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Понедельник, 28 Март 2011 |
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A year after the terrorist attack in the Moscow subway A year ago, on, March 29th, 2010, blasts at the Lubyanka and Park Kultury subway stations took the lives of 40 people, and injured 88. Dmitry Medvedev laid flowers at the site of the tragedy. Prosecutor General Chaika took the investigation of the case under special control, while politicians and bureaucrats vied with each other to propose new measures to fight terrorism. All of this is the standard program worked out by the authorities following any major tragedy in order to reassure citizens and show them: “We’re on the job and we care about your safety.” For a week the state television channels reported on how much compensation the victims would be paid, what programs were to be set up, and they aired threatening speeches. Then the tragedy moved to second place in “electoral significance” (as the Kremlin puts it), and the media no longer brings it up. Just like every year, when together every TV channel fails to note the anniversary of the Beslan tragedy.
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Пятница, 25 Март 2011 |
 Presidential envoy met with school siege victimsIn Vladikavkaz, presidential envoy to the North Caucasus federal district Alexander Khloponin met for the first time with victims of the September 2004 terrorist attack that took place at Beslan School No. 1. The nearly six-hour conversation ended with Mr. Khloponin confirming Dmitry Medvedev’s promise to meet with the Beslan mothers. According to the participants, it should take place in the coming months. Alexander Khloponin’s meeting with the nine victims took place behind closed doors, but a participant in the meeting, Susanna Dudiyeva, head of the ‘Beslan Mothers’ organization, gave details to ‘Kommersant’. Mr. Khloponin admitted that he had been intending to hold a meeting for some time (during the anniversary of the tragic events last September he never spoke with victims), but he never could find the time.
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Среда, 09 Март 2011 |
 A criminal case under the terrorism statutes has been initiated due to a March 9th explosion on Michurinsky Prospect in Moscow. RIA ‘Novosti’, citing a source in law enforcement, reported on this.According their information, an explosive device was planted at the bus stop. It was packed with shrapnel and had a damage radius of 50 meters. “It was only due to luck that no one was injured,” the source said. Comments (1) | Views: 4266 | E-mail |
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Среда, 09 Март 2011 |
 In Moscow, police are searching for a suspect involved in an explosion in the Stavropol region who could conceivably become a suicide bomber. This was reported on March 9th by the news agency Interfax, quoting a source in law enforcement.The suspect is 23-year-old Viktor Dvorakovsky. He is a thin man of European appearance, and taller than 185 centimeters. Dvorakovsky has dark hair and eyes and could be wearing a beard. Comments (1) | Views: 3871 | E-mail |
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Суббота, 05 Март 2011 |
 Swedish journalist Malcolm Dixelius, who worked for several years in Russia, told ‘Novosti’ about a classic documentary he and Marina Goldovskaya filmed about Anna Politkovskaya, and how it was “one movie for two.” Reporting by Olga Grinkrug.
OLGA GRINKRUG: The website of the Swedish Film Institute, which gave you the grant, said that this film about Anna Politkovskaya, ‘The Bitter Taste of Freedom’, has two directors. How did you and Marina Goldovskaya share responsibilities?
MALCOLM DIXELIUS: When Anna P. was killed, the Swedish Film Institute asked me to do a documentary on her. Olga Kuchkina, a Moscow playwright and publicist, wrote the script. We used archival footage, interviews, and even reconstructed certain events.
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Пятница, 18 Февраль 2011 |
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Dissatisfied with the European Parliament’s soft resolution on Russia, MEPs insist on blacklists
 Some members of the European Parliament (MEPs) deemed yesterday’ resolution on Russian non-compliance with the rule of law to be much too soft, and now seek sanctions against Russian officials implicated in human rights abuses.
As reported in the media, the European Parliament has three enumerations: there is the ‘Khodorkovsky list’, which includes those involved in imposing harsh sentences in the Yukos case; the ‘Magnitsky list’, with the names of those accused of the death in jail of the lawyer for Hermitage Capital Management; and the ‘Nemtsov list’, in which appear the persecutors of Russian opposition leaders. The latter list is known to include contain the names of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, First Deputy Head of the Russian presidential administration Vladislav Surkov, Deputy Prime Minister Igor Sechin, and Vasily Yakimenko, the head of a pro-Kremlin Russian youth movement.
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Суббота, 05 Февраль 2011 |
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 Doku Umarov, leader of the North Caucasus underground, has threatened Russia with new attacks. In a video posted on one of the extremists’ websites, Umarov vowed “a year of blood and tears.” According to the militant, he plans to commit acts of terrorism once a week or once a month, leaving their regularity “at the discretion of Allah.”
Umarov said that his militants in Russia were supposedly carrying out a certain mission, and that he had sent a “warrior” by the name of Sayfullah to do the job. Be first to comment this article | Views: 4303 | E-mail |
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