July 23, 2009 By James Kimer

Believe in the Kremlin’s Gas Threats

Writing in Novaya Gazeta, Yulia Latynina argues that the Russian leadership has been too heavy handed in its use as natural gas as a political lever, and that the past aggression has come back to hit them like a boomerang.  Translation in full provided over on La Russophobe:

In short, no one used to believe the Kremlin. No one believed there could be a war with Georgia, that gas was a weapon, that Russia could cut off the Ukraine’s gas and say that the Ukrainians had themselves turned off their supplies. But people believe the Kremlin now.