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Basescu la o intalnire de gradul trei sub codul "O lume intr-un timbru". Lumea Rusiei
Preşedintele Traian Băsescu a participat la lansarea unei emisiuni filatelice comune româno-ruse si aniversarea a 130 de ani de relatii diplomatice, ocazie cu care a dat asigurări că lucrurile vor evolua pozitiv în relaţiile dintre cele două ţări.
Eu inteleg ca baietii de la SIE si compania pregatesc vizita lui Basescu la Moscova – din pacate prin moduri cam penibile, dupa cum se vede – insa nu am inteles de ce nu mai exista nimeni in structurile astea care sa observe ca intalnirea de lins timbrul prieteniei si serbat scorul de 130 la 0 a fost fixata – ar fi trist daca chiar de partea romana – exact in ziua in care a fost pus in aplicare protocolul secret din Pactul Ribbentrop-Molotov si s-a hotarat practic declansarea ocuparii Basarabiei si a Bucovinei (NOTA: In ziua de 23 iunie 1940, seful Serviciului Secret de Informatii roman, Mihail Moruzov, ii solicita telefonic reprezentantului ministerului de Externe german, Manfred von Killinger, o intrevedere la Bucuresti. Biroului 1 de informatii al Sectiei a II a Marelui Stat Major emisese deja un avertisment sever privind iminenta unui atac al sovieticilor pe Frontul de Nord si de Est. In seara zilei de 23 iunie 1940, Friedrich Werner von der Schunlenburg, ministrul Germaniei la Moscova, este convocat la Kremlin de Viaceslav Mihailovici Molotov, comisarul pentru Relatii externe al Rusiei sovietice, care ii transmite ca solutionarea problemei Basarabiei nu mai ingaduie nicio amanare si trebuie pus in practica Protocolul secret al Pactului Hitler-Stalin. Ultimatumul sovietic a fost inmanat Romaniei pe 26 iunie iar trupele Armatei Rosii au invadat pamantul romanesc pe 28 iunie. 23 – 28 iunie: Saptamana Patimilor Romaniei. Constient de valoarea simbolica, Maresalul Antonescu nu a lasat sa treaca anul si, la 22 iunie 1941, a dat celebrul ordin “Ostasi, va ordon, treceti Prutul!”. De ce n-au facut lansarea timbrului prieteniei pe 22 iunie; ca aniversarea celor 130 de ani de relatii diplomatice este, oricum, la 15 octombrie, cand, in 1878, a fost stabilita legatie si numit un reprezentant roman la Petersburg?!) Si Ungureanu se mai lauda si ca este istoric. Am vazut la Moscova ce misto au facut de el istoricii rusi: i-au dat copia xeroxata a dosarului unui prizonier roman in lagarele sovietice – Ion Popescu (numele ales special).
Nu asa se trateaza cu Moscova dupa cum nu in modul in care o face Bucurestiul se trateaza cu Washingtonul (sa mai amintim cazul Teo Peter?!). Orice putere, indiferent cat e de mare, respecta in primul rand, in relatiile cu alte state, demnitatea nationala. Guduratul nu poate fi o “politica nationala”. Din pacate aceasta pare sa fie strategia pupincurista de iesire din criza a baietilor veseli care-i fac agenda presedintelui. Cu riscul de a se primi in schimb ceea ce administreaza orice om normal cand se satura de frecusul unui pudel de pantalon…
“Vă asigur că lucrurile vor evolua pozitiv în relaţia dintre România şi Rusia”, a spus Băsescu, citat de Mediafax.
Înainte de discursul şefului statului, ambasadorul rus la Bucureşti, Alexandr Ciurilin, prezent la eveniment, i-a felicitat pe organizatori pentru “alegerea foarte reuşită” a temei emisiunii filatelice: “Ea reflectă un caracter absolut deosebit al relaţiilor dintre statele noastre. Noi suntem apropiaţi prin modul de trai, prin mentalitate. Majoritatea credincioşilor din România şi din Rusia sunt de credinţă ortodoxă şi cred că în acest timbru este reflectată anume această trăsătură comună. Eu aş dori să cred că faptul că această emisiune are loc în anul în care se sărbătoresc 130 de ani de la stabilirea relaţiilor diplomatice dintre România şi Rusia, noi ne aducem încă o contribuţie la întărirea relaţiilor tradiţionale de prietenie dintre popoarele noastre, pentru care au făcut foarte multe domnul preşedinte Băsescu şi preşedintele Putin”, a spus Ciurilin (foto dreapta cu Basescu), citat si el de Mediafax.
In mod interesant, discursul presedintelui are introdusa aceeasi tema a “ortodoxiei care ne apropie”, fapt descoperit, se pare, recent, de catre consilierii de la Cotroceni, dupa cum se vede din textul Presedintiei de mai jos. (A, era sa uit: exact acelasi lucru l-am concluzionat recent cu domnul ambasador, la o cina, unde am discutat si despre evenimentul “filatelic” ce urma sa se organizeze…)
Redau, de asemenea, mai jos, si mesajul Patriarhului, care si-a trimis doar un reprezentant – la fel ca si ministrul Culturii, pe Nitulescu – , pentru a intelege mai bine ce s-a dorit a fi manifestarea “O lume intr-un timbru”: Lumea Rusiei.
Discursul preşedintelui României, Traian Băsescu, cu prilejul lansării emisiunii filatelice comune „România – Federaţia Rusă; 130 de ani de relaţii diplomatice – monumente ce aparţin Patrimoniului Mondial UNESCO”
(23 iunie 2008, Expoziţia Filatelică Mondială EFIRO 2008)
„Bună ziua,
Aş vrea să spun câteva cuvinte despre manifestarea în interiorul căreia se produce lansarea acestor două timbre. EFIRO 2008 este una din expoziţiile filatelice care dobândesc tot mai mult prestigiu. Faptul că la Bucureşti sunt prezente colecţii din 74 de ţări, circa 800 de colecţii, arată nu numai interes, dar şi respect pentru această latură a activităţii unui stat, emisunile de timbre. Îi felicit pe organizatori pentru efortul de a aduce colecţii de excepţională importanţă la această expoziţie.
Cu privire la emisunea de timbre româno-rusă, cred că este unul din elementele care marchează un alt tip de relaţii între cele două ţări. Avem 130 de ani de relaţii diplomatice între România şi Federaţia Rusă, 130 de ani în care relaţiile au fost adesea complicate. Evoluţiile din ultimii trei ani arată însă că ambele ţări doresc să clarifice nu relaţiile trecutului, ci viitorului. Discuţiile pe care le-am avut cu preşedintele Putin şi în 2005, şi anul acesta, arată voinţa ambelor părţi ca relaţia româno-rusă să devină o relaţie solidă, pragmatică, bazată pe interesul reciproc şi pe găsirea de soluţii în regiunea noastră, în regiunea Mării Negre.
