| Billionaire Soros expels Russia from G8 American billionaire George Soros calls for Russia to be expelled from the G8. “The prerequisite for participation in the G8 is democracy,” he said in an interview with the Austrian newspaper Press, “and in Russia it no longer functions. There are no more independent media, no political opposition and no judiciary independent of the government. Russia has taken a step back." Europe, according to Soros, is silent because it “depends on Moscow’s energy supplies and prefers not to notice negative political changes in Russia.”
74-year-old philanthropist George Soros is considered a sponsor of both the “pink” Georgian and “orange” Ukrainian revolutions. Last December, Russian President Vladimir Putin even accused George Soros of paying salaries to the Georgian leadership. On Saturday, George Soros said that the revolutions in Georgia and Ukraine “are certainly not the work of our foundation, but of the citizens of the respective countries.” But “what happened in Ukraine makes regimes in other countries very nervous. This also makes Putin very nervous,” he emphasized.
Not all of George Soros' political projects are successful. Last year, he financed the Democratic election campaign in the United States, but the $23 million he allocated was not enough to prevent President Bush from being re-elected to a second term.
The very idea of expelling Russia from the G8 is not new. Last April, a group of American congressmen called on President Bush to expel Russia from the G8 for “neglecting democratic principles.” The White House is cool about such advice. “I have heard people say that Russia should not have become a member of the G8. That would be a mistake. Russia is a country going through a period of transition. Many processes in it are immature. We must continue the dialogue,” US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said last week in Luxembourg. Andrey ZLOBIN |
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