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"Step by step, Russia is regaining control over its neighbours and successfully achieving its objectives in the field of foreign policy. It presents the world with
while European politicians merely spout hypocrisy and weakness. The French President nearly fell over himself to praise Russia, yet Russia did not withdraw its troops from the rebel regions of Georgia, and acknowledged their independence. The German Chancellor, for her part, made assurances in Tbilisi, that Georgia would join NATO. A few weeks later she assured President Medvedev that there was no reason to rush things.
Yes, Russia certainly knows how to reward such loyalty. The German company E.ON has been granted access to Siberian reserves and the energy market, and both countries will jointly build a gas pipeline, an umbilical cord, under the Baltic Sea. The French President, for his part, has signed multi-billion contracts in Moscow concerning the modernisation of the Russian railway system. The most shameful example of Europe’s behaviour towards Russia was when President Sarkozy stated that Russia had the right to defend its own citizens.
Are we to believe that the President of the Council did not know that this trick has been used by Russia on several occasions in the past? This is a new Yalta….."@en1
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