I believe that Russia it is in its right track.
Russia can not divert for what it is important for it.
For the first time I see the american's impotent. The owr5ld does not need confrontation, but that does not mean that it has to accept the hipocritocal American policies.
I respect Russia's diplomatic position. Given the position America and NATO places them in, Russia could not be more correct than today. I would not give back any Georgian territory until it is assured Georgia will not be joining NATO; and, only after M. Sakashvilli is tried for war crimes and crimes against humanity.
Straightforward is a somewhat loose, vague term. Certainly, diplomatic language should be more precise.
Applied science distinguishes between precision and accuracy. I refer those interested in exact meanings to academic textbooks. In the language of politics accuracy is substituted by truthfulness, and precision by quantitative description.
It would be too much to demand from diplomats to be truthful. That would question the neeed of their existence. We may make their life harder, however, by demanding more numerical data in their presentations.
I became attracted to Russian mass media just because of detailed reporting. The reports often provide relevant statistics quoting their sources. A reader may try to verify them indpendently, from other sources. Even the mass information is aimed at well-educated addressees. The personal comments of reporters are avoided.
Unfortunately, in this regard the situation in Poland is likely to be the worst in Europe. Much worse than in the USA. Polish journalists and editors, unlike their US collegues, aren't inhibited in their censorship activities by any tradition or by legal provisions such as The First Amendment to the United States Constitution. Moreover, declining level of education made Polish society more susceptible to primitive propaganda then ever before. Television broadcasts in which the watching public is induced to laughing (or to other behavior) by following the invited individuals (or by prerecorded sounds) are getting more and more popular. So are comics.
Just one example.
Wynik wyborów na Bia?orusi nie pozwala na ich uznanie przez Zachód http://www.wprost.pl/ar/139914/Wynik-wyborow-na-Bialorusi-nie-pozwala-na-ich-uznanie-przez-Zachod/?K=1
"Sunday's parliamentary elections in Belarus shouldn't be recognized by West because none of the opposition candidates have won a place in parliament" - assessed Tomasz Pisula, Chairman of Freedom and Democracy Foundation (never heard of it and of him before.).
My innocent comment that it was the adherence to the prescribed procedures to be assessed by European Union (Western)observers, and not the results, hasn't been published yet.
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