The military operation by Chechen and Ingush interior ministry forces
in the two republics has been in progress for nearly two months now. It
appears, however, that the campaign has not brought the desired result.
Even the tone of President Kadyrov's speeches on the subject has
changed. Back in June he gave his law enforcement agencies a month to
return the supposedly last remaining dozen or two "satans" to the
nether world, presenting the feasibility of this task as a foregone
conclusion. But now his confidence in a swift and conclusive victory
has been placed on the back burner. The new strategy of the Islamic
insurgents, who this summer have staked their success on the deployment
of suicide bombers and terrorists, has for a time at least smudged the
adroitly painted picture of Chechen peace and stability.
Kadyrov now has no option but to forget about the defeat his forces
have suffered, and restrict himself to talking about how his security
officials have
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Jamaat Sharia
publications informs with reference to independent sources that on
September 20 a battle took place on the border between Azerbaijan and
Vilayat Dagestan near Kapir-Kazamalar settlement, between a unit of
Mujahideen-Ansar and Azeri border guards.
Russian kafir forces moved to assist Azeri forces, but the attack
was repelled. According to the same source, both sides incurred
casualties.
To the surprise of locals, nothing was mentioned about the night battle in either Russian or Azeri news.
Jamaat Sharia reminds, that battles on the border between Vilayat
Dagestan (of the Caucasus Emirate) and Azerbaijan used to take place
before as well. After a battle in Mucalaul, as a result of which doctor
Muhammad became a Shaheed, infidels declared that he was responsible
together w
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I hope that in Ukraine no one would even think to try to divert the attention of the Ukrainian citizens from failure of his domestic policies, and even more so to elect the wave ultrapatriotizma by unleashing a "small victorious war" with Russia
Recently, the President of Ukraine to feel some semblance of pity. Not in those situations where it is, rattling is not very clear weapon produces antirossiyskie statements - after all, we journ
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Iran
revealed the existence of a covert uranium enrichment facility to the
U.N. nuclear watchdog this week after it discovered the project's
secrecy had been breached by Western intelligence agencies, FOX News
has learned.
The
U.S., Britain and France will accuse Iran on Friday morning of building
the facility underground in secret and charge that it has hidden the
facility for years from international weapons inspectors, a senior
White House official said.
At an
announcement before the opening of the G-20 economic summit in
Pittsburgh, President Obama, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown and
French President Nicolas Sarkozy will demand weapons inspectors from
the International Atomic Energy Agency be granted immediate access to
the facility.
An official told FOX News
that Iran reve
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Presidents Dmitry
Medvedev and Barack Obama ending their meeting in New York on
Wednesday. Also present were Lavrov, left, and Clinton, right.
President Dmitry Medvedev has hinted that Russia might support
U.S.-backed sanctions against Iran and praised President Barack Obama’s
administration for its decision to scrap the missile shield plan in
Central Europe.
But Medvedev’s apparent willingness to cooperate on Iran, which is
being widely interpreted as a Russian concession to the United States,
does not mark a departure from Moscow’s previous position on Iran’s
nuclear ambitions, defense analysts said Thursday.
“We believe we need to help Iran to take a right decision,” Medvedev
said after meeting with Obama on the sidelines of the United Nations
General Assembly in New York on Wednesday.
Medvedev said Russia’s position on new sanctions, whic
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Mumbai, India's financial capital has become more united against
terrorism since 26/11 (the 2008 terror attack in Mumbai), in which 183
people lost their lives and hundreds more were critically wounded. Such
terror attacks have also occurred in the past during festival season,
and though the main objective of these acts of terror is to disturb
peace during the festivals, the festivities of different religions
continue in full swing.
Recently, Hindus organized their religious festival Ganesh Pooja
with full devotion, while Muslims were busy in their pious month of
Ramadan. Preparations are being made to celebrate the famous festivals
of Dusshehra, the Durga Pooja and the Eid-Ul-Fitr. While the festivals
of different communities in India—the nation of unity in diversity—are
associated with their religious importance, these festivals at the same
time present an example of co
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Picture this. A few people are gathered around a food stand in the
Palestinian city of Tul Karem waiting to be served. One of them turns
around as he is called by name. The minute he does so, confirming his
identity, two men standing on each side tie his hands and distance him
from the crowd, shoving him into a nearby car. The capture takes less
than a minute, and they leave with the wanted person as quickly as
possible.
