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Abkhazia and South Ossetia are independent states now! Poland reaction? [236]
Moscow Can Now Offer Russian Citizenship to Eight Million Ukrainians
Rice says Russia more authoritarian
"Russia's attack fits into a worsening pattern of behavior over several years - among other things, its use of oil and gas as tools of coercion, its threat to target peaceful nations like Poland with nuclear weapons, and its curtailment of law and liberty at home," she said. "The emerging picture is an increasingly authoritarian and aggressive Russia."
"Our strategic goal now is to make it clear to Russia's leaders that their choices are putting Russia on a one-way path to self-imposed isolation and international irrelevance," Rice said.
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"The delegates began to discuss the war between Russia and Georgia first thing in the morning, but only 26 members were able to speak. Most of them criticized both Russia and Georgia with extreme severity. "There is a concept in criminal law of premeditated crime," said Swede Goran Lindblad. "This war was a premeditated crime. We know, for example, that the Russian 58th Army was ready for the war in advance. The premeditation on Russia's side is obvious. On Georgia's side too. The only difference is that Georgia acted on its own territory and Russia invaded another. Both are completely unacceptable."
"The Russian delegates talk about some new world order, but what they call a new world order is the really same old Soviet world order. And that is unacceptable."
Mikhail Zygar, Strasbourg
All the Article in Russian as of Oct. 01, 2008
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