Medvedev Slams Ukraine in His Letter to Yushchenko and His Official Video Address
Posted on | August 11, 2009 | 8 Comments
Associated Press
MOSCOW — Russian President Dmitry Medvedev lashed out at Ukraine’s leadership on an array of grievances, accusing the country of endangering European gas supplies and saying Russia won’t send a new ambassador until relations improve.
In a letter to Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko released Tuesday by the Kremlin, Mr. Medvedev cites complaints ranging from Mr. Yushchenko’s push to make Ukraine a NATO member to his support of an Orthodox church outside Moscow’s control.
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August 11th, 2009 @ 6:04 pm
I was very diapointed in Mr. Medvedev’s unwarrented attack on Ukraine’s soverenty and his selfserving statements. Mr. Medvedev and Mr. Putin must finally realise that Ukraine is not a part of Russia, Ukrainians are not Russians, never were and don’t want to be. As a independant, soveriegn nation, Ukraine has every right to choose it’s own oriantation without childish tantrums from Moscow.
Ukrainian leadership has always maintained that Ukraine must keep good relations with Russia but that does not mean subserviance. Russia can not try to impose it’s will or way of thinking on Ukraine by either overt or covert means. That is not how a freindly neighbor acts.
August 16th, 2009 @ 5:19 pm
Bravo! I agree 110%. Noting many apologists for the Kremlin (see some of the comments at: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124998360182322207.html ), it’s amazing to me how quickly they emerge to defend anything and everything that the Kremlin does as totally defensible, and in response to the alleged wrongdoings of this or that state. A recommended test would simply to replace “Russia”
with the U.S., and “Ukraine” with Canada, for example, and see how appropriate the response would seem. The answer, IMHO, would be clear….Russia is a bully and needs to adhere to international norms. This “near-abroad” concept is simply unacceptable in this day and age. Now I’m sure that immediately the Russophile community will jump at the opportunity and speak about the alleged persecution of Russian speakers in Ukraine and the need for Russia to defend their interests. Again, time to apply the “U.S vs Canada” test. There are hundreds of thousands of Canadians in the US, and vice-versa (or better yet, U.S vs Mexico as there are millions of Latinos in the U.S.). Neither Canada nor the U.S. would stand the intrusion into their respective internal affairs, as they rightfully should. Why on earth should the U.S. cater to the needs of Canadians. Nor should they expect that Canada would intervene for any alleged “discrimination” that they may suffer in the U.S. Enough said.
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