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December 23, 2006

Quote of the Day: Artemy Troitsky

 

 

No matter how exotic or pragmatic the motivation was behind the attempt to finish off another dissident, one important conclusion must be made: it is too early (or too late) to write off the cold war as last century's joke, retreating into obscurity in the face of the al-Qaeda threat.

 

[…] Most depressing, however, is that the so-called democracies of the west are turning a blind eye. One day, messrs Blair and Bush, the Germans and the Italians, will regret that.

 

–  Artemy Troitsky, “The Russia I Lost”. The New Statesman, 27 Nov 2006. http://www.newstatesman.com/200611270027

 

 

Troitsky who is one of the rare living outspoken Russian journalists remaining in his article notes his own experiences with the suppression machine and its carrot and stick approach. He mentions the little-publicized assassination by poisoning of Russian reporter Fatima Tlisova in November coming just before the poisoning of Litvinenko (who had been sent to London to assassinate Putin enemy Boris Berezovsky before himself defecting). Then there were in the same month as Troitsky points out the shooting deaths of former Chechen security director Movladi Baisarov and of course Anna Politkovskaya. But what is worthier of concern for immediate Western interests is Russia's increasingly aggressive international posture; a posture we will be analyzing more later on.

 

 

Posted by Martin at December 23, 2006 02:41 AM

Comments

Thanks for sharing Martin..he's quite eloquent and right on spot!

Posted by: Angel at December 24, 2006 05:38 PM

It's fun noticing how he left out the French.

Posted by: Martin at December 24, 2006 06:29 PM