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Published time: April 15, 2011 08:12
Edited time: April 15, 2011 13:41
Russophobia on the rise in some former Soviet republics

The Russian State Duma Committee on Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) Affairs suggests issuing a statement warning former Soviet states against stirring up Russophobia and re-writing history.

­Aleksey Ostrovsky, the head of the Committee for CIS Affairs and Relations with Compatriots told Interfax that the body recommended discussing the draft statement at the Duma session on April 22 (which quite symbolically coincides with the founder of the USSR, Vladimir Lenin’s birthday).

The document initiated by the Liberal-Democratic Party (LDPR) stresses Russia’s desire for creating an atmosphere of trust and partnership in all fields of relations with former Soviet republics, Ostrovsky said. However, some states do not share the same approach.

For instance, it has now become more frequent for common history to be misinterpreted. The official underlined that Russian lawmakers believe it is unacceptable when politicians and authorities support such negative trends directly or indirectly, which leads to tensions in relations with Russia. These policies, Ostrovsky observed, neither promote good neighborly relations between Russia and former Soviet republics, nor help further integration within the CIS.

The document also states that insulting statements about Russian people are made in some CIS states, graveyards desecrated and monuments to Soviet liberator warriors who laid down their lives in World War II are dismantled.

Such actions, the statement reads, cannot be left without an adequate reaction. And the Russian authorities are entitled “to take all necessary political and economic measures in response to discrimination of the Russian-speaking population and other provocations against the citizens of the Russian Federation, officials and businessmen”.

Comments (13)

Kihnu 18.04.2011 20:14

This Duma document is focused on  the Russophobia currently manifesting itself in the CIS countries, particularly in Georgia.
Whatever Russiaphobia exists in Estonia is mild compared to that in Saakashvili's Georgia, and in the Muslim republics/ areas of the former USSR. Any threat to the existence of Russia will come from that direction and not from Estonia.
Estonian s aren't blowing themselves up in Moscow metro stations, nor killing Russians in Kohtla-Järve or Tallinn.  
As I wrote above, Estonians are not an enemy of the Russian people, nor will they ever be; however, the peoples of the Caucasus and in the Muslim areas of the former USSR could very well be.



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Marzipan6 18.04.2011 09:00

Larry, if you can't deal with the message, by all means have a go first at ignoring the subject, then changing the subject, and if all that fails, try shooting the messenger. And leave it to readers to draw their conclusions.

For my part, I'll conclude simply by reiterating what a wonderful remedy the clenched fist, as embodied by the Duma statements and illustrated by the RT in its article, is to comprehensively cure the world of Russophobia. Once everyone  stop laughing, that is.

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Larry 17.04.2011 17:49

Marz...We're 'talking about the Estonian mini economy and their dependence on the Russians (3rd largest trade partner) to sell their appliances of questionable quality..and you start.again with the Soviet Union like a broken record....In non-technical terms I'd say you were stuck in some unhealthy psych ological loop and you need some help....I, too, could start rambling on about WW2 and the Nazi collaborator Estonians who massacred jews ...Everybody including the CIA knows that many Estonians are closet neo Nazis and are desperate to absolve themselves from their WW2 war crimes which they never fully paid for...but what does that have to do with the miserable little economy of Estonia? 
If you are so filled with hate for Russia why don't you boycott any trade with Russia instead of crying about the cold war? Take a 'real' stand.

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