Interfax: UN Seeks Easier Access To Chechnya
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posted by FerrasB on January, 2006 as CHECHNYA
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 1/20/2006 5:16 AM Jan 20 2006 1:56PM UN representative in Russia: We will seek easier access for UN personnel to Chechnya Acting UN Resident Coordinator for Russia Ercan Murat offers his assessment of the situation in the North Caucasus and comments on UN plans to support development in the region in an interview with Interfax. The United Nation's danger rating for Chechnya may be lowered in the near future, Murat said. The UN office in Russia is seeking a revision of Chechnya's danger rating, which currently stands at 'Phase Five' - the highest level, Murat said. Lowering this rating is key to expanding the UN's presence in the region, making it easier for UN personnel to enter the region and enhancing the efficiency of their work there, he said. A decision on the issue is a matter for the UN Secretary General, Murat said, adding that he hopes that the ... >> full
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Iakub Sulumkhajiev/CHECHENPRESS: Islam Bans The Self-Destructive Hunger-Strikes
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From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 1/20/2006 7:50 AM January, 19, 2006 "Islam bans the self-destructive hunger-strikes" Iakub Sulumkhajiev, the student, Cairo CHECHENPRESS, the Department of letters, 17.01.06. It is already four weeks that we with fraction of certain passion have been keeping an eye on the hunger-strike of the President of the International Association "Peace and human rights" S-E. Ibragimov and on the creative activity of certain organizations and individuals using this action for their own approval. Not at all belittling the zeal of this person known for his firmness in appeals for human rights, sharing his requirements, I would like to notice modestly: does not the good business turn into the political show which is warmed up by inadmissible game in life and death. For the first two weeks people being in the state of worrying and sympathizing, had been indignant at ignoring by politicians of PACE, Europarliament the dying at their threshold already elderly ... >> full
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CHECHENPRESS: Ministry of Foreign Affairs Of The Chechen Republic Of Ichkeria
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From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 1/20/2006 8:26 AM January, 20, 2006 The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria CHECHENPRESS, the Department of official information, 20.01.06 The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria presents its compliments to Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of Sweden and declare a resolute protest concerning the coming cooperation in the field of military of the Ministry of Defense of the Kingdom of Sweden with military sub-units of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation which is obviously taking part in war crime during the ongoing occupation of Chechnya by the Russian military forces. Recently it has been published in European and Russian media that the Ministry of Defense of Sweden is planning a joint military exercise with 138th motorized brigade of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation. Also comments of the Secretary of Defense of Sweden stating ... >> full
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PACE-Run Roundtable To Be Held In Chechnya
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posted by FerrasB on as CHECHNYA
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 1/21/2006 1:47 PM
Jan 20 2006 12:09PM
PACE-run roundtable to be held in Chechnya
MOSCOW. Jan 20 (Interfax) - A second roundtable on Chechen problems under the auspices of the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly (PACE) is to take place in the Chechen capital of Grozny, a senior State Duma deputy said on Friday.
However, the date for the roundtable has not yet been set, he said.
Konstantin Kosachyov, chairman of the State Duma International Affairs Committee, made the announcement at a news conference in Moscow.
The first roundtable on Chechnya was held in Strasbourg, France, on March 21, 2005. Participants included Chechen leaders, State Duma deputies, PACE members and Russian human rights activists Svetlana Gannushkina of the Memorial center and Tatyana Lokshina of the Demos center.
http://www.interfax.ru/e/B/politics/28.html?id_issue=11451569
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HECHENPRESS: Ruzma - Chechen Calendar
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From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 1/22/2006 3:58 AM January, 21, 2006 Ruzma - Chechen Calendar Zelamkha Isaev, CHECHENPRESS, 21.01.06 "Calendar - the calculation of days and months in the year" - is said in the "explanatory dictionary of the Russian language" S.I.Ozhegova. Was there the same in the Chechens? Yes. This confirms at least the facts, which exist in old men to this day. To the Moslem period it was limited to the names of months, to phenomena of nature and to working human activity. For example: Ianan iukh - the beginning of winter, bardal Iaza - the end of the winter, okhanan khan - the time of tillage, mangalan khan - the time of mowing. But after the adoption of Islam everything began to be defined more concretely with the references to the Arab calendar, with the precise names of the months (see table). Names of months # the Arab Chechen Russians 1 Mukharram, 30 ... >> full
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