Drill … pipes and drums from Australia, Canada, Britain
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posted by zaina19 on September, 2007 as ANALYSIS / OPINION
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 9/13/2007 5:56 PM Drill … pipes and drums from Australia, Canada, Britain and New Zealand rehearse for Russia's first international military tattoo at the Kremlin, due to open yesterday. The 122 Australians are from the Australian Federal Police, Ipswich Thistle, Rats of Tobruk, Western Australia Police and South Australian pipe bands. Drill … pipes and drums from Australia, Canada, Britain and New Zealand rehearse for Russia's first international military tattoo at the Kremlin, due to open yesterday. The 122 Australians are from the Australian Federal Police, Ipswich Thistle, Rats of Tobruk, Western Australia Police and South Australian pipe bands. Photo: Reuters Putin's political ambitions back on march Con Coughlin in London / September 14, 2007 THE appointment of Viktor Zubkov as Russia's new Prime Minister has intensified speculation that Vladimir Putin harbours ambitions of remaining in office beyond next year's presidential election. Although Mr Zubkov, 65, an economist, is a member of the so-called St Petersburg set, the cabal of former KGB officers and Putin loyalists that has seized control of ... >> full
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Attacks such as this one on a police car could destablize the republic.
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From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 9/14/2007 4:19 PM Attacks such as this one on a police car could destablize the republic. RTR-Russian Television Channel/AP Rising violence in Russia's Ingushetia Faced with insurgency, federal forces are cracking down in the northern Caucasus republic. By Fred Weir | Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor from the September 14, 2007 edition Moscow Violence is spiking in Russia's southern republic of Ingushetia, as almost daily attacks against police, officials, and ethnically non-Ingush residents have some experts fearful that the tiny region could quickly destabilize. Through two post-Soviet wars between Russian forces and separatists in neighboring Chechnya, Ingushetia has remained loyal to Moscow. But now, assaults against federal forces in the republic are on the rise. A month ago Moscow tripled its security forces in Ingushetia in response to a wave of attacks by insurgents that hit the motorcade of President Murat Zyazikov, a local headquarters of Russia's FSB security service, and a column of Russian troops. Mr. Zyazikov, a former FSB general, escaped unharmed, but a top ... >> full
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Repackaged Right Down to His Hair
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From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 9/14/2007 4:45 PM Friday, September 14, 2007 Repackaged Right Down to His Hair By Anna Smolchenko Staff Writer Vesa Oja / lehtikuva Sergei Ivanov's diplomatic ID card on file at the Finnish Foreign Ministry. He served as a secretary at the Soviet Embassy in Helsinki from 1984 to 1990. Editor's note: This is the first in a series of profiles of possible presidential candidates. KEMEROVO -- They must be Russia's busiest men these days. Acting First Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov has been meeting workers, inspecting mines and opening sports complexes across the country. And for every move he makes in front of state television cameras, acting First Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev seems to be vying for similar coverage with a jam-packed schedule of his own. The difference between the two, both seen as leading presidential candidates, is that only one is being groomed to succeed President Vladimir Putin, political commentators said. That person is Ivanov. "The play has been written, and those who wrote it know the script," ... >> full
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From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 9/14/2007 4:54 PM Friday, September 14, 2007 Room to Maneuver By Alexei Makarkin At first glance, Mikhail Fradkov's replacement by Viktor Zubkov as prime minister looks like the same kind of personnel move President Vladimir Putin made in 2004, when Fradkov was brought in to replace Mikhail Kasyanov. Once again, we have the relatively unexpected resignation of the government and the appointment of a prime minister who is largely unknown in broader circles. Whereas Fradkov was a technocrat from the moment he was picked and right up to his last day in office, Zubkov is a political figure, even if not in the public eye before now. Fradkov's elevation was the result of a lack of loyalty to the Kremlin on the part of Kasyanov. There was never any concern of opposition from Fradkov's corner, something that Putin underscored with the high honors and deep thanks accorded Fradkov on his departure. While Putin was only mildly acquainted with Fradkov before his appointment in 2004, he ... >> full
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The head of the Communist Party was found to have been watching porn at a Ukrainian sanatorium.
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From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 9/14/2007 5:01 PM In the Spotlight By Anna Malpas Published: September 14, 2007 While one powers his way through the waters of the Caspian, slaying Russia's marine resources with a single blow of his spear, the other lolls in a jacuzzi sprinkled with rose petals, his attention equally divided between a porn channel and a lissome brunette. That was the picture painted by the Zhizn tabloid on Wednesday as it compared the lotus-eating lifestyle of Communist Party leader Gennady Zyuganov with the manly pursuits of the country's head boy, Vladimir Putin. The swines at Zhizn got hold of Zyuganov's hotel bill after he stayed at a "foreign sanatorium" whose mud baths he is unlikely to patronize again. Although Zhizn's subhead makes much of the party leader's treachery in going abroad on vacation, the word "sanatorium" and the fact that the bill is in Russian give the game away -- Zyuganov just nipped across the border to Ukraine. Though he did stay in the presidential suite, ... >> full
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