Rice: Nobody is Trying to Encircle Russia

U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said in the interview with the Washington Post editors and reporters on March 25 that ?the space around Russia is changing and changing pretty dramatically. However, nobody is trying to encircle Russia.?

According to the U.S. Secretary of State, the United States is trying to promote the democratization and liberalization process in the post-Soviet space, ?however, it’s not going to be a matter of controlling these countries.?

?Because once you have populations that are demanding change, once you have populations that are looking around, where people watch Afghans vote or they watch Iraqis vote or they watch the Lebanese in the streets or they watch as far away as Ukraine or Georgia, today Kyrgyzstan ? and they say ‘well, why not us?’,? Condoleezza Rice said.

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