Strong Rebuke for the Kremlin From Cheney
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posted by zaina19 on May, 2006 as Imperialism
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 5/7/2006 1:15 AM Strong Rebuke for the Kremlin From Cheney Vice President Dick Cheney on Thursday delivered the Bush administration's strongest rebuke of Russia to date. He said the Russian government "unfairly and improperly restricted" people's rights and suggested that it sought to undermine its neighbors and to use the country's vast resources of oil and gas as "tools of intimidation or blackmail." "In many areas of civil society — from religion and the news media, to advocacy groups and political parties — the government has unfairly and improperly restricted the rights of her people," Mr. Cheney said in a speech to European leaders in Lithuania's capital, Vilnius. "Other actions by the Russian government have been counterproductive, and could begin to affect relations with other countries." Mr. Cheney's remarks, which officials in Washington said had been heavily vetted and therefore reflected the administration's current thinking on Russia, ... >> full
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MosNews: 1000 Rally In Chechnya After Local Cossack Leader Attacked
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posted by FerrasB on as Imperialism
Photo from www.photosight.ru Photo from www.photosight.ru 1000 Rally in Chechnya After Local Cossack Leader Attacked 02.05.2006 MosNews Around 1,000 people protested in southern Russia on Monday after an armed raid on the home of a Russian Cossack leader. The protesters accused the security forces of being behind the raid, police quoted by AP said Monday. The protest took place in Beslan, the scene of the deadly September 2004 school hostage seizure. The Beslan Mothers’ Committee, founded by mothers of the children who died in the siege, took part in the rally. A group of armed, masked men, who said they were from an anti-terrorist police unit burst into the Cossack leader Khariton Yedziyev’s home in Beslan early Friday and tried to take him away, the regional Interior Ministry said. But neighbors blocked the path outside and forced the abductors to set him free. The Beslan mothers, who have criticized law enforcement authorities for failing to prevent the school ... >> full
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MosNews: 1000 Rally In Chechnya After Local Cossack Leader Attacked
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posted by FerrasB on as Imperialism
Photo from www.photosight.ru Photo from www.photosight.ru 1000 Rally in Chechnya After Local Cossack Leader Attacked 02.05.2006 MosNews Around 1,000 people protested in southern Russia on Monday after an armed raid on the home of a Russian Cossack leader. The protesters accused the security forces of being behind the raid, police quoted by AP said Monday. The protest took place in Beslan, the scene of the deadly September 2004 school hostage seizure. The Beslan Mothers’ Committee, founded by mothers of the children who died in the siege, took part in the rally. A group of armed, masked men, who said they were from an anti-terrorist police unit burst into the Cossack leader Khariton Yedziyev’s home in Beslan early Friday and tried to take him away, the regional Interior Ministry said. But neighbors blocked the path outside and forced the abductors to set him free. The Beslan mothers, who have criticized law enforcement authorities for failing to prevent the school ... >> full
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RFE/RL: Russian Energy Monopolies As Political Tools?
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posted by FerrasB on as Imperialism
24 April 2006, Number Russian Energy Monopolies as Political Tools? (Washington, DC--April 24, 2006) The needs of Russia's energy monopolies drive that country's foreign policy at least as much as they are used as instruments of that foreign policy, according to three experts. Daniel Kimmage, Edward C. Chow and Richard Giragosian told an RFE/RL audience last week that state-controlled energy companies, such as Russia's natural gas supplier, Gazprom, allow the Russian government to project power in neighboring states and reassert global influence -- but at the expense of sound economic and energy policy. Daniel Kimmage, Regional Analyst for Central Asia for RFE/RL, focused on the role of Gazprom, which supplies 90 percent of Russia's natural gas and enjoys the "ultimate political connections" via its board chairman, Dmitri Medvedev -- who also serves as First Deputy Prime Minister in President Vladimir Putin's government and is a former chief of staff to Putin. At ... >> full
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Saturday May 13, 2006 The Guardian
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posted by zaina19 on as Imperialism
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 5/13/2006 12:40 AM Prodding the bear Leader Saturday May 13, 2006 The Guardian Back in the bad old days of the cold war, western Kremlinologists used to earn their keep by interpreting impenetrable data about Soviet five-year plans, Pravda editorials or the pecking order of politburo gerontocrats on the Red Square reviewing stand. No such expertise is required to decode the meaning of what Vladimir Putin has been saying recently. In his annual state of the union address this week, the Russian president sniped openly at US complaints about his democratic credentials and warned that the country must modernise its armed forces to be able to withstand foreign pressure. Two days earlier, he failed to even mention the western allies at the Moscow ceremony marking the anniversary of the victory over Nazism in the second world war. Much of what Mr Putin said was about domestic issues, calling for investment ... >> full
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