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Kadyrov´s spring-campaign against the rebels completely fails
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 5/28/2008 5:23 AM
Kadyrov´s spring-campaign against the rebels completely fails
21 may 2008
At the end of January and again in February Ramzan Kadyrov made some
sensational statements,promising to “finish off the remaining bandits
(chechen rebels) until the end of the spring season” (end of may).
“I promise you,that my forces (the “Kadyrovtsy”) will bring these last
50-60 drug-addicted bandits to justice until the end of
spring,including their very sick leader Dokka Umarov,who is constantly
running around the mountains,desperately seeking for medical aid”.
This completely stupid statement was not only sensational and far away
from reality,it was also laughable and basis for numerous jokes all
over chechnya.So now, with the end of may in sight,let´s talk about
the results of Kadyrov´s three months-long military spring-campaign
from march to may!
You don´t have to be a rebel-supporter to come to only one
conclusion:The spring-campaign of the Kadyrovtsy completely failed!!!
With the onset of spring in early march,not Kadyrov´s
police-militias,but the rebels themselves became more active.The
rebels used all methods of modern and effective guerilla-warfare:
The undermining and ambushes of Kadyrov´s convoys,vehicles and
patrols,aimed single special operations to kill individuals,sniper
attacks,fire-attacks against bases and checkpoints etc.
However,beside these usual guerilla methods they carried out numerous
village-raids and stepped up their own “control-measures” with
establishing road-checkpoints,especially in the foothill-and mountain
regions.The rebels invaded the villages in the foothills and mountains
numerous times over the past three months,some villages were even
raided several times. While the russian and western media kept almost
complete silence,in the chechen media some of these raids were reported.
For example in late march 70 rebels attacked the village of
Alkhazurovo in the Urus-Martan-district,which they controlled for many
hours.As a result 13 Kadyrovtsy were killed,7 wounded and six more
taken as prisoners.In the first days of April numerous villages were
raided all over the mountains and foothills,from the
Achkoy-Martan-district in the West to the Nozhay-Yurt and
Vedeno-districts in the East.Dozens of Kadyrovtsy surrendered without
a fight and were realesed by the rebels after promising to end their
service for Kadyrov. In late April 500 rebels sieged up to a dozen of
villages in Western Chechnya for a whole night,killing 23 Kadyrovtsy
and capturing 15 more.Furthermore numerous attacks and clashes took
place especially in Southern Chechnya over the past months,resulting
in many losses for Kadyrov´s forces.While the rebels managed to
kill,wound and capture hundreds of Kadyrovtsy in the spring-weeks
(others defected and joined the rebels like in every spring),Kadyrov´s
policemen themselves achieved not a single mentionable victory above
Umarov´s rebels.In all the ordinary small-scale skirmishes over the
past months only a handful of rebels was killed,as they are much more
motivated and more professional in guerilla warfare and
mountain-forest warfare than the Kadyrovtsy.
Kadyrov´s police-bataillions not only suffered losses in the
mountains,in contrast to former years they even failed to destroy
rebel groups in the cities and lowlands of northern-and central
chechnya.Since the beginning of spring in early march,there was not a
single report of a house-storming in cities or villages in the
lowland-regions.This could be connected with the fact,that over the
past months and years the rebels have seriously damaged Kadyrov´s
network of agents in the populated areas.Numerous civilians,who worked
for Kadyrov as agents,were simply shot by the rebels over the past
years,after they were unmasked as agents by the rebel-intelligence,who
has much more own informants than Kadyrov.
Kadyrov´s failing to destroy rebel squads even in the lowlands during
the spring yielded in serious discussions and angry accusations with
the russian generals in Khankhala (the russian main base in
chechnya)over the past days and weeks.While the russian generals blame
only Kadyrov for all the military failures against the rebels,Kadyrov
and his associates like Magomed Khambiev constantly accuse the russian
troops of military incompetence and blame them for not providing
enough support for Kadyrov´s troops.As a result of the spring season
one can say,that Kadyrov and his forces suffered not only many painful
defeats on the ground, the spring also resulted in even deeper
mistrust between the Kremlin and Kadyrov.
PS: Kadyrov and his forces were much more successful on another front!
Over the past weeks they managed to completely annihilate the
bataillons “Vostok” and “Zapad”,controlled by the Yamadayev-clan(power
base in Gudermes) and the Kakiev-Arsanov clan (power base in the
Nadterechny-district).After the destruction of these two militias and
their leaders not a single political-military competitor to Kadyrov
remains in the pro-russian chechen camp,what can be called a huge
victory for “King Ramzan”.
