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August 28, 2008 ¹63

Politics
They Promise Repairs And Protection
Tanya Kozyro, 16, a schoolgirl from the city of Borisov, has asked for political shelter during her rest in the US under the program of Chernobyl Children’s Project. Tatiana has been visiting California for 9 years and staying at same family – that’s Debore and Manuel Zapato. This time she just refused to come back home to Byelorussia. Tatiana’s parents have been unparented for long: mother abandoned her when she was a baby, while her father is an alcoholic and a drug addict. Her grandmother was appointed her tutor. Tanya explained to American journalists that much as she loves her granny, she does not want to get back where father’s friends constantly visit their house bringing drugs with them.
Irina Khalip, our correspondent in Minsk
Politics
We Want Peace. Or Maybe We Want Half The World?
Russia has begun implementation of the agreements achieved in the course of Medvedev-Sarkosy talks. As usual, she did it her own way. Withdrawal of the troops did not lead to vacation of the territory of so called “core Georgia”, as the buffer zones were made being situated beyond the territories of Abkhazia and South Ossetia. All that plus recognition by Russia the independence by those unrecognized republics has lead to the most serious crisis of Russia’s relations with the outer world since the cold war times. We had a talk with Professor Alexander Sharavin, director of the Institute of Political and Military Analysis, full member of the Academy of Military Sciences. The talk was about military aspects of the current situation, also about strategic price of recognition of the South Ossetia and Abkhazia by Russia.
Andrei Lipsky
Beside Anya
The story of the family narrated by mother, daughter and sister 30 August could have been a 50th anniversary of our observer Anna Politkovskaya. She lived one year less than her favorite poet Marina Tsvetaeva, who wrote once in a letter to Boris Pasternak “stricken with lightnings … yet you must live”. Anya also was stricken with lightnings. Although she wanted to live very much – you can feel it as you read the memoirs by her daughter Vera Politkovskaya – no one could make her betray “the law of the extended hand” formulated by Tsvetaeva. Living in accordance with that law, Anya was always where she was needed: sitting beside the bed of a wounded captain; talking to the parents of a kidnapped and raped girl; trying to save the hostages in the Teatralny Center… There’s no need listing everything as it is well known.
Galina Mursalieva
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