From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 10/31/2007 6:52 AM Oct 31 2007 4:12PM Peacekeeper helicopter comes under fire in Georgian-Abkhaz conflict zone -spokesman MOSCOW. Oct 31 (Interfax-AVN) - A helicopter of the peacekeeping forces based
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posted by zaina19 on October, 2008 as Imperialism
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 10/31/2007 6:52 AM
Oct 31 2007 4:12PM
Peacekeeper helicopter comes under fire in Georgian-Abkhaz conflict zone -spokesman
MOSCOW. Oct 31 (Interfax-AVN) - A helicopter of the peacekeeping forces based in the Georgian-Abkhaz conflict zone came under fire on Tuesday from the territory controlled by Georgia, Alexander Diordiyev, spokesman for the commander of the Joint Peacekeeping Forces in the conflict zone told Interfax from Sukhumi on Wednesday.
"Although the fire was opened from several automatic rifles, only one bullet hit the helicopter, damaging the door of the landing gear. The shots were fired from the Georgian patriotic camp in the village of Ganmukhuri," he said.
Diordiyev also said that the helicopter was on a patrolling mission over the area where Georgian police officers were detained by peacekeepers on Tuesday after they threatened to use force against the peacekeepers.
http://www.interfax.ru/e/B/politics/28.html?id_issue=11898065
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W/E: Many Russian Regions Would Be Better Off If They Were Independent, Study...
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posted by FerrasB on as Imperialism
Wednesday, October 29, 2008 Window on Eurasia: Many Russian Regions Would be Better Off if They Were Independent, Study Finds Paul Goble Vienna, October 29 – The Davos World Economic Forum has been rating countries in terms of their international competitiveness for a long time; now, for the first time, Russian researchers have applied its scale to 38 of Russia’s regions and found that had many of them existed as independent states, they would have done better than Russia has as a whole. The Davos measure rates the Russian Federation as a whole at 71, but when the Bauman Innovation Center and the Moscow Center for Strategic Studies examined that country’s regions individually, it found that Novosibirsk oblast, Tatarstan and Moscow oblast ranked far higher, at 45, 47, and 50th respectively (www.gazeta.ru/politics/2008/10/21_a_2861435.shtml). “If [these regions] lived on their own,” the study reported, “then they would compare in competitiveness with others in the following way: Novosibirsk ... >> full
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W/E: Many Russian Regions Would Be Better Off If They Were Independent, Study...
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posted by FerrasB on as Imperialism
Wednesday, October 29, 2008 Window on Eurasia: Many Russian Regions Would be Better Off if They Were Independent, Study Finds Paul Goble Vienna, October 29 – The Davos World Economic Forum has been rating countries in terms of their international competitiveness for a long time; now, for the first time, Russian researchers have applied its scale to 38 of Russia’s regions and found that had many of them existed as independent states, they would have done better than Russia has as a whole. The Davos measure rates the Russian Federation as a whole at 71, but when the Bauman Innovation Center and the Moscow Center for Strategic Studies examined that country’s regions individually, it found that Novosibirsk oblast, Tatarstan and Moscow oblast ranked far higher, at 45, 47, and 50th respectively (www.gazeta.ru/politics/2008/10/21_a_2861435.shtml). “If [these regions] lived on their own,” the study reported, “then they would compare in competitiveness with others in the following way: Novosibirsk ... >> full
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Agency Caucasus: Somalia Readies Itself To Recognize Abkhazia And South Ossetia
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posted by FerrasB on as Imperialism
Agency Caucasus—The administration of Somalia plans to recognize Abkhazia and South Ossetia, following in the footsteps of Russia and Nicaragua, Mohammed Mahmud Handule, the ambassador of the Republic of Somalia in Russia, told a press conference on October 1. The Somalian ambassador sounded fully assured in his tone when he said that his government sought cooperation with Russia. “We approve the position of Russia and its role in global problems. We also fully approve its position during the conflict in the Caucasus,” said Handule. “Peoples of Abkhazia and South Ossetia have a right of self-determination, and we prepare to establish diplomatic relations with Abkhazia, South Ossetia in the short run,” Handule was quoted as saying by the Russian news agency Regnum. Asked when the diplomatic relations might start, the ambassador replied that they had to depend on the pace of diplomatic relations being realized. Although they were suffering a shortage of personnel nowadays, ... >> full
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Kavkaz Center: Russia Named As A Colonizer Country
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posted by FerrasB on as Imperialism
Russia named as a colonizer country Publication time: 1 October 2008, 11:29 When Russia invaded Georgia last month it acted like a colonial power determined to slice up and take over parts of its neighbor, the Czech Republic's foreign minister said on Saturday. "We have recently witnessed systematic provocations and finally military aggression of a powerful country, a permanent member of the Security Council, against its small neighbor with the aim to carve it up," Karel Schwarzenberg told the UN General Assembly. "This action was designed to create two tiny entities totally dependent (on) its administrative, economic and military structures. Colonial powers used to act this way." In the meantime, according to sociological research conducted by agency STEM, 42 percent of Czechs support Georgia in Russian-Georgian war. Only 19 percent of Czechs are on the side of Russia. 39 percent of respondents were unable to answer the question, whom do you support in Russian-Georgian war. Every ... >> full
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