CIS Shift

Two recent and interesting posts dealing with the realisation that CIS nations cannot be controlled from Moscow.......

Gateway Pundit deals with the recent summit in Kazan.....

http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/2005/08/russia-losing-grip-on-ex-soviet.html

Whilst Siberian Light addresses the end of Russia's cheap gas supply to 'friendly states'......

http://www.siberianlight.net/siberianlight/2005/08/russia_to_stop_.html

Paragraphs like this:

“Russia is not happy with the situation when in fact it subsidizes the economies of certain countries by supplying them with energy resources at discount prices while their people remain impoverished,” the Kremlin source said. “Such situations create grounds for ’Orange Revolutions’ which change little in people’s lives but bring to power rulers, some of whom are ... in the pay of the United States,” the source told the state-owned news agency.

at least show that Russia is realising the errors of its past ways. Now if it could embrace democracy things would really start to look up for the region...