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From: Victor Kalashnikov <machinegun@online.ru>
Subject: Test for the West
Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2002 2
Lord Judd's statement on persecution of Chechnya war criminals (JRL #6149, 22 March 2002) is bound to have tremendously positive spin-offs both in Russia and elsewhere.
After Kremlin's "tsar" Pal-Palych Borodin (controlling the values twice more than Gasprom's assets) had spent several weeks in New-York and Geneva jails last year, a number of big cheeses here saw it reasonable to cut their appetites. So, many poor, orphans, widows and nuclear scientists have been saved from starvation.
This time, I guess dozens of Kremlin's officials and army generals will get signals to show more restraint in the genocide they're committing in Chechnya on the daily basis.
The question is, how serious the West is on that tribunal. Or, maybe, Yastrzhembsky has to be more generous with some of Western institutions and media.
A-propos - generosity. I'm really puzzled about the nonchalance showed by parts of the Western media community in Moscow. Some of them, including world- famous outlets, seems to think, that making business with the Kremlin propaganda office is a normal business. I think it is not, since the ultimate result of such cooperation is normally resulted in more suffering of ordinary Russians.
I hope, that the tribunal idea, expressed by lord Judd, will draw back some of the cheque-book journalists. Time is running faster these days, so you haven't necessarily to wait till a Mitrokhin will come and spoil your well-earned retirement.
Let me finally suggest a TEST for the Western commitment to the basics of law and humanism. There're two guys, Grigory Pasko and Igor Sutyagin, both with families and children, still in jail on flagrantly falsified spying charges. "Spying to the West",- FSB said.
Now, when we all are friends, it's high time to ask for their immediate release. So, why don't you make Moscow's sitting at prestigious tables in Brussels depending on the release of these two men? Isn't it absurd to negotiate the Nato-Russia rapprochement, while Pasko and Sutyagin are still submitted to torture of the Russian prison?
Don't postpone it till better or more convenient times. There's no guarantee you'll ever have them. Just demand: LET THEM BE FREE NOW!
Victor Kalashnikov,
Moscow
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