According to a news piece disseminated by Golos Rossii (The Voice of Russia), President Obama has sent Putin a message containing a passage of particular interest to the Baltic states.
The passage says that, in keeping with the “reset” policy, THE UNITED STATES WILL NO LONGER OPPOSE MOSCOW’S ASPIRATIONS TO RE-SOVIETIZE ITS SO-CALLED “NEAR ABROAD”.
The Golos Rossii gives a short abstract of President Obama’s letter. It will formally reach Putin in late January (that is, after his next inauguration), however there apparently is a custom of sending messages informally in advance for reference. Also, I am not surprised that a part of the message has been “leaked” (certainly on purpose) to check the general reaction before saying anything officially.
Although no newspaper piece should be taken as absolute truth, news like this deserves exploration. The actual text of the President’s letter may contain nuances affecting its main message. It is important to know the precise text.
However, the fact in itself that the idea has been said loudly – even in informal leakage – is fearsome and worth noticing. First, it should be recalled that as one of the pre-conditions to being accepted into the Council of Europe, Russia agreed to stop using the term “near abroad” when referring to nations in Europe which the USSR had illegally occupied. Second, these nations, now free, are alarmed by Russia’s unceasing aspirations to get them back under her control.
http://rus.ruvr.ru/2013_01_11/...
Valeri Kalabugin
Member of the Board, Estonian Institute for Human Rights
Obama and re-Sovietization (8)
Rahvusvahelised uudised | 15 Jan 2013 | Valeri KalabuginEWR
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Anything one reads from a pro-Moscow paper must be taken with a grain of salt. But what I saw yesterday on the back-pages of Eesti Elu must be true. Namly, Eesti Maja has decided to usurp, without consultation, the decades old tradition of the Estonian Central Council and consulate, by organizing a party, the night before the Vabariigi aastapäeva aktus on Sunday, 24th February. The Central Council with the consulate always has had one for non-esto guests on the Friday. Why am I bringing this up here? Even the slightest sign of a threat to Estonia's sovereignty, be it even in the non-credible Russia media, needs toevaluated and we have to be confident in the support of our allies and also Canadian politicians. At the EKN and consulate function it was customary for non-estos in their short speeches to "swear friendship and loyalty" to Estonia and to Canadian estos. It would be foolish to have two nights of partying the days before the aktus. There are not enough participants and all three fucntions will suffer.The traditional evening now has seemingly been unilaterally shoved aside by Estonian House. Why?
Actually, when I think about it more, who is Obama to decide that re-sovietization is "OK"? Nobody voted for this, even in America. What sort of democracy is the US to let Obama make such decisions by himself? He can just reset himself perhaps.
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