OSCE: U.S., Russia Clash Over Organization's Future
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posted by zaina19 on December, 2006 as ANALYSIS / OPINION
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 12/6/2006 6:57 AM Tuesday, December 5, 2006 OSCE: U.S., Russia Clash Over Organization's Future By Ahto Lobjakas Belgium -- Participants at the 14th OSCE Ministerial Council line up for a family photo, in Brussels, 04Dec2006 Participants at the 14th OSCE Ministerial Council on December 4 (OSCE) BRUSSELS, December 5, 2006 (RFE/RL) -- Ending as it did without major decisions, the December 4-5 Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) meeting of foreign ministers in Brussels highlighted the diverging visions pursued by some of the major countries within the organization. Most key issues pitted the United States against Russia, and divisions ran deep on the most fundamental issues. Speaking shortly before the end of the meeting today, U.S. Undersecretary of State Nicholas Burns outlined a vision of the OSCE as a body with a continued strong mission to promote democracy and defend human rights. The OSCE "gives objective straight advice about democracy, human rights, electoral practices." "One of the key challenges facing all of us in the Euro-Atlantic community ... >> full
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Russian Roulette Publication time: 5 December 2006, 10:50 The poisoning of a Kremlin critic has the world asking how dangerous Moscow has become. Alexander Litvinenko said a lot of outrageous things when he was alive. He claimed that Al Qaeda's No. 2, Ayman al-Zawahiri, was a Russian agent. He alleged that he had a tape of Russian President Vladimir Putin having sex with another man. And he declared, just before dying, that his enemies in the FSB, Russia's secret service, had poisoned him in order to silence him. Some of Litvinenko's allegations were hard to believe. But as British and FBI investigators followed a radioactive trail left by the deadly isotope, polonium 210, that killed the Russian exile on Nov. 23-finding traces of it on planes from Moscow to London-they began to believe he might have been on to something. Litvinenko, hairless and ghostly pale, had devoted his last minutes of consciousness to fingering the FSB and Putin himself. "You have shown yourself to be as barbaric and ... >> full
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«Siloviki» blame Kadirov for ongoing military failures in Chechnya
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From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 12/10/2006 12:34 AM «Siloviki» blame Kadirov for ongoing military failures in Chechnya Publication time: 1 December 2006, 19:59 The recent murder of Movladi Baisarov, a pro-Russian Chechen field commander, in a shootout in Moscow has trigged a discussion about the uneasy relations between Ramzan Kadyrov, the most influential leader in the pro-Russian Chechen camp, and Russian security officials. Movladi Baisarov was the commander of one of the numerous death squads operating in Chechnya that carry out special missions given to them by the Federal Security Service (FSB) and military intelligence (GRU). Baisarov was killed because of a serious conflict between him and Ramzan Kadyrov. It is no secret that as soon as the FSB withdrew its men who had been guarding Baisarov, he was killed by Kadyrov's men in the Russian capital. The fact that the FSB resisted Kadyrov's attempts to eliminate Baisarov for quite some time suggests that a conflict between Kadyrov and the federal security officials may actually exist. In an ... >> full
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Max Boot: America and its allies must rein in Russia's new czar, Vladimir I
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From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 12/11/2006 1:45 AM Max Boot: America and its allies must rein in Russia's new czar, Vladimir I By MAX BOOT Mon., Dec. 11 THERE ARE a lot of ways to make a man"s death look like an accident, suicide or a street crime. That wasn"t the intent of whoever murdered former KGB agent Alexander Litvinenko in London. By using such an exotic murder weapon -- a radioactive isotope known as polonium-210 -- his killers sent a message: Don"t mess with the powers that be in Russia. The identity of his murderers is likely to remain unknown, but in all probability Litvinenko was poisoned because of his campaign against Russian President Vladimir V. Putin and the KGB"s successor, the FSB. He is only the latest to pay with his life for offending Russia"s ruling clique. The list of prominent people murdered in the last few years includes crusading journalists such as Anna Politkovskaya (whose death Litvinenko was investigating), politicians, executives and government officials. Others, such ... >> full
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Russian businessman named as radiation source in murder case
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From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 12/11/2006 2:00 AM Russian businessman named as radiation source in murder case By Jason Bennetto and Tony Paterson in Berlin Published: 11 December 2006 The international hunt for the killers of Alexander Litvinenko, the former KGB agent, took a new twist last night as it emerged that a Russian businessman was being investigated as the source of the radiation used in the murder. Dimitry Kovtun, 41, a former soldier in the Soviet army, and one of three men who met Mr Litvinenko at a hotel on the day he was given a fatal dose of radiation, is the latest suspect in the case. German police revealed that they had found traces of polonium-210 - the material used in the poisoning - at properties visited by Mr Kovtun in Hamburg before he flew to London to meet Mr Litvinenko. Hamburg's chief prosecutor Martin Köhnke, commenting on Mr Kovtun, said there was now "a reasonable basis for suspicion that he may not just be a victim but could ... >> full
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