This scene could easily be taken from a typical action movie;
however, this is a standard mission operated by "Duvdevan" (cherry in
Hebrew), an elite I.D.F. unit. The person taken is a "bad guy" with
either Israeli or Palestinian blood on his hands and, once captured,
will be interrogated by Israeli security services.
"Many people who served in this unit like to brag about the number
of terrorists they have killed, but most of them usually do not tell
the t
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People raising the sign
“No to the Evenka Dam” at a public hearing in Tura in the Krasnoyarsk
region. They stalled the dam by declaring the hearing null.
TURA, Krasnoyarsk Region — RusHydro, the state electricity firm
reeling after a deadly dam disaster last month, suffered a new blow
Tuesday when an ambitious plan to construct a new giant hydropower
plant on the Lower Tunguska River stalled amid public protests.
After listening to RusHydro officials present their plans for the
Evenkia dam and answer questions for five hours, residents of the town
of Tura took the unprecedented step of declaring the public hearing
null, citing incomprehensive materials that pointed to lack of research
by RusHydro and inadequate evidence of the project’s safety for the
environment.
Local officials said Tuesday that they would not sign the procedural
documents that are nec
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It would be interesting to know if the military’s top brass are
drinking champagne as they sit in their offices on Smolenskaya
Ploshchad and Arbat, or if they are cursing those cunning Americans for
outmaneuvering Moscow. U.S. President Barack Obama announced late last
week that he had made the difficult decision to cancel long-standing
U.S. plans to deploy elements of a global missile defense system in
Poland and the Czech Republic. The prospect of Washington creating a
so-called “third position region” (after California and Alaska) close
to Russia’s borders had been a main stumbling block in U.S.-Russian
relations for the past several years.
During that time, Russia’s leaders had been screaming at every
street corner that the deployment of 10 U.S. interceptor missiles
constituted a dire threat to Russia. Efforts by Washington to explain
that 10 interceptor missiles could hardl
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The day after President Dmitry Medvedev’s article “Go Russia!”
appeared, I stopped by a little restaurant I know in the center of
Moscow. The owner of the establishment had also read Medvedev’s
article. Her gut reaction was, “Rather than compose articles, the
president should read the laws that he signs.”
I discovered this restaurant during the peak of the 1998 crisis. For
some inexplicable reason, its prices remained lower than at neighboring
establishments, and the food was always tasty. Not long after, I
learned that the owner and I had attended the same school as teenagers,
and ever since, I have taken as much pleasure from her success as if it
had been my own. Whenever I’m in the area, I always drop in to get a
taste of what small business owners are thinking.
The day after Medvedev’s article came out, I found the owner in a bad mood following another hassle with bureaucrats.
“Medvedev deserves a statue in his honor,” she said. “After his call
to of
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President Dmitry Medvedev will address the UN General Assembly on
reforms to international relations, discuss how to end the crisis with
leaders of the world’s leading 20 economies, and sit down with heads of
state during a visit to the United States this week.
But Medvedev should remember that his country is nowhere near to
being the superpower of Soviet days and lags far behind other countries
in terms of importance on global financial markets, analysts said
Monday.
On a related matter, a Kremlin spokesman said Monday that the
president had to cancel a planned meeting with U.S. dissidents because
of time constraints.
“Sadly, it was simply impossible to set up such an event within the
president’s tight schedule here,” Kremlin spokesman Alexei Pavlov told
The Moscow Times by telephone from New York.