Emisunea de timbre de astăzi cred că a fost excelent aleasă. A sublinit ceea ce ne uneşte cel mai puternic: ortodoxia. Suntem două popoare ortodoxe. A mai subliniat un lucru deosebit, faptul că ambele popoare sunt capabile să dea lumii, patrimoniului mondial, lucruri de excepţională valoare, fie că vorbim de biserica Sfântul Gheorghe de la Voroneţ, fie că vorbim de biserica Sfântul Dimitrie de la Vladimiri. Şi mai subliniază un lucru, faptul că suntem capabili să cooperăm în domenii sensibile. Timbrele, ca şi banii, au un puternic caracter naţional, faptul că autorităţile din cele două state au decis să emită o serie comună de timbre arată capacitatea şi deschiderea, capacitatea de a coopera pe de-o parte şi pe de altă parte dechiderea celor două state pentru cooperare.
Eu vă asigur că lucrurile vor evolua pozitiv în relaţia româno-rusă. Evenimentul de astăzi este un eveniment dintr-o serie largă de manistări dedicate celor 130 de ani de relaţii diplomatice între România şi Rusia. Ţin să mulţumesc domnului Adibekov Artiom Valerievici, director general al Companiei Marka din Federaţia Rusă şi doamnei Cristina Popescu, preşedinte director general al Romfilatelia pentru succesul acestei emisiuni filatelice.
Vă mulţumesc mult.”
Departamentul de Comunicare Publică
23 Iunie 2008
P A T R I A R H I A R O M Â N Ă
SECTORUL COMUNICAŢII ŞI RELAŢII PUBLICE
CENTRUL DE PRESĂ BASILICA BIROUL DE PRESĂ
P A L A T U L P A T R I A R H I E I
ALEEA DEALUL MITROPOLIEI 25, 040163 BUCUREŞTI IV, ROMÂNIA
Telefon: + 40 21 406 71 67 Fax: + 40 21 406 71 72
https://www.patriarhia.ro/
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SECTORUL COMUNICAŢII ŞI RELAŢII PUBLICE
CENTRUL DE PRESĂ BASILICA BIROUL DE PRESĂ
P A L A T U L P A T R I A R H I E I
ALEEA DEALUL MITROPOLIEI 25, 040163 BUCUREŞTI IV, ROMÂNIA
Telefon: + 40 21 406 71 67 Fax: + 40 21 406 71 72
https://www.patriarhia.ro/
Nr. 4503/23 iunie 2008
COMUNICAT DE PRESĂ
În perioada 20-27 iunie 2008, în complexul expoziţional ROMEXPO din Bucureşti, se desfăşoară a IV-a ediţie a Expoziţiei Filatelice Mondiale EFIRO 2008, care marchează aniversarea a 150 de ani de la emiterea primelor mărci poştale româneşti – celebrele Cap de Bour – Moldova 1858.
În cadrul acţiunilor înscrise în programul EFIRO 2008, Romfilatelia a lansat astăzi, 23 iunie 2008, emisiunea filatelică comună România-Federaţia Rusă “Monumente ce aparţin Patrimoniului Mondial UNESCO – Biserica Sf. Gheorghe a Mănăstirii Voroneţ”, menită să marcheze împlinirea a 130 de ani de relaţii diplomatice.
La acest eveniment de o deosebită importanţă pentru filatelişti, la care au participat reprezentanţi ai autorităţilor de stat, precum şi ai corpului diplomatic acreditat la Bucureşti, în numele Preafericitului Părinte Daniel, Patriarhul Bisericii Ortodoxe Române, Preasfinţitul Vincenţiu Ploieşteanul, Episcop vicar patriarhal, a prezentat următorul mesaj:
Organizatorilor şi participanţilor la vernisajul Expoziţiei Filatelice Mondiale,
EFIRO – Ediţia a IV-a, Bucureşti, 2008
23 iunie 2008
În peisajul cultural contemporan al ţării noastre expoziţia filatelică anuală, aflată la a IV-a ediţie, reprezintă un reper de anvergură, cu pregnantă personalitate.
În anul 2008 acest eveniment este îmbogăţit, în mod deosebit, prin aniversarea a 150 de ani de la emiterea, în Moldova, în 1858, la numai 18 ani de la apariţia mărcii poştale, a primelor timbre româneşti cu reprezentarea heraldică a capului de bour, ajunse a fi, prin vechime, raritate şi semnificaţie, unanim considerate ca exemplare de mare valoare filatelică, pe plan intern şi internaţional.
Cu deosebită apreciere am primit vestea că, în contextul acestei ediţii aniversare a expoziţiei mondiale de profil din capitala României, ROMFILATEIA lansează o emisiune filatelică intitulată „Monumente ce aparţin Patrimoniului Mondial UNESCO”, a cărei primă serie este consacrată Bisericii Sfântul Gheorghe a Mânăstirii Voroneţ, renumita ctitorie din 1488 a Sfântului Voievod Ştefan cel Mare.
Iar faptul că această emisiune filatelică, iniţiată, în comun, de România şi Federaţia Rusă, este legată şi de evenimentul împlinirii a 130 de ani de relaţii diplomatice reciproce, apare menit a completa cadrul general în care se înscrie această prestigioasă manifestare bucureşteană, prin constituirea unor punţi între trecut şi prezent.
Adresăm călduroase felicitări ROMFILATELIA pentru realizarea acestei expoziţii de remarcabilă expresivitate şi binecuvântăm pe toţi organizatorii şi participanţii la acest eveniment de seamă al vieţii noastre culturale şi diplomatice.
ss † DANIEL
PATRIARHUL BISERICII ORTODOXE ROMÂNE
EFIRO – Ediţia a IV-a, Bucureşti, 2008
23 iunie 2008
În peisajul cultural contemporan al ţării noastre expoziţia filatelică anuală, aflată la a IV-a ediţie, reprezintă un reper de anvergură, cu pregnantă personalitate.
În anul 2008 acest eveniment este îmbogăţit, în mod deosebit, prin aniversarea a 150 de ani de la emiterea, în Moldova, în 1858, la numai 18 ani de la apariţia mărcii poştale, a primelor timbre româneşti cu reprezentarea heraldică a capului de bour, ajunse a fi, prin vechime, raritate şi semnificaţie, unanim considerate ca exemplare de mare valoare filatelică, pe plan intern şi internaţional.
Cu deosebită apreciere am primit vestea că, în contextul acestei ediţii aniversare a expoziţiei mondiale de profil din capitala României, ROMFILATEIA lansează o emisiune filatelică intitulată „Monumente ce aparţin Patrimoniului Mondial UNESCO”, a cărei primă serie este consacrată Bisericii Sfântul Gheorghe a Mânăstirii Voroneţ, renumita ctitorie din 1488 a Sfântului Voievod Ştefan cel Mare.
