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BEIJING — The Chinese committee that awarded this year’s Confucius Peace Prize minced no words in honoring the winner, Vladimir V. Putin, prime minister of Russia.
“His iron hand and toughness revealed in this war impressed the Russians a lot, and he was regarded to be capable of bringing safety and stability to Russia,” read an English version of the committee’s statement. “He became the antiterrorist No. 1 and the national hero.”
WAR IS PEACE
FREEDOM IS SLAVERY
IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH
Originally posted by Corruption Exposed
You know they're trolling us when they start giving peace prizes to Obama and Vladimir. Next year it should be between Ben Netanyahu and Kim Jong Il.
Originally posted by thoughtsfull
and people think I have fleas given the number of times recently I have been left scratching my head over these things.. but it makes as much sense as anything else happening in this world..
It praised his decision to go to war in Chechnya in 1999.
It praised his decision to go to war in Chechnya in 1999.
In August 1999, the Islamic International Brigade (IIPB) began an unsuccessful incursion into the neighbouring Russian republic of Dagestan in favor of the Shura of Dagestan who sought independence from Russia. (see Dagestan War). In September, a series of apartment bombings that killed three hundred Russian civilians took place in several Russian cities, including Moscow, which were blamed on the Chechen separatists. However, many journalists as well as a famous Russian dissident Litvinenko, later poisoned through the use of a highly radioactive material in London, point a finger at the Russian Secret Service for blowing up the houses to initiate a new military campaign against Chechnya. A famous Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya and Head of the Defense Council of Russian Duma (Parliament) were also killed after making similar claims.