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...disturbing sign for former Soviet states like Belarus, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, where opposition calls for reforms have been repeatedly repressed. Belarussian leader Alexander Lukashenko put down a protest over the weekend, and some analysts believe the dominoes could even start falling in the Kremlin's direction, though Vladimir Putin's grip seems pretty secure. "Nobody rushed to defend Akayev," says Alexey Malashenko of the Carnegie Moscow Center. "All these post-Soviet authoritarian regimes are proving colossuses with feet of clay...
...SHOULD THE E.U. BE EXPANDED TO INCLUDE COUNTRIES LIKE UKRAINE AND BELARUS? I am ready to confer membership to Turkey, to Kazakhstan, to Morocco, and to everyone. The more countries, the better. HOW WOULD YOU CHARACTERIZE U.S.?E.U RELATIONS NOW? I really don't think the antagonism between Europe and the U.S. was as great as the headlines in some of your publications would suggest. We are moving in a positive direction...
...There will be no rose, orange or banana revolutions." ALEKSANDER LUKASHENKO, Belarus President, dismissing the possibility of his country experiencing a pro-democracy movement such as Ukraine's Orange Revolution...
...Customs agents presented the country's authorities with a list of suspects caught buying child pornography on the Internet. The agents told Time that none of the dozens of New Zealanders on the list - originating from Operation Falcon, which targeted purchasers of child pornography from websites originating in Belarus - have yet been arrested. Using records of the customers' credit card transactions, U.S. agents amassed a list of over 95,000 potential recipients of child pornography. Offenders were traced to a score of countries, including Australia and New Zealand. A U.S. Customs agent handed over a cd containing the names...
...Kremlin regards countries like Ukraine, Moldova and Belarus as vital buffers between Russia and the West. Like Russian rulers for the past two centuries, Putin "equates security with well-defined zones of interest," says James Sherr, an Eastern Europe specialist at Oxford Uni-versity. Those zones have shrunk in recent years as the Baltic states and Georgia turned sharply toward the West. Putin doesn't want to see the same thing happen in Ukraine...