Bush, Medvedev to meet at Putin’s Black Sea summit
After this week’s NATO summit in Budapest, Bush, like Putin in the twilight of his term, will fly to the Russian resort of Sochi on Saturday to try to ease relations strained by differences over missile defence, Kosovo independence and NATO expansion.
NATO Summit is in Bucharest (Romania) not in Budapest (Hungary), please take a global map, look and learn the countries and the capitals, before writing an article.
M.L.
Yes, this error drew more reader e-mails than anything else this week. We corrected, of course: GBU Editor
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while I like reading this section, I am as amused by how rude some of the comments are pointing to errors made.
- Posted by Giovanna“Western observers”? Until about twenty years ago when a reporter wanted to express his or her view in disguise they would use the catch phrase “according to some observers”. Did they mean the pistachio peddler on the street corner who actually saw the Kamikaze girl blow herself up? Then the phrase was changed to “According to Western Diplomats”. As somebody who has lived as an expatriate in a few exotic places where westerners are a very small group their diplomats usually know squat. They are too busy perusing the fare at lavish buffets and if they do chat it is small talk of the most trivial and profane kind with each other or figures in the local establishment. If they are bold enough to talk to “dangerous” people to find out facts they are liable to be called “spies” and deported. So now it’s “western observers”. Not fans of cowboy films but a mongrelisation of the previous two aphorisms.
- Posted by Paul Papadopouloslook and learn the countries and the capitals, before writing an article.
- Posted by Marius