Moscow, April 19, 1994

Gorazde has fallen under the blows of Bosnian Serbs.

Gorazde has fallen in spite of the fact, that UN announced it a "safe haven" and declared about readiness to defend it.

Gorazde has fallen in spite of the promise of the Bosnian Serb leader Karadzic to stop offensive to the city and turn off the troops.

What was happened is an awful shame. A shame for NATO, dropped three bombs on Serb tanks from safe high - just like in the comedy. A shame for European Union. A shame for the UN, which was not able to prevent killings of refugees in the "safe haven" and attacks against its own personal. A shame for the whole international community, which suffers from paralyzing of its will and is unable to give an adequate response to the impudent challenge - equal to which the world did not know after Hitler. For the international community which begins already to be provided by the mischievous, but unfortunately correct epithet "so called".

Tragedy of Gorazde (and also Sarajevo, Srebrenica and other Bosnian cities which have shared the fate of the martyr city Leningrad) is a shame for President Eltsin, who patronized Serbs till the last moment by the hands of Kozyrev and Churkin, who pressed the international community to do even new and new cessions to the aggressor - cessions which lead during all the three years of Yugoslav war even to new and new territorial seizures of the Belgrade regime.

Of course, there is no sense to grieve about the position of State Duma, where the majority belongs exactly to the patrons and associates of the Serb national communists. But is it not a shame for those who call themselves "democrats" in this country: no political party, no public organization did not condemn aggressors, vice versa - everybody attacked the NATO actions undertaken on behalf of the UN!

War criminals, who are guilty of killings of thousands of unarmed civilians, of destroying cities and villages - will respond in front of the Ad Hoc Tribunal. But also those who supports them (and, in fact, accomplices in war crimes) on the Duma tribune, in the Security Council hall in New York, on the pages of newspapers and from the TV screen - they also must respond. Not in front of the Law, but at least in front of their voters. If, of course, this voters grasp finally, where is the difference between liberal democracy and cheap vodka, between interests of democratic Russia and Soviet military industrial complex...