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Fugitive Vassilis Palaiocostas...
Policemen in riot gear stand outside the Thessaloniki courthouse... |
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Arbitrary diplomacy pays off
Arbitrariness pays off in diplomacy. At least so it would appear now that Moscow, invoking the relatively recent precedent of Kosovo, has decided to go ahead and recognize Abkhazia and South Ossetia.
But where will it all end, this phenomenon of mini-states seceding and borders of sovereign states changing?
The question should have been considered carefully and answered once and for all by the United States and its allies before the intervention in Kosovo. |
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EDITORIAL:AthensPlus |
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Writing on the wall
Unsolicited graphic interventions on public and private property - graffiti - has a long and varied history in Greece, and it very much reflects on where society is. Visitors from more «orderly» countries, and those with a heightened need for aesthetic order, are often shocked by the barbarity of the writing and smudges on Greek walls, opening the eyes of the rest of us to a blight to which we have become desensitized. The vandalism may be a statement of an organized kind, such as when major political parties and football teams send their foot soldiers across cities, towns and the countryside with huge stocks of paint, disfiguring bridges, embankments and even country fountains with their primal message that they are everywhere and at the same time accountable to no one (this applies even to parties when they are in power and should be upholding the rule of law, which forbids such vandalism).
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