Voronov

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June 2013

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Thank you. All corrected (I think) Voronov (talk) 14:38, 18 May 2015 (UTC)

Resistance International

Can you provide some source citations for the statements in this article which you created, please? DES ^(talk) 16:24, 16 May 2015 (UTC)

I'll try. To begin with I simply translated the existing Russian page about the same organisation and added in Wiki links to individuals, countries etc. Voronov (talk) 16:43, 16 May 2015 (UTC)

Thank you. Note that standardss are different on different wikipedia projects. On the english-language wikipedia articles must be about notable subjects, and must be verifiable. This means that citations to reliable sources are strongly desired. Don't worry too much about the formatting of reference citations if you find that confusing. Provide the information in the best way that you can, including listing it on the article's talk page, and others can help format it. However, please do include enough information that others can find and verify the referencecs. For a book, this woluld mean title and author and page att least, with publisher and year very helpful. For a newspaper, magazine or journal article, publication name, date, and page at least. For a web site, URL at a minimum. See Referencing for beginners. DES ^(talk) 17:28, 16 May 2015 (UTC)

This page is a spin-off from that on Vladimir Bukovsky, a major opponent of the Soviet regime and despite increasing age and ill-health of Mr Putin and his activities over the last 15 years. The Bukovsky entry is well-documented and I am double-checking all the references and updating them where necessary.

Resistance International existed for five years in the 1980s. Its members were high-profile individuals, many with their own entries on Wikipedia (links provided) but the organisation itself - despite receiving 6 million dollars from Congress in 1983! - is shadowy and elusive. It's a puzzle, therefore, what to do. Obviously an English-language text is better than no text at all. There are activities, moreover, in which the organisation and its apparent successor (the American Fund for Resistance International) was engaged, in Afghanistan and in Angola. Hopefully, these have a reflection in more specific documentation.Voronov (talk) 03:59, 17 May 2015 (UTC)

Links now provided to more well-known individuals with their own entries in Wikipedia and to an interview with Nicholas Bethell about activities in Afghanistan. Remaining refs in original Russian version will be added presently Voronov (talk) 14:12, 17 May 2015 (UTC)

Please note that Wikipedia pages should not be cited as reference souces, this can introduce circular references, and besides, Wikipedia does not consider itself to be a reliable source. Links to other Wikipedia pages do not substitute for proper citations to reliable reference sources. Note also that "Interview with Vladimir Bukovsky (in Russian)" does not say who intreviewed him or where this was published or broadcast. Perhaps this was a link in the RU Wikipedia, but it isn't here, and the URL is not present (this is one reason why bare URLs are not good cites). I can't read Russian, so i don't know if "Galina Akkerman, Vladimir Maximov: Галина Аккерман. Владимир Максимов — судьбы скрещенья" ncludes proper bibliographic info. If it does, please provide a translation sufficient for the source to be identifiable. DES ^(talk) 17:28, 17 May 2015 (UTC)

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