Rumsfeld says Russia and China policies worrying
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posted by zaina19 on June, 2006 as ANALYSIS / OPINION
rom: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 5/12/2006 1:18 PM Rumsfeld says Russia and China policies worrying The United States is concerned about Russia’s use of its energy resources as a political weapon and China’s lack of transparency over military spending, US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld was quoted as saying. In an opinion piece printed in France’s Le Figaro daily on Thursday, Rumsfeld said the US focus was currently on Iraq and Afghanistan but that in the future, its policies would be determined by choices made by other powers such as China and Russia. “Russia, a country with vast natural resources ... is a partner of the United States on security,” Rumsfeld said. “But on certain issues, Russia has not been very cooperative and has used its energy resources as a political weapon.” US Vice President Dick Cheney provoked an angry reaction from Russia earlier this month when he told Baltic and Black Sea leaders that Russian President Vladimir Putin was backsliding on democracy and using energy reserves to “blackmail” ... >> full
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Seven months to the death penalty
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posted by zaina19 on as ANALYSIS / OPINION
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 6/5/2006 10:58 AM 1.6.2006 17:50 MSK Seven months to the death penalty The sentence given Nurpash Kuleyev this last week in Vladikavkaz – death with life imprisonment as an alternative - has revived raised waves of arguments about the death penalty in Russia and a moratorium on it. However, despite the arguments, under the current state of Russian law the death penalty has only seven months to go. Its is strange to read in newspapers and to listen to broadcast accounts, both reasoned discussions and fiery debates on the theme of whether "Russia should abolish its moratorium on the death penalty." Advocates and opponents of a moratorium are arguing about the non-existent. For there was not and is not any moratorium on the death penalty in Russia. A propaganda red herring under the title "a moratorium on the death penalty" was let loose in Russia in the mid-1990s and has continued to float around in the mass media, leading to the delusion of unskilled ... >> full
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ACRES MURTAZAYEV, "Eurasian House", 08.03.06
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Prev Discussion Next Discussion Send Replies to My Inbox Reply Recommend Message 1 of 1 in Discussion From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 6/20/2006 9:25 PM March, 21, 2006 TEN ACRES MURTAZAYEV, "Eurasian House", 08.03.06 For our militarized consciousness (in the authority - Generals and Colonels, the central objective of life - combating of terrorism) the number ten became almost sacred. First, this is the very center of target. But, in the second place, this ten coded designation of the operation "2008". The forthcoming presidential elections are the dominant of power of the state, and any act of it is directed toward the solution of this strategic problem. We do meet KHAMAS, which, according to the chairman of Duma committee on international affairs K. Kosacheva, "we do not consider terrorists, because it does not act in the territory of RF". Do we clang by the gas pipe, the most solid tool of our foreign policy. Or we intend the bill, which gives the right only to ... >> full
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Chechnya: A Look At Slain Leader's Legacy And Successor
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From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 6/24/2006 2:42 AM Chechnya: A Look At Slain Leader's Legacy And Successor By Liz Fuller Chechnya - Chechen resistance president Abdul-Khalim Sadulayev, undated (RFE/RL) PRAGUE, June 21, 2006 (RFE/RL) -- Abdul-Khalim Sadulayev, who was killed in a battle with combined Russian and Chechen forces in his hometown of Argun early on June 17, served just 15 months as president of the Chechen Republic Ichkeria. But over that period he succeeded in formalizing the organizational and logistical framework to expand the war into other North Caucasus republics. The resistance website chechenpress.org claimed on June 17 that under Sadulayev the resistance forces did not perpetrate a single attack on a civilian target that could substantiate the Russian argument that the resistance are "terrorists." Sadulayev's predecessor Aslan Maskhadov consistently forbade the fighters subordinate to him either to target civilians or to extend hostilities beyond Chechnya's borders. Sadulayev, by contrast, issued a series of decrees in May 2005 setting up six "fronts:" four within Chechnya, one in Daghestan, and ... >> full
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Moscow One of World’s Least Courteous Cities — Survey
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From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 6/24/2006 11:35 PM
Photo from www.hiero.ru Photo from www.hiero.ru Moscow One of World’s Least Courteous Cities — Survey
21.06.2006
MosNews
Moscow citizens have proved to be among the world’s least courteous people, says a recent survey conducted by Readers’s Digest magazine.
The survey inspected 35 cities of the world to check how polite their citizens were. The rating was built according to results of three tests: how often strangers would help a woman pick up the papers she dropped, whether the shop assistants are polite, and how many people in public places hold the door to let the person behind them in.
Moscow qualified among the least courteous cities, with 42 percent of polite citizens, doing slightly better than Seoul, but just as good as Singapore.
The unexpected winner was New York, with 80 percent of polite people, followed by Zurich, 77, and Toronto 70 percent.
Paris and London were ranked 15th, and Bombay was called the least polite city of the world. http://www.mosnews.com/news/2006/06/21/impoliterussia.shtml
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