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 A strange march and meeting occurred in Moscow on 10 December. In unison, members of the Movement for Human Rights and Memorial marched together with anarchists and communists. They were all marking the Day of Human Rights. While their interpretation of human rights may differ, it might be supposed that any union offers strength. Full Story...Special agent blesses the opposition
 In Kiev, Patriarch Filaret, the former secret KGB agent and present-day head of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, has blessed the opposition leader Viktor Yushenko and the hundreds of thousands of demonstrators on Independence Square. Full Story...Ukraine: the first to escape
 The cards are down for Leonid Kuchma. Ukraine’s Supreme Court has decided to have the second round of the presidential elections repeated. Now Kuchma is left with only the option of requesting military intervention from his Kremlin friend, though he is hardly likely to decide to provoke civil war in Ukraine with Russia’s help. Full Story...Left alone
 Today, 1 December, began the trial of Mikhail Trepashkin, former lieutenant-colonel and man who turned on his former employer, the Russian FSB. It would seem this turning on his employer has remained a private matter, as only three people were in the otherwise empty courtroom. These were three journalists, from the internet journal grani.ru; from PRIMA News, and from the Kommersant newspaper. Nobody else… Full Story...Russian Political Prisoners Left to their Fates
 On December 1st, in a small-town courthouse north of Moscow, Mikhail Trepashkin, a lawyer, will face a fabricated charge of illegal gun possession in the latest political trial of Vladimir Putin’s presidency. Mr. Trepashkin’s real crime is a discovery that casts light on the murky circumstances of Mr. Putin’s coming to power – the bombings of apartment houses in Moscow in September 1999 that led to the Second Chechen War and helped Mr. Putin win the 2000 elections. Full Story...Gaining advantage from revolution
 Ukrainian civil servants, journalists and diplomats are feverishly going over to the side of the opposition leader, Viktor Yushenko. These pillars of the old regime, who three days ago were supporting president Leonid Kuchma and prime minister Viktor Yanukovich, are now seeking their fortune in Ukraine’s own Velvet Revolution. They hope the new powers will rain down on them advantageous positions and thus offer their praise to the winning team. Full Story...Birthday congratulations to our imprisoned correspondent!
 On 30 November Adolfo Fernandez Sainz, the PRIMA correspondent on Cuba, will be 56 years old. He will spend his birthday in prison, situated in the island’s eastern province of Olgin. Full Story... Physicist, spy, political prisoner
 The man declares «I am a physicist»; the FSB accuses him of spying; and human rights activists regard him as a political prisoner. On 5 November the jury in Krasnoyarsk found the physicist Valentin Danilov guilty of high treason and fraud. The defendant was taken away under guard. Full Story...Turkmenistan lowers its own «Iron Curtain»
 On 16 September this year the President of Turkmenistan, Saparmurad Niyazov, while at a meeting with the Ministry of Internal Affairs, mentioned an incident where the manager of the Ilyanin region illegally issued a relative of the political refugee Iklimov a permit to enter the Dashoguz region. With this document, the relative succeeded in secretly fleeing the country. Full Story...Matvienko speaks her (president’s) mind
A remarkably frank statement was made by the Governor of St. Petersburg in an interview with the magazine Itogi. Asked whether it would not be better for Russia to be a parliamentary republic without a president, Valentina Matvienko answered, “No, it is not necessary for us, we are not ready for such an experiment! The mentality of a Russian requires a Czar, a President…in a word, one-man leadership”. 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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