Russian Political Scientist Blames Polish Conspiracy for Ukraine Election Crisis (from JRL

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Mosnews.com
November 25, 2004
Russian Political Scientist Blames Polish Conspiracy for Ukraine Election Crisis

Renowned Russian political scientist Sergei Markov told reporters in
Moscow
on Thursday that the ongoing political crisis in Ukraine was in fact a
Polish conspiracy with the aim of imposing Polish patronage over
Ukraine
and thus raising Polish influence within the European Union.

“Yushchenko’s electoral campaign has been developed within the Polish
diaspora abroad and its ideological basis was prepared by former U.S.
national security adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski and his two sons,” the
Newsru.com web-site quoted Markov as saying.

Markov said that another ethnic Pole, Andrian Karatnitsky, the head of
the
U.S. foundation Freedom House, had hired Serbian spin doctors and
brought
them to Ukraine ahead of the presidential elections. (Another Russian
political scientist, Gleb Pavlovsky, said in a Wednesday evening news
broadcast on Russia’s RTR television channel that Yushchenko’s campaign
had
been prepared by the same specialists who prepared similar campaigns in
Serbia and Georgia).

“The arrival of Lech Walesa and Aleksander Kwasniewski as
intermediaries in
the Ukraine negotiations would become a part of the Tbilisi-Belgrade
scenario, as the objective of these intermediaries is not peace, but a
passing of power to Yushchenko,” Markov said.

He added that the original plan is for Poland to impose its patronage
over
Ukraine. Polish politicians are seeking more influence within the
European
Union, currently dominated by France and Germany, and to achieve this,
they
want to become patrons of the whole of Central and Eastern Europe, the
Russian analyst said.

Markov said the United States would benefit from a Yushchenko victory
as it
would weaken Germany and France on the world arena and also split
Ukraine
and Russia. He also added that “the majority of the representatives of
the
Polish diaspora in the United States hate George Bush and want to cause
a
quarrel between him and Russian President Vladimir Putin”.

Markov also said that the main drawback of the plan was that its
implementation was possible only on condition of extreme secrecy. He
reminded the press that due to historical reasons the Ukrainians are
very
suspicious of the Poles and such a plan would find widespread
disapproval
among the majority of Ukrainians.