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    MOSCOW - A Russian newspaper said Friday that Vice President Dick Cheney's harsh criticism of Moscow's human rights record signaled the start of a new Cold War.

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    The Kommersant business daily compared Cheney's speech Thursday in neighboring Lithuania to Winston Churchill's famous "Iron Curtain" speech in Fulton, Mo., saying in that it "marked the beginning of a second Cold War."

    Churchill coined the "Iron Curtain" expression in his 1946 speech that warned of Soviet expansion.

    Asked to comment on the comparison, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov refrained from criticizing Cheney. But he condemned Thursday's conference in the Lithuanian capital, Vilnius, which brought together pro-Western Eastern European leaders.

    "There are forums that create an impression ... that they are convened ... for the sake of uniting against someone," Lavrov said.

    The government-run newspaper Rossiyskaya Gazeta belittled the venue as a gathering of nine small nations trying to rival the Group of Eight.

    Rossiyskaya Gazeta said the countries were trying to establish themselves not by "defending normal relations with our country, but rather through efforts to exaggerate and use the contradictions existing between Moscow and some of its partners in the West."

    Former Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev said Cheney's speech "looks like a provocation and interference in Russia's internal affairs in terms of its content, form and place."

    Deputy Foreign Minister Grigory Karasin expressed annoyance that Russia had not been invited to the conference of former Soviet republics and allies.

    Cheney accused Russia of cracking down on religious and political rights and using its energy reserves as "tools of intimidation or blackmail."

    His criticism — some of the Bush administration's toughest against Russia — came just two months before President Bush joins his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin in St. Petersburg for a summit of major industrial powers.

    Cheney warned that Russia's backsliding could harm Moscow's relations with the United States and Europe.

    "Russia has a choice to make. And there is no question that a return to democratic reform in Russia will generate future success for its people and greater respect among fellow nations," the vice president said.

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    http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060505/...ZhBHNlYwM3MjE-
    By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV, Associated Press Writer

  • #2
    I hope this time Cheney has got his aim straight! ;)


    "Some have learnt many Tricks of sly Evasion, Instead of Truth they use Equivocation, And eke it out with mental Reservation, Which is to good Men an Abomination."

    I don't have to attend every argument I'm invited to.

    HAKUNA MATATA

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    • #3
      "New cold war", huh?
      Well bring it on Ivan, we beat you once and we will beat you again.

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      • #4
        USA never defeated USSR in the cold war. USSR defeated itself with breaking up, bit like EU breaking up, although impossible.

        If USA and USSR went into all out war USA /USSRA would of been the biggest beacons on the planet, along with the UK.

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        • #5
          Originally posted by British
          USA never defeated USSR in the cold war.
          You're right, it took the entire West to scare them, and to fight their proxy wars, into a state of bankruptcy. The USA just led the way, and took the blame...
          No man is free until all men are free - John Hossack
          I agree completely with this Administration’s goal of a regime change in Iraq-John Kerry
          even if that enforcement is mostly at the hands of the United States, a right we retain even if the Security Council fails to act-John Kerry
          He may even miscalculate and slide these weapons off to terrorist groups to invite them to be a surrogate to use them against the United States. It’s the miscalculation that poses the greatest threat-John Kerry

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          • #6
            I think the Russians are trying to regain their former importance in the world through delusion. Poor sods.

            Originally posted by British
            USA never defeated USSR in the cold war. USSR defeated itself with breaking up, bit like EU breaking up, although impossible.
            Spurred on, just a tad, by the competition.

            If USA and USSR went into all out war USA /USSRA would of been the biggest beacons on the planet, along with the UK.
            Beacons? Of?
            HD Ready?

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