Reported at RT
Minor edit by Carolyn Bennett
Russian MP Andrey Klimov Russian author, economist, came of age during 1980s Perestroika
“‘In the current situation I would recommend that Brussels
and Washington introduce sanctions against each other. The U.S. must answer for
instigating a civil war and adding to the explosive situation in Europe.
“‘A number of EU countries should be made responsible for
opening the Pandora’s Box by violating the February 21 agreement of Ukrainian
stabilization.’”
Career diplomat born in Moscow
“‘We will support all forces that favor the strengthening of
bilateral relations between our countries, especially now when the European
stability depends on these relations. Western politicians who are currently
cursing us must understand this.’”
Head of the Russian upper house, Valentina Matvienko
Highest-ranking woman politician born Valentina Tyutina in Shepetivka
(Khmelnytskyi Oblast of Western Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union)
“… [O]nly Ukrainian people can decide who will run their
state and this decision must be made through honest, clear, transparent and
lawful elections.”
Sources and notes
“Anti-Russian rants are just PR ahead of EU parliamentary
poll – Russian officials”, March 3, 2014, http://rt.com/politics/russian-eu-elections-ukraine-527/
“A Russian MP: The Insider’s Notes” by Andrey Klimov
reviewed by Paul Abelsky Russia Profile, 3/10/2006 [Published by PIT-Fund Perm, 2006
238 pp.] http://russiaprofile.org/
book_reviews/a1331/print_edition/
http://russiaprofile.org/
book_reviews/a1331.html
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book_reviews/a1331.html
Andrey Klimov
Paul Abelsky said in his review of Andrey Klimov’s A Russian MP: The Insider’s Notes, “The
book’s real contribution is an attempt to articulate both Russia’s distinctive
historical path and to encourage the country’s citizens to take responsibility
for its future. Ultimately, the working model Klimov proposes hinges on
mobilizing a national consensus, a consolidation of the federal center and the
regions, the political elite and other classes. Only this attitude will help
Russia grow more introspective, enabling it to face the century’s new
challenges.” He came of age “during Perestroika”, entered politics in 1990, and is currently a member of Russia’s parliament, the State Duma. Andrey Klimov was trained as an economist.
Valentina Matviyenko
Born in the Ukrainian SSR, Valentina Ivanovna Matviyenko is the
first woman leader of Saint Petersburg and the highest-ranking woman politician
in Russia. She is the current Chairman of the Federation Council of the Russian
Federation and a former governor of Saint Petersburg, in a political career
that began in the 1980s in Saint Petersburg (then called Leningrad). In the
1990s-2000s she was Russian ambassador to Malta (1991–1995) and Greece
(1997–1998); Deputy Prime Minister of Russia for Welfare, and briefly the
Presidential Envoy to the Northwestern Federal District (1998–2003). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valentina_Matvienko
Grigory Karasin
Career diplomat and currently Russia’s Deputy Minister of
Foreign Affairs, Grigory Borisovich Karasin, fluent in Russian, English, Hausa
and French, was Russian Ambassador to the United Kingdom (2000-2005) and has
held various diplomatic posts in the central offices of the Ministry of Foreign
Affairs and abroad. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grigory_Karasin
Perestroika
Perestroika: a political movement for reformation within the
Communist Party of the Soviet Union during the 1980s (1986), widely associated
with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev and his Glasnost (‘openness’) policy
reform. The literal meaning of perestroika is ‘restructuring’, referring to the
restructuring of the Soviet political and economic system. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perestroika______________________________________________
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