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Moscow signals concern for Russians in Estonia
http://www.reuters.com ^ | 3/19/14 | Robert Evans

Posted on 03/20/2014 7:54:02 AM PDT by armydawg505

(Reuters) - Russia signaled concern on Wednesday at Estonia's treatment of its large ethnic Russian minority, comparing language policy in the Baltic state with what it said was a call in Ukraine to prevent the use of Russian.

Russia has defended its annexation of Ukraine's Crimea peninsula by arguing it has the right to protect Russian-speakers outside its borders, so the reference to linguistic tensions in another former Soviet republic comes at a highly sensitive moment.

Russia fully supported the protection of the rights of linguistic minorities, a Moscow diplomat told the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva, according to a summary of the session issued by the U.N.'s information department.

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KEYWORDS: estonia; warcoming
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To: dfwgator
Has Putin claimed Brighton Beach, yet?

I know just the gang to stop him...

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21 posted on 03/20/2014 8:26:00 AM PDT by henkster (I don't like bossy women telling me what words I can't use.)
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To: henkster

“WE ARE THE MODS..WE ARE THE MODS..WE ARE..WE ARE...WE ARE THE MODS!”


22 posted on 03/20/2014 8:27:41 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: armydawg505; All
"he (0'ButtCrack) is more interested in basketball brackets
and golf than saving us from this looming catastrophe."
this is for public consumption; what Resident 0'Muslim, really wants
(i presume) is more weed, more coke and his gay posse in his bed
,
while (a free week w/o) his "beard" wife/presumed kids, are in China.

23 posted on 03/20/2014 8:28:18 AM PDT by skinkinthegrass (The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun..0'Caligula / 0'Reid / 0'Pelosi)
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To: armydawg505
It will go down in history, if there is any history, that Putin is Hitler lookalike. Putin will be the next worst leader in the World history. King Obama is Americas sadist piece of crap and will be known as Americas garbage dump with all his communists, the MSM and its Hollywood insane.
24 posted on 03/20/2014 8:29:15 AM PDT by Logical me
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To: Samogon

NATO will need to act without the US. Now wouldn’t that be a strange turn of events.


25 posted on 03/20/2014 8:29:21 AM PDT by SgtHooper (If at first you don't succeed, skydiving is not for you.)
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To: SgtHooper

Poland won’t even ask for NATO permission.........”Repeat, Please?”


26 posted on 03/20/2014 8:29:45 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: I am Richard Brandon
That was a deeply unintelligent comment.

Putin will not touch Poland because any Russian incursion would result in his humiliation.

Today it's the Poles who have the technological advantage.

The Poles were able to hold out as long as they did against the Soviets because they had superior training and the ability to improvise.

The Soviets won because they had tanks and an endless supply of cannon fodder.

Poland still has superior training and the ability to improvise, it has tanks and air support now, and Russia's supply of cannon fodder is nowhere near what it used to be.

27 posted on 03/20/2014 8:29:47 AM PDT by wideawake
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To: armydawg505

And while this is happening the Nazi’s in Syria are killing and then hanging people in warehouses...


28 posted on 03/20/2014 8:30:07 AM PDT by goodnesswins (R.I.P. Doherty, Smith, Stevens, Woods.)
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To: skeeter

Belarus is separated from Russia in name only, very compliant and pro Russian.


29 posted on 03/20/2014 8:30:12 AM PDT by armydawg505
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To: dfwgator
The Poles have no love for Russians, and who can blame them? Much is made of Hitler's invasion of Poland in 1939, not so much of the Russians invading Poland from the East as part of their Non-aggression pact with the Germans. Stalin's NKVD committed mass murder against The Poles in the Katyn Forest. Joe Stalin withheld Soviet forces from supporting Polish resistance forces battling the Germans in Warsaw in 1944, causing the Polish resistance to be crushed by German forces.

...and that's just the contemporary history of Russia's treachery against Poland.

30 posted on 03/20/2014 8:41:20 AM PDT by TADSLOS (The Event Horizon has come and gone. Buckle up and hang on.)
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To: TADSLOS

There’s a scene in the movie “Europa, Europa”, the Jewish protagonist of the story is trying to flee East from the advancing Germans along with other Poles....As they cross the river, they see others crossing to the West, shouting “The Russians have invaded”....so everyone (other than the Jews) turn right back around and head Westward again.

It’s like the joke, “A Pole is standing next to a German and a Russian soldier, which one does he shoot first? The German of course, ‘Business before Pleasure’”


31 posted on 03/20/2014 8:44:06 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: armydawg505

Another former Soviet Republic that stole Polish land.


32 posted on 03/20/2014 8:45:24 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: dfwgator; TADSLOS

In 1939 the Poles were asked why they didn’t accept Stalin’s offer of aid in the event of Nazi aggression (before the Non-Aggression Pact of course). The Polish response was “with the Germans we lose our country. With the Russians we lose our souls.”


33 posted on 03/20/2014 8:58:21 AM PDT by henkster (I don't like bossy women telling me what words I can't use.)
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To: armydawg505

When Obama told Putin that the U.S. won’t intervene militarily that gave Putin the green light to help himself to whatever he wants...

I’d say countries are being divied up for their final resting place in the New World Order...


34 posted on 03/20/2014 9:01:02 AM PDT by Iscool (Ya mess with me, you mess with the WHOLE trailer park...)
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