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Written by Евгения Альбац
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Воскресенье, 21 Октябрь 2007 |
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Presenter: Evgeniya Albats
Guests: Dmitry Milovidov, Marat Abdrakhimov, and Konstantin Sirotkin
E. ALBATS: Good evening. It is 7:06 and 35 seconds in the evening. This is radio station ‘Echo of Moscow’ broadcasting on a frequency of 91.2 FM. Here at the microphone is Evgeniya Albats. I will start our traditional Sunday program dedicated to the key events of the week, events that could have lasting effect and influence policies over the next weeks and months. Today we will talk about an event, a tragedy that affected Russian politics in a most radical fashion. It is ‘Nord-Ost’. Let me remind you that on October 23rd, 2002, only 8 kilometers from the Kremlin in Moscow, gunmen seized a theater on Dubrovka Street. Dubrovka, where they were showing the then-super popular musical ‘Nord-Ost’, based on Kaverin’s novel, ‘Two Captains’. This tragedy lasted 57 hours. The terrorists’ demands were the withdrawal of our troops from Chechnya, and a stop to the war. They took 912 people hostage — the audience and the troupe of the show. 5 people were shot at once, or almost at once. The hostages asked for anything possible, except for an assault. Tomorrow in the journal '’he New Times’ we will publish detailed, never before published transcripts of conversations by private television station REN-TV with two hostages, Mariya Shkolnikova and Anna Andrianova.
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Written by Николай Николаев
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Понедельник, 24 Сентябрь 2007 |
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In ‘Novaya Gazeta’, September 12th, 2005
What took place behind the scenes of the broadcast of ‘Ryazan Sugar’, and how the FSB tried to disrupt the ‘Independent Investigation’ show
 ‘Novaya Gazeta’ first uncovered the Ryazan exercises and the FSB’s unconvincing excuse that the bags they had planted under an apartment building on Novoselov Street were merely sugar. In early 2000, our correspondent went to Ryazan and spoke with the explosives expert. He was one of the first to arrive at the scene, and found that the bags contained RDX (see ‘Novaya Gazeta’ editions #6 & #8, 2000). Soon our staff member managed to find a paratrooper in a Ryazan military unit, who was assigned to protect an RDX warehouse where the explosives were actually packed in bags like sugar (see ‘Novaya Gazeta’ #10, 2000). The soldier’s testimony was recorded on a Dictaphone.
A huge scandal erupted after this was published. The explosives expert and the entire warehouse guard detachment were sent to Chechnya, while official government television channels launched a campaign. Generals gave speeches. At first, the military men denied that there ever was such a soldier or such a warehouse. Then they acknowledged that the soldier and the warehouse were real, but denied decisively that RDX was stored in sacks there.
The story received an even more interesting continuation after NTV and Nikolai Nikolayev conducted their independent investigation.
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Written by А.Н. Бородавкин
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Четверг, 20 Сентябрь 2007 |
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By A. N. Borodavkin
 Mister chairman,
The inter-regional public organization “Russian-Chechen Friendship Organization” was dissolved on October 13th, 2006, after the court in Nizhny Novgorod found it guilty of activities openly encouraging terrorism. The Russian Supreme Court affirmed this decision in January of 2007.
In accordance with Point 16, Subpart IV of the 1992 Helsinki Document, organizations and persons who openly encourage terrorism cannot be permitted into OSCE events or take part in their activities. After 1992 this rule has been reflected many times in many OSCE documents. It was affirmed by last week’s Council Resolution #803, concerning modalities of conducting this high-level meeting on victims of terrorism. Comments (2) | Views: 6213 | E-mail |
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Written by Валерий Копотин
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Среда, 19 Сентябрь 2007 |
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By Valery Kopotin
In Dni.ru
 Last week’s conference, “A high-level meeting with victims of terrorism”, held under the aegis of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), did not pass without incident. Related to this were the activities of certain Russian “human rights” organizations.
The first collision occurred concerning the participation of the so-called “Russian-Chechen Friendship Organization (RCFO)”, which had been dissolved in Russia less than a year ago after a court decision. Comments (5) | Views: 5405 | E-mail |
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Written by Ирина Халай, РОО "Волга-Дон"
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Воскресенье, 16 Сентябрь 2007 |
 Eight years have passed since the tragedy in a small southern town built at the confluence of two great rivers, the Volga and the Don. On September 16th not a single central or regional television or radio station uttered a word about the incident that happened eight years ago, the tragedy in Volgodonsk. On that day an explosion of two tons of TNT and RDX suddenly divided so many lives of into BEFORE the attack, and AFTER.
BEFORE was a quiet life, with hopes and plans for the future, and the smiles of the children. AFTER is tears, the pain of loss, the indifferent eyes of hospital officials, and the loss of health and work. Today, eight years after, the bureaucrats tell us: “What is it that you are all remembering? It’s time to forget about it!”
Forget what? Forget the pain of the mothers, the pain of the orphaned children, the question in their eyes that says: “Why us?”
SUCH A THING IS IMPOSSIBLE TO FORGET!
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