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Hi Natalia! I saw your comments on one Ali’s website, which I got to from jihadwatch.org, you go girl! Very nice, I wish I was as articulate, but hey, I didn’t go to Duke!
Tim Baker
Thanks!
hi natalia,
ive read the natashas. yes horrific. in fact this is the ‘war on terror’ we should be fighting for…sept 11 killed 2000..yet each day 700,000 from eastern europe die inside… robbed of everything that makes life meaningful….wasted/robbed/brutalized as if the lives of these women meant nothing, will mean nothing, continue to mean nothing in the eyes of the world… o where art thou feminist?
given that iraq is bad..yes 600,000 dead.. instantly dead.. very bad.. but worse is 700,000/year trafficked who die each day in captivity..
each human being stripped of their name / stripped of freedom / to be forced to disown themselves / stripped of their natural right to be themselves / each day dying a little inside… everyday for the rest of their lives… brutalized / robbed of dignity / by this unbearable crime not of their making / innocent…
as if we did not know the meaning of innocent…when the planes hit the twin towers..
when iraqi civilians in the 100s of thousands could not escape the shower of bombs…
as if…
as if, we did not know the meaning of innocence…
and its defense…
Hi Natalia,
I am working on a British documentary about the mail order bride industry for Channel 4.
We are trying to locate the family of Alla Chevaganova, or Alla Barney who was murdered by her husband in 1995. She lived in Kyiev and I wondered whether you have had any dealings with her family?
We are currently filming in the Ukraine and are looking to interview a woman who has had a bad experience through marrying a man through a marriage agency.
Have you talked to any such women or the family of a woman who has been killed? could we employ you to help us find such a story. We need to be filming this within the next few days so if you could let me know as soon as possible whether you may be able to help I would appreciate it.
Do you have a number I can call you on?
Kind regards
Michelle
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There was a documentary on tonight called “Sex Slaves” by a Toronto filmmaker named Ric Esther Bienstock… I’ve actually seen it twice previously. It’s an incredible look at sex slavery and follows a man as he searches through the Turkish underworld looking for his wife, who was basically kidnapped from Ukraine. I used your search widgit and couldn’t find anything on Bienstock, so just in case you haven’t seen it the entire documentary is on YouTube, ten minutes at a time. This is part one:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wJbfSjY1Sk
And this is the 1983 classic Canadian rock hit “Raise A Little Hell” by Trooper… just so this comment isn’t totally serious:
Natalia,
Hi, came across your blog today and your comments about Nikita Mikhalkov’s film “Twelve”. I’d like to watch this film, any idea where I might be able to get a hold of it in the US?
Andrew
Mmmmm, I’m pretty sure that it’s getting a limited theatrical release in the States in 2009. I’m thinking spring.
Hi Natalia
Your many comments to Salon articles have always been lucid and considerate. Today I finally followed the link you provide there, and it has brought me here to your well written WordPress blog. I know I’ll enjoy reading this as I have your comments in Salon. {I just emailed the link to nine friends.}
Oh, and I enjoy your English spelling convention quirks. I’m multilingual as well and have similar strangenesses. {I keep my Spelling Dictionaries set to ‘International’.}
Anish ashza-ba-maadzwe-iin
Tschüß!
~joan
{I use an anonymous nom de plume en Salon.}
Thank you!
I *should* be anonymous at Salon, but am just too lazy to come up with a pseudonym.
Am addicted to Cary Tennis, as I’m sure you can tell.
Yes. I try to even the keel sometimes, but I realise it’s not nescessarily my job
I think Cary does a pretty good job. More commentators ought to remember it’s an advice column
I should be able to think of a way to give my pen name away to you. I know! She’ll send an Ojibwe greeting your way. Now, if I can just think of a context…
You can always e-mail me at work.
natalia [***at***] globalcomment [***dot***] com
(That e-mail being all over my website anyway)