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posted by zaina19 on July, 2006 as ANALYSIS / OPINION
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 7/23/2006 5:06 PM Monday, July 24, 2006 The Sword and Shield By Richard Lourie The Federal Security Service, or FSB, is the organization that has for all intents and purposes replaced the KGB. The linkage between the two is open and explicit on every level, from symbolic to that of institutional memory. The KGB's symbol in the Soviet era was a sword and a shield embossed with a hammer and sickle. That symbol, representing the workers and peasants, has been replaced by a two-headed eagle, the emblem of tsarist, and now, post-Soviet Russia. Systems change, but the sword and shield abide. Oddly enough, even though the new Russia has reached back into its tsarist past for much of its regalia, the FSB doesn't go that far back when writing its own history. The article "On State Security Personnel Day," published on the FSB web site for the Dec. 20 holiday, traces its roots only to December 1917 and the founding of the Cheka, the abbreviation ... >> full
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WHAT "HOLY ALLIANCE" DOES PUTIN WANT TO AVOID?
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posted by zaina19 on as ANALYSIS / OPINION
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 7/4/2006 3:53 AM WHAT "HOLY ALLIANCE" DOES PUTIN WANT TO AVOID? By Pavel K. Baev Kidnappings and executions in war-torn Iraq are hardly a novelty, but last month Moscow had its first brush with the problem. On June 3, one Russian diplomat was shot dead and four others kidnapped; on June 19, the Mujahideen Shura Council, a grouping linked to al-Qaeda, demanded the withdrawal of Russian troops from Chechnya and threatened to execute the hostages. On June 25, it released a video showing brief interviews with each of the four diplomats and then the brutal murders of three men. While no bodies have been recovered, and the three murdered men shown on the video had their faces covered, on June 26, the Russian Foreign Ministry confirmed the death of all four hostages (Lenta.ru, June 27). In Russia’s tightly managed political system, the kidnapping certainly qualified as an emergency, and, as with every crisis, it tells more about the decision-making mechanism than the decision-makers ... >> full
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PACE resolution on Bosnia an attempt at destabilization - Kamynin
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posted by zaina19 on as ANALYSIS / OPINION
rom: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 7/5/2006 12:13 PM
Jul 5 2006 7:30PM
PACE resolution on Bosnia an attempt at destabilization - Kamynin
MOSCOW. July 5 (Interfax) - Moscow considers a Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) resolution on constitutional reform in Bosnia and Herzegovina as an attempt to destabilize the situation, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Mikhail Kamynin said.
"In the current conditions it is hard to consider the document as anything other than an attempt to destabilize the situation in order to prove to the international community that the Bosnian authorities are not ready to assume all responsibilities for the situation in the country," he said.
http://www.interfax.ru/e/B/politics/28.html?id_issue=11547995
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EU's New President Under Moscow's Control
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posted by zaina19 on as ANALYSIS / OPINION
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 7/9/2006 6:07 PM EU's New President Under Moscow's Control Publication time: 6 July 2006, 16:32 In the previous weekend Finland has received the status of the Presiding Country of the European Union. In this quality Finns consider the strengthening of relations between the EU and Russia as one of their main priorities. The similar approach in many respects has been dictated by the economic dependence of Finland itself from "the Great neighbor" in the East... Russia pays the bill Within many decades the Soviet Union was one of the main trade partners of Finland. Even at the height of "the Cold War", the Soviet industry, choked in a vice of the American economic embargo, received from Finns the very necessary industrial equipment. In turn, Russians supplied Finland with oil, natural gas and coal, and also with wood-pulp. As a result, in the 1980's Finnish trade with Moscow made approximately a quarter of the country's export amount. The situation has radically changed after the disintegration of ... >> full
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President of Russia Vladimir Putin during the Internet
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posted by zaina19 on as ANALYSIS / OPINION
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 7/10/2006 3:48 AM The Main Banner of the Country Open Gallery... President of Russia Vladimir Putin during the Internet conference in the Kremlin, July 6, 2006 Photo: Dmitry Azarov // Vladimir Putin answers questions from the Internet Russian President Vladimir Putin answered questions from users of the Russian website Yandex and the British BBC site. BBC correspondent Bridget Kendall presented the questions from the BBC and Alexander Gurnov of Russia Today asked the Russian Internet users' questions. Hackers on Yandex asked the president an enormous number of times whether Russia would use giant robots for military purposes, how he feels about the reawakening of Cthulhu and when he first had sex, but they did not receive answers. Kommersant special correspondent Andrey Kolesnikov came to the defense of the enquirying hackers. The most common British questions were about the North Korean missiles that fell into Russian waters. He noted that North Korea does not have the technology to launch missiles to countries it may consider its enemies. Kendall ... >> full
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