Moscow Times: Hundreds Rally For Free Elections
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posted by FerrasB on October, 2006 as Freedom and Fear
Hundreds Rally for Free Elections Monday, October 10, 2005. Issue 3270. Page 3. The Moscow Times Vladimir Filonov / MT Activists standing on Pushkin Square on Sunday afternoon for the rally, which sought to recruit election observers. Hundreds of young activists rallied Sunday on Pushkin Square to call for free elections, and police detained 16 people who tried to disrupt the demonstration with mice and tomatoes. Carrying posters reading "We demand that the constitution be observed" and "Enough elections without choice," up to 1,000 people packed the square for the rally and a concert organized by Yabloko and other liberal groups. "The goal of the rally was to draw attention to the problem of election fraud and also kick off a campaign to recruit election observers," co-organizer Alexei Navalny told Interfax. "The goal, we believe, was reached." Moscow City Duma elections and a Moscow by-election for the State Duma will be held Dec. 4. Police said they ... >> full
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Mansur Mazaev/Chechenpress: Liubiansk’s Bog Began To Croak
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posted by FerrasB on as Freedom and Fear
October, 27, 2005 Liubiansk’s bog began to croak Who about what, but lousy about a bath. Provided that Anna Politkovskaia or her colleague Julia Latynina write only about weather in the Chechen Republic, in this case, somewhere in the middle of a narration, the wicked "vakhkhabist" necessarily will lean out from "the foggy mountains of Ichkeria". It is nothing to talk about materials referring to supposedly right protecting subjects, - the crimes of the Russian authorities will be listed in details, but also they, eventually, will be justified, reminding, that "Vakhkhabists are worse". It seems that, it is such general line, as for creative people in the USSR - in any production not to forget mentioning the role of a party, and so even now, the main thing not to forget interlacing "vakhkhabists" in a plot. Anyone, who has the opportunity to visit Chechen Republic, can without difficulty learn about the relation of ... >> full
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posted by FerrasB on as Freedom and Fear
Photo from www.fckuban.ru Photo from www.fckuban.ru Russian Soccer Club Fined for Not Playing in Terror-Hit Caucasus Created: 20.10.2005 17:02 MSK (GMT +3), Updated: 17:02 MSK > document.write(get_ago(1129813349)); </SCRIPT> MosNews Kuban Krasnodar have been penalised for their refusal to travel to Russia’s dangerous Caucasus region for a league match against first division rivals Spartak Nalchik, the Reuters news agency reports. Russia’s soccer chiefs awarded Spartak a 3-0 win and fined Kuban one million roubles ($34,940) after the Krasnodar club, citing security reasons, refused to travel to Nalchik following last week’s rebel raid on the city. Up to 100 gunmen, linked to Chechen separatists, attacked Nalchik, capital of the <NOBR>Kabardino-Balkaria</NOBR> region, last Thursday, killing dozens of police and civilians. “I don’t think it’s possible to play a football match in a city where you have tanks on the streets and special forces are fighting rebels,” Kuban general director Maxim Remchyukov was quoted as saying by the Russian media on Thursday. ... >> full
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MosNews: Russian Soccer Club Fined For Not Playing In Terror-Hit Caucasus
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posted by FerrasB on as Freedom and Fear
Photo from www.fckuban.ru Photo from www.fckuban.ru Russian Soccer Club Fined for Not Playing in Terror-Hit Caucasus Created: 20.10.2005 17:02 MSK (GMT +3), Updated: 17:02 MSK > document.write(get_ago(1129813349)); </SCRIPT> MosNews Kuban Krasnodar have been penalised for their refusal to travel to Russia’s dangerous Caucasus region for a league match against first division rivals Spartak Nalchik, the Reuters news agency reports. Russia’s soccer chiefs awarded Spartak a 3-0 win and fined Kuban one million roubles ($34,940) after the Krasnodar club, citing security reasons, refused to travel to Nalchik following last week’s rebel raid on the city. Up to 100 gunmen, linked to Chechen separatists, attacked Nalchik, capital of the <NOBR>Kabardino-Balkaria</NOBR> region, last Thursday, killing dozens of police and civilians. “I don’t think it’s possible to play a football match in a city where you have tanks on the streets and special forces are fighting rebels,” Kuban general director Maxim Remchyukov was quoted as saying by the Russian media on Thursday. ... >> full
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PRIMA-News: Anti-Muslim Repressions And Kidnappings Continue In Russia
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posted by FerrasB on as Freedom and Fear
1.11.2005 13:02 MSK Anti-Muslim repressions and kidnappings continue in Russia Vitaly Ponomarev Vitaly Ponomarev RUSSIA, Moscow. In 2005, in 10 areas of the Russian Federation (Central Russia, the Volga Region, and Siberia) 39 people were held on charges in of so-called Islamic extremism, according to Vitaly Ponomarev, Director of the Central-Asian Program of the Human Rights Center Memorial, at an October 31 press conference, "Anti-Muslim Repressions in Central Russia" at the Independent Press Center. Scores of people are under investigation. No less than 40 percent of those under investigation undergo torture, noted Ponomarev. Recently in central Russia, terrorist accusations have been manufactured. The most scandalous of them is the Tatarstan matter, where 20 people were accused of preparing terrorist acts for the 1000th anniversary of Kazan. The kidnapping of former inhabitants of Uzbekistan continues. Vitaly Ponomarev reports that, according to Muslims of the Volga Region, each year 3 - 4 descendants from Uzbekistan disappear. The Director of ... >> full
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