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Afghanistan
Russia may write off Afghan debt in Feb.
2006-12-26
MOSCOW - Russia may write off about $10 billion of AfghanistanÂ’s Soviet-era debt in February, local news agencies quoted Russian Foreign Ministry sources as saying on Monday.
How about the debt to all the crippled Afghan children from your war?
A decision to write off the debt piled up during MoscowÂ’s 9-year-long invasion in the Asian state, which ended in a withdrawal of Soviet troops in 1989, was reached at an international conference on Afghanistan in January.

But debates on the precise size of the debt and conditions of the deal have slowed the talks. ‘The sides have effectively finalised the document and expressed readiness to sign it in February,’ Itar-Tass quoted its source as saying.

RIA quoted a similar source as saying access for Russian businesses to contracts in Afghanistan was a condition for writing off the debt.
Posted by:Steve White

#3  You missed one
"If I can pry it up, it's not nailed down"
Posted by: Redneck Jim   2006-12-26 20:24  

#2  SOP for the Russians:
1 Steal everything that isn't nailed down.
2 Steal everything that is nailed down.
3 Steal all the nails.
A Russian occupying force would make a locust plague seem restrained and compassionate.
Posted by: Grunter   2006-12-26 18:04  

#1  Not to mention all the Afghans who died at the hands of the Soviets, from what I remember reading at the time the Soviets stole everything they could find of any value while they were in Afghanistan.
Posted by: treo   2006-12-26 11:14  

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