Sunday, May 23, 2010

Ukraine’s refusal to join NATO: the return to national interests?

It is ridiculous, but the information that Ukrainian authorities made a decision to dismiss bodies responsible for preparing the Ukrainian entering NATO was hardly noticed. In Russian mass-media the event was almost lost among breaking news about the acts of terrorism, and in foreign mass-media the information was represented only by segmental and moderate comments of experts without any significant political statements concerning the issue.

Mikhail Mizin notes that this topic was reasonably paid little attention in western information field, which once more demonstrated its subjective right for assigning importance rates electively. The current information campaign carried out in accordance with all the rules of PR-technologies and dedicated to a new NATO strategy concept uses specially created web-portals and Internet broadcasting channels. However, this campaign scarcely paid attention to the fact that one of the largest European countries, till the recent moment setting oneself as a candidate to join the block, actually demonstrated its refusal to join.

In the same time, western TV channels continued to thoroughly monitor the operation carried out by International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan under the guidance of NATO, providing that Afghanistan is the country situated thousands of kilometers far from European capitals and separated from Europe by whole steps of civilization development...
See the whole article here:
http://www.eastwest-review.com/article/ukrainersquos-refusal-join-nato-return-national-interests

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