'..that Europe should find ways to "stop Putin" despite potential economic costs.'<blockquote>'Former Polish dissident Adam Michnik likens Russian President Vladimir Putin's actions regarding Ukraine to Adolf Hitler's annexation of the German-speaking part of Czechoslovakia in 1938. The veteran of Poland's anticommunist opposition told RFE/RL's Aleksei Dzikavitski in Warsaw that Europe should find ways to "stop Putin" despite potential economic costs. (RFE/RL's Russian Service)'
- RFERL (
Source, August 6, 2014)</blockquote>
'..Vladimir Putin has “never admitted a single error” and “never made a single step backward” even when it would have been tactically or strategically to his benefit to do so .. the Kremlin leader has chosen “the most awful” regardless of “the number of corpses” it may have involved..'<blockquote>'Staunton, July 20 – In his almost 15 years in power, Vladimir Putin has “never admitted a single error” and “never made a single step backward” even when it would have been tactically or strategically to his benefit to do so, Arkady Babchenko says, and consequently, it is unlikely that he will do so in the current situation.
Instead, the Moscow commentator writes on the Grani.ru portal July 21, the Kremlin leader has chosen “the most awful” regardless of “the number of corpses” it may have involved. Given that history, Babchenko says, it is hard to imagine that he will change course this time again.
Thus, Babchenko says, Putin will move forward with what he has been doing. “By hook or by crook. If not in one place, then in another. If not now, then later. [The Kremlin leader] just doesn’t know how to behave otherwise. Consequently, the dispatch of weapons and personnel will continue.”
“In any case,” the commentator says, Putin “has not once ever done anything else.” '
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Putin Never Backs Down Even When He Would Benefit, Moscow Commentator Says, July 22, 2014</blockquote>
Context<blockquote>
'..escalating aggression by Russia’s military..'Budapest Memorandums on Security Assurances, 1994</blockquote>