Ukrainian Crisis Disappears from Western News Giving Putin a Victory
Paul Goble January 6, 2015
Staunton, January 6 – Vladimir Putin’s aggression in Ukraine has largely disappeared from the front pages of Western newspapers and the lead stories of Western news broadcasts, a development reflecting the short attention span of many people but one that gives the Kremlin leader a victory because this lowers pressure on governments to oppose Russia’s actions.
That has profoundly frustrated those who find themselves in a situation in which any of their efforts to raise the issue are met with the dismissive suggestions of others that this is old news and that the world has moved on – even among those who recognize that aggression which goes unpunished will be repeated.
In an interview given to Gordonua.com, Syuzanna Dostaleva, a native of Odessa who has lived and worked in the Netherlands for 20 years and now collects money to help Ukrainians at home, discusses this situation
She told her interviewer, Natalya Dvali, that “the Dutch understand that in the Ukrainian conflict, Russia is the aggressor, and they say that Putin has gone out of his mind. But they don’t have sufficient information from Ukraine even in English,” something she hopes to remedy by creating an information agency in Europe.
The situation has become more critical in recent weeks, Dostaleva says. In the last month or so, there is “either nothing or 30-second reports” about what is going on in Ukraine. The country and its problems “for a long time have not been in the first columns of the Western media. Instead, those outlets talk about ‘the Islamic State’ or the Ebola virus.”
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