WEDNESDAY JUNE 17 CONTENTS
(1) EDITORIAL: Gontmakher Strikes Back!
(2) EDITORIAL: Neo-Soviet Apes, Scratching Themselves
(4) Ponomarev on the Neo-Soviet Gulag
(5) The Strange Case of Artyom Loskutov
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Shocking!
Russian veto ends UN mission to Georgia
Russia has exercised its veto power in the U.N. Security Council and brought an end to the nearly 16-year-old U.N. observer mission in Georgia and breakaway Abkhazia.
Indeed – who needs those stinking international observers when Russians can maintain peace just fine all over Caucasus!
As a side note… even Hezbollah were able to make international observers in Lebanon to look the other way as they were stockpiling weapons after 2006 war. But Russians can’t. So much for their outstanding diplomatic capabilities. Excellent job, Mr Lavrov!
Paul Goble had an eye catching piece today on Russia’s dumbed down and corruption ridden higher education:
Vienna, June 16 – Up to 50 percent of the students in Russian universities pay bribes to their instructors on a regular basis, and as many as a third of all instructors systematically take them, according to Russian experts who were reacting to a UNESCO report that bribery in Russian higher education now amounts to 150 million US dollars every year.
In some universities, “Novyye izvestiya” reported yesterday, “students can choose between studying or paying while in others, everyone is forced to pay up.” But the paper notes that up to the present, at least, police and prosecutors there find it difficult to enforce laws against bribery in this sector.
http://windowoneurasia.blogspot.com/2009/06/window-on-eurasia-half-of-russian.html
A couple of articles about the racist Russian state attempting to extinguish ethnic rights in Russia
http://www.rferl.org/content/Russian_Constitutional_Courts_Unconstitutional_Decision/1751391.html
http://www.rferl.org/content/Former_Official_Says_Moscow_Punishing_Ethnic_Republics/1751410.html