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JULY 2010


FA: Prisoners of the Caucasus, by Charles King and Rajan Menon

posted by circassiankama on July, 2010 as ANALYSIS / OPINION


Prisoners of the Caucasus, by Charles King and Rajan Menon

 


Prisoners of the Caucasus - Russia's Invisible Civil War


Foreign Affairs; July / August 2010, Vol. 89 Issue 4, p20-34


Summary: A pernicious mix of heavy-handed rule, corrupt governance, high unemployment, and militant Islam has reignited the Russian North Caucasus. Today, it is not only the old conflict zone of Chechnya but also its neighboring republics that are bordering on open civil war.



Russia's Invisible Civil War

The empty gymnasium of School No. 1 in Beslan is whipped by winds from the plains of North Ossetia, a republic in Russia's North Caucasus region.

On September 1, 2004, the first day of classes, masked gunmen entered the elementary school and herded hundreds of children and their teachers onto the indoor basketball court. They held their captives for three days. In the stifling late-summer heat, some children died from dehydration. Many others were killed when a series of homemade bombs ...


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Washington Post: How to prevent another war in the Southern Caucasus

posted by circassiankama on as ANALYSIS / OPINION


How to prevent another war in the Southern Caucasus

By Ronald D. Asmus
Saturday, July 3, 2010; A19

After Russian President Dmitry Medvedev's recent visit, the Obama administration wants to prove it has a strategy to deepen ties with allies such as Poland while it pursues a reset with Russia, so it has sent Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on a whirlwind tour of Central and Eastern Europe and the South Caucasus. The trip also seeks to blunt conservative criticism that Washington is sacrificing allies for the sake of reconciliation with Moscow.

The administration has tried to pursue a twin-track strategy: reengaging Russia while upholding the core principle that these countries have the right to choose their own foreign policies and reject Moscow's claims of a sphere of influence. The real question, however, is not about the administration's rhetoric but whether its words are backed up with policies that produce meaningful engagement. So far, those policies are not in place. That is one ...


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VOA: Geneva and the crisis in the Caucasus - Interview

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Geneva and the crisis in the Caucasus - Interview
News
Friday, 02 July 2010 17:34

(July 30) - VOA News (Russian)

Kemal Tarba

Finnish diplomat Antti Turunen, Special Representative of UN Secretary General in Georgia and co-chairman of the Geneva discussions, believes that negotiations should continue in order to avoid a new spiral of violence.

In June 2010 another round of international discussions on security and stability in the Caucasus was held in Geneva. However, the delegations of Abkhazia and South Ossetia have decided to withdraw from the negotiating process "in connection with the lack of progress and justice."


Antti Turunen

Kemal Tarba: For what reasons did Abkhazia leave the Geneva talks on security in the Caucasus?

Antti Turunen: I would like to note that, as we understand the situation, the Abkhaz side has not left the Geneva talks, but it wishes to have sufficient time to prepare for ...


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KC: Moscow Center Sends New Agents To The U.S. Disguised As Children For Older Spies

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Moscow Center sends new agents to the U.S. disguised as children for older spies

Publication time: 30 June 2010, 15:00 

A US newspaper, The Harvard Crimson, reported about the Russian spy "Donald Heathfield" based on interviews with his classmates at Harvard Kennedy School, which the spy graduated in 2000.

 

"Heathfield", with his fictitious Russian spy "wife", who had a fake name "Tracey Foley", was arrested on Sunday in the FBI crackdown on Russian terrorist spy ring in the US. The FBI stated that his Canadian birth certificate is a fake.

 

Classmate Katz recalled that "Heathfield" claimed to be a Canadian-born US citizen. But Katz noticed a funny accent of "Heathfield" that lacked the Canadian "eh".

 

"Heathfield" spoke in English with a strange accent. Classmate Kalish remembered that "Heathfield" explained to her that he had an accent because he came to America from France.

 

Russian spy "Heathfield", shortly before his arrest, visited a meeting of classmates at the school's 10-year reunion last month. Kalish immediately suspected that something was wrong with "Heathfield" when he told her ...


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KC: Just Revolutionaries And Guerrillas. Dedicated To Chechen Resistance

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Just revolutionaries and guerrillas. Dedicated to Chechen Resistance

Publication time: 29 June 2010, 23:29 

The Christian Church has always recognized the popular right in the last resort to rise up against a tyrant or tyrannical regime.

 

Numerous governments have already capitalized on worldwide condemnations of Osama bin Laden's al-Qaida network by applying the "terrorist" tag against domestic opponents. Prime Minister Vladimir Putin of Russia has indicated that he expects moral approval for a campaign against Chechen Resistance. India has stepped up its onslaught against separatists in Kashmir, and China has used the occasion to repress "religious extremists" in Xinjiang.

 

Thus, for the first time, a universal global justification is being asserted for action against local disorders.

 

Human rights groups like Amnesty International are warning of an "opportunistic clampdown" on civil liberties. "While the world is looking the other way, abuse and repression can be carried out without fear of rebuke", Amnesty said in its statement (October, 2001). "The horror of the 11 September attacks should not result in other communities ...


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