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"Such a system as [Russian Prime Minister Vladimir] Putin's is exactly a target for destruction. It needs to be destroyed."
Former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev
Former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev
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Here's a warning for enthusiasts of Euro 2012, the soccer championship to be co-hosted by Ukraine: Don't repeat the mistakes of the fiasco of Miss Europe 1997, held in Kyiv on Sept. 6 of that year. In one of independent Ukraine's most embarrassing international scandals, beauty contestants of the Miss Europe pageant fled Kyiv after complaining that they were forced from their hotel rooms and treated like prostitutes by some of their Ukrainian male hosts. The headline from the Ukrainian Weekly on Sept. 14 summed it up well: "Miss Europe marred by scandal and walkout." Here is the Kyiv Post editorial of Sept. 11, 1997, headlined "A shameful pageant": Nov 10, 2009 at 23:28 |
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Kati Marton and Nina Ognianova write: During a recent mission by representatives of the Committee to Protect Journalists to urge the end of impunity in the killing of journalists in Russia, we were struck by Moscow investigators and prosecutors using the familiar excuses: “Give us time,” they told us. “Russia is where the United States was in the days of the Wild West.” But a great nation claiming equal status with other great nations cannot plead exemption when it comes to press freedom and human rights. Russia cannot have it both ways. Read the opinion here. Nov 10, 2009 at 09:06 |