Archive for October 11th, 2006
Was looking through the Russian papers to see what’s being written about Politkovskaya – ran into an Izvestia piece on the “language issue” in Ivano-Frankivsk, titled quite radically: Diktatura Movy (“The Dictatorship of the [Ukrainian] Language”).
It begins with a quote from Russia’s foreign ministry:
“Elimination of the Russian language in Ukraine can no longer be ignored, [...]
Was looking through the Russian papers to see what’s being written about Politkovskaya – ran into an Izvestia piece on the “language issue” in Ivano-Frankivsk, titled quite radically: Diktatura Movy (“The Dictatorship of the [Ukrainian] Language”).
It begins with a quote from Russia’s foreign ministry:
“Elimination of the Russian language in Ukraine can no longer be ignored, [...]
President Putin said this about Politkovskaya in an interview with Suddeutsche Zeitung today (in Russian, here):
I have to say that her political influence (and I think that the experts will agree with me) was insignificant inside the country, and, most likely, she was more noticeable in the human rights and mass media circles in the [...]
President Putin said this about Politkovskaya in an interview with Suddeutsche Zeitung today (in Russian, here):
I have to say that her political influence (and I think that the experts will agree with me) was insignificant inside the country, and, most likely, she was more noticeable in the human rights and mass media circles in the [...]
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