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Archive for February, 2006

Milinkevich, EU, and Moscow

Monday, February 6th, 2006

Ze German media is still silent about Milinkevich. But I’ve finally found a photo from Angela Merkel’s meeting with him. The photo is taken in a building opposite of the Bundestag. I don’t even remember what’s there. Is it the Bundeskanzlerin’s office?

Alexander Milinkevich and Angela Merkel
And here are two more photos from his EU meetings:

Alexander […]

Islam, a barbaric religion vs Denmark, a free European country

Friday, February 3rd, 2006

[Гэты запіс па-беларуску]
Burning flags of Denmark, staging countless protests, boycotting Danish products, throwing eggs and stones at the Danish embassies, threatening with Kalashnikovs (BBC photos), kicking diplomats out, sending death threats to Danish journalists, this was the Islamic response to a couple cartoons published in a newspaper on the other side of the globe.
If this […]

German Journalism && Angela Merkel

Thursday, February 2nd, 2006

I don’t know much about German journalism, but today I had one opportunity to witness how “fast” and “efficient” their work is. Our main opposition leader Alexander Milinkevich met with Bundeskanzler Angela Merkel today. The meeting ended at about 5PM. It’s already past 9PM, but there is not a single news item, and nor there’s […]

Cut-and-paste for Albanian Prime Ministers

Wednesday, February 1st, 2006

TIRANA (Reuters) - When a politician speaks, the public may feel they have heard it all before, but this has taken on a whole new meaning in Albania.
An apparent cut-and-paste in a keynote speech by Prime Minister Sali Berisha had him mouthing the same lines spoken by his famously verbose predecessor Fatos Nano, Albanian […]

Visiting the European Union

Wednesday, February 1st, 2006

In the last two days there were lots of news about our main opposition candidate Alexander Milinkevich everywhere (”Guardian”, “New York Times”, “EU Observer”, “Voice of America”, RFE/RL, CBS News just to name a few), so you probably heard that he’s in Brussels, meeting quite a few top EU officials, including the top official — […]