KAZAKHSTAN AND CHINA JOIN KARS-AKHALKALAKI-TBILISI-BAKU RAILWAY PROJECT
Azeri Press Agency, Azerbaijan
Aug. 28, 2006
Kazakhstan and China join Kars-Akhalkalaki-Tbilisi-Baku railway
project, Turkish transportation minister Binali Yildirim said,
APA reports.
He said that as a modernized version of Great Silk Way, this route
will be long-time and beneficial one.
They route will allow traveling from Kars to Kazakhstan, and then,
to Shank hay and Hong-Kong.
Through this railway to be balanced with Marmray project, a train
will be able to head for China through Turkey.
“Body passengers and freight will be carried by through this pipelines
expected to be completed in two years.
Per year 20mn tonnes of freight are expected to be transported through
this pipeline. 18 mn tonnes of freights will be carried in Turkey”.
He also said that railways in Eastern gate remained unused because
of Armenian-Turkish problems.
“That is why we can’t contact the Caucasus and Far East. Azerbaijan,
Georgia and Turkey is working on this issue.
Kazakhstan’s and China’s joining will give an impetus to the project.
Azerbaijan will directly gain support of Turkish Republics”.
Turkey will construct 76-km part of the railway from Turkey and
Georgia. Georgia will build 25 km.
The part between Tbilisi and Baku will be repaired. Turkey will spend
250 mn.

AZERBAIJAN FOREIGN MINISTER WAS NOT OFFERED TO MEET WITH HIS ARMENIAN COUNTERPART
Azeri Press Agency, Azerbaijan
Aug. 28, 2006
Azerbaijan’s Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov, who is attending in
“Caspian prospect-2008” international forum in the Slovenian capital,
Ljubljana, is expected to have bilateral meetings, Tahir Taghizadeh,
FM Press and Information Policy Department chief told the APA.
The Minister plans having talks with OSCE Chairman-in-Office & Belgium
Foreign Minister Karel de Gucht and US deputy Assistant Secretary of
State for Europe and Eurasian Affairs Matthew Bryza.
Mammadyarov said that he has not been offered to meet with Armenian
Foreign minister Vardan Oskanyan.
The Foreign Ministers will address the international forum today.

AZERBAIJAN ACCUSES ARMENIA OF CEASEFIRE VIOLATIONS
Interfax, Russia
Aug. 28, 2006
BAKU. Aug 28 (Interfax) – Armenia on Sunday broke its ceasefire with
Azerbaijan, the Azerbaijani Defense Ministry said on Monday.
Armenian units positioned 1 kilometer from the village of Gyulyustan
in the Azerbaijani district of Geranboi opened upon assault rifle
and machinegun fire on Azerbaijani army positions and only stopped
shooting after the Azerbaijanis returned fire, the ministry said.
The skirmish caused no losses.

CHAIRMAN OF ARMENIAN ORGANIZATIONS OF EUROPE REPRESENTATION MEETS WITH MINISTER OF CULTURE OF SLOVAKIA
Noyan Tapan
Armenians Today
Aug 28 2006
BRATISLAVA, AUGUST 28, NOYAN TAPAN – ARMENIANS TODAY. Ashot
Grigorian, the Chairman of the Armenian Organizations of Europe
(AOE) Representation met on August 23 with Marek Madaric, the newly
appointed Minister of Culture of Slovakia. The Minister appreciated
the initiative of holding the “Days of Armenian Culture” organized
by the AOE Representation Chairman and accepted the Armenian party’s
proposal to sponsor the events. The Minister received with satisfaction
A.Grigorian’s proposal as well in the direction of forming a joint
working program with the RA Ministry of Culture and Youth Affairs and
preparing an agreement on long-lasting cooperation. As the Noyan Tapan
correspondent informs from Slovakia, A.Grigorian also got recently
the letter of Dushan Chaplovich, the Deputy Prime Minister for
European Union Integration and National Minorities of the Government
of Slovakia. In the letter the Deputy Prime Minister expressed great
satisfaction with effective works being done by A.Grigorian in the
direction of development of the Slovakian-Armenian ties, inviting
the latter to have a meeting for discussing issues of cooperation.

TURKS CALL FOR JUSTICE IN KILLING
By Jorge Barrera
Ottawa Sun, Canada
Aug. 28, 2006
Attache’s slaying unsolved after 25 years
He doesn’t want his last name published, fearing Armenian terrorists
will get him this time.
