All Quiet On The Eastern Front?

[Winston_Smith]

I would say things are quiet tonight in Easternmost Europe judging by the posts.

[StasUA]

I don't think it's ever quiet here on the Eastern Front. There are problems with Gas between Ukraine and Russia. There's now negotiations about it in neutral territory, - Minsk.

Also the Chernobyl's power plant is going to be closed on December Fifth, - there's lots of talks about it.

Good luck,
Stas


[This message has been edited by StasUA (edited 02 December 2000).]

[Nonson]

Too, there is the little matter of financial devastation of Russia: now wanting to swap owership in national holdings to easy a 20 billion dollar debt to Sweden (I believe). Then there is the Turks' fiasco of interest rates pounding at the 2000% door. Then there are the Germans casting a suspicious eye on everyone involved in finance and economy. Yeap. Things sure are quite...bloody screaming, they are. Peace

[johnstruthers]

Good Lord, Russia wants to swap debt for shares? This will be the gift that keeps on giving. But Russia now "officially" has a national hymn, and as one would expect, the tune is the same, only the words are different. It was on Vremya this eve. There's always something to chuckle about.

[StasUA]

Russia becomes scarier everymoment now. As I thought before Putin became president, he will join history books as a negative figure, at least for Ukraine.

The new Hymn which is old Soviet hymn, shows his intentions and probably ... "craveness" for the old "good" times, when he was working for KGB.

Yesterday, I heard on russian news, that Putins security(which are ex-KGB's also) when he was resting in Sochi, on the last day of their visit, they wanted to show "KGB POWER" which is present "FSB(I don't know English term" they started beating people up at restaurants and public places, showing their FSB(KGB) identificational papers. When locals called the police, the Putin's guys also beat the police-men, which could not open fire, because they were to follow orders from FSB, which was beating them up...

And now Putin is replacing all the old people with the new(who are all ex-KGB's) what does he wish to do? Recreate KGB's power? Put fear into people? "Back to USSR?"(which is not possible)

Or something like Ivan's The Terrible - Karatelniye otryadi(йЮПЮРЕКЭМШЕ НРПЪДШ).

Good luck, and now since both Belarus and Russia are showing their positive intentions towards USSR, they won't leave Ukraine as it is now, espacially due to the fact that both Belarus's and probably Russia's presidents, will remain presidents for much longer than their legal terms.

юКЕ ЫЕ МЕ БЛЕПКЮ сЙПЮ©МЮ, МЁ ЯКЮБЮ МЁ БНКЪ!
Stas

[Nonson]

In my opinion, Belarus and Ukraine are critical to Russian national security. When the big push comes to bring out the crude from the Caspian, a route along the Black Sea is the most desirable. Unless the line is blocked in Ukraine, all of Russia is opened up to all sorts of mischief-perhaps even a ground war. _____________________________________________ Why an airbase for NATO in Turkey?

[StasUA]

Belarus is very different from Ukraine. Since Lukashenko became president of Belarus, the country slowly turned to a centralized-head of the gov. dictator system. Pro-communistic regime lasted there for over 5 years. Now, since Lukashenko sold his motherland to Putin, Belarus is nothing but russian sattelite state.

As a 25% Belarus, I am very saddened by this.

Good luck,
Stas