From: MSN Nicknamepsychoteddybear24 (Original Message) Sent: 5/17/2008 3:43 PM
Dugin Says Moscow Must Counter US-Backed Caucasus War by Moving to
Divide Ukraine
By Paul Goble
Window on Eurasia, April 24, 2008
Aleksandr Dugin, a Eurasianist leader known to be close to the Kremlin
and especially to its chief ideologist Vladislav Surkov, predicts that
Russia will soon find itself embroiled in a broader war in the
Caucasus as a result of American actions there and should pursue the
dismemberment of Ukraine to prevent the expansion of NATO.
While Dugin’s comments are overblown – he has made a career by
striking dramatic poses about any number of issues – his observations
on these two points are nonetheless worth attending to because they
suggest some at the highest levels in Moscow are nervous about new
fighting in the Caucasus and are still prepared to think about
dividing Ukraine.
In an interview on KM.ru today, Dugin predicted that there would be
“yet another war in the Caucasus – [this time] against Georgia,
Chechnya, Ingushetiya and Daghestan” and that Moscow should seek to
dismember Ukraine in order to protect its own national interests and
those of ethnic Russians living there
(forum.msk.ru/material/news/470244.html).
According to Dugin, “America is supporting the striving of the
Georgian elites to move toward a sharpening of relations with Russia.
And Georgia on the occasion of each such sharpening turns to the U.S.
for military and diplomatic help,” the last of which Washington “as a
rule” provides.
“The very same thing” is happening in Ukraine, Moldova, and
“partially” in the Baltic countries, Dugin continued. “And
theoretically it could occur in other countries on the post-Soviet
space as well. Including, Russia itself. Moreover, “when the Chechen
enclave is not controlled by federal forces, approximately the same
geopolitical struggle is being played out.”
Because the NATO Bucharest summit shows that the U.S. plans to go
ahead with the inclusion of Ukraine in NATO, Dugin said, Moscow does
not have much time in order to block this and consequently “ought to
immediately and actively get involved in the process of dismembering
Ukraine” in order to prevent NATO from moving eastward.
Ukraine is so important for both Russia and the West that this
conflict could move from a cold to a “hot” one very quickly. “For the
Americans, Georgia is much less important,” but “the Caucasus is the
weak place of Russia.” And consequently, Dugin argued that the US will
push Georgia into a conflict in order to distract Moscow from what is
going on in Ukraine.
In Dugin’s view, recent events in Daghestan, Chechnya and Ingushetiya
reflect “not simply instability called forth by internal
contradictions but also by the activization of that American network
which has already been established there,” one that risks shifting the
balance of power in the region against Russia.
As is usually the case, Dugin in this instance seeks to link a wide
variety of issues together, something that many in Moscow and the West
view as an indication of the depth of his thought, and to see the
“hand of Washington” behind everything negative that happens in the
post-Soviet state, a perspective that plays to Soviet-style paranoia.
But not everyone is impressed. Two observers on the FORUM.msk site,
for example, dismissed Dugin’s remarks out of hand. Vladimir Filin
said his words were part of “a psychological war” against Ukraine,
pointing out that “if one country conducts against another a war for
destruction, the other country has a complete right to respond
symmetrically.”
And Ruslan Saidov noted that whatever Dugin thinks, there are “no
American networks in Chechnya now. But they will inevitably appear if
federal forces do not stop unceremoniously interfering in internal
Chechen affairs and continue to insist that the Kremlin controls
something in Chechnya besides Khankala and a few buildings in Grozny.”
http://windowoneurasia.blogspot.com/2008/04/window-on-eurasia-dugin-says-moscow.html
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International Anti-imperialist Front set up in Ukraine
Last update: 10 May 2007, 15:44
Publication time: 10 May 2007, 15:02
On May 8, 2007, International Anti-imperialistic Front (IAF) was instituted in Ternopol, Ukraine, on the initiative of International Movement for Decolonization of the Caucasus (IMDC) under the leadership of Ahmad Sardali, and All-Ukrainian Organization “Trident” of Stepan Bandera under the leadership of Dmitro Yarosh (see photo).The main tasks of the IAF are:
„ideological, political and information struggle against variouis imperialistic doctrines, first of all – against the Moscow one;
support of national-liberating movements of the enslaved peoples of the Caucasus and other territories occupied by Moscow;
attainment of recognizing crimes of the Russian Empire and its genocide of the colonized peoples on international level.
Unfortunately, Embassy of the Republic of Ukraine in France rejected entry visa to Chechen refugee and known journalist Khazman Umarova, possibly under a pressure of the third side. Ahmad Sardali himself, as well as other known Chechen activists were prevented from coming too.
The constituent conference received a telegram of Dokka Umarov, President of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria and leader of Caucasian Mojaheds. President Dokka Umarov greeted the conference and expressed his hope that the IAF would become an effective force against neo-imperialist plans of Moscow.
Dmitro Yarosh read message of Ahmad Sardali.
Hakan Baysal, a representative of the refugees from Kabarda-Balkaris from Turkey, spoke about a necessity of mutial support in uniting struggle.
During discussions Igor Ivanchenko (“Trident”) underlined inter-religious character of the IAF, however Letas Palmaitis (IMDC Lithuania) emphasized that the IAF may be founded only on the basis of revealed moral prescriptions, common for all three Abrahamic religions, while theological groundings of these religions cannot be leveled or unified in any case. As a result, the “inter-religious character” of IAF appears to be inadequate.
A press-conference took place under the session.
Resolution of the Constituent Conference of the International Anti-Imperialist Front
Basing on world political situation and its current challenges, we, members of the Conference representing various countries, announce:
We set up International Anti-Imperialistic Front striving to preserve endangered national, ethic, spiritual values.
Basing on our belief in One God Creator and in His revealed moral requirements, we see our duty in uniting our efforts in struggle for national statehood of enslaved nations, for their free development on own territories God have granted to them.
We preach down Russian and other forms of imperialism.
We define our main tasks and, in order to fulfill them, we are going:
to carry out ideological, political, information struggle against various imperialist doctrines, first and foremost Moscow ones;
to render our support to national liberating struggle of enslaved peoples of the Caucasus and other countries and nations colonized by Moscow, in various ways;
to make crimes of the Russian Empire and its genocide of the colonized peoples recognized by the world community;
to appeal to interstate and international organizations to define actions of supreme military and political authorities of Russia in Chechenia as crimes against humanity and as actions of genocide, still practiced in extrajudicial death penalty, kidnapping, raping, torturing;
to set up branches of International Anti-Imperialistic Front in various countries of the world.
Ternopil, Ukraine
May 8, 2007
Approved by members from:
Ukraine
the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria
Lithuania
Kabarda-Balkaria
Ingushetia,
Dagestan
Karachay-Cherkessia
North Ossetia
Adygea
Poland
Crimean Tataria
Executive Committee of the IAF
http://kavkazcenter.com/eng/content/2007/05/10/8251.shtml
