APRIL 2007

From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng  (Original Message)    Sent: 4/18/2007 3:26 AM
Issue Date: www.insightmag.com - April 17-23, 2007, Posted On: 4/16/2007

Russian Notes: Is Berezovsky a credible rival to Putin?
Commentary by Andrei Piontkovsky

The former Russian tycoon Boris Berezovsky has told the British daily, The Guardian, he is plotting the violent overthrow of President Vladimir Putin from his base in Britain after forging close contacts with members of Russia's ruling elite.

In his April 13th interview, the multi-millionaire claimed he was already bankrolling people close to the president who are conspiring to mount a palace coup.

"We need to use force to change the regime," he said. "It isn't possible to change this regime through democratic means. There can be no change without force, pressure." Asked if he was effectively fomenting a revolution, Berezovsky said: "You are absolutely correct."

In the 1930s, Leon Trotsky repeated, in numerous interviews for Western newspapers and radio stations, that he had a vast number of supporters in the Soviet Union, including military personnel, secret policemen and members ...
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From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng  (Original Message)    Sent: 4/20/2007 3:18 AM
Russia: Putin's Third Term To Feature In Duma Campaign
Publication time: 18 April 2007, 18:10

 For many months, Russia's domestic politics have revolved around one basic but tantalizing question: Will Vladimir Putin leave office after presidential elections in March 2008?

Now, Putin's rumored third term looks set to become the central issue of another key vote -- the ballot for the State Duma in December 2007.

Sergei Mironov -- the freshly reelected speaker of the Federation Council and the leader of the young pro-Kremlin party A Just Russia -- suggested in late March that the Russian Constitution be amended to extend the president's time in office from two to three consecutive terms.

He also proposed that the length of each term be increased to between five and seven years. "Four years is a very short term for Russia," he said. A third term for Putin, he added, "is the desire of millions of Russians and should be discussed publicly."

'Why should we model ...
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From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng  (Original Message)    Sent: 4/20/2007 3:21 AM
Dara Shukoh: Chechnya is a leader of Jihad in the Muslim world!
Publication time: 17 April 2007, 22:38
This is an exclusive interview of the famous Assamese Islamic poet Dara Shukoh, which was given to "Kavkaz-Center". Dara Shukoh is a poet of Jihad in the oppressed Assam and he calls all Muslims to unity under Shariah ruling. On the photo you can see an autograph of his glorious poem on Chechnya, which was published on the Russian version of Kavkaz-Center.

 

Ali Bekhan: What is the condition of Muslims in Assam? Can you tell us the crimes of  terrorists groups (ULFA and terrorist groups of BJP, VHP, RSS, AGP, AJYCP ) on Assamese Muslims?

BISMILLAHEE RAHMANIR RAHEEM

Dara Shukoh: The condition of Muslims in Assam is pathetic. Considering the religious, social, economic and political scenario the Muslims have been marginalized since the so-called independence from the tyrannical regime of Britishers. The condition never improved for the local Muslim population. The discrimination has ...
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From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng  (Original Message)    Sent: 4/20/2007 3:28 AM

Saints in Demand In Russia as Church Asserts Tie to State

By Peter Finn
Washington Post Foreign Service
Friday, April 20, 2007; A24

MOSCOW -- Sergei Privalov, a soft-spoken priest who heads the Russian Orthodox Church's Department for Cooperation with the Military, Law Enforcement and the Security Services, is a busy man.

Everyone wants a patron saint.

"It's like a wave we are witnessing," he said. He pulled out a recent letter from the church's patriarch, Alexy II, approving a request from Rus, a special forces police unit long involved in controversial counterterrorism operations in Chechnya, that the legendary 13th-century military commander and saint Alexander Nevsky be named its patron.

Nevsky was already the patron saint of the FSB, Russia's internal security service. Meanwhile, the Strategic Rocket Forces, which oversee Russia's land-based nuclear missiles, have Saint Barbara, the tax police have Saint Anthony, the Border Guards have Saint Ilya Muromets and the Ministry of Interior's troops have Saint Vladimir, among dozens of other examples.

Moribund ...
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From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng  (Original Message)    Sent: 4/20/2007 3:38 AM
20 April 2007 13:31
The Big Question: Who is Boris Berezovsky, and why does Russia want him back?
By Mary Dejevsky
Published: 20 April 2007
Why are we asking this now?
Boris Berezovsky is a Russian multi-millionaire living in exile in Britain. An assiduous self-publicist and ferocious critic of President Putin, he is once again basking in the limelight after telling a newspaper that he was fomenting a revolution to oust the Russian president.
The immediate response of the Russian authorities was to lodge a formal complaint with the British government, via their ambassador in London, demanding that Berezovsky's political asylum status be revoked. This was swiftly followed by a letter from Russia's general prosecutor to the Home Office and an arrest warrant, charging that Berezovsky had called for the overthrow of Russia's legitimate government by force. Any delay in acting on this, the Russian ambassador warned, could affect bilateral relations.
Who is Berezovsky, really?
Berezovsky is the archetypal, perhaps even the original, Russian oligarch. ...
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