the-shrike.net

“At a time when Russia is reviving the Cold War the EU pretends to be seeing positive signs, as if there is no conflict neither in interests nor in values.”

I haven’t followed or covered the Belarusian election some times ago, but lately I read quite a lot about it, especially for what is (or could be) concerned about possible influences on it coming from Russia. Tobias Ljungvall reports an interesting point of view on this matter. I think it’s worth taking a look.

(source: Global Voices Online & Tobias Ljungvall on Belarus)

I was quite shocked about what has happened in Caucasus’ city Nalchik these past days.
As usual, I’ve been part of that running people searching around for good information (italian television is not something you can really rely on for good information) on the internet, and today I found a good report about how to find around good coverage about this event.
Well, today I found that someone had helped me (while helping himself) to sum things up.

It looks like the dust is beginning to settle after yesterday’s attack on the Southern Russian city of Nalchik, and the city is securely in the hands of the Russian military. In this post I’m just going to restrict myself to a roundup of news and views that have been published over the last few days, interspersed with a few thoughts of my own.

It’s good to see this wasn’t event close to what happened to Beslan one year ago, but this doesn’t help with counting the too many deads of this further act of madness.

(source: siberianlight.net)

Am I the only italian thinking that this country is going in a very bad direction, politically speaking?
Or maybe it’s better to say that if this electoral law is going to be approved, we will suddenly find ourself in the same condition that was in 1923?

I don’t know exactly what I’m feeling, but I’m a kind of scared…