Conference in Warsaw
The third annual session of Warsaw East European Conference will take place on July 5 — July 8, 2006, in Warsaw, Poland. There will be three round tables:
- Police state in the process of system transition in postcommunist countries
- Belarus – future of the society, nation and state
- EU eastern policy – enlargement, partnership, borders, cooperation
In order to receive application and paper proposal forms please write to conf.studium@uw.edu.pl and msiemakowicz@wp.pl.
Considering their choice of topics, it’s pretty obvious the organizers are 100% sure that Lukashenka will stay in power after these “elections.” Sadly, I also think so. But I believe there’s a slight chance that something might happen this weekend.
March 13th, 2006 at 4:04 pm
Yeah, I also want to believe in miracles!
March 13th, 2006 at 8:27 pm
Hi Br23 !
Could we get in touch by emal? Naturally, I haven’t found your contact but you will see my email hopefully.
Ales.
March 14th, 2006 at 1:11 am
Hi Br23!
This comment is not about conference in Warsaw. I was just wondering whether you saw this already: http://www.guardian.co.uk/Columnists/Column/0,,1727954,00.html
March 14th, 2006 at 1:21 am
Hi Alena:
Nice to see you here. I didn’t know you are in MIT (according to the IP address)! That’s great. Vinszuju!
As for the article, of course I saw it. I was thinking that the best response is just to ignore the “commentary” and not provide any additional publicity to this guy. Or you think it makes sense to answer to that?
March 14th, 2006 at 1:24 am
Ales: You can contact me privately @ br23net __at__ gmail
March 14th, 2006 at 7:15 pm
Why do you think it should be ignored? It is a balanced article showing the complexity of the situation in Belarus. It is a worthwhile contribution to the discourse/debates surrounding Belarus….
March 14th, 2006 at 7:18 pm
why are comments being moderated? doesn’t that defeat the idea of blogs?
March 14th, 2006 at 11:59 pm
Dear as, I deleted some of your previous comments because they were either full of blatant lies, or simply offensive. I will not tolerate such comments here. In this blog I epxpect at least minimum ‘netiquette and I won’t let you publish outright propaganda lies.
March 15th, 2006 at 2:45 pm
Pryvitan’nie Br23! Indeed, I moved to Boston and have a postdoc position at MIT. Thanx for your vinszavan’ni :)
I didn’t know what to do with this article. I don’t know whether this person understands what he is doing. And if he doesn’t then it maybe necessary to respond. My little brother immediately responded. Steele’s explanation was:
“Thanks for your comments.
I respect and understand your views.
It would clearly be better for Belarus to have political freedom as well as
economic security.
My article was motivated by anger at the lack of professionalism in so much
Western reporting, by journalists as well as diplomats.”
I’m sorry that this bull shit apparently caused an aggressive reaction on your blogs.
March 18th, 2006 at 1:24 pm
1. in response to ‘blatant lies, or simply offensive’ : i don’t what you are refering to, sorry :(
2. alena. i presume the comment you made about ‘agressive’ was related to me? if so, you have misunderstood me.
3. steele’s article - why is it ‘bullshit’ (is that aggression?). I think steele’s make some worthwhile comments about on Belarus but also on a wider discourse on the western media and its objectivity. indeed there appears to be a lack of professionalism by numerous journalist reporting on belarus. for example, Mark from the BBC who reports soley from the perspective of the Milinkevich camp (who, from what i’ve read and seen seems to be shipped around by Milinkevich camp and interviews those who is introduced to by the camp). What steele’s does and mark doesn’t, is he highlights the complexity of the situation in Belarus. yes, the regime is autocratic but the fact remains the economy is stable and between 25-50% of the electorate would re elect the current president. these are points and issues are overlooked in much of the media coverage in belarus (although recently it has got better). Steele’s takes issue with journalism. we were always told that the bbc or more generally jouranalism is about report objectively. however media space has changed drastically over the last decade and this is not always the case but ideally it would be nice to think that each journalist doesn’t have a personal/alternative agenda other than reporting objectively.
This is how i interpreted steele’s article and the words alean included. at the end of teh day i think it keeps us questioning.
March 18th, 2006 at 2:52 pm
> in response to ‘blatant lies, or simply offensive’
I have copies of those comments in my e-mail. I can forward it to you, if you want to.
> Mark from the BBC who reports soley from the perspective of the Milinkevich camp
On Russian BBC there’s a special page about Belarus elections:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/russian/in_depth/2006/belarus/default.stm
It’s totally pro-Russian, pro-imperial coverage. And the page is made in Lukashenka colors. With a nice photo of Lukashenka and a screaming photo of protester and distorted face of Milinkevich.
March 18th, 2006 at 3:32 pm
please post the blantant lies offensive comments
so we both agree the bbc is no impartial in its’ reporting
March 19th, 2006 at 1:40 am
As, I thought you were a new “alter ego” of “Toby” (one guy with a Latvian IP). I deleted some of his comments because they were totally outrageous (claims that opposition wants to kill someone on the square on the 19th to make the situation more dramatic, etc.). Of course, I don’t want such stuff here. I looked through the log, and it looks like I didn’t delete any of your comments. I guess it’s just a misunderstanding… Sorry, in any case.
May 4th, 2006 at 1:53 pm
Dear sir/ma
am very happy to inform you sir,that i will like to participate at the forthcoming conference which will hold at warsar poland , am qualified journalst from Nigeria and i which to participate at the conference.
thanks for cooperation.
Mr Ajayi t.o
February 3rd, 2008 at 9:10 pm
Thanks for sharing
March 24th, 2008 at 5:19 pm
I’d prefer reading in my native language, because my knowledge of your languange is no so well.