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 Monday April 25, 2005 11:18 by iosaf - "helping andorrans be democratic".
ribbid ribbid ribbid "what has moscow said?"
Vlad Putin has taken the podium to give his sixth state-of-the-nation address to the combined houses of the Russian legislature.
Present were -Members of both chambers of parliament and the government, heads of supreme courts, the Prosecutor-General, the head of the Central Electoral Commission, the head of the Auditing Chamber, members of the State Council (regional leaders) and heads of the main religious confessions.
And for the first time as a bumper extra, commanders-in-chief of armed services and heads of military districts. This is very exciting.
Accordingly everyone is very excited.
Almost every street in Russia now has a TV, and viewers of the great democracy have been gathering socially and convivially all morning to watch the live feed of their president, mister numero uno, devout catholic as kid, former KGB officer, Vlad Putin.
This is all legal and completely above board.
In accordance with Article 86 of the Constitution.
Russia has a constitution, just like Eire (called the bunreacht) and Andorra (called the parish record).
The content of the address is not made public until the President reads it. The President explains that otherwise the address would lose its meaning.
Therefore I can't tell you, coz it isn't "translated" (a technical term we linguists use) into "english".
If you want to watch the speech, or read the transcript you'll have to go to one of the federal or state Russian telly stations.
Point your dish at any russian satelite, don't worry there's a lot and one will pass you by quickly, normally a few minutes after the astra.
Or if you don't have a directional dishy, and are using low tech, internet, go to these sites
where using microsoft windows player (coz you're most probably a capitalist lackey) you can open a bit stream (a technical expression we use for fast moving bits of "code" that help your "PC" show moving pictures).
http://www.rfn.ru/
http://broadband-television.com/tv/russian.html
http://russianinternet.com/video/
or you may be very old fashioned, in which case you'd prefer to listen to the radio from Moscow.
http://www.russianinternet.com/radio/
This year's speech is being made in the Marble Hall of the Kremlin.
Mr Putin will be wearing a dark suit, and will smile a lot. But he's not one for sickly sweet charm, no, he's not an idle believer in spin and lies. Commentators remember his speech last year when he reiterated his promise of 2002 to double GDP. He said this could be attained by 2010.
Last year he also had to reflect on the Beslan atrocity, and was very sombre, and some westerners thought he rattled his sabre a little.
On the subject of his sabre, the Russians do not want to leave the black sea a matter raised in the recent meetings with PM Julia of the Ukraine
C/f the ukranian file latest comment-
http://www.indymedia.ie/newswire.php?story_id=68497
Other key foreign policy areas include the relation with Europe, keen readers and non-andorran irish political thinkers of the XXI century will remember the "4 way summit" of Chirac, Putin, Shroeder and Zapatero earlier this year.
And of course the decision to sell really good surface to air missiles to Syria. Which has at first upset the Syrian's neighbours Israel, but they've sort of got used to it now, reflecting in the last week before passover, that if they hadn't repeatedly buzzed the president of syria's house with low flying really good jets, the Syrian's wouldn't want to fork out cash on Russian sams.
Putin has also in the last year announced military collaboration with China, the exercises are due in the mid Asia area in the month of June. As this is the 60th anniversary of the end of the "Great Patriotic War" (the russian way of saying WW2) there will no doubt be mention made of the sacrifice endured by millions of Russians and other peoples in the war against Nazi-ism and the liberations of the death, experimentation and concentration camps. It is doubtful however that any attention will be brought to the post-war camps in the Stalinist Soviet Union.
News just in from our wonderful network of "news for the deaf and ballerinas" confirms that Mr Putin has declared that Russia and her allies did the right thing on the Iraqi war and since then and supports the reconstruction of that country.
The allies being the other 3 European states of the European 4.
