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Alliance between the President and the communists
The US ambassador to Ukraine, John E. Herbst, has said at a press conference in Kiev that the agreement on a common economic space signed by Ukraine, Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan is not in Ukraine’s interest. Herbst argued that the agreement is contrary to the positions of the World Trade Organisation and the European Union. The ambassador did not elaborate on his analysis, but the message to journalists and political analysts was clear: the USA is not happy that Ukraine is moving towards the development of another inter-state union. Full Story...
Parliament of the Chechen Republic expresses confidence in President Maskhadov
The Coordination Council of parliamentary committees of the Parliament of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria (ChRI) released on September 17 the following statement. Full Story...
Armenia: Lawyer removed from courtroom
On 16 September, Yerevan court judge Saribek Aramyan, presiding over a case involving the murder of Armenian TV chairman Tigran Nagdalyan, had lawyer Ovik Arsenyan removed from the courtroom. Full Story...
Ukrainian officials sponsor terrorists
The prosecutor general’s office of Ukraine has received an application lodged by the deputy chairman of the Verkhovna Rada (parliament) anti-corruption committee, Grigory Omelchenko. He claims that the Ukrainian state-run oil and gas company “Neftegaz Ukrainy” and “Itera” have swindled Ukraine of over $42 million through faked bills for supplied gas. Out of this money, $600,000 was allegedly paid to “IMA-S.p.A” which had financed training of kamikaze pilots from the Islamic terrorist network, Al-Qaeda. Full Story...
Armenia: Lawyer removed from courtroom
On 16 September, Yerevan court judge Saribek Aramyan, presiding over a case involving the murder of Armenian TV chairman Tigran Nagdalyan, had lawyer Ovik Arsenyan removed from the courtroom. Full Story...
UNHCR indifference to fate of the Chechens
On 14 May, 2001, a so-called “Zachistka” operation took place in the village of Chiri-Yurt in Chechnya. Russian “Special Services” arrested, amongst others, Ismail and Ibrahim Elzhurkaev, Khamzat Ilyasov, and Bauddi Davletdiev. For eight days the Russian forces tried to obtain confessions from the Chechens of participating in the armed forces opposing Russia in the republic. On leaving their place of interrogation, the people were given some kind of documentation asserting their non-involvement in “illegal armed formations”. Full Story...
Chechen rebels go on air
On the late night of September 10, some forty Chechen rebels seized a local television station in the village of Sernovodsk in the Sunzhen district of Chechnya. They managed to go on air with an appeal to local population. A Chechen rebel who spoke on television did not mask his face. He said that to participate in the October 5 (presidential) elections in Chechnya would amount to “shutting one’s eyes to what is happening here and selling oneself to the Russian authorities”. His address was followed by broadcast of two video footages of combat actions against Russian federal troops. The Chechen rebels were on air for about 40 minutes. After that the Mojaheeds left the building and fled away. Full Story...
And so the fight goes on...
Last weekend Chinese authorities announced that the crackdown on Falun Gong would continue until victorious end. "The eradication of Falun Gong will lead to the stable and harmonious environment for building of the Socialism in the country and will benefit both the country and the
people," states a document published by Xinghua agency. Full Story...
“Greetings from Grozny”
From 16 to 18 September, a festival of documentary films about Chechnya is taking place in Washington USA. The festival organisers are Amnesty International, the International Helsinki Federation, the Fund for Civic Freedom, the Moscow Memorial human rights organisation and the Sakharov Centre. The aim of the festival is to draw the attention of the international community and politicians to the atrocities of the Chechen war, and to demonstrate the real nature of the Putin regime’s so-called “anti-terrorist operation” being carried out in the Caucasus republic. Full Story...
Trustees “observe” victims of totalitarianism
In Kiev, the International medical rehabilitation centre for victims of war and totalitarianism, created nearly ten years ago, is under threat of closure. The centre’s head, former dissident Semen Gluzman, was famous until recently as the director of the Ukrainian-American Bureau of Human Rights Protection and chairman of the Association of Independent Psychiatrists. Full Story...
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