http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/mar/03/russia
GUARDIAN (UK) LETTERS Russia and the rule of law Monday March 3 2008 Timothy Garton Ash (Comment, February 28) urges us to spell out to Moscow the terms of closer western engagement with Russia: more respect for the sovereignty of neighbouring states, for human rights and for the rule of law. But since Britain has failed to respect Serbia's sovereignty by colluding in the illegal amputation of part of its territory (Kosovo); failed to respect human rights by introducing a mass of illiberal anti-terror legislation that includes detention or virtual house arrest for people neither charged with nor convicted of any offence, and permitting UK sovereign territory to be used for illegal rendition flights; and failed to respect the rule of law by participating in attacks on Yugoslavia (1999) and Iraq (2003) without UN authority and in breach of the UN charter, wagging our fingers at Moscow in the way suggested might invite an embarrassing retort. Brian Barder London
