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posted by zaina19 on February, 2008 as Imperialism
Enemy Street By Umalt Chadayev GROZNY, Chechnya - Last week the Chechen capital’s administration announced its decision to perpetuate the memory of Russian paratroopers who in February 2000 were killed in a battle with the units of guerrilla leaders Khattab and Basayev in the mountainous Shatoysky district of Chechnya. It was decided to rename Ninth Line Street (located in Grozny’s Staropromyslovsky district) “84 Pskov Paratroopers Street”. The decision has seriously angered many of the republic’s residents, who view such actions on the part of the authorities as blasphemy and mockery of the memory of the tens of thousands of Chechens who were killed in the two military campaigns in the republic. "In 1994 the Russian army came to us to ‘restore constitutional order’ and left two years later, having killed and maimed tens of thousands of people. In 1999 they returned and carried out another massacre here, killing, maiming and abducting far more people ... >> full
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Russia to have military missions in 7 countries
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posted by zaina19 on as Imperialism
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 2/4/2008 3:35 AM Feb 3 2008 10:21PM Russia to have military missions in 7 countries MOSCOW. Feb 3 (Interfax) - Russia plans to open military missions in 2008 in countries where there are Russian military graves, a Defense Ministry press release quoted Maj. Gen. Alexander Kirillin, head of the Military Memorial Center of the Russian Armed Forces, as saying. The plan is based on a decree by President Vladimir Putin to that effect, which was issued a decree on October 1, 2007. A government directive has been drafted to enforce the decree. There would be seven such missions altogether - in Romania, Hungary, Germany, Poland, the Czech Republic, China and Lithuania. Russia has applied to various countries for permission to have its military missions in them, the release said. "We are awaiting replies. All the funds for 2008 are available. The department in the Polish Republic, which has existed since 1993, is ... >> full
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Russia has plan to ensure presence in global ocean - commander
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posted by zaina19 on as Imperialism
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 2/4/2008 3:44 AM Feb 3 2008 2:56PM Russia has plan to ensure presence in global ocean - commander SEVEROMORSK. Feb 3 (Interfax-Northwest) - The Russian Navy will be present in all parts of the global ocean where Russia has strategic interests, Russian Navy Commander Admiral Vladimir Vysotsky told journalists in Severomorsk. While assessing a Northern Fleet strike group's mission in the Atlantic and the Mediterranean, Vysotsky said, "What is important, is that we have indeed appeared [in the global ocean] at a scheduled time, not that we just pushed out." "We have no capabilities thus far to keep a permanent grouping there. But this does not mean it will not be there," the admiral said. "On a periodic basis - yes, it will. And we'll do all we can to build up a presence where Russia has strategic interests. Whatever one may say, we'll be there," Vysotsky said. "We are thinking ... >> full
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Aslan Tkhakushinov considers that Adygeya tax service could be given out to Krasnodar 5.2.2008
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posted by zaina19 on as Imperialism
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 2/8/2008 5:43 AM Aslan Tkhakushinov considers that Adygeya tax service could be given out to Krasnodar 5.2.2008 It was not excluded that the tax service of Adygeya would be re-subordinated to Krasnodar. Such politics is organized by the federal centre, but the form of its realization was not acceptable to the republic. That statement of president Aslan Tkhakushinov was published by the republican mass-media on January 30, “Caucasian unit" correspondent reported. "Basically we are not against such uniting of these centres, their integration, - the leader of the republic, in particular said. – But let they be integrated in Maykop". If the sense of such transformations is that in Adygeya all the federal departments were transformed into branches, such campaign will be inadmissible, he considered. The president told that the problem not once had been mentioned by him in Moscow at the meetings with the federal officials. And ... >> full
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Putin vows 'arms race' response
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posted by zaina19 on as Imperialism
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 2/8/2008 6:41 AM Friday, 8 February 2008 Putin vows 'arms race' response Kuznetsov aircraft carrier Russia has been using oil revenues to bolster its military Russia's President Vladimir Putin says the world is engaged in a new arms race and Nato is failing to accommodate Russia's concerns. In a state council address, Mr Putin condemned Nato's expansion and the US plan to include Poland and the Czech Republic in a missile defence shield. "It is already clear that a new phase in the arms race is unfolding in the world," Mr Putin said. He said other countries were spending far more than Russia on new weapons. But Russia would always respond to the challenges of a new arms race by developing more hi-tech weaponry, he said. Military muscle Referring to Nato's activities in Central and Eastern Europe, Mr Putin said "there are many discussions on these, but... we have still not seen any real steps ... >> full
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