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...situation has been made worse by a second wave of violence after the Russian intervention, carried out not by soldiers but by looters, including some local Ossetian militias as well as Chechen and Cossack gangs from Russia. It has laid further waste to the region, say refugees and human rights workers. "This conflict has been a disaster for civilians," Rachel Denber, Europe and Central Asia deputy director at Human Rights Watch, said in a statement on Monday. She said there was an urgent need for fact-finding missions to establish the facts of the conflict and to "urge authorities...
...returned to the starting blocks, his face was clenched in a grimace. The nearly 91,000-strong crowd, which had gathered at the Bird's Nest stadium to watch China's most beloved Olympic athlete, couldn't see Liu's contorted facial expression, so his fans continued to wave their national flags. Then, a false start. Liu took a few brave steps, but his leg seemed to crumple. Instead of returning to the blocks for another try, he slowly limped off the track. The TV cameras, which had nosed their way into the face of many a disgraced, disappointed athlete...
...about," she says, and hopes, in the meantime, that she can use her 15 minutes to help other activists. After being booted out off the equestrian event, Chan passed on three tickets - and her much-photographed Tibetan flag - to members of Students for a Free Tibet, who managed to wave it around for a full minute before they were also shown the door. This time, the flag was confiscated. Chan doubts she'll get it back...
...should be some sort of supranational entity, governed from the Kremlin, that would oversee much of the former Soviet territories. This attitude reflects in part the intense nationalistic mood that now permeates Russia's political élite. Vladimir Putin, former President and now Prime Minister, is riding this nationalist wave, exploiting it politically and propagating it with the Russian public. Some now even talk of a renewed Russian military presence in Cuba as a form of retaliation against the U.S. for its support of the independence of the post-Soviet states...
...after being forced on the defensive, Laboureur soon found himself swept up by a wave of support. Parents and teachers, alarmed by increasing defiance of adult authority by children in classrooms and households alike, began responding in fury to attacks on Laboureur. Some condemned what they considered an American-styled political correctness, which reduces all conflicts to a vulnerable victim suffering the abuse of aggressors. In a nation that still celebrates the progressive ideals of the May 1968 student movement, the surge of backing for Laboureur's tough-line discipline took many observers by surprise...