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[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13] [14] [15] [16] [17] [18] [19] [20] [21] [22] [23] [24] [25] [26] [27] [28] [29] [30] [31] [32] [33] [34] [35] [36] [37] [38] [39] [40] [41] [42] [43] The price of “friendship” with Turkmenistan
 Vladimir Kotyenyev, Director of the Department of Consular Service in the Ministry for the Interior, told a press conference today at the Novosti agency, that Turkmenistan’s unilateral withdrawal from the agreement on dual citizenship “contradicts bilateral agreements and will not be recognized by Russia under any circumstances.” Full Story...”Cleanups”, from Chechnya to Ingushetia
 The fight that rocked the third largest Chechen city of Argun from last Friday’s night till Saturday’s early hours was given a controversial coverage by Russian security services and the press. The spokesman of the Russian military in Chechnya, Ilya Shabalkin, stated the city was raided by the remnant of Barayev’s rebel group. Another top brass claimed a unit of some 20 rebels attacked a Russian motor convoy, and having lost half of its combatants “vanished” and “scattered” in adjoining woodlands and villages. Knowing that the city was sealed, it looks strange that the attackers managed to “vanish”. But there is another version of the overnight confrontation. According to the Russian-Chechen Friendship Society that has a network of correspondents in Chechnya, the fighting involved local Chechen police and a special group of the Chechen republican commandant’s office called by locals the “Yamadayev’s gang”. Full Story...Iran gets fidgety
 Russia would not quarrel with the United States over Iran. Such is the conclusion that can be drawn from the statements Vladimir Putin gave at joint press conferences with George Bush in both St. Petersburg and in Evian, where the Russian president, together with his G8 colleagues expressed concern over the possibility of nuclear weapons in Iran. Full Story... Better late than never
On June 6 the United Nations and Cambodia signed an agreement to establish a special tribunal to investigate the crimes of the Khmer Rouge, ultra communists who murdered approximately 2 million people when they were in power from 1975 - 1979. Full Story... Triumph of national egoism
 “See, no weapons of mass destruction have been found in Iraq,” say now with satisfaction those who kept saying the WMD argument had never been a strong case for the war in Iraq. They claim they were misled. The WMD was just a false excuse for the Iraq occupation. First, the CIA gave president Bush the unchecked intelligence about Iraq’s alleged weapons of mass destruction, then prime minister Tony Blair did some editing to the report supplied by the British intelligence to strengthen the case. All these allegations have been causing a lot of noise in the West, stirring up scandals, probings, parliamentary inquiries and disclosures in the press. Full Story...The Amnesty Game
 Today the State Duma passed a resolution on amnesty in Chechnya after the second hearing. 298 MPs voted in support of the resolution and two — against. It is most likely that on Friday the document will be passed after the third and final hearing and will take effect immediately on publication without requiring Federation Council’s approval or President’s signature. Full Story...Escalation in political violence in Burma
 Burma is heading for a political turmoil following arrest of Aung San Suu Kyi. Aung San Suu Kyi was arrested by the Burmese junta along with other 18 senior leaders of the National League for Democracy (NLD), the only national political force in opposition to the military regime. Full Story...“Sweep-ups” in Ingoushetia
 On June 4, three Chechen refugees from a refugee tent camp in Nazran, Ingoushetia, were found in Argun, Chechnya. The night before, they were arrested right from their tent and taken to Chechnya. One of the persons found in Chechnya was immediately taken to Ingoushetia where he was picked up by an ambulance. He doesn’t know where he was kept. According to him, he was beaten and tortured with electricity. Full Story...Soros left Kyrgyz opposition disappointed.
 The billionaire George Soros, whose arrival had been awaited by non-governmental oppositional groups and the press in Bishkek, capital of Kirghizstan, left their hopes of any kind of support unfulfilled. Full Story...There are no human rights now, these are the times of SARS
 There is a saying in Tula: whatever we start doing, the result is always the same, a machine gun. The same is true for our country in general. Whatever fight we begin, it ends in deportation. The resulting measure applies to everyone, be it the bourgeois intelligentsia, Crimean Tatars or suspicious foreigners. Full Story...[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13] [14] [15] [16] [17] [18] [19] [20] [21] [22] [23] [24] [25] [26] [27] [28] [29] [30] [31] [32] [33] [34] [35] [36] [37] [38] [39] [40] [41] [42] [43] |
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