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George Bush Completely Disappointed by Russia’s Policy
// U.S. president accused Moscow of “instigating cold war”
En route to his European tour, U.S. President George Bush gave an interview to several European newspapers, which will be published on Saturday. The interview’s considerable part is devoted to relations with Moscow. Although Bush named Russia and Vladimir Putin personally as “friends”, he toughly criticized Moscow for diverging from democracy, aggressive attitude to its neighbors, and for the first time accused Russia of “instigating cold war”. It means, the crisis in the U.S.-Russia relations keeps escalating, and its new peak might coincide with the G8 summit.
U.S. President George Bush gave a large interview to five European newspapers on Thursday, before the beginning of his tour to the Czech Republic, Poland, Germany, Italy, Albania, and Bulgaria. His chief purpose is to attend the G8 summit on June 6th-8th in Heiligendamm. That is why Bush mainly spoke on global issues, and most of all – about relations with Russia.
At first, Bush spoke in a quite peaceful tone, assuring that U.S. missile defense elements in Eastern Europe will bear no threat to Russia, and calling Vladimir Putin his “friend”. Then, however, his tone grew tougher. He criticized the state of democracy in Russia, Moscow’s relations with neighbors, especially the recent conflict with Estonia. At last, Bush characterized the Kremlin’s recent actions as “instigating cold war”. He promised to raise all these issues during personal meeting with Putin at the G8 summit and during the Russian president’s visit to the U.S. on July 1st-2nd.
Two weeks ago, U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice agreed in Moscow with Vladimir Putin to lower the tone of mutual accusations. However, this agreement did not last long. Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov accused the U.S. on Thursday of unleashing a new arms race. The same day, Putin charged the U.S. with “imperialism” and “world dictate”. Apparently, Washington decided to serve with the same sauce as Moscow.
www.kommersant.com
All the Article in Russian as of June 02, 2007
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