This is my first LJ entry, and I decided to do it when I visited a Russian checkpoint some dozens of kilometers away from Tbilisi, my hometown. It was when the War between Georgia, and South Ossetia...people were killed there, but I mean that it's not always so, and if some occupants let you live in peace - we should do it, and a flag isn't worth of deciding who should live and who not!
When I go to my e-mail box, there are two things that I always look forward to. One is my custom Valery Gergiev alert from Google, and the other is Johnson's Russia List . David Johnson, who either has... somehow, we're taking them along with us to our concerts." "Some of those children have been with us in St Petersburg and some have begun to smile, but not all of them actually," Gergiyev said.
4. The Assembly is conscious that, although the outbreak of the war on 7 August 2008 may have come unexpected to most of its members, it was the result of a serious escalation of tensions, with...continues to receive tracing requests from families of the missing. The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe. Resolution 1633 (2008). The consequences of the war between Georgia and Russia
Two recent articles from The New York Times touching on the aftermath of the recent war in Georgia have caught my attention. Ellen Barry's "Soviet Union’s Fall Unraveled Enclave in Georgia" takes...in the Sanjak area, while the bodies of ethnic Albanians who, massacred, were dumped into various bodies of water in inner Serbia came not from Belgrade or Kragujevac or Novi Sad but from Kosovo.
I have been following recent news over relationship between Russia and the West in the light of the conflict in Georgia. The question that I'm asking myself is - who decides what the "mutual principles...in all this are the country leaders who are concerned only with their own agenda and power. Both in Russia and in the West. And they will use any mean possible to keep themselves on top of the game
Amused Cynicism reports on Sarah Palin's belief that God told the United States to invade Iraq. Is it wrong for me to not be especially surprised at this sort of thing anymore? At 'Aqoul, The Lounsbury...the ability of the rural majority of the country to choose wisely. Parallels with Ataturkism and Turkey, anyone? Spacing Toronto says that Torontonians should be happy that we don't live in Detroit.
By Roman Kupchinsky Wednesday, August 27, 2008 Viktor Yanukovych, the leader of the opposition Party of the Regions, has opposed the government's pro-Georgian response ...on the country by doubling or tripling gas prices, the divided Ukrainian leadership once again appears isolated and threatened. How it will counter these centrifugal forces is anyone’s guess.
I know, I know, this is old news, and I think it's nearly over now. There's no harm in posting my opinions on this anyway, though. Nobody is supporting Russia and South Ossetia in this war, it seems...South Ossetia. "On August 25 2008, the Russian Parliament voted to recognize South Ossetia and Abkhazia as independent nations." ^ I believe this to be a good thing. Power to those independent nations