Ercan was a young teenager when three armed men calling themselves
Armenian revolutionaries stormed the Turkish embassy in Ottawa,
killed a guard and blasted their way into the building with explosives.
They were after the Turkish ambassador, who tried to jump out
a window to escape. The men grabbed the ambassador’s daughter and
Ercan’s 11-year-old sister instead. They held them for more than five
hours. It was March 12, 1985.
SECRET HIDEOUT
Ercan’s mother burst into his room and took him to a secret hideout
inside the embassy compound, where the family was living while working
for the Turkish government’s department of external affairs.
“How would you feel if someone holds a gun against your family member
and you question whether she is going to live or not going to live?”
says Ercan, who is now 36. “It leaves a horrible memory in your mind.”
Ercan’s leather jacket is soaked, his wet black hair flat against
his head. He has been hanging signs that read “murderers are still
on the loose” and “condemn don’t justify” at the corner of the Ottawa
River Pkwy. and Island Park Dr.
10 BULLETS FIRED
There, on Aug. 27, 1982, a man carrying a 9-mm Browning handgun walked
up to Col. Atilla Altikat, Turkish military attache for Canada, who
was stopped at the lights going east on the parkway. The man fired
10 bullets into Altikat’s body in the midst of the morning rush hour.
RCMP have never caught the killer.
Ercan and several members of the Turkish community held a rally on
the parkway yesterday to remember the murder and call for justice.
“We want them to find who did this and put them in jail,” said Yalcin
Diker, 46.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress

VANDEREYCKEN: “DIFFICULT GAME AGAINST ARMENIA”
Anderlecht, Belgium
Aug. 28, 2006
National coach Rene Vandereycken does not feel any pressure against
Armenia, despite obtaining only a draw against Kazachstan last match.
“I don’t feel any pressure from outside”, he reacted clearly.
“Of course the environment is tensed, but we can handle that. Maybe
I reacted too quickly after the draw against Kazachstan, when I said
we needed to win against Armenia.”
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress

ARMENIAN ARMED FORCES FIRE ON AZERBAIJANI ARMY POSITIONS AGAIN
Azeri Press Agency, Azerbaijan
Aug. 28, 2006
Armenians violated the ceasefire again, Defense Ministry told the APA
companies of Armenian Armed Forces from their positions in 1 km to
the south-east of Gulustan village of Goranboy fired on the opposite
positions of Azerbaijani Army positions with submachine guns from
19:45 till 20:15 on 27 August.
APA’s Garabagh bureau reports Armenians violated the ceasefire
in Agdam front again. Armenian Armed Forces fired on Azerbaijani
positions from the occupied Bash Gervend village and Gulchuluk farm
from 21:00 on August 27. No casualties were reported.

TURKEY TO RESHAPE FORCES
By Andrew Borowiec
The Washington Times
Washington Times, DC
Aug. 28, 2006
NICOSIA, Cyprus — The Turkish army, NATO’S second-largest military
force, plans to downsize its cumbersome divisions in favor of smaller
and deadlier guerrilla-type combat teams.
The idea, according to Turkish sources, was born of the experience of
fighting Kurdish guerrillas in the southern region of the Anatolian
land mass as well as other low-intensity wars that have followed the
end of the Cold War.
Its author is Gen. Yasar Buyukanit, 66, who this week takes over
as head of the Turkish General Staff with a mandate to finish the
drawn-out rebellion led by the Kurdistan Workers Party.
He is on record as urging stronger anti-terrorist measures against
the Kurdish “peshmerga” (fighters) and their supporters in the savage
wind-swept mountains along the Iranian and Iraqi borders.
In April, a public prosecutor accused Gen. Buyukanit of fomenting
unrest in Kurdish areas and of setting up anti-terrorist commando
teams said to be illegal.
The prosecutor, Ferhat Sarikaya, was subsequently dismissed, showing
the continuing importance of the Turkish military, sometimes referred
to as “an interest group with heavy weapons.”
Although Turkey’s application for European Union membership has
somewhat reduced the military’s political role, a general continues
to sit in the powerful National Security Council though he no longer
presides over it.
Turkish newspapers often refer to the armed forces as the country’s
most respected institution, untarnished by scandals or graft. Between
1960 and 1980, the military carried out three coups, stopping the
country’s slide toward anarchy.
After periods the military referred to as “national cleansing,”
the army returned to barracks but continued to watch over squabbling
politicians, regarding itself the key guardian of the secular system
imposed in the 1920s by Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, the founder of modern
Turkey.
