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Some Turkish politicians accuse critics of double standards. Why, they ask, is the West concerned with one people's historical suffering when others are suffering now. "Some 20% of Azerbaijan is currently under Armenian occupation," said Ismail Cem, the Turkish foreign minister in a recent briefing to foreign journalists, voicing the concern that Europe is eager to look at events in 1915 but has turned a blind eye to the recent conflict that has produced one million Azerbaijani refugees...
...Union reached its lowest ebb and collapsed, the environmentalist movement managed to get that reactor shut down. It was a particularly dangerous one, because in those glorious Soviet times they managed to build a nuclear power plant directly over a geological fault. But eventually, after their bruising war with Azerbaijan and suffering many years of power shortages, the Armenians simply reopened the reactor. And it's hard to guarantee that the Ukrainians won't eventually do the same...
...only because Moscow lost most of its empire in the last decade. Add only the 17 medals snagged by tiny Belarus or the Ukraine's 23, and the ex-Reds were way out on top. To those add the smaller hauls by Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Georgia, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Azerbaijan, Moldova, Armenia and Kyrgyzstan, and the former Soviet Union took home a staggering 163 medals. But hey, they lost the Cold War, and that means we won the Olympics. Nyah nyah...
...which is just about everything we touch these days. Kirila's Virtual Engineered Composites (VEC) process is a factory in a box. The box can be as small as a mop basin or as big (so far) as a 40-ft. freight container. Plopped down in the middle of Azerbaijan or Arizona or Angola, it could start pushing out toilet seats one day and pipeline sections the next...
Stop. I could have explained that Georgia was also a state in the Union. But I was not in the mood. Plus, I wanted to see where this would go. "Yes," I said. "Where are you from?" "Azerbaijan," he said excitedly. Now we were mostly out of the traffic, and any pretensions of a speed limit had been exceeded. It would have been nice for him to keep an eye on the road, but his homeland was evidently more important. But it was getting late, and I once again expressed my concern...