Iar faptul că această emisiune filatelică, iniţiată, în comun, de România şi Federaţia Rusă, este legată şi de evenimentul împlinirii a 130 de ani de relaţii diplomatice reciproce, apare menit a completa cadrul general în care se înscrie această prestigioasă manifestare bucureşteană, prin constituirea unor punţi între trecut şi prezent.
Adresăm călduroase felicitări ROMFILATELIA pentru realizarea acestei expoziţii de remarcabilă expresivitate şi binecuvântăm pe toţi organizatorii şi participanţii la acest eveniment de seamă al vieţii noastre culturale şi diplomatice.
ss † DANIEL
PATRIARHUL BISERICII ORTODOXE ROMÂNE
BIROUL DE PRESĂ
AL PATRIARHIEI ROMÂNE
FOTO: Sorin Lupsa, https://www.presidency.ro/
Un secret atat de simplu: ciment contra ploaie. Oare?
Rusii opresc ploaia cu ajutorul cimentului? Poate da, poate nu
Aviatia militara rusa are de mai bine de 20 de ani misiunea de a opri ploaia cu ajutorul cimentului, insa a facut mereu acest lucru in secret, pana zilele trecute, cand s-a dat de gol. Informatia a devenit publica chiar de Ziua Rusiei, cand militarii au scapat din avion un sac cu ciment de 25 de kilograme care a avariat o casa din apropiere de Moscova, informeaza Antena 3.
Militarii incercau saptamana trecuta sa imprastie ciment in aer ca sa absoarba umezeala si sa evite astfel ploaia care ar fi stricat distractia moscovitilor de Ziua Rusiei. Atunci, dupa cum au relatat pentru RIA Novosti surse din cadrul politiei, “Un pachet de ciment folosit pentru crearea …vremii bune in regiunea capitalei…nu s-a pulverizat complet la acea altitudine inalta si a cazut pe acoperisul unei case, facand o gaura de circa 80-100 de cm”. Potrivit Interfax, proprietara locuintei nu a fost ranita si a refuzat compensatia de 50.000 de ruble oferita de aviatia ruse, afirmand ca va intenta un proces in care va cere atat plata daunelor materiale cat si cea a celor morale pentru patania prin care au trecut ea si casa ei.
Meteorologii rusi sustin ca aviatia rusa are deja de doua decenii neobisnuita misiune de a opri ploaia. Inaintea marilor sarbatori, aviatia militara foloseste adesea in acest scop chiar si cate 12 avioane cargo incarcate cu ciment si alte substante menite sa absoarba umezeala din atmosfera. Purtatorul de cuvant al aviatiei militare ruse a refuzat sa comenteze incidentul.
(A. OLTEANU / ZiuaOnline)
O alta varianta aici:
Rusia – Romania, 130 – 0
In urma cu 18 ani, pe 12 iunie 1990, in timp ce la Bucuresti Ion Iliescu daduse deja ordinul evacuarii “prin orice mijloace” a Pietei Universitatii, la Moscova, Parlamentul proclama suveranitatea Noii Rusii. La noi, ce s-a schimbat de fapt, in toti acesti ani, in relatia dintre Romania si Rusia, in afara de faptul ca am inlocuit un translator de limba rusa cu un capitan obisnuit sa comande in limba engleza?Relatiile romano-ruse sunt practic, in aceeasi stare de levitatie si aceasta in mare parte pentru ca aparatul de care se lasa inconjurati presedintii, oricum s-ar numi ei, in ciuda oricaror dorinte personale, a ramas, de fapt, acelasi, promovandu-si propria agenda internationala pe dedesubtul sau pe deasupra Romaniei.
Dovada concreta sta in imediata noastra apropiere, unde constatam pentru aceasta perioada esecul total al statului roman in spatiul devenit “tampon” intre blocul NATO-SUA-UE si fosta URSS: teritoriile rasaritului romanesc impartite astazi intre Republica Moldova si Ucraina.
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ZIUA: Rusia – Romania, 130 – 0 de Victor Roncea
Alianta NATO s-a lasat biciuita de Rusia in public si la ea acasa
Reprezentantul permanent al Rusiei la NATO, Dmitri Rogozin, a invitat la sediul Aliantei Nord-Atlantice din Bruxelles, Corul cazacilor din Kuban, care a oferit un regal de muzica si dansuri cazacesti, cucerind simpatia generalilor de la comandamentul NATO, relateaza joi, intr-un reportaj, postul rusesc de televiziune NTV, citat de Rompres.
Fara sa stie ce il asteapta, emisarul special al secretarului general al NATO pentru Caucaz, Robert Simons, a acceptat sa-si puna pe umeri traditionala pelerina cazaceasca si sa o invite la dans pe una din membrele corului cazacesc. Conform traditiei, inainte de a intra in dans, Simmons a trebuit sa incaseze cateva cravase cazacesti. (Ziua Online)
Pentru petrol, NATO face orice.
No (more) comment.
Ungurimea, tiganimea si romanimea in fata Marii Uniri
Victor RONCEA
— Tovarasii de drum gandesc asa: exista un presedinte, cum sa-l folosim!? Altii zic: ce frumos e aici la Cotroceni, pacat ca e locuit si de Basescu… Dupa care vin cu “sfaturi”: “Lasati dom’ presedinte cu Pactul Ribbentrop-Molotov! Ce sa-i mai condamnam oficial consecintele in anul 90 de la Marea Unire?! Ce daca Israelul face cele mai mari pregatiri din istorie pentru aniversarea a doar 60 de ani?!
Noi suntem mici si prosti… N-are rost, sefu’, sa organizam nimic acum cu Basarabia! Ca-l suparam pe stiti dvs cine si ne taie gazele si conturile (unora) si nici nu mai vine la Bucuresti, ca sa ne laudam ca Ceausescu ca-i avem pe toti aici, ca pe vremurile bune ale Pactului de la Varsovia. Doamne fereste, sa mai ziceti ceva si de Insula Serpilor, Tinutul Herta sau Bucovina! Stergeti-le din memorie!” Si totusi, Basescu n-a facut asta.
Daca unii au mai auzit de la nivel oficial de Basarabia si Bucovina dupa o omerta de 15 ani este datorita lui Basescu. Dar boicotul continua. Cati dintre dumneavoastra, de exemplu, realizeaza ca peste numai o zi, pe 27 martie, se implinesc 90 de ani de la reunirea Basarabiei cu Tara?! In schimb, stim ca saracii unguri au fost batuti de extremistii de romani la aniversarea celor 160 de ani de la “revolutia maghiara”. Eu, unul, cred ca bietul Mihaila Cofariu, maltratat la un alt 15 martie, 1990, s-a ridicat din paralizie si i-a tras el doua palme agitatorului stegului Ungariei de la Cluj care urla acum ca din gura de sarpe. Iar eu, unul, o sa fac exact acelasi lucru cu Marko Bela cand o sa-l vad, pentru ce a declarat el despre manifestatiile din “Romania SI Ardeal”!
