http://transdniestria.co.uk/2007/edward-lucas-does-transdniestria.html Making sense of the PMR and the world around it Fri, 29 Aug 2008 06:45:49 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.5 http://transdniestria.co.uk/2007/edward-lucas-does-transdniestria.html#comment-2524 Sat, 26 Apr 2008 21:13:50 +0000 http://transdniestria.co.uk/2007/edward-lucas-does-transdniestria.html#comment-2524 [...] New Cold Warrior Edward Lucas has been a chief apologist for why Kosovo should be allowed independence while Transdniestria should not. His Transdniestria-related articles, like those of his good friend and respected (by Lucas) collaborator Vladimir Socor, hype a fear of all things Russian which is obviously not shared by the Russian-friendly population of Transdniestria. [...] […] New Cold Warrior Edward Lucas has been a chief apologist for why Kosovo should be allowed independence while Transdniestria should not. His Transdniestria-related articles, like those of his good friend and respected (by Lucas) collaborator Vladimir Socor, hype a fear of all things Russian which is obviously not shared by the Russian-friendly population of Transdniestria. […]

]]> http://transdniestria.co.uk/2007/edward-lucas-does-transdniestria.html#comment-1835 Sun, 13 Apr 2008 15:08:52 +0000 http://transdniestria.co.uk/2007/edward-lucas-does-transdniestria.html#comment-1835 [...] The son of the head of Romania’s Communist-era state run propaganda bureau, Vladimir Socor is today employed as a propagandist for a Dick Cheney related neocon outfit. He is often quoted as an analyst and commentator and has been known to plant false flag stories which (with a little help from his friends) can make it around the world a couple of times before they fall flat on their face. [...] […] The son of the head of Romania’s Communist-era state run propaganda bureau, Vladimir Socor is today employed as a propagandist for a Dick Cheney related neocon outfit. He is often quoted as an analyst and commentator and has been known to plant false flag stories which (with a little help from his friends) can make it around the world a couple of times before they fall flat on their face. […]

]]> http://transdniestria.co.uk/2007/edward-lucas-does-transdniestria.html#comment-1273 Sat, 19 Jan 2008 01:44:25 +0000 http://transdniestria.co.uk/2007/edward-lucas-does-transdniestria.html#comment-1273 [...] (no other ex-Soviet republics are mentioned in the original book, although the reviewer from The Economist - no doubt Edward Lucas - tries to make it sound that way). [...] […] (no other ex-Soviet republics are mentioned in the original book, although the reviewer from The Economist - no doubt Edward Lucas - tries to make it sound that way). […]

]]> http://transdniestria.co.uk/2007/edward-lucas-does-transdniestria.html#comment-801 Tue, 05 Jun 2007 02:25:44 +0000 http://transdniestria.co.uk/2007/edward-lucas-does-transdniestria.html#comment-801 [...] In an article published in the April 21 edition of ‘The Economist’, the wandering Edward Lucas writes on an unconfirmed deal over Transdniestria that… “It will be hard for outsiders to block the deal; they may not even bother to try. If they did, they might be called wreckers, given that both sides want it.” [...] […] In an article published in the April 21 edition of ‘The Economist’, the wandering Edward Lucas writes on an unconfirmed deal over Transdniestria that… “It will be hard for outsiders to block the deal; they may not even bother to try. If they did, they might be called wreckers, given that both sides want it.” […]

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