John Roseman is a software engineer who has been living in the former Soviet Union since 1991. He is an active participant in the environmental community and author of articles on ecological transport.
Translation into Russian of Sustainable Belarus article
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The Bush Administration is committed to ousting the government of Belarus and replacing it with Western-style capitalism. NBC News recently branded the recalcitrant Eastern European nation as “an outlaw state far worse than Siberia in the old days”. But if you visit Minsk and talk to the people who live there, you get a different story.
To be sure, Belarus retains some unsavory elements of its Soviet past. The Belarusian state security agency is still called the KGB, and Belarus, like Russia, still maintains tight control of TV and newspapers. President Lukashenko can stay in office indefinitely, and he does not tolerate street demonstrations of political opposition.
But much has changed since the country gained independence in 1991, and, despite what we hear from NBC, the change has generally been positive. Internet access is widespread and unfiltered, ...read full post
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September 3, 2008 
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