Sascha,Chechnya-Expert,Germany
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/chechnya-sl/message/55047
Caucasian Knot: Abkhazian Authorities Reiterate Their Stand On Refugee Return
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 5/30/2008 9:45 AM
CAUCASIAN KNOT / NEWS
28/5/2008
Abkhazian authorities reiterate their stand on refugee return
On the issue of return of the refugees, the position of Abkhazian leadership remains constant – stage-by-stage return at an initial stage only to the Galskiy District.
This was stated today by Sergey Shamba, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Abkhazia, at his meeting with representatives of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHRC). The UNHRC delegation, headed by Craig Johnston, Deputy High Commissioner, has arrived to Abkhazia today.
According to Mr Shamba, “currently, it is not possible to talk about return of Georgian refugees to the other districts of Abkhazia, since these processes can provoke a new conflict.”
See earlier reports: “Abkhazia refutes information about attack on the branch of the Danish Council on Refugees”, “Real estate transactions of Georgian refugees in Abkhazia to be considered by the PACE”, “Over sixty thousand refugees have already returned to Abkhazia”.
http://eng.kavkaz.memo.ru/newstext/engnews/id/1218498.html
RFE/RL: Russia: Irreverent English-Language Tabloid Closes Down
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 6/13/2008 3:17 AM
Friday, June 13, 2008
Russia: Irreverent English-Language Tabloid Closes Down
By Brian Whitmore
Russia — cover of
AFP
After 11 years of providing Moscow readers with investigative journalism, irreverent commentary, and sophomoric gags, the English-language newspaper the “The eXile” is closing down after investors fled in the face of a government inspection of the paper’s content.
The alternative tabloid — known for its Gonzo-style journalism on drugs, sex, politics, and the seamier side of Moscow nightlife — announced the closure in a blog posted on its website on June 11.
The paper’s demise, and the investors’ flight, was sparked by a visit on June 6 by inspectors from the Federal Service for Mass Media, Telecommunications, and the Protection of Cultural Heritage.
“In the current atmosphere…just the thought of having this government looking at you, reading you, and deciding if you are violating laws is pretty scary, and it’s not something you can win,” Mark Ames, the newspaper’s editor in chief and founder, tells RFE/RL. “It was enough to frighten away people who were helping us stay afloat the last couple years.”
The inspectors told Ames that someone complained that the paper “mocks and humiliates Russian traditions and history.” Ames says the inspectors, who he described as “reasonably civilized officials,” were particularly interested in the paper’s relationship with opposition leader Eduard Limonov, who writes a column for the paper.
“The first thing they asked about was Eduard Limonov. They wanted to see a copy of a recent article by him,” Ames says. “They asked what kind of stuff he publishes with us, do we know about him, why he was in there, and so on. They were more than anything interested in our style.”
Foreign-Language Media In The Crosshairs?
Ames — who is also a regular contributor to the Kremlin-controlled English-language television station “Russia Today” — says the inspectors took three issues of the paper for analysis to determine whether it violated legislation prohibiting the promotion of extremism, pornography, or narcotics. The inspectors were due to complete their analysis by June 11, but by that time the paper’s backers had already backed out, dooming it to discontinue publication.
Limonov tells RFE/RL that he believes “The eXile’s” demise is a continuation of a drive to rein in and control all media operating in the country.
“The authorities have completely destroyed the Russian-language free press. Now they are starting to look around in order to shut up the foreign-language free press,” Limonov says. “They started with the weakest foreign-language paper because ‘The eXile’ is not owned by foreign capital. Their owners are Russians.”
Limonov adds that such is the atmosphere of fear in today’s Russia that the authorities did not even need to formally close “The eXile” down themselves. All it took was a little inspection to scare away financial backers.
“The newspaper is dead, not because the Russian authorities said it would be closed but because investors got scared and they just scattered out of sight,” Limonov says. “That is the problem in a police state like ours. It’s a great problem.”
Officials from the Federal Service for Mass Media, Telecommunications, and the Protection of Cultural Heritage could not be reached for comment.
Silly Gags, Serious Reporting
Launched in 1997, “The eXile” quickly made its mark on the Russian capital with a unique mix of hard-hitting political analysis, quirky columns, and offbeat humor that many believed stretched the boundaries of decency.
