Violation of the Constitution
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posted by zaina19 on March, 2007 as ANALYSIS / OPINION
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 2/21/2007 4:45 PM 20.2.2007 22:40 MSK Violation of the Constitution Last week's Presidential decrees concerning the replacement of Russian Minister of Defense of Sergey Ivanov with Anatoly Serdyukov and the replacement of President of Chechnya Allu Alkhanov with Ramzan Kadyrov are of interest for three reasons. One area of interest is to political parties and authorities who depend on real people to run real state offices. Another area of interest concerns the public, which no longer has the possibility of influencing the course of events, but can follow the proceedings on the political scene, sitting in an enormous auditorium called "Russia". They can even place bets on the proceedings and compete with each other on the basis of intuition and guesswork. Finally, the decree is interesting to those who attempt to correlate the proceeding with the vector of political development of Russia and the transformation of its laws. Let us discuss the latter. The Russian Constitution, (Ch. 4) gives a comprehensive enumeration of the ... >> full
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Kremlin's public enemy number two fights back
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posted by zaina19 on as ANALYSIS / OPINION
Kremlin's public enemy number two fights back Publication time: Today at 10:36 Djokhar time Vladimir Putin says he has nothing to fear from oligarchs in opposition abroad. But judging by recent statements from Kremlin officials - and by some of Mr Putin's own actions - the Russian president seems to have a lingering fear that the oligarchs he chased into exile to consolidate his power could still try to stage a comeback. A whispering campaign in Moscow is accusing two exiled oligarchs - Leonid Nevzlin and Boris Berezovsky - of joining forces to try to secure Mr Putin's overthrow. Russian officials have hinted the two might have engineered the recent killings of Anna Politkov-skaya, the crusading journalist, and Alexander Litvinenko, the former KGB agent, to discredit the Russian government. Both men deny the allegations. Mr Berezovsky, among the most powerful men in Russia under Boris Yeltsin, Mr Putin's predecessor, has rarely been out of the limelight. Mr Nevzlin - the Kremlin's public enemy number two after Mr Berezovsky - ... >> full
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Belarus: Lukashenka Promoted As Russian Presidential Candidate
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posted by zaina19 on as ANALYSIS / OPINION
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 2/28/2007 10:31 AM Wednesday, February 28, 2007 Belarus: Lukashenka Promoted As Russian Presidential Candidate Belarus - Portrait - President Alyaksandr Lukashenka Alyaksandr Lukashenka (epa) February 28, 2007 (RFE/RL) -- A Russian ultra-right movement has launched a campaign to propose Belarusian President Alyaksandr Lukashenka as a candidate for Russia's 2008 presidential election. Aleksei Kanurin, an activist from Russia's Movement Against Illegal Immigration, has recently inaugurated a campaign called "Lukashenka-2008" and has launched a website to promote the idea. Kanurin said in an interview published on the website that Lukashenka has not been consulted about the campaign. "We do not need [such a consultation], our task is to create the situation in which people, including Alyaksandr Ryhoravich [Lukashenka], will have a choice," Kanurin added. Presidential Ambitions Asked how Lukashenka, who does not have Russian citizenship, could be allowed to run in the 2008 presidential election in Russia, Kanurin said it is a "technical issue." "Representatives of this movement have not yet contacted the president's press office to talk about their initiative or their ... >> full
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RF Embassy Refutes The Statement Of The Georgian Parliamentary
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posted by zaina19 on as ANALYSIS / OPINION
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 3/1/2007 5:14 AM CAUCASIAN KNOT / NEWS 26/2/2007 RF Embassy Refutes The Statement Of The Georgian Parliamentary The Russian Embassy has drawn attention to mass media reports about a statement made by Mr. G. Targamadze, Chairman of the Committee for Defence and Security of the Parliament of Georgia, that Mr. V. Kovalenko, Russia's Ambassador to Georgia, allegedly held some negotiations with a number of Georgian political parties on the issue, as one could understand, on Georgia's neutrality and its non-accession to NATO. "They are quoting Mr. G. Targamadze's statements, in which he asserts with a high degree of conviction that the Kremlin has devised some 'Anti-NATO' program for Georgia," the press release disseminated today by the Russia Embassy runs. "Of course, it is well-known that Mr. G. Targamadze is a person who has a lot of strange fantasies about Russia in stock, and it is probably useless to comment on his another one. Needless to say that none of the above insinuations has anything to ... >> full
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Putin makes a feared former rebel president of Chechnya
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posted by zaina19 on as ANALYSIS / OPINION
rom: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 3/1/2007 4:26 PM Putin makes a feared former rebel president of Chechnya By Steven Lee Myers Thursday, March 1, 2007 MOSCOW: President Vladimir Putin on Thursday appointed Ramzan Kadyrov, a widely feared official whose security forces have been accused of kidnappings, torture and other abuses, to be the new president of the battered Russian republic of Chechnya. The appointment, while expected, cemented Kadyrov's position as the dominant political figure in Chechnya, where Russian and Chechen forces have largely quashed a separatist movement after two wars, beginning in 1994. Putin announced his decision during a meeting with Kadyrov at his residence outside Moscow, even as the senior human-rights official for Europe, Thomas Hammarberg, visited Grozny, the Chechen capital, and denounced "a real widespread pattern of serious ill-treatment and many cases of torture against those who have been arrested," as the BBC reported. Hammarberg was attending a government-organized conference on human rights that the most prominent Russian rights groups boycotted as a sham intended to obscure the fact ... >> full
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