http://communities.canada.com/theprovince/blogs/victoriassecrets/archive/2009/06/04/ lennikov-the-kgb-and-the-search-for-facts.aspx I agree, the law is straightforward, and there is a reason those laws are in place. It is all too easy to get taken in by stories intended to elicit compassion and sympathy, especially those expertly spun by parties with vested interests (like "compassionate" opposition politicians).

http://www.kyivpost.com/nation/40005 http://www.dickinson.edu/magazine/fall02/wiesenthal.html They seem to forget that the Communist regime of the USSR EXECUTED or MURDERED more people accused of Nazi crimes and /or collaboration (whether they were guilty or not) than ANY other country or ALL other countries combined ! What is truly ludicrous is that this - Wiesenthal Center - is a Holodomor genocide denial group and as such should automatically be designated as a HATE group under the same anti-hate legislation that makes it a crime to deny and/or trivialize the Holocaust and the Holodomor (the later included-thanks to one of the few foresights of Yuschenko) and should be prosecuted as such to the full measure of Ukrainian law.

http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/opinion/letters_to_the_editor/setting-the- record-straight--on-russia-ignatieff-49682752.html The juxtaposition of the two articles on June 28 -- Gwynne Dyer's Russians continue to rewrite Soviet history and Marco Levytsky's Set the record straight: Ignatieff needs to rebut hurtful stereotypes -- was just right.

Victor Smorgon, one of Australia's most successful entrepreneurs and the former head of one of the country's most diverse industrial groups, has died. Mr Smorgon, 96, was the head of the Victor Smorgon Group, a spinoff from the original Smorgon Consolidated Industries which began as a kosher butcher shop in Carlton and expanded into areas ranging from meat exporting to plastics, glass, steel and recycling.

http://www.iwp.edu/news/newsID.139/news_detail.asp Ukrainian Quarterly By Herbert Romerstein November 8, 2004 PAPERS & STUDIES Ukrainian Quarterly Publication Date: Fall 2004 Introduction

By Richard S. Allen, Attorney at Law

President Obama thinks we're "losing our moral bearings" because we water boarded some terrorists to make them talk. Other prominent Democrats are eager to put President Bush, former Vice- President Cheney, and various Justice Department lawyers on trial for 'war crimes' and 'torture.'

Alright, if we're going to investigate war crimes lets skip the small potatoes of water boarding and get to something we can sink our vindictive teeth into.

Mark Franchetti in Moscow

Thousands of Chechens disappeared after being taken away by Russian troops. One death squad targeted 'black widow' bombers such as those who seized a Moscow theatre in 2002

THE hunt for a nest of female suicide bombers in Chechnya led an elite group of Russian special forces commandos to a small village deep in the countryside.

Ellen Barry

MOSCOW -- Russian border guards on Saturday began taking up long-term positions along the boundaries of South Ossetia and Abkhazia, an arrangement that will probably mean sustained tension in the two breakaway Georgian territories.

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The territories were at the heart of a war last August between Russia and Georgia; the conflict raised tensions between Moscow and the West to a level not seen since the end of the cold war. Heavy Russian armor poured into both territories after Georgia attacked Tskhinvali, the capital of South Ossetia.

By John Wendle
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And in the lead-up to the country's annual Victory Day celebrations, the Kremlin has made a move that it touts as yet another display of Russia's patriotism and pride: the government has announced that it is considering passing a law to criminalize statements and acts that deny the Soviets won World War II, or claim it used poor tactics in battle or did not liberate Eastern Europe.

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By Yuri Zarakhovich

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For Russia, May 9 remains the Victory Day â€" this country's only meaningful national holiday, its most sacred and bitter anniversary and the one most cynically abused by the authorities in pursuit of their own aims.

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And it is the most bitter because Soviet policies had strengthened Hitler in the first place, allowing him to grab lands that were liberated only after four years of desperate combat, which cost the lives of some 27 million Soviet citizens.

Judith Latham

Moldova's Constitutional Court has upheld the results of a vote recount that confirmed the victory of the ruling Communist Party in the nation's April 5th parliamentary elections. The recount was initiated by the Communist Party of President Vladimir Voronin.

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The opposition refused to participate in the recount of the vote, insisting instead on checking the electoral lists, according to Moldovan political analyst Vlad Lupan, who has a radio show in the capital city, Chisinau.

Dan Bilefsky

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The agreement, signed by the leaders of Azerbaijan, Georgia, Turkey and Egypt at a summit meeting in Prague, centers on the 2,000-mile Nabucco pipeline, which would bring Central Asian gas to Europe without passing through Russian territory. The European Union hopes the pipeline will start pumping gas to Europe by 2014.