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Western leaders betray Aslan Maskhadov
Aslan Maskhadov, the President of Chechnya, elected under the auspices of the international community, is dead. Assassinated. The plan devised and carried out by the Russian authorities has succeeded: henceforth they shall only deal with Shamil Basaev, kept and protected by them from Budyennovsk through to Dagestan. Full Story...
Nothing now left to threaten the war
In the Kremlin, feelings are running high, as if celebrating victory. President Maskhadov is dead: the most consistent, if not the only, supporter of a peaceful resolution of the conflict in Chechnya. Nothing is now left to threaten the war; now it may proceed unhindered. Full Story...
Beslan: what the authorities aren’t telling us
A half-year has passed since the tragic events in the Ossetian village of Beslan. The scale of it is such that people still shudder in many countries of the world. For example, in France a poll found that more than 30% of people said the Beslan terrorist attack was the year’s most “memorable” event. However, Russia’s president Vladimir Putin did not deem it necessary to mark it. In the meantime, the Ossetian population is ever more firmly demanding the truth. Full Story...
Suicide of the minister
4 March at 10 a.m. former Interior Minister of Ukraine Yuri Kravchenko was expected at Prosecutor GeneralÒs Office where he was summoned to give evidence in connection with the death of journalist Georgy Gongadze. But at seven oÒclock he discharged a handgun into his temple. It happened at the ministerÒs country house at Konche-Zaspa village, Kiev region, where he stayed with his wife. Full Story...
Destroying evidence
Directed democracy, or “democracy adapted to the specifics of Russia”, as recently defined by Vladimir Putin at his meeting with George W Bush in Bratislava, is in action: Full Story...
Bashkiria: following Chechnya’s example?
“Yesterday the country stood on the verge of collapse. Today we have taken a large step forward!” This bitter joke from the Soviet era reappears in connection with the events in Bashkiria between 10-14 December last year. OMON forces detained hundreds of the republic’s citizens for no reason, brutally assaulted them, and violated many women. The republic’s ministry of the interior called the campaign a preventive measure in the battle against organised crime. Full Story...
The Russian prison
The current Russian prison offers an observer numerous paradoxes. On the one hand Soviet methods of “re-education”, such as torture by denying the prisoner food in penal isolators, are no more. Restrictions on the purchase of food in prison shops have been lifted. In cells televisions and fridges have appeared, and it is possible to boil water for tea: this for us prisoners from the Soviet era seems untypical and surprising. Like democratization, an approximation of European standards… Full Story...
Dictator’s eagerness towards poetry
A recent news programme on Turkmenistan’s state television, started in a sensational way. The announcer, exchanging the ubiquitous formality of a news presenter for a more celebratory style, announced widely smiling to the viewers, “Dear fellow citizens! Today a sensational, simply incredible event has occurred, which we have awaited for so long, and finally the pleasure has arrived, it has come to pass!” Full Story...
Military Terror in Vedensky Region
Military subdivisions reporting to the First Vice-Premier of Chechnya entered into the Vedensky region, aggravating the stressful situation prevailing in this mountainous area of the Chechen Republic. According to Ramzan Kadyrov, the purpose of the operation is the establishment of real authority in the region and the regulation of the situation in the regional center of Vedeno, home to Shamil Basayev, Chechnya’s "number one terrorist". Full Story...
How to fabricate a terrorism case
On March 4 2004, Zara Murtazalieva, a third-year student of Paytigorsk University of Linguistics, was arrested in Moscow. She is 21 and comes from Naursk region of the Chechen Republic. Full Story...
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