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Cooperation
With U.S. Called Key to Fighting Terror
By Simon Saradzhyan, The Moscow Times, April 23, 2004
Russia and the United States need to institutionalize
their efforts to
disrupt agents of international terrorism and proliferation of weapons
of
mass destruction before they link up to carry out attacks of catastrophic
proportions, top security analysts from both countries said Thursday.
There
Can Be No Good and Bad Guys Among Terrorists
Interview with Alexei Arbatov by Tamara Zamyatina, Echo Planeti, No 14, 2004
In general, and I am stressing it once again, Israel was right to liquidate
Ahmed Yasin. My only criticism is that they should have done this much
earlier.
The
War against Terrorism and the Transformation of the
World Order, three perpesctives
By Alexei G. Arbatov, CEPS Commentary, November 2001
...two months later after the "Black September",
the weaknesses of the coalition and deficiencies of
the operation are becoming more and more evident,
as well as the confusion and inconsistency of the
United States and other major players in adopting
a new security strategy and still less in implementing
it... (Archive)
The
Strategy of a Compromise
By Grigory Yavlinsky, Deloviye Ludi, March
24, 2003
We cannot neglect the fact that Europe’s borders,
separating the region from the most unstable and the most dangerous
parts of the world, run along Russia’s borders. Their defense
is an all-European concern. Furthermore, a weak and unstable Russia
would represent an eternal breeding ground for terrorist threats.
Only a Bigger Europe, which takes advantage of the territorial
and intellectual potential and all other resources of the former
republics of the Soviet Union, can complete globally on an equal
footing with North America and South-East Asia.
Nunn
and Lugar Look To Safeguard Weapons
By Vladimir Isachenkov, The
Associated Press, May 28, 2002.
Worried about the apocalyptic prospect
of international terrorists obtaining nuclear, chemical
and biological weapons, U.S. and Russian officials
and analysts met Monday to help draft possible new
safeguards. Former U.S. Senator Sam Nunn and Richard
Lugar, a U.S. senator from Indiana -- who together
launched the decade-old U.S. effort to help contain
the threat of weapons of mass destruction in the former
Soviet Union -- described the threat of "catastrophic
terrorism" as possibly the gravest challenge
to global security.
Russians
Ponder U.S. Relations
By JUDITH INGRAM, Associated Press
Writer, April 2, 2002
MOSCOW (AP) - Ahead of a Russian-U.S.
summit next month, Russians increasingly are asking
what rewards they have reaped from joining the U.S.-led
anti-terrorist coalition and where President Vladimir
Putin pro-Western policy is leading the nation.
Russia
Outlook: Will Russia Seize the Opportunity?
World Economic Forum
Annual Meeting 2002
Synopsis of the speech by Grigory
Yavlinsky
Grigory A. Yavlinsky, Member of the Russian Duma and
Leader of the Yabloko Movement, expressed some pessimism
about Russia's short-term economic prospects...
U.S. May Send Troops to Georgia
By Gregory Feifer Staff Writer The
Moscow Times, February 28, 2002
In what would amount to opening
a new front in its war on terrorism, the United States
is considering sending 100 to 200 U.S. special operations
soldiers to Georgia, adding to the U.S. helicopters
and handful of advisers already in Tbilisi to help
the Georgian military combat terrorists in the lawless
Pankisi Gorge.
Russia Concerned About U.S. Troops
By MISHA DZHINDZHIKHASHVILI, Associated
Press Writer, February 27, 2002
TBILISI, Georgia (AP) - Russia expressed concern Wednesday
over U.S. plans to train troops in Georgia to fight
rebels allegedly linked to Osama bin Laden's al-Qaida
terror network. A Georgian defense official said a
few American advisers were already in the former Soviet
republic.
Grigory Yavlinsky on Russian-American
Partnership
"The Voice of America" Radio,
January 30, 2002
The leader of the YABLOKO party Grigory Yavlinsky
made a speech to the Carnegie Foundation on Wednesday.
His speech was devoted to Russia’s domestic and foreign
policy, the tasks formulated by his party that wishes
to see Russia become an enlightened and liberal state,
recognised as a civilised Western state.
Russia's Left-Wing Politicians Retreat
From Their Support of U.S.-Led War
By ALAN CULLISON, Wall Street Journal,
February 5, 2002
NEW YORK -- Russian liberals are sounding
alarms over what they call the heavy-handedness of
Washington's war on terrorism. But for now, little
discontent appears to be emanating from the Kremlin,
which instead has stuck to stressing the benefits
of a new partnership with a former Cold War foe that
will reshape arms-control rules and promote Russia's
interests abroad.
Temporary Friendship or Eternal Union?
Obschaya
Gazeta, January 24, 2002
Our party has from the outset ultimately backed the
position expressed by President Vladimir Putin in
his television address to the nation on September
11, 2001, - solidarity with the US in the fight against
international terrorism, a course towards rapprochement
with the West and the establishment of a partnership
and preferably an alliance.
