RFE/RL: Kadyrov Orders Drivers To Clean Their Cars Regularly
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posted by circassiankama on March, 2010 as CHECHNYA
Kadyrov Orders Drivers To Clean Their Cars Regularly
March 12, 2010
Chechnya's Ramzan Kadyrov is the meddling type of strongman and there
is nothing he won't speak out about. In the past he's taken firm stands
on the state of the Russian republic's roads and amount of litter on
the ground.
Now he's taking an interest in the state of people's cars.
At
a recent meeting with Chechen traffic police, Kadyrov said that all
drivers should wash their cars regularly to ensure that vehicles
entering Grozny are aesthetically pleasing to look at.
That requirement is likely to create problems for residents of rural areas where roads turn to rivers of mud in the spring.
Kadyrov,
who seems to believe in the virtues of micromanagement, also threatened
to hold traffic police responsible for car thefts, the incidences of
which he said must ... >> full
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RFE/RL: Kadyrov Seeks To Expel Illegal Migrants And Russian Police
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posted by circassiankama on as CHECHNYA
Kadyrov Seeks To Expel Illegal Migrants And Russian Police
 Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov
March 14, 2010
In recent days Ramzan Kadyrov has proposed two new moves
to reduce to a minimum the number of non-Chechens in Chechnya. And as
part of his project to transform Chechnya into an Islamic state, he has
also issued instructions to leading Muslim clerics to improve the
religious education of the younger generation and to introduce a
mandatory uniform timetable for daily prayers. Meeting on March
12 with First Deputy Prime Minister Magomed Daudov and Interior
Minister Ruslan Alkhanov, Kadyrov said he sees no further need to
deploy additional police to Chechnya from elsewhere in the Russian
Federation, and will therefore asked the federal authorities to stop such deployments. He
said that while such additional manpower was needed at the start of the
counter-terror operation in Chechnya, today the ...
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RFE/RL: Inaction, Stigma Fuel Chechnya's TB Epidemic
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posted by circassiankama on as CHECHNYA
Inaction, Stigma Fuel Chechnya's TB Epidemic
 A doctor with Medecins du Monde conducts a checkup on two Chechen women. (file photo)
March 06, 2010
By Claire Bigg
Maret Maasheva first blamed her shortness of breath on pregnancy. But
the symptoms only got worse when her baby was born. Two months later,
she collapsed on the floor of her bedroom, gasping for air.
"I
woke up in the middle of the night with the feeling that I was
suffocating," she recalls. "I fell on the ground writhing -- I couldn't
breathe, either in or out -- then I was coughing so hard I couldn't
even talk."
The 35-year-old mother of two was rushed to a
hospital in the Chechen capital, Grozny, some 40 kilometers away from
her village. There, she was finally diagnosed with tuberculosis.
Three
years later, Maret is back in the hospital. She has spent a ... >> full
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RFE/RL: Chechen Ex-President To Oversee Russian Prisons
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posted by circassiankama on as CHECHNYA
Chechen Ex-President To Oversee Russian Prisons
 Then-Chechen President Alu Alkhanov (right) with Ramzan Kadyrov in 2006
March 17, 2010
MOSCOW -- Former Chechen President Alu Alkhanov has been temporarily
placed in charge of Russia's beleaguered penitentiary system, RFE/RL's
Russian Service reports.
Alkhanov,
who has served as a deputy justice minister since 2007, replaces
longtime prison system head Yury Kalinin, who was dismissed on March 16
by a decree from Russian President Dmitry Medvedev.
Kalinin, 63,
was named to head the Interior Ministry's Main Corrections Directorate
in 1992 and continued to oversee the country's prisons after the
Federal Corrections Service was placed under the jurisdiction of the
Justice Ministry in 2004.
Kalinin was frequently the target of
criticism from human rights advocates who charged him with turning a
blind eye to the rampant ill treatment of prisoners and inhumane
conditions in many of the country's prisons and ... >> full
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Prague Watchdog: The Day Of Hatred
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posted by eagle on as CHECHNYA
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The day of hatredBy German Sadulayev, special to Prague Watchdog St.Petersburg, Russia 
Although there are many explanations for the deportation of the Chechens and Ingush in 1944, none of them really appears satisfactory. Why on February 23 that year were around half a million civilians cordoned off in their villages, loaded on to trains and sent to the Far East? Was it a punishment for "a betrayal of the motherland” by "enemies of the people"? But what sort of betrayal could come from people who had been forcibly deprived of their motherland? And how could an entire nation be "enemies of the people”? Were they enemies of themselves? Was it a military operation designed to prevent an attack by a "fifth column" of Caucasian collaborators? One cannot dismiss that possibility – there were elements of something of the kind, though its presence was quantitative, not qualitative. ... |
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