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“Tiraspol Times”: Igor Smirnov: “We have not worked enough with other countries”
Pridnestrovie’s President admits that his country hasn’t done enough to actively promote its diplomatic interests abroad. Igor Smirnov wants to establish closer ties to some of the many members of the United Nations. In this interview, he re-affirms that international recognition of PMR’s independence is the main goal.
By Tiraspol Times, 20/Mar/2008
Igor Smirnov, Pridnestrovie’s democratically elected president, wants more diplomatic and commercial ties with more countries
TIRASPOL (Tiraspol Times) – The President of the unrecognized republic of Pridnestrovie recognizes his country’s failure in actively promoting its diplomatic interests abroad. In this interview, Igor Smirnov re-affirms PMR’s commercial, cultural and historical ties to Russia but also says that it is necessary to establish links to other parts of the world as well.
While not going as far as directly accusing PMR’s Foreign Ministry of failure, Igor Smirnov says that the government already reviewed its work and concluded that not enough has been done. Now he looks beyond Russia to the almost two hundred member countries of the United Nations, and says that Pridnestrovie needs to “more actively promote our position, using both new resources as well as existing resources, including those in the economic sphere.”
The interview comes just days before Foreign Minister Valeri Litskai is due to answer questions in Parliament, after having been summoned by lawmakers who are worried about the lack of progress in establishing closer ties with other states and opening diplomatic representative offices abroad.
In a joint statement with the leaders of Abkhazia and South Ossetia, you pledged to jointly support each other’s independence. But unlike those two, Tiraspol didn’t ask Russia for recognition yet. Why not?
” – After the outcome of the referendum in 2006 where the majority of voters backed PMR’s independence and closer ties to Russia, Pridnestrovie’s Parliament already sent a formal request to Russia’s State Duma. And the Duma recognized that referendum as legitimate. Should we ask them again? The firmness of our position was confirmed at the Duma hearings by the representatives of the parliamentary delegation from Pridnestrovie.”
Some sources claim that Moscow has a new plan whereby the Moldova-Pridnestrovie conflict would be settled in exchange for a guarantee from Moldova that it wouldn’t join NATO. As part of such a plan, supposedly Tiraspol would then abstain from seeking international recognition of its independence. What is your take on this?
” – This is simply something that Moldova’s President Vladimir Voronin came up with. To this, it is possible to reply with the words of Vladimir Putin: “Total nonsense.” He has his own reason, pre-election motivated or whatever, and I won’t interfere in Moldova’s domestic matters. It also looks like Voronin is trying to flirt with Russia. But I specifically asked Yuri Zubkov [Deputy Secretary of the Security Council of Russia, ed.] if there are any such plans. He answered that the journalists have everything mixed up.”
” – Russia has a clear position. It supports the principle of territorial integrity, which western pseudo-democracies nowadays disrupt. But in this case, it is also in favor of negotiations with equal rights to both sides, in the course of which the different questions will be resolved.”
Maybe for Moscow it would be worthwhile to follow the example of those Western countries who clearly supported the recognition of Kosovo? That is, to recognize the unrecognized republics of the former Soviet Union rather than reacting to the Kosovo precedent by a dual asymmetric policy.
” – I think that we now need to finally complete the proper, legal break-up of the large country that used to be the Soviet Union. The currently existing de facto independent states of the former Soviet Union, which for many years have defended and proven their right to independence, must now find their de jure independent status. To do so, we have all the necessary grounds, including the level of development of our statehood and democratic systems. But the problem is that when the guarantors of Kosovo, for example, are the United States and the European Union, such an outcome seems normal to them. Whereas in our case, where the guarantor is Russia, they are outraged that we want to settle our unresolved legal status this same way.”
So, Moscow should say “yes” to the request for recognition of PMR’s independence?
” – We would like to see this happen…”
But another scenario is also possible. In the spring of 2006, the West assisted Moldova in the forcible return of some of Pridnestrovie’s companies to its customs control. And if they try to build on that success, couldn’t they force Pridnestrovie to accept a subordinate autonomous status within the Republic of Moldova?
” – There are some lines which shouldn’t be crossed. But if they do, then we will have to defend our rights by all available means. I think that, just like us, no one in the West can be interested in the outbreak of new transport wars, or energy wars and wars of any other kind.”
” – Recently, by the way, we have had frequent official visits to Pridnestrovie by high ranking representatives from the European Union, as well as by ambassadors of the United States, France, and other countries. What should we make of that?”
Could they maybe secretly be interested in recognizing you?
” – Actually they are only interested in one thing – to remove the influence of Russia from here. And therefore they welcome any dirty trick which Chisinau comes up with against Moscow. To us, they say that if Russia’s peacekeepers would just leave then we’ll be better off.”
Since 1990, the PMR has existed ‘de facto’ but legally it still remains unrecognized. Do you expect this to change in the near future?
” – We have reviewed our activities in this area, and we came to the conclusion that we have not worked enough with other countries. Of course, our main partner is Russia. But the United Nations is composed of many other countries as well. We need to more actively promote our position, using both new resources as well as existing resources, including those in the economic sphere. Pridnestrovie today sells its products to more than 70 countries in the world. To more effectively organize the cooperation with our foreign partners we will open our own commercial representations. We recently opened our own representation in Venezuela. We have also produced documentaries in English, French, Polish and other languages where we make it clear that our people have the right to decide the future of their lives on the basis of their own free will.”
Igor Smirnov, Pridnestrovie’s democratically elected president, wants more diplomatic and commercial ties with more countries
TIRASPOL (Tiraspol Times) – The President of the unrecognized republic of Pridnestrovie recognizes his country’s failure in actively promoting its diplomatic interests abroad. In this interview, Igor Smirnov re-affirms PMR’s commercial, cultural and historical ties to Russia but also says that it is necessary to establish links to other parts of the world as well.
While not going as far as directly accusing PMR’s Foreign Ministry of failure, Igor Smirnov says that the government already reviewed its work and concluded that not enough has been done. Now he looks beyond Russia to the almost two hundred member countries of the United Nations, and says that Pridnestrovie needs to “more actively promote our position, using both new resources as well as existing resources, including those in the economic sphere.”
The interview comes just days before Foreign Minister Valeri Litskai is due to answer questions in Parliament, after having been summoned by lawmakers who are worried about the lack of progress in establishing closer ties with other states and opening diplomatic representative offices abroad.
