Posted on 02/04/2005 8:25:58 PM PST by ambrose
Friday 4th February, 2005
Russia denies killing Georgia's premier
Big News Network.com
Friday 4th February, 2005 (UPI)
Russia's foreign minister Thursday strongly denied a claim his country was behind the death of Georgia's prime minister.
Prime Minister Zurab Zhvania died Thursday and a member of Georgia's parliament claimed Russia was involved, Interfax reported.
Let us leave politically motivated conclusions on the conscience of those who are making them, Lavrov told a news conference in response to a Georgian official's claim that a terrorist attack in Gori, Georgia, Tuesday and Zhvania's death Thursday were related and Moscow was behind them.
Such conclusions do not help find the truth and do not promote the development of Russian-Georgian relations, Interfax quoted Lavrov as saying. Russia is truly interested in developing relations with Georgia, he said.
Relations between Russia and Georgia, its fellow former Soviet republic in the Caucasus east of the Black Sea, have deteriorated sharply since President Mikhail Saakashvili came to power in Georgia's Revolution of Roses in November 2003.
Russia seems to be returning to its ways of old.
The Russkies were framed.... Putin is a good man. Bush told us so.
Then again, he said Muslims are peaceful and loving, sooooooo....
Putin is going to have to be contained, as the Truman Policy once vowed to contain the Soviet Union. This really is too bad. All these recent events will set back Russian-American relations for many years.
Russia and the United States are natural allies. Putin is a fool.
You can take Putin out of the KGB, but you can't take the KGB out of Putin.
//Putin is going to have to be contained...All these recent events will set back Russian-American relations for many years.//
What events? I do not see any major problems except some misunderstanding actively promoted by certain countries. Georgia is one of them. Some newspapers also became recently very agitated.
//Russia and the United States are natural allies//
Heartily agree.
The only thing that can indeed set back the relations is the rage to contain Putin. He is a democratically elected president and, judging from real facts rather than from the press, does not want to do anything to hurt the US. Many people do not like President Bush but respect the choice of the Americans and do not want to contain him. That's the way it should be.
What events? How about Russia selling arms and nuclear technology to Iran and God knows who else...
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Thank you.
Yet one more thing: that Russia is siding with the enemy in Iraq. Do you realise that the people that organise the terrorist acts in Iraq are in fact the same people that, before, organised such acts in Chechnya? And the suicide bombers that attack the Americans in Iraq do not attack the Russians in Chechnya, and vice versa? Yet the old sentiments of the cold war are more important to you that the new reality. A pity.
NO SOUP FOR YOU!
Thank you for keeping me up on what's happening. I've been away from the forum a few days.
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