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WHITE REVOLUTION. Mikhail Saakashvili predicts Gaddafi's fate for Putin

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 01:20:13 GMT

Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili who is on visit in the US gave an interview to Foreign Policy, in which he stated that "the Russian government was following the path of the deposed regimes of Hosni Mubarak and Muammar al-Qaddafi and was setting itself up for a fall from power". The Georgian president noted in particular:� "You need to listen to what Russian leaders themselves are saying. They say �We are not Libya, we are not Egypt, Russia will not go down this road'. I heard it from Soviet leaders. And once you start saying those things it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy, and then you start to do certain things and to not allow certain things, and those are exactly the kind of actions that promote further sliding down this road [toward losing power]. "Unlike Westerners who think in terms of superficial symbols that Putin's returning, the middle class in Moscow knew that he never went away". Speaking about the situation in the South Caucasus, Saakashvili said:� "Two radical different attitudes have emerged, offered by two specific regional powers. On one hand, the Russian Federation reacted with outrage and panic to the Arab Spring and tries to do anything they can to prevent any international support to the democracy movements anywhere. On the other hand, Turkey asserts itself as the model for the post revolutionary countries. On the one hand, the government of Putin desperately tries to hold back the progress of history. On the other hand, the government of Prime Minister [Recep Tayyip] Erdogan tries to embrace the revolutions of the world. Two very different prime ministers. It's not a coincidence that Russian influence is decreasing while Turkish leadership is growing in the region every day". Department of Monitoring Kavkaz Center

HATE CRIMES. Russians start poisoning Western citizens with their food exports

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 15:38:39 GMT

According to Lithuanian media, local state Food and Veterinary Service of Lithuania (SFVS) reported on January 31 that they seized a lot of 60, 500 (1, 910 kg) fish cans with Palcific saury (Colorabis saira) infested with parasitic worms. The poisonous cans were imported from Russia by a Lithuanian wholesaler company Vilsida. � According to the SFVS, during a routine control of food products imported from non-EU countries, inspectors of the SFVS at a medical station took samples of the Russian "Pacific saury in oil" cans for laboratory analysis. � The analysis revealed parasitic arthropodious worms genus Acanthocephala in Russian fish cans. Acanthocephala are exclusively parasitic worms which live in adults forms in intestines of vertebrates, including humans. The lot of Russian canned goods was banned for sale in Lithuania. The importer company was obliged to return the canned goods back to Russians or to destroy them with strict safety measures. � The manager of the Vilsida Company, Kestutis Babarskas, said that no such cases of poisonous fish exports from Russia had been ever observed before. Recently, Putin started his hate speech campaign against the west, accusing it of a desire to destroy his KGB Mother Russia. Department of Monitoring Kavkaz Center

Ouest-France: ''Russia is refuge of lies and corruption''

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 01:50:26 GMT

A French newspaper Ouest-France reported in an article entitled "Russia is refuge of lies and corruption (Russie, le refus du mensonge et de la corruption)" and devoted to Russian Spring, about a colloquium taking place in the French city of Nantes. The newspaper notes in particular: "This week, there will be an important event in Russia: a demonstration on February 4 . This is the third demonstration after the parliamentary elections on December 4. On December 10 and 24, to everyone's surprise, tens of thousands of people, and not only in Moscow, took to the streets, demanding new elections. � "The Internet revolution has common features with popular movements in the Arab world. Facebook revolution put on public display the cheating by authorities. Atomized society began to talk in small groups", explained political scientist Marie Mandras at a colloquium at the Institute of Social History in Nantes. Since then, persons with a variety of political views joined the opposition: Akunin, Kasparov, Navalny, as well as those close to Putin, like Kudrin. As for Gorbachev, he demanded a new election. What will happen this week? "Russia is on the verge of real change, but nobody can say what will happen. Demonstrators protest against lies and demand honesty. They do not want to be humiliated anymore and do not agree to live according to the game without rules. They say: "We are not afraid", there is no leader, but it is the civil society", said Zoya Svetova, a journalist from the (KGB - KC) propaganda magazine New Times. � "Will the government go to reforms, or as soon as Putin is elected, will he start reprisals?", asks Galia Ackerman, a journalist and lecturer at Caen University. Recent appointments in Russian regions caused fears of tightening of the regime, especially as authorities made it clear that they were able to organize counter-demonstrations. � But history is not yet written. On the Internet, protesters distributed tips how to avoid provocations and recommendations of what to do in case of arrest. Any use of violence by demonstrators is unacceptable and will be actively discouraged". Department of Monitoring Kavkaz Center

RUSSIAN SPRING. Sucked-off pre-election candy' will not help Putin

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 11:56:10 GMT

Austrian newspaper Die Presse reported about convulsive Putin's attempts to retain power in the article "Sucked pre-election candy (Abgelutschtes Wahlzuckerl)". The newspaper notes: "The last trick of Vladimir Putin is so spoiled that even it is a pity to waste for it a place in the newspaper. Driven into a defensive position, the head of state seized a horn of plenty a few weeks before the elections and emptied - what a surprise! - for unsuspecting Russian grandmothers. Next week, he will rise pensions. � There are two reasons to report about this sucked-off pre-election candy. First, the calculation is not justified. Pensioners will not kiss the hand that feeds them. To this is to add that wealthy opponents of Putin have nothing in common with an average pensioners. The bourgeoisie in Moscow and St. Petersburg, claiming the role of revolutionaries, lives in a different galaxy. The second reason is more compelling: no matter how efficient a gift of money is inshort term, in long-term the success is deceptive. The fact is that with every additional billion, which is given to calm the citizens, the greed of soothing electorate is growing. Conclusion: the Kremlin Boss, as well as his Saudi counterparts, always are dependent on oil prices in order to finance increasingly expensive anesthesia. The day when oil prices reach the ceiling, the game is over". Department of Monitoring Kavkaz Center

WHITE REVOLUTION. Washington Post: New Perestroika in Russia

Sun, 29 Jan 2012 21:50:52 GMT

The Washington Post, which is considered to be a media outlet, closest to US intelligence, has published an article of its editorial board under the title "A new perestroika?", in which it warns Putin that he will answer for his assaults on the United States. It is to be noted that the Kavkaz Center has been writing for almost 2 years that the West had taken a course for Perestroika 2 in Russia, but only now the word "Perestroika" appeared openly in the American mainstream. The editorial reads:� "Russian newspapers are focusing on what they see as the only item of suspense in the election: whether Putin will be declared the victor in the first round, which would require him to receive more than 50 percent of the vote, or will accept a runoff against his biggest challenger. Only there isn't much suspense: The newspaper Moskovsky Komsomolets reported that the Kremlin had sent out instructions to the regions that the election "must be held in a single round." This despite the fact that even official polls show Putin with barely more than 50 percent support, following a parliamentary election in which massive ballot-box stuffing failed to push the ruling party above 50 percent (according to recent polls Putin's rating is 37% - KC). Some Russian analysts are warning that if Putin persists in this autocracy-as-usual approach he could provoke an even bigger uprising by Russians, who have already gathered for the largest demonstrations since the collapse of the Soviet Union. But to judge from the official media, if the president perceives a threat, he attributes it to the newly arrived US ambassador in Moscow, Michael McFaul. Mr. McFaul has been pilloried for attending a meeting with opposition activists; it is suggested, darkly, that he has been sent to Russia to foment a revolution. That's not true, of course; Putin should know the risk-averse Obama administration better than that. If Russians rise up, it won't be because they were inspired by Mr. McFaul, or President Obama; it will be because their own leader refused to hear them". Department of Monitoring Kavkaz Center

Thousands of cars circle Moscow in anti-Putin protest

Sun, 29 Jan 2012 18:29:12 GMT

Thousands of cars filled Moscow's ring road Sunday in a protest demanding free elections and slamming Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's bid to regain his Kremlin job in March polls. Some 3,000 cars decked with white ribbons and balloons - the color of the anti-Putin movement - joined the protest, according to organizers, while police said they numbered only 300. With horns blaring, they drove for some three hours, causing major bottlenecks on the 15-kilometre (nine-mile) ring road - known as the Garden Ring - encircling city center. Some cars sported snowmen on their roofs in the action dubbed "white ring" organized through social networking Internet sites by the Voters League, set up by journalists, bloggers, writers and artists ahead of the March 4 polls to campaign for democratic elections. Many passers-by, notably elderly people, waved white handkerchiefs at the protesters. "Today is an example of people who ... have come out in the streets of the city to show that we are numerous, that we are afraid of nothing," said protester Lada Stupishina, 43. "We want the party of thieves and swindlers that Putin leads to go away," she added, using an expression made popular by blogger and opposition figure Alexei Navalny to refer to Putin's United Russia party, tipped to win the elections. Navalny took part in the protest and told AFP: "There were a great number of passers-by who approved our action. They got pleasure from it, it seems to me. We have taken another citizen's step, and we had fun." Organizers hope to attract at least 50,000 people to a protest in the center of Moscow on February 4. Protests in December against the conduct of parliamentary elections mustered tens of thousands of people and showed growing discontent with Putin's rule. The protest movement has for the first time shown up chinks in Putin's once all-conquering popularity but the Russian strongman is still expected to win the presidential polls in the absence of strong challengers. Putin is standing for a third Kremlin term after his four-year stint as prime minister, in defiance of opposition warnings he has been in power too long. Source: Agencies Kavkaz Center

WHITE REVOLUTION. Putin's going to win his 'election' but lose the war

Sun, 29 Jan 2012 16:45:44 GMT

Moscow correspondent for Washington Post Kathy Lally reports on the prospects of Putin's removal from power. The newspaper notes in particular: "While the opposition is getting its bearings, and hoping to turn out enough protesters to get the Kremlin's attention-their clout lies in their numbers-Putin appears to be waiting to see whether they will gather steam or lose it. Putin has an entrenched bureaucracy behind him and supporters who have not been reluctant in the past to play dirty tricks and worse. Already attempts have been made to discredit several of the opposition leaders. Mark Galeotti, a New York University expert on organized crime, security and modern Russia, thinks the authorities are most likely to resort to covert means to tame the opposition. "If the next rounds of protest show greater numbers", he said, "I would see many more dirty tricks, the FSB unleashed. We won't see apartment blocks blown up again". Olga Kryshtanovskaya, a sociologist and member of Putin's United Russia Party, said his inner circle has opposing views on what to do. "If Putin's too tough, there might be an explosion", she said. "It could increase the risk of revolution. If he's not tough enough, he risks losing the support of the elite. No matter what move he makes, it's a bad one". Galeotti calculates that the government has nearly 100,000 men with guns, including police, riot police, soldiers, special forces and others, in and near Moscow. Force is very much available. But any extreme use of it would be domestically and internationally disastrous, costing Putin a huge amount of support. The drift toward democracy may be slow, but inevitable and too hard to put down. "I think Putin's going to win the election", Galeotti said, "but lose the war". Department of Monitoring Kavkaz Center

RUSSIAN SPRING. Russia sings against Putin

Fri, 27 Jan 2012 13:23:20 GMT

According to AFP reporting from Moscow, a street female vocalist group sings with great success against Putin in the city: "Eight members of an all-girl punk group stood on a platform in Red Square and started an impromptu show. "Riot in Russia!" they screamed, before taunting Putin and urging Russians to hit the streets in protest. The show lasted mere minutes. The quick Red Square performance under drab snowy skies was captured on numerous mobile phones and quickly disseminated online, where state media and bloggers, including protest leader Alexei Navalny, picked it up. "We are against Putin, against the regime," one of the band's vocalists, using the nickname Garadzha, told AFP. "We wanted to show that this can happen in Russia, that there are girls who are active, who can do things like this". They see themselves as part of a wave of radical activists whose protests combine politics and art, shooting team of artists Voina/War. Four were charged with non-criminal public order offences and ordered to attend court, Garadzha said, but none of them went to the hearings. The group have performed to surprised passengers on the metro, on top of a trolley bus and on a roof opposite a police cell where protest leader and blogger Navalny was being held. Detained protesters watched as group members yelled, "Occupy the squares, seize power peacefully, take away the machine guns from all the cops". "When we finished, they started yelling and saying 'When we're together, we're unbeatable!'" said another member, Tyurya. No female activist has served a 15-day sentence, as Navalny did. The group has been detained several times but seem unconcerned, saying the worst that could happen would be spending a night in jail", reports AFP. Department of Monitoring Kavkaz Center

Putinism. Putin even more rattling saber, strengthening anti-American hysteria

Thu, 26 Jan 2012 21:10:28 GMT

On further development of the events surrounding the Russian-American relations reports on January 26 from Moscow American news agency Bloomberg: "Putin is stepping up rhetoric against the US as his campaign for the March 4 presidential election intensifies after the biggest protests against his rule. The US "wants to control everything" and takes decisions unilaterally on key questions, Putin said on a campaign stop yesterday in the Siberian city of Tomsk, 3,100 kilometers (1,900 miles) east of Moscow. "Sometimes I get the impression the US doesn't need allies, it needs vassals". Putin, 59, is seeking a new term in the Kremlin amid the biggest challenge to his 12-year rule after fraud allegations at parliamentary polls sparked mass protests. The Russian leader, who has repeatedly accused the US of interfering in other countries' affairs, said last week that reports by a state-owned Moscow radio station supported American interests. "The No. 1 reason Putin is doing this is elections. Jan Techau, director of the European Center of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Brussels, said yesterday in a phone interview. "It's pre-election saber-rattling. This is vintage Putin". Putin's remarks added to anti-American rhetoric after a senior member of his ruling United Russia party said Jan. 24 that new US ambassador to Russia, Michael McFaul, is trying to fuel revolution by meeting with opposition leaders", reports Bloomberg. Department of Monitoring Kavkaz Center

RUSSIAN SPRING. All post-imperial states see a rise in nationalism

Thu, 26 Jan 2012 15:52:51 GMT

The Financial Times published an article by its Moscow correspondent Charles Clover, "Nationalist 'ghost at feast' in Russia", which explores the phenomenon of Nationalists taking part in anti-Putin demonstrations in Russia together with the supporters of leftist Liberal-Democratic values. The main part of the article is devoted to Maxim Martsinkevich, nom de guerre "Machete". He is well known and popular in England since before he was sent to Gulag by Putin's regime in 2007, British television aired a 6-part documentation on Russian Nationalists, in which he played a major role. Clover writes: "Maksim Martsinkevich, nom de guerre "Machete", insists he is not a skinhead, even though his pate is smooth as a cue ball. The 27-year-old does not like being called a Nazi, though he once belonged to something called the National Socialist Organisation and spent four years in jail, in part for shouting "Sieg Heil!" at a political debate in 2007. He also insists that he is not a Russian opposition leader, even though he came second in an internet vote to determine who should speak at a December 24 anti-Kremlin rally that attracted up to 100,000, the largest public demonstration since the fall of the Soviet Union. Mr Martsinkevich was ultimately denied the stage by the organizers because of his racist views and penchant for throwing the odd "roman salute" in public. Over a cup of coffee at a Moscow Starbucks, however, he complains bitterly about the hypocrisy of it all. "I didn't even want to speak," Mr Martsinkevich says. "I just wanted to show that these other so-called opposition leaders are no leaders. If they can't even win their own vote, what kind of power do they think they are going to get?" Many democrats want to avoid seeing nationalism used to divide the opposition. Skinheads loyal to Mr Martsinkevich tried to rush the stage at the December rally but were convinced to stand down - by other nationalists. Some also believe that Mr Martsinkevich may be supported by the Kremlin in an effort to divide and discredit the real opposition. It is a charge he heatedly denies, citing his time in prison. "They say I'm a Kremlin project. Where do they think I spent the last four years - in Bali?" In his article, Clover notes that earlier, the followers of Nationalist ideas were considered by the Kremlin as the main group, on which Putin could always rely in fighting pro-Westen Liberal Democrats. When Putin came to power in 2000, he was cheered some Nationalists (but not all, because Putin is a Jew) as a strong ruler who wants to restore the Russian pride. Now the Russian leadership is anxiously watching how more and more Nationalists desert to Democratic opposition, says the FT. At December 24 anti-Putin rally, which brought together about 100,000 people, mostly of them were Liberals and supporters of civil rights and liberties. But among them there were also supporters of Nationalistic ideas- which had never happened before. "The Putin regime has sent 1,500 of my brothers to prison. That is more than all the dissidents sent to prison under Brezhnev", said, speaking at a rally, Tor, one of the leaders of the nationalist movement According to the newspaper, Putin advocates a more imperial and militaristic brand of nationalism than most Russians. He rarely has a press conference these days without hinting that dark foreign forces are at work destabilizing Russia. He has championed a 19tn rouble ($ 614bn) spending binge re-equipping Russia's military and called for the creation of a "Eurasian Union" of former Soviet states. However, most ordinary Russians seem more drawn to ethnic nationalism, rather than nostalgia for great power. They are more concerned about immigration, which has increased rapidly under Putin due to Russia's economic growth; about ethnic tensions between neighborhood gangs; and the budget-draining federal subsidies for the war-torn north Caucasus. "We [nationalists and liberals] have very different views about the future development of Russia. But we are united in seeking an end to the regime, free registration of political parties, and free elections", Mr Tor says in an interview. Nationalists, on whose support Kremlin relied earlier, now increasingly oppose the government. A synergy between liberals and nationalists is obvious to many in the opposition: Russia's liberals have too many leaders and not enough followers, while nationalists have the opposite problem. Liberal ideas were discredited by the economic misery of the Yeltsin years, and the plethora of liberal parties have trouble finding recruits. Meanwhile, polls such as the Levada centre's show broad public support for nationalist ideas but there is a lack of credible parties and popular leaders. The most successful opposition leaders have been those who can fuse liberalism and nationalism, writes FT. Among those the newspaper names Alexei Navalny, who calls himself a moderate nationalist, extolling democracy and fighting corruption. He favors curbs on immigration and argues that the war-torn Caucasus should be treated as "Russia's Gaza Strip" and politically isolated. In the Russian context, with its violent skinhead gangs, Mr Navalny is indeed a moderate, though Mr Verkhovsky likens him to far-right European politicians such as Geert Wilders and his Dutch Freedom Party. Ilya Yashin, a leader of the liberal opposition Solidarity movement, makes a distinction between radical nationalists and "constitutional" ones: "I see nothing wrong with a tactical alliance with constitutional nationalists. I am certainly against what they say but their views certainly have a place in the political system, and they are represented in most European parliamentary democracies". In the current turmoil, hardline nationalism is the "ghost at the feast" in the words of Alexander Verkhovsky, an expert on nationalism at Moscow's Sova Centre think-tank. He says Russia is seeing a resurgence of the far right. "It's natural. We had an empire, and it collapsed. All post-imperial states see a rise in nationalism. The question is not whether or not there will be a rise in nationalism, the question is what form it will take". Department of Monitoring Kavkaz Center

Putin scares children with stories about 'Skelton' opposition and evil 'Snow Queen' Clinton

Wed, 25 Jan 2012 21:59:40 GMT

Moscow journalist Masha Gessen wrote on the New York Times blog about a new Putin's crime against the children. Putin zombifies them and fills their unmatured brains with unbridled hate propaganda. A 10-year-old daughter of Gessen, a four-grade primary school student , visited a Russian Patriotic Christmas New Year celebration staged by the Putin's gang " The Bikers". The journalist says:� "My daughter came home looking dazed. The bikers had put on a show the likes of which she had never seen. The story, as she explained to me, went like this: the whole world has been taken over by evil - except Russia, which has to fight off the forces of doom. This global menace is personified by a woman who is the Statue of Liberty and Snow Queen rolled into one. And Russia also has an internal enemy: the Kashchey - the Skeleton, the quintessential figure of evil in Russian folklore - who hates Russia but won't let it go. If he wins, united Russia will fall apart. To a Russian adult, this was a transparent parable, and most of it was clear even to a 10-year-old. Putin has always employed us-against-the-world rhetoric, which the bikers apparently take literally. The Kashchey, the internal enemy, is poised to slay is, well, United Russia, Putin's ruling party. And Russia's nemesis - the Kashchey's ally and the source of his powers - is a representation of the US State Dept (the Statue of Liberty) and Hillary Clinton (the Snow Queen). I felt I had a sudden view right into the unguarded unconscious of Russia's ruling elite. "So how does it end?" I asked my daughter impatiently. "That was the weirdest part", she responded. "They said the battle is still raging and they'll tell us next year who won". My poor child had been so thrown by the event that she forgot to pick up her bag of chocolate candy", writes Moscow journalist Masha Gessen in The New York Times. Department of Monitoring Kavkaz Center

RUSSIAN SPRING. Did opposition leader Akunin decide not to overthrow Putin and the FSB after all?

Wed, 25 Jan 2012 21:11:00 GMT

Former opposition leader Akunin posted on the New York Times blog an article (the main U.S. Democratic paper is read by every self-respecting member of Russian opposition - KC), in which he urged the opposition to support Putin at his "elections", giving a number of stupid reasons. The renegade of the cause of Russian Democracy says: � "I would prefer if Putin's regime did not collapse too quickly. Let him resist at least another year or so. If he left right away, without squandering his popularity to the end, he might yet come back�(no one comes back from the gallows - KC) in a fully democratic way - when the crisis hits the living standard, people will begin to talk nostalgically of the "fat years." A "second coming" would be a catastrophe for the country (this country must be finished off, as soon as possible, with all its attributes, then there would be no problems - KC). In addition, the still very young shoots of civil society need time to grow and become stronger (the KGB style of promising "mañana", tomorrow" - KC). The best way for them to mature would be a continuing assault on a rigid, unyielding authoritarianism. In such a struggle, civil society would strengthen and learn to organize (FSB will get stronger and will imprison the oppositionists - KC). Department of Monitoring Kavkaz Center

Medvedev wants to die for Putin and Putinism

Wed, 25 Jan 2012 18:51:02 GMT

AFP reported from Moscow about a new developments over the chief Russian dog Putin and his inadequate puppet Medvedev. During a meeting of Medvedev on Wednesday with students of journalism at Moscow State University, Medvedev expressed his desire to die. AFP reports: - An acute, revolutionary situation is now brewing in the country. Are you ready to face responsibility? Do you realize that you could even be condemned to death? Are you ready to take it bravely just like Saddam Hussein did or will you emigrate to friendly North Korea?, journalism student Vladimir Polyakov asked. Medvedev appeared to make light of the student's question, saying he did not see any reasons for a revolution in Russia and that he was not afraid of anything. - You probably asked the most courageous question of your life, he quipped. The student, who held a sign reading "Responsibility", kept pressing Medvedev, asking him whether he was ready to die for his ideals. - If you need a precise answer: of course, I am ready to die for my ideals, the Kremlin chief replied tersely, reports the news agency. Department of Monitoring Kavkaz Center

At the background of banned literature, KGB creates canon of mandatory reading books for the Russians

Wed, 25 Jan 2012 15:10:30 GMT

The New York Daily News drew attention to increasing schizophrenization of Russian population by their KGB junta. In an article entitled "Vladimir Putin would like you to read a book: Why his proposal for a "Russian canon" is scary as hell, the newspaper comments on a recent essay by Putin which he stole from others KGB men by giving it as his own. The newspaper writes in particular:� "Most of the tediously long essay, called "Russia: The Ethnicity Issue," is shamelessly borrowed from the demagogue's playbook, positing a confused West ("the melting pot of assimilation is highly volatile") against a Russia that was almost destroyed (not finished off - KC) not by communism, but the Soviet Union's downfall ("Russia did not vanish, even when the state as an institution was critically weakened"). Putin also waxes nostalgic about how "some leading universities in the United States advocated something referred to as the Western Canon, a canon of books regarded as the most important and influential in shaping Western culture. Each self-respecting student was required to read 100 books from a specially compiled list of the greatest books of the Western world". This appears to be a reference to the Harvard Classics or Mortimer Adler's "Great Books", perhaps even to the traditional curricula of Columbia or the University of Chicago. But Putin willfully misses the point - besides these not being requirements, as far as I am aware, they were meant to instill civic virtues, not patriotic ones. The question Adler (see photo on the Time cover in 1952) wanted to ask was how to be a good person, not just a good American, because that identity is itself paramount. That latter would merely follow, those midcentury popularizes of culture thoughts.�� As far as Putin is concerned, it is only Russianess that matters - reading is not an end in itself, but a means to further his crass political goals, much as Social Realist art, with its plentiful harvests, furthered the image Stalin wanted to sell, even as he starved the Ukrainian populace by the thousands.� As such, Putin's apparent overture to literature is actually an assault on the freedom literature thrives on. Reporting on Putin's new cultural program, Radio Free Europe has one citizen of Moscow wondering, "I wonder if Orwell will make the list". No, he won't", wrote columnist Alexander Nazaryan in New York Daily News. Department of Monitoring Kavkaz Center

Russian criminal Putin prepares refuge in Spain, where he builds VIP bunker

Tue, 24 Jan 2012 17:13:06 GMT

Spanish media reported that Russian thug Putin is preparing to emigrate to Spain, where he builds a luxury bunker for himself. On further development of the events surrounding possible overthrow of bloody Putin's regime reports the Spanish television TV Spain: "Vladimir Putin is buying a property in the luxury urbanization La Zagaleta in Benhavís near Marbella, which he calls "my place in the world", where He has planted fruit trees and installed three hives with "fantastic honey". � The Spanish portal Vanitatis confirmed today that Putin was convinced to purchase the property by the former Mayor of Moscow Yuri Luzhkov, who already lives in the development. � In this area of nearly nine hundred acres, lying on the slopes of the mountainous Ronda with spectacular views to the African coast, the residents can experience complete privacy. � For Vladimir Putin La Zagaletawill is a perfect haven as he practices hunting, horseback riding, plays tennis and implements a long list of ingredients for healthy life., � Those who live in the urbanization have the right to vote on whether or not to accept any new neighbor, and Vanitatis reports that some of the people who have been rejected include Julio Iglasias, Shakira and David Beckham. Hugh Grant was accepted however. � Other residents are one of the most important leaders of Iran, Ak Kujala, who was indicted in the Ballena Blanca money laundering case, and the British businessman Sean Woodhall who has been found guilty of fraud in the UK linked to car sales". � Spanish portal Vanitatis specify the information and reports that it is a "luxury bunker (búnker del lujo)", which Putin builds for himself in La