In a joint statement with the leaders of Abkhazia and South Ossetia, you pledged to jointly support each other’s independence. But unlike those two, Tiraspol didn’t ask Russia for recognition yet. Why not?
” – After the outcome of the referendum in 2006 where the majority of voters backed PMR’s independence and closer ties to Russia, Pridnestrovie’s Parliament already sent a formal request to Russia’s State Duma. And the Duma recognized that referendum as legitimate. Should we ask them again? The firmness of our position was confirmed at the Duma hearings by the representatives of the parliamentary delegation from Pridnestrovie.”
Some sources claim that Moscow has a new plan whereby the Moldova-Pridnestrovie conflict would be settled in exchange for a guarantee from Moldova that it wouldn’t join NATO. As part of such a plan, supposedly Tiraspol would then abstain from seeking international recognition of its independence. What is your take on this?
” – This is simply something that Moldova’s President Vladimir Voronin came up with. To this, it is possible to reply with the words of Vladimir Putin: “Total nonsense.” He has his own reason, pre-election motivated or whatever, and I won’t interfere in Moldova’s domestic matters. It also looks like Voronin is trying to flirt with Russia. But I specifically asked Yuri Zubkov [Deputy Secretary of the Security Council of Russia, ed.] if there are any such plans. He answered that the journalists have everything mixed up.”
” – Russia has a clear position. It supports the principle of territorial integrity, which western pseudo-democracies nowadays disrupt. But in this case, it is also in favor of negotiations with equal rights to both sides, in the course of which the different questions will be resolved.”
Maybe for Moscow it would be worthwhile to follow the example of those Western countries who clearly supported the recognition of Kosovo? That is, to recognize the unrecognized republics of the former Soviet Union rather than reacting to the Kosovo precedent by a dual asymmetric policy.
” – I think that we now need to finally complete the proper, legal break-up of the large country that used to be the Soviet Union. The currently existing de facto independent states of the former Soviet Union, which for many years have defended and proven their right to independence, must now find their de jure independent status. To do so, we have all the necessary grounds, including the level of development of our statehood and democratic systems. But the problem is that when the guarantors of Kosovo, for example, are the United States and the European Union, such an outcome seems normal to them. Whereas in our case, where the guarantor is Russia, they are outraged that we want to settle our unresolved legal status this same way.”
So, Moscow should say “yes” to the request for recognition of PMR’s independence?
” – We would like to see this happen…”
But another scenario is also possible. In the spring of 2006, the West assisted Moldova in the forcible return of some of Pridnestrovie’s companies to its customs control. And if they try to build on that success, couldn’t they force Pridnestrovie to accept a subordinate autonomous status within the Republic of Moldova?
” – There are some lines which shouldn’t be crossed. But if they do, then we will have to defend our rights by all available means. I think that, just like us, no one in the West can be interested in the outbreak of new transport wars, or energy wars and wars of any other kind.”
” – Recently, by the way, we have had frequent official visits to Pridnestrovie by high ranking representatives from the European Union, as well as by ambassadors of the United States, France, and other countries. What should we make of that?”
Could they maybe secretly be interested in recognizing you?
” – Actually they are only interested in one thing – to remove the influence of Russia from here. And therefore they welcome any dirty trick which Chisinau comes up with against Moscow. To us, they say that if Russia’s peacekeepers would just leave then we’ll be better off.”
Since 1990, the PMR has existed ‘de facto’ but legally it still remains unrecognized. Do you expect this to change in the near future?
” – We have reviewed our activities in this area, and we came to the conclusion that we have not worked enough with other countries. Of course, our main partner is Russia. But the United Nations is composed of many other countries as well. We need to more actively promote our position, using both new resources as well as existing resources, including those in the economic sphere. Pridnestrovie today sells its products to more than 70 countries in the world. To more effectively organize the cooperation with our foreign partners we will open our own commercial representations. We recently opened our own representation in Venezuela. We have also produced documentaries in English, French, Polish and other languages where we make it clear that our people have the right to decide the future of their lives on the basis of their own free will.”
Kostunita si-a dat demisia. TIME scrie de "precedentul Kosovo" si Transnistria
Serbian Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica speaks at a press conference after he dissolved the government, March 8. 2008, in Belgrade, and called for new elections after clashing with his pro-Western coalition partners over Kosovo and EU membership. Kostunica said that he will convene a government session Monday that will propose to parliament that new elections be held May 11, zice EPA
TIME: Russia Cashes in on Kosovo Fears
Saturday, Mar. 08, 2008 By YURI ZARAKHOVICH/MOSCOW
By splitting the West and the wider international community, the U.S.-backed declaration of independence by Kosovo has given Russia an opening. Countries concerned with separatist problems of their own, from Spain or Cyprus to China, have been unable to follow the U.S. lead in recognizing Kosovo’s breakaway from Serbia. And Russia has sought to exploit the gaps that have emerged as a result.
In Serbia, itself, Russia capitalized literally, on the standoff over Kosovo. In Belgrade, just a week before he became Russia’s President-elect, Dmitri Medvedev supervised Serbia’s signing up to a prospective Russian Southern Stream natural gas pipe-line. Serbia also sold to Russia a 51% stake of Naftna Industrija Srbija (NIS), a much prized national oil company for $614 million and the promise of a further investment of $770 million. Russia plans build a major gas storage facility in Serbia, making the country a key base for Russian energy supplies to Europe. This consolidation of ties with Serbia achieves two Russian strategic goals: taking over national energy assets of European countries; and keeping erstwhile allies of the Soviet Union from being drawn into the Western fold. To emphasize warming ties, travel between Russia and Serbia will no longer require visas.
The Balkans is not the only theater in which Moscow is strongly reasserting its presence. This week, just as Georgia’s breakaway provinces of Abkhazia and South Ossetia formally appealed to Russia, the U.N., the E.U. and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) a loose association of post-Soviet countries to recognize their independence. Russia has pointedly abandoned the economic sanctions, clamped on Abkhazia in 1996 to punish its separatism. The Parliament of the Russian Republic of Alania-North Ossetia already voted to incorporate South Ossetia. Next week, the Russian Duma will consider Abkhazian and South Ossetian appeals to join Russia.
South Ossetia and Abkhazia broke away from Georgia in the 1990s in the wake of bloody ethnic wars. Much as those wars were ignited by the then Nationalist Georgian authorities, Russia fanned the flames by giving a brazen support to the separatists. It was the Russian army that won their wars against Georgia.
Although Russia pays lip service to Georgia’s territorial integrity, it has tacitly supported breakaway provinces, just as it has done in Trans-Dniestria — a province that broke away from Moldova back in the 1990s. Russia deploys its peace-keepers in all the three separatist provinces, and these serve to counter any thoughts of forcible re-integration by Georgia or Moldova. Moscow has also granted Russian citizenship to some 90% of the Abkhazian and South Ossetian populations, giving it grounds to intervene whenever Russia deems it expedient, on the basis of ensuring the security of its citizens.