Putin announced his intention to introduce proportional representation voting rights in Russia last saturday, no doubt there will be mention of this today, which certainly western western (US orbit) commentators will see as a "good thing" for Russia's newest political party the liberals of chess master Kasparov
c/f
http://www.indymedia.ie/newswire.php?story_id=69096
Putin will also mention the good working relationship he has with Bush, in "realpolitik" they are both moving to a multi-polar world which both want, and part of that is reminding their TV viewers and orbit commercial media interests that they are in fact the main and most powerful pole. This can be quite ridiculous on ocassion, but one you get the hang of it, its easy.
at the link to the end of this previous article which highlights the very serious environmental concerns which we in Europe share with our immediate neighbours to the East you may read the Kremlin Putin address for New Year 2005, which I sort of liked.
http://www.indymedia.ie/newswire.php?story_id=68089
I will post the "translation" of the speech in the comments, as soon as it's checked against the spoken words for litte glitches of "meaning"* with varying reactions, ranging from aunty beeb of london and cousin QdO of paris, to the german pontiff in Rome to the wonderful daily "bon dia" in Andorra.
(* just realised in the last days that the german pontiff's attack on moral relativism and liberalism (PDs) and marxism (SWM) and capitalism (FF&FG) which I had originally thought included us "lbertarianism " was a glitch, papa ratzi did in fact use the word "libertine-ism", which is bit hornier than libertarian and requires more viagra as you get older.) Which just goes to show making speechs in latin might be helpful. Q:E:D: papae.
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Jump To Comment: 1 2 3 4 5one sentance has been proofread and checked for double entendres, mis-pronunciations, injokes, and humour - and it's official Putin thinks the collapse of the USSR was a mistake.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4480745.stm
Bon Dia the best-selling daily in Andorra is still lagging, in the considered response
QdeO Paris hasn't issued anything yet, they usually like to give the brits a head start.
ribbid ribbid ribbid.
in a surprise statement, Russian president Putin today said that the collapse of the CCCB was the worst geo-political disaster of the XX century.
Local left of centre radio listeners have confirmed that both russian and andorran democracy will develop their own way.
http://www.cccb.es/cat/cccb.htm
"a chute de l'URSS avait été la plus grande catastrophe géopolitique du siècle J'estime que notre principale tâche politique et idéologique est le développement de la Russie en tant qu'Etat libre et démocratique",. "Je suis convaincu que dans la Russie d'aujourd'hui, les valeurs de la démocratie ne sont pas inférieures aux aspirations à des succès économiques"
but only he said it in russian.
He said:-
MOSCOW, April 25 (Itar-Tass) -- Russian President Vladimir Putin has identified three main tasks to be addressed in developing the Russian state – the strengthening of the political system and legality to prevent a gap between the authorities and society, consolidation of the federation, and liberalization of the economic space.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has described the terrorist threat to Russia as very serious. "Over the past few years a great deal has been done in the struggle with terrorism, but the threat remains very serious, and we continue to get very bad blows,” he said in his annual message to the Federal Assembly.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has described the terrorist threat to Russia as very serious.
“Over the past few years a great deal has been done in the struggle with terrorism, but the threat remains very serious, and we continue to get very bad blows,” he said in his annual message to the Federal Assembly.
Putin confirmed that Russia was interested in a heavy influx of foreign investments.
“However, in practice there have emerged obstructions, which, some say are required by national security.”
The president pointed to the need for creating a clear system of relations between the Russian state and private investors.
“The spheres of the economy where the presence of the state is important must be identified clearly,” Putin said. He referred to such areas as the development of strategic natural resources and infrastructure projects.
“There must be criteria of foreign capital’s participation in these programs. As we retain control of a number of sectors of the economy, we must create favorable conditions for investors. That must be formalized at the legal level.”
Putin believes the state is obliged to protect its interests.
“Time is ripe for naming those branches of the economy where advantages must be created for the national capital including state capital, Putin said.
He warned that the corrupt part of bureaucracy had learned the technique of using Russia’s wealth to its own selfish interests.
