Yavlinsky to run for presidency in 2008
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posted by zaina19 on June, 2007 as ANALYSIS / OPINION
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 6/16/2007 7:06 PM Yavlinsky to run for presidency in 2008 16.06.2007, 13.49 MOSKOVSKY, Moscow Reg, June 16 (Itar-Tass) -- The Yabloko Russian united democratic party's leader Grigory Yavlinsky will run for the presidency in 2008. The federal council of the party took the decision on Saturday. After two days of discussion, the council approved the programme "Seven Steps to Equality of Possibilities" proposed by Yavlinsky. The council in its resolution recommended to view participation in the presidential elections in Russia in 2008 as the most important political task of the party and nominate a candidate from the party for the presidency. It was decided to present Yavlinsky's programme to voters as the one for the presidential elections and for the parliamentary elections due next December. The party is ideologically and organisationally ready for the 2007-2008 parliamentary and presidential elections, the resolution said. The council's decision is only of a political character. Under the Russian legislation and the party rules, an official decision on participation in elections, ... >> full
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Russia: Muscovites Remain In The Dark About Energy Saving
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From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 6/17/2007 9:03 AM Sunday, June 17, 2007 Russia: Muscovites Remain In The Dark About Energy Saving By Claire Bigg Russia – Replacing a lightbulb in a private home in Rostov-na-Donu (Rostov-on-Don), 07Dec2006 Energy conservation is a new idea in Russia (file photo) TASS June 15, 2007 (RFE/RL) -- In January 2006, temperatures in Moscow plummeted to a record minus-35 degrees Celsius, prompting millions of Muscovites to plug in their electric heaters. The surge in electricity demand was such that authorities, fearing a massive blackout, imposed power cutbacks and withheld gas supplies initially destined for Europe. Moscow's growing energy hunger has been putting the aging electricity grid under pressure for some time. Russia is now the world's fourth-largest consumer of electricity. In the last four years, the country's consumption has risen by almost 22 percent. Snapped To Attention It was the 2006 cold snap that persuaded city authorities to launch the first major energy-awareness campaign in post-Soviet Russia. The result is billboards urging Muscovites to switch to energy-saving light bulbs. ... >> full
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Islam’s rapid rise giving Russia growing pains
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From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 6/17/2007 10:10 PM Islam’s rapid rise giving Russia growing pains Stephen Boykewich Gimri MAKHACHKALA - Ask Khadji Gasan Gasanaliyev, imam of an independent mosque in this North Caucasus city, what’s wrong with Russia, and he tells how a three-year-old held a gun to his head. bearded, excitable imam sprawled face-down on the floor, imitating a friend’s young son who threw a tantrum when Gasanaliyev was trying to lead the namaz, or daily prayer devout Muslims recite five times a day. Gasanaliyev dragged the boy up from the floor, and in return the boy got a toy gun and pressed it to the kneeling imam’s temple. "A three-year-old boy! Where did he learn this?" Gasanaliyev asked, his eyes wide behind a pair of thick glasses. "There is no pity, there is no kindness here.... Look at this civilisation: Women going around naked on television, even on the street, violence everywhere. This is civilisation?" Muslims all across the country are asking similar questions about ... >> full
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World: Islam Scholar Rejects 'Clash Of Civilizations' Theory
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Tuesday, June 19, 2007 World: Islam Scholar Rejects 'Clash Of Civilizations' Theory Bosnia - Bosnian scholar Fikret Karcic during on panel discussion on Islam in RFE/RL headquarters, Prague, 13Jun2007 Fikret Karcic at RFE/RL on June 10 (RFE/RL) PRAGUE, June 19, 2007 (RFE/RL) -- Fikret Karcic is a professor of Comparative Legal History in the Faculty of Law at the University of Sarajevo and a professor of the History of Islamic Law at the Faculty of Islamic Studies in Sarajevo. A specialist in the history of Islamic law and institutions, he also has taught at Marmara University in Istanbul and the International Islamic University in Malaysia. As a Bosnian Muslim scholar, he rejects notions that tensions between the Christian-rooted West and the Muslim East are inevitable. RFE/RL South Slavic and Albanian Languages Service correspondent Gordana Knezevic spoke with Karcic after he took part in a June 13 panel discussion at RFE/RL in Prague. RFE/RL: What do you think about the widespread theory that today in international relations we are witnessing a clash of ... >> full
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From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 6/20/2007 10:09 AM Putin’s Democracy! Jamil Aldheyabi ALHAYAT - 18/06/07 A President did not wait testimony from anyone, and a Leader who did not think one day of a people’s testimony. A President says what he says and what the people should only do is ratification and reverence, as a leader declares from the Kremlin’s «historical» overlooking window, to say that he is «the only democratic in the world». Talk in the opposite direction of what is written in the books of modern science, the distance between fact and fiction is, as the distance between words and deeds, or as the distance between myth and reality. Psychologists say that the human being to cure self of the ailment of «chauvinism», and «narcissism», in order not to indulge in self-love, and to reach up to the splendor eulogy of the say and the deification of action. President Vladimir Putin rejects «the distance, the door, the wall and the guard», to submit praise to himself ... >> full
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