“Russia is smartly playing a more subtle game then just formally recognizing breakaway provinces,” comments Tedo Japaridze, former Georgian Foreign Minister. Indeed, Russia could never openly annex South Ossetia or Abkhazia. That would have been very much in conflict with Russia’s harsh suppression of Chechnya’s independence, or fears of separatism in non-Russian ethnic regions. Annexing Abkhazia and South Ossetia was also “a red line” drawn by the U.S. But Russia has become the de facto power in both territories without formally annexing them. Chairman of the Chechen Parliament Dukvakha Abdurakhmanov blurted out last week that “Abkhazia has long been a part of Russia’s Southern Federal District.” Recently, Russia tacitly deployed units of its Chechen Vostok battalion in Abkhazia to beef up its force there as a deterrent against any Georgian move to regain the territory.
Leonid Slutsky, First Deputy Chair of the Russian Duma’s Foreign Relations Committee, told Itar-Tass on Friday that “So far, Russia doesn’t have plans of recognizing Abkhazia and South Ossetia.” However, he said, “Should Georgia try using force there, the situation will cardinally change. The same concerns Georgia’s plans of joining NATO.”
For its part, NATO, long eager to grant Georgia membership, has backpedaled, saying that Georgia isn’t yet ready to join. The Kosovo opening may indeed encourage a resurgent Russia to go beyond simply exercising de facto control over Abkhazia and South Ossetia.
Another after-effect of Kosovo’s independence is Moscow’s rallying of its hitherto reluctant CIS partners against the West. Oil-rich Azerbaijan, for example, had long begun inclining towards the West, but may be pushed back into Moscow’s orbit because of Nagorno-Karabakh, a province that broke away in the 1990s and has de facto integrated with Armenia. Last week, for the first time in years, Azeri and Armenian forces clashed in a full scale fighting in Karabakh.
Even a staunchly pro-Western Georgia, furious as it is with Russia, might finally be forced back into Russia’s orbit because of Kosovo. “It’s indeed surrealistic,” quips Japaridze darkly: “How it happens that in terms of the ‘Kosovo Precedent’ we, Georgians, Azerbaijani, Moldovans, have to support Russia’s position and go against the West?!”
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“Jurnalul National” titreaza, vineri, 8 februarie: “Băsescu, omul Statelor Unite”
intr-un articol scris de Gabi Golea (https://www.jurnalul.ro/articole/116424/basescu-omul-statelor-unite)
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“Un expert francez în serviciile de informaţii americane susţine, într-un interviu publicat vineri, 1 februarie, de ziarul Izvestia, că Traian Băsescu a fost candidatul sprijinit de SUA în alegerile prezidenţiale din 2004”. Misto! Expertul e Catherine Durandin. Am gasit articolul original prin amabilitatea colegei mele – a mai mica – si cu putin ajutor l-am trecut printr-un program de traducere automata. Il prezint asa, in forma nefinisata, pentru cine e interesat. Atentie pe preotii ortodocsi si pe studenti!
The expert{auditeur} on American special services Katrin Dyuranden:
“Gorbachev was afraid to speak seriously with Bush about Germany “
by Oleg Shevtsov
What is CIA – the tool of imperial politics or the effective mechanism in struggle for freedom of democracy? Êàòðèí Äþðàíäåí, the professor of the Parisian Institute of the international and strategic researches and the author of the sensational books ” Bush’s Dynasty “, ” CIA on war ” and ” CIA – five years in anger “, slightly opens secrets of the American special services, shares data known to it{her} on a hidden circumstance of “velvet” revolutions. With it{her} the Parisian correspondent of “News” Oleg Shevtsov talked.
Question: Why CIA has appeared in deep crisis, having missed on September, 11th?
The answer: All fault have assigned to investigation and Georges Teneta as its{her} director. However Georges Bush’s administration has not lead then personnel cleanings. In fact the top of CIA has agreed to divide{undresse} with the White house the responsibility for preparation and the beginning of operation in Iraq. The basic arguments in favour of intervention – the information on presence at Saddam Hussein of the weapon of mass destruction and data on presence “Àëü-Êàèäû” in Iraq – with a serious stretch have been included by CIA in the report to the congress. But it was soon found out: the given data – “linden”. It became one more impact on reputation of CIA: many brilliant employees, first of all representatives of intellectual elite, have submitted to resignation.
Q: But in fact CIA not for the first time tries to affect{influence} the decision of the country leaders, manipulating conclusions?
A: That’s just the point, that CIA after September, 11th was completely under the control of administration. And under its{her} order has forged data, it is artificial forcing conditions around of Iraq and giving “terrible” arguments for the beginning military actions. As a result the report cost resignations to state secretary Colin Powell who at George Tenet’s stood at it{him} behind a back presence, has publicly declared{announced} presence in Iraq of the weapon of mass destruction. At Bush-younger the role of CIA has been shown to the decision of momentary problems{tasks}, and it any more does not conduct independent tracking of world{global} conditions.
Q: In the work you use original documents of CIA from which the security classification is removed{taken off}…
A: The matter is that earlier I studied{investigated} CIA in the historical plan. I could work in American ñïåöàðõèâàõ. Here I got acquainted with the file about operations of CIA of the last years. I have a solid set of documents which testify to application by employees of the American investigation in 1950th years of narcotic ËÑÄ and tortures at interrogations. And at last, me documents on preparation öýðýóøíèêàìè Gorbachev and Bush-senior meetings at the summit on Malta in 1989 have got.
Q: Also what there was?
A: Gorbachev met Bush by the military ship, and at this time there was a terrible storm. Now I have a full confidence, that your president was absolutely not ready to this summit. Cardinally important event for Soviet Union was discussed: association of Germany. Gorbachev should achieve, that it{she} became neutral. But it{he} has underestimated the partner on negotiations: Bush-senior and the chancellor of Germany Helmut Kohl have already agreed – the incorporated Germany will be included into NATO.
This historical meeting prepared Ãîñäåïîì the USA and, naturally, investigation. The basic emphasis – on a theme of human rights. Infinite lists of persons{faces} which wished to leave the USSR there appeared, sat in camps. There was even a list of the Soviet brides, unsuccessfully tried to marry foreigners. And Bush spoke, insisted, pressed, not stopping. Yes so, that polite Gorbachev during any moment has not sustained: ” But you do not have monopoly for human rights! ” But it has not confused Bush, and it{he} continued to show these lists, not giving{allowing} the Soviet president and a mouth to open. The purpose – ” to not allow to start talking about a neutrality of Germans ” – it has been reached{achieved}.
