Herald Tribune<\/em>. On a beaucoup entendu les exclamations occidentales sur l’ arme du gaz, sur la d\u00e9pendance de l’Europe ou sur les mauvaises mani\u00e8res de Poutine (horreur, alors qu’il prend la pr\u00e9sidence du G-8 s’est-on d\u00e9j\u00e0 exclam\u00e9 \u00e0 propos des mauvaises mani\u00e8res de GW Bush, de ses attaques pr\u00e9ventives et de ses avions transportant des prisonniers vers la torture, lui qui est si souvent \u00e0 la t\u00eate du G8?).<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\tLe cas est plus que suspect, du c\u00f4t\u00e9 occidental comme d’habitude. Quelques mots de Lieven permettent de bien situer la r\u00e9alit\u00e9 du probl\u00e8me des rapports de la Russie et de l’Ukraine:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\t\u00ab Consider the figures: Until the latest price hike for gas, Russia was supplying Ukraine with a de facto annual energy subsidy estimated by independent experts at somewhere between $3 billion and $5 billion a year. That is more than the whole of the European Union’s aid in the 14 years since Ukrainian independence.<\/em> <\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bb As for U.S. aid, last year it stood at a mere $174 million and this after all the talk of U.S. admiration and support for Ukraine’s Orange Revolution. Even after the latest price rise, Ukraine will remain greatly favored by international standards, though now more at the ultimate expense of Turkmenistan than Russia.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bb Equally important for the Ukrainian economy have been the remittances sent back annually by the millions of Ukrainians working legally in Russia. Once again, contrast Western approaches to this question: It remains extremely difficult for Ukrainians to gain permits to work legally in Western countries. When the last German foreign minister, Joschka Fischer, tried to relax the terms for entry into Germany, the result was an outburst of chauvinist hysteria about a supposed flood of Ukrainian criminals and prostitutes.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bb Recent days have seen a great deal of moralizing in the U.S. and European news media about Russia using energy as a political tool. It would be better if the Americans and French in particular turned the question round and asked themselves whether there would be the slightest possibility of their countries giving aid on this scale without expecting concrete geopolitical and economic returns. <\/em> \u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\tPubli\u00e9 le 9 janvier 2006 \u00e0 09H54<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Un excellent article sur l’affaire russo-ukrainienne du gaz, avec l’UE et les USA en prime, est donn\u00e9 par Anatol Lieven dans l’International Herald Tribune. On a beaucoup entendu les exclamations occidentales sur l’ arme du gaz, sur la d\u00e9pendance de l’Europe ou sur les mauvaises mani\u00e8res de Poutine (horreur, alors qu’il prend la pr\u00e9sidence du… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4967,916,2730,1296],"class_list":["post-67163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bloc-notes","tag-gaz","tag-poutine","tag-russie","tag-ukraine"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67163\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}