Today, Turkey’s armed forces comprise a half-million men, matched by
an equal number of paramilitary troops. They have no parallel as a
popular national institution.
According to British historian David Hotham: “The army takes peasants
from remote villages, feeds them, clothes them, teaches them to read
and write, instructs them in trade, brings them to the cities.”
Mehmet Ali Kislale, a Turkish political analyst, said: “In Turkey,
the army is more than a branch of state. It is a unifying and to some
extent a civilizing force.”
The army has unquestionably influenced Turkey’s opposition to a
solution in divided Cyprus, where about 35,000 Turkish troops are
deployed in the north of the island, considered by the military as
strategically essential.
In one of his last public statements, Gen. Hilmi Ozkok, outgoing chief
of the General Staff, rejected any idea of Turkish withdrawal from
Cyprus, as well as proposals for a national apology for the deaths
of more than a million Armenians in World War I massacres by the
Ottoman Empire.
Yesterday in the popular Mediterranean resort town of Marmaris, a
bomb blast blew apart a minibus, injuring 21 persons, including 10
British tourists, according to reports from the state-owned Anatolia
news agency and the Associated Press.
There were two other bomb blasts at the same time in garbage cans on
the main boulevard in Marmaris, an area is lined with bars, clubs,
cafes and restaurants. Kurdish guerrillas have in the past carried
out such attacks against tourist resorts.

‘TURKISH SOLDIERS MAY FACE RESISTANCE IN LEBANON’
Nursun Erel
The New Anatolian, Turkey
Aug. 28, 2006
Parliament Foreign Affairs Commission head Mehmet Dulger speaks to TNA
Turkey is preparing to send Turkish soldiers to join the UN
peacekeeping efforts in Lebanon, and some say this will be a
prestigious task for Turkey. But what about the risks? Why hasn’t
this vital issue been debated in Parliament?
I had such questions in my head while going to meet Mehmet Dulger,
chairman of Parliament’s Foreign Affairs Commission. His office in
the Parliament building was still under renovation, but we found two
comfortable chairs to sit on and talk about the hot issues. Here’s
what he had to say to us:
TNA: Being here, I must be luckier than the Israeli ambassador,
because according to rumor you turned down his request for a meeting.
DULGER: In fact I’d really like to talk to him, not only the Israeli
ambassador but also l the Lebanese and Palestinian ambassadors. But
as you see, the weather’s been too hot recently and our office is
undergoing renovations.
TNA: How do you see the situation in Lebanon right now?
DULGER: Well, I saw some cartoons in today’s newspapers. One of them
wonderfully described the situation, showing how the Americans are
trying to get the best advantage from the situation.
TNA: How do you see the opposition to sending Turkish soldiers to
the area?
DULGER: Actually the situation is extremely complex in the Middle
East now and that’s why most of the crises there are unpredictable.
Especially the Lebanese state mechanism is set up on a very complex
ethnic base. So there are risks and opportunities waiting for Turkish
soldiers there. What are the opportunities? Because of the rejected
March 1, 2003 resolution (which would have allowed U.S. troops to be
stationed on Turkish soil for the imminent Iraq invasion) Turkey had
to stay out of developments in the Mideast, but now there’s a chance
of getting back in the game.
Risks in Lebanon
TNA: What are the risks?
DULGER: Lebanon has a very complex ethnic situation, so even for a
peacekeeping mission, Turkish soldiers may face strong opposition.
Because we’re Sunni, but the Lebanese are mostly Shiite. Additionally
there are all kind of extremist minorities in Lebanon like the
Armenians and Greek Orthodox groups. They would never be happy to
see a Turkish presence in Lebanon. So this is a vital decision for
Turkey and it has to be considered very seriously.
TNA: How do you see UN Resolution 1701 and the related documents? Are
they clear enough about describing the peacekeeping mission?
DULGER: First of all things happened too late, that’s why the urging
parties lost a great deal of prestige in the eyes of the victims. And
also the resolution is far from being unbiased, since it openly
reflects U.S. views. But we have to admit that if U.S. hadn’t insisted
this would never have happened.
TNA: Could you elaborate on that?
DULGER: Well, it seems that this is a kind of a war which was almost
predestined, developed and strategically designed long ago. The U.S.
is among the players and it’s clear this is a part of its project to
reshape the Middle East. So what do we do now? Hundreds of civilians,
even children, have been killed in this war, most of the infrastructure
is destroyed, none of the kidnapped (Israeli) soldiers have been
returned, Hezbollah hasn’t been disarmed, its ties with Iran and
Syria haven’t been cut, and on the contrary now it’s stronger than
before. I’m afraid similar resistance will be used by others too.