Q: Eventually Gorbachev has surrendered?
A: it seems to Me, it{he} has begun to panic. On it, actually, also there was a calculation of CIA. In Moscow at that time, in the end of 1989, there was uneasy conditions for Gorbachev. And up to the final decision of a German question remains three weeks. And calculation ðàçâåäóïðàâëåíèÿ, secretary general who has well studied{investigated} character, was under construction that it{he} has been exhausted psychologically and it{he} simply will not have hardness to resist to pressure of the West. Most of all Gorbachev’s to act Francois Mitterand was surprised: it{he} has called back to Bush and has told, that the Soviet leader could not on such agree in any way.
Q: But it is primary in Gorbachev’s intentions did not enter “to hand over” Germany?
A: I have certificates: even leaders of the Western Europe did not expect, that events will develop so quickly. In my opinion, it is the tragical moment in history of the USSR.
Q: you think, what it was possible to force to sign Bush any obligations from NATO?
A: Probably. It is clear, why Russian consider{count}, that them then have deceived. In fact there was an oral arrangement to not place the weapon in territory of former GDR, however about it{her} at once have forgotten. Sharp expansion of NATO has provoked the subsequent collapse{landslide} to the east, ended crash of the Union. If all went more systematically instead of how have arranged the USA, painful{unhealthy} cataclysms in the East Europe would manage to be avoided.
Q: In your books about CIA it is spoken about recruitment by Americans of priests in âîñòî÷íîåâðîïåéñêèõ the countries…
A: I have learned{have found out} This information in 1992 from the interlocutor from the American embassy in Bucharest. It{he} has boasted, that during “democratization” of Romania the American special services operated{worked} through ïîëêîâûõ priests. Investigation had special programs for orthodox fathers in armies. Them instructed how correctly to adjust{set up} flock, to prevent ” blind obedience ” the soldier to unconstitutional orders.
I have been amazed{struck}, how Americans have dexterously guessed to get into the closed environment of Armed forces ×àóøåñêó which then were formed on the basis of a compulsory military service. I do not have data about number of the enlisted{recruited} priests. But the idea has seemed to me extremely original.
Q: When you have started to work with documents of CIA?
A: It is connected with research work across Romania. Studying{investigating} a decline of dictator Chaushesku, I have collided{faced} with very strange facts. For example, Minister of Defence Mircha Pashku was trained in the USA in 1988. And the ambassador of Romania at the United Nations I met earlier in other quality – as the owner of the grant of one American centre of science. Me other members of the “democratic” Romanian government generated after overthrow of a mode have interested also all. It was found out, that the American proteges in it{him} – the majority.
Q: That is the new political elite of Romania almost has not with its full complement passed{has not with its full complement taken place} special training in the USA?
A: Well, maybe, not preparation, but with all from them contact in advance has been come into. And they received instructions is precisely. The policy{politics} of “openness” enabled the USA to form a ruling clique at own discretion. If to take Romania, Bulgaria, even Hungary and to look, that today’s ministers and leading politicians{policies; politics} till 1990th years you receive a curious picture did{made}. Someone has necessarily visited long business trip in the USA, someone has passed{has taken place} the American rates of management under special programs. It was competent work of investigation on selection of the necessary people in the East Europe. Not clearly, why the same is impossible to Americans in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Q: Whom, in your opinion, CIA feels itself – as the tool of imperial politics or the fighter for freedom?
A: For empire “solidity” in realization of the strategic purposes is characteristic. And in the USA it{this} is not present. There different lobbies, opposition, democrats… The Majority of people in CIA with which I communicated, is well ìîòèâèðîâàííûå professionals, for which national interests of the USA above all. Many really trust, that they release{exempt} people from tyranny and dictatorships. Those who feels itself “Ðýìáî”, playing secret wars and plots, least. But business also that problems{tasks} before investigation put financial circles and a military-industrial complex.
Q: And secret currents inside of CIA are?
A: Now inside of investigation there are the parallel structures which are carrying out the certain order. The most disturbing: in operations and special operations “experts{auditeurs}” from practically not private{individual} structures under control to executive authority are used. At deficiency of trust to the government, at absence of the clear purposes war it becomes frequent “dirty”. Bigwigs of the organized crime interfere With it{her}, íàðêîäåëüöû, dealers the weapon – as we see it both in Afghanistan, and in Kosovo.
Q: What do you think of “color” revolutions in territory of the formerUSSR? It too firm ïîñòóïü democracies or the technique tested in the East Europe?
A: As has shown the analysis of events of December, 2004 in Romania, export of revolution can be successful only when there is an internal demand. Change of president Iliesku with the American candidate -Traian Basescu, has passed{has taken place} on hurrah. Those parties{sets}, groups, student’s movements which advanced it{him}, really leaned{based} on the USA. Áýñåñêó till now it is popular in Romania. Yes, really, all Americans have organized. Financing because of ocean went mainly on the organization of student’s demonstrations. I not so well know a situation in Ukraine and in Georgia, but imposing “help” from the outside is usual gives{allows} result if there are objective preconditions. And if they are not present….
What is CIA – the tool of imperial politics or the effective mechanism in struggle for freedom of democracy? Êàòðèí Äþðàíäåí, the professor of the Parisian Institute of the international and strategic researches and the author of the sensational books ” Bush’s Dynasty “, ” CIA on war ” and ” CIA – five years in anger “, slightly opens secrets of the American special services, shares data known to it{her} on a hidden circumstance of “velvet” revolutions. With it{her} the Parisian correspondent of “News” Oleg Shevtsov talked.
Question: Why CIA has appeared in deep crisis, having missed on September, 11th?
The answer: All fault have assigned to investigation and Georges Teneta as its{her} director. However Georges Bush’s administration has not lead then personnel cleanings. In fact the top of CIA has agreed to divide{undresse} with the White house the responsibility for preparation and the beginning of operation in Iraq. The basic arguments in favour of intervention – the information on presence at Saddam Hussein of the weapon of mass destruction and data on presence “Àëü-Êàèäû” in Iraq – with a serious stretch have been included by CIA in the report to the congress. But it was soon found out: the given data – “linden”. It became one more impact on reputation of CIA: many brilliant employees, first of all representatives of intellectual elite, have submitted to resignation.
Q: But in fact CIA not for the first time tries to affect{influence} the decision of the country leaders, manipulating conclusions?
A: That’s just the point, that CIA after September, 11th was completely under the control of administration. And under its{her} order has forged data, it is artificial forcing conditions around of Iraq and giving “terrible” arguments for the beginning military actions. As a result the report cost resignations to state secretary Colin Powell who at George Tenet’s stood at it{him} behind a back presence, has publicly declared{announced} presence in Iraq of the weapon of mass destruction. At Bush-younger the role of CIA has been shown to the decision of momentary problems{tasks}, and it any more does not conduct independent tracking of world{global} conditions.
