Concerning Mr. Laughland (2)

[Natalia Pylypiuk]

Cited from Prof. Dominique Arel's list.
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  (1) By Dr. Taras Kuzio
  Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2004 13:07:06 -0500

  RE: John Laughland

  Although normally a very good quality newspaper, the left-liberal
Guardian has an anti-American profile. Besides these US conspiracy
articles the Guardian, to its credit, has also published critical
letters and a very good op ed by Timothy G. Ash this week. The
Spectator also published in the same issue with Laughland a very
positive article by Radek Sikorski.

  The Guardian has published three articles (2 of them by Jonathan
Steele), and one now by Laughland which sees a US plot behind
Yushchenko. Ironically, this angle is one that has been promoted by
Russian 'political technologists' (Gleb Pavlovsky, Marat Gelman, etc
and their Russian Club based in the Premier Hotel owned by
Medvedchuk-H. Surkis). They have been working for Viktor Medvedchuk
since 1998-1999.

  Strange bedfellows. Another odd body, besides the ones run by
Laughland, is the British Helsinki Group (http://www.bhhrg.org/) which
also praised the first round. The BHG has a bad track record in Serbia.
Jonathan Steele meanwhile, was very Sovietophile in the 1980s (as was
the then pre-Tony Blair Labour Party).


(2) Also worth reading is
  War of the Monitors
  The British Helsinki Human Rights Group draws fire for having friends
in strange places
  By Jeremy Druker
  15 February 1999

which was published by Transitions Online, February 1999.
[A very illuminating article]

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