Parliament will debate deployment
TNA: Are you satisfied with the information given by the government
on the UN resolution?
DULGER: So far I haven’t gotten much detailed information either on
UN Resolution 1701 or about our government’s policies. So I don’t
know what kind of advantages there are in taking part in this project.
TNA: According to the opposition, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan
is purposely avoiding detailed discussion around the resolution. It’s
said he especially doesn’t want the issue to be dealt with in
Parliament, because there’s a concern something could happen among
AK Party members like with the March 2003 resolution. What do you
think about this?
DULGER: I don’t think so, because there’s no decision (on deployment)
yet. Without such a decision and without any document to talk about,
what will we debate in Parliament? First we have to wait for the
final decision, this way or that. If they decide to join UNIFIL,
the motion will certainly be debated in Parliament.
TNA: But we’ve heard some foreign leaders claim the Turkish government
has already declared its willingness to join the force, so isn’t it
strange that we still don’t know the final decision of the government?
DULGER: Some journalists asked me whether we will send Turkish soldiers
to the area or not. But I’m not the man to answer that question.
TNA: If Turkish soldiers are sent to the area, do you think such a
gesture will help repair the Turkish-American relationship, which
is still chilly since the March 2003 resolution was rejected by
Parliament?
DULGER: Let’s look at the details of what’s happening in the area.
First of all an indirect war between Iran and U.S. is escalating,
there are the tensions between the ethnic groups, the U.S. has an
imperial project in the area, and Iran is trying to emphasize its
dominance there too. Supported by the U.S., Israel claims to balance
the regional politics. Syria can’t stand with Lebanon without their
obedience. And there’s the huge Iraq problem.
So that picture is important for Turkey for different reasons. First,
the PKK (terrorist Kurdistan Workers’ Party) is a vital issue for us,
and its command mechanism and sources of legitimacy are in Iraq. So
as long as we can’t accomplish our goals in the region concerning the
PKK, this becomes more risky for us, because a populist nationalism
is on the rise, which I think is very dangerous.
Another negative regional development is that Turkish and American
interests are more and more at odds. I mean our policies and theirs on
issues like the PKK, Israeli aggression, and the stand towards Iran
and Syria aren’t parallel. So once we go hand in hand with the U.S.,
our other interests are being harmed. The U.S. will stay here for 50
years at most but our neighbors will always be there. So we have to
find common ground here.
If someone else comes to power in the US
TNA: Due to the different administrations, even U.S. regional policies
can change, don’t you think?
DULGER: If another administration comes and changes its policies,
what will happen then? Because in changing our stand, we will be
taking great risks in the region. So all these factors are extremely
important and we have to check them all very carefully. Many Turks
support Hezbollah’s cause in Lebanon, so they say: What will we do
there? Will we protect Israeli soldiers? Or try to take arms away
from Hezbollah members? I was recently in Antalya, and many people
came to me asking those questions.
TNA: How do you see other regional governments’ stances?
DULGER: No one really knows what kind of risks there are. Also there’s
another issue, namely that the West is downplaying the victims of
war. Do you know how many casualties there have been in Iraq? We don’t
know yet how many Iraqis have died so far, but everyone knows the
number of American casualties. Also the number of Lebanese casualties
isn’t known, but everyone knows how many Israelis died. So it’s clear
there’s a great prejudice against the people of the Middle East. We
must change this first. After Sept. 11, the West got paranoid about
terror. But what about us? What about the PKK? Is the PKK a terror
group? If they say yes, than they have to push for the necessary
steps to be taken too.
TNA: How do you see the PKK coordinator expected to be appointed soon
by the U.S.?
DULGER: Let’s wait and see his positions and words. Because during
her visit, U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice saw the Turkish
determination on the PKK issue, so they felt the need to take this
stand. It’s a very vexing situation that there’s such cooperation
among the Kurds in northern Iraq. Even though it’s crystal clear
that the PKK is provoking all kind of terror actions against Turkey,
Iraqi leaders Jalal Talabani and Massoud Barzani let them survive,
because they are also Kurds.
TNA: Everyone seems to be obsessed about the Israel-Lebanon war,
but there are other hot issues too. How do you see Turkey’s European
Union accession process?
