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posted by zaina19 on December, 2008 as Imperialism
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 12/11/2007 2:24 AM The Mini-Soviet Union The Soviet Union that had collapsed and had to get out of existence due to many internal and external factors and effects, left a complicated legacy that ranged and varied between the special paralyzed special services that used to be called KGB, which used to run the whole country inside-out, and at the same time had decided the fate and destiny of all citizens in the buried Soviet Union and what was called the Soviet Block which included the Eastern European States that were ruled officially by the Communist Parties that were essentially connected with the Central Committee of the Soviet Communist Party in Moscow, under the supervision and exclusive domination of the KGB that used to be dominated by the Russians who consisted of the vast majority of the population, and at certain time the direct and indirect influence ... >> full
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Window on Russia: Is Putin in Fact Planning to Divide Russia into 50 States?
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posted by zaina19 on as Imperialism
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 12/14/2007 2:49 AM Thursday, December 13, 2007 Window on Russia: Is Putin in Fact Planning to Divide Russia into 50 States? Paul Goble Vienna, December 13 – President Vladimir Putin’s comment at the end of last month that Moscow may modify the borders of some of the seven federal districts he created either reflects or has sparked speculation that the Kremlin plans to re-divide the administration structures of the Russian Federation in more radical ways. This week, the RBK news agency reported that the Russian government in fact has drawn up plans to transform the seven federal districts into seven “meta-regions” with slightly different borders than the existing ones have and to reduce the number of federal subjects to “no more than 50” (http://www.apn.ru/news/article18680.htm). According to that agency, the Kremlin plans to begin by combining Moscow and Moscow oblast, a move Mayor Yuri Luzhkov has long sought, to unite St. ... >> full
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Russia Suspends Participation In CFE Treaty
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posted by zaina19 on as Imperialism
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 12/14/2007 5:57 AM Wednesday, December 12, 2007 Russia Suspends Participation In CFE Treaty Russia – Military – Tank at the Russian Arms Exhibition, Nizhny Tagil, 11Jul2006 (ITAR-TASS) Russia has suspended its participation in a key arms-control pact, the Treaty on Conventional Forces in Europe (CFE). The suspension took effect at midnight Moscow time on December 11. The statement announcing the suspension on the website of the Russian Foreign Ministry was terse. "The treaty, signed at the time of the Cold War, has ceased to respond to modern European realities and to meet our security interests," it said in part. It said that "furthermore, [NATO member states] have taken a number of steps that are incompatible with the spirit and the letter of the treaty." Those statements only slightly rephrased Putin's own words on April 26, when he warned in his annual address to the nation that Moscow might take this step. "It is ... >> full
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Two Caucasians get killed in Moscow
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posted by zaina19 on as Imperialism
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 12/14/2007 6:25 AM Two Caucasians get killed in Moscow Moscow/Agency Caucasus - Two Caucasians died after they were attacked by unidentified gunmen in Moscow on December 9. The event refueled fears among North Caucasians of exposure to racist violence in Moscow, Russia's capital. The gunmen fired with an automatic machine at a Mercedes in southwestern Moscow at 9.45 pm. The Abkhazian driver, 42, and his Ossetian friend, 37, were killed in the attack. The police's response to the event was interpreted as an evasion of the actual reason behind similar killings: Racist violence against foreigners. Two Azerbaijanis were killed in Moscow on August 30 for similar reasons. Oleg Gioyev, a North Caucasian businessman, was also killed in Moscow on April 18 when a bomb exploded while he was in his office. Over 300 attacks across the 31 provinces of Russia in the past one year were linked to national ... >> full
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Kosovo: President Says 'We Won't Be Hostage To Any Country'
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posted by zaina19 on as Imperialism
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 12/14/2007 2:26 PM Friday, December 14, 2007 Kosovo: President Says 'We Won't Be Hostage To Any Country' Belgium -- Kosovo's president and leader of the Democratic League of Kosovo (LDK), Fatmir Sejdiu at the troika meeting on Serbia and Kosovo, Brussels, 20Nov2007 Kosovo President Fatmir Sejdiu (file photo) (epa) In Kosovo, the question is no longer if the province will declare independence, but when. In an interview with RFE/RL Pristina bureau chief Arbana Vidishiqi, Kosovo President Fatmir Sejdiu says no date has been fixed. But, he insists, "the process needs to come to an end as soon as possible." Sejdiu, attending a ceremonial tree-lighting ceremony this week in the provincial capital, said Kosovo was "only a few days away" from a declaration of independence. The Kosovo leader has refused to pinpoint a date, and says he will only proceed in coordination with Western supporters. On other matters, however, he has been crystal clear. ... >> full
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