Window on Eurasia: Chechens Paid A High Price For Putin’s ‘Stability’
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posted by FerrasB on February, 2008 as CHECHNYA
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 2/10/2008 3:57 AM Sunday, February 10, 2008 Window on Eurasia: Chechens Paid a High Price for Putin’s ‘Stability’ Paul Goble Baku, February 10 – President Vladimir Putin said on Friday that the Russian Federation had stabilized during his time in office, almost eight years to the day that the forces he sent into a Chechen village committed what one human rights activist says was “the most terrible event “ of the second post-Soviet Chechen war. And in an article about that crime which appeared on the “Caucasus Times” site even as Putin was delivering his speech, Aleksandr Cherkasov of Memorial reminded the world about the terrible price Chechens had paid for the stability for which the Russian President was then taking credit (www.caucasustimes.com/article.asp?id=13675). What happened in the Chechen village of Novye Aldy on February 5, 2000, has been extremely well-documented by Western human rights organizations despite the fact that Moscow ... >> full
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Caucasian Knot: Prosecutor's Office Of Chechnya Denies Tortures In Chernokozovo
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From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 2/10/2008 2:23 PM CAUCASIAN KNOT / NEWS 9/2/2008 Prosecutor's Office of Chechnya denies tortures in Chernokozovo On the outcomes of another inspection of the custody conditions of inmates kept at the Chernokozovo Corrective Colony No. 2, the Prosecutor's Office of Chechnya has not confirmed that convicts are tortured in this facility and the custody conditions are intolerable, Khava Dugaeva, Prosecutor's PR assistant, told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent. "In the course of the inspection, the facts presented by Ruslan Kutaev, head of the International Committee on Problems of Northern Caucasus, and disseminated in publications failed to be true," Ms Dugaeva continued. "The Prosecutor's Office has examined all the inmates' hostels without, all the household objects, and on conditions of confidentiality held interviews with everyone who wished to." The Republic's Prosecutor's Office has stated that none of the inmates has confirmed any facts of tortures or other violent actions ever applied ... >> full
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Caucasian Knot: "Kommersant": Relations Between Militaries And Civil Authorities
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From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 2/10/2008 2:29 PM CAUCASIAN KNOT / NEWS 9/2/2008 "Kommersant": relations between militaries and civil authorities can aggravate in Chechnya The yesterday's too lenient, in the opinion of the Chechen party, verdict to Lieutenant Colonel Korgun, guilty of murdering a woman-resident of the Shatoi District of Chechnya, can result in sharp worsening of relations between militaries and civil authorities, the "Kommersant" newspaper writes today. The passed verdict - three years of conditional imprisonment - was treated by Nurdi Nukhazhiev, Ombudsman for Chechnya, as a challenge to justice. "The court has just sheltered the murderer, and we are not going to reconcile with it," the newspaper quotes Mr Nukhazhiev as saying. According to his version, "Korgun's group deliberately opened fire for effect at the women whose only guilt was that they were gathering ramson." The Ombudsman is convinced that due to militaries' impunity, "they again and again commit crimes against peaceful population." The ... >> full
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CHECHENPRESS: A. Zakaev "A Properly Formulated Task Would Find Proper Solution"
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From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 2/10/2008 11:59 PM February 11, 2008 A. Zakaev "A properly formulated task would find a proper solution" SIA CHECHENPRESS February 6, 2008 Q: Akhmed, the media have publicised your meeting with European MPs and representatives of international NGOs. They report about the plan to create an Association of Euro MPs for the Right of the Chechen People to Self-determination’. Could you tell us about this organization, its aims, its status and how it might cooperate with the Chechen government? A.Zakaev: As we know many people in many countries are full of sympathy and understanding of the Chechen people’s struggle for independence and freedom. These are people from all walks of life, of different ages and religious persuasions. Members of parliament are no exception, whether they are members of national or international assemblies. From the very beginning of the second Chechen campaign the European MPs have organised a number of protest ... >> full
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Chechnya Suffers From Growing Number Of Diabetics
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From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 2/8/2008 12:10 AM
Chechnya suffers from growing number of diabetics
Caharkala/Agency Caucasus - , a war-torn country, has long been stricken with epidemics. An example of this is referred in data from the Chechen National Rescue Committee to as the recent increase in the number of Chechens suffering from diabetes.
The officially recorded 2007 population of entire diabetics was 6508, said Uma Isayeva, a Chechen endocrinologist, who is also a worker of the Chechen Ministry of Health. Isayeva afterwards warned against the increasingly numerical growing rate among the new diabetics when she put it at 8 percent.
As for the current child diabetics population, Isayeva put it at 62. However, she added with emphasis that the number of child diabetics was growing as well. KU/ÖZ/HT
07/02/2008
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