Patently- O has links to other coverage, and the clearest description of the events at issue in the Ward v. Frenkel lawsuit, which involves the filing date of the ESN v. Cisco lawsuit. ( link ) If this is defamation… I don\’t even know where to beg…

A couple other reactions: (1) Stankovic’s maternal grandfather was Serbian, too, and a close friend of the Serbian king prior to WWII. You correctly point out that his father was a Serbian refugee, but fail to mention that his mother was, too (the family resided in Belgrade until the Nazi invasion). He talks about this in his book. (2) Mladic’s first name is Ratko, not Mlatko. (3) How is it that you come to the conclusion that he has not sufficiently dealt with his past? Just because he is a leadership consultant, we are to suspect that he has not faced his demons? And why, exactly, should we care about your personal opinion of his mental/emotional state?

The last seven years has seen tremendous appreciation in home prices. This brings up the issue of home capital gains tax issues for people when they sell.

Some may say that Kosova’s independence will set a precident, that if you resort to violence you can get what you want, but instead of looking at it in this negative way I would say that it sets a positive precident that countries (here Serbia) can not abuse their minorities (Kosovar Albanians) and still claim the right to govern them. If this worries Russia then all the better.

I find it funny that once Banja Luka had spoken about joining up with the Serbian motherland should Kosova get independence, but now, given the frosty response from Belgrade, has been forced to speak of independence itself. Who would trust Republika Srpska to run a viable, just or democratic country given that its existence as an entity was founded largely on acts of ethnic cleansing and the spilling of innocent blood in towns like Srebrenica and Sarajevo.

CAN WE PLEASE ALL MOVE PAST REFERRING TO THE PARTY OF REGIONS AS PRO-RUSSIAN!!! They represent a very different, more Soviet political culture and are mainly Russian-speaking (although the spoken Russian language happens to vary considerably throughout the former Union, btw) but their interests lie in a fully independent Ukraine, whatever.

Market prices for Russian gas!!! No!!! Maybe that would give an incentive to cut Ukraine’s terrible record as a gas-guzzler, not to mention to limit Russia’s influence. Poland, for example, has a good relationship with Russia regarding its own gas consumption, having liberalised its gas prices in the early 90s.

Just because they are only 2 parties does not undermine the fact that NUNS and BYuT have over 50% of the seats in the Rada. Party discipline is the key and that is where Yushchenko comes in.

Much more interesting than speculating over whether Tymoshenko will or will not go into opposition should a Blue-Orange coaltion be forged is the question of if and how a party splits, given that further elections, according to the constitution can’t be held within a year after early parliamentary elections. All Our Ukraine deputees have now signed the coalition agreement with BYuT and now we can wait to see if that was a cynical move that still allows NUNS deputees to vote against the grain. If that happens, it is likely to be seen as sabotage and so the question is, will politicians such as Yuriy Lutsenko, V’yacheslav Kyrylenko and Roman Zvarych make extreme moves to discredit the elected NUNS lignup and force yet another crisis?

If they do, it will only set further precendents that force the setting of clearer political rules…

This is not repetition.