Q: In the work you use original documents of CIA from which the security classification is removed{taken off}…
A: The matter is that earlier I studied{investigated} CIA in the historical plan. I could work in American ñïåöàðõèâàõ. Here I got acquainted with the file about operations of CIA of the last years. I have a solid set of documents which testify to application by employees of the American investigation in 1950th years of narcotic ËÑÄ and tortures at interrogations. And at last, me documents on preparation öýðýóøíèêàìè Gorbachev and Bush-senior meetings at the summit on Malta in 1989 have got.
Q: Also what there was?
A: Gorbachev met Bush by the military ship, and at this time there was a terrible storm. Now I have a full confidence, that your president was absolutely not ready to this summit. Cardinally important event for Soviet Union was discussed: association of Germany. Gorbachev should achieve, that it{she} became neutral. But it{he} has underestimated the partner on negotiations: Bush-senior and the chancellor of Germany Helmut Kohl have already agreed – the incorporated Germany will be included into NATO.
This historical meeting prepared Ãîñäåïîì the USA and, naturally, investigation. The basic emphasis – on a theme of human rights. Infinite lists of persons{faces} which wished to leave the USSR there appeared, sat in camps. There was even a list of the Soviet brides, unsuccessfully tried to marry foreigners. And Bush spoke, insisted, pressed, not stopping. Yes so, that polite Gorbachev during any moment has not sustained: ” But you do not have monopoly for human rights! ” But it has not confused Bush, and it{he} continued to show these lists, not giving{allowing} the Soviet president and a mouth to open. The purpose – ” to not allow to start talking about a neutrality of Germans ” – it has been reached{achieved}.
Q: Eventually Gorbachev has surrendered?
A: it seems to Me, it{he} has begun to panic. On it, actually, also there was a calculation of CIA. In Moscow at that time, in the end of 1989, there was uneasy conditions for Gorbachev. And up to the final decision of a German question remains three weeks. And calculation ðàçâåäóïðàâëåíèÿ, secretary general who has well studied{investigated} character, was under construction that it{he} has been exhausted psychologically and it{he} simply will not have hardness to resist to pressure of the West. Most of all Gorbachev’s to act Francois Mitterand was surprised: it{he} has called back to Bush and has told, that the Soviet leader could not on such agree in any way.
Q: But it is primary in Gorbachev’s intentions did not enter “to hand over” Germany?
A: I have certificates: even leaders of the Western Europe did not expect, that events will develop so quickly. In my opinion, it is the tragical moment in history of the USSR.
Q: you think, what it was possible to force to sign Bush any obligations from NATO?
A: Probably. It is clear, why Russian consider{count}, that them then have deceived. In fact there was an oral arrangement to not place the weapon in territory of former GDR, however about it{her} at once have forgotten. Sharp expansion of NATO has provoked the subsequent collapse{landslide} to the east, ended crash of the Union. If all went more systematically instead of how have arranged the USA, painful{unhealthy} cataclysms in the East Europe would manage to be avoided.
Q: In your books about CIA it is spoken about recruitment by Americans of priests in âîñòî÷íîåâðîïåéñêèõ the countries…
A: I have learned{have found out} This information in 1992 from the interlocutor from the American embassy in Bucharest. It{he} has boasted, that during “democratization” of Romania the American special services operated{worked} through ïîëêîâûõ priests. Investigation had special programs for orthodox fathers in armies. Them instructed how correctly to adjust{set up} flock, to prevent ” blind obedience ” the soldier to unconstitutional orders.
I have been amazed{struck}, how Americans have dexterously guessed to get into the closed environment of Armed forces ×àóøåñêó which then were formed on the basis of a compulsory military service. I do not have data about number of the enlisted{recruited} priests. But the idea has seemed to me extremely original.
Q: When you have started to work with documents of CIA?
A: It is connected with research work across Romania. Studying{investigating} a decline of dictator Chaushesku, I have collided{faced} with very strange facts. For example, Minister of Defence Mircha Pashku was trained in the USA in 1988. And the ambassador of Romania at the United Nations I met earlier in other quality – as the owner of the grant of one American centre of science. Me other members of the “democratic” Romanian government generated after overthrow of a mode have interested also all. It was found out, that the American proteges in it{him} – the majority.
Q: That is the new political elite of Romania almost has not with its full complement passed{has not with its full complement taken place} special training in the USA?
A: Well, maybe, not preparation, but with all from them contact in advance has been come into. And they received instructions is precisely. The policy{politics} of “openness” enabled the USA to form a ruling clique at own discretion. If to take Romania, Bulgaria, even Hungary and to look, that today’s ministers and leading politicians{policies; politics} till 1990th years you receive a curious picture did{made}. Someone has necessarily visited long business trip in the USA, someone has passed{has taken place} the American rates of management under special programs. It was competent work of investigation on selection of the necessary people in the East Europe. Not clearly, why the same is impossible to Americans in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Q: Whom, in your opinion, CIA feels itself – as the tool of imperial politics or the fighter for freedom?
A: For empire “solidity” in realization of the strategic purposes is characteristic. And in the USA it{this} is not present. There different lobbies, opposition, democrats… The Majority of people in CIA with which I communicated, is well ìîòèâèðîâàííûå professionals, for which national interests of the USA above all. Many really trust, that they release{exempt} people from tyranny and dictatorships. Those who feels itself “Ðýìáî”, playing secret wars and plots, least. But business also that problems{tasks} before investigation put financial circles and a military-industrial complex.
Q: And secret currents inside of CIA are?
A: Now inside of investigation there are the parallel structures which are carrying out the certain order. The most disturbing: in operations and special operations “experts{auditeurs}” from practically not private{individual} structures under control to executive authority are used. At deficiency of trust to the government, at absence of the clear purposes war it becomes frequent “dirty”. Bigwigs of the organized crime interfere With it{her}, íàðêîäåëüöû, dealers the weapon – as we see it both in Afghanistan, and in Kosovo.
Q: What do you think of “color” revolutions in territory of the formerUSSR? It too firm ïîñòóïü democracies or the technique tested in the East Europe?
A: As has shown the analysis of events of December, 2004 in Romania, export of revolution can be successful only when there is an internal demand. Change of president Iliesku with the American candidate -Traian Basescu, has passed{has taken place} on hurrah. Those parties{sets}, groups, student’s movements which advanced it{him}, really leaned{based} on the USA. Áýñåñêó till now it is popular in Romania. Yes, really, all Americans have organized. Financing because of ocean went mainly on the organization of student’s demonstrations. I not so well know a situation in Ukraine and in Georgia, but imposing “help” from the outside is usual gives{allows} result if there are objective preconditions. And if they are not present….
the script varies – and the result can be unexpected.
