Russia: Estonian President Says Moscow Sees Democracy As A 'Threat'
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posted by zaina19 on June, 2007 as Imperialism
rom: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 6/5/2007 3:52 PM Tuesday, June 5, 2007 Russia: Estonian President Says Moscow Sees Democracy As A 'Threat' Estonia - President Toomas Henrik Ilves speking to RFE/RL at a conference in Prague, 05Jun2007 Estonian President Toomas Hendrik Ilves speaking to RFE/RL today (RFE/RL) PRAGUE, June 5, 2007 (RFE/RL) -- Estonian President Toomas Hendrik Ilves spoke today with RFE/RL correspondents Jeffrey Donovan and Irena Chalupa about his country's vulnerability after weeks of cyberattacks and Estonia's relations with Russia. RFE/RL: Your country has had a lot of attention recently, given this story about moving the Soviet monument and then the cyberattacks on Estonian computer systems. Can you tell us a little bit more about that? Toomas Hendrik Ilves: I don't know where to begin. Certainly, we saw the use of massive cyberattacks against state institutions, as well as private sites, including banks. Initially, you could say it was sort of a grassroots thing. But then ... >> full
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Stalinists threaten to burn Museum of Soviet Occupation in Ukraine
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posted by zaina19 on as Imperialism
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 6/13/2007 6:44 AM 13.6.2007 15:51 MSK Stalinists threaten to burn Museum of Soviet Occupation in Ukraine UKRAINE, Kiev. (Our Correspondent.) "Every day, the Museum of Soviet Occupation, located in a former kindergarten, receives phone calls threatening to burn the museum if it is not shut down,” reported colleagues of the Institute of the National Memory of Ukraine on June 12 to a correspondent of PRIMA –News. The museum was opened several days ago on the model of the museum of the organization "Memorial". There are 120 films about political repression, photographs of NKVD interrogation and torture rooms, and an enormous quantity of books, documents, and exhibits. There are 13 stacks on the chronology of Soviet totalitarianism. The Museum is visited daily by diplomats, teachers, journalists, schoolchildren, and others. English versions of the exhibition materials are available at UN headquarters, and in many countries of Europe as well as ... >> full
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Tense front in Moscow's 'war on terror'
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From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 6/16/2007 3:44 PM Tense front in Moscow's 'war on terror' At a bus station on the outskirts of Makhachkala, the capital of Dagestan, hundreds of people struggle onto buses with their bags. Drivers shout out their destinations: towns and villages in the mountains, like Khasavyurt and Buynaksk. Hardly a week goes by when you don't hear of some kind of clash between militants and local security forces there. But they laugh off any suggestion that anyone might be afraid of going there. "Life goes on," they say, "we're used to it". This is the North Caucasus, Russia's front in the "war on terror". Seized after Friday prayers In a mosque in the south of the city, I meet Magomed, who tells me how two months ago, he and 16 other worshippers were abducted. "We were sitting here in the mosque after Friday prayers," he says. Mosque in Makhachkala in March Seventeen men were abducted from ... >> full
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Baltic countries preparing for disconnecting from Russian electricity supply networks
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posted by zaina19 on as Imperialism
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 6/17/2007 9:18 AM REGNUM 17:24 14.06.2007 Permanent news address: http://www.regnum.ru/english/843109.html Baltic countries preparing for disconnecting from Russian electricity supply networks Energy companies in the Baltic countries are starting preparations for disconnecting their electricity supply networks from Russian networks and connecting to the European energy system, reports Postimees. President of Eesti Energia Concern Sandor Liive told reporters today that a survey regarding change of the energy supply system were held in 1998 and it proved that the plan is plausible. Now the Baltic countries’ energy companies need to conduct additional research to examine technical aspects. After that Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia would issue an application to join the European electricity supply system. According to Liive, it will cost about 500 mln euro for the Baltic countries to join it. The sum includes construction of two new power bridges between Lithuania and Poland as well as investment into the power stations that are ... >> full
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Lithuanian MPs: “We must seek compensation from Russia for occupation and resumption of Druzhba functioning”
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From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 6/17/2007 9:23 AM REGNUM 14:55 14.06.2007 Permanent news address: http://www.regnum.ru/english/842863.html Lithuanian MPs: “We must seek compensation from Russia for occupation and resumption of Druzhba functioning” The Day of Mourning and Hope is held today in Lithuania. It is dedicated to the 66th anniversary of deportation of Lithuanians to Siberia in June 1941. As a REGNUM correspondent informs, official part of the Day of Mourning and Hope started from a special session at the Lithuanian Seimas, in which Prime Minister Gediminas Kirkilas, Lithuanian ex-president Algirdas Brazauskas, those who signed the Lithuanian Independence Act, members of the Constitutional Court, clergymen and other guests. “This day of remembering on the genocide must become not only a mourning day, but a day of hope, so that, without any revenge we had hope for material compensation to victims, and the main thing, for moral compensation,” Speaker of the Lithuanian Parliament Viktoras Muntianas announced in his ... >> full
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