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posted by zaina19 on March, 2007 as ANALYSIS / OPINION
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 3/10/2007 11:49 PM
President of European Parliament: Germany made a mistake agreeing with Russia to lay a pipeline on Baltic seabed
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Chair of the European Parliament Hans-Gert Pöttering believes that Germany made “a big political mistake,” when it one-sidedly agreed with Russia to lay a pipeline on the Baltic seabed. Hans-Gert Pöttering made the statement in Brussels while meeting Lithuanian Prime Minister Gediminas Kirkilas.
According to the President of the European Parliament, Germany’s mistake is that by making such decision, the German government had not consulted Poland and Baltic countries. Hans-Gert Pöttering stressed that such questions cannot be solved bilaterally, but all EU member-countries must participate in it. Earlier, on February 19, Lithuanian environmentalists spoke against laying the pipeline on the Baltic seabed.
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16:05 03/09/2007
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Opinion: “Xenophobia undermines Russia”
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posted by zaina19 on as ANALYSIS / OPINION
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 3/10/2007 11:56 PM Opinion: “Xenophobia undermines Russia” Read it in Russian A Russian governmental initiative to raise tolerance that was popular before is now losing its pace, Chair of the Council General of the Euro-Asian Jewish Congress Joseph Zissels told a REGNUM correspondent today. Zissels is participating in “Tolerance – lessons of the Holocaust” panel in Alma-Ata (Kazakhstan). “For the last ten years, Russia has changed substantially from the point of view of civilization values and vectors of its further development. It is searching for its own way. Maybe, the values they popularized ten years ago officially have become not so important for them on this way,” he stressed. Being a Ukrainian resident, while conducting “Tolerance – lessons of the Holocaust” panels in the post-Soviet territory, including Russia, where the program has been elaborated since late 1990s, Joseph Zissels said that from his point of view, “development of groups and parties in Russia, whose essence and aim is connected with re-orientating the country ... >> full
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From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 3/11/2007 1:35 AM The Weekly Standard Putin's New Friends Moscow hosts Hamas. by Matthew Levitt 03/19/2007, Volume 012, Issue 26 In recent congressional testimony, the new director of national intelligence, Admiral Mike McConnell, warned that Russia, flush with petrodollars, feels "emboldened . . . to pursue foreign policy goals that are not always consistent with those of Western institutions." How true. From the murder in London of KGB/FSB critic Alexander Litvinenko to the blocking of international sanctions against Iran's nuclear weapons program, recent events make clear that Russia's foreign policy is increasingly assertive and, from the American point of view, unhelpful. The most recent confirmation of this coincided with McConnell's congressional testimony. Even as the director of national intelligence sat before the Senate Armed Services committee, Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov was hosting Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal in Moscow--for the second time within a year. The red carpet visit occurred despite Hamas's refusal to recognize Israel, renounce violence, or accept previous Israeli-Palestinian agreements as required ... >> full
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When a journalist dies, we are all responsible
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posted by zaina19 on as ANALYSIS / OPINION
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 3/11/2007 9:47 AM When a journalist dies, we are all responsible It's time for real action against regimes that stand idly by when reporters are killed, says one of Fleet Street's most distinguished former editors Harold Evans Sunday March 11, 2007 Observer The price of truth has gone up grievously. We pay every week with the life of a reporter, a cameraman, a support worker. Unless the life is that of a well-known Western correspondent, the world barely notices. Just four months after the horrific 2002 kidnapping and beheading of the Wall Street Journal's Daniel Pearl, Tim Lopes of Globo TV suffered the identical fate without a similar outcry: he had been investigating drugs and under-age sex in a Rio de Janeiro slum. The first shocking thing is just how many are dying. The International News Safety Institute, a coalition of media organisations, press freedom groups, unions and humanitarian campaigners, calculates that if we include all news media personnel - translators, fixers, office staff, drivers - no ... >> full
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From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 3/11/2007 3:39 PM Be alert! Sunday, 11 March 2007 Vatican informs about coming reception of Putin by Pope Benedict XVI at the Audience on March 13. Putin hardly goes to perform penance. The staff looser of FSB sins Russian patriarch Alexis II ostensibly welcomes this visit as if a step of further (!) nearing between the Catholic and Russian Orthodox churches. It cannot be excluded that Putin will officially invite the Pope to visit Russia (while Russian authorities prevented John Paul II from this earlier, today the main ideologist of satanic “Third Rome” metropolitian Cyrill is going to translate a book of Ratzinger, then not Pope, into Russian). The idea is worthy of the „Olympiad in Sochi” (from our side we would only advise Putin to invite the Pope to „peaceful Khankala“). Real purposes of the March 13 visit may be two: 1) to show Putin in an attractive light on the background of the avalanche of disclosures throughout the world; 2) to violate Vatican ... >> full
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