Putin pressed over Moscow murder
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posted by zaina19 on October, 2006 as Human Rights
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 10/9/2006 6:16 PM Putin pressed over Moscow murder by Monday 09 October 2006 8:52 PM GMT Politkovskaya's murder has triggered widespread outrage Two human rights watchdogs have called on the Russian president to denounce the murder of journalist Anna Politkovskaya. In their joint statement on Monday, the International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights (IHF) and the Moscow Helsinki Group (MHG) said Vladimir Putin's silence on the killing amounted to complicity. Speaking after the statement was issued, Putin said that all necessary measures would be taken to find the killers. Ulrich Fischer, the IHF president, said in the statement: "The silence of President Putin suggests an attitude of complicity, or of indifference. No one can accept that, after the country's leading media critic of the government has been murdered, apparently by a professional assassin, he keeps silent." The Vienna-based IHF and its sister organisation MHG said that they were "concerned the murder will further ... >> full...
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Remembering Anna Politkovskaya
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posted by zaina19 on as Human Rights
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 10/10/2006 1:17 PM October 8th 2006 · Prague Watchdog / Tomáš Vršovský Remembering Anna Politkovskaya Remembering Anna Politkovskaya By Tomáš Vršovský PRAGUE - I was with a British academician and human rights practitioner yesterday afternoon, discussing the price that human rights activists pay for their vocation when a friend of mine called to announce, "They killed Politkovskaya". The contract murder of a top Russian investigative journalist, who covered the Chechnya conflict and developments in the Northern Caucasus, took place on President Putin’s 54th birthday. This is rather symbolic in that it was Putin who at the turn of the century launched, along with the war in Chechnya, a campaign against the free media. Anna, however, was not afraid of him. Last month I happened to talk with her about the threats she faced in the past, asking whether they had stopped. "Not at all. I'm still being ... >> full...
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Vakha Umarov knows nothing about the fate of his father and brother
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posted by zaina19 on as Human Rights
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 10/10/2006 1:45 PM October, 8, 2006 Vakha Umarov knows nothing about the fate of his father and brother (Photograph: Akhmad Umarov, brother of President Dokka Umarov) Radio Liberty Chechen Service ("Marsho") has interviewed Vakha Umarov, the younger brother of ChRI President Dokka Umarov. The following is the translation of this interview from the Chechen. ******** Bauddi Martanov: This July, the Russian FSB director Patrushev offered an amnesty to the Chechen combatants. This was followed with an active propaganda campaign by Russian authorities, but now, after the Russian State Duma has approved the project, they talk about the amnesty not so frequently. Some news that one or two militants voluntarily surrendered to the authorities still appear from time to time in the Chechen media. However, the national TV no more reports that a well-known warlord, or a big group of combatants, has laid down the weapons. On 18 August, there was a ... >> full...
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Anna Politkovskaya Had Only One Enemy...
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posted by zaina19 on as Human Rights
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 10/9/2006 4:17 PM Anna Politkovskaya Had Only One Enemy... A great lady, outstanding journalist, and Human Rights activist was on an appointment with her destiny, when the cowards sent an evil agent, that was designated by his bosses and superiors to assassin the empty-handed lady that got no weapons to defend herself! They wanted her to go out of existence and out of their evil ways and means, assuming that they would get away with their latest crime that was not the first, and it would not be the last. This horrible crime reminds of many aspects in the "Federation of Fear", that dominated the life and fate of all the oppressed citizens of different nationalities and origins, through the predetermined courses of events that are held to be an irresistible powers or agencies, that all occupied peoples and nations are aware of the truth and actuality of ... >> full...
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According to Sochi tax service’s formal reply, Shapsugs must pay for land
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posted by zaina19 on as Human Rights
According to Sochi tax service’s formal reply, Shapsugs must pay for land 6.10.2006 Hoping for releasing from payment of the land tax for their sites Islam Napso and Haret Tesheva, living in Golovinka settlement of Lazarevsky area of Sochi town addressed in July of this year to the Interregional inspection of the federal tax service of Russia #7 across Krasnodar territory. The authorized representative on the case Zaurbek Shu informed that on October 5 to IA REGNUM correspondent. The basis for satisfaction of their request, in the applicants’ opinion, can be that they are the representatives of Shapsugs. \"According to the Uniform list of the radical small peoples of Russian Federation authorized by the order of the Government of Russian Federation from March 24, 2000 # 255,” - they wrote in the application, - Shapsugs, among which representatives we are, living in Krasnodar territory, are referred to the radical small peoples ... >> full...
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