tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24528000.post2626661491592002053..comments2023-10-28T12:01:47.929+00:00Comments on Edward Lucas: Nino's 43 QuestionsEdward Lucashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11369936559712607693noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24528000.post-48851925742147838552008-11-28T19:33:00.000+00:002008-11-28T19:33:00.000+00:00Mikheil Saakashvili has been questioned by Georgia...Mikheil Saakashvili has been <BR/>questioned by Georgian Parliamentary commission today, as of 28.11.08.<BR/> This will never happen in Putin's Russia. This is the real expression of democracy. Georgia has proved once again that it is on the right path.<BR/><BR/>Mr. Lucas thank you for your insightful articles and an amazing book about Putin's Russia. <BR/><BR/>P.S. I would also like to thank you for signing one of the copies of your book for me, when Bishop Malkhaz of Georgia asked you to. (I don't know whether you remember him or not).Alexanderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07522592946652215215noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24528000.post-21293859031536359482008-10-09T19:42:00.000+00:002008-10-09T19:42:00.000+00:00Hi LuisClearly I misunderstood you. I though you w...Hi Luis<BR/><BR/>Clearly I misunderstood you. I though you were denouncing me as an agent of western propaganda against Russia. Sorry about that. I think that Misha's record in recent months is highly questionable and it is entirely right that he should be held to account. Georgia won't win the battle of ideas against Chekistan by being the victim: it needs to get its soft-power advantage up and running. And that means showing that the political system allows the powerful to be held to account.<BR/><BR/>Regards<BR/>EdwardEdward Lucashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11369936559712607693noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24528000.post-88106738975706866182008-10-09T19:02:00.000+00:002008-10-09T19:02:00.000+00:00Mr LucasI just try to ask a simple question: who w...Mr Lucas<BR/><BR/>I just try to ask a simple question: who will be responsible for these atrocities and human rights abuses in this region? How can we stop the process of ethnic cleansing which is still underway in South Ossetia? In Tskhinvali we have 4 apartment buildings destroyed while 135 Georgiaqn houses were bulldozed and completely destroyed. (http://www.gazeta.ru/politics/2008/10/09_a_2852904.shtml). Instead of asking these questions, although valid, we must concentrate on more vital questions which need to be urgently addressed. It reminds me of Rwanda case, where instead of finding out why Interahamwe and France collaborated in ass extermination of Tutsi, the focus is on who shot down the plane of Hutu President Habyarimana (I guess Kegami would be “toast” too if he did not provide evidence that it was Hutu military and not his RPF) first. These series of questions, need to be included in the event background analysis when burning and looting of Georgian village sis over. This untimely questioning of Mrs Burjanadzes only emphasizes enormous personal ambitions and revanchism to undermine Saakashvili’s presidency. <BR/><BR/><BR/>aldo, <BR/><BR/>Did you ever talk to 350,000 Georgian IDPs who were expelled from their ancestral homes in Abkhazia or 35,000 Georgians in South Ossetia who were forced under the gun point to leave or die? Did you ask them if they wanted the puppet bloody regime of separatists and their FSB Kremlin masters? Did you ask those Chechens (by the way citizens of Russia) against whom 2 bloody sadistic and genocidal wars were launched by their own state (at least constitutionally) ?Luis Dingleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15010497372020822896noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24528000.post-18103391110841306062008-10-09T16:35:00.000+00:002008-10-09T16:35:00.000+00:00May I ask you, do you have any conversation with A...May I ask you, do you have any conversation with Abhazian and Osetian people? Did you ask them : Why they preffer to die, but live within Georgia. Try to step in their shoesaldohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13499910613073462457noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24528000.post-42085385019257817032008-10-08T08:29:00.000+00:002008-10-08T08:29:00.000+00:00To Luis DingleyI am not sure about your question. ...To Luis Dingley<BR/><BR/>I am not sure about your question. Are you saying that these are invented atrocity stories by the western media which always tells lies. If so, please be specific and explain why and how these reports are wrong. I am not saying that we journalists get everything right all the time, but I resent the implication that we are part of some huge propaganda machine.<BR/><BR/>I hope I have misunderstood you.