Published: 11 Aug 12 07:15 CET | Print version
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The EU shied away from a full-blown diplomatic crisis Friday at talks called to respond to the expulsion by Belarus of Swedish diplomats in a row over human rights in the former Soviet republic.
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A- his mouth
B his nostril
C his ear
D his eye
If the nose, make it deep.
Or the use of The Local for political propaganda and creative writing.
Seriously, if anyone bothers to look for similar stories by more reputable news agencies online, they will see a clear difference.
Which makes you wonder, why and who is passing on these stories.
I think the comments at TL only reflects the level of this, which is insane. Pure and simple insanity. And I think people of course have a hard time in taking a president like that seriously, which is why the commenting isn't at any serious level either. But then, people didn't take Hitler seriously either...
To the Finnish brother: I'd say put his finger up in his behind.
Kind of says allot really.
On a side note .... Belarus is allot further ahead in regards to the Olympics.
And given they are only 5 million ... I guess it says allot.
1 United States 41 26 27 94
2 China 37 25 20 82
3 Great Britain & N. Ireland 26 15 18 59
4 Russian Federation 17 21 28 66
5 South Korea 13 7 7 27
6 Germany 10 18 14 42
7 France 9 9 12 30
8 Hungary 8 4 4 16
9 Australia 7 15 10 32
10 Italy 7 6 8 21
11 Netherlands 6 5 8 19
12 Kazakhstan 6 0 4 10
13 Japan 5 14 17 36
14 New Zealand 5 3 5 13
15 Iran 4 5 1 10
16 Ukraine 4 2 9 15
17 North Korea 4 0 2 6
18 Belarus 3 4 4 11
19 Jamaica 3 4 3 10
20 Cuba 3 3 4 10
21 South Africa 3 1 1 5
22 Ethiopia 3 0 3 6
23 Spain 2 9 3 14
24 Romania 2 5 2 9
25 Denmark 2 4 3 9
26 Czech Republic 2 3 3 8
26 Kenya 2 3 3 8
28 Brazil 2 2 8 12
29 Poland 2 2 6 10
30 Turkey 2 2 1 5
31 Croatia 2 1 1 4
32 Switzerland 2 1 0 3
33 Canada 1 5 12 18
34 Colombia 1 3 4 8
35 Sweden 1 3 3 7
Sweden = 35 / Belarus = 18
Why don`t you post the medal tables from the last couple of winter olympic games as a side note?
It would show Sweden from the bright side and we can have none of that! ;)
Why would I post a medal table relating to years ago?
That would be dishonest and put myself in the same light as others by attempting to mislead others.
Makes you really wonder if supporters of Sweden or Belarus are really any different?
#2WrongDontMakeARight #SameSameButDifferent
>> " He had just ordered a couple of guys killed for their crimes. Just look at the complete ease this guy is with himself while he´s explaining this, and ask yourself, is this guy really living on the same planet in the year 2012.""
NOT JUST SOME GUYS. 2 terrorists who bombed subway and killed scores of people.
I can assure you in no uncertain terms - Belarus has as much of a democracy as Sweden. Don't listen to what asylum seekers tell you - the're there purely for economic immigration.
Maybe they should´ve taken Breivik behind the shed too?
Have you ever been to Belarus or Russia, for that matter? Democracy? BULL***T!
i suppose Russia is heading that way, sort of, maybe, but the corruption... All the slavic peolples tend to be hideously unintrested about making any improvement on their living conditions. It´s only good that someone wakes them up every now and then. I sometimes wonder if it´s in their genes allready.
Teddybears... When the Finns party got their +20% of votes in the last parliament election, maybe they should have dropped those teddys here? I would´ve kicked and screamed and turned black of anger for sure, we would have withdrawn our diplomats from Sweden of course.... Yeah right.
There's a difference between democracy and individual freedom too though, I'm not saying Belarus and Russia are democratic but ryannewman does have a point. Western media likes to pick on Belarus and Russia because they aren't in cozy terms with the West but they rarely ever tell you (or more importantly, make a big deal out of) about their own oppressions. Did you know for instance that the UK has one of the highest rates of mass surveillance per capita? Not just with security cameras but also with others for instance look at this article's excerpt from BusinessWeek from June 14th, 2012 by Raphael Satter:
"British authorities on Thursday unveiled an ambitious plan to log details about every email, phone call or text message in the U.K. -- and in a sharply-worded editorial the nation's top law enforcement official accused those worried about the surveillance program of being either criminals or conspiracy theorists."
If you just replace "British" with "Russian" everybody would be crying foul, but because the UK is a Western supposedly "democratic" country everybody turns a blind eye. Or look what's happening in Sweden for example.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7463333.stm
I'm not even going to go into what's happening in the USA. Again, not saying the West is less democratic than Belarus, just trying to highlight some double standards.
I´m not the one to like govenment spying no matter what government does it. There is obviously a lot of double standard in "western" policies. It seems to me, that a lot of people are going crazy because the old cozy world of black & white is gone.
The main point in this event might be, that in certain countries a teddybear with a note on it, is a big enough deal to cut ties to just about everybody. It is actually quite amazing.
On the case of west, on USA in particular, I just can´t figure it out, how bad they managed it. HUGE recourses, and today, on the verge of a total collapse. Mind boggling.
OK, fair enough, sleezypornorangutang.