Foreign Correspondence

[Amaunet]

I am looking at why Putin said the Kremlin should name regional governors, who would then be confirmed by local parliaments instead of being elected by a popular vote.

The war in Chechnya is an attempt to stave off a breakaway province in the restive Caucasus.

Putin referring to the United States said "Some would like to cut a juicy piece of our pie. Others help them," he said. "Terrorism is just one instrument they use."

Putin places much of the blame for Russia’s misadventures in Chechnya on the West. "I have been tracking the issue for several years and have made up my mind", he said. The Western powers are interested in keeping Russia down and "involved in its own problem" by supporting Chechen separatism, Putin believes. Both the United States and Great Britain have granted political asylum to Chechen separatist leaders, he said, and Western intelligence services maintain contacts with Chechen fighters.
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The war in Chechnya is an attempt to stave off a breakaway province in the restive Caucasus. The United States is backing the al Qaeda aligned Chechen terrorists in this would be breakaway province.

In Chechnya the United States uses terrorism. Another way in which we were to cut a piece of Russian pie may be glimpsed in the Khodorkoysky affair. A close scrutiny shows the Khodorkoysky case was in essence a means by which the United States could invade Russia by gaining not only control of Yukos but a foothold in their Duma.
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The United States has learned that yet another excellent method in which to get a piece of another country’s pie is through the establishment of democracy.

It is the freedom that democracy bestows that best allows a foreign country to steal a nation's assets through the same privatization that was shoved on Russia and that we plan to confer on Iraq even mulling an annual cash payout for all Iraqis if they would privatize their oil and gas sector.
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This very same freedom allows the United States to clandestinely back candidates of their choice, pouring enough money and power behind their potential puppet nominee to insure his election. This was seen again right next door to Russia in Georgia with the election of U.S. backed now Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili.

Russia’s political elite has been stung by a recently declassified CIA report that suggests the world’s largest country could fall apart at the seams in a decade and split into as many as eight different states.

It is not for nothing that President Vladimir Putin’s party is called United Russia. According to the CIA, some of Russia’s eastern regions are so rich in natural resources such as oil and gas that they will opt to break away from Moscow, which they have long accused of poor governance.
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President Putin has admitted he puts the strength of the state above even democracy. He understands that democracy is being used by foreign countries to further guarantee the poverty of his people.

I submit that regional governors are or could fall easily under the influence of the CIA. Elected governors are a golden opportunity for the United States to gain control of certain provinces and undermine the integrity of Russia as the CIA has predicted.

I believe that Putin is well aware of the danger of U.S. manipulated elections in oil rich Russian provinces.

I believe that Putin had not choice but to stop the election process for regional governors. To not do so would leave Russia vulnerable to disintegration.

-Am