The British Russia scholar and political analyst Richard Sakwa makes the case that the fault for escalation in Ukraine lies in Washington and Brussels. Putin has no interest in a war, that is the last thing he needs. Sakwa calls for pressure from the west on the Kiev regime, since Ukraine, as a federal state, must also consider the interests of the people of Donbas.
In the Guardian Jonathan Steele, former correspondent in Moscow, reviewed a remarkable book: Richard Sakwa, in Frontline Ukraine, has set forth the one-sided view of the West toward the conflict, and has minutely examined the mistakes of the EU and the US. He criticizes the lack of an independent European foreign policy as well as the undifferentiated faulting of Russia’s President Vladimir Putin. Steele notes that not once in the darkest times of the Cold War were Soviet politicians like Brezhnev or Andropov so openly and massively insulted as Putin in the present conflict.
German Economics Reports [Deutsche Wirtschafts Nachrichten] spoke with Richard Sakwa, who holds a professorship in Russian and European Studies at the University of Kent. He is a Fellow of the Russia and Eurasian Program in the Royal Institute of International Affairs, Chatham House. Since September 2002 he is a member of the Academy of Learned Societies for the Social Sciences. In his book The Crisis of Russian Democracy, he took a critical view of the process of transformation in Russia.Fort Russ
Interview with Richard Sakwa, March 9, 2015 in Deutsche Wirtschafts Nachrichten
Translated from German by Tom Winter
Original in German, Deutsche Wirtschafts Nachrichten
The prelude
The courageous Merkel-Hollande initiative for Minsk II might stabilize the situation.This interview was on March 9th. The Minsk agreement has already broken down with the action of the Ukrainian parliament rejecting the conditions. Artillery exchange in recommencing.
The prelude
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