“The political and corporate bureaucracies behave no better than the government bureaucracy. I must warn them that ceding power to a corrupt bureaucracy is not part of our plans.”
(Mr Putin wore a sombre suit and spotted tie, white dots on burgundy, a departure from his usual plain colour range, perhaps a sign of a loosening of attitudes in the post -perestroika post glasnot post everything post.ie russia, and with temperatures at a comfortable 7º centigrade in the city of moscow tonight which sits at an elevation of 156 meters above sea level, and with winds only at 4km and humidity averaging 55% the russians will naturally be warmed by his words and not in the bit apathetic about the future)
http://www.itar-tass.com/eng/level2.html?NewsID=1970601
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His office have also confirmed that he is going to become the first Russian leader to visit Israel.
for what the swiss news agency mirroring Reuters describes as a "family tiff", but even better, it'll be on telly, and you'll read about it in the newspapers.
http://www.swissinfo.org/sen/swissinfo.html?siteSect=143&sid=5718753&cKey=1114429853000
"Israel is expected to press Putin to sever growing nuclear and military links with Iran and Syria, countries it believes have ties to terrorism, political commentators said.
In turn, Putin is likely to ask Israel to extradite Russian business tycoons, including media magnate Vladimir Gusinsky and former oil company YUKOS executive Leonid Nevzlin, who live in exile in Israel and face a variety of charges in Russia.
"But there will be no bombshells ... What we see is just a family scuffle between Russia and Israel," Mikhail Margelov, chairman of the international affairs committee in the upper house of parliament, said in daily Nezavisimaya Gazeta.
Putin first visits Egypt and then Israel Wednesday for talks with Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and other officials in a two-day trip to be capped by a meeting with Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas in the West Bank city of Ramallah.
The Soviet Union forged ties with Israel when the Jewish state was founded in 1948 but cut them after the 1967 Middle East War in which Israel captured Arab territory.
Moscow restored relations in 1991, shortly before the Soviet Union collapsed and after then-Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev allowed Jews to emigrate.
Russia is a member of the so-called quartet of international mediators for the Middle East peace process along with the United Nations, the United States and the European Union. But Moscow has so far only played a minor role in the process."
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HH Benedict XVI, papa ratzi, holy joe, god's rotweiller today met with leaders of the Muslim faith on the 2nd day of his pontificacy and promising to work toward building "bridges of friendship" between Catholics and Muslims.
http://www.adnki.com/index_2Level.php?cat=Religion&loid=8.0.156753930&par=0
"It is encouraging to note that a meeting with Muslims was one of the first official acts of Pope Benedict XVI," said Ibrahim Hooper, a spokesman for the Washington-based Council on American-Islamic Relations. "We hope that this initial positive step is a sign that he intends to build on Pope John Paul II's legacy of interfaith dialogue and reconciliation."
The new pontiff said growing dialogue between the religions is a step toward fostering peace.
"It is therefore imperative to engage in authentic and sincere dialogue, built on respect for the dignity of every human person, created as we Christians firmly believe, in the image and likeness of God," said Pope Benedict XVI.
He also met with representatives of the eastern orthodox churches including the patriarch of the russias, the muscovite Metropolitan Kirill, who is also head of the Moscow Patriarchy's department for external religious relations, congratulated Pope Benedict XVI on his election and said that Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Alexy II sends his warmest regards.
http://www.interfax.ru/e/B/politics/28.html?id_issue=11274985
closer to home (ireland) benedict xvi also met with the archibishop of canterbury, and they get along fine.
baa baa
woof woof.
you're not digital creatures.
have a think about it.
there are a lot of things you really really don't want to know about, but there is a solution, and you can find your pole, in this multipolar world to orientate at the first step.
Peace = Pax = Mir = Shalom = Saleem = Siochan = Paz = Paix bla bla bla ribbid ribbid.
so endeth the state of the union (USSR)
pass the plate.