Russian Websites Publicize Zepp-LaRouche Call To Double Food Production

May 16, 2008 (LPAC) -- Posted on the Russian-language website of the LaRouche movement (www.larouchepub.com/russian) and e-mailed to contacts of the movement, Helga Zepp LaRouche's May 3 Schiller Institute call for action on the world food crisis rapidly began to spread on Internet sites in Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus. Several of the Russian-language postings highlighted Zepp-LaRouche's demand that "the World Trade Organization must be dissolved, immediately." Ukraine has just recently joined the WTO, and Russia seeks to do so.

The Russian translation went out with a "what you can do" paragraph at the end, asking for individual statements of support, as well as that the call be circulated as widely as possible. The posting also provided links to articles in Executive Intelligence Review on the murderous impact of the WTO and globalization on world food production, and two Russian-language Xinhua wires on the upcoming June 3-5 U.N. Food and Agriculture Summit and FAO head Jacques Diouf's statements on the severity of the food crisis.

The most prominent websites to post Zepp LaRouche's appeal in Russian are those of:

The Russian Anti-Globalist Resistance, Russian Federation (www.anti-glob.ru), where it appeared May 13 with a front-page notice saying, "Hunger is caused by the new world order. Helga Zepp-LaRouche believes the means exist to stop it."

Strategium East European Online Political Experts Community, Ukraine (www.strateger.net). Strategium's founder and coordinator, Sergei Pozny, is a signer of the Ad Hoc Committee for a New Bretton Woods appeal to convene a conference for a new monetary system.

RPMonitor, a Moscow-based news and analysis site directed by economist Andrei Kobyakov (www.rpmonitor.ru), featured the article on its front page today, with the headline "The specter of death by famine: Only the immediate dissolution of the WTO can save millions of lives in Asia, Africa, and Latin America," and the byline, "Helga Zepp-LaRouche (Germany), President of the Schiller Institute." Professor Kobyakov likewise is a signer of the call for a New Bretton Woods conference.

In response to the message urging circulation of Zepp-LaRouche's call for action, the full text also appeared on regional sites, including the "Sarov Top Secret" portal (www.sarov.cc), a news site based in the town where Russia's Federal Nuclear Center weapons lab is located. A Belarusian website called "Imperiya" (www.imperiya.by) also showcased the article. Individuals posted it on the popular Russian political forums Global Venture (www.aventurist.org) and the Big Forum (www.bolshoyforum.ru), the latter a project of readers of Zavtra newspaper. "Rossiya -- Ring of Patriotic Resources," a widely used portal, led its "Economics" section with a link to the call for action at its location on the Anti-Globalist Resistance site.

Individuals from Poltava in Ukraine, and from Murmansk, Kaluga, and Makhachkala (Dagestan) in Russia, wrote by e-mail to support the call. A civil service employee from Murmansk said, "We need to get more attention to the problem of hunger and food production at all levels! Accept the idea -- stop the hunger in third world and developing countries!"