Russia's Medvedev Attacks Ukraine's President In Videoblog

Ukraine's president has been heavily criticized for 'anti-Russian behavior' by Russian President Medvedev, BBC reports.

Medvedev launched his verbal attack on Viktor Yushchenko via a videoblog message posted on the Kremlin website, and accused Yushchenko of supplying weapons to Georgian forces in their conflict with Russia over the breakaway region, South Ossetia, last year.

Ukraine anticipates presidential elections in January, and Yushchenko is expected to run again for office.
Reuters reports that Medvedev has now accused Ukraine of seeking to disrupt gas supplies between Russia, Ukraine and the EU.

The two countries have repeatedly criticized each other in recent years over the movement of gas supplies between Russia and Ukraine.

Russia recalled an ambassador from Kiev in June, while last month Ukraine expelled a Russian diplomat.

President Medvedev said that he would delay sending a replacement ambassador to Kiev because of the anti-Russian focus of Ukraine's leadership, Xinhua reports.

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[LMPE]

Everybody verbally attacks someone.

[TJCole]

They have their differences, but our meddling in Russian affairs on their border is a big part of this, both in the Ukraine and Georgia a part of Russia proper since Peter the Great..!

NATO Expansion into these countries is a very bad idea, if we want to avoid war with Russia, the only nation that really can threaten our very existence...

Here's Dr. Stephen Cohen on NATO Expansion and Russian American relations...

http://www.cupblog.org/?p=669

[garcho]

How dare you have a peace symbol for your avatar?!

Peter the Great doesn't erase national identity. Being a cruel, conquering, violent dictator doesn't make the Ukraine 'part' of Russia. To call Georgia part of Russia is even worse, considering it's one of the oldest nations on Earth, older than Russia. "They have their differences" Wtf?! Russia tried to kill Yushchenko! For god's sakes Putin was a KGB agent who killed and tortured (and poisoned) people who committed horrible crimes like, reading the 'wrong' books, or have the 'wrong' friends. Are you suggesting that he turned a new leaf or something? Wow, I wish I could get that kind of benefit of the doubt. All Eastern European anti-NATO attitudes come directly from hurt pride at being part of the failed experiment in graft and population control that was Soviet communism. Russia wants another empire. Is American foreign policy horribly wrong and occassionally evil? Yes, but every nasty thing the States does, Russia does with more frequency and more severity. I think Russia gets a free ride in the liberal minds of America because anti-communism here was so friggin' stupid for so long. But, you know, decrying Russia's horrible human rights abuses, their wars of aggression and their oil/gas bullying, doesn't make you a conservative Republican or something, it makes you a concerned world citizen.

[shorelive]

"They have their differences" - what's that supposed to mean, other than it's okay for Russia to terrorize and re-occupy other countries just like it terrorizes and murders its own citizens - journalists, human rights activists and anyone else that doesn't support Putin/Medvedev? The only mistake Obama has made is not making it perfectly clear that we don't really need them at all.

[blutigeroo]

It's okay for Russia or any other country to terrorize and occupy other countries when America does the same. Just as people here might think America has legitimate reasons for doing so, Russians like Medvedev might believe that Russia has the right to carry out pre-emptory strikes.
Havign said that, verbal spats are common in politics and I don't think you should be assuming that Russia will take any drastic action just yet.
O cannot be hypocritical, Bush did that and look at how it damaged America's reputation.