New Cold Warrior Edward Lucas has been a chief apologist for why Kosovo should be allowed independence while Transdniestria should not. His Transdniestria-related articles, like those of his good friend and respected (by Lucas) collaborator Vladimir Socor, hype a fear of all things Russian which is obviously not shared by the Russian-friendly population of Transdniestria.

Now, in his latest missive for The Economist, his Russophobia hits a new low. In it, he rails against Estonia’s Russian-speaking minority but assures his readers that “grim post-Soviet mortality rates will shrink the problem eventually.” The problem is a civil rights problem for Russian-speaking population of Estonia (whom he called “Soviet migrants stranded by the empire’s collapse” - in reality people who legally lived and worked there for decades, and many of whom were born there).

Kirill Pankratov just about sums it up:

That’s essentially saying in plain words that “Good Russian is a dead Russian”, and if something can be done to “speed up the process” (wink, wink), that’s only for the better.

This is beyond despicable.
I guess if the next time Al Qaeda will blow up some office building full of neocon “wonks” and “journalists” like Lucas, I’d be applauding “shrinking of a problem” of proliferation of war-mongering thugs.

Edward Lucas is a bit of a self-confessed graphomanic nutjob and also a fan of the bigoted (no hyperbole) anti-Russian Captive Nations Committee.

Sadly, both for Transdniestria and for a fair and objective approach to the issues facing this captive would-be nation of 550,000 people, he holds the exclusive franchise at The Economist for covering Transdniestria. So caveat lector applies to every article on Transdniestria in that particular news source.

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