Ingushetia President Murat Zyazikov: Peaceful Caucasus is Key to Strong Russia
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posted by zaina19 on June, 2007 as Imperialism
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 6/21/2007 10:24 PM © Akhmedkhanov 15/06/2007 | Moscow News,№23 2007 Ingushetia President Murat Zyazikov: Peaceful Caucasus is Key to Strong Russia > print version Two weeks ago, Vladimir Putin held yet another meeting with Murat Zyazikov, the president of Ingushetia, the smallest republic in the North Caucasus. Analysts point out that the Russian head of state meets with Zyazikov more often than with leaders of any other republic or Federation member in South Russia. What is the reason for this? Zyazikov explains in an interview with MN's Tatyana Gantimurova and Bakhtiyar Akhmedkhanov. MN: According to some reports, Vladimir Putin called you to account over unemployment related problems in your republic. Is that true? Zyazikov: Unemployment was one of the problems that we discussed during our meeting. It is still rather high in our republic. But the positive dynamics are unmistakable. Official unemployment has declined, and the situation will continue to get better. Over ... >> full
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Europe: Experts Say Russia Dependable Energy Supplier, But Urge Caution
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posted by zaina19 on as Imperialism
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 6/23/2007 2:25 AM Friday, June 22, 2007 Europe: Experts Say Russia Dependable Energy Supplier, But Urge Caution By Jan Jun Belarus – Workers at oil pump station ‘Homel’, part of the Druzhba pipeline system on Belarusian territory, Jan2007 Europe needs to change the direction of its energy policies (file photo) (Bymedia.net) LONDON, June 21, 2007 (RFE/RL) -- Europe needs reliable energy supplies for the future and Russia can fill the bill -- but the European Union would nevertheless be wise to seek alternatives. That was the general consensus of top international experts assembled at the Global Energy Leaders Summit organized this week in London by the "Financial Times" newspaper. EU Energy Commissioner Andris Piebalgs told RFE/RL that there is no reason to doubt Russia's dependability as a supplier, as it is in the country's financial interests to deliver on its promises. However, he stressed that Russia can be expected to do what is ... >> full
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Timur Muzaev: fight of Russian nationalists with Caucasian natives in Moscow was a provocation
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From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 6/27/2007 4:29 PM CAUCASIAN KNOT / NEWS 25/6/2007 Timur Muzaev: fight of Russian nationalists with Caucasian natives in Moscow was a provocation The "Caucasian Knot" has reported that on June 22 late at night in the vicinity of the Slavyanskaya Square in the centre of Moscow mass collisions burst out between the members of nationalist and fascist groupings and Caucasian natives. As a result of the fight in Kitaigorodsky Passway, one Russian citizen, a Chechen by nationality, got a knife wound and was hospitalized, the "Gazeta.ru" reports. In total, according to law enforcement bodies, some 50 persons took part in this nationalism-motivated clash. According to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent, there were some 100-150 fight participants. The Department for Information and Public Relations of Moscow's City Interior Administration (GUVD) has disseminated a statement on suppressing an attempt of mass interethnic-motivated collisions on June 22 in several places of the Russian capital - ... >> full
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Timur Muzaev: fight of Russian nationalists with Caucasian natives in Moscow was a provocation
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posted by zaina19 on as Imperialism
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 6/27/2007 4:29 PM CAUCASIAN KNOT / NEWS 25/6/2007 Timur Muzaev: fight of Russian nationalists with Caucasian natives in Moscow was a provocation The "Caucasian Knot" has reported that on June 22 late at night in the vicinity of the Slavyanskaya Square in the centre of Moscow mass collisions burst out between the members of nationalist and fascist groupings and Caucasian natives. As a result of the fight in Kitaigorodsky Passway, one Russian citizen, a Chechen by nationality, got a knife wound and was hospitalized, the "Gazeta.ru" reports. In total, according to law enforcement bodies, some 50 persons took part in this nationalism-motivated clash. According to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent, there were some 100-150 fight participants. The Department for Information and Public Relations of Moscow's City Interior Administration (GUVD) has disseminated a statement on suppressing an attempt of mass interethnic-motivated collisions on June 22 in several places of the Russian capital - ... >> full
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Brinikh: Sochi National Park is being seized under pretext of Olympiad preparation
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From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 6/27/2007 4:36 PM CAUCASIAN KNOT / NEWS 26/6/2007 Brinikh: Sochi National Park is being seized under pretext of Olympiad preparation It is inadmissible for Russia, which has vast northern territories fit for any winter sport, to apply the utmost southern city of the country - Sochi - as a candidate for holding Winter Olympic Games. Moreover, it is a unique place with quite a lot of specially protected natural territories. Valery Brinikh, head of the Maikop City Public Organization of the All-Russia Wildlife Protection Society and a member of the Board of the Ecological Watch for North Caucasus, has expressed this opinion in his interview to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent. "...Sochi will become a huge all-Russian construction site and cease to exist as a balneotherapeutic health resort. For example, for the sake of the Olympiad, they are 'developing' the Imereti Lowland. But this is the unique source of therapeutic ... >> full
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