PRIMA-News: Georgia Discusses Possibility Of Seceding From CIS
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posted by FerrasB on October, 2005 as Imperialism
21.11.2005 15:10 MSK Georgia discusses possibility of seceding from CIS GEORGIA, Tbilisi. The debate about Georgia’s possible secession from the CIS renewed in Tbilisi after the Russian Embassy in Georgia had refused a visa to Georgian MP Ghivi Targamadze who was to take part in the session of the CIS Inter-Parliamentary Assembly in St.-Petersburg. The issue of the country’s possible secession from the Commonwealth has been widely discussed by members of ruling majority and opposition alike. Speaking on the current situation, Chairman of Parliamentary Committee for External Relations, Kote Gabashvili, who was also to attend the CIS Assembly in St.-Petersburg, told journalists that he didn’t consider it appropriate at this stage to raise the issue of Georgia’s secession from the CIS. "This issue would be of more significance if Georgian Parliament were to address the need for the presence of Russian peacekeeping force in the conflict zones of Georgia. At this stage the ... >> full
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CAUCASIAN KNOT: Russophobe Sentiments In N Caucasus
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CAUCASIAN KNOT / NEWS 19/10/2005 Russophobe sentiments in N Caucasus The Moscow Bureau of Human Rights (MBHR) held a presentation of the report "On Russophobia, Overt and Would-be" at the Independent Press Centre in Moscow. A substantial part of the report deals with Russophobe sentiments in North Caucasus republics. The report summarises information about ethnic discrimination against Russians, activities of radical anti-Russian organisations, relevant articles in the media, facts of desecration of Orthodox churches, etc. This information was obtained in the course of nationwide monitoring. "The most noticeable manifestation of anti-Russian nationalism is discrimination in appointments in national republics in Russia. Practically everywhere in these regions, senior government officials are all representatives of the aboriginal population... In Adygeia, non-aboriginal population amounts to nearly 80%, but representatives of the aboriginal population occupy practically all government offices," the report says. The North Caucasus, primarily Chechnya, is a region with the most developed Russophobe sentiments. The Russian population was ... >> full
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Oleg Smirnov/Chechenpress: Drunk
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November, 1, 2005 Drunk It does not pass even the single day without the arriving information about inroad of Russian armoured machinary onto the peace citizens from the Chechen Republic. Either an armored troop-carrier or BMP drives into the pedestrian, rams civil easymen. One of the last announcements: on a highway Grozno - argun the BMP has crushed a minibus. The result - three victims, including two women. Certainly, passengers of the minibus have suffered exclusively. From the text of a communique it follows, that "collision has taken place during the accomplishment by driver of BMP the maneuver of the left turn on a crossroads leading from Khankali on highway". One of these days one federal telechannel has risked to show the truthful reportage rare for the Russian TV. It was the shooting describing the detention by Chechen "policemen" the BMP crew which crushed in streets of Grozno a young Chechen student girl. ... >> full
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November, 1, 2005 "The happiness of wars - worthy enemy" For those who have been familiar with a situation in the Chechen Republic for more than 10 years, the information and propaganda courses of Moscow after the events in Nalchik, are not a secret. The screenplay is always the same. At first the Russian side demonstrates absent-mindedness and panic, then when mojaheds finish the operation, the following type of announcement "the puff of smoke is rising above defended units" smoothly turn to fairy-tales that everything was planned in that way and, generally it was, the next phase, the ordinary phase of special action on final dispersion, persecution and destruction. All in all, the similar action reminded me the game "guess the melody" in the Chechen Republic . The rules are such. At first the questions of the hiding heads are heard in a local radio-ether to their subordinate on advanced who each time ... >> full
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Thomas de Waal/OpenDemocracy: Musa Shanib In The Caucasus A Political Odyssey
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Musa Shanib in the Caucasus: a political odyssey Thomas de Waal 12 - 10 - 2005 The meteoric career of an intellectual, nationalist dissident in the north Caucasus is emblematic of the region’s troubled post-Soviet condition, writes Thomas de Waal of the Institute for War & Peace Reporting. ------------------------------------------ In January 2005, in one of Russia’s most depressed towns, I had dinner with a remarkable man. Musa Shanib (also known by the Russianised name Yuri Shanibov) has a noble look to him, with the carved profile of an eagle and thick charcoal eyebrows. Shanib’s life story is still more striking. In the early 1990s he briefly became the Garibaldi of the north Caucasus, aiming to unite the disparate small nationalities of Russia’s most diverse (and Islamic) region into a Confederation of Mountain Peoples that would proclaim independence from Moscow. He spent seven months with the Chechen general Dzhokhar Dudayev, helping him in Chechnya’s bid ... >> full
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