<BR/><BR/>Regards<BR/>Edward LucasEdward Lucashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11369936559712607693noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24528000.post-10764935761417469022008-10-07T18:22:00.000+00:002008-10-07T18:22:00.000+00:00Mr Lucas, and how about answering just one questio...Mr Lucas, and how about answering just one question, who will be hold responsible for the following crimes: <BR/><BR/>S Ossetia ‘emptied of Georgians’<BR/>http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7581282.stm<BR/><BR/>Journey through a ghost village<BR/>http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7586458.stm<BR/><BR/>Georgia: Satellite Images Show Destruction, Ethnic Attacks<BR/>http://www.hrw.org/english/docs/2008/08/28/georgi19712.htm<BR/><BR/>Russia’s cruel intention<BR/>In South Ossetia, I witnessed the worst ethnic cleansing since the war in the Balkans<BR/>http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/sep/01/russia.georgia<BR/><BR/>Pictures ’show Georgia torching’<BR/>http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7588473.stm<BR/><BR/>‘Putin has given us an order that everyone must leave or be shot’<BR/>http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article4553499.ece<BR/><BR/>South Ossetia’s abandoned villages<BR/>http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7606774.stm<BR/><BR/>Human Rights Violations by Russian and Ossetian Militants<BR/>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3tUJ5a9H7o<BR/>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rOL7IoPfVwLuis Dingleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15010497372020822896noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24528000.post-1707503810671135852008-10-04T03:56:00.000+00:002008-10-04T03:56:00.000+00:00And he does...The answer has been setting up a par...And he does...The answer has been setting up a parliamentary inquiry commission on this issue chaired by.... yes opposition. Unfortunately this is impossible in Russia because there is no opposition in parliament as well.Grigolhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07353742707182976203noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24528000.post-9256784373023007892008-10-03T08:48:00.000+00:002008-10-03T08:48:00.000+00:00http://archive.timesonline.co.uk/tol/viewArticle.a...http://archive.timesonline.co.uk/tol/viewArticle.arc?articleId=ARCHIVE-The_Times-1939-09-02-09-001&pageId=ARCHIVE-The_Times-1939-09-02-09<BR/><BR/>Hitler's speech on Poland and on pact with Russia.<BR/>Funny, it seems that I've heard that kind of rhetoric lately:<BR/><I>if Poland continued its methods of oppression against the Germans, and if on the Polish side an end was not put to Customs measures destined to ruin Danzig's trade, then the Reich could not remain inactive. I left no doubt that people who wanted to compare the Germany of today with the former Germany would be deceiving themselves. An attempt was made to justify the oppression of the Germans by claiming that they had committed acts of provocation. I do not know in what these provocations on the part of women and childrcn consist, if they themselves are maltreated, in some cases killed. One thing I do know-that no great Power can with honour long stand by passively and watch such events.</I>plasma-jackhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06485039580759398780noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24528000.post-1372537415044003282008-10-02T21:40:00.000+00:002008-10-02T21:40:00.000+00:00Timothy, the whole point is that the Georgians are...Timothy, the whole point is that the Georgians are able to debate whether Saakashvili is an idiot, whereas the Russians can't discuss whether Putin is a crook.<BR/><BR/>Ryan: of course I know who Nino is. That's the point. The Georgian political system allows someone like her to break ranks and ask hard questions. Maybe Misha has good answers. If not, he's toast. That's how it should be<BR/><BR/>EdwardEdward Lucashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11369936559712607693noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24528000.post-52580529346639982952008-10-02T19:00:00.000+00:002008-10-02T19:00:00.000+00:00Edward:Do you even know who Nino Burjanadze is? Bu...Edward:<BR/><BR/>Do you even know who Nino Burjanadze is? Burjanadze was once Saakashvili's closest ally (#2 in his party)--that is, until Saakashvili started to go off the deep-end, and she left his party earlier this year.<BR/><BR/>The fact that she, a Saakashvili insider and Georgian patriot first and foremost, is criticizing her former ally should speak volumes. The Georgians themselves see who is at fault.Ryan Ericksonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18370039503835426792noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24528000.post-10802312056635607262008-10-02T18:09:00.000+00:002008-10-02T18:09:00.000+00:00Edward:You asked, "Read this and ask yourself why ...Edward:<BR/><BR/>You asked, "Read this and ask yourself why no similar debate is happening in Russia...."<BR/><BR/>Answer: Because Russia was right and Saakashvili is an idiot.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02385244147976050110noreply@blogger.com