DECEMBER 2005

From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng  (Original Message)    Sent: 12/1/2005 1:29 AM
Chechen Election Offers Little Hope for Stability
25-Nov-05
Russian

Exclusion of advocates of separatism from assembly ballot underlines Chechnya’s democratic deficit.

By Timur Aliev in Grozny (CRS No. 316, 25-Nov-05)
The ban on candidates advocating Chechen independence in the November 27 parliamentary elections will mean the assembly will be powerless to bring peace and stability to Chechnya, analysts believe.

Only independent candidates and representatives of political parties who accept that Chechnya is part of Russia have been registered to contest the poll - the third such ballot since the early Nineties - with the pro-Kremlin United Russia party expected to come out on top, underlining Moscow’s grip on the territory.

Despite widespread scepticism over the value and validity of the poll, candidates seem genuinely to believe that the electoral process has been fair and that the new assembly will improve the quality of life for ordinary Chechens.

“The work of ...
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From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng  (Original Message)    Sent: 12/1/2005 1:50 AM

Russia trumpets Chechnya's 'democratic and honest' poll

By Andrew Osborn in Grozny

Published: 29 November 2005

Six years after Grozny was blasted to smithereens on the orders of Vladimir Putin, the Russian President, it was claimed that the separatist-minded people of Chechnya now support the man who commanded the almost total destruction of their capital.

Chechnya's Moscow-backed government said that a majority of Chechens voted for Mr Putin's symbolically named United Russia Party in the first parliamentary elections to be held there since 1999, when Russian troops entered the republic for the second time in a decade.

Protected by hundreds of special forces troops, and a wall of blast-proof concrete, Chechnya's Moscow-backed president, Alu Alkhanov, was told by aides that preliminary results from Sunday's election indicated that United Russia garnered more than 60 per cent of the vote with a turnout of a similar level.

Calling the elections ...
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rom: MSN NicknameEagle_wng  (Original Message)    Sent: 12/1/2005 2:14 AM
CAUCASIAN KNOT / NEWS

28/11/2005
Grozny ignores parliamentary election - Memorial

The Human Rights Centre Memorial says that, counter to expectations of the human rights defenders who had predicted relatively high attendance in Grozny in connection with possible support of candidates by their relatives or fellow villagers, attendance in the capital of Chechnya was much lower than in the previous elections. "All day long, the usually busy centre of the capital remained empty; the chairmen of commissions at all polling stations visited by Memorial officers also complained about low activity of voters," says a press release mailed to Caucasian Knot.

"The human rights defenders had to admit that the majority of the population of Chechnya's capital has ignored the elections to the republican parliament. Moreover, Memorial officers have been able to register obvious gaps between the voter figures given by commission chairmen and observers from political ...
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From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng  (Original Message)    Sent: 12/7/2005 10:22 AM
Decmber, 7, 2005
Aphorisms of the russian-Chechen war - 31

( Sayings of Akhmed Zakaev)

Monologue of Akhmed Zakaev

And about the Chechen Republic you has broken a host,
Russia - mischief carrier scoundrel!
And where yours "special come",
Rasputin and putin "power"?

Yours "citizen" over garbage tank
Declined, as if cock down close-stool
We shall award you under back with a kick
And from Fatherland throw out on your neck!

You still had only fear and shock,
For a long time has been soured Yeltsin's charisma,
Dried even "democratic" flower
Among burdocks on a bed of putinism

You - center of sorrow and death,
You - scarecrow for women and children

(The Author - Chechen poet Bilal Alkanov, printed for the first time)

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• And if our offers about the world are not accepted and are not supported ...
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From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng  (Original Message)    Sent: 12/8/2005 2:30 AM
Conference on Justice in Chechnya
08.12.2005 - 00:55:35

Invitation 8 December 2005 European Parliament

Conference on Justice in Chechnya

The Conference: "Countering Violence and Creating Justice in the Caucasus"

organized by the Green-EFA group in the European Parliament and the Chechen World Congress...

The aims of the conference are:...

1) to restore justice in Chechnya and the Northern Caucasus: tostrengthen the rule of law by trying those suspected of war crimes andcrimes against in court and to stimulate reconciliation;

2) to collaborate in ending the armed conflict and the violation ofhuman rights in the Northern Caucasus;

3) to rehabilitate victims of the large-scale violence.

Tasks of the conference:

Aim 1

Taking the extent of the destruction and the degree of violations intoaccount, the Conference will examine the different possibilities topursue justice for the Chechen Republic. Subjects of examination are theUN Convention on Genocide, the PACE resolution on the creation of aninternational tribunal for war ...
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