Budapest Memorandum
Budapest Memorandum – the Memorandum on Security Assurances in connection with Ukraine’s accession to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons.
It was signed on December 5, 1994, in Budapest, and is therefore called the Budapest Memorandum. It was signed by Prime Minister Major of the United Kingdom, President Bill Clinton of the United States, President Boris Yeltsin of Russia, and President Leonid Kuchma of Ukraine.
Today the world faces a deeply corrupt Russian state where state control of the media is almost total, where control of major financial and resource assets resides almost exclusively close 'friends' many of whom have have KGB or St Petersburg connections (or both) going some way back, where increasingly neo nationalism is encouraged by the State up to a form of cult worship of the new 'Great Leader', a state which is not concerned with any former international agreements it's predecessors may have the signed - the Budapest Memorandum, Helsinki Accords and even the United Nations founding charter are clearly regarded as non binding. A Russian state increasingly is hurtling back to it's past. So tell me: was the Cold War won?
