Monday, October 31, 2005 By Stephen Boykewich Staff Writer
Ivan Starikov
A series of attacks on opposition politicians — including the beating of Union of Right Forces member Ivan Starikov on Friday — brought a warning from Communist Party chief Gennady Zyuganov over the weekend that he would form an armed militia if the attacks continued.
Two unknown assailants attacked Starikov, who headed the short-lived State Duma campaign of jailed Yukos founder Mikhail Khodorkovsky, as he walked to his house on Ulitsa Udaltsova in southwestern Moscow sometime between midnight and 1 a.m. Friday.
Starikov, who was returning from hockey practice, said he was struck from behind and fell to the ground. He was then kicked repeatedly by two assailants, whom he described as young men in black knit caps.
He noted that he had been holding his car keys, wallet and a mobile phone during the attack, but that none was ... >>full
Monday, October 31, 2005 By Carl Schreck Staff Writer
Alexei Sazonov / AP
Liberal activists protesting the prosecution of Igor Sutaygin and other researchers at FSB headquarters Saturday.
The Federal Security Service has arrested three representatives of a leading rocket and space research center on charges of illegally selling weapons technology to China and misappropriating funds.
Igor Reshetin, the head of TsNIIMash-Export of the Central Research Institute for Machine Building, was arrested Wednesday along with colleagues Sergei Tverdokhlebov and Alexander Rozhkin after an almost two-year investigation into a contract with the same Chinese company that figured in the case of Valentin Danilov, a physicist who was convicted of selling classified information on space technology to China, Reshetin's lawyer Anatoly Yablokov said Friday.
Reshetin has been charged with illegally exporting space technology that can be used to deliver weapons of mass destruction and could face up to seven years in prison if convicted, ... >>full
Over 1,000 commemorate political repression victims in Moscow 30.10.2005, 17.56
MOSCOW, October 30 (Itar-Tass) -- More than 1,000 people attended a remembrance ceremony for political repression victims on Lubyanka Square in downtown Moscow on Sunday.
The ceremony started with a minute of silence.
“This day connects us to the national history – no less than three generations experienced terror, we bow to the memory of millions,” Yabloko party leader Grigory Yavlinsky said.
Candles were lit and flowers were laid to the Solovki stone, which was brought to Moscow 15 years ago from the Solovki prison camp by the initiative of the Moscow Memorial society. The Moscow City Council ordered to install the stone on Lubyanka Square to commemorate GULAG prisoners.
Chess champ leads anti-Putin protest From correspondents in Moscow 31oct05
FORMER world chess champion Garry Kasparov yesterday accused Russian President Vladimir Putin of destroying democratic freedoms at a 500 strong rally against political repression.
"Today in Russia Putin has re-established the most horrible aspects of our past," Kasparov told the protestors gathered at the Stone of Solovki, the memorial to the victims of political repression, in Lubyanka square.
"The Government is conducting a policy aiming to destroy all democratic freedoms," Kasparov said on the day of remembrance for political prisoners of the Soviet era.
The protestors held up posters of current allegedly political prisoners including Yukos oil founder Mikhail Khodorkovsky, serving eight years jail in Siberia for "tax evasion" in a trial widely seen as politically motivated.
Europe's democracy and human rights watchdog, the Council of Europe said in June that Mr Putin's parliamentary and electoral reforms would undermine democracy in Russia while local activists described them ... >>full
Nalchik inhabitants beat Moslem women wearing hijabs 29.10.2005
Moslem women, wearing hijab (kerchiefs), are thrashed by usual inhabitants of Nalchik right in the streets. Relatives of lost or injured during the last events and even witnesses of those events with shouts "It was all because of you!" snatched on women with fists. In that connection Moslem women were compelled not to go out in the city streets and if they had the opportunity - to leave the restless region.
At the same time prosecutions from both militias, and local residents exclusively the Moslems observing the religion norms were exposed with. They were those women who wear according to Sheriyat, and the men visiting mosques.
Besides according to the local residents’ stories, the bodies of the killed during the events on October, 13th, had not been yet returned to their relatives. "They stripped the bodies naked, dump in the refrigerator, do not let ... >>full
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