FSU Politics/Current Events V

http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2011/04/20/russia_s_crime_of_the_century

 

Didn't it already blow up? More than 60 employees of the relevant Russian agencies are blacklisted (can't enter EU or North America), Kuznetsov is being investigated, Russia is locked in a diplomatic row over this with Canada and EU. I wish US were a bit more decisive on this, why wait for EU and Canada to take the lead?

 

Yes, all the assets of these 60 people who were on the "Cardin list" (the 60) that were held in the EU, Canada, and the US were, indeed, frozen.

NOw, I do wish that Russian highest officials that were involved with this particular scheme were on the list, but the list does have a dozen judges and a few high-ranking officials of the Inferior Ministry)

 

China also imprisoned the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize winner and rapes Tibetan women with batons.

 

Good enough for a state dinner apparently.

 

That takes me waaaay back. I was in 6th grade (out of 10 in a Soviet public school) then. Kyiv, 60 miles (at most), away from Chernobyl, a home to more than 2.5 million people had no idea anything happened for several days. My father who worked as Civil Engineer responsible for constructing thermal power plants worked with some Chernobyl NPP engineers at VNIPIEnergoProm and even he found out only on April 30th (still full 2-3 days ahead of general public) that SOMETHING happened at one of the reactors, but the info was sketchy and not too scary, at first.

I remember the hectic days of the early May, the Peace Cycle Race that started in Kyiv that year, the 1986 UEFA Cup Winners Cup triumph for Dynamo. Kyiv was supposed to have a banner week that early May.

I remember spending a friend's birthday in the forest to the West of Kyiv, thinking if we were being exposed to radiation. Just two weeks later, schools were closed and children, whose parents couldn't evacuate them on their own, were evacuated enmasse towards points South, Crimea, North Caucasus, Odesa, etc.

My aunt took me and my cousins to Luga, just South of Leningrad for almost the entire Summer.

I did a lot of growing up that Summer.

 

As far as I know those commie bureaucrat rats got their families out ASAP while the everyday people were still being lying to as to what happened.

On a side note, a friend of mine from Belarus was born with a deformed toe, I suspect Chernobyl was the cause.

 

Is this for real? That's a big country man lol

http://www.newsbcm.com/doc/726

 

There is now a whole bunch of memoirs by various people that were involved with this stuff. Some are worth reading, some aren't.

One thing always puts a right perspective on things. My cousin lived on Naberezhno-Kreschatitskaya ulitsa in those days, a street that stretches along the right bank of Dnipro and is a significant thoroughfare. In the Fall of 1986 they measured the background radiation along the street and found out that it was 4-5 times higher than anywhere else in the city. It was due to the fact that convoys of buses, containing the evacuees from Prypyat and Chornobyl passed along the street from the Northern end to the Southern end of it. If just a few minutes worth of traveling buses could raise the background radiation on that street, imagine how high it was in Chornobyl raion.

 

Demjanjuk found guilty in Germany.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-12321549

 

"No evidence was produced that he committed a specific crime"

What a farce!