[NewsBite] World Tribune | Putin going retro? ‘This is the language of Khrushchev’
Quick NewsBite Article.
Excellent article by John Metzler on the World Tribune, dated Thursday June 7, 2007.
Entitled, “Putin going retro? ‘This is the language of Khrushchev’”
Begins … “UNITED NATIONS — Launching cyber warfare against a tiny neighbor Estonia, testing new inter-mediate range missiles, and making steely threats about re-targeting Russian missiles on Western European cities, are not exactly the ways to make friends, especially on the eve of a global Summit. So with his provocative actions and rhetorical flourishes echoing the Cold War era, Russian President Vladmir Putin appears to be playing the role of a Retro leader who bullies neighboring states the old-fashioned way.”
Read in full at :
http://www.worldtribune.com/worldtribune/WTARC/2007/mz6_01.asp
Bite: “Putin’s Russia is flush with petro dollars from massive energy sales especially to Europe and the USA. The Europeans who are hooked to Russian natural gas are at the peril of those supplies being interrupted or shut off.”
see ‘What’s Eating President Vladimir Putin?‘
see ‘Russia | Five Reasons to be Very Concerned‘
Posted on June 13th, 2007 under Khrushchev, NewsBite, Putin, Russia • 
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