Posted on 01/19/2006 7:49:37 AM PST by x5452
Crimean Tatars Call On Kyiv To Restore Their Rights 12 December 2005 -- Members of the Crimean Tatar Congress gathered in the main Crimean city Simferopol said yesterday that Ukraine's integration with the West should not go forward until Kyiv restores Tatar rights.
Congressional delegates, issuing a statement at the end of the three-day session, accused Ukrainian authorities of disregarding the rights of Crimean Tatars, who were deported en masse by Soviet leader Josef Stalin in 1944.
RFE/RL's Tatar-Bashkir Service reported that congress member Timur Dagci was among the voices calling for Kyiv to recognize the deportation as genocide:
"Our problem -- the problem of Stalin's genocide of the Crimean Tatar people -- is an undeniable fact, so I believe all countries, the United Nations, and the European Union will recognize it and will decide that it was indeed genocide," Dagci said.
Many Tatars have since returned to Crimea, but have been unable to reclaim valuable land and property that was theirs before the deportations.
The Tatar Congress delegates called on the Council of Europe and the European Union to make Ukraine's possible membership in the EU and World Trade Organization contingent on their recognition of Crimean Tatar rights.
(RFE/RL's Tatar-Bashkir Service/Interfax)
Yeah thats why Putin banned Soros NGOs in Russia, it;s all a ruse.
He didn't. He made the Duma pass the law that forbids foreign financing of NGOs (in contradiction to any civilized standards), so that he can have better control over them. Now he can outlaw those which are not anti-American enough. Soros will be not among them:))
Lukasz didn't mock his death. It's your sick and desperate imagination playing tricks on you.
Lukasz was mocking you. "Shot twice in the head and buried alive". Isn't it funny Vanya?
He survived both shots, what the hell is funny about that?
Further I didn't write the piece, Ukranian-Canadian Dr. Alexander Roman did.
Will you not denounce mocking of Ukranian writer and Ukranian heros?
You heard it here folks.
Reactor is pro-foreign funded NGOs.
RINOs like you would have us wearing chinese red stars.
There is a difference between funded by foreign goverments or just funded from abroad. Amnesty and HRW are international oraganizations, they are funded from many sources all over the world, and yes, they are legal in USA.
RINOs like you would have us wearing chinese red stars.
Have you lost your own red badge??
He was shot in the head twice, there were not any witnessess apart from those who shot him, and he was immediately afterwards buried. So how can anyone know that he was alive then? Yes it is funny (I mean your and the author's stupidity).
There should be no political activity by foreign organizations.
Further Open Society's 'human rights' funding involves promting "reproductive rights".
It's quite sensible to limit those activities as well.
You and Putin are of one mind. Fortunately there is a Constitution in the USA.
Yeah we know who you voted for...
Cash and Kerry By Michael Isikoff
Newsweek
Feb. 9 , 2004 issue - John Kerry needed cash, and soon. In July 1996 the Massachusetts senator was locked in a tough re-election fight, so he was more than happy to help when he heard that a generous potential contributor wanted to visit his Capitol Hill office. The donor was Johnny Chung, a glad-handing Taiwanese-American entrepreneur. Chung brought along some friends, including a Hong Kong businesswoman named Liu Chaoying.
Told that Liu was interested in getting one of her companies listed on the U.S. Stock Exchange, Kerry's aides immediately faxed over a letter to the Securities and Exchange Commission. The next day, Liu and Chung were ushered into a private briefing with a senior SEC official. Within weeks, Chung returned the favor: On Sept. 9 he threw Kerry a fund-raiser at a Beverly Hills hotel, raking in $10,000 for the senator's re-election campaign.
The founders would roll over in their graves to hear that someone thinks their constitution allows foreign dynasties to fund American candidates.
They'd probably underline the provisions about only land owners being allowed to vote, and the senate electing the president.
In Russia handing leaflets on the street is considered a political activity. If you narrow it to financing political parties, you are right. But political parties are not NGOs. If they receive money from abroad by way of NGOs it is still a problem of political party funding, not NGOs.
I don't limit it to funding parties or campagins (though that's a start).
I do in fact find handing out anti-government propaganda, in some instances should be criminalized. For instance Muslims. They hand out a variety of subverssive anti-American propaganda. If those are individual American born citizens airing their opinions fine, but if it's foreign governments or known terrorist groups I think there should be penalties.
Further I don't think any foreign government or agency should be allowed to contribute to the death of babies via abortion.
Yeaaah. But what about this pesky first amendment?
I don't think any foreign government or agency should be allowed to contribute to the death of babies via abortion.
If it is legal in some country (like Russia for example) I don't see why not. It is the duty of this country to stop it. BTW I haven't heard about Russians complaining about abortion propaganda from NGOs. Russians don't seem to have anything against abortion.
http://www.mosnews.com/feature/2004/11/25/abortion.shtml
"Western media put Russia at number three for its abortion rate, just after Cuba and Romania. Conservative think tanks like the Rand Corporation are more blatant: Russia has the highest abortion rate in the world."
I wouldn't support handing out any leaflets by anyone. I would support the RIGHT of anyone to hand out any leaflets. See the difference?
The first ammendment has long been contrued so as to not govern certain situations, sedition being amoung them.
Also Mosnews is a leftist site that's why you cant post articles from it. In 2005 and already in 2006 Putin has been calling upon patriotic folks to have children and the government is starting a program to pay parents of children a small amount each month as well as front the cost of medical bills.
Getting back to countries in general however the official stance of most liberals is 'safe legal and rare' it cannot be rare if there are people paying for it. If someone cannot afford an abortion the government should be allowed to insist they not be given funds with which to do so.
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