27.04.2005 Russian Republic Counters Threat Of ’Revolution’
Authorities in Russia’s ethnic republic of Bashkortostan have countered opposition talk of a «revolution» by announcing plans to minimize political activity in the region during the upcoming May holidays, RFE/RL’s Tatar-Bashkir Service reported.
Bashkortostan’s Interior Ministry spokesman Ruslan Sherefetdinov released a statement on 25 April saying that his ministry has asked republican law-enforcement agencies to reduce political activity to a minimum from 1-9 May because of a «high risk of acts of terrorism," RFE/RL’s Ufa correspondent reported. Sherefetdinov said the measures were being taken by local authorities across Russia in connection with the antiterrorism campaign Operation Whirlwind.
Local political opposition groups have declared their intention to hold wide-scale protests against Bashkortostan President Murtaza Rakhimov’s administration on 1 May.
Opposition leaders Ramil Bignov and Anatolii Dubovskii told journalists on 15 April that a «revolution» would begin on 1 May with a massive demonstration in the republican capital Ufa. They ... >>full
Prague-based web site links hacker attack to coverage of Chechnya Prague, 28 April, Caucasus Times- The information-analytical web site Caucasus Times came under a purposeful hacker attack by unidentified miscreants in the afternoon of 26 April. Since April 2003, the Caucasus Times has covered in real time events unfolding in the North Caucasus.
The wrongdoers failed to hack the server completely because the protection system detected partial penetration on time, www.forpsi.com - the Czech Internet provider company which operates the server of Caucasus Times - told the founder and editor of the web site, Islam Tekushev. Currently, the site is inaccessible from the Internet because login and password for network access to the site are being changed. In all, 17,200 reports were posted on the www.caucasustimes.com site when the attack occurred. All the reports have been saved and will become accessible in next 24 hours.
In the opinion of the staff of the Caucasus ... >>full
Bush to raise democracy issues with Putin at G8 Web posted at: 3/30/2006 1:59:49 Source ::: AFP
WASHINGTON: US President George W Bush yesterday vowed to raise the issue of democracy and human rights when he meets with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin at the Group of Eight summit in St Petersburg this summer.
Bush also dismissed calls for him to boycott the July summit being hosted for the first time by Russia, as a means of expressing Western concerns about Putin's bid to concentrate power in the Kremlin and his slide away from democracy.
"I think that would be a mistake for the United States not to go to the G8," Bush said in a speech at Freedom House, an independent organization dedicated to promoting democracy around the world. "Because I need to be in a position where I can sit down with him (Putin) and be very frank about our concerns."
31.3.2006 14:13 MSK "Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs must support Russians arrested in Belarus" RUSSIA, Moscow. On March 30th, the public movements "Russian Radicals" and "Defense" conducted an action opposite the building of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia (MID) demanding that MID support Russians arrested in Belarus. They were arrested during the suppression of a democratic opposition nonviolent protest against the falsification of results of presidential elections in Belarus.
Editor-in-Chief of PRIMA-News Agency, Aleksandr Podrabinek and coordinators of "Defense", Oleg Kozlovsky and Edward Glezin, were detained on March 24th with the break-up of a peaceful meeting in Minsk’s October Square on March 27th. They were sentenced to 15 days of administrative arrest.
"Russian Radicals" secretary Nikolai Khramov noted that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia did not express objections to the fact that the Belarussian authorities arrested journalist Aleksandr Podrabinek and sentenced him to 15 days of administrative arrest. MID not ... >>full
31.3.2006 14:13 MSK "Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs must support Russians arrested in Belarus" RUSSIA, Moscow. On March 30th, the public movements "Russian Radicals" and "Defense" conducted an action opposite the building of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia (MID) demanding that MID support Russians arrested in Belarus. They were arrested during the suppression of a democratic opposition nonviolent protest against the falsification of results of presidential elections in Belarus.
Editor-in-Chief of PRIMA-News Agency, Aleksandr Podrabinek and coordinators of "Defense", Oleg Kozlovsky and Edward Glezin, were detained on March 24th with the break-up of a peaceful meeting in Minsk’s October Square on March 27th. They were sentenced to 15 days of administrative arrest.
"Russian Radicals" secretary Nikolai Khramov noted that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia did not express objections to the fact that the Belarussian authorities arrested journalist Aleksandr Podrabinek and sentenced him to 15 days of administrative arrest. MID not ... >>full
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