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Vaksberg, Tatyana
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4 articles of this author have been cited in the European Press Review so far.
Tatjana Vaxberg on dictators in the Arab World and Eastern Europe
In their final phases the Arab revolutions face the same questions that were seminal for the development of democracy in Eastern Europe, writes Tatjana Vaxberg in the online newspaper Glasove: "What to do with guilty dictators? Try them? Kill them? Place them under house arrest? Eastern Europe has done it all. Now it's the turn of Egypt, Syria, Yemen, Tunisia and Libya. In some of these countries the outcome is clear, others are still in the throes of armed struggle and it's too early to say how things will unfold. But anyone familiar with the [Eastern European] original will already get the impression from the copy that the Arab World is busy making the same mistakes committed by Europe - by flouting or even abusing justice. For the way justice is meted out now in the Arab World will determine these societies' approach to democracy and justice in the future. Events are now unfolding there as they once did on another continent, which didn't know what to do with its Ceaușescus, Zhivkovs, Honeckers and Jaruzelskis, but nevertheless built its idea of law and justice on just that."
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More from the press review on the subject » Security Policy / Crises / War, » History, » Justice, » Eastern Europe, » North Africa
Tatjana Vaksberg on Rousseff as a good Bulgarian abroad
As the daughter of a Bulgarian immigrant Dilma Rousseff caused a sensation in Bulgaria after being elected president of Brazil. Her Bulgarian counterpart Georgi Parvanov described her victory as a proud moment for the Bulgarian people. The Bulgarians are rather inconsistent in the way they treat their compatriots, Tatjana Vaksberg concludes in the daily Glasove: "If I remember correctly this very same nation cheered its prime minister when he said that he wouldn't offer shelter to a group of Bulgarian citizens who had been hunted out of France. ... I can understand that politicians would rather chum up with heads of state like Dilma Rousseff than with a bunch of Gypsies who poke around in the rubbish. But I get the feeling that Dilma Rousseff herself wouldn't be happy about this. It recently became clear that she too knows people who live in sodden cardboard boxes (in Brazil) and she has discovered that there are roughly 20 million such people in her country. She ran for president with the promise that she would help these people to escape the rubbish. This woman seems to have a different understanding of her profession than her colleagues in Bulgaria."
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More from the press review on the subject » International Relations, » Minorities, » Human rights, » Society, » Bulgaria, » Brazil
Guantánamo case a test for US judiciary
Judicial proceedings began on Wednesday in New York against an ex-inmate of the US prison camp Guantánamo. The Tanzanian on trial for the deadly bomb attack on two US embassies in Eastern Africa in 1998 is the first Guantánamo detainee to be tried by a regular civil court on US soil. The daily Glasove finds that courageous: "The entire history of Guantánamo has taken place beyond the pale of justice. ... For that reason the coming trials will not only have to deal with the presumed terrorist acts of the accused, but also with the violence against the detainees. In a normal court you can't simply present evidence that was acquired using violence. ... Whatever the prosecution presents as evidence, it will always have to answer the question of whether it was obtained by legal means."
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More from the press review on the subject » Crime, » Justice, » U.S.
Code name South Stream
The daily Dnevnik comments on the intransparency surrounding energy projects with Russia: "South Stream is the name of a planned natural gas pipeline about which no information has been published. Journalists have formed their opinions on the basis of their own research, but politicians haven't had that chance. The new [Bulgarian] government has stated it has searched for data in the relevant ministries but hasn't been able to find any. This news about the lack of information took the project from the realm of the mysterious and placed it firmly in the criminal sphere. Can it be that a strategic project running into the billions has left no trace in the form of documents? ... Nevertheless the information gap has a reassuring side to it. The Bulgarian and the Russian prime ministers have agreed on one important point: Bulgaria will become a key energy centre if it joins in on the covert action with the code name South Stream."
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More from the press review on the subject » Energy, » Bulgaria
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