http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=64953 <http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=64953§ionid=351020602> §ionid=351020602 'Russia on a harmful path under Putin' Sun, 27 Jul 2008 22:53:42 Putin has turned Russia into an autocracy and as PM he is leading Russia down a "very harmful" path, says the US GOP nominee John McCain.
"His government -- former President Putin, and now Prime Minister Putin -- has taken his country down a path that I think is very harmful," McCain told ABC on Sunday, according to AFP. "They've become an autocracy." When asked about his threat to bar Russia from being a G8 member, the US Republican Presidential candidate responded that "We need to improve their behavior." The Arizona senator then referred to Russia's recent actions like reducing oil supplies to the Czech Republic, putting pressure on Georgia and Ukraine and even blocking a UN Security Council action on Iran. As two main players on the international scene, the US and Russia never allow their interests to be threatened by the other. With the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) moving eastwards, the US is trying to install pro-Western governments in the former Soviet republics to weaken Russia on its western flanks. Russia, on the other hand, deems the measures in the region in particular the installation of a controversial US plan to deploy a missile-defense shield in Eastern Europe, a threat to its own sovereignty. The newspaper Izvestia this week cited an anonymous top air force official as saying that Russia planned to base its nuclear-capable bombers in Cuba as a response to the US plans to place elements of a missile-defense system in its backyard. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: [email protected] Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtmlYahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
