mytza ([info]mytza) wrote,
@ 2008-03-31 06:06:00
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I found on a local newspaper and then on some Russian LJ diaries a very weird piece of news, so I tried for a good while to find and understand its sources. They claim that Romania is likely to ask NATO to support its intentions to "annex" Moldova, at this week's summit in Bucharest. The explanation would be a so-called "Balkanization" of Central Europe, with the independence of Kosovo being the trigger for other nationalistic impulses that would aim to change the map and create a "Greater Albania", a "Greater Hungary" or a "Greater Romania" (which would raise territorial claims not only against Moldova, but against Ukraine and Serbia as well!)

I'm not here to defend the honor of any politician, but I have to say that it's very annoying for me to see such fantastic lies. Of course, the yellow press can write any lie, for the sake of building catastrophic theories about any zone in Europe that is not ethnically homogenous. Maybe these theories can appeal to people that believe all sort of wrong informations about Romanians, I don't know. But who can be that unrealistic as to ignore the policy of NATO and EU? Romania is a NATO and EU member and neither of these organizations would welcome anything that can complicate further the situation in this part of Europe, economically and politically. As George W. Bush made clear a few days ago, with all his rhetoric:
"First is to continue to make our intentions clear, and that is that we want to work to make sure Moldova, which is now an independent nation, has got sovereign borders and is treated like an independent nation. Secondly, we constantly advocate for good, clean, open government. Thirdly, we're a member of a 5-plus-2, which is the process by which, hopefully, the Transdniestria issue would be solved" (5 plus 2 means the format of negotiations - with Moldova, Transdnestr, Russia, Ukraine, OSCE, plus the USA and the EU as observers).

Maybe all this story with territorial claims at the NATO summit is a joke for April Fools' Day. If so, it isn't a good one. 


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[info]theshadowofaman
2008-03-31 10:47 am UTC (link)
I don't think that all this crap is preparations to the 1st of April.
I wonder what there written in European yellow pages 'bout Russia is.

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[info]mytza
2008-04-01 05:12 am UTC (link)
I know quite little about the Western yellow press as a whole... but I noticed that British newspapers like Sun or Sunday Express use to write either stories about Russian spies, or about the private life of Roman Abramovich.
Here's a sample:
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/showbiz/bizarre/article678396.ece

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[info]fourmilier
2008-03-31 10:36 pm UTC (link)
I don't think it's a joke. It's a method of our press. They say: "life in Russia better and better, we've got more and more influence in the world. But USA and EU don't like it. But just see - they do very terrible things!" It's an official propagation.

And there's no information about Romania on TV. Today just about NATO summit. From negative point of view. But usual reporting of our TV about Romania is reporting about poorest country of the Europe. And it's the history of any inhabitant of Romania who can't find good job in the country. And who must go to Western Europe from his Homeland to support the family :(

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[info]mytza
2008-04-01 06:54 am UTC (link)
"But just see - they do very terrible things!" - I understand, it's clearly propaganda in the wake of the summit. Now I know how to recognize it - when the journalist doesn't care to quote any source for his affirmations :)

If you exclude all European CIS countries apart from Russia, most countries of the former Yugoslavia and Albania, then yes, Romania is the poorest European country :) Now seriously, in the big cities you can find enough good jobs and to live ok, but people from small towns and rural zones go indeed to search for work in the West - this is not a lie.
But I cannot say nothing about press stereotypes, as long as Russia's image in our SMI is highly stereotyped and negative as well - The Great Bear with oil and oligarchs and expansionist tendencies... almost as in the Western press.

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[info]ngs_govno
2008-04-02 06:44 pm UTC (link)
what russian LJs r u reading and commenting?

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[info]mytza
2008-04-02 08:11 pm UTC (link)
Ei, privet!
I leave comments mostly on LJs from my frendlenta, because I can use English there, or if not, they won't take offence if I can't write 100% perfect in Russian. Otherwise, it would be impolite to leave comments in English or to write "negramotno" Russian in other LJs.
But I read enough other LJs too, especially when there's a topic that is interesting to me. Thanks to Yandex or Livejournal.ru, it's much more easy to navigate the Russian blogosphere than the rest of LJ.

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