From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Envelope-To: X-Envelope-From: ziga@udm.net Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2006 05:47:17 +0500 From: Aleksey Korotkov To: =?KOI8-R?Q?=CB=D5=CC=D8=D4=D5=D2=CE=D9=CA_=CF=C6=D4=CF=D0=C9=CB?= Message-ID: <20060329054717.4d896174@localhost.localdomain> Organization: HOME X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 2.0.0 (GTK+ 2.4.9; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=KOI8-R Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: [room] =?koi8-r?b?7yDT18/Cz8TO2cgg19nCz9LByA==?= X-BeenThere: smoke-room@lists.altlinux.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.7 Precedence: list Reply-To: =?koi8-r?b?y9XM2NTV0s7ZyiDPxtTP0MnL?= List-Id: =?koi8-r?b?y9XM2NTV0s7ZyiDPxtTP0MnL?= List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2006 00:48:38 -0000 Archived-At: List-Archive: When is an election not considered free and fair by the west? Answer: when it delivers victory to a government that rejects neoliberal orthodoxy and refuses to orientate its foreign policy towards Washington or Brussels. There is no other conclusion one can come to after both the US and the EU announced swingeing sanctions on Belarus after the re-election of President Lukashenko. [...] The 83% vote for Lukashenko is said to be far too high to be taken seriously; yet there was no such western incredulity when the pro-Nato and pro-EU Mikhail Saakashvili polled 97% in Georgia's 2004 presidential elections. When Georgian civil-society leaders protested about the authoritarian direction in which the country was heading, the west stayed silent. In Ukraine, the scene of elections this weekend, the western-backed orange revolution of just over a year ago has also left a bitter taste for many. For all its talk of spreading democracy, respecting the rights of independent peoples to choose whichever social and economic arrangements they wish really is the last thing the west wants. Neil Clark. You cannot be serious. The Guardian, Monday March 27, 2006 (http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,1740202,00.html)=20 --=20 =F3 =D5=D7=C1=D6=C5=CE=C9=C5=CD, =E1=CC=C5=CB=D3=C5=CA =EB=CF=D2=CF=D4=CB=CF=D7 mailto:ziga@uni.udm.ru