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Just a note: I have lived in Europe and been in Ukraine and in Russia. I have friends there and have always wished Ukraine to modernize and move toward Europe. So I am no blind Russia fan. I just know the people there and the countries and understand what really happened. I have been aware of our meddling since the "Orange Revolution", when I noticed that (former) President Yushenko was married to an American who worked in hard right "think tanks" , (you know, the kind we all hate here?). I have paid attention ever since..

Early 2000s I was approached by a Republican in Ukraine (Yes, the actual Republican Institute has been involved there for years) about work prospects with them (my acquaintance there did not know my politics were liberal). I was ignorant of what was going on there. But not after that.....

Russia is no ideal country, but this is all of our own making. We have embraced a foreign and economic policy of "end justifies the means" and have crossed many bounderies, created wars on lies, allied with really bad guys, taken down even democratic governments at a whim of our interest.

We are even now weakening the very important institutions of NGOs (The reason that Russia has restricted NGOs is because we were lying about what many were about and using them to spy and attempt to weaken the country. )

That is why now NGO's such as DRs without Borders are now in danger in many parts of the world. The terrible precident of immoral use of peacemaking and humanitarian institutions has been made into an art form and by doing this we weaken world peace. We should expect more from our government.

Russia is essentially the first country to put their hand up and say enough when our shadow institutions tried to compromise it.

It is a shame it was not a country a little more modernized that did this. But it eventually was going to happen.