Ukraine crisis: EU links Russia sanctions to truce deal
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Moscow accuses Washington of pushing Ukraine towards war
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has slammed US Vice President Joe Biden for approving of a bill passed by Ukrainian parliament on Tuesday. The legislation grants a special self-governance...
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Belgium: Russian Energy Minister Alexander Novak arrives for Ukraine gas talks
Russian Energy Minister Alexander Novak arrived at the European Commission building in Brussels, Friday, as Russian, Ukrainian and European Union officials gather for another round of trilateral...
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MOSCOW As Washington debates whether to send lethal weaponry to the Ukrainian army, one of the Kremlins biggest critics, Alexei Navalny, says it would be a mistake.
His opposition to the U.S. proposal, expressed in a wide-ranging interview in his spartan Moscow office, highlights a dilemma for the small fraction of Russians who still sympathize with the United States after a wave of anti-Americanism. They face new dangers after the Feb.27 assassination of Boris Nemtsov, who along with Navalny was one of the most charismatic leaders of the movement.
[Read: An interview with Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny]
Arming Ukraine would be an attempt to dissuade Russia from sending soldiers into Ukraines east, where a battle with pro-Russian rebels is smoldering. But many Kremlin critics risk even more pressure over Western ties if their compatriots start getting killed by U.S. weaponry. They are already labeled as fifth-columnists. Few Russians can bring themselves to support the suggestion even as they criticize U.S. policy for not doing enough to halt Putin.
President Obama has come under bipartisan pressure to ship arms. But the Washington debate shows that policymakers know how to shape U.S. opinions better than Russian ones, Navalny said.
[Russias shaky opposition looks to an uncertain future]
I do not think that supplies of weapons, lethal weapons, will change the situation dramatically, Navalny said. The fact is that a military victory of Ukraine over Russia is impossible. Putin will get new facts that Americans are fighting the war in Ukraine and not Ukrainians. Navalny, 38, a lawyer and anti-corruption blogger, was the most pessimistic about the pace of change since he led of the wave of protests three years ago that made up the biggest threat to Putins 15 years in power.
After nearly a year shut away under house arrest over charges he says were politically motivated, Navalny now doubts Putin will be forced from power anytime soon. The Russian leader is preparing to keep himself in office for life, taking steps such as stoking a war in Ukraine that go far beyond what the opposition movement ever thought was imaginable, Navalny said.
We underestimated how far Putin was ready to go in order to keep his power and keep his popularity, Navalny said.
In the weeks before Nemtsov was slain just steps from the Kremlin walls, he had been pushing for a stepped-up campaign of sanctions against Russias elite. Navalny said he supported a similar approach.
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