He sounds crass and insensitive sometimes, but the media bear only negligible guilt, compared to the bizarre and contemptible behaviour of the legal authorities.
Against this background, Moldova's pro-Western camp finds the EU's reaction to the attack on the protesters spineless.The feeble international response to the behaviour of the Moldovan authorities contrasts with events in another ex-Soviet republic, Georgia.
I was thinking about the suspicious behaviour of the prison authorities during the ceremony and trying to find a reason why they were evading the truth about Hamid's death: why had they ignored all our requests about his health condition when we had been worried about him during those previous days?
The story of Ms Politkovskaya's death in 2006 and the bungling, evasive behaviour of the Russian authorities in dealing with it was just the sort of topic suited for her own fiery pen.The jury acquitted two brothers, Dzhabrail and Ibragim Makhmudov, who were charged with acting as accomplices in the murder.
Drawing a clear parallel between Soviet domination of Hungary until 1989 and the behaviour of the European authorities, Orbán said: "We are more than familiar with the character of unsolicited comradely assistance, even if it comes wearing a finely tailored suit and not a uniform with shoulder patches".
"As the campaign progressed," Morgan later wrote, "it became more difficult for us British at SHAEF to provide explanation, as we were continually called upon to do, for the attitude and behaviour of the British authorities as exemplified by their chosen representative in the field".
Speaking to the Guardian, he said that the behaviour of the licensing authority raised serious questions.
The behaviour of the new Polish authorities was different but similar in nature to that of the Czech authorities before 1938.
The behaviour of the new Polish authorities was different but similar in nature to that of the Czechoslovak ones before 1938.