DULGER: Normally we deal with issues as they come up, but I’m not
sure if we’re ready for the important days we’re going to be facing
soon. The new EU progress report on Turkey will be discussed next
month in Brussels and there are about 437 different proposals to
make changes to the report. Some of them are against our interests,
and some are in favor, so I propose our party puts together a group
of 20 deputies from Parliament and let them lobby in Brussels.
TNA: Is there any reason why this can’t happen?
DULGER: No but we have to do this as soon as possible, otherwise
those negative proposals will be a headache for Turkey. For example
the Croatians don’t have any problem with their accession but they
organized themselves so well, yet with so many problems we fail to act.
The Cyprus issue and flirting
TNA: How do you see developments on the Cyprus issue?
TNA: Well, our Greek Cypriot friends must stop talking on behalf
of the Turkish Cypriots. If things go on like this, separation will
become unavoidable. They must give up their unrealistic dreams. Just
like trying to flirt with a young girl, if you keep on pressing but
she turns you down again and again, you can say it 50 times but you
can’t say it a 51st time, at that point you have to leave her alone.
TNA: Let’s discuss domestic politics too. When do you expect the next
general elections?
DULGER: I haven’t checked the calendar, but any Sunday of November
2007.
Presidential election
TNA: So that means you don’t expect early elections, but many people
believe that in this case the presidential election set for May 2007
will cause fierce debate.
DULGER: I can’t see the logic behind such an argument. Why do they
question the legitimacy of an elected president? Let’s look at the
last three elections. What was the number of the votes for previous
presidents and what are we talking about now? When I was a member of
the True Path Party (DYP), we opposed President Turgut Ozal because
he didn’t really represent Turkish society; his votes were sharply
declining in both general and local elections. But we don’t have any
problem like that. So now I have only one wish: that the new president
be elected from among the deputies of this Parliament. I get the sense
that even Mr. Deniz Baykal (main opposition Republican People’s Party,
CHP, leader) is close to such a dialogue with the AK Party.
TNA: If the AK Party decides who the next president is, some people
are concerned that its “hidden agenda” will come out. This is because
then most high court members and university rectors will be appointed
by this new AK Party-origin president, and the headscarf ban could
also be overturned. How do you respond to this?
DULGER: I totally reject these stupid allegations. There’s no
such hidden agenda. I hear what they say, they even speculate that
Sharia law could be applied or all the women will become headscarved
overnight. But this is total nonsense. If I had any thought like that
I wouldn’t be sitting here, and if anybody tried to do that I’d fight
them till the very end. This is the paranoia of some circles. So how
do they explain that AK Party came to power with all the values those
circles brand it with? And more importantly, how do they explain the
stable term AK Party government up to now?
TNA: How do you see the developments on the right? For instance,
former Premier Mesut Yilmaz is back in politics, and there are efforts
to unify right-wing parties. Do you think anything will come of this?
DULGER: Most of them are my good old friends, but unfortunately
I don’t expect them to succeed. Because it’s quite clear that all
their efforts are for certain individuals and groups around them,
instead of new political dimensions.
Bring the nails
During our interview Dulger told a joke and said, “This is where we
plan to send our troops.”
“Up in heaven, Jesus was so bored one day so he said to God, ‘Father,
it’s so dull living in paradise all the time, I want to do something.
I see down on earth things aren’t going well, especially in Africa,
thousands of people are dying of starvation, let me go down and help
them.’ God said okay, so Jesus went down to Africa and went into a
market and told the owner, ‘Hi there, all your shelves are full of
food but outside the people are starving, let’s give all that food
away to the people. Don’t worry; I’ll fill your shelves tomorrow with
twice as much as there is now.’ So the food was given away to the
people. The next day the shelves had twice as much food. Then they
did it again and Jesus kept on filling the shelves. In a few days,
the starvation ended in Africa and Jesus went back to heaven with
satisfaction. He went on living like that for a while, but then he
again got bored with the routine and once again asked God: ‘Father,
can I go back again? Because I’m so bore! d here and the things
aren’t going well on the earth.’ God said okay, but this time he
wanted Jesus to go to the Palestinian-Israeli area, saying, ‘There’s
so much hunger there.’ So Jesus went down and knocked on the door
of a supermarket filled with food. A man opened the door and asked,
‘What do you want?’ Jesus said, ‘Hi there, all your shelves are full
of food but outside the people are starving, let’s give all that food
away to the people. Don’t worry; I’ll fill your shelves tomorrow with
twice as much as there is now.’ The man stood silently for a moment and
than yelled to the back of the store: ‘Hey Mishon, bring the hammer,
nails, and wood here, be quick, that pimp is back.’

