Paul Goble, originally on Window on Eurasia

Yulia Latynina

Staunton, May 11 – Vladimir Putin’s demands for the federalization of Ukraine not only are hypocritical because of the absence of federalism in Russia but dangerous for both countries because it would convert the east of Ukraine into “a Palestine,” according to Ekho Moskvy commentator Yuliya Latynina.

Such a project, she said on her “Access Code” program last evening, is “not in the interests of the Donbas or even in the interests of Russia.” It is rather “exclusively in the personal psychological interests of the Kremlin” in just the same way as the August 2008 war against Georgia was.