Putin extremely disappointed in Bush after G8 summit

The Kremlin is not prepared to raise the degree of diplomatic tension with Eastern and Central European countries although it is planning an adjustment to its external political policy.

In the light of the intensification of the special services war and the escalation of tense relations between Lebanon, Syria, Iran and Israel (USA), the placing of the land unit of the USA’s Antimissile Defense System in the Czech Republic, (the Czech parliament is considering this possibility), Poland and Hungary, (in these countries an initial positive decision has already been made), is causing serious concern, not only in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, but also in the Ministry of Defense, whose management has already expressed great alarm at the appearance of American bases on Eastern European territory.

According to the Russian side, the systems are clearly intended for a battle with Russian strategic intercontinental ballistic missiles and have the aim of intercepting them at the most vulnerable stage of flight: take-off. Concern in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs was also caused by the fact that the USA essentially justifies the placing of Antimissile Defense System objects with the threat of terrorism from Iran and so on.

In connection with this, they say that the Kremlin is not prepared to raise the degree of diplomatic tension with Eastern and Central European countries although it is planning an adjustment to its external political policy in connection with newly arisen circumstances.

By way of illustration, the Kremlin, in its time, was very much put on guard by the dispatch of NATO arms to the Crimean territory (Ukraine). Local pro-Russia lobby groups, including Cossacks, who allegedly did not allow the American contingent to enter the Ukrainian territory, participated in the authorization of the situation in favor of Russia. Nevertheless, it became evident that arming with the help of NATO lobby groups (Crimean Tatars) had taken place in the Crimea all the same.

Recent studies in Georgia have demonstrated the level of development of NATO bases on this country’s territory: it was acknowledged as quite high. The Romanian government’s comment on its readiness to join Moldavia is also being considered by the Kremlin as an act of hostile absorption of post-Soviet territories.

As a result, the Russian side has had to certify that the process of forcing Russia out of post-Soviet territory corresponds to a stage that is coming to a close: the buffer system, which has practically been created, and the placing of NATO bases in this area will inevitably be considered by Russia as a hostile, aggressive act.

Russia, for its part, is determined to adhere to international agreements; however it is leaving behind the possibility of strengthening its systems of defense in this direction, including the extension of corresponding interaction with Belarus within the bounds of systematic and unsystematic studies.

Evidently, Russia is also considering the Ukraine as a sphere of priority influence and is determined to support, officially and unofficially, politicians and enterprisers who sympathize with Russia, showing them extra preference. The result of this work was visible in the political crisis surrounding the appointing of the Ukrainian Prime Minister.

It is said that Russia is simultaneously setting up serious work with the Georgian opposition and creating a series of influential groups in this region, although the Russian government understands that, to a great extent, Russia has already lost Georgia.

In connection with this, a sharp intensification in the activity of the Russian special services has taken place. The Federal Security Service’s present to the Kremlin for the G8 summit was the annihilation of Shamil Basayev. It is typical that the management of the special services had to admit that they had obtained their information about Basayev from abroad: in truth, Nikolai Patrushev did not decode the concept “operational positions abroad”. These could have been colleagues of the Federal Security Service or their intelligence service. So it’s possible that the present was general.

Basayev’s annihilation obviously weakened the positions of unlawful armed Chechen groups on the global arena, but equally it demonstrated the possibilities for the Russian special services on the threshold of the annihilation of the murderers of Russian diplomats in Iraq. At the same time, the FSB has considerably strengthened the weight of the words of Russia’s president.

According to some predictions, Basayev will be replaced by Dokku Umarov, who recently became the president of Ichkeria. It is also possible that an emir from the Middle East will be delegated in Chechnya (analogous to how Khattab was commanded in Chechnya). In the near future, the risk of terrorism will be minimal according to some estimates: Basayev’s descendants will be sharing financial income.

Sources from the special services insist that the FSB carried out this operation independently, even without the involvement of local forces from Ingushetia and other Northern Caucasian regions. Ingushetia, incidentally, has been predicted to be the most explosively dangerous region in the near future.