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...focused instead on the brutal occupation of Eastern Europe by Soviet troops after the war’s conclusion. The president’s comments came as Russia’s president, Vladimir Putin, wrote in a French newspaper that his government would not give in to demands from Baltic countries for an apology for Soviet domination during the Cold...
...would like to hear Putin say sorry." EHTEL HALLISTE, spokeswoman for Estonia's Foreign Ministry, demanding an apology for Russia's 44-year occupation of the Baltic state following the end of World War II. Estonia, along with Lithuania, declined to attend this week's events in Moscow commemorating the 60th anniversary of Hitler's defeat...
...water mark of Soviet achievement. But that triumph came at the loss of well over 20 million lives, largely because Stalin's purges had destroyed the Red Army's officer class before the war started. Until June 1941, Germany and Soviet Russia were allies, and Moscow had seized the Baltic states as part of a carve-up of Eastern Europe provided for by the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact. Even the massive German invasion seemed, paradoxically, to promise an end to Stalin's dictatorship. Russians began to hope that victory over Hitler would bring a political thaw at home after the brutality...
...Ukraine, Moldova and Belarus as vital buffers between Russia and the West. Like Russian rulers for the past two centuries, Putin "equates security with well-defined zones of interest," says James Sherr, an Eastern Europe specialist at Oxford Uni-versity. Those zones have shrunk in recent years as the Baltic states and Georgia turned sharply toward the West. Putin doesn't want to see the same thing happen in Ukraine...
...nothing else, the proposal should give momentum to talks later this month in New Delhi between India's and Pakistan's Prime Ministers. - By Tim McGirk Fallout Over Funds LATVIA Prime Minister Indulis Emsis' coalition government resigned after legislators rejected his proposed 2005 budget. His coalition - the Baltic state's 10th post-Soviet government - held just 47 seats in the 100-member parliament. Counting In Kosovo SERBIA AND MONTENEGRO All 660,000 votes cast in Kosovo's legislative elections will be recounted. Observers from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, acting on complaints by political parties, found inaccuracies...