Prague Watchdog: Three Years Of Secret Talks Between Kadyrov And Zakayev
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posted by eagle on November, 2009 as ANALYSIS / OPINION
Three years of secret talks between Kadyrov and Zakayev. What were the results? (interview with Akhmed Zakayev)PW: Your story is still not entirely clear, as there’s no complete and definitive answer to the question "What was this?" We refer to your so-called negotiations with Kadyrov and the circumstances surrounding them. For a long time there were rumours that you were going back to live in Chechnya or were becoming a sort of representative of Kadyrov’s Chechnya abroad. Now you seem to have rejected all those hypotheses, but we would like to understand when and how it all began, how it went, and why it came to an end. Akhmed Zakayev: Well, for those who are really slow on the uptake, I can go over this subject again for the umpteenth time. My position on all the issues has always been completely open and transparent. Because of these long-held and unchanging views of mine I’ve been unable to meet the assumptions of ... |
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Independent: Leading Article: Terrorism Returns To Russia
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posted by eagle on as ANALYSIS / OPINION
Leading article: Terrorism returns to RussiaMonday, 30 November 2009
We have become all too grimly accustomed to the term "improvised explosive device" as used to kill foreign troops in transit in Afghanistan and Iraq. But in Russia? It is just such a bomb that the Russian authorities say blew up in the path of a packed Moscow-St Petersburg train, which killed 25 people and injured more than 100. Assuming – and there is no reason to doubt this – that initial reports of a bomb are confirmed, this is the first fatal act of terrorism in the heart of Russia for more than five years. Although the war in Chechnya is over, the peace – enforced by the quixotic leader, Ramzan Kadyrov – remains uneasy. Killings and kidnappings happen, and violence periodically spills into other republics of the North Caucasus. Russia proper, though, had been spared and security had become less of a preoccupation. The explosion that derailed the Moscow-St Petersburg express could have two, highly negative, ...
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Window On Eurasia: Putting Kadyrov In Charge Of North Caucasus Risky For The Region, For Moscow And For Chechen Leader Himself
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posted by eagle on as ANALYSIS / OPINION
Paul Goble
Vienna, November 27 – Ever since President Dmitry Medvedev suggested in his message to the Federal Assembly two weeks ago that there should be a single official responsible for the situation in the North Caucasus, there has been a great deal of speculation about whether Moscow might name Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov to such a post.
But while Moscow may yet take that step, observers there and in the North Caucasus are pointing out that it would be a risky one for the region, parts of which would resent such a role for the Chechen leader, Moscow, which could thus face even more instability, and Kadyrov himself, who might have to give up his current job for one in with less independent power.
An article posted today on the Kavkaz-uzel.ru site surveys some of the discussion in Moscow about both this post and ...
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RFE/RL: Working With Russia To Prevent Eurasian Collapse
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posted by circassiankama on as ANALYSIS / OPINION
October 29, 2009
Working With Russia To Prevent Eurasian Collapse
by Andrei Tsygankov
The Eurasian region continues to disintegrate, and neither Russia nor
the West has been able to arrest the destabilizing dynamics.
Evidence
of rising instability throughout the region include the August 2008
Russia-Georgia war, renewed terrorist attacks in the North Caucasus,
the persistent failure of Western forces to stabilize Afghanistan, the
inability of Central Asian rulers to reign in local clans and drug
lords, and the paralysis of legitimately elected bodies of power in
Ukraine and Moldova.
Violence is gradually spreading, waiting
for an opportunity to erupt into a large-scale conflict. Transregional
transportation routes may soon be choked due to Russia's conflicts with
Ukraine, Georgia, and Turkmenistan.
The West's attempts to
secure and stabilize Eurasia after the end of the Cold War must be
recognized as a failure. In the mid-1990s, U.S. geostrategists such as
Zbigniew Brzezinski recommended that the United States pursue a ... >> full
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KC: Being A Widow Of Dzhokhar Is Incomparably Higher Status...
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posted by eagle on as ANALYSIS / OPINION
Being a widow of Dzhokhar is incomparably higher status than being a member of any non-existent 'Chechen government'Publication time: 22 November 2009, 15:17
Editorial Comment of Kavkaz Center in connection with the statement of Alla Dudayeva Editors of KC has considered that it is important to respond to the statement of Alla Dudayeva in connection with her interview to the newspaper "Kommersant", as the issue raised is of great importance for establishing the truth. In response, on behalf of Alla Dudayeva stated, quoting: - "The interview, which become a reason for the accusations addressed to me by Kavkaz Center, I have given verbally. Journalist of "Kommersant" recorded everything on tape recorder, and later the text was sent to me for editing in the mode "urgently." Not having sufficient time to view the text of a well, I run through it.
I confess, I did skip the expression "Shamil was in school GRU (Main Intelligence Agency - K.C.), is a fact" - it can be used by someone toaccuse me. I thought - ...
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