This is quite good! Thanks for posting it.
The annoying thing about the EU criticisms is that the people doing the criticising usually don't know what the hell they're talking about. Or they offer empty platitudes with no constructive solutions offered. No shit human rights abuses in Chechnya are bad. It's a different question as to how to stop them, or whether they can be stopped.
--- Leigh Meyers <leighcmeyers at yahoo.com> wrote:
''The Chechnya Factor in Russia-E.U. Relations'' Drafted by Yevgeny Bendersky on October 04, 2004 http://www.pinr.com
The recent terror attacks in the Russian Federation have transformed the country's security environment and people's sense of vulnerability in profound ways. While the attention of the world has focused on the Russian federal investigations and the security repercussions, the country has once again been reminded of the deep differences that exist between itself and the Western world on the way the Chechen conflict is viewed and analyzed. Most importantly, Moscow has been reminded that the European Union and Russian Federation are approaching the issue of recent developments in Chechnya from entirely different points of view. There are indicators that the attack at Beslan was a symbolic watershed in the relations between the rising power of the European Union and an embattled Russian Federation.
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