Moscow treats Kiev like a younger brother

Commenting on the new tensions between Moscow and Kiev the liberal daily Gazeta Wyborcza takes sides with Ukraine: "President Dmitry Medvedev … blames Kiev - and above all Viktor Yushchenko - for all the difficulties, saying that he is hampering the stationing of the Russian fleet in Crimea and discriminating against Russian companies on the Dnieper [river]. He also accuses him of distorting the past because he described the 'Holodomor' [Ukrainian famine of 1932/33] as genocide. And he's also expelled Russian diplomats and so on. In response Moscow is waiting for the presidential elections [in Ukraine] before it sends another diplomat. Medvedev has not forgotten that Ukraine threw out two Russian diplomats for spying in Ukraine. … Moscow treats Kiev like a younger brother, but without knowing its psychological make-up."

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