Putin Vows to Aid Taliban Foes, Clarifies
Position on Air Bases
By Susan
B. Glasser, The
Washington Post, September 25, 2001
President Vladimir Putin tonight pledged to step up
Russia's military support for opposition forces inside
Afghanistan and gave tacit approval for the United
States to use former Soviet air bases in Central Asia
as part of any retaliatory strikes.
Russia to become anti-terrorist center
RosBusinessConsulting, September
20, 2001
Yesterday the State Duma passed a ruling on fighting
international terrorism, prepared by the Duma foreign
affairs committee. The ruling expresses condolences
to the American people and all other countries whose
citizens fell victims to the terror attacks in New
York and Washington.
A War with a Whole Nation Can Never
be Victorious
By Grigory Yavlinsky, Novaya
Gazeta, October 1, 2001
There can be
no justification to events in the United States. It
does not matter whether political or religious goals,
revenge or other motives formed the basis for this
action. The destruction of a vast number of innocent
absolutely defenceless people has no explanation and
cannot have any justification.
Interview with Grigory Yavlinsky and
Nikolai Kharitonov
NTV television channel, "Segodnya"
programme, September 24, 2001, 10-00 p.m.
Report on the meeting of the leaders of Duma factions
with President Putin
"Radio-1" radio station,
September 24, 2001; 16-00
Russia faces fateful choice on cooperation
with US
By Michael Wines, New
York Times, September 21, 2001
As American military operations move toward what could
be the first deployment of Western troops on former
Soviet soil, Russia's policy of giving the Western
war on terrorism full moral support — and so far not
much else — is about to hit a dead end. What the Kremlin
does next in Central Asia has the potential to alter
relations with Europe and the United States, for better
or worse, for years to come. The Russians are clearly
anguished by their options.
On the terrorist attacks in America
Liberal International, London,
September 12, 2001
Grigory Yavlinsky: Yabloko will insist
on the allocation of additional funds to reinforce
Russia’s borders, increase security for nuclear power
stations and air flight safety
RosBusinessConsulting, September
19, 2001
Grigory Yavlinsky advocates Russia’s
active participation in the international anti-terrorist
operations
RIA Novosti, September 18,
2001
Grigory Yavlinsky: Russia should participate
in the development of anti-terrorist operation jointly
with the US and other countries
RosBusinessConsulting, September 18, 2001
Most of Russian legislators oppose
Russia’s participation in the American “retaliatory
operation”
ITAR-TASS, September 18, 2001
Soviet Veterans Warn United States
Associated Press, September 18,
2001
The prospect of a U.S.
attack on Afghanistan brings an ominous message from
veterans of the Soviet Union's decade-long war with
Afghan guerrillas: You'll never win. "You can
occupy it, you can put troops there and keep bombing,
but you cannot win,'' said Lt. Gen. Ruslan Aushev,
who was decorated for bravery during the 1979-89 war.
Yavlinsky calls for Russia to take
active role in antiterror coalition
Radio Free Europe/Radio
Liberty, September 19, 2001
Yabloko leader Grigory Yavlinsky on 18 September called
for Moscow to take "a leading and aggressive"
role in the antiterrorist campaign alongside the U.S.
and Europe, RTR television reported. Indeed, Yavlinsky
said, Russia should not wait for an American decision
on what to do but help prepare joint actions, because
such participation is in Russia's national interests.
Parlamentarians denounce terrorism,
divided on what to do
Radio
Free Europe/Radio Liberty, September 19, 2001
Both the Duma and the Federation Council
on 18 September unanimously passed resolutions denouncing
international terrorism, but debates in both chambers
suggested that the deputies remain deeply divided
as to how far Russia should go in cooperating with
the United States in the war against it.
World leaders list conditions on cooperation
By Patrick E. Tyler and Jane
Perlez, The
New York Times, September 19, 2001
...an influential parliamentarian, Aleksei G. Arbatov,
said although the consensus there was "total
moral support" for the United States and the
struggle against terrorism, there also existed a strong
humanitarian concern "not to resort to massive
strikes, to nonselective actions which are unjustified
from the moral point of view, to avenge the death
of thousands of innocent people with the deaths of
tens of thousands of other innocent people."
Russia may play its own game
Nezavisimaya Gazeta, September
15, 2001
The experts we spoke with are convinced that Russia's
foreign policy is pragmatic enough. The USA has already
announced that retaliation for the recent terrorist
attacks is inevitable. The countries which could face
retaliatory strikes are Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan,
Algeria, and Sudan. Many countries are expressing
their readiness to assist the USA in this campaign,
letting America use their military bases, territories
and military resources.
Yabloko
faction calls on West to refrain from inadequate retaliatory
measures after the actes of terrorism in the U.S
RIA
Novosti, September 12, 2001
..."We appeal to the leadership of Western countries
to refrain from taking inadequate measures that could
lead to an escalation in the tension in the world’s
hot spots and increase mass support for terrorists,
which could lead to even graver consequences,"
said Yavlinsky. |
