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http://finrosforum.fi/russia-will-never-catch-up

Four civic activists and Russia experts in Finland have published a statement condemning the actions of the so-called Finnish "Anti-Fascist" Committee (SAFKA) and Kremlin's parallel propaganda campaign against Finland.

The statement's signatories call on Finnish public opinion to give its assessment of the committee's actions. The authors state that Russia's habit of doing politics on the situation of distressed people living in Finland is unacceptable.

http://finrosforum.fi/the-pied-pipers-of-putinism

http://finrosforum.fi/asylum-for-elena-maglevannaya

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A Russian company, Alekseevskoye-Serviss, bought an entire Latvian town for EUR 2.2 million at a privatization auction. The former military installation of Skrunda-1 is deserted and its 70 buildings are in disrepair. The town used to be home to 5,000 military personnel, who worked two enormous radar facilities in the area. The property spans 45 hectares and has several residential buildings, a school, officers club, sauna, and a medical clinic.

Skrunda-1, which is located in Latvia's Kuldiga region, was built in the 1980s. The military installation had one of the so-called Hen House radar systems that could listen to objects in space and watched the skies for NATO missiles. The Pechora radar facility was a 19-story building that soared over the Kurzeme countryside. It was exploded by US demolition experts in 1995. The last residents left Skrunda-1 in 1998. No one has lived there since.

http://balticreports.com/?p=9605

"[There is an] ongoing campaign to rewrite WWII history by mitigating Nazism, insisting that communism's evils be proclaimed "equal" to Nazism, and trashing the Allied war effort as one that did nothing but replace one tyranny with another "equal" one in the east," writes Dovid Katz, professor of Judaic studies at Vilnius University and research director at the Vilnius Yiddish Institute.

The peoples of eastern Europe suffered enormously under communism for decades after the war, while we westerners were enjoying unbridled freedom and prosperity. It is absolutely right that they should now call for thorough investigation of the crimes committed by communist regimes. But the demand that the entire EU declare Nazism and communism to be "equal" is something else entirely.

The east European cabal's greatest success to date is the Prague Declaration, which demands that the EU recognise communism and fascism as a "common legacy", and that "all European minds" think that way. Its practical demands include a new Nuremberg-type tribunal for trying the criminals of communism and, unbelievably, a demand for the "overhaul of European history textbooks."

The entire "red-equals-brown" movement within eastern Europe panders to base instincts. It has hit upon a convenient way to stigmatise not only "Russians", but also today's Russia. These nations have every right to fear Russia, but this legitimate concern must not be compromised by the attempts of some at historical falsification and the peddling of contemporary racism and antisemitism.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/jan/08/holocaust-baltic-lithuania-latvia/print

"First we take Tehran, then we take Beijing," is the latest call of the self-styled "online revolutionaries." I say: First Tehran, then Moscow! The revolutionary events in Iran are watched very closely indeed in Russia, on both sides of the political divide.

The popular revolt in Iran would seem to have many analogies in today's Russia: an illegitimate, corrupt, and murderous regime clamping down with extreme violence on an opposition where tech-savvy urban youth activists have assumed a prominent role.

What we still fail to see in Russia, however, is for the general populace to express the sort of utter loss of confidence in the ruling regime that now manifests itself even in Iran's conservative heartland. Yet, a "Russky bunt" would be a truly frightening prospect.

What the long-suffering peoples of both Iran and Russia need is regime change from within. The current forms of government in either country are well beyond reform, and quite detrimental to the future prosperity of the two immensely rich nations.

Marg bar diktator! Долой чекистскую мафию!
Down with the dictator! Down with the KGB mafia!

"Sergei Magnitsky was our attorney, and friend, who died under excruciating circumstances in a Moscow pre-trial detention center on 16 November 2009. His story is about how Stalinism and the gulags are alive and well in Russia today," writes William Browder in Foreign Policy.

"Sergei died for a principle, because believed in the rule of law in Russia. When he stumbled upon an enormous fraud against his clients and the Russian government, he thought he was simply doing the right thing by reporting it. He never imagined he would die for his efforts."

http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2009/12/22/they_killed_my_lawyer