Eduard Limonov fears the Kremlin
will now target foreign-language
media in Russia (RFE/RL)
Writers, for example, would recount their sexual exploits and decadent club-hopping in graphic detail. In 1999, in the waning years of Boris Yeltsin’s presidency, the paper published a cover picturing the ailing and wobbly Kremlin leader with the headline: “Die Already!”
“The eXile” was also renowned for its childish — and often hilarious — gags.
Its reporters once called former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev and, posing as representatives of the New York Jets football team, offered him the job of defensive coordinator. Another time they ordered a call girl. When she arrived at the paper’s office, instead of performing her usual services, she was asked by the staff to write an article for publication.
In the 1990s, Matt Taibbi, now a correspondent for “Rolling Stone,” wrote a widely circulated article about how he applied for a firearms permit in Moscow — while wearing a gorilla suit. Ames, for his part, wrote a detailed account of using the toilet in retired General Aleksandr Lebed’s home, where he and Taibbi were interviewing the politician.
Every year, the international press would dread “The eXile’s” annual “Worst Foreign Correspondent In Moscow” contest, in which the paper would pillory what it saw as their laziness, inaccuracy, and sloppy reporting.
But the paper also earned praise for more traditional journalism. In a 1998 story, Ames predicted the massive financial crisis that would befall Russia in August of that year. Taibbi wrote well-received firsthand reports on the plight of Russian coal miners and the state of the country’s high schools.
Ames throws modesty to the wind in reflecting on his tenure at the paper. “We’ve done God’s work and I plan to carry it on in some other way,” he says. “We all do. All the writers who write for us do.”
The paper has launched a fundraiser on its website in an effort to keep its online edition afloat.
http://www.rferl.org/featuresarticle/2008/06/be823d79-ac1b-4b66-9094-fe17d4ce2029.html
4/6/2008 Editor-in-chief of “Novaya Gazeta” would not find Politkovskaya’s murder cleared
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 6/6/2008 12:36 AM
CAUCASIAN KNOT / NEWS
4/6/2008
Editor-in-chief of “Novaya Gazeta” would not find Politkovskaya’s murder cleared
The murder case of the “Novaya Gazeta” observer Anna Politkovskaya cannot be regarded as cleared. This was stated by Dmitri Muratov, editor-in-chief of the paper, who made his comments on the statement of inspector Vladimir Markin that by June 20 they plan to announce the end of the preliminary investigation of this crime.
“I didn’t tell it before, but now I’m forced to say that I’m sick and tired of all the statements that the case is cleared and ready for the court. You can’t state it cleared, once the customer is unknown and the killer not captured,” Mr Muratov said today.
“It’s not and cannot be regarded as cleared. I don’t know such cases, where the murderer is not caught, the customer is unknown, the persons who ruin the case with data leakages are not named and criminally prosecuted, but the case is declared cleared. Such things never happen,” the editor-in-chief of “Novaya Gazeta” has added.
Mr Muratov has noted that he sees no harm in the fact that four out of nine suspects in the case have been ser free from custody, the “Interfax” reports. The problem, in Muratov’s opinion, is in the statements that Politkovskaya’s murder is cleared.
See earlier reports: “Shamil Buraev arrested on Politkovskaya’s case set free”, “General Prosecutor’s Office to verify the legality of releasing two figurants in Politkovskaya’s case”, “Investigation discloses photo of Anna Politkovskaya’s supposed killer”, “”Novaya Gazeta”: nothing new in investigation’s statement on Politkovskaya’s case”.
http://eng.kavkaz.memo.ru/newstext/engnews/id/1220247.html
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Chief police officer killed in Nezran
From: eagle_wng
Chief police officer killed in Nezran
Nezran/Agency Caucasus – A chief police officer was killed in an attack in the Nezran city of Ingushetiya, a Caucasian country that has recently become the locus of fierce fighting.
Dembulat Bagolov, a chief police officer who fought organized crime, was shot dead in central Nezran on Monday night. The criminals were quick to flee from the scene. Bagolov was formerly in charge of the anti-terrorism department.
On April 13, another assassination left dead in the city of Karabulak Vice Chairman of the High Court of Ingushetiya Hasan Yandiyev. On April 11, a police officer was killed in Malgobek, and another police officer was left injured on April 9 when a police car was detonated in Nezran. A similar incident occurred in Malgobek on April 7 as well. KU/ÖZ/FT
11/06/2008
http://www.ajanskafkas.com/haber,19396,detay.htm