Since the Arab Spring events began in 2011, Russia has been exceedingly active in the Middle East. The region now compromises an important vector of Russia’s Eurasian strategy, and successful policy applications here can set the stage for Russia’s future return as a global actor. It is thus necessary to […]
Month: March 2014
Obama’s speech on Ukraine: vocal juggler at work
International media chime on Wednesday’s speech of the US President Barack Obama in Brussels made us download and scroll down the transcript. The overall impression: too many controversial statements and logical faults to take it seriously. Examples: – He started nicely with “…each of us has the right to live […]
The 12 New Crimes of New Ukraine
Citizens of Ukraine, read these to avoid committing ‘new crime’, or ‘thought crime’. 1. Separatism. The ultimate crime in New Ukraine. Request a referendum for your city? You are an enemy of the State and may be immediately removed to a state facility for re-education. 2. Russian television Watching Russian television […]
What does Crimea mean to Russia?
On March 18, 2014, Russian President Vladimir Putin made a historic speech about the reunification of Crimea and Russia. A referendum held in Crimea two days before in full compliance with standard democratic procedures and the rules of international law, shocked many by it’s results: there was an 82% turnout […]
Timoshenko: ‘Time to Grab Guns and Kill Damned Russians!’
Yulia Timoshenko is back into politics. Her phone conversation with Nestor Shufrych, former deputy secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine (their close personal ties are an open secret), was uploaded on YouTube on March 24. A part of the recorded talk was devoted to Crimea. Timoshenko […]
U.S. Take Note: Russia Is Back as a Global Power
The U.S. had two options after the Soviet collapse: to integrate Russia into Western security and economic structures or to further isolate and weaken it by expanding NATO to its borders and integrating other former Soviet republics instead. U.S. President George H.W. Bush leaned toward integrating Russia into the West, but he lost his re-election bid in 1992. His successors — Bill Clinton, […]
Monologue of a young Russian man
Today dozens or even hundreds of brilliant minds in the West are feverishly thinking: how did it happen that multi-billion investments in Ukraine have brought no other tangible result but the Russian reunification with historic and strategically important lands and coasts of Crimea while Ukraine still flying down its own […]
Putin’s Triumph
Nobody expected events to move on with such a breath-taking speed. The Russians took their time; they sat on the fence and watched while the Brown storm-troopers conquered Kiev, and they watched while Mrs Victoria Nuland of the State Department and her pal Yatsenyuk (“Yats”) slapped each other’s backs and […]
Washington sanctioning Democracy and hailing Nazism
Today US President Barack Obama has extended the sanctions against Russia, introduced earlier by an executive order declaring “a national emergency” in view of the “actions and policies of persons — including persons who have asserted governmental authority in the Crimean region without the authorization of the Government of Ukraine […]
Who is in charge of Ukraine today?
The dominant condescending and appeasing tone towards the new Ukrainian authorities in the West clearly contradicts to its democratic and humanitarian values, it persistently promotes in the world. Any attentive unbiased observer of the situation in this post-Soviet state and the Western policies in the region cannot help but feel […]
Blame Game Over Ukraine And Crimea’s Status
From the position of his country’s best interests, ousted Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych had valid reasons for not signing the European Union Association Agreement (EU AA). One need not be a Yanukovych supporter to see the reasoning behind this opinion. This last thought relates to Yanukovych’s shortcomings as a democratically […]
Ukraine: U.S. Pulls Back, Agrees To Russian Demands
There was another phone call today between Secretary of State Kerry and the Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov. The call came after a strategy meeting on Ukraine in the White House. During the call Kerry agreed to Russian demands for a federalization of the Ukraine in which the federal states will […]
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