OCTOBER 2005

From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng  (Original Message)    Sent: 10/5/2005 3:19 AM
The Chechen diary - 2
October, 4, 2005

( the Notes of the Observer)

We continue the publication "Chechen diary" of Andrey Novikov. The author - active participant of democratic movement in 80th, a member of group "Doverie" (trust). In 90th of the last century worked as the political analyst in "Literatunaja Gazeta" and a weekly journal "Vek". The unpublished notes turned into a book - a political diary of epoch of the first years of the Second Chechen war. The special attention is deserved by political forecasts of the author, the majority from which have eventually proved to be true.

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By the way, in film "Tired by the sun" there is such frame: in full silence the huge red cloth with Stalin's portrait falls on a field.

Now Putins image falls on the country in the same way.

Would be simplification to think, that in sacralisation of Putin only mass media is guilty. everything is much more difficult. Putin personifies for today's ...
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From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng  (Original Message)    Sent: 10/7/2005 6:05 PM
A transnational umma: reality or myth?
Fred Halliday
7 - 10 - 2005
The notion of a global jihad animating a universal, boundary-dissolving Islamic community is compelling to many. Fred Halliday assesses its truth.
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In the four years since 9/11 much has been written, in the west and in the Islamic world, about the emergence of a new “transnational” and militant Islam, a community of jihadis who operate independently of states, recruit from many countries, and whose operations are not confined to any particular state. Al-Qaida, for example, has had fighters from dozens of countries – from Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Egypt and Morocco, to Bosnia, Chechnya, the Philippines and Pakistan (and, on occasion, Britain, France, and Australia also).

In one sense, there is nothing particularly Muslim about this phenomenon. The facility of virtual and physical movement today means that many ideas, symbols, and causes are transmitted globally and near-instantaneously. British surprise that the 7 July bombers were “homegrown” missed the ...
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From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng  (Original Message)    Sent: 10/8/2005 4:23 AM


Yale University Press

What Stalin Knew: The Enigma of Barbarossa
By David E. Murphy
Yale University Press
310 Pages. $30

What Stalin Knew

Intelligence Design

Stalin's failure to predict Hitler's 1941 invasion of the Soviet Union was a classic mistake of 20th-century intelligence: the projection of one's own values upon an opponent.

By Gabriel Gorodetsky
Published: October 7, 2005

Few Soviet specialists can draw on the kind of personal experience that distinguishes former CIA officer David E. Murphy, who headed his agency's base in Berlin before taking over Soviet operations at U.S. headquarters in Langley, Virginia. Murphy used his insider's perspective to admirable effect in "Battleground Berlin: CIA vs. KGB in the Cold War," a chronicle of espionage co-authored with his KGB counterpart, Sergei Kondrashev. Alas, his venture into less familiar territory exposes the severe shortcomings of a practitioner turned historian.

In "What Stalin Knew: The Enigma of Barbarossa," Murphy steps back to June 22, 1941, the day Adolf Hitler launched his devastating surprise attack on the Soviet ...
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From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng  (Original Message)    Sent: 10/8/2005 6:23 AM
7.10.2005 22:07 MSK
Russian version of Euronews subjected to censorship
RUSSIA, Moscow. Two editors of the Internet site Human Rights in Russia (hro.org) have uncovered a scandal: the Russian editorship of Euronews unexpectedly halted a translation of a speech by British Prime Minister Tony Blair into Russian. The speech, at a press conference on 4 October in connection with the Russia - European Union summit in London, included views on the situation in Chechnya.

According to Human Rights in Russia, this is not the first time the editorship of Euronews in Russia has blocked information form reaching the viewers of the popular European channel's Russian viewers. The organisation also referred to the fact that the state-owned Russian radio-television broadcasting service owns a large share packet in Euronews.

PRIMA News Agency [2005-10-05-Rus-30]
http://www.prima-news.ru/eng/news/news/2005/10/7/33523.html

From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng  (Original Message)    Sent: 10/16/2005 6:18 AM
Hardline policy fails to halt extremism

Nick Paton Walsh
Friday October 14, 2005
The Guardian

The threadbare, battered republic of Chechnya was once the focus of Russia's problem with Islamic separatism. But over the past two years, the violence has been sweeping slowly westwards across the north Caucasus.

Last June, Nazran, capital of the neighbouring republic of Ingushetia, was seized for a night by militants who murdered up to 100 officials. Three months later, the bloodshed enveloped another peaceful town further west, at least 32 militants seizing 1,128 hostages at a school in Beslan. Minor attacks continue almost monthly across the region.

 
The ring of steel that yesterday surrounded Nalchik epitomises how Vladimir Putin's hardline policy in the north Caucasus has failed to contain the extremism once only a problem in Chechnya. Militants who fought for independence of the southern republic of Chechnya have become increasingly motivated by Islamic fundamentalism, their goal mutating into creating an Islamic state on Russia's southern flank.

Increasing poverty, ...
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