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MAY 2009


RFE/RL: EU's Eastern Partnership: A Primer

posted by eagle on May, 2009 as ANALYSIS / OPINION


EU's Eastern Partnership: A Primer

Last updated: 07.05.2009 07:12
Representatives of the 27 member states of the EU and six ex-Soviet partner countries are gathering in Prague for an Eastern Partnership launch summit. The Eastern Partnership represents the EU's most ambitious Eastern European outreach effort since enlargement and is seen by most member states as an instrument for counterbalancing Russian influence in the region. RFE/RL Brussels correspondent Ahto Lobjakas offers his perspective on some key aspects of the plan ahead of the May 7 meeting.

What is the Eastern Partnership?

The Prague summit declaration -- whose draft has been seen by RFE/RL -- explains in broad terms that the Eastern Partnership is designed to further political, economic, and social reforms on the EU model, which in turn should contribute to increased prosperity and stability in the region. But, inevitably, the precise goals, the extent of the ambitions, and even the underlying logic of the Eastern Partnership remain contested. The EU's 27 member states have diverging priorities and interests and ...

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Window On Eurasia: Putin’s Own Words Show Russia Does Not Have A State, Analyst Says

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WEDNESDAY, MAY 6, 2009

Window on Eurasia: Putin’s Own Words Show Russia Does Not Have a State, Analyst Says

Paul Goble

Vienna, May 6 – Many people are now accustomed to hearing that Russia was a failed state until Boris Yeltsin, and few are startled anymore to hear suggestions that it is a criminal state. But according to one analyst, a recent remark by Prime Minister Vladimir Putin raises the question as to whether there is any state as such in the Russian Federation.
“How can there not be a state in Russia if the building of the state is our chief and general pride?” Yury Magarshak asks in an article in today’s “Vremya.” “How can there not be a state in Russia if state-thinking people form a large fraction of the citizens of the country? [And] how can there not be a state if many Russians remain convinced that the Motherland is a state?”
“Until very recently,” the New York-based Russian specialist on high technology and a frequent writer ...

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MOSNEWS: Travelers Point To Moscow For Bad Food And Unfriendliness

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Travelers point to Moscow for bad food and unfriendliness

5 May, 12:14 PM

The latest TripAdvisor survey has put Moscow right behind Londonfor offering travelers the worst cuisine in Europe.

As compared to the 10 percent of respondents disgusted byLondon’s fish and chips, Moscowdid rather well, with just 7 percent of travelers unhappy about borsch and blinis. Closely following Moscow wasWarsaw, with 6 percent of the vote.

The survey of travelers' perceptions of European cities conducted by TripAdvisor, one of the world's most popular and largest travel communities, also singled out Moscow as one of the least friendly cities with the worst dressed people. Altogether, 2,376 European travelers participated in the poll.

The survey participants voted Dublin the city of the friendliest locals, while Moscow was rated third for the least friendly inhabitants. Compared to leaders Paris (36 percent) andLondon (17 percent) Moscow and its six percent look almost friendly, although the low figure may come from the considerably lower flow of tourists to Moscow.

Moscow came third again in the category of worst-dressed cities: it followed London with 20 percent of votes and Dublin with 6 percent. The best-dressed cities according to the survey were Paris and Rome.

http://www.mosnews.com/world/2009/05/05/moscow/

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FinancialExpress: The Making Of A Neo-KGB State

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The making of a neo-KGB state



Posted: 2007-08-27 00:00:00+05:30 IST
Updated: Aug 26, 2007 at 2238 hrs IST

On the evening of August 22 1991—16 years ago last week—Alexei Kondaurov, a KGB general, stood by the darkened window of his Moscow office and watched a jubilant crowd moving towards the KGB headquarters in Lubyanka Square. A coup against Mikhail Gorbachev had just been defeated. The head of the KGB who had helped to orchestrate it had been arrested, and Mr Kondaurov was now one of the most senior officers left in the fast-emptying building. For a moment the thronged masses seemed to be heading straight towards him.

Then their anger was diverted to the statue of Felix Dzerzhinsky, the KGB’s founding father. A couple of men climbed up and slipped a rope round his neck. Then he was yanked up by a crane. Watching ‘Iron Felix’ sway in mid-air, Mr Kondaurov, who had served in the KGB since 1972, felt betrayed ‘by Gorbachev, by Yeltsin, by the impotent coup ...


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RFE/RL: 'Resetting' Russia's Relations With West Gets Off To Rough Start

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May 05, 2009

'Resetting' Russia's Relations With West Gets Off To Rough Start

by Robert Coalson

Russia's ambassador to NATO, Dmitry Rogozin, has announced that Moscow was pulling out of a meeting of the Russia-NATO Council in Brussels scheduled for May 18-19.

The move comes just a week after Russia and NATO resumed contact after a season of isolation following the August 2008 Russia-Georgia war. 

Rogozin quoted Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov as saying any future talks would be "inappropriate" in light of the tension over scheduled NATO exercises in Georgia, due to start on May 6.

NATO Secretary-General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer expressed "regret" over the decision.

It has yet to be seen if Russia's announcement -- or the apparent uprising at a Georgian military base, which ended without incident but which sparked allegations of Russian backing -- will have a chilling effect on the exercises, which are part of NATO's Partnership For Peace program. 

The exercises, which will rehearse scenarios relating to counterterrorism operations and coping with the possible use of weapons of mass ...

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