Posted on 04/04/2006 2:05:10 AM PDT by vertolet
Russia is seeking to reclaim millions of pounds worth of property and assets it lost control over during the collapse of the Soviet Union, in an attempt by the Putin administration to rebuild the international image of the Russian state.
Vladimir Kozhin, who heads the powerful presidential property department, told the Interfax news agency: "We are actively searching for property that belonged to not only to the Soviet but to the Russian empire, too. Some considerable work has already been done and we shall claim that property."
After the fall of the Soviet Union, Russia gained control...
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Will they reclaim the warheads that the whacked out Islamists got from them?...Oh wait, the Russkies SOLD those.
Lost property: Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Georgia, East Germany, Czechoslovakia, Estonia, etc etc etc.
Also Lost property... All of the privately owned businesses in Russia (even though these are small)
It also means that Russia is committed to returning to a communistic way of doing things.
Soviet PING
Well, if they are claiming the property of pre-1917 empire, they better be prepared to pay its outstanding international debts [with compound interest since 1917].
No, I think they want to reclaim the post 1917 empire, or rather the post 1945 empire.
Yes and those victims of Russia are seeking that property too - for reparations
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