Jamestown Foundation/Chechnya Weekly: Volume VIII, Issue 40 (October 25, 2007)
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posted by FerrasB on October, 2007 as CHECHNYA
From: MSN Nicknamepsychoteddybear24 (Original Message) Sent: 10/26/2007 8:23 AM Chechnya Weekly - Volume VIII, Issue 41 October 25, 2007 IN THIS ISSUE: * Putin on North Caucasus: Situation Improved but “Far From Good” * Amnesty International Expresses Concern about Ingushetia * Chechens “Spontaneously” Rally for a Third Putin Term * Zakaev Claims Planned “Emirate” is Part of an Anti-Chechen Kremlin Plot * Briefs * Umarov Trying to Increase Financial Support from the Middle East By Andrei Smirnov ---------------------------------------------------------------------Putin on North Caucasus: Situation Improved but “Far From Good” President Vladimir Putin said on October 18 during his annual question-and-answer session on state television that a rise in violence in Ingushetia is alarming but cannot be compared to the 1999 rebel insurgency that triggered the invasion of Chechnya, Reuters reported. “The situation is far from being considered good,” Putin said of the upsurge in violence in Ingushetia while answering a question posed by a man from a village in Dagestan. “But compared with ... >> full
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Prague Watchdog: October 27 Marks The 16th Anniversary Of The First Chechen...
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From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 10/29/2007 3:47 PM October 27th 2007 · Prague Watchdog / Umalt Chadayev October 27 marks the 16th anniversary of the first Chechen presidential elections By Umalt Chadayev CHECHNYA - Sixteen years ago – on October 27 1999 – open and democratic presidential and parliamentary elections were held for the first time in the Chechen republic’s recent history. 47-year-old Soviet Air Force General Dzhokhar Musayevich Dudayev was elected Chechen President. Then, as now, there were varying assessments of his personality and achievements. According to the official statistics of the republic’s central electoral commission, 72% of voters took part in the presidential and parliamentary elections. Of these, more than 90% voted for Dzhokhar Dudayev. However, those who opposed the holding of the elections claimed that less than half of the registered voters had taken part in them, and that voting had taken place at only a very ... >> full
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Prague Watchdog: Armed Incident In Katyr-Yurt Was Continuation Of Old Quarrel
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From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 10/30/2007 12:29 PM October 30th 2007 · Prague Watchdog / Ruslan Isayev Armed incident in Katyr-Yurt was continuation of old quarrel By Ruslan Isayev CHECHNYA - One person was killed and seven wounded, two of them seriously, in the armed incident that took place between residents of Katyr-Yurt in Chechnya’s Achhoi-Martanovsky district on Sunday. The brawl, which developed into a shootout, also involved two law enforcement officers. The district prosecutor’s office is investigating the details of what happened, and the reasons for the tragedy are being established. For several years now, residents of the village of Katyr-Yurt have been witnesses of the blood enmity that exists between two families. The enmity periodically subsides, but then reignites with new vigour, claiming yet more victims on both sides of the conflict. To date, three people have lost their lives in a tragic confrontation which began five years ... >> full
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PRIMA-News: Students In Chechnya Ordered To Support Putin
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From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 10/26/2007 10:34 PM 26.10.2007 10:36 MSK Students in Chechnya ordered to support Putin AFP AFP CHECHNYA, Grozny. In Grozny and a number of other cities and densely populated areas of the Chechen Republic, on October 24, large scale measures were carried out in support of advancing Vladimir Putin for a third term as President of Russia. The actions were organized by the Government Committee on Youth, by the patriotic club "Ramzan", and by the regional department of the party "United Russia", reported the information center of the Council on NGOs in Chechnya (SNO) on October 25. According to official data, a minimum of 20,000 youth participated in one event in Grozny Stadium. Participants in the action assert that there were no more than 7,000. Students of Groznyy VUZs (Institutes of Higher Education), who composed the bulk of those attending the event, were brought there on the special buses. On the occasion ... >> full
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CHECHENPRESS: Statement By The Ministry Of Foreign Affairs Of The CRI
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From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 10/23/2007 1:05 AM October 23, 2007 Statement by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria SIA CHECHENPRESS, October 23, 2007 In the name of Allah the Compassionate, the Merciful! The Government of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria has learned of a major provocation being planned by Moscow to undermine the legitimate basis of the Chechen State. For 17 years Russia has been trying unsuccessfully by every conceivable form of sabotage and by bloody invasions to destroy the independent Chechen State formed as a result of the freely expressed will of the Chechen People and articulated in the Declaration of National Sovereignty of the Chechen-Ingush Republic of 27 November 1990. Neither the separation from the Republic of its Ingush part in 1991, nor the subsequent terrorist outrages preceding the war of 1994-96, nor the murder of its legitimate leaders, nor the occupation of a large part of its ... >> full
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