Vladimir Kalinin (2)

Dear Colleagues, From my point of view we are living very far from democracy and it is blue dream for people to reach it in one day. But from the other hand we have not nothing better at the moment to use and explore in our daily lives. Communism collapsed as a nice idea for poor people so capitalist implementation of democracy is working in the field now. I came from totalitarian society and have to say you that your meaning of democracy means death for former USSR republics and people (the whole generation grew up under completely different ideas but under the name of democracy too). Social values dominated during this period of time - people had free of charge medical care, education, houses and had predicable future for their children but now after the so called period of new democracy - millions homeless people, street children (like after WW2 we watch by TV in your countries such a situation but now in every republic millions of poor people and very few have milliards of money to transfer them into West economy not their own, buying football clubs like Abramovich but his own people in Chokotka are dying of starvation but he is a governor of this region - gave people before elections a bottle of vodka and peace of bread according to their newspapers. Is it democracy they are crying at every corner - no of course not. So, when USA is using military power under the name of democracy I do not believe in their honesty. Oil and resourses, property and money are the main value for them and others countries who supporting them can't refuse because they never will get support from USA and it is better for them under the name of democracy to kill their own people and pay some money to the families. People's life cost very few now. I was teaching soldiers and officers when we invaded Afganistan that we are helping poor people to live better and build better society. USSR wanted to have total control under this region because USA wanted the same. Who was thinking about ordinary people. Politicians were thinking about their own interest by using poor people in this direction under different names - freedom, democracy socialism and etc. So, millions of our people hate Mr. Gorbachev for his policy and total destruction and he never will get any votes within former USSR but for west he is a Hero. We are very different and from very different civilisations and systems. It is true and clash of civilisations continue.

My name is Vladimir Kalinin and I was born in Russia but never lived there because parents moved to Latvia. I graduated from Air Force COLLEGE and served as a military pilot for 20 years in the air force former USSR. After the collapse of the USSR I took citizenship of Belarus, graduated from pedagogical university and became head of information centre on children and human rights education at the moment. Country isolated in Europe despite of common borders and culture with our neighbours (Baltic states and Poland) which your politicians called democratic and members of EU but in reality very far from democracy (in Latvia half of their population have even the name citizens I do not speak about their rights and fascism is coming to the country more less the same in Estonia - building monuments for SS nazi soldiers and officers and because EU keeping silence for them it is quiet support of their activities). For the last 4 years I am working as researcher in the field of HRE and involved 37 schools in ICT projects for our teachers and students. I saw by my own eyes the collapse of the big country and it system and can't say only in black and white colors about this period of time but I never can imagine that all former republics falled down to so basic level like in Africa and need hundreds of years just to stand up. I saw a lot of HR violations and now I am teaching about all these UN documents, Declarations and Conventions

Hi for everyone!!! I am Vladimir Kalinin head of information centre on children and human rights education from Belarus/former USSR republic/. I am responsible for teaching, promoting and protecting children rights within schools and curriculum as well. I have classes on HRE in gymnaisum N4 and responsible for international cooperation and collaboration between our 37 schools and teachers and pupils abroad. ICT quite new subject to us because very few schools have access to it but we are trying to move in this way because it has future and we could be more open for the rest of Europe. At the moment as I understand the situation we are isolated in Europe because of no projects, connections with colleagues and peers, we can't join to EU-CE but we are part of Europe. Gymnasium got the second place in republic among UNESCO ASP schools and I am head of republic experiment in the field of teaching children rights appointed by our Ministry of Education till 2005. I graduated from Air Force College and was in the USSR AF, later I graduated from pedagogical University in Latvia in social sciences, got Certificates in the field of International Human Rights from UK, Austria and Canada.