Medvedev caused a minor stir last week when he told Western experts
on Russia in the Valdai Club that he wanted to speak to dissident
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As President Dmitry Medvedev prepares to attend the United Nations
General Assembly and the G20 summit in the United States this week, he
has an important opportunity to demonstrate a cooperative,
forward-looking Russian role on several key issues. The timing could
not be more critical. There are a number of converging challenges in
Russia’s relationship with the West that urgently need attention from
both sides, even though U.S. Vice President Joe Biden’s declaration
last year that it was time to push the “reset” button on U.S.-Russian
relations has been followed by progress on Strategic Arm Reduction
Treaty negotiations and U.S. President Barack Obama’s decision last
week to ditch a European missile defense shield.
Iran is the most pressing matter for the West and Russia. Foreign
Minister Sergei Lavrov’s assertion on Sept. 10 that “the sanctions
under discussion … are not a mechanism to force Iran to cooperate”
reflects continued Russian skeptici
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Navy of Russia and China held joint naval exercises in the Gulf of Aden, said the agency "Interfax" referring to the head of the press service of the Pacific Fleet Roman Martov. The exercise of the RF Navy attended a large anti-submarine ship (BPK), "Admiral Tributs" with the Chinese side - escorts "Chzhoshuan and Syuichzhou. According to Martov, during the exercise, held from 18 to 20 September in the Horn of Africa, have been worked out joint maneuvers, search and inspection of a pirate ship and cargo at sea, and also made a number of other tasks. According to Russia's Navy, all tasks were completed successfully and in full. After the exercises Russia and Chinese ships escorted the Gulf of Aden 23 civilian vessel, nine of which came under Russia's flag. BPK Admiral Tributs "together with the accompanying vessels, a tanker's Boris Booth" and the rescue tug SB-99, p
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Five Afghan nationals trying to illegally overcome the Russo-Finnish border, on Sunday, September 20, were detained on Russia's border guards. This agency reported 47news.ru citing the press service of the FSB Directorate for St. Petersburg and Leningrad region. Afghans are going to flee to Finland, after the lost jobs at a Moscow market. To do this, they made a tunnel under the border. One of the intruders managed to catch immediately, and four border guards searched the woods for more than two hours. The audit found that two Afghans were totally lacking documents. Two others remained in Russia is absolutely legal. Also, the agency reported, the Russo-Finnish border at the weekend trying to cross the 20-year-old Moldavian with a map and compass. On both the facts of illegal border crossing is checked. According to its results will be resolved the question of
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Palm in terms of sales in Europe for five months in a row holds the sixth-generation Volkswagen Golf, beating his nearest rival Ford Fiesta by more than 15 000 cars. In addition, Volkswagen became the best-selling brand in Europe - only in August, has sold almost 105 000 vehicles. Ford holds the second place with 62 762 vehicles, the third - for the Opel / Vauxhall with 56 894, transmits Autocar. "And although we can not make a finding of full recovery of the market, but steady sales growth in all major European markets look very optimistic," - said David Di Girolamo, head of JATO Dynamics. In August, a dozen top-selling cars in Europe are as follows: 1. VW Golf (37 662) 2. Ford Fiesta (21 648) 3. Opel / Vauxhall Corsa (19 818) 4. Peugeot 207 (18 753) 5. Renault Clio (17 618) 6. Ford Focus (16 613) 7. Fiat Punto (16 458) 8. Skoda Fabia (14 842) 9. Fiat Panda (14 354) 10. Opel / Vauxhall Astra (13 858) Ten top-s
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Leaders of Chile's indigenous Mapuche community have seized upon the death of activist Jaime Mendoza Collío to rev up their long-standing campaign for land reform and political autonomy in southern Chile. Simmering tensions that
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In the speech he gave in Cairo in June, President Barack Obama said, "I do have an unyielding belief that all people yearn for certain things: the ability to speak your mind and have a say in how you are gove
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The Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports is entrusted with the mandate of supervising education in Sierra Leone. It has done a lousy job, having failed to provide a high standard of education, especia
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When the Czechoslovak law on lustration was adopted back in October 1991, its scope was limited both in terms of its aims and its timeframe. The law did not aim to serve justice, or deal with the past—thos
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On August 30, East Timor (the official name is "Timor-Leste") marked a decade since it voted to end Indonesia's long, brutal and illegal occupation. It is sure to be an emotional occasion—a time for celebr
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