MrLatvia is an aggressive racist. Recollect: the Latvian arrows were vanguard armies of communists when they have made revolution in Russia in 1917. Recollect: the Latvian armies in structure of elite armies of fascists in 1941 - 1944. The mass executions made by these Latvians.
Now deprivation of passports and many rights of Russian in Lithuania. Human rights are broken and it is an attribute of democracy in Latvia, more all similar to fascism.
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A Respectable Russia
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NATO has been deeply divided over how to respond to this threat to potential future members. Germany and Italy—not by coincidence two of Russia's biggest gas customers—sought to keep what German Chancellor Angela Merkel called "an open dialogue." George W. Bush gave unambiguous support to Tbilisi and threatened Russia with "serious consequences" if it did not withdraw from Georgia. The Poles immediately signed up to a U.S. plan to station antimissile defense rockets on their territory—drawing an immediate threat from Russia's Nogovitsyn that "Poland, by deploying [the system], is exposing itself to a nuclear strike—100 percent."
But the far more immediate danger is to Russia itself. In the wake of the Georgian conflict, the Russian Stock Exchange took one of its biggest hits of the past decade. It dropped nearly 6 percent in a single day. Investors' greatest fear is of a new era of military confrontation between Russia and its neighbors. In the meantime, Medvedev's ambitious agenda for reform has been hijacked by Putin's ambitions. Medvedev, when he came to office, spoke of ending Russia's culture of "legal nihilism," extortion and corruption. Just last month Medvedev told Russian bureaucrats to stop "terrorizing" businessmen with enforcement of petty regulations and demands for bribes; he also promised to reform the justice system and property rights. But just as Medvedev was getting traction, and feeling a little more confident in his role as president, he found himself mugged by history, in the form of Putin and a small, festering little post-Soviet conflict that blew up into a full-scale war.
More profound, the "war has intensified a conservative backlash in Russia," says Lilia Shevtsova of Moscow's Carnegie Center. "The country is now highly unified against the West." Even traditional liberals have lined up to blast the Georgian aggression. In that respect, the war has escalated a two-decade-long internal debate over whether Russia would join the international community of values, broadly defined as the West, or go over to the dark, anarchic world of rogue states and totalitarian regimes. The war won't decide that debate either way, but if it pushes Russia into a spiraling confrontation with its neighbors and the West, it will mark a turning point in which Russia veered off in a new and unpredictable direction.
With Anna Nemtsova In Crimea
© 2008
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