My twopence on power struggle seven years ago, Sep 2012. Was wrong about something (like Lembergs’s ZZS was small and risking to lose elections – what was I thinking), but mostly right I should think. Of course what did I know about Saskana’s true backing? I still don’t. When one looks at Saskana, all one […]
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The local maidanist vigilantes captured and obviously incapacitated the head of the Ukrainian-Slovak/Hungarian border customs, who, tied to a poll and surrounded by a crowd, confessed “all corrupt schemes”. Yes, it does look like lynching; the medium, however, is emphasising it in bold that “no tortures or beating” or in fact lynching, “self-made justice,” was involved. See the
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Democracy is trust. Democracy is so hugely misunderstood in the post-Soviets. You often hear people believe democracy is a majority’s dictatorship, it’s all about voting, and voting is of course easy to rig, because the majority is always blind and stupid, so democracy is just hot air to cover up for manipulations and crimes. You
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I have been wondering, why on earth doesn’t PM Dombrovskis have any particular opinion on things? I mean not the hard cut-downs, but things like Rail Baltica or, say, the use of the language. Yesterday I saw an article on Rail Baltica in an early-April issue of The Baltic Times. The article was called something like “Private
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