Russia: Is North Caucasus Resistance Still Serious Threat?
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posted by zaina19 on November, 2007 as ANALYSIS / OPINION
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 11/1/2007 11:48 PM Thursday, November 1, 2007 Russia: Is North Caucasus Resistance Still Serious Threat? By Liz Fuller Chechnya -- Umarov, Doku, VP and field commander, June 05 Has Doku Umarov's declaration of a North Caucasus emirate split the resistance? RFE/RL November 1, 2007 (RFE/RL) -- In the two years since the raids on police and security facilities in Nalchik, the capital of the Kabardino-Balkaria Republic, the North Caucasus resistance has not launched a single major attack that has made world headlines. At least seven prominent resistance commanders have been killed since June 2006, including Abdul-Khalim Sadullayev, Aslan Maskhadov's successor as president of the Chechen Republic Ichkeria (ChRI), and radical field commander Shamil Basayev. Russian and pro-Moscow Chechen politicians claim that those losses have broken the back of the resistance and reduced its total strength to a few hundred men who will be killed or apprehended within months. Resistance websites, however, paint a very different picture, chronicling almost daily strikes against Russian military and security personnel and alleging ... >> full
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Bush compares bin Laden to Hitler and Lenin
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From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 11/3/2007 12:26 AM RIA Novosti Bush compares bin Laden to Hitler and Lenin 02/11/2007 12:27 WASHINGTON, November 2 (RIA Novosti) - U.S. President George W. Bush blasted Congress in a Thursday speech for failing to take the terrorist threat seriously, and compared Osama bin Laden to Adolf Hitler and Vladimir Lenin. In a speech to the Heritage Foundation, a Washington-based right-wing think tank, he defended U.S. military campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan, and urged Democrat-controlled Congress not to restrict funding for Iraq operations, limit anti-terrorist intelligence-gathering methods, or block his appointment of a new attorney general. He said that six years after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, there is "a temptation to think that the threats to our country have grown distant," but warned that "the terrorists who struck America that September morning intend to strike us again." "History teaches that underestimating the words of evil, ambitious men is a terrible mistake. In the early 1900s, the world ignored the words of Lenin, as ... >> full
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From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 11/3/2007 12:57 AM Why Putin Wins Volume 54, Number 18 · November 22, 2007 By Sergei Kovalev I should begin by saying that I find the current president of Russia and his policies extremely offensive. I believe that Vladimir Putin is the most sinister figure in contemporary Russian history. From the very beginning of his rule he has directed—and almost completed—a broad antidemocratic counterrevolution in Russia. He has annihilated many civil rights in the country, among them such crucial freedoms as freedom of information. He has significantly restricted freedom of association and assembly, as well as the right to stage peaceful marches, protests, and demonstrations. Putin's administration has consistently carried out a policy of smothering political opposition and has tried vigorously to illegally place independent, nonpolitical civil society activities under its control. I believe he has decimated the very concept of an independent judiciary. With his knowledge and agreement, and more likely by his direct instruction, dozens of my fellow citizens have had harsh, ... >> full
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From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 11/3/2007 1:06 AM Volume 47, Number 9 · May 25, 2000 The Making of Mr. Putin By Tatyana Tolstaya, Translated from the Russian by Jamey Gambrell First Person: An Astonishingly Frank Self-Portrait by Russia's President Vladimir Putin, with Nataliya Gevorkyan, Natalya Timakova, Andrei Kolesnikov, Translated from the Russian by Catherine A. Fitzpatrick. The Russian original, Ot pervovo litsa, is available on the website www.vagrius.com. Public Affairs, 207 pp., $15.00 (paper) At this year's forum in Davos the question "Who is Putin?" was put to the members of the Russian delegation. They became confused, looked at one another, and mumbled something incomprehensible. There was laughter in the hall. But indeed, who is he? For a certain group of Russians—let's call them left liberals—the answer was obvious from the beginning: Putin is a bloody tyrant and a future dictator. This point of view requires no detailed evidence. It is enough that Putin worked in the KGB for many years. For that matter, for this part of the liberal intelligentsia, ... >> full
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Moscow critical of Burns’ comment on Duma election monitoring
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From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 11/3/2007 1:50 AM Moscow critical of Burns’ comment on Duma election monitoring 02.11.2007, 21.44 MOSCOW, November 2 (Itar-Tass) -- The U.S. claims of the alleged failure of State Duma elections monitoring to comply with the OSCE/ODIHR criteria aim to dispute democracy in Russia and promote U.S. foreign political goals, the Foreign Ministry said on Friday in comments on the recent Vienna statement of Under Secretary of State Nicholas Burns. He claimed that Russia was allegedly trying to impede the activity of international observers at the State Duma elections of December 2. “The unfounded assertions show that certain forces in the West are allergic to the sovereignty of Russia’s democratic system, which is not following guidelines given from the overseas but abides by internal laws, which correspond to the free choice made by the Russian people in the early 1990s,” the ministry said. “Russia is strictly complying with international electoral commitments, which were defined in the document of the Copenhagen Conference of the Human Dimension ... >> full
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