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Belarussian air chief fails to deter teddy bear airdrop

Rob Beschizza at 11:19 am Wed, Aug 1, 2012

In other news, Belarussian resident Alexander Lukashenko sacked his air defense chief for failing to stop a Swedish plane drop hundreds of teddy bears on Europe's last dictatorship. [Reuters]

fuzzyfuzzyfungus

Does anybody have an address for the sacked air force chap?

In light of his unfortunate circumstances, it seems only polite to send him some kind wishes:
http://www.amazon.com/Beary-Sorry-The-Boyds-Collection/dp/B004LY98LS/ref=sr_1_2?s=toys-and-games&ie=UTF8&qid=1343845542&sr=1-2
http://profiles.google.com/keithdtyler Keith Tyler

Belarussian resident gets to sack the nation’s chief? That sounds like socialism, not dictatorship!
- jerwin
  
  He lives in a Presidential Residence, so “resident” is technically correct. I wonder if it’s as nice as the Wuerzberg Residence?
  No, I’m sorry. It’s not
  - jackbird
    
    Cripes, that’s the worst palace I’ve ever seen.
- http://halfbakedmaker.org Robert Baruch
  
  He’s the Dictator-in-Residence Resident-for-life.
Brainspore

The saddest part is that the Belarussian government does not take kindly to spies. http://www.corbisimages.com/images/Corbis-42-15260610.jpg?size=67&uid=57d9a1a0-1b8e-4cb1-bead-48374ff552fc
- Brainspore
  
  (Aw, now that was just rude, Corbis!)
  - That_Anonymous_Coward
    
    Being mean to teddy bears never ends well.
https://twitter.com/PhoetrySlam Cyran0

Could this be the infamous drop bears?
- ocker3
  
  In Soviet Belarusse, Bears drop You!
- http://twitter.com/incarnedine_v Dan Hibiki
  
  always wear a pointy hat.
tnmc

The demonym for people of Belarus is Belarusian, not Belarussian.