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To: struwwelpeter; BrooklynGOP
More news on Kavkaz.....

These are so funny

Check out the titles and then look at the sources.

But look at this one, especially.
from AP?

" The site is regarded as a clearinghouse for pro-Chechen information and a mouthpiece for Chechen rebel leaders. It is based on a server in the apartment of renowned Soviet-era dissident and political prisoner Viktoras Petkus. Petkus today accused Brazauskas of bowing to political pressure. "

Who is Viktoras Petkus?

27 posted on 09/17/2004 8:18:43 PM PDT by MarMema
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To: MarMema
Viktoras Petkus

"LITHUANIAN HELSINKI GROUP LEADER VIKTORAS PETKUS"

"Until then virtually unknown though prominent in dissident circles, Petkus was associated with the Catholic dissident movement and with the Lithuanian Helsinki group which monitored Moscow's compliance with the civil rights provisions of the Helsinki agreement of 1976. Arrested on August 28, 1977, and illegally held for many months, he was tried on July 10-13, 1978, that is, at the same time as Anatolii Shcharanski in Moscow and Alexander Ginzburg in Kaluga, Russia. This threefold event—Shcharanski's trial on espionage charges, Ginzburg's punishment for administering Solzhenitzyn's aid fund and Petkus' condemnation for his work with the Lithuanian Helsinki group has been reproved by Western press and statesmen, including West German Chancellor Helmut Schmid who singled out Petkus, and our own President Jimmy Carter, though many of the American Catholic publications and congregations, it is sad to say, still have to discover the case of their co-religionist."

Viktoras Pektus homepage

" Released in 1987, now lives in Vilnius and has returned to his research in history."

Research in history, indeed. I believe I have a good idea who this person is, from one of the Helsinki-laden pro-chechen lists.

28 posted on 09/17/2004 8:24:48 PM PDT by MarMema
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