DECEMBER 2006

From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng  (Original Message)    Sent: 12/26/2006 1:39 AM
Russia Interferes Into Ukraine’s Internal Affairs
Publication time: 19 December 2006, 10:09

Foreign Minister of Ukraine Borys Tarasyuk is surprised by Russia's declaration on oppression of the Russian language in Ukraine and by Russia's unwillingness to recognize Russian Holocaust (Great Famine, or Holodomor) of Ukrainians through atificial hunger  in Ukraine as genocide against the people. Tarasyuk told in an interview to "Izvestia v Ukraine" newspaper.

"We are surprised by Russia's unwillingness to see obvious things. A lot of Ukrainian families suffered from Holodomor. Seven people died of starvation in my father's house. I raised this question at the 61st UN session and got support from representatives of 68 countries," Tarasyuk said.

"I am also surprised by ‘language' declarations. And what is more astonishing is that it is official position of the Russia's Foreign Ministry. It is barefaced interference into Ukraine's internal affairs," Tarasyuk stated.

Bureau Report
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http://www.kavkazcenter.com/eng/content/2006/12/19/6895.shtml

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Alexander Solzhenitsyn in his book "GULAG Archipelago" gave a brilliant characteristic of the Chechen people: "...a nation that did not submit to the psychology of obedience, - not loners, not rioters, but the nation as a whole. These are Chechens".

Really, who ever have these people had to fight against for the independence - against Roman legionaries, against Chingys-khan, Baty-khan, Tamerlan. They had to struggle against Russian tsars for whom the entire colonization of Caucasus was inconceivable without conquering eternally intractable Chechnya, and against soviet leaders who continued the politics of tsar's Russia.

Not unknown general Ermolov uttered ominous words in XIX century yet: "I will appease only providing that not any single Chechen stays alive".

Why has Chechnya still remained the stumbling-block? What is the reason for secular hatred of Russian lords against Chechens and for ineradicable wish for their extirpation?

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From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng  (Original Message)    Sent: 12/27/2006 6:32 AM
24.12.2006 19:54 MSK
Revival of political monitoring
One of the good intentions of Perestroika, the liquidation of political monitoring in Russia, has disappeared into oblivion. In 1991, when the "great powerful Soviet Union" began to tear at the seams, and the fate of the KGB was uncertain, leaders of Perestroika and chiefs of state security hurried to assure Russian society and political activists that state security services would no longer conduct political monitoring. At first it seemed that this would be so. Although even then it was explained that even with former dissidents by no means everything was at an end - some investigations remained in operational development.

For a long time "work" on political opposition, if it was being conducted, was sufficiently unnoticeable. The Administration of Constitutional Safety of the FSB of Russia, created in 1998, did not advertise its activities. Data about political organizations and their activists did not become a weapon for suppression of the opposition, which ...
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