Twitter / RT_com: Gorbachev: Bulldoze EU &
Gorbachev: Bulldoze EU & US aides from #Ukraine and let the people decide http://youtu.be/i5rgxzCxYCs
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Twitter / RT_com: URGENT: Russian PM Medvedev
URGENT: Russian PM Medvedev doubts legitimacy of new Ukrainian authorities http://on.rt.com/xhz2zu
Good advice, wrong address: Russia responds to Susan Rice ‘no tanks to Ukraine’ warning ― RT News
Russia sees merit in the advice against use of force in Ukraine which US National Security Adviser Susan Rice voiced, but believes it was wrongly directed towards Moscow. Washington would be a more appropriate recipient of the piece of wisdom.
“We have noted the expert assessment of Susan Rice based on multiple cases when American troops were sent to various places of the word, especially those where the US administration believed the norms of Western democracy were in danger, or where the local regimes were getting out of hand,” a Russian Foreign Ministry source told news agencies on Monday.
The source added that, “We expect that national security adviser would be giving to the US leadership the same advice on the mistaken path of the use of force if it decides to conduct a new intervention.”
Rice did not elaborate on why she believed Moscow would even consider using military force to help Yanukovich. During the three months of confrontation in Ukraine, Western officials flocked to the country in support of the opposition crowd. Russia, meanwhile, distanced itself from the situation and only criticized the West for what Moscow considered blatant meddling in Ukraine's internal affairs.
“The position of some of our Western partners doesn’t show genuine concern, but a desire to act out of geopolitical self-interest,” said a statement on the Russian foreign ministry’s website.
Following the ouster of President Yanukovich, Moscow has not changed its stance nor voiced any support for him. It only criticized the opposition for not keeping its word and breaking a West-sponsored reconciliation agreement, which it signed with Yanukovich.
Moscow wants to see somebody in Kiev who would have the authority and power to implement whatever agreements the countries may negotiate, Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev stressed on Monday.
“Frankly, the legitimacy of many governmental bodies is in doubt there,” he said. “Treating masked men armed with Kalashnikov rifles, who are now circling Kiev, as a government – we would find it difficult working with such a government.”
Since the collapse of the Soviet Union and the establishment of new Russia, it has fought just one war with a foreign power. In 2008, Russian tanks were sent to Georgia, after the latter tried to use military force to seize control over its breakaway region of South Ossetia. Russia justified its actions by the death of Russian peacekeepers who were stationed in Georgia under a UN mandate with the brief not to allow military action between Georgians and Ossetians, and who were killed by the advancing Georgian troops.
Russia also used its military in its own territory in the Republic of Chechnya, which went from a nationalist uprising to forming a de facto independent government to transforming into a hotbed of banditry and terrorism, spilling violence into neighboring Russian regions. Moscow eventually took Chechnya back under its control through alliances with some local militant factions and by offering generous rebuilding funding in exchange for assurances of security and loyalty.
In 1991, when the USSR ceased to exist, the US conducted a war against Saddam Hussein's Iraq. Since then America has fought four major wars against foreign nations, including the bombing campaign in Yugoslavia, the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq (for the second time), and the bombing campaign in Libya. It stopped short of starting a fifth war against Syria in 2013, a move which was prevented in large part by the mediation of Russia, which convinced the Syrian government to relinquish its chemical weapons.
Washington justifies its interventions on humanitarian reasons and the obligation to depose repressive governments. Such obligations however, do not seem to apply to countries which have a poor human rights record, like Saudi Arabia, but remain American allies.
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ウクライナの現勢力、正当性に重大な疑念＝ロシア首相 | Reuters
一部の国が現勢力を国家として承認することについては「常軌を逸している」と述べた。
ロシア国内の通信各社報道によると、メドベージェフ氏は「現地で何が起こっているのかが理解できない。われわれの国益や、国民の生命への脅威が確実に存在する」と表明。「現地で現在機能する各権力機関の正当性に大きな疑問がある」と述べた。
また、ロシアとウクライナのガス協定延長については、ウクライナ国内の企業と新政権の間で協議が必要との考えを示した。
インタファクス通信によると、メドベージェフ氏は「法的拘束力があるこれら協定は履行される必要がある。われわれは、個人や特定の人物を相手にしていない。これは、国家間関係（の問題）だ」と述べた。
Ukraine’s new authorities resort to ‘dictatorial’ methods in regions – Russia ― RT News
Russia has lashed out at the new regime in Kiev, accusing it of using “dictatorial” and “terrorist” methods to suppress dissent in the country, with backing from the West which is “acting out of geopolitical self-interest.”
