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Russia hostage to its imperial past: Ukraine
Wed Aug 12, 2009 3:27pm EDT
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KIEV (Reuters) - Russian leaders are stuck in an imperial past and seem to relish bullying and threatening their neighbors, a senior Ukrainian official said on Wednesday, responding to a tirade from Moscow the previous day.
Relations between Russian and Ukraine, a former Soviet republic, have deteriorated steadily since Kiev's Orange Revolution brought pro-Western President Viktor Yushchenko to power in 2004. Russia has twice cut off gas supplies through Ukraine to Europe amid disputes over payments and contracts.
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev lashed out on Tuesday at Yushchenko for "anti-Russian" policies and said he wanted to see a leader in Ukraine who was easier for Moscow to deal with. Analysts saw his comments as an attempt to influence Ukraine's presidential election, due in January.
Yushchenko, who is seeking re-election but is unlikely to win, has yet to comment on Medvedev's outburst. But his chief of staff Vera Ulyanchenko posted a reply on their party's website.
"The young leadership of Russia is turning into a hostage of old imperial complexes, which constantly needs to cherish the idea of a foreign enemy and substitute equal dialogue with all neighboring states with a language of threats and insults," Ulyanchenko said.
Russia's brief war last August with Georgia, which shocked the West and drew sharp criticism, was the result of a "policy of provocation and pressure that led to the death of many innocent people," she added.
"There is no doubt, that the policy of provocation is not in the interest of the Russian nation, whose long and painful history should teach new and young Russian leaders to make the right conclusions -- not imperial, but practical."
The United States added its voice on Wednesday by suggesting comments by the Russian president were unhelpful.
"It is important for Ukraine and Russia to have a constructive relationship. I'm not sure that these comments are necessarily in that vein," State Department spokesman Philip Crowley told reporters in Washington.
ELECTION TO BRING CHANGES
The war of words follow Kiev's expulsion of a Russian diplomat last month, mutual accusations over Russia's Black Sea Fleet naval base in the Crimean peninsula and the visit to Kiev of U.S. Vice President Joe Biden.
Biden lent his support to Yushchenko's bid for Ukrainian membership of NATO, a move Russia sees as a threat to its security. Moscow is also unhappy at Yushchenko's insistence that the Black Sea Fleet vacate its base by 2017.
But Yushchenko, with public support of just 4 percent, has little chance of winning re-election.
The key contenders for president in the January 17 election -- Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko and opposition leader Viktor Yanukovich -- are both seen as more likely to seek better relations with the Kremlin.
Yanukovich, the Moscow-backed presidential candidate who lost out in the Orange Revolution, now leads the opinion polls and is followed by Tymoshenko. Continued...
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