The message could hardly have been clearer

  • Edward Lucas
  • 16.05.2014
Krievijas jaunais "politiskais alfabēts" jeb "pieklājīgo ļaužu alfabēts". Foto: AFP/LETA

Krievijas jaunais "politiskais alfabēts" jeb "pieklājīgo ļaužu alfabēts". Foto: AFP/LETA

Russia marked Victory in Moscow with a parade overseen by President Putin. He also visited Crimea and praised its return to the motherland. Meanwhile bandits wielding Kalashnikovs guard roadblocks in Eastern Ukraine and helicopters are shot out of the sky.

Ukraine - a European country - is facing the choice, forced on it by Russia, between dismemberment and civil war. What more will it take to wake up the world to the threat posed by Russia under its sinister strongman Vladimir Putin?

The Russian leader has torn up the rules on which European security has been based for decades.

He and his cronies loot tens of billions of dollars from Russia each year - and launder it in the City of London, corrupting our public life.

They bribe and bully to get their way. At home, they jail and persecute their opponents. Those who seriously cross their path end up dead.

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