Chechnya: Zakayev Comments On Reports Of Basayev's Death
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posted by zaina19 on July, 2006 as ANALYSIS / OPINION
Monday, July 10, 2006 Chechnya: Zakayev Comments On Reports Of Basayev's Death Chechnya -- Zakayev, Akhmed x Akhmed Zakayev (file photo) (CTK) PRAGUE, July 10, 2006 (RFE/RL) -- RFE/RL's North Caucasus Service spoke today with Chechen resistance Foreign Minister Akhmed Zakayev by telephone from London. Zakayev was unable to confirm Russian reports the radical Chechen field commander Shamil Basayev has been killed. RFE/RL: With the information now at your disposal, can you confirm that Shamil Basayev has been killed? Akhmed Zakayev: No. Of course, I can neither confirm nor deny this information because I only know what was released today by the Russian mass media, including [Federal Security Service head Nikolai] Patrushev's report to [Russian President Vladimir] Putin. I do not have any other information confirming this from the Chechen Republic. Therefore, I can neither confirm nor deny this information. RFE/RL: Putin and [pro-Kremlin Chechen administration head Alu] Alkhanov stated today that with the death Basayev a new stage in the regulation of the conflict in Chechnya, that he was such an odious ... >> full
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Guide to Russia's key energy clients
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From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 7/12/2006 1:51 AM Tuesday, 11 July 2006, 12:38 GMT 13:38 UK Guide to Russia's key energy clients Energy has become the hot topic this year in Russia's relationship with its European neighbours. Most depend to some degree on Russian gas and were shaken by the dispute between Russia and Ukraine in January, which led to a brief suspension in supplies. BELARUS Belarus is the only former Soviet state still paying less than $50 for 1,000 cubic metres of Russian gas. But Gazprom has wants to go over to market prices - a four or five-fold increase - from 1 January 2007. It is prepared to compromise if Belarus sells Moscow its pipelines, which include the second most important pipeline for Russian exports to Europe. Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko offered to give up the pipeline during a dispute in 2004, when Russia briefly cut off supplies, but the two sides could not agree how much it was worth. This time they have appointed a Western bank to ... >> full
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From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 7/14/2006 1:54 PM SPIEGEL ONLINE - July 14, 2006, 03:14 PM URL: http://service.spiegel.de/cache/international/0,1518,426331,00.html The Legacy of an Empire Russia's Path into the 21st Century A timeline of Russian history -- from Napolean's invasion to the October Revolution to the dissolution of the Soviet Union and the rise of the Russian Federation. 1812: Napoleon's army invades Russia. During its withdrawal, the "Grande Armée" is destroyed. Czar Alexander I. is regarded as Europe's savior. 1853-1856: A French-British-Ottoman alliance halts Russia's southern expansion during the Crimean War. 1904/05: Russia is defeated during the Russo-Japanese War. Czar Nicholas II suppresses emerging riots in a bloody crackdown, but he also bestows the giant empire with constitutional rights and a parliament, the Duma. 1914: World War I begins. Russia, France and Britain battle against the "Central Powers" of Germany and Austria-Hungary. 1917: October Revolution. Under Lenin, the Bolsheviks decide to take up peace talks with the Central Powers. 1918: Russia pulls out of the war. Under the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, it loses large parts of its ... >> full
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Caucasus: Environmentalist Says BTC Pipeline Could Be 'Death Of Caspian'
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Caucasus: Environmentalist Says BTC Pipeline Could Be 'Death Of Caspian' Georgia -- Manana Kochladze (environment activist) Manana Kochladze courtesy photo PRAGUE, July 12, 2006 (RFE/RL) -- Since its inception, environmentalists have rallied against the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyan (BTC) pipeline, which pumps Caspian oil to the Turkish Mediterranean. They say there is a serious risk of oil leaks and spills, as the pipeline passes through a region with a history of seismic activity and landslides. Manana Kochladze is a Georgian environmental activist, who works as the Caucasus coordinator for the monitoring organization, CEE Bankwatch. In 2004, she won the Goldman Prize -- known as the environmental equivalent of the Nobel award -- for her grassroots campaigning against the pipeline. RFE/RL correspondent Luke Allnutt spoke to her about her work. RFE/RL: What are you main concerns, environmental or otherwise, about the BTC pipeline? Manana Kochladze: First of all, the concern is the routing of the pipeline, which goes through a number of sensitive areas, including the Borjomi region in Georgia. And any type of oil ... >> full
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Motorcade of Russian «Diplomates» Attacked in Bagdad
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From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 7/18/2006 11:35 PM Motorcade of Russian «Diplomates» Attacked in Bagdad Publication time: Today at 02:34 Djokhar time The Mujahideen Shura Council in Iraq took responsibility for attacking a motorcade of the Russian "embassy" in Iraq on Friday, July 14, 2006, in one of several of the group's communiqués issued on July 17. The attack which resulted in destroying one vehicle and damaging another comes in response to the order of the "Russian dog," Putin, to the Russian state terrorists to locate and kill the executioner of the Russian "diplomats". The MSC warns that this will not be the last of their hits, and challenges whoever wishes to confront the Mujahideen in the "lion's den" of Iraq. Four Russian "diplomats" were executed by the Mujahideen Shura Council in Iraq in June 2006. A video was issued by the group on June 25, 2006. The Mujahideen Shura Council is composed of eight organi´zations in Iraq: al-Qaeda in the Land of Two Rivers, Victorious Army Group, the ... >> full
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