"Many Ukrainians speak first of their fraternal bonds to Russia, not of enmity....
'we are fraternal nations and have to support each other' -- Lena Stepnevska, 24"
Btw, there is no need to purchase the New York Times even if I wanted, readers.
The Boston Globe just lifts all their stories anyway!!
Pfffft!
Let us get you caught up on Georgia first:
"Russia inks cease-fire but doesn't back pullout; Troops to stay in Georgia as long as needed" by Clifford J. Levy and C.J. Chivers, New York Times News Service | August 17, 2008
MOSCOW - Georgia's Foreign Ministry said yesterday that Russian-backed separatists from Abkhazia Province had taken over 13 Georgian villages and a power plant, the Associated Press reported.
Russian Army units and separatist militants shifted the border of the breakaway region of Abkhazia toward the Inguri River, setting up temporary administration in 13 villages and putting the Inguri hydropower plant under separatist control, a Foreign Ministry statement said. Abkhaz officials could not immediately be reached for comment on the late-night report.
Most of the villages and plant are in a buffer zone established by a 1994 UN cease-fire resolution that ended a war over the province and left it with de facto independence.
Why not mention the HOLOCAUST, the 300,000 DEAD, the GEORGIANS inflicted upon the Abkhazians, JYT?
And when I look at the map, they should just be part of Russia proper!!
The renewed military action in Abkhazia came alongside the fighting in another breakaway province, South Ossetia, that has pit Russian and Georgian forces against each other since Aug. 7.
Look at how the crappy NYT sanitizes the Georgian invasion?
A railway bridge at Kaspi, east of Gori, was destroyed after explosives were apparently placed under its spans. Georgia contended that the Russians were trying to undermine Georgia's economy by destroying civilian infrastructure.
General Anatoly Nogovitsyn, a senior Russian defense official, said his country played no role in the damage. "We are now in peacetime," he said. "Why should we be blowing up bridges?"
Yeah, they wouldn't be. Russian tanks and troop carriers need those bridges.
CUI BONO?
Sergei V. Lavrov, the Russian foreign minister: "We are constantly facing problems created by the Georgian side."
Throughout yesterday, the Russian Army continued operations in Georgia that suggested that a pullout was not imminent. It appears that the Kremlin could still try to cite overall security concerns to forestall a withdrawal.
Well, HELLO, Iraq, 'eh, AmeriKans? How do you put up with the hypocrisy?
If Russian troops do not begin withdrawing over the weekend, the standoff is likely to touch off more strains between Russia and the United States. Bush has repeatedly castigated Russia in recent days for invading Georgia after intense fighting broke out over South Ossetia, which is an ally of Moscow and wants to secede formally from Georgia.
Then LET THEM!!!!!!!
The Kremlin has said that Georgia provoked the conflict by sending its troops into South Ossetia, and referred to the Georgian president, Mikhail Saakashvili, as a war criminal.
The one time the NYT tells the truth, and they couch it as if the matter is open to dispute.
I'm so sick of Zionist media.
Tensions between Georgia and South Ossetia and Abkhazia have long simmered, and Russia has increasingly supported the breakaway regions' desire to secede, even giving their residents Russian passports. With the Russians contending that Saakashvili began the fighting, they have made clear in recent days that Georgia can never again claim the regions.
The United States, though, has emphasized that Georgia's territorial integrity must be preserved. "There's no room for debate on this matter," Bush said yesterday.
Large numbers of Russian armored troops continued to occupy the central city of Gori yesterday, where they were seen by reporters and photographers for The New York Times.
So they claim, anyway. At this point, I don't believe a god-damn word they print!
Some units have moved out of the city and begun to dig artillery and fighting positions in villages to its east, nearer to Tbilisi.
The troops were in Gori despite assertions to the contrary earlier in the day by Nogovitsyn. He said at a news conference that there were no troops left in Gori, which is astride Georgia's main highway. He also said units that had been there were only reconnaissance troops.
At least three Mi-24 helicopter gunships, one of the most feared weapons in Russia's conventional arsenal, patrolled the skies to Gori's east. They were not seen firing, but Georgia said elsewhere that their ordnance had set the national forest near Borjomi afire and that a highway bridge was damaged. The claims could not be verified.Nor could the New York Times'!!
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And now the expansion to the Ukraine:
"A resurgent Kremlin stirs anxiety in Ukraine; Ex-satellites worry about retaliation" by Nicholas Kulish, New York Times News Service | August 17, 2008
KIEV - For 18 years now, the countries along the border with the former Soviet Union have cherished their democracies, all made possible by the simple premise that the days of Russian dominance were over. The events in Georgia over the past week have made them rethink that idea.
Yeah, sure it has, you lying puss-bags down at the NYT!
The sense of alarm may be greatest in Ukraine. Since the Orange Revolution in 2004, when the pro-Western Viktor A. Yushchenko came to power after widespread protests, Ukraine has been a thorn in Moscow's side, though perhaps not as sharp as the outspoken Georgian president, Mikhail Saakashvili.
Yeah, how come exit polls are good enough for Yuschenko, but not John Kerry, NYT?
Ukraine has done little to win Russia's favor since the crisis in the Caucasus began. First the Kiev government announced that it would restrict the movements of Russia's Black Sea fleet into Sevastopol, on the Crimean peninsula. On Friday, the Foreign Ministry issued a statement saying it was prepared to give Western countries access to its missile-warning systems.
"What happened here in the last week certainly came as a shock, not only to Georgia but to a lot of others as well," said Peter Semneby, the European Union's special representative for the South Caucasus. "A lot of people will, as a result of this, want to build a closer relationship with their Western partners as quickly as possible."
And CUI BONO, no?
Vadym Karasyov, a political scientist here, said the Georgia conflict would start "a new circle of militarization in this region."
Which is GREAT for WAR PROFITEERING CONTRACTORS!
Feelings toward Russia are complex here. Ukraine has a sizable Russian ethnic minority, about 17 percent of a total population of 46 million. Many Ukrainians speak first of their fraternal bonds to Russia, not of enmity. And Russian speakers watched the conflict in Georgia through the prism of state-controlled Russian television channels broadcast here.
Is that not the Zionist-controlled, agenda-pushing pot calling the kettle black or what?
Asked whether she thought Ukraine's future lay with Russia or the European Union, Lena Stepnevska, 24, who works at a construction company and was out for a walk with a friend Friday, opted for the former. "I would like to believe it will be Russia, because we are fraternal nations and have to support each other," she said.
Though he supports membership in both NATO and the European Union, Anatoliy Grytsenko, the head of the national security and defense committee in parliament and a former defense minister, said that Russia could not be ignored.
"Russia will not disappear tomorrow, as well as in a century or two. We will always wake up and it will be there," he said.
The Baltic states, meanwhile, are also gravely concerned about what a newly resurgent Russia could mean for them.
What, is that were the next USraeli-instigated flare-up is going to be?
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