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Do you have some links on these Karaganov's theses? Would be interesting to read...

Why shouldn't we talk about racism? When in estonia they destroy monuments for ww2 heroes - why should we keep silence? O.o First, that statue In Estonia (about a WW2 hero) was not destroyed, but removed to another place. Who has told it was destroyed?? False information. Second, why should the ind...

Eugene from Belarus wrote:

mika wrote:Do you know any civilized "methods of making war?"

I know. not to bomb civil buildings - to bomb just militaty objects. as russians did

But that's not true, civilian buildings too were bombed in Gori!!

I 'm tired to say: there're no our forces, except peacekeepers in proper Georgia!! Now maybe, but some weeks ago there still was... And we are ready for dialog ith Chechnya. Too late, you do not need, every non-pro-Russian leader has already been killed... :( SALOMO: I PUT MY HAND ON MY HEART. I'M ...

Give an example, please. And I bet Russians are learning nationalist feelings too... or, if not already, then at least after the new Putin-ordered book will be in use, see http://www.prospect-magazine.co.uk/article_details.php?id=10356 Btw, remember that Western Ukraine (the old Polish region with L...

Come on, it was not only terrorists bombed in Groznyi, but normal peaceful people! Russia would have bombed even without any terrorist connection: the crime of the Chechens were that they had proclaimed their independence, they had left Russia. THIS was their "big crime" and everything els...

But why estonians wanna avendge us? Today's Russia? What we did? We DON'T OCCUPATE THEM!! Russia changed! We don't occupate everybody! Except concerning this war in Georgia (occupied zones outside South Ossetia, in proper Georgia), and your "internal affair" with Chechnya, you are indeed ...

I do not deny that Georgians bombed Tskhinvali, but compare this bombing with the one of Groznyi!!! All tens or hundreds of bombings of Groznyi together!

Tell me, if President Kennedy could have saved himself with running or covering, when he was killed, would you have called him a coward? In fact, more Russian propagana uses this event as an attempt to discredit Saakashvili, more damaging it does to Russians' reputation. I cannot believe you can ju...

As for Poland: a rebellion grew in Warsaw in 1944 and was first quite successful. The rebels wanted to install a Polish government in the city before the Red Army antered the city. The Soviet troops were very close to Warsaw, on the other side of the river! They could have helped the Poles to be fr...

Freedom for Chechnya should have been living without russian rule, withoul killed chechens, without russian bombs,... What did Russia do?... Almost exactly what you have done with s Osetia.... Ok, you admit that Russia behaved as "barbaristically" in Chechnya than Saakashvili in South Oss...

What are you talking about??! It's not the Georgian-Russian war, it's the Georgian-Ossetian war!!! Georgia attacked their_own provinces! Can you imagine USA bombing Texas, Russia attacking Kola Peninsula or France attacking Bretagne?!?!? It's AWFUL! Russia attacked Chechnya several times and really...

we don't want Estonia, Ukraine, Georgia, Poland, other countries that WE_HAD_FREED_FROM_FASCISTS to be against us... You took away their independence. You installed another tyranny instead, much longer: the Soviet rule from 1945 to 1990-91. Ask any non-Russian older person there. For many of them, ...

You had an opportunity to "throw them away", that is what they also wanted, but you "took them back". :( I also wish they could be allowed to leave Russia. Same for the Lakota state in USA. Why not? Of course, a referendum would be nice... One problem is certainly that the area i...

There was no `genocide` on muslims in Srebrenica!!! COME ON!!! Whole Europe knows there has been one. Go and say that Bosnian Serbs were not the only ones who committed genocides, ok, but don’t deny a fact which has definitely been proved. I have glimpsed fast at some pages which try to deny the wh...

Eugene, You REALLY can not say Russia was never agressor!! USSR attacked Finland in 1939, trying to occupy it entirely. Fortunately we managed to fight them back. But USSR occupied the Baltic countries in 1940 and started deporting anti-socialist people to Siberia. After very unfair elections, they ...

I'm from Belarus and you are telling me about invasion in Poland in 1939? )) during the 1 world war germany have taken away half of my country and have given it to Poland. Red armi just free my contry, belarus people who suffered from Poland. The same concerne to Finland and others. And by the way ...

I have not read the 3 last pages, not time yet - but I like to comment on this before I forget: Actually, for some nations full democracy is very bad. For example - chiniese. And for russians too. Why would democracy be bad for Chinese?? It has never been tried. Never. So how can you pretend that? I...

Russia is, however, not only seeking leverage in its own backyard, but increasingly also on global issues. It has e.g. turned into a fierce opponent of most of the stuff the United States is advocating on everything from Sudan to Iran, Kosovo and North Korea. This is not very surprising. President ...

I would like especially EU1 to read that article in Le Monde. Then we could debate about it, in French if necessary...

Yes, if Russia would not be part in this conflict, who knows on whose "side" I would be in this propaganda war...

Where are Russian principles? They did not allow independence to Chechnya, why are they allowing it now to South Ossetia and Abkhazia?? Both Chehcnya and Kosovo have about 80 % of the population belonging to the "local" ethnicity (Chechens and Albanians, not Russians or Serbs). Neither of ...

Le problème est que la Russie est un état puissant qui ne pense qu’ à élargir son cercle d’influence en supportant des états pas trop démocratiques, en plus. Elle a toujours une arrière-pensée. The problem is that Russia is a (regional) super-power which thinks only about enlarging its influence zon...

Personally I do not understand the logic why Russia promotes Abkhazian and South Ossetian independency, but failed to give the same independence to Chechnya, to Ingushetia, to Dagestan… or to promote the independence of Kosovo. Of all these, Abkhazia and South Ossetia is the region with least people...

Personally I do not understand the logic why Russia promotes Abkhazian and South Ossetian independency, but failed to give the same independence to Chechnya, to Ingushetia, to Dagestan… or to promote the independence of Kosovo. Of all these, Abkhazia and South Ossetia is the region with least people...

EU1 wrote:Any place where Americans come to, tragedies occurs. USA is Empire of Evil

I would say the very same about Russia.