Agency Caucasus: Rustavi-2: Chechens Leave Abkhazia
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posted by FerrasB on July, 2008 as Imperialism
Tbilisi/Agency Caucasus - While the tension between Russia and Georgia is further swollen by propoganda and manipulation in a way that affects Abkhazia the most at any rate, the Georgian news media has made a claim that the Chechen troops of the Russian Peace Forces deployed in Abkhazia have left the region as a whole body. The Russian Peace Forces Commander gave orders for the Chechen troops deployed in Abkhazia as part of the Vostok and Zapad squad that the Russian Defense Ministry established in Chechnya to attack the Georgian police patrols, according to Rustavi-2, Georgian television station. The Chechen troops refused to obey the Commander's orders and requested that they be permitted to leave Abkhazia without anybody following them behind, or they would have to use force. A group of 90 Chechens afterwards left their posts in the Gali villages of Saberior and Mujav and disappeared in the forest. The Russian ... >> full
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OpenDemocracy: In The Altai, Russia's Far Border
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posted by FerrasB on as Imperialism
In the Altai, Russia's far border Marc Bennetts, 17 - 07 - 2008 Life on the Russo-Mongolian border, in the Altai Republic, is a world away from boomtown Moscow Kosh Agach lies at the extreme southeast tip of Russia's beautifully desolate Altai Republic, some 50 kms from the Russian-Mongolian border. The driest inhabited place in the Russian Federation, the town is surrounded by mountains and infinite stretches of twisting gravel roads. From Kosh Agach, a tiny jumble of shanty-type houses and badly-stocked shops, it is over 10 hours drive to anything that can in any way be called a city - in this case, Gorno-Altaisk, the republic's capital, home to less than 50,000 people. Russians are in the minority in Kosh Agach, with ethnic Kazakhs accounting for around three-quarters of the settlement's population. Indeed, there is not even a Russian Orthodox Church here, the sound of the call for prayer from the local mosque ... >> full
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Window On Eurasia: 90th Anniversary Of Siberia’s Declaration Of Independence...
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posted by FerrasB on as Imperialism
Friday, July 18, 2008 Window on Eurasia: 90th Anniversary of Siberia’s Declaration of Independence Recalled Paul Goble Vienna, July 18 – Ninety years ago this week, Siberia declared its independence from Russia, an event that Moscow officials much like their Soviet predecessors have sought to minimize but one that many Siberian regionalists today celebrate as a source of pride in their enormous land and point to as a model for their own actions in the future. In an extensive article posted on the Irkutsk-based Babr.ru news portal yesterday that has already attracted dozens of enthusiastic comments, Dmitry Tayevskiy, an analyst who both tracks and supports Siberian regionalism, describes some of the reasons why July 17 is now a special day for those who share his views (babr.ru/?pt=news&event=v1&IDE=46658). In 1818, exactly a century before Siberia declared its independence in the wake of the collapse of the Russian state after the October revolution, Nikolai Novikov, a publisher ... >> full
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KC: Russian Troops Occupied The Springboard For The Assault Of Kodori
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posted by FerrasB on as Imperialism
Russian troops occupied the springboard for the assault of Kodori Publication time: 19 July 2008, 15:09 Georgian sources reported urgent news that severa hundred Russian soldiers were deployed in the lower part of the Kodori Gorge on the night of July 19. This information has been reported by a source inside the power structures of the Gali district. "The deployment of additional soldiers is the paratroopers. They are fully equipped, there is also their military vehicles. There were already a part of Russian paratroopers in this area, a newly arrived soldiers joined them. These forces led by fairly experienced senior military persons", - said the source. According to source, the Russian military is coordinating by a former commissioner of president of Georgia in the Kodori gorge Emzar Kvitsiani, who is wanted by authorities in Georgia. The source also noted that the authorities of Abkhazia and the Russian side in the case of capture of the ... >> full
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RIA Novosti: Russia Hands Over To China One And Half Islands
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posted by FerrasB on as Imperialism
18:31 22/07/2008 Share and share alike: Russia hands over to China one and half islands Share and share alike: Russia hands over to China one and half islands The Russian-Chinese border was shifted 50 km (31 miles) and is now close to Khabarovsk. Regional authorities say the agreement opens up new opportunities for the land. http://en.rian.ru/video/20080722/114649532.html
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