Crimea

The Myth about Russian “Aggression”

Recently I went on a 15 day visit to Russia organized by the Center for Citizen Initiatives.  The group visited Moscow, the Crimean peninsula, Krasnodar (southern Russia) and St. Petersburg.  In each location we met many locals and heard diverse viewpoints. CCI has a long history promoting friendship and trying to overcome false assumptions between citizens of the USA and Russia. The founder Sharon Tennison has focused on making people-people connections including the business community, Rotary clubs, etc..

Deconstructing Russophobia

Russophobia is composed of ignorance, a failure of scepticism and reasoning, pride, hypocrisy, condescension and churlishness, turned to the service of the military-industrial complex and NATO. It supports a one-sided Cold War against a country which is only just getting on its feet after collapse, is primarily focused on improving the living conditions of its people, wants war nowhere, and has no desire to be our enemy unless forced to defend itself. I wish it well.

Nuclear Hype: Russian & British Relations ‘Are in Dangerous Place’

21st Century Wire says…
Is the hype real?
In the following excerpt from Going Underground, Afshin Rattansi interviews the head of Britain’s Foreign Affairs Committee on the state of British-Russian relations Crispin Blunt.
Blunt believes the state of relations between the two nations is in a ‘dangerous place’, and does not appear to rule out the possibility of open war between them.