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Czulda, Robert
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4 articles of this author have been cited in the European Press Review so far.
No sign of peace in Syria
The quashing of the protests against the Syrian regime has claimed more than 3,500 victims according to the UN. And this despite the fact that the Arab League has negotiated a deal with Syria's President Bashar al-Assad under which the government soldiers were to withdraw. The chances of peace are not good, writes news portal Wprost Online: "A rapid stabilisation of the situation in Syria and an end to the crisis are not in sight. The recent Nato intervention in Libya pretty much rules out a similar operation in Syria because the alliance no longer has the will nor the money to bombard another country. Additional economic sanctions would be a bad solution. That leaves just the international community and above all the Arab League. Perhaps Assad will accept another agreement negotiated by this organisation after all."
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Difficult situation hinders intervention
A military strike in Syria carries too many risks, according to the news magazine Wprost: "The cynics would say that there is and will be no intervention because Syria is poor and has no oil. But this explanation is trite, oversimplified and inaccurate. The truth is that the situation in the Middle East is unusually difficult and the West is at a loss as to how to react. With Barack Obama's government you can't rule out an idealist motivation, but even the idealists must pursue the path of the realists and be aware of their own limits. A military intervention would lead to a definitive freeze in relations between the West and Iran which are already not the best. It would also put the security of the allies Israel, Jordan and Lebanon at risk."
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Thaw in Russian-Ukrainian relations
Russia wants to add another 18 ships to its Ukraine-based Black Sea Fleet in the next ten years, the Russian agency Interfax reported on Monday. This shows how much the climate between Russia and Ukraine has improved, the online edition of news magazine Wprost writes: "Ukraine giving its approval for Russian to expand and modernise its Black Sea Fleet can be interpreted as a further sign of improving relations on the Kiev-Moscow axis. ... After the Orange Revolution Ukraine's relations with Moscow deteriorated, which encourage many in Poland to hope that Russia would be weakened geopolitically. They believed that the potential integration of Ukraine into Nato or even just a rapprochement between Kiev and the military alliance would ultimately leave Russia on the sidelines. But this hasn't been the case at all. The Orange Revolution was totally compromised by its leaders, Yulia Tymoshenko and Viktor Yushchenko."
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Russia joins US against Iran
Russia has renounced plans to deliver an anti-aircraft missile system to Iran. Announcing the decision on Wednesday, Russian head of state Dmitry Medvedev said he supports the UN sanctions imposed on Iran owing to its controversial nuclear programme. In reality Russia is reacting to pressure from the US, the online edition of the news magazine Wprost concludes: "The official explanation for not going through with the controversial sale of the S300 system is the fact that Iran is subject to international sanctions. But there's a second, far weightier reason which is not talked about openly: the decision not to deliver is a friendly gesture towards Washington. Russia's support for Iran so far was nothing but a strategy employed in the Moscow-Washington axis. ... If Russia had really wanted to deliver to Iran it would have done so long ago."
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