From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 11/19/2007 2:45 PM November 13th 2007 · Prague Watchdog / Dr. Dmitry Shlapentokh Russian and Muslim history By Dr. Dmitry Shlapentokh By the time of Putin's presidency, the Russian state had con
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From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 11/19/2007 2:45 PM November 13th 2007 · Prague Watchdog / Dr. Dmitry Shlapentokh Russian and Muslim history By Dr. Dmitry Shlapentokh By the time of Putin's presidency, the Russian state had consolidated its position and new ideology; and thus a new construction of Russian history was shaped following the usual pattern, where the new present usually leads to the creation of a new past. This new ideology, at least on a semi-official level, is a construction that could be compared with that of the ideological construction of late Imperial Russia. Still, it has its own specific nature. While for most of the Westernized elite of the last years of Romanov rule Russia was a part of the European order, indicated above all by Russia’s alliance with France and England, the present-day Russian Westernized elite is not sure about this. Not just the USA but even Europe, for all of their attractiveness, are seen by some segments of the Russian middle ... >> full
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A Year After Litvinenko's Death, A Legacy Of Mistrust And Fear
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From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 11/23/2007 9:48 AM Friday, November 23, 2007 A Year After Litvinenko's Death, A Legacy Of Mistrust And Fear By Brian Whitmore U.K. -- Aleksandr Litvinenko, a former KGB lieutenant-colonel, at University Hospital, London, 20Nov2006 Aleksandr Litvinenko (epa) November 23, 2007 (RFE/RL) -- Just over a year ago, KGB defector Oleg Gordiyevsky received a phone call from his friend Aleksandr Litvinenko. Litvinenko, a former Russian security officer and fierce Kremlin critic, had fallen ill and was laid up in a London hospital. His health was deteriorating rapidly. Gordiyevsky, a former KGB officer who defected to Britain in the 1980s, says Litvinenko suspected foul play. "He phoned me from the hospital and informed me of the circumstances. He said that he felt very poorly. Very, very poorly," Gordiyevsky recalls. "I said: 'what has happened? How did it happen? You must be poisoned.' And he said, 'Yes, it looks like I am poisoned.'" Less than two weeks later, Litvinenko was dead from a lethal dose of highly radioactive polonium-210. On his deathbed, ... >> full
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Litvinenko Family Remains Convinced Of Kremlin Role
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From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 11/23/2007 9:53 AM Friday, November 23, 2007 Litvinenko Family Remains Convinced Of Kremlin Role U.K. -- Marina Litvinenko and Boris Berezovsky at a press conference in London, 23Nov2007 Marina Litvinenko (left) and Boris Berezovsky at press conference in London today (epa) November 23, 2007 (RFE/RL) -- Today marks one year since Aleksandr Litvinenko, the former Russian security officer and Kremlin critic, died in a London hospital after being poisoned with a radioactive substance. Litvinenko's friends and relatives gathered in the British capital today to reiterate their conviction that the Russian government is behind the killing. Litvinenko's wife, Marina, and father-in-law, Walter, began the day by returning to the London hospital where Litvinenko died on November 23, 2006, three weeks after ingesting polonium-210 slipped into a cup of tea. Together with Alex Goldfarb and exiled businessman Boris Berezovsky -- both acquaintances of Litvinenko's -- they reread the letter they say the former security officer wrote on his deathbed, blaming the Kremlin for his death. At a subsequent press conference, Marina ... >> full
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Ukraine Marks Famine Anniversary Amid Denials
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From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 11/25/2007 7:00 AM Saturday, November 24, 2007 Ukraine Marks Famine Anniversary Amid Denials By Daisy Sindelar Ukraine – Famine 1933. Victim of hunger. A famine victim in Ukraine in 1933 (Ukrinform) November 24, 2007 (RFE/RL) -- Ukrainians who survived the Great Famine remember the horrifying extremes of hunger: eating birds and earthworms; watching as family members died in their arms; and in the worst instances, consuming the flesh of the dead. Resurrecting such painful memories is part of independent Ukraine's drive for an honest assessment of its national history. President Viktor Yushchenko, opening an exhibit commemorating the famine, or Holodomor, in Kyiv this week, said any nation that forgets the victims of past tragedies has no prospect for the future. Estimates vary, but as many as 14 million people in the Soviet Union died of starvation during Josef Stalin's drive to force individual farmers into collectivized agriculture. The famine spread to Kazakhstan, the North Caucasus, and parts of Russia. But most of the victims were Ukrainians, and the ... >> full
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From Insider to Fighting the Machine
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From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 11/25/2007 7:19 AM Friday, November 23, 2007 From Insider to Fighting the Machine By Alexander Osipovich Staff Writer Igor Tabakov / MT Kasyanov speaking at a rally in Moscow on Oct. 7, the anniversary of the murder of journalist Anna Politkovskaya. Mikhail Kasyanov says he is the target of a vast, pro-Kremlin conspiracy to undermine his goal of shaking up an authoritarian political system. Alternatively, the former prime minister might just be the unluckiest presidential candidate on Earth. The last meeting of Kasyanov's political movement, the Russian People's Democratic Union, was disrupted earlier this month when delegates were told that the venue, a trade-union hall in Tver, had been shut down for fire-safety reasons. Two weeks earlier, a similar gathering was forced to leave a cultural center in Ufa because of a telephone bomb threat. Delegates trooped over to a nearby hotel, and minutes later someone phoned in a bomb threat there, too. Kasyanov's supporters say these incidents fit into a long-running pattern of harassment in which ... >> full
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