Stunning Breaking News on Russia
Filed under: Russia
Two jaw-dropping developments on the Russian front.
First, the Jamestown Foundation's Vladimir Socor reports that "on January 16 Ukraine's President Viktor Yushchenko, Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, and Parliament Chairman Arseny Yatsenyuk made public a joint letter to NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, declaring Ukraine's readiness to advance to a Membership Action Plan (MAP) with NATO and requesting a decision to that end by the Alliance at its Bucharest summit in early April."
Looks like they are acting none too soon since, second, Congressional Quarterly's Jeff Stein reports that a book about to be published alleges that "Tariq Rauf, the top U.N. official responsible for monitoring the clandestine nuclear programs of Iran and Pakistan is a Russian spy" who "hated America."