From Publius Pundit’s post calling for “Protest against Russia Babes” in light of Miss Universe 2007 and all the participating babes of Eastern Europe.
The Russian daily Noviye Izvestia recently published a map, shown above, that graded relations between Russia and countries on its borders. The newspaper concluded that Russia had provoked conflict with virtually all of its western neighbours and enjoyed good ties only with Armenia and former Soviet republics in Central Asia.
The legend in the top right lists, from the top:
- historical disagreements
- ‘artificial’ conflicts (literal transl.)
- friends
- neutral relations
