Moscow's Increasingly Crude Diplomatic Language Points to Trouble Ahead

Good morning!!! How long it should take for Westerners to notice, that Russia plays its own game by other rules. In the soviet times all intelligentsia was killed or deported, so now we see what has many generations of degenerats done to a once quite flourishing nation. And after the fall of USSR it is obvious that these working-class 'inteligents' are not intelligent enough to establish new, more perspective identity. Russians are like bullies and so should be treated. The only draw back is the economical crisis of the Western world whereas Russia with its alliance with China and their enormous resources will be better survivors than polite, intelligent and double-faced westerners...

My first impression is that the best Western reaction would be no reaction at all ... Just to make a show that they accept that Russia IS barbarian country and nothing else can be expected from barbarians. Russians are provoking West and their best expectation is that "Western" countries will be "shocked". That's the actual aim. I would be curious to see what would happen should Lavrov use this language talking with China or negotiating about gas supplies in Turkmenistan ... but that will never happen :))

"To use bad language is just lack of knowledge and common sense". That was written on the wall in my old school. I do not think that Mr Lavrov has bad knowledge, but there is certainly some lack of common sense when a person in his position talks in such a poor way. I am not surprised that this kind of language is happily picked up by the young people in Russia. That is probably a part of their mentality, but why is Russia always denying things, and why are facts so often "swept under the carpet"? Why is it not possible to live a normal life for common people in the biggest country in the world? It is interesting that Russia increases the budget for the defence with the same amount of money as America puts in to save the AIG in the economy crisis (85 billion dollars). You can draw your own conclusions about what that means to the Russian people and also to the world... The world has been full of small (short) men through the history like Napoleon, Stalin, Hitler and now Bush, Putin and Medvedev. They all have one thing in common - power - and they are all dangerous men. Now we have got the "big bear" Mr Lavrov to say what the small men want to say. Unfortunately he obviously is not the right man to do it, at least when it comes to the use of language. It is almost laughable that the countries together with Russia recognizing Abkhazia and Ossetia are Venezuela, Nicaragua, the Hamas movement and some other hardly noticeable parts of the world. Russia will never be a democracy. It will go on being run by the small(short) boys longing for more power, dreaming of a new Sojet Union. Thanks for the interesting information through this blog

Of course it's not Litvninenko alone. And not even Berezovsky and Zakayev. This is just the way Russia has chosen, facing the national identity vacuum after the fall of USSR. Because this way is the easiest, judging by the mentality of Russians and the political culture they have known.

It's rather curious to note that it was no other but the British nation who had been toying, also politically, with the notion of some sort of Mother Russia for quite some time. They even wrote songs about it. Elton John and Paul McCartney did. Also, England is a very popular place for the Russian nouveaux riches as far as fashion shopping and education for their children is concerned. Now things seem to have changed, but it is unclear whether the KGB-style poisoning of Litvinenko in London alone triggered this off.