It is really Putin who is on trial before the world
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posted by zaina19 on May, 2005 as ANALYSIS / OPINION
Prev Discussion Next Discussion Send Replies to My Inbox Reply Recommend Message 1 of 1 in Discussion From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 5/17/2005 4:32 PM 17.05.2005 It is really Putin who is on trial before the world Sooner or later in the life of a world leader an event comes along that defines their time in power. For Margaret Thatcher it was the miners’ strike, for Richard Nixon, those tapes. And for Russia’s president Vladimir Putin, the event that is likely to cast his image for the outside world is the verdict in the trial of the oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky. Since coming to power in 2000, Mr Putin, a former KGB colonel, has shown two images to the world. The first is a progressive democrat, full of promises of reform and support for the law. The second is an increasing authoritarianism as he gathers the levers of power inside the Kremlin. … this trial, the verdict of which continues in a Moscow court house today, ... >> full
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Is the Salafi-Jihadist way still an obstacle to Russia in Chechnya?
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posted by zaina19 on as ANALYSIS / OPINION
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 5/19/2005 1:15 PM 19.05.2005 Is the Salafi-Jihadist way still an obstacle to Russia in Chechnya? Russian Federal Authorities some weeks ago announced the killing of a prominent Arab fighter in Chechnya known as Abu Zaid Al-Kuwaiti or Abu Omar Al-Kuwaiti, who was according to Moscow a «sponsor of terrorism», an «expert on explosives» and skilled at making technological bombs. The Russian Ministry of Interior announced that he blew himself up after his hideout in Ingushetia was surrounded. This incident raises a number of questions, the most significant of which are: Does the incident constitute a success for the Russian forces in their «war on terrorism», as Moscow calls its brutal war in Chechnya? If so, why has Chechnya still seen no peace? BACKGROUND: Abu Zaid or Abu Omar Al-Kuwaiti, his real name Ahmad Nasser Eid Abdullah Al-Fajri Al-Azimi, was not the only Kuwaiti who joined the Jihad in Chechnya. Many young people from the Persian Gulf went there, and Al-Azimi was one of ... >> full
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Is Basaev Planning To Torpedo The Russian-Chechen Power-Sharing Treaty?
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posted by zaina19 on as ANALYSIS / OPINION
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 5/28/2005 3:50 AM 27.05.2005 Is Basaev Planning To Torpedo The Russian-Chechen Power-Sharing Treaty? More than two months after Russian forces hunted down and killed Chechen President and resistance leader Aslan Maskhadov, the resistance forces now under the overall command of radical field commander Shamil Basaev still have not mounted any major retaliatory action. But it is unclear whether the resistance is too weak to hit back, or is lying low and preparing a new terrorist attack. Stratfor suggested the former in a 17 May analysis based largely on claims by Major General Ilya Shabalkin, the Russian military spokesman for the Group of Forces in the North Caucasus. Shabalkin said that Russian forces have succeeded in killing numerous Chechen field commanders, including at least six in the preceding few days, thereby seriously impairing resistance capabilities. But Shabalkin’s claims of continuous military successes should be treated with caution, if not skepticism, especially as the website of the militant resistance and the more moderate chechenpress.com generally ... >> full
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posted by zaina19 on as ANALYSIS / OPINION
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 5/28/2005 5:25 AM May, 28, 2005 With best regards Hello, journalists from the edition of the site "Chechenpress", a major of one of the units of the Moscow military district writes to you. Probably, you will be surprised with that I am writing to you, but, first, I often read materials in your site, and, second, if I write to any Russian edition, my letter for certain will not be published, and I will be found by KGBists and I will have a lot of serious problems. And even this first letter I send to you through an intermediary, my old friend and a very reliable person, who also hates workers of the FSB and their informers, and there are a lot of them in army. One of my colleagues, a captain, once, when he was drunk, told me, that he had been secretly working for the FSB for four years, who served in our unit, and all of them tried to ... >> full
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Fire Ravages Newly Repaired Theater
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posted by zaina19 on as ANALYSIS / OPINION
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 5/30/2005 11:04 AM Fire Ravages Newly Repaired Theater Monday, May 30, 2005 By Oksana Yablokova Staff Writer Igor Tabakov / MT Workers on Sunday demolishing the parts of the Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Musical Theater that were destroyed in a blaze early Friday. A devastating fire roared through the Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Musical Theater on Friday, badly damaging the stage, the auditorium and part of the roof only three months before the theater was to reopen following a major renovation. No one was injured in the early- morning blaze, the second in two years at the sprawling theater at 17 Ulitsa Bolshaya Dmitrovka, which is a few minutes' walk from the Mayor's Office on Tverskaya Ulitsa, Emergency Situations Ministry spokesman Viktor Beltsov said by telephone. More than 1,500 square meters were ravaged by the fire, including the rebuilt stage and the auditorium, Beltsov said. The 19th-century foyer, the oldest part of the theater, and a new multimillion-dollar annex were untouched. Firefighters initially blamed a short circuit but later said they ... >> full
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