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August 18, 2008 ¹60
Politics
Preliminary Conclusions
The acute phase of the conflict, caused with Georgian attack on the South Ossetian capital Tskhinvali, has passed. It is just impossible to forget about the terrible scenes: night missile launching at a peaceful city, barbaric destruction of the whole blocks, deaths of people driven into basements, demolition of the ancient monuments and the tombs of ancestors. Russia did not want that aggravation. Russian leadership has sufficiently stable position inside the country and it did not need “a small victorious war”. Russia was involved in this crisis as a result of Saakashvili’s adventure who would not have dared for it without outside help. Russia could not have stayed inactive, and so a response followed and the aggression was stopped.
Mikhail Gorbachev
Politics
Photofit Picture Of The Russian Average Citizen
Part 4. Friend or stranger. We continue building up a collective portrait of the average Russian citizen jointly with the leading sociologists from the Levada-Center: Lev Gudkov, the Director of the Center; Boris Dubin, the chair of social-political research department; Alexei Levinson, the chair of social and cultural research department.
Andrei Lipsky
Politics
Official Prejudice
St Petersburg’s edition of Novaya Gazeta to be accused of what it spoke against
Boris Vishnevsky
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observer of the Novaya
Politics
“Sentence equal to execution”
The most scandalous and most secret trial of the late period is over in Byelorussia. The American lawyer Immanuel Seltzer has been sentenced to three years by the Minsk court for “collecting the information of commercial character and for using the forged documents”. The lawyer’s secretary, Russian citizen Vladlena Funk is found guilty on same counts and is sentenced to one year in a minimum security colony.
Irina Khalip
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our correspondent in Minsk
Politics
Taking The Crimea
One billion dollars and the “Moscow” cruiser may bomb Poti freely?
Yanina Vaskovskaya
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our correspondent, Kiev
Sport
Sport Of Lofty Relations
The coach and the gymnasts to assess differently the disagreement in the Olympic team
Elena Lobova
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