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Freedom 2010 in Balkans and Eastwards

Posted by AriRusila on 02/05/10

“Freedom of the press, freedom of association, the inviolability of domicile, and all the rest of the rights of man are respected so long as no one tries to use them against the privileged class. On the day they are launched against the privileged they are overthrown.” (Prince Peter Kropotkin) Different aspects of freedom are [...]

Georgia’s true story starts coming out also in West

Posted by AriRusila on 09/11/08

  I must make a short addition to my yesterday’s article about Georgia situation, because after writing some new information about events on 7th August 2008 came public e.g. through The New York Times and BBC. According OSCE monitors on the ground it is now in doubt that some groups from South-Ossetia had provocated Georgia’s attack [...]

OSCE report fault Georgia – one trivial statement more from EU summit

Posted by AriRusila on 03/09/08

Europe’s leading human rights and security body, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, accused the Georgian government of committing likely war crimes in the Georgian rebel region of South Ossetia, Der Spiegel said in a report published on Monday 1st September 2008. The Vienna-based OSCE massively criticized Georgia’s western- backed leadership for its [...]

Is Transnistria the next follow up of Kosovo UDI?

Posted by AriRusila on 25/08/08

Federation Council, the upper chamber of the Russian parliament, is backing independence of South Ossetia and Abkhazia  – Georgia’s two rebel provinces.   The vote came after a brief war between Russia and Georgia following Georgia’s assault on the South Ossetian capital of Tskhinvali Aug. 7. Both countries won de-facto independence in the 1990s after wars [...]

Power in service of ethics

Posted by AriRusila on 14/08/08

During last twenty years war for humanitarian reasons has came quite popular in political vocabulary e.g. in Balkans and now with Georgia case. The ideal to use power in the service of ethics is good. The problem is the low level of ethics when US is using her power in world. I remember their actions [...]

Kosovo > South-Ossetia > Abkhazia > ???

Posted by AriRusila on 09/08/08

Georgia launched a major military offensive against South Ossetia on Friday in a bid to regain control of its breakaway province.   The attack started few hours after declared ceasefire, just before opening Day of Olympics.  It’s been confirmed that some Russian peacekeepers working in the region have been killed in the fighting, although exact figures [...]

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