Color revolutions come to nought?
Published: 10 April, 2009, 03:54
TAGS: Election, CIS, Protest, Politics, Human rights, USA
Unlike many former Soviet states during the past ten years, something is fundamentally different in the case of Moldova’s opposition unrest. Some analysts already consider this week's events in Chisinau a revolution.
Experts are already deciding what to call it and whether it's another color revolution, but this time a failed one.
However topping the ratings for describing the turn of event is the “Twitter” revolution. Internet and text messaging was crucial in the protestor's organisation efforts. The name might be new but the pattern is old.
Number one: elections, and they have to be rigged – at least allegedly.
Number two: a recount of the votes – now a must have follow-up procedure in post Soviet states.
What is different – international observers called the elections fair and this time a change of leadership is not enough – protestors want a change of sovereignty.
“The demonstrators – I would call them vandals – were obsessed with the idea of demolishing Moldavian nationhood,” commented Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov.
Flying over the riots were the flags of Moldova’s neighbor – Romania.
“We attracted the attention of the EU to this and we were assured that they took it very seriously, and we hope that the EU and the Romanian government, which has condemned the violence will take measures to prevent any situations in which Romanian flags and slogans are used as a cover to disrupt Moldova's federal status,” added Lavrov.
Oddly enough the EU nearly ignored it. Over the last 10 years many former Soviet states have seen color revolutions. Those in Ukraine, Georgia and Kyrgyzstan were hailed a success, with new charismatic and “Western-oriented” leaders coming to power.
In Ukraine there were two, the duet of Viktor Yushchenko and Yulia Timoshenko that inspired the “Orange revolution”
And that proved to be a problem as within a year the duo lost its revolutionary steam and split.
Four years on they’re still bickering about who is to blame while Ukraine is looking into the default abyss.
Tbilisi had Misha – Mikhail Saakashvili – and his roses. It started with a peaceful demonstration with thousands of Georgian people out on the streets demanding President Eduard Shevardnadze step down.
Fluent English-speaker Saakashvili was glowing saying “we were peaceful and no police stopped us. We did not use violence. We got hands up to show that we don’t have arms and they let us in [to the government building].”
Four years on there was another peaceful demonstration, thousands again demanding the president step down but this time Saakashvili was defiant.
The Rose Revolution has wilted and former allies have turned into Saakashvili’s bitter rivals and this week they joined with thousands in a rally, calling for his resignation.
As for Bishkek’s Tulip revolution in Kyrgyzstan – it did not bloom quite as planned.
Analysts saw the West steering the revolutionary wheels in the post Soviet space and other states cracked down on foreign funded NGOs that coached political movements.
Fyodr Lukyanov from Russia Profile magazine assumes that “It was a part of a broader agenda called ‘democracy promotion’ which at that time was a priority of the American administration. This idea has started to decline in the US and we see that no more revolutions were successful – neither in Azerbaijan, nor in Armenia, nor in Georgia again, nor in Kazakhstan and not in Moldova – now for the second time.”
“I think that this phenomenon was very much connected with the period of the Bush administration,” Lukyanov added.
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Jibber jabber RT. This 'Color revolution' writing is not the enlightened news the human being needs to exercise wise judgment/s. Albeit, very well written as always. Tell it like it is. Nah, can't do that/this, now can you .... since the same jackals who mostly own Russia also own the whole world. Study this well written investigative journalism about Dubai: http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/johann-hari/the-dark-side-of-dubai-1664368.html FINALLY, the world can see the model (Citi, 1948), which all nations were subject to since the inception of this world government scheme of debt peonage. Too bad Russia doesn't bring the thought/idea of 'free' into the modern time or should it be that the modern times awakens the Russians to the idea/thought 'free?' America must come to terms with the same state of affairs of Iceland's predicament (debt sold as credit and expanded exponentially to be a fraudulent inducement of transference of wealth). How to take the miscreants, crooks, liars, devils, demons, thieves, criminally insane of our species and have these desperate lost human beings find a place to live out their lives looking at the perversion that has been wrought upon all humanity. Time for a new idea. The vampire predatory lust off human suffering must end. Are there any enlightened leaders on the planet earth? Time tells the story of a bell tolling, ringing in the new sound of human consciousness understanding: "do it unto the least of these and ye have done it unto me." Simply said, Russia, there is no separation in the human being as a species AND, thus, the air, water, food and other sources of energy are exactly the same on this finite planet we share (as you know). Therefore, jibber jabbing about the 'Color revolutions' is a dangerous game in the play of human enlightenment. While these fantastic images are flashed for the curious human's eyes (see your thumbprint of 'Color revolution') .... Delacroix does NOT come to mind .... "when the eye wanders in a wanton way only is it art" (his message when returning to France from Africa and for the first time known to the 'art' world a painter painted directly from his 'imagination/memory'). Your own Kandinsky was not the first in the world of art, as the 'abstract genius' he has been touted. No, there is an American artist who was pre-Kandinsky and although he (Kandinsky) was influenced by the ISLAMIC art in Germany and "object" rather than "subject" .... American artist (name omitted on purpose) ABSTRACT EXPRESSION paintings were influenced by the divine spirit ... before any of the named "greats" of der Blu Rider. It appears the divine energy is always greater in the game of life than any of the silly notions of human beings -- until we examine the past we cannot know the now since the future is an alchemy of the truth we become as more enlightened human beings. The 'gatekeepers' (information sowers) are held in a very important position in the realm of the 'unseen.' What a burden to grow the courage and then hold the fact that truth does not fear investigation into the light for all to see the path of human enlightenment rather than the darkness of the past more than a few thousand years.
Global Research as usual posted a good article Who is behind Moldova's Twitter Revolution? http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=13147 I think it’s pretty obvious it’s targeted towards Transnistria as part of the Brezinski strategy as he puts it in the Grand Chessboard to "unfreeze frozen conflicts" targeting Russia interests abroad just like in August when they targeted Ossetia and Abkhazia. "A lot of what we [National Endowment for Democracy] do today was done covertly 25 years ago by the CIA." -Allen Weinstein @Biloxi "Tell it like it is. Nah, can't do that/this, now can you .... since the same jackals who mostly own Russia also own the whole world." And who might that be? With all the things happened towards Russia in the past 9 years I think it's pretty obvious they don't control Russia.