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To: MarMema
"Bush likes him and I do too."

"...and I do too."

I thought you said I was wrong in my post?

Putin's cold war rhetoric after Beslan siege signals shift in foreign policy
21 September 2004 13:23
More than two weeks after the bloody end of the Beslan school siege, Russia's escalating war of words with the west risks coupling a painful domestic tragedy with an isolationist shift in foreign policy.

Vladimir Putin, the Russian president, has come in for criticism from George W. Bush, the US president, and Chris Patten, the European Union commissioner for external affairs, over the political plans he set out in response to the Beslan siege. Mr Bush expressed concern that Moscow's centralising of power and tightening grip on parliament and the regions threatened democracy.

In the latest cold war-style exchange at the end of last week, Mr Putin warned about "double standards" in the fight against terrorism, and a top British diplomat in Moscow was summoned by the Russian foreign ministry and criticised for the failure to extradite Akhmed Zakaev, the Chechen rebel leader living in London.

Some observers believe that whatever motives lie behind the chilly rhetoric between Russia and its partners, the result could be a shift away from the more open and western-oriented policy established by the country's previous two leaders and pursued until recently by Mr Putin.

As usual, you're misinformed.

128 posted on 09/21/2004 7:41:15 AM PDT by Luis Gonzalez ( Even Jane Fonda apologized. Will you, John?)
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To: Luis Gonzalez
a top British diplomat in Moscow was summoned by the Russian foreign ministry and criticised for the failure to extradite Akhmed Zakaev, the Chechen rebel leader living in London.

Did you hear the next reporting on that incident? The Brits are now saying they will extradite Zakayev after all, due to increased activity in their country. They discovered something they don't like.

Vanessa Redgrave supports these people and no doubt sends money to chechen rebels.

In the same way that Putin is learning about Iran, the west is learning about the chechens.

131 posted on 09/21/2004 7:47:00 AM PDT by MarMema (next year in constantinople!)
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