Federico Bordonaro

“Dobbiamo, letteralmente, evitare una guerra”.
Temur Jakobashvili, ministro georgiano, 6 maggio 2008.

Russia’s deployment of extra troops in the breakaway Georgian region of Abkhazia has brought the prospect of war “very close,” a minister of ex-Soviet Georgia said on Tuesday.
Separately, in comments certain to fan rising tension between Moscow and Tbilisi, the “foreign minister” of the breakaway Black Sea region was quoted as saying it was ready to hand over military control to Russia.
“We literally have to avert war,” Temur Iakobashvili, a Georgian State Minister, told reporters in Brussels.

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Il Generale in pensione Vladimir Dvorkin, intervistato da Associated Press, commenta così i preparativi per la parata del 9 maggio (per celebrare la vittoria sul Terzo Reich):“Le nostre forze armate sono una mera brutta copia di quelle dell’era sovietica”

The annual Victory Day parade that marks Nazi Germany’s defeat may look impressive, but some Russian commentators think much of the military spending has been squandered through corruption, cronyism and mismanagement.

Intanto, alcuni osservatori notano un aumento della nostalgia per l’Unione Sovietica e la tendenza a fondere simboli zaristi con simboli sovietici, cosa che però considerano “un intralcio alla modernizzazione”…