BOILING WITH RAGE: HISTORY AND GEOGRAPHY: THE BROTHERHOOD OF NATIONS
by Boris Tumanov
Translated by Elena Leonova
Source: Novoe Vremya, No. 34, August 25, 2006, p. 6
Agency WPS
What the Papers Say Part A (Russia)
August 28, 2006 Monday
Russia goes further than the West in everything it does; While
receiving Armenian President Robert Kocharian in Sochi last week,
President Vladimir Putin congratulated him on the successful progress
of the Year of Azerbaijan in Russia. Kocharian ventured to remind
Putin that he is the president of Armenia, not Azerbaijan – and Putin
was forced to agree.
While receiving Armenian President Robert Kocharian in Sochi last
week, President Vladimir Putin congratulated him on the successful
progress of the Year of Azerbaijan in Russia. Kocharian ventured to
remind Putin that he is the president of Armenia, not Azerbaijan –
and Putin was forced to agree.
Mixing up the presidents of Armenia and Azerbaijan – it’s almost as
if Putin had mistaken Syrian President Bashar al-Assad for Israeli
Prime Minister Ehud Olmert. Observers are still wondering how Putin
could have made such a faux pas.
Did the resort atmosphere of Sochi make him too relaxed? Has the
well-trained memory of an intelligence officer started to fail him?
Perhaps he’s been bad at geography all his life? Or maybe the slip of
the tongue wasn’t accidental at all – was it Putin’s way of hinting to
Kocharian that Russia is changing its priorities in the South Caucasus?
In our view, none of these suggestions are accurate – since Putin’s
slip of the tongue actually indicates something completely different.
Back in the days when the world was multipolar, thanks to the existence
of a great power that called itself the Soviet Union, Soviet leaders
didn’t consider it necessary to burden themselves with knowledge of
details about all Soviet republics. Suffice it to note that some
Politburo members were sincerely convinced that the Armenians and
Azeris were fellow Muslim peoples.
Until now, Putin had never permitted himself any carelessness
with regard to former Soviet republics. He never confused Latvia
and Lithuania, Tajiks and Uzbeks, or even Russia and Ukraine. But
times have changed. Russia, as Putin himself pointed out, has risen
from its knees and is now talking to the rest of the world in the
tough language of oil and gas pipelines. And the fact that Russian
politicians have started mixing up Armenia and Azerbaijan again is
the best evidence of Russia’s new-found greatness.
Last week, the Our Own (Nashi) youth movement picketed the British
Embassy in Moscow – demanding that British Ambassador Anthony Brenton
apologize immediately for having dared to attend the Other Russia
opposition conference on July 12, shortly before the G8 summit in St.
Petersburg. Judging by the statements of the picketers, they believe
that Brenton insulted the entire Russian people by attending a
conference that was also attended by such hellspawn as Eduard Limonov
and Viktor Anpilov.
Our Own’s picket outside the British Embassy says a great deal. Most
immediately apparent is Our Own’s delay in demanding an apology
from Ambassador Brenton – six weeks after he allegedly insulted all
Russian citizens. There can be only one explanation for this delay:
the Kremlin brain center really has no idea how to keep its homuniculi
busy. Such pickets might actually become Our Own’s sole occupation:
hanging around the embassies of Western states, demanding (like the
unforgettable Father Fedor) that governments repent publicly of their
sins against Russia.
True, some might point out that in no Western country would even
the most hopeless idiot think of demanding that foreign ambassadors
apologize for meeting with representatives of the opposition –
especially such a comical opposition as the forces represented by
Limonov or Anpilov. But that’s why we’re Russia, after all – to go
further than the West in everything without exception.
Last week, passengers on a British Airways flight from Malaga to
Manchester delayed take-off by refusing to fly with some Arabs who
might have been terrorists, according to the law-abiding Britons.
These suspicions were based on the fact that the Arabs were talking
amongst themselves in their own language and wearing dark jackets.
The plane didn’t take off until the unfortunate Arabs were no longer
on board.
Such precedents have already happened in Russia, with Russian
passengers on domestic and international flights demanding that
persons of Caucasus ethnicity should be removed from the plane. This
used to be considered a phenomenon unique to our country, which is
not known for inter-ethnic tolerance. In the Malaga case, however,
the Arabs were ostracized by politically correct Europeans.
This is encouraging. When people from different countries, with
different national cultures and different social traditions, start
reacting to the same irritants in the same ways, this indicates that
the coveted progress of globalization is making great strides.