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...Like clean pieces of paper that can be easily written or painted on.' KAING GUEK EAV, chief jailer for the Khmer Rouge, at his U.N. trial, referring to children used as prison guards by the Khmer Rouge...
...paper was ordered up by Medvedev last August, after Russia's brief war with Georgia made it clear that a new security policy would need to be drawn up to replace the one set out in 2000, which focused more on playing up Russia's role in the war on terror while it was fighting a war in Chechnya. The updated paper is meant to be a guide for policy development and implementation until 2020. (See pictures of Russia's war with Georgia...
...while the new paper maintains the belligerent stance displayed last summer and admits that Russia, one of the world's largest exporters of oil and gas, is willing to use military force to protect and even expand its reserve of resources, the tone has been softened. "If you look at what was formulated concerning Arctic strategy last year and you look at this paper, it looks as if the government position has changed and become more moderate," says Petrov. "Another explanation is that the foreign ministry is trying to present strategy in a less aggressive...
...even as it presents a friendlier Russia, the document makes some sharp comments about NATO and the nuclear balance. "International security is increasingly threatened by the truly inadequate existing global and regional security architecture, as well as international legal instruments and mechanisms for its security," the paper reads. "Particularly evident is the failure of the security architecture in the Euro-Atlantic region, represented mainly by NATO and the OSCE." At the same time, it slams U.S. foreign policy without actually calling out the U.S. by name, claiming that Russia?s military security is jeopardized ?by the efforts...
...Although the paper focuses on foreign military policy, there is also a significant domestic socioeconomic element that was missing from the 2000 version. The document itself was supposed to be released in March, but was delayed possibly for this very reason. Media speculation abounds that the hold-up was due to the Obama Administration's less aggressive policy towards Russia, which forced a rethink on the tone of the document. However, observers believe that specific socioeconomic benchmarks such as poverty, food costs and education were removed from the document - which had been in draft form for over a year...