稳定乌克兰局势

Mar 24, 2014 Javier Solana

马德里——就连在苏联解体期间任职总统且几乎一弹未发的戈尔巴乔夫也明确表示支持俄现任总统弗拉基米尔·普京吞并克里米亚。用他的话讲，克里米亚人民纠正了一个历史的错误。

戈尔巴乔夫的情绪在俄罗斯受到广泛的认同。1991年苏联解体后，俄罗斯就从超级大国降格为穷乡僻壤。三个前苏联共和国加盟欧盟和北约，公开宣布他们不仅要实现民主和繁荣，还要避免以后再落入苏联的魔爪。普京吞并克里米亚之举迄今为止受到国内舆论的强大支持，似乎为前20年后帝国时代的无奈画上了句号。

但1991年以来，俄罗斯曾多次明确承认乌克兰的领土完整性。这样的表态是1992年雅尔塔协定的组成部分，该协定划分了黑海舰队，要求俄罗斯必须承认乌克兰领土完整才能允许其舰队继续履行塞瓦斯托波尔的1997年租赁合同。1994年由英、俄、美共同签署的无核化协议再次于2011年4月时任总统亚努科维奇续签塞瓦斯托波尔租约时承认了乌克兰领土的完整性。

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hari naidu Mar 30, 2014

Finlandization of Ukraine - a neutral constitution - is only way out for Kiev if it wants to co-exist peacefully with Russian bear next door. Putin is demanding it from Obama that Ukraine will not become a member of Nato and that it must federalize its constitution by recognizing its diversity.
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Fouad Sayegh Mar 30, 2014

The Ukraine and Russia are in a Catholic marriage that even the Pope cannot dissolve. This crisis shall pass as the parties come to their senses and discard the historical baggage they are carrying, the Western "democracies" included. In the meantime, the West will get the privilege of bailing out the Ukraine and Russia will get paid fully for the gas it sells to the Ukraine.
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j. von Hettlingen Mar 29, 2014

Mikhail Gorbachev was the first and only Soviet president to toy with Western ideas of democracy. He was hoping to oversee a policy of openness that would transform the Soviet society. Unfortunately his glasnost and perestroika did not suit the political culture and he lost control. An attempted hardline coup in August 1991 led to the demise of the Soviet Union.
Twenty years since his downfall, Gorbachev is still applauded in the West for helping to end the Cold War. Nevertheless he has had to weather plenty of criticism for failing to keep pace with the reforms he unleashed.
Yet Putin and many Russians blame him for something else - the humiliation Russia suffered, from being a "superpower to backwater". Although Russians hardly listen to Gorbachev nowadays, he still draws Western journalists, who want to hear his opinion. When he says: "The people of Crimea, have corrected a historic Soviet error", he is climbing the bandwagon of national jubilation. He has been less critical of Putin lately and been reluctant to criticise his annexation of Crimea, however precious Sevastopol is, to Russia.
Ukraine has to come to terms with the loss of Crimea and start to look forward. The West stands by Kiev and puts together an aid package to help Ukraine out of its economic quagmire. Apart from forging national reconciliation and uniting with their ethnic minorities, Ukrainians have to be prepared to endure hardship, before their economy takes off. They are educated and their country is resource-rich. So they have all reasons to be hopeful that their future will be bright.
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Vladimir Evdokimov Mar 25, 2014

Most of eastern russian ukrainian don't want to be citizen of Russia. For example me. Ukraine is another Russia, which is better than Russia itself.
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Edward Campbell Mar 25, 2014

Read Jeffrey Sachs!
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