Program to support Siberia's indigenous ethnic groups kicks off
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posted by zaina19 on January, 2006 as Human Rights
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 1/9/2006 3:33 PM RIA Novosti Program to support Siberia's indigenous ethnic groups kicks off 09/01/2006 11:54 IRKUTSK, January 9 (RIA Novosti, Alexander Batalin) - A program to support the indigenous ethnic groups in Siberia has started to be implemented in the Irkutsk Region, the local administration said Monday. "The program is designed, above all, to protect the historical environment of the indigenous peoples and support their traditional occupations - reindeer breeding, fishing, and hunting," a local official said. This will help cut unemployment, which has hit 18%, Nikolai Yakovchenko said. Improving medical aid to the indigenous people who live sparsely in remote areas is one of the highlights of the program. "Education standards also have to be raised to allow local young people enter universities," Nikolai Yakovchenko said. The local authorities have allocated around 28 million rubles (more than $970,000) for activities in 2006, whereas the program was drafted for the period ... >> full...
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Relative seeks formal admission that Nicholas II was unjustly killed
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posted by zaina19 on as Human Rights
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 1/9/2006 3:41 PM Descendant of last czar pushes Russia to admit mistake Relative seeks formal admission that Nicholas II was unjustly killed By GRAEME SMITH Monday, January 9, 2006 Posted at 4:57 AM EST From Monday's Globe and Mail Yekaterinburg, Russia — On the face of it, Maria Romanova's legal application to Russian prosecutors might seem straightforward. As the self-described head of the surviving family of Nicholas II, Russia's last czar, Ms. Romanova wants rehabilitation for her ancestors, according to her lawyer. Under Russian law, this would mean a formal admission that Nicholas II was unjustly killed along with his wife, children and attendants after revolution swept away Russia's monarchy. Boris Yeltsin went far beyond such recognition during his term as Russian president, apologizing for the killings and describing the incident as one of the most shameful chapters of Russian history. The Russian Orthodox Church went even further, canonizing the family as ... >> full...
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Merkel concerned about democracy
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posted by zaina19 on as Human Rights
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 1/9/2006 11:59 PM Merkel concerned about democracy Sunday January 08, 2006 BERLIN: German Chancellor Angela Merkel expressed concern over the development of democracy in Russia in an interview released on Saturday, taking a decidedly cooler stance toward Moscow than her predecessor. "We can’t transfer our idea of democracy" to Russia, Merkel told Der Spiegel weekly in an early release of its Monday edition. "At the same time, I confess there are developments that I view as cause for concern, for example the new law against non-governmental organisations." Merkel’s comments come in the wake of the gas dispute between Russia and Ukraine, which saw a brief drop in natural gas deliveries to Germany and a week before she is to pay her first visit to President Vladimir Putin since taking office on Nov. 22. Yet such remarks show she is pursuing a different tack in German-Russian relations than her predecessor, ... >> full...
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"The disease without diagnosis"
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posted by zaina19 on as Human Rights
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 1/5/2006 5:29 AM January, 03, 2006 "The disease without diagnosis" Zaurbek Galaev, for CHECHENPRESS, 03.01.06 The method of the "end of war in Chechnya", used by the Kremlin, seemingly, extended also to medicine. Probably, in the Kremlin they decided: As it possible, after arranging information blockade around Chechnya, to declare three years ago about the end of war, then why do not we use so advanced method in the fight with the unknown disease? They first devised the suitable diagnosis of mysterious disease - "mass psychosis, which is transmitted through the information!?". (Based on the logic of occupiers, neither in Afghanistan nor in Iraq nor moreover in Palestine must be children at all). Then they devised not less savage solution of problem - to forbid the propagation of information about the disease. However, the result appeared on the second day. Except for the information about quantity of those discharged ... >> full...
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Directive makes people homeless
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posted by zaina19 on as Human Rights
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 1/1/2006 2:41 PM CAUCASIAN KNOT / NEWS 26/12/2005 Directive makes people homeless A protest action with the slogan USSR Passports Cancelled, People Forgotten! was conducted in the Krasnodar territory on 24 December. "USSR passports will expire on 31 December and several thousand people resident in the Krasnodar territory whom the local government has not recognised to be Russian nationals for far-fetched reasons will become homeless or maybe even stateless. Even now when death certificates are issued for people with such passports, the residence column is filled in as "homeless." Meanwhile, just fifteen years ago they legally purchased homesteads and lived here before their death. This is what Mr Khasan Gurji-Ogly, a Kurmanji (Northern Kurd) leader, was saying painfully. "On 1 January, people may become lifetime dwellers of deportation camps where living conditions are much worse than in prisons," he said. Around thirty representatives of the Novorossiysk Committee for Human Rights and various ethnic ... >> full...
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