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Russian invaders decided to get rid of the Kartoyevs family

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 13:37:36 GMT

The Russian invaders said the attack on the Nevsky Express elite train had been organized by Sheikh Sayeed Al-Buriati (Martyr, inshaAllah) and the Kartoyevs family living in the village of Ekazhevo. �� The Russians abducted 9 members of the Kartoyevs family and one more resident of Ekazhevo, Zelimkhan Aushev. �� Earlier, the Russian invader terrorists claimed that during their "special operation" in Ekazhevo they allegedly killed 8 Mujahideen and captured another 15. �� It is to be mentioned thereupon that the command of the Mujahideen in the Province of Ingeshetia issued a statement on the Martyrdom of Sayeed al Buryatia which said that only 5 Mujahideen martyred during the battle in Ekazhevo. All the other victims, murdered and kidnapped by the Russians, have no relation to the Mujahideen. �� On Wednesday, some Russian media outlets reported that the hostages from the Kartoyevs family, who were brought to Moscow , explicitly refuted the allegations that they have anything to do with the sabotage attack on the train designed for the transportation of the Russian elite. The sabotage operation against the train was organized by the Brigade of Martyrs Riyad-us-Saliheen that was revived last year by the Caucasus Emirate's Emir Dokka Abu Usman. Kavkaz Center

Expert: The war between Azerbaijan and Armenia could become a reality

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:58:06 GMT

There is a real menace of a resumption of hostilities between Armenia and Azerbaijan, a Moscow-defense analyst Pavel Felgenhauer from the Russian paper Novaya Gazeta, Pavel Felgenhauer, said in an interview with RFE/RL. According to him, "presently, there is a serious threat of a destabilization there. Earlier, neither Baku, nor Yerevan wanted a worsening of the situation. But now everything has changed", claims Felgenhauer. "The Aliyev's administration has set a serious task and in order to achieve it, it can take a risk and renew hostilities, - the expert noted. Azerbaijan could do it even if hostilities were unsuccessful for it. With such a move, it wants not to return Nagorno-Karabakh but to prevent the ratification of the Armenia-Turkey Protocols. According to him, the Karabakh conflict could be considered frozen today, however, in his opinion, the Azerbaijani armed forces are unable to ensure a victory for Baku. "If the Azeris spent their money more efficiently, had a lower level of corruption than in Georgia, the results were probably more obvious. "However, they spend lots of money today and still are not ready for a new war", he said. "The same way as it is of no use for the Armenians to capture Baku, it is of no use for the Azerbaijanis to seize Nagorno-Karabakh". Department of Monitoring, Kavkaz Center

Pentagon: Learn Russian and Chechen and earn an extra $ 500 a month

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:34:33 GMT

US Air Force servicemen, who speak foreign languages, get an increase to their salary. Thus, for knowing the Russian and the Chechen languages they will get extra $ 500 a month, the Free Press agency, citing US sources, reports. Surcharge could ne received by all servicemen, and not only those whose duties require proficiency in foreign languages, for example, interpreters or scouts. The US Defense divided foreign languages, necessary for the servicemen, into three groups. The first group - "extremely necessary" - includes, in particular, Russian, Chinese, Arabic, French, Korean, Portuguese, Turkish, Turkmen, Pashto, Dari, Farsi. The second group - "the languages required in cases of crises, potential threats" - includes Georgian, Azerbaijani, Kazakh, Uzbek, Serbo-Croatian, Hebrew, Czech, Vietnamese, and languages of some nations in Africa. The last one - "other languages" - includes Chechen, Ukrainian and several other languages of the former Soviet republics. Currently, the US Air Force has about 4,3 thousand people receiving language allowance - an average of 500 dollars a month, said the Air Force spokesman Lt. Col. Paul Valenzuela. For the knowledge of two languages, you can get a bonus twice. But the servicemen must annually certify their knowledge of foreign language by passing appropriate exams. The Pentagon started promoting the knowledge of foreign languages after it concluded that the success of various foreign military operations largely depends on the ability of soldiers to communicate in the native language of the country where they are conducted. Department of Monitoring, Kavkaz Center

Saakashvili is going to Washington and he is waiting there

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 08:03:38 GMT

According to the US sources, in April of this year the Georgian president will pay an official visit to Washington where he will meet with the US president. This will be the first meeting between Saakashvili and Obama. In addition, the Georgian president will hold meetings with US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and other officials. Meanwhile, the Georgian government finalized a six-month contract with the Podesta Group in January 2010, an authoritative lobbying company in Washington. According to the $ 300,000 contract, the lobbying company will provide the Georgian authorities with lobbying in Congress and the US executive authorities, as well as provide media-related services. According to the documentation provided by the company to the US Justice Department, it will also organize meetings between representatives of the Georgian authorities and US Congressmen and executive officials, Georgian media reported. The Podesta Group was founded in 1988 by brothers Tony and John Podesta. Today, Tony is considered one of the most influential lobbyists in Washington, and his brother John, has served as co-chairman of President Barack Obama's administration. Also in January, the Georgian government signed a contract with the lobbying company of former Congressman Richard Gefhart for $ 436,800. Both contracts were signed on behalf of the Georgian government by National Security Council Secretary Eka Tkeshelashvili. Kavkaz Center

Many Russian and puppets terrorists killed and wounded in ambush attack in Chechnya

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:59:25 GMT

A Kavkaz Center's source reports that the Mujahideen attacked a joint military convoy consisting of Russian invader terrorists from the FSB gang and their minions from the Kadyrov's gang. The attack occurred in the areas Makhkety and Selmentauzen in Vedeno District of Nokhchicho (Chechnya) Province of the Caucasus Emirate on Tuesday afternoon. The Mujahideen used light and heavy weapons (IEDs, rifles, machine guns and grenade launchers) for the ambush attack. The details of battle are not available. The KC's source also said that the Russians and their minions suffered heavy loses on the spot in dead and wounded. Several enemy vehicles were destroyed. Eyewitnesses report about dead bodies lying on the road after the battles. At least 4 wounded puppet soldiers later died in a hospital in Makhkety. Their bodies were removed by minions. This information has been confirmed by hospital doctors. Russian military helicopters were seen flying over Mahkety and Selmentauzen areas on Tuesday night. The source said Russian artillery heavily bombed forest areas and the outskirts of these villages wounding several civilians. At about 7:30 pm local time on Tuesday, invader and puppet soldiers started a "cleansing operation" in the villages of Makhkety and Selmentauzen. Kavkaz Center

In Ingushetia, Pliyev's relatives, who failed to find him in SIZO of Pyatigorsk, resume picket

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 18:32:54 GMT

Relatives of Mikail Pliev, a resident of Ingushetia who disappeared in Pyatigorsk, refute the information that Mikail was found. On March 8, his wife received a call from a man, who presented himself as an inspector and said that her husband was in SIZO (pre-trial prison) of Pyatigorsk. However, when relatives and a lawyer came there, they failed to find Mikail there, while SIZO employees asked them to come again on March 12. The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports that now people are inclined to think that they had been simply deceived by the puppet authorities who tried to escape any further mass protests and disorders. Apart from Pliev's relatives, those of other kidnapped residents of the republic are now near the Nazran-Sleptsovsk highway ready to block it. On March 7, ringleader of Ingush puppets Yunus-Bek Evkurov was personally in the place of the spontaneous rally and convinced people to unblock the road, promising to engage all the structures to find the villager who disappeared on March 4 in Pyatigorsk. Movlatkhan, Mikail Pliyev's sister, said that since the information that her brother was in the SIZO had not proved to be true, people plan to go on protesting and demanding a due investigation of the kidnapping. "We're in full despair. Mikail is father of five small children; besides, he supports the family of our brother who died and left three children. There are witnesses who saw how Mikail was kidnapped in Pyatigorsk. But why don't they tell us where he is and what charges against are? Still, we hope that our leaders will help us," said Movlatkhan Plieva. According to her story, yesterday, on March 8, militiamen and OMON (special antiriot militia) militants stood near the picket; today, they are absent; therefore, it is not excluded that Mikail's relatives and other picketers will block the highway again. Kavkaz Center

IMF chief says world must prepare for next crisis

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 18:16:29 GMT

The world needs to prepare for the next economic crisis, even as it begins to recover from the worst recession since the Great Depression, the head of the International Monetary Fund said Tuesday. IMF Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn, speaking to business students at a Johannesburg university, expressed concern that recovery could mean leaders will feel less pressure to work together and pursue such reforms as tightening regulation and supervision of financial markets. "The consensus is stronger when you're afraid," he said. "Certainly this consensus is not as strong as it was six months ago," Strauss-Kahn said. The former French finance minister said he could not predict the timing or the nature, but "don't fool ourselves, there will be future crises." In its most recent World Economic Outlook, the IMF predicted output would grow by 3.1 percent in 2010. But it also cautioned that unemployment would continue to grow. "I won't say that the crisis is over. I would say we are probably in the second part of the crisis," he said. Economic stimulus packages adopted around the world, including in South Africa, helped avert a greater crisis, Strauss-Kahn said. While the initial intervention focused on growth, "2010 must be the year where economic policy focuses on job creation," he said, particularly in the small business sector. On the financial markets, he said a global approach must be found for regulation, and supervision must be strengthened. He said central bankers, international accounting organizations and others were in a better position than the IMF to formulate regulations, but that his agency would play an important role in ensuring that once new rules were adopted, they were followed. After the crisis, politicians will be under pressure to come up with new rules quickly, Strauss-Kahn. But he said it would take time to devise rules that will help instead of hurt, and then time to put them in place properly. Strauss-Kahn is on an African tour that started in Kenya and will take him to Zambia from South Africa. The continent was hard hit by the downturn that began in the West, because it dried up foreign investment, aid and markets for its raw materials such as oil and gold, and affected the amount Africans working abroad were able to send to impoverished families at home. Early in the crisis, there had been fears Africa would be slow to recover, but Strauss-Kahn said the continent appeared to be keeping pace with the global rebound. "One really amazing fact of this crisis is that Africa behaved much better than expected," he said. A decade of strong growth before the crisis meant African governments had the cash to implement their own stimulus packages. South Africa, which has the continent's strongest and most diverse economy, lost 900,000 jobs last year on top of already high unemployment. "But the situation could have been much worse," Strauss-Kahn said. "In South Africa, the right policies have been implemented timely and strongly enough." Source: Agencies Kavkaz Center

BBC Russian Service and Moscow's media censor negative opinions about Putin

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 16:35:24 GMT

In reviews of an article in the Guardian about the Berlusconi's refusal to grant political asylum for Litvinenko's family in Italy, distributed by the Russian Service of the BBC and by Moscow's media outlets, all negative opinions about Putin have been omitted. The BBC Russian Service and Moscow's papers deleted, among other things, the following passages: "We have fallen victim to a political game. Berlusconi is no better than Putin. All European governments have been flirting with Putin. Berlusconi's dependence on him, and on Russian gas, means that we don't get asylum", says Walter Litvinenko. Walter Litvinenko blames Putin for the family's misfortune. "He killed my son. He's a sick man," he says. Walter admits he is worried the same fate that befell his son might await him too. "There is a certain subconscious fear. In Nalchik I wasn't afraid because I knew everybody's faces. Here it's different. At any moment a person could come up to you, and that would be the end." Paolo Guzzanti, a former senator in Berlusconi's Forza Italia party who fell out with the prime minister over his friendship with Putin, said it was likely that Berlusconi had blocked the asylum applications. "I have no confirmation of this, but it seems obvious, given the brotherly relationship between Putin and Berlusconi, that all possible obstacles to granting asylum will be raised in order to slow down the procedure or make it impossible," he said. The BBC Russian Service cited the passage in the article "He killed my son. He's a sick man" as "They killed my son". Meanwhile, the Italian press, including the influential newspaper Il Messagero, reported on March 9 that the 71-year-old Walter, the father of Alexander Litvinenko who had been poisoned with polonium-210 in 2006 in London by the KGB by Putin's order, was also a KGB officer like his son. Earlier, Walter Litvinenko always claimed that he worked as a psychiatrist in the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs which is only responsible for criminal police. Department of Monitoring, Kavkaz Center

South Caucasus is not among priorities for Obama's administration, contrary to that of Bush

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 15:39:14 GMT

In an interview with the Baku agency "1news.az", the professor of the Britain's Wesleyan University Peter Rutland said that the South Caucasus was not among the priority regions for the administration of the US president Obama, as it was under Bush. "There is no doubt that in recent years the US has lost its influence in the South Caucasus. The August War between Russia and Georgia in 2008 showed how the closest U.S. ally was crushed, while the US were unable or unwilling to respond. The US even delegated a mediation mission to the French president Nicolas Sarkozy. Critics argue that the US also failed to stop Mikhail Saakashvili from taking a military action in the rebel Georgian province of South Ossetia. After the war, the US demonstrated some solidary with Georgia, including an increased aid. But for the Obama administration, the South Caucasus is not among the priority regions, as it was under Bush". Kavkaz Center

Poland and Georgia to discuss security in the Caucasus

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 15:34:28 GMT

The Polish prime minister Donald Tusk arrives to Georgia. The Georgian government said that the Polish prime minister would discuss the situation in Abkhazia and South Ossetia and security issues in the region with representatives of the Georgian government. The Tusk's visit to Georgia will last till March 11. The Georgian-Polish relations intensified not only politically but also on the economic level. In early March, the first meeting of the intergovernmental commission of Georgia and Poland on economic cooperation took place in Tbilisi. Representatives of these countries discussed issues of cooperation in the fields of energy, economy, agriculture, transport, tourism and also an imminent signing of a free trade agreement between Georgia and the EU. According to the Georgian Ministry of Economy, an agreement is to be signed on establishing regular transportation - air and sea - between Georgia and Poland. Poland is actively lobbying Georgia's membership in the NATO and the EU. It was also among the first countries that expressed its support for Georgia and its territorial integrity during the Russian-Georgian War in August 2008. Kavkaz Center

Putin's Nord Stream came across an unexpected and serious obstacle

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 13:43:03 GMT

The Putin's Nord Stream has came across an unexpected and unavoidable obstacle. The remnants of vessels, previously unknown to scientists, were found on the bottom of the Baltic Sea to the east of the Swedish island of Gotland, the Information Office of Swedish radio SR - Ekot reports. The finding was made during the filming of the bottom of the Baltic Sea near the construction site of the gas pipeline Nord Stream. Several vessels were discovered, the oldest of which may date back one thousand years. "The vessels are different - there is a vesel from the Middle Ages, the others date the 17th century. Most of them date the 18 and 19 centuries, and it seems that they were trading ships", explain a member of the Swedish Agency for the Preservation of Cultural Heritage, Riksantikvarieaembetet. "Hulls of three of them are fully preserved, the vessels were found at a depth of 100 meters ", he said. According to the Agency, the remnants of ships are currently registered as cultural monuments and there are no plans yet to recovery them. Kavkaz Center

Tbilisi plans to regain control over Abkhazia and South Ossetia with NATO's help

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 13:41:24 GMT

A meeting of the NATO-Georgia Commission took place in the NATO headquarters in Brussels on March 12. According to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Georgia, Tbilisi will present an annual plan for the country's integration into the NATO at the session, as well as a new strategy of the government regarding Abkhazia and South Ossetia. The Georgian State Minister for Reintegration Teimuraz Yakobashvili is now in Brussels and explains the essence of NATO's new strategy for the country's conflict regions. A preliminary document was approved by the US State Department, the Council of Europe, the UN and the OSCE. The document, in particular, confirmed that Georgia intends to bring back Abkhazia and South Ossetia by peaceful means. "This is the state strategy that emerged in such form after extensive consultation. We like it, our friends like it. A large group of experts, including international specialists, took part in its elaboration", said the Deputy Georgian Minister of Foreign Affairs Nino Kalandadze. According to her, the document contains "very pragmatic ideas and defines many goals related to the occupied territories". In particular, as the deputy minister explained, they include "a safe and dignified return of refugees and, above all, the territorial security". Kavkaz Center

SCANDAL. Litvinenko's family persecuted in Italy. It lives in poverty

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 13:32:01 GMT

Silvio Berlusconi has been accused of persecuting the family of the murdered Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko. Walter Litvinenko, the former KGB agent's father, says the Italian PM's chummy relationship with Vladimir Putin must be behind repeated delays in processing his request for asylum in Italy where he now lives. And the 71-year-old says his family have been harassed by local police, their business closed down - and are now dependent on charity. Alexander Litvinenko's 2006 murder, the most flagrant political killing since the cold war, caused a diplomatic rift between Russia and the UK which is yet to heal. A postmortem showed his death was caused by polonium-210 poisoning - it's thought the radioactive substance was slipped into his tea in the Millennium Hotel in London. An investigation by British police led to a request for the extradition of Russian national Andrei Lugovoi to the UK: the request was denied by Moscow. In 2008, meanwhile, Walter Litvinenko decided it was no longer safe for him to stay in Russia. With his wife Lubya, he fled to Italy where their son Maxim had been working as a chef since 2001. They were joined later by their daughter Tatiana and her family. The Litvinenkos applied for asylum and at the same time opened a restaurant in the coastal town Rimini, with Maxim in the kitchen. Two years later, their asylum request is still being considered, while the restaurant - La Terrazza - has been closed down by police who say one room lacked planning permission. On 31 October last year, police burst into the restaurant complaining of loud music - though the family say all guests had left and they were quietly clearing up. Tatiana Litvinenko was manhandled by a policeman who, she says, grabbed her roughly by the arm. She said: "I struggled free. He then chased after me and pushed me from behind. I smashed my head on the marble floor. I lost consciousness." Their livelihood gone, the entire family of eight have been forced to move to a three-bedroom flat with no hot water or proper heating. On Sunday, they spent their last few euros on 10 eggs to make pancakes. They have no idea where next month's rent can be found and depend on bread and apples donated by a local church. Walter Litvinenko is in no doubt who is to blame for their predicament. He told the Guardian yesterday: "We have fallen victim to a political game... All European governments have been flirting with Putin. Berlusconi's dependence on him, and on Russian gas, means that we don't get asylum." A spokesman for Silvio Berlusconi said that decisions about asylum requests had "nothing to do with personal relationships between leaders". But there is no doubt that Berlusconi has a personal relationship with Putin, who was Russia's PM at the time of the Litvinenko assassination and is now its president. The two men have stayed in each other's homes, and Putin phoned Berlusconi last year when he was recovering in hospital after being attacked by a disgruntled voter with a gothic cathedral paperweight. He even sent the Italian leader a get well present: a Russian navy jacket. It is to be mentioned that the main version by the British police is that Alexander Litvinenko was poisoned with polonium 210 by a killers' squad of the KGB, headed by a top Russian terrorist Lugovoi, because Litvinenko exposed an old KGB/FSB agent Romano Prodi (nickname "Teacher"), who was the Italian prime minister at that time. Department of Monitoring, Kavkaz Center

Time: Russians don't want to follow the Putin's path anymore

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 13:05:19 GMT

For Russian opposition the words "de-Putinization" and "progress" are synonyms, The Time writes. For years, the opposition movement's strategy has been to rub away at Putin's credibility. In the past few weeks, though, signs of something new began to emerge, the journalist Simon Schuster writes. "Regular Russians, not just the usual crew of activists, have been coming out by the thousands to call for Putin to resign", the magazine wrote. The pivotal point came on Jan. 30, when an opposition rally in the western city of Konigsberg attracted Nemtsov and other opposition leaders from Moscow. In an interview with the magazine Nemtsov said that the opposition has a new strategy: "We have to monitor the overall environment very carefully. We have to spot where protests are flaring up, and we have to act on that". The ultimate goal, Nemtsov says, is to organize a rally 10 times the size of Konigsberg's in the center of the capital. "After that, we'll have elections, and then we'll see who wins and who loses. But the point is, we have to get rid of Putin. He is dangerous," Nemtsov said in an interview to the magazine. "I think this year is going to be the year of anti-Putin protests", he added. Demonstrations have cropped up around the country in the past few weeks and they were very large by Russian standards. "The rallies are larger, the reasons behind them more diverse and the calls for Putin's resignation more fervent", said in the article. "Konigsberg shed light on all the vices of the current regime and its economic policies, and it has led us to activate our regional branches. We have been carrying out a series of protests and pickets around the country, and we will continue working in this direction", Yabloko Party leader, Sergei Mitrokhin, has noticed. The hurdles are many. Putin loyalists control Russia's political institutions as well as the entire bureaucracy. The government controls all the major TV channels. "Meanwhile, the opposition remains deeply divided. Egos sometimes override pragmatism, and a real alliance appears unthinkable", the author writes. If the recent demonstrations topple the government, Novodvorskaya says, most likely the communists or some other authoritarian force will seize power. Motives behind these protests are again material and they will "support anyone still capable of throwing them a bone", she says explaining that the government still has bones to throw. Putin "knows he can rig the next elections or carry out such a massive PR campaign that the people will love him again", Mitrokhin says. Department of Monitoring, Kavkaz Center

Did the KGB kill a defected Russian spy and his family in Scotland?

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 10:26:42 GMT

According to British media outlets, 3 Russian nationals - the 43-year-old FSB (KGB) Serykh, his wife, and a 20 year-old son - "fell out" to their death from their apartment on the 15th floor in a Glasgow tower block on Sunday, March 7. According to their neighbors, there has been a raid by a group of unidentified individuals on their flat prior to the "falling out". The neighbors initially assumed that it had been a police raid but the police categorically deny it. Earlier, the family of the KGB defector Serykh lived in Canada from November 2000 to November 2007 before travelling to London, where they applied for political asylum. According to the police, Serykh had made a series of interesting testimonies to the British police about the Canadian government. The family of the KGB officer Serykh came to Glasgow last autumn. The KGB (FSB) officer's family was denied political asylum in Britain after Canada, but their allowance as refugees continued to be paid, and the police had nothing against their further staying in Britain. They were not deported from Canada but Canadian authorities denied them citizenship, which is typical for Canada in similar cases, with an involvement of former FSB agents. They could always return to Canada, because they had a permanent residence there. That was the reason for the refusal to grant them the political asylum in Britain. According to Glasgow police, the "falling out" is "a highly unusual case, which they previously had never to deal with". The Russian media, which is now all under the control of the FSB, falsely reported that the British police considers this case as a suicide, but eventually the police does not think so, at least, while the investigation is under way. Unlike the KGB media in Russia, the British press describes the murdered FSB officer Serykh and his family as "fall victims", but in no case as suicide victims. The police did not disclose the full names of the "fallen" victims and waits until they contact close relatives of the "fallen" in order to inform them about the 3 deaths in Glasgow (see photo of police investigating traces on the balcony from which KGB officer and his family "fell"). Meanwhile, the Russian news agencies, without any references, rushed to announce that the father of family allegedly called Esa and he "was afraid of being deported to Russia" The "fall victims" were tied with a rope. Before they became "fallen victims", a wardrobe had been thrown over the balcony to destroy a protective net intended to prevent suicides. The British press did not report how they managed to throw a heavy wardrobe from the balcony. Meanwhile, The Times confirmed that Mr Serykh was a FSB officer and a defector who "fell out of the window". The newspaper writes: "Sergei Serykh had been given refugee status in Canada in 2000 and, in a plot that resembles an airport thriller, had offered his skills as an alleged former member of the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) to the Canadian Government, saying he had evidence of a foreign spy network across the country". He asked for political asylum in Britain in fear of being killed in Canada because of a "deal between Stephen Harper, the Canadian Prime Minister, and the former Russian president Putin", the paper cautiously says, i.e. Sergei Serykh's case actually repeated the Litvinenko's one, when he exposed the Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi as a FSB agent and was poisoned for that with polonium-210 by the KGB by Putin's order. The defector Sergei Serykh had no problems in Canada from 2000 to 2006. However, in 2006 Stephen Joseph Harper, a former MP from Alberta, became the Prime Minister of Canada. In 2007, the family Serykh had to flee. It could be only assumed that Mr Serykh worked in the Canadian Department of the KGB and knew that Mr Harper could be a Russian agent. Similarly, Litvinenko knew that Romano Prodi were an agent of the KGB/FSB and was killed for that. Mr Harper was born in 1959. In December 2008, he was awarded with a prestigious Jewish International Leadership Award for his support of "Israel" by the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations. Department of Monitoring, Kavkaz Center