Vasyl Ivanyshyn: For Our and Your Freedom!
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posted by zaina19 on January, 2007 as ANALYSIS / OPINION
Vasyl Ivanyshyn: For Our and Your Freedom! Publication time: 20 January 2007, 18:47 This is an exclusive interview to agency "Kavkaz-Center", given by the leader of PPO "Tryzub" name's of Stepan Bandera (Ukraine), colonel Vasyl Ivanyshyn. Ali Bekhan: Russia during centuries kept Ukrainian people in colonial dependence. Ukraine has suffered irreplaceable damage, however authorities of Ukraine constantly go on concessions to the Kremlin, declaring about necessity of adjustment of friendship with Russia. How you estimate such situation? Vasyl Ivanyshyn: Friendship it both an ideal, and norm, and criterion of efficiency of interstate policy of the national states. But Russia not the national state: it is empire. And the imperial politics by definition cannot be under construction on principles of good neighborhood and mutual benefit, equality and friendship. It's destiny either to extend, or to collapse. All world history convinces of it. Any state which appears the neighbor of empire, too has only two opportunities: or to agree on this or that form of enthrallment by empire, or to resist to ... >> full
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From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 1/21/2007 10:08 PM Monday, January 22, 2007 Not So Happy Together By Gwynne Dyer Angela Merkel has a very different attitude to Russia from the last three or four German chancellors, perhaps because she grew up in East Germany, under Russian control. She's not anti-Russian (she speaks the language fluently), but she doesn't think that they deserve special treatment. So when Russia suddenly cut of the flow of oil to Germany and several other European Union countries on Jan. 8 because of a dispute with Belarus, she did not waste time on tact. "It's unacceptable," she said, "when there are no consultations on such actions. That always destroys trust." It was the harshest thing that any German chancellor has said to any Russian leader since the collapse of the Soviet Union -- and she said it, moreover, in her capacity as the current president of the European Union, a post that she had assumed just days before. Something is going on here. The dead of ... >> full
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The Soviet Union had a version of the spy genre, too, with its own peculiarities.
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From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 1/21/2007 10:15 PM For MT The Soviet Union had a version of the spy genre, too, with its own peculiarities. By Victor Sonkin Published: January 19, 2007 The mysterious death of former FSB agent Alexander Litvinenko has rekindled interest in the spy genre. News outlets have frequently mentioned the names of classic spy authors like John le Carre and Ian Fleming, the creator of James Bond. During the Cold War, these two Englishmen wrote spy thrillers that became bestsellers around the world. But what was happening on the other side of the Iron Curtain? The Soviet Union had a version of the spy genre, too, with its own peculiarities. One of them stemmed from the fact that in Russian, there are two words for "spy." The first is close to the English word: shpion, which means a bad guy working for the dark side. The other is razvedchik, which usually means a good guy, or at least "our son of a bitch." The deeds ... >> full
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Russia's prickly assertiveness could prove counter-productive.
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From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 1/31/2007 11:39 AM Off Target Publication time: 30 January 2007, 18:11 Russia's prickly assertiveness could prove counter-productive. Even for bodies as clumsy and vindictive as Russia's various intelligence organisations, the use of the photograph of a dissident exile, murdered a week earlier, to train special forces in target practice seems extraordinary. Yet, as a Russian newspaper has just revealed, when the head of the upper house of parliament was shown round a military training camp on November 7, the target face that appeared on the shooting range was that of Alexander Litvinenko. Six days earlier he had been given a lethal dose in London of polonium-210. So much for Russia's indignant denials that the defecting former spy was a "nobody", of no consequence inside Russia. To those training to become killers, he was someone - he was a target. The inquiry into the murder of this British citizen has hit a brick wall. British police have been careful to say little publicly about the ... >> full
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