North Caucasus Weekly: Kadyrov Says Kremlin Ordered Him To Hunt Rebels In Ingushetia
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posted by eagle on June, 2009 as Imperialism
Kadyrov Says Kremlin Ordered Him to Hunt Rebels in IngushetiaPublication: Eurasia Daily Monitor June 24, 2009 06:00 PM By: The Jamestown Foundation Ingush President Yunus-Bek Yevkurov and Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov
. Russian news agencies reported today that Ingushetia's president, Yunus-Bek Yevkurov, who was severely wounded on June 22 when a suicide bomber detonated a car near his motorcade in Nazran, remains in critical condition in a Moscow hospital. Meanwhile, Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov says he has been ordered by the Kremlin to conduct counter-terrorist operations inside Ingushetia.
Yevkurov suffered multiple injuries in the bombing, including a concussion, ruptured liver, torn lung, broken ribs and burns to his face, arms and legs. Yevkurov's press secretary, Kaloi Akhilgov, told Ekho Moskvy radio today that the Ingush president remains unconscious but that his life is not in danger and doctors believe his condition will soon improve. RBK Daily today quoted an aide to Yevkurov, Musa Pliev, as saying ... >> full
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North Caucasus Analysis:Attack On Yevkurov Shows Moscow No Longer Controls Events In The North Caucasus
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Attack on Yevkurov Shows Moscow no Longer Controls Events in the North CaucasusPublication: Eurasia Daily Monitor June 23, 2009 12:47 PM Police and military investigators examine the site of an explosion of a car carrying Ingush President Yunus-Bek Yevkurov
. In the latest in an escalating series of attacks in the North Caucasus, a car carrying the president of Ingushetia, Yunus Bek-Yevkurov, was blown up on June 22. An estimated 70 kilograms of explosives detonated as the president's motorcade was passing by in Nazran, the principal city in the republic. President Yevkurov's driver and his bodyguard died in the attack and the president himself was badly wounded. He underwent surgery and was subsequently airlifted to a Moscow hospital (Interfax, June 22).
The attack took place less than three weeks after Dagestan's Interior Minister Adilgerei Magomedtagirov was assassinated in Makhachkala. The proximity in time of the attacks on two top officials has led many analysts ... >> full
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posted by eagle on as Imperialism
Attack on Yevkurov Shows Moscow no Longer Controls Events in the North CaucasusPublication: Eurasia Daily Monitor June 23, 2009 12:47 PM Police and military investigators examine the site of an explosion of a car carrying Ingush President Yunus-Bek Yevkurov
. In the latest in an escalating series of attacks in the North Caucasus, a car carrying the president of Ingushetia, Yunus Bek-Yevkurov, was blown up on June 22. An estimated 70 kilograms of explosives detonated as the president's motorcade was passing by in Nazran, the principal city in the republic. President Yevkurov's driver and his bodyguard died in the attack and the president himself was badly wounded. He underwent surgery and was subsequently airlifted to a Moscow hospital (Interfax, June 22).
The attack took place less than three weeks after Dagestan's Interior Minister Adilgerei Magomedtagirov was assassinated in Makhachkala. The proximity in time of the attacks on two top officials has led many analysts ... >> full
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RFE/RL: National Republics Resist Moscow's Demand To Amend Constitutions
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June 23, 2009National Republics Resist Moscow's Demand To Amend Constitutions
by Paul Goble
Three of the four national republics the Russian Constitutional Court earlier this month ordered to drop references in their constitutions to republic sovereignty and citizenship are dragging their feet. That reluctance reflects both the importance of these terms to many non-Russians, and the calculation that resistance to the center could yield dividends.
While the Sakha (former Yakutia) parliament approved on June 17 a law making the changes Moscow wants, the governments of Tuva, Tatarstan, and Bashkortostan have not taken this step and, in at least the cases of Kazan and Ufa, do not appear to be planning to do so in the immediate future.
Last week in Tuva, deputies in the Grand Khural, as the republic's parliament is known, voted down legislation that would have created a constitutional commission to consider the changes. But Tuvan officials implied that the deputies were acting ...
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Window On Eurasia: Clericalization Of The Russian State ‘Reviving The Negatives’ Of Soviet Times, Orthodox Priest Warns
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Paul Goble
Vienna, June 24 – The clericalization of the Russian state, something the Moscow Patriarchate is actively promoting, “is reviving the negatives of the Soviet system as far as is possible in contemporary society” and represents “a return to a Stalinism based on ‘Orthodox’ ideology instead of Marxism, according to an Orthodox priest from Pskov.
And despite the hopes of some, this expanded role for the ideas of the church hierarchy has not and will not “bring culture, spirituality or instruction” to the Russian people, Archpriest Pavel Adelgeim argues. Instead, it will kill off almost any chance for the rebirth of genuine Orthodoxy among the Russian people (http://www.sclj.ru/news/detail.php?ID=2468).
In a letter to Moscow religious rights activists who oppose the activities of the justice ministry’s religious expertise council, Father Pavel says that clericalization may ...
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