Sukhumi says Tbilisi's plan to divide Abkhazia 'insane'
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posted by FerrasB on June, 2008 as ABKHAZIA
Sukhumi says Tbilisi's plan to divide Abkhazia 'insane' 27/06/2008 14:46 MOSCOW, June 27 (RIA Novosti) - Abkhazia's leadership considers Tbilisi's proposed plan to divide the unrecognized republic into zones of Russian and Georgian influence to be "insane," the republic's foreign minister said on Friday. A Russian business daily, Kommersant, citing sources in the Georgian leadership and the Russian Foreign Ministry, said Georgia had proposed to Russia an array of measures to resolve the Georgian-Abkhazian conflict by dividing ... >> full
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WOE: Medvedev ‘Dangerously’ Combining Tilt To West With Repression At Home...
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posted by FerrasB on as FREEDOM & FEAR
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 6/12/2008 6:08 AM Tuesday, June 10, 2008 Window on Eurasia: Medvedev ‘Dangerously’ Combining Tilt to West with Repression at Home, Muslim Warns Paul Goble Vienna, June 10 – “The most dangerous scenario” for Russia’s development under President Dmitry Medvedev, according to a leading Muslim commentator, would be for him to defer to the Western powers abroad, something the latter would welcome, while tolerating the continued growth of repression at home, a development to ... >> full
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HRW: Russia: Stop ‘Dirty War’ Tactics In Ingushetia
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posted by eagle on as Torture & Agony
From:  Eagle_wng (Original Message) |
Sent: 6/28/2008 12:26 PM |
HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH
Russia: Stop ‘Dirty War’ Tactics in Ingushetia
Killings, Torture, Disappearances in Chechnya-Style Counterinsurgency
(Moscow, June 25, 2008) – The Chechnya armed conflict has spread human rights abuses and instability across the North Caucasus, and particularly in Ingushetia, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. Human Rights Watch urged the Russian government to amend its counterinsurgency ... | >> full
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RFE/RL: Russia: Irreverent English-Language Tabloid Closes Down
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posted by FerrasB on as FREEDOM & FEAR
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 6/13/2008 3:17 AM Friday, June 13, 2008 Russia: Irreverent English-Language Tabloid Closes Down By Brian Whitmore Russia -- cover of AFP After 11 years of providing Moscow readers with investigative journalism, irreverent commentary, and sophomoric gags, the English-language newspaper the "The eXile" is closing down after investors fled in the face of a government inspection of the paper's content. The alternative tabloid -- known for its Gonzo-style journalism on drugs, sex, politics, and the seamier side ... >> full
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Window on Eurasia: Corruption In Russia Increased Ten-Fold Under Putin, INDEM...
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posted by FerrasB on as IMPOSED POLICY
From: Eagle_wng Friday, June 27, 2008 Window on Eurasia: Corruption in Russia Increased Ten-Fold Under Putin, INDEM Says Paul Goble Vienna, June 27 – Russia became so corrupt during the years of Vladimir Putin’s presidency that Dmitry Medvedev’s much ballyhooed plan to combat it is certain to fail and may even have the effect of pushing the level of corruption there still higher, according to specialists on economic crimes and private businessmen in that country. At a roundtable yesterday at ... >> full
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Tri-City Herald: Militants, Police Slain In Russia's Volatile South
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posted by FerrasB on as DAGESTAN
From: Eagle_wng Saturday, Jun. 28, 2008 Militants, police slain in Russia's volatile south The Associated Press ROSTOV-ON-DON, Russia Russian officials say five militants and four police have been killed and four more people wounded in the violence-plagued south. The local interior ministry says police killed three suspected militants, including a woman, in Dagestan province Saturday. A police spokesman in neighboring Chechnya says that a clash in the province left two militants and four police dead, and four more police wounded. The ... >> full
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Caucasian Knot: Residents Of Six Dagestan Villages Demand Compensation Of Damage
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posted by FerrasB on as DAGESTAN
From: Eagle_wng CAUCASIAN KNOT / NEWS 27/6/2008 Residents of six Dagestan villages demand compensation of damage caused by construction of Irganay HPP Residents of six villages of Dagestan, whose land estates are gradually flooded as the reservoir of the Irganay Hydroelectric Power Plant (IHPP) is formed, demand compensation for their loss of land and houses. Additionally, the population complains of being intimidated by the authorities, who try to hide the problem from the public. "Every day, the water level in ... >> full
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Caucasian Knot: Three Persons Killed In Special Operation In Dagestan
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posted by FerrasB on as DAGESTAN
From: Eagle_wng CAUCASIAN KNOT / NEWS 28/6/2008 Three persons killed in special operation in Dagestan At night on June 28, in the vicinity of a 9-storey apartment house in the Akushinskiy Avenue in Makhachkala, the capital of Dagestan, the regime of counterterrorist operation was introduced. According to law enforcement bodies, militants were blocked in one of the apartments. In the course of this special operation, three persons who were in the blocked apartment were killed: Rashid Gazilaliev, born in 1979, ... >> full
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KC: Scandal Erupts, KGB Bark Up The Trong Tree And Kill Peaceful Civilian
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posted by FerrasB on as DAGESTAN
From:Eagle_wng Scandal erupts. KGB bark up the wrong tree and kill peaceful civilian Publication time: 28 June 2008, 18:08 KGB rushed into denying that they murdered a peaceful civilian in Shamilkala (former Makhachkala), Dagestan. One of them has refuted the statement that it was a peaceful civilian killed during a special operation in Makhachkala. Sources of the Russian invaders reported, "Rashid Gazilaliyev, 28, was an active supporter of members of illegal armed formations." This is what Russian KGB announced. Then ... >> full
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