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Vaksberg, Tatyana
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5 articles of this author have been cited in the European Press Review so far.
War crime trial heightens despair
The trial against Jovica Stanišić, the former head of Serbia's State Security Service, began this week before the International Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia. The daily Dnevnik fears that the trial will drag on indefinitely, since Stanišić has been medically assessed as unfit to stand trial: "Medical diagnoses are waging a successful battle against the dispensation of justice in The Hague. ... Everything points to another set of proceedings with no end in sight, which will only lead to further despair for the victims of the war in Yugoslavia. Instead of seeing those they consider guilty on the dock, they will once more see how the idea of justice is mocked. The real question is if justice can keep its agenda free of such interference."
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Only Chinese sanctions will help
"North Korea poses a host of problems to democracies: it is unpredictable, it has nuclear arms potential, its population lives under conditions that can only be guessed at by external observers, and there's no way to exert pressure on it as a countermeasure", the daily Dnevnik writes, asking how the international community should respond. "North Korea has chosen such an extreme form of isolation that one can say it has imposed sanctions on itself - even military ones. The sole power whose sanctions could make themselves felt is China. The problem is that such sanctions would only hurt the population - which is already suffering enormously - without harming the regime. To make matters worse China itself is a delicate matter, because it doesn't acknowledge human rights - an old topic which has still not been adequately addressed."
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Russia's unique interpretation of the dispensation of justice
The new trial against Russian entrepreneur Mikhail Khodorkovsky prompts the daily Dnevnik to assess Russia's legal system. "Khodorkovsky is a political prisoner. It was not because he lined his pockets but because he was ready to make a successful career in politics that he was put on trial. The trial against him was inspired by his sole rival, who later awarded the state prosecutor responsible for the trial a medal. Now Khodorkovsky has served two-thirds of his sentence and can apply for early release. To prevent this happening he is being put on trial a second time. Like the first it will probably lead to another verdict of guilty. The largest country in the world quite simply has a unique interpretation of the dispensation of justice."
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Poor East-West relations
Dnevnik newspaper writes that East-West relations are facing hard times with reference to a GlobeScan survey commissioned by the BBC according to which Russia's popularity in the West has plunged. And in Russia the situation is no better: "For the first time the West is not divided over Russia – the negative mood predominates. … According to sociologists the negative trend is the result of the invasion in Georgia and the growing reports of human rights abuses. If this is true it means that the ability of PR to influence public opinion is dwindling. … But much more noteworthy is the anti-West mood among Russians. In 2008 the EU's popularity sunk by 20 percent and after a 12 percent increase the critical mood has reached 65 percent. ... The antipathy is … at its highest level in ten years. Unfavourable winds are blowing from both directions and it is by no means certain that politics can ignore them."
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Secretiveness at the War Crimes Tribunal
Florence Hartmann, former spokesperson for UN Chief Prosecutor Carla Del Ponte at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague, is facing seven years in prison or a fine of 100,000 euros because her book "Paix et châtiment" (peace and punishment) deals with two secret sessions in the case of Slobodan Milošević. Dnevnik newspaper comments: "What sort of tribunal is this? It deals with genocide, but at the same time considers some of its decisions to be so confidential that no one may know they even exist. And why is this court the only judicial authority that may express its views on whether its standing has been violated or not? ... One and the same organ has competencies in three areas at the same time and is subject to no higher authority. In view of the fact that this court is dealing with the worst crime of all, one wonders what goal could be higher than the publication of its findings."
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