Russia presses to question Berezovsky
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posted by zaina19 on December, 2006 as ANALYSIS / OPINION
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 12/11/2006 2:18 AM Russia presses to question Berezovsky By Neil Buckley in Moscowand Jimmy Burns in London Published: December 11 2006 02:00 | Last updated: December 11 2006 02:00 Russian prosecutors are exerting pressure on the UK authorities to allow their own investigators to fly into London to probe the poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko, in a move that threatens to raise political and diplomatic tensions over the case. In recent days the UK government has been trying to keep the Russian intervention secret, in an effort to avoid the issue turning into a full-blown row, according to Whitehall officials. "Officially we have no comment other than that this is a police investigation that has to be allowed to run its course. It's when the investigation reaches a conclusion that we risk a major political and diplomatic tussle," one UK insider said. Meanwhile, German prosecutors yesterday opened an investigation into a Russian associate of the murdered ex-spy after finding traces of radioactive substance polonium in properties he ... >> full
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Op-ed: Litvinenko's poisoning like a spy movie script
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posted by zaina19 on as ANALYSIS / OPINION
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 12/12/2006 2:40 AM Op-ed: Litvinenko's poisoning like a spy movie script Monday, December 11, 2006 - Bangor Daily News Press bulletins following the death of former KGB officer Alexander Litvinenko read like chapters from a Robert Ludlum novel. Death of a double agent, millions in Swiss bank accounts, smuggling an atomic weapon (polonium-210), complicit intelligence services, disinformation and provocateurs. The only thing lacking is a high-speed chase and London shootout. These were done elsewhere. There have been years of organized crime killings in Moscow, including the recent shooting of Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya, who was investigating Chechen oil politics. In 2004, Chechnya’s president Akhmad Kadyrov was killed by a bombing, and ten years before in Moscow, there was a bombing attempt on Russian oligarch Boris Berezovsky. Whether or not it was the billionaire’s money that turned Litvinenko in 1997 in Moscow, it appears that he was financed by Berezovsky in London, and the family spokesman, Alex Goldfarb, reportedly a Berezovsky associate, had helped ... >> full
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Poisoned spy became Muslim on deathbed, says Chechen dissident
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From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 12/12/2006 4:38 AM 12 December 2006 14:34 Poisoned spy became Muslim on deathbed, says Chechen dissident By Andy McSmith Published: 09 December 2006 Alexander Litvinenko grew up among Muslims and died a Muslim, one of the leading mourners at his funeral claimed yesterday. Akhmed Zakayev, a former leader of the Chechen resistance who lives in exile in London, claimed yesterday that he personally witnessed Mr Litvinenko's deathbed conversion - an event that other friends deny ever took place. "I was a witness when Alexander told his father that he wanted to convert to Islam, that he would like to be buried according to Islamic tradition, and that afterwards he would like his body to be taken for reburial in the Caucasus, in Chechnya," Mr Zakayev said. "A Muslim cleric visited him at his bedside several hours before his death. There is a sura (chapter) from the Koran, that has to be recited over a dying Muslim, and the cleric recited that." Mr Litvinenko's family lived in Nalchik, ... >> full
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Russian Tuberculosis Most Resistant in the World
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From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 12/16/2006 8:55 PM Russian Tuberculosis Most Resistant in the World Publication time: 16 December 2006, 12:42 Information gathered by the World Health Organization and other groups between 2000 and 2002 indicates the presence of strains of tuberculosis (TB) that are resistant to one or more standard drugs in virtually all of the countries surveyed, with particularly high levels in Russia. The most recent data analysis from the Global Project on Anti-tuberculosis Drug Resistance Surveillance reveals that just 3 of the 79 countries surveyed (Andorra, Iceland, and Malta) had no drug-resistant TB, according to the report in The Lancet. Among the new cases of TB that arose in 76 countries surveyed, the median prevalence of drug-resistant TB was 10.2 percent, the report indicates. Findings from the study, which was conducted by the WHO's Dr. Mario Raviglione and colleagues, also indicate that roughly 424,000 cases of "multidrug-resistant" TB emerged in 2004. More than half of these cases occurred in Russia, China and India. Russia and Botswana showed the ... >> full
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Fancy a no-frills break? Then try Chechnya
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posted by zaina19 on as ANALYSIS / OPINION
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 12/20/2006 11:55 AM Fancy a no-frills break? Then try Chechnya Publication time: Today at 14:18 Djokhar time On your right, ladies and gentlemen, please note the ruins of Grozny, and coming up on the left the renowned ORB-2 torture complex. At the end of the tour, please hand in your bulletproof vests. Although this scenario does not yet exist, the Chechen prime minister yesterday revealed plans to develop tourism in the war-torn republic, where pro-Russian forces clash each week with militants and swaths of the capital lie under rubble. Ramzan Kadyrov, the Moscow-backed leader, said his administration planned to build a large hotel, set up campsites and restore historic monuments in anticipation of an influx of foreign visitors. Mr Kadyrov, 30, a hard man who controls thousands of paramilitaries, said: "I am absolutely convinced that Chechnya's attractiveness is no less than other regions of Russia or Europe. If the necessary infrastructure is created, the tourist business could seriously add to the budget of the ... >> full
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