Purges in Ingushetia' Mosques Publication time: 19 September 2006, 13:41 Kavkav Center sources said puppet police carried out raids on several mosques in the Russian-occupied Caucasian Muslim state of Ingushetia September 15 after Friday prayers. At least in two mosques including the town of Malgobek, mass arrests of Muslims were reported. Relatives and friends said 50 Muslims were arrested and their fingerprints taken.
The Muslims were arrested on the ground they left mosques before the end of daytime prayers. Puppet police and Russian secret services consider such Muslim potentially dangerous. Local Sufi mullas think that Muslims who don't say full prayers are "Wahhabists" and report them to Russian secret services which in their turn spy on such "unreliable persons".
Russian Defector Preferred to Die Rather Than Being Sent Back Publication time: 20 September 2006, 12:06
A 20-year-old Russian border guard from Kaspyisk Border Office who defected from his unit to Azerbaijan September 10 commited suicide by firing submachine-gun at himself on the bank of Samur river after being surrounded by Azeri soldiers who wanted to capture and send him back to Russia.
Russian Defector Preferred to Die Rather Than Being Sent Back Publication time: 20 September 2006, 12:06
A 20-year-old Russian border guard from Kaspyisk Border Office who defected from his unit to Azerbaijan September 10 commited suicide by firing submachine-gun at himself on the bank of Samur river after being surrounded by Azeri soldiers who wanted to capture and send him back to Russia.
Caucasian journalists answered Pax Christi 23 06 2006
Friday, 23 June 2006
Dear Mr. Gio De Weerd,
Higly Esteemed Secretary General Secretary of Pax Christi,
we have received your Reaction on our article “Thoughts of Caucasian journalists”, but we are surprised art it.
There was not a single word against you personally, dear Mr. Gio De Weerd in our article. We highly appreciate activities of Pax Christi, therefore we see no grounds for agitation.
When publishing the “Thoughts”, the Union of Caucasian Journalists (currently: Corporation of Journalists “The Free Caucasus”) had the single aim to unmask a group of swindlers.
We hoped our information was taken into consideration. Unfortunately you took it for menacing us with a lawsuit. However we have pointed out in the “Thoughts” that Tina Ismailova was an impostor, when she named herself President of the Association of Chechens in Belgium. At the same time, her associate Ramzan Ampukaev was a criminal who had ... >>full
The majority of Russians are convinced that relations between Muslims and non-Muslims are generally bad, according to a survey published June 22.
In a worldwide study carried out by the Washington-based Pew Research Center, 53 percent of those surveyed in Russia said they did not feel the relations were good.
Alexey Malashenko, a professor at Moscow State Institute of International Relations and a co-chair of the Religion, Society and Security project at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, believes Islamophobia in Russia is growing, but not as rapidly as in Western Europe or the U.S.
“It’s true that the conflict is quite serious and that Islam continues to be rejected in Russian society, but the process is significantly less dramatic compared to similar processes in the West,” Malashenko said in a telephone interview Monday.
“The attitudes to Islam in this country are considerably more tolerant as there ... >>full
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