The Ukrainian president, Viktor Yushchenko, and the Russian prime minister, Vladimir Putin, in a file photograph. Photograph: Sergei Karpukhin/AFP/Getty ImagesFrom Time Magazine:
Vladimir Putin, Russia's prime minister and former president, is not renowned for his love of literature. But on Sunday he gave Russian journalists an unexpected reading tip: the diaries of Anton Denikin, a commander in the White Army that fought the Bolsheviks after the Revolution in 1917.
"He has a discussion there about Big Russia and Little Russia — Ukraine," Russian newswires quoted Putin as saying after laying a wreath in Moscow at the grave of Denikin, who is now portrayed as a Russian patriot. "He says that no one should be allowed to interfere in relations between us; they have always been the business of Russia itself."
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My Comment: Putin cannot be more blunt than that .... he is clearly telling everyone that Ukraine is within Russia's sphere of influence. I am sure the Ukrainians are not too happy about this "new reality".
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