Foreign Press: Even rogues like Lukashenka’s regime are shunning Russia
- 5.09.2008, 12:23
Russia has joined the company of Nicaragua and terroristic organisation “Hamas”. Sooner or later the Kremlin would have to come down to earth, Western analysts say.
On Thursday US Vice President Dick Cheney, who is on a tour around former republics of the USSR, has expressed support to Georgian government and condemned “illegal” actions of Russia during the confrontation in the Caucasus. But even “rogue countries” and old allies like Belarus do not intend to support Moscow, foreign press informs, “Inopressa.ru” informs.
Dick Cheney added fuel to the fire of the conflict, Corriere della Sera informs. On his arrival to Tbilisi, he didn’t use blurred expressions. “IN face of illegal attempts to change borders of Georgia Russia’s reliability as a partner should be doubted, not only in this region, but in the whole system,” he repeated. Cheney’s term in office is expiring, but his words are still be reckoned of some account.
Cheney is agitate post-Soviet countries to strengthen the alliance with the US, The Time writes. Vice President has strictly condemned “illegal, unilateral attempt” of Moscow to change borders and promised further support of Georgia’s efforts to join the NATO.
Russia is indignant even at the route of D. Cheney. The fact that the most zealous war hawk in Bush’s administration is sent to Azerbaijan, Georgia and to Ukraine, is called by Moscow the proof of the US further scheming to close the ring around Russia.
Russia has failed to find any considerable support of its actions in Georgian crisis even between the known and registered by Washington rogue states, Liberation notes. Even Iran, North Korea, China and Syria haven’t dared to support Abkhazian and South Ossetian separatists. Neither Belarus, which together with Moscow makes some “union state”, nor other countries of the CIS, do not lavish their support. Moscow’s decision to recognize independence of self-proclaimed states so far have supported only by Palestinian grouping Hamas and Nicaragua. Such a team of rebels is a rather poor counterbalance to all that Russia could have gained from its relations with the West, the newspaper writes.
The war of Moscow with Georgia has caused Russia’s isolation, The Guardian agrees. Other countries are expecting stability and discretion from the great power, and when they are lacking, a conclusion is often made abroad that the power is not so great and not so strong. At the same time, the end of the Russian energy abundance era is near at hand, and limited possibilities of its outdated military forces are obvious, the newspaper believes. Russia’s influence will unfailingly diminish in the years to come.