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| Zhirinovsky: We want part of Estonia back |
| 2003-11-09 |
| Staff and wire reports Baltic Times, Oct. 30-Nov. 5 Russia’s Vladimir Zhirinovsky, leader of the Liberal-Democratic Russian Party and especially from ’45-’91 and that the border agreement between the two countries should be rewritten. (Click here to see the region in question). In a meeting with the electorate held in the culture center of Ivangorod, which is located across the river from Narva, he said, "Narva and Tartu should be taken over from Estonia because these are Russian towns ... Narva is a Russian town, and Tartu is Yuryev, also a Russian town." That would be news to the people of Tartu, who bill it as "the most Estonian" city in the country. For Estonians, Russia’s We can? Oh, thank you Vlad! "We should leave [the Estonians] Tallinn and Parnu. That’s all of Estonia — the rest is Russia," Zhirinovsky said, adding that the Vilnius region in Lithuania fell under the same category of historically disputed territory. Okay; who here wants to tell the Lithuanians they’re gonna need a new capital? Estonian officials downplayed the rant, writing it off to Russia’s upcoming The surprise meter is still pegged at zero. |
| Posted by:Baltic Blog |
| #6 They will have a hard time getting Alaska back. If I remember my Alaska reading, the Russians paid 7 million for Alaska, but after they took possession of the gold bullion, only 5 million made it back to mother Russia. I do keep my powder dry. IMR 4360 in tins. |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2003-11-9 10:34:10 PM |
| #5 Soviet Union, hell. He wants to rebuild Czarist Russia (with himself as Czar). Isn't he the one who wants Alaska back? Keep your powder dry, Paul! |
| Posted by: Angie Schultz 2003-11-9 10:15:59 PM |
| #4 Zhirinovsky wants to rebuild the old Soviet Union, and nothing else will satisfy him. If he can't do it all at once, he'll try to do it a bit at a time. The man needs to be put on the Trans-Siberian railroad, with a one-way ticket to the smallest station on the line east of Lake Baikal. |
| Posted by: Old Patriot 2003-11-9 6:49:52 PM |
| #3 I wonder when he'll be asking for Alaska back to...... |
| Posted by: Jarhead 2003-11-9 6:35:48 PM |
| #2 To paraphrase Bugs Bunny, "I'd trust the EU about as far as I could t'row da Big Mo'." (The battleship Missouri, for you youngsters out there.) |
| Posted by: PBMcL 2003-11-9 5:56:11 PM |
| #1 Next to Zhirinovsky, Putin is an angel. |
| Posted by: Rafael 2003-11-9 5:13:20 PM |
