades of the Brezhnevite era of stagnation.
I have yet to receive a single comment from anybody ...
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Tuesday, August 12th, 2008
This must be the first time in my life that I agree with a Communist! Piotr Symonenko said on 9 August during the height of the Georgian-Russian conflict that he thought there was a need to institute criminal charges over the illegal transfer of weapons to Georgia.
I agree.
President Viktor ...
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Sunday, August 10th, 2008
Socialist leader Oleksandr Moroz said in an interview earlier this month in Sevodnia that the SBU was continuing to illegally listen in on political leaders in Ukraine. His conversation with a British diplomat were published on the internet in January 2007. Moroz used this to argue (as have other ...
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