WPR: [Chechnya: Property Black Hole]
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posted by FerrasB on May, 2007 as CHECHNYA
Chechnya: Property Black Hole Chechens finding out that property they once considered their own actually belongs to the state or someone else. By Aminat Abumuslimova in Grozny (CRS No. 285, 05-May-05) Malika Musayeva, a resident of the Chechen capital Grozny, bought a two-room apartment from Anna Kornienko, a neighbour who was leaving Chechnya. Musayeva received an occupancy permit, but delayed acquisition of the title deeds, thinking she had all the time in the world. Then in 1994 the Russian army invaded Chechnya and Musayeva fled the capital. When she eventually returned, she found Saihan Isayev living in her apartment. Isayev said it now belonged to her, producing title deeds issued to him by the district authorities. The case went to court. There, Musayeva found out that her difficulties stemmed from the fact that her apartment was considered “abandoned” property without a legal owner. It transpired Kornienko, the original owner, had, once she was outside Chechnya, successfully argued ... >> full
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Prague Watchdog: Chechnya Does Not Mourn Russia’s First President
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posted by FerrasB on as CHECHNYA
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 5/2/2007 1:58 PM May 1st 2007 · Prague Watchdog / Umalt Chadayev Chechnya does not mourn Russia’s first president By Umalt Chadayev CHECHNYA - Residents of the Chechen Republic hold an extremely negative assessment of Boris Yeltsin as Russian President, and consider him mainly responsible for the calamities that rained down on the republic in the mid- to late 90s. The death on April 23 of Boris Yeltsin, first President of "democratic" Russia, has prompted no feelings in residents of the Chechen Republic other than those of regret – the regret that he was not put on trial for the war he unleashed here. The letter of condolence sent to Yeltsin’s widow by Chechen president Ramzan Kadyrov is considered by many as an insult to the memory of tens of thousands of victims of the two undeclared wars on the republic’s territory which took place ... >> full
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Qantara: The Media In Chechnya
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posted by FerrasB on as CHECHNYA
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 5/3/2007 7:19 AM Interview with Mainat Abdulayeva The Media in Chechnya Recent events have cast doubts on the freedom of the press in both Russia and Cechnya. Ariana Mirza spoke to Chechen journalist Mainat Abdulayeva, who has been living in Germany since threats were made on her life in 2004, and asked her how she sees the situation | Bild: Mainat Abdulajeva Mainat Abdulajeva | How would you describe the current press and media landscape in Chechnya? Mainat Abdulayeva: There are over 50 newspapers and a variety of television stations in Chechnya. The Chechen media report on everything that goes on around the world. They report on Prince Charles and his sons, Jennifer Lopez and so on. As I say, they report on absolutely everything with one exception: they don’t report on what goes on in Chechnya. The media in Chechnya is censored and state-controlled; it sings the praises of ... >> full
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KC: Chechen Munafiqs Accuse Each Other
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From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 5/6/2007 1:12 PM Chechen munafiqs accuse each other Publication time: 5 May 2007, 10:33 Leaders of Chechen munafiqs have declared that members of gang OBR2 « break human rights ». At the next meeting members of kadyrovs' gang of collaborators have announced that OBR2, subordinated directly to the central Moscow gang « the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation », is engaged in tortures of prisoners. Participants of a gangster meeting have asked their puppet leader Chechen Munafiq Kadyrov to address to Putin with the request to abolish OBR2. We shall specify in this connection that majority of observers for a long time have wrote that competing gangs of munafiqs in the occupied Chechen Republic do not get on among themselves. The matter is that the majority of members of the gang OBR2 consist of national-traitors of the first wave who served with belief and truth to moscow ... >> full
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Prague Watchdog: Soviet-Style May Day Returns To Chechnya
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posted by FerrasB on as CHECHNYA
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 5/6/2007 1:30 PM May 2nd 2007 · Prague Watchdog / Umalt Chadayev Soviet-style May Day returns to Chechnya By Umalt Chadayev CHECHNYA - May Day, the former Soviet celebration of “International Workers' Solidarity", later renamed to “Day of Spring and Labour", has been marked in Chechnya on the scale of Soviet times. To the accompaniment of loud music, festive columns of workers, students, intellectuals, Grozny residents, members of the regional branches of the Unified Russia and Fair Russia parties and many more marched in close formation through the centre of the Chechen capital carrying placards and banners. The republic’s leadership, headed by the Moscow-backed President Ramzan Kadyrov, stood on an improvised podium and welcomed the participants of the rally, who according to law enforcement officials numbered at least 20,000. Columns of demonstrators carrying placards that bore such slogans as "Peace. Labour. May", Kadyrov is the leader ... >> full
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