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Russia moves towards dictatorship
President Putin issued an edict on March 9th about the structure of supreme power. The president took the leadership functions of numerous ministries and departments upon himself that do not usually come under the authority of the president. The order goes absolutely against the Russian Constitution. Full Story...
Putin played for high stakes
Vladimir Vladimirovich has left it to other presidential candidates to boost their popularity in television debates and played it the way that befits an important man who sits at the top of the power structure he has built. At a swift stroke of the pen he has changed the government in the country. Full Story...
Turkmenistan: writer Rakhim Esenov arrested
On 23 February this year, the President of Turkmenistan, Saparmurad Niyazov, speaking at a meeting of cabinet ministers, announced that there were “bad people amongst us”, who needed to be “re-educated”. Full Story...
SNO needs help
The Council of NGOs in Chechnya (SNO) is facing the threat of closure. The only professional and steadily functioning independent journalist organization in Chechnya has been unable to obtain subsidies or grants and is now using private funds for its daily news bulletin. Full Story...
Maestro offers a little cry for the tyrant
What can be finer than strong, true male friendship! From school years, right the way through life, and on up to the grave: perhaps even beyond? Such examples are not unknown in human history and literature. Full Story...
Turkmen writer is forbidden from leaving the country
In January 2004 Saparmurat Niyazov, President of Turkmenistan, declared that
all exit visas were to be banned and signed a resolution that defined the new
procedure for the exit of citizens to travel abroad. However official decrees have nothing in common with real practice. Full Story...
THE DESTRUCTION OF CHECHNYA
We continue with eyewitness accounts of the Russian army’s missile attack on Grozny, 21 October 1999. On that day, 137 civilians were killed and more than 260 injured. Mairbek Taramov put together a collection of eyewitness accounts of this event and has called for it to be circulated. Several parts of his collection are being published here on the PRIMA website. Full Story...
Terrorists and Guardsmen on trial in Kyrgyzstan
On 19th February the military court of Kyrgyzstan passed sentence in the trial of one of the most infamous crimes of recent times – the bombing of one of Bishkek’s largest markets in December 2002. Two Uzbeki citizens were sentenced to death – Ilkhom Izatullaev and Asadullo Abdullaev, who were found guilty by the court of organizing and carrying out the terrorist attack. Full Story...
Putin: Here to stay
The extension of Vladimir Putin’s powers over the constitution has in essence already been decided. The ostentatious reticence and the President’s timid objections to altering the constitution are nothing more than a crafty Kremlin game in typical Eastern style. The current President possibly seeks inspiration from an example 400 years ago, when Boris Godunov, rejecting the throne, disappeared into the Novodevich Monastery in Moscow, crowds assembling under its walls demanding he be Tsar. Full Story...
Torture on Camera
The employees of the Chernovtsy municipal division of internal affairs (GOVD) hit Anatoly Ivanov on the heels with a wooden stick and a bottle filled with water, stuck his face between the chairs’ legs and bounced a steel spring off his head. Then they pulled off his pants. Captain Ruslan Bartyuk pushed a rubber truncheon into the man’s anus and turned it few times. Junior lieutenant Vladimir Sergij and junior sergeant Sergej Skvortsov took the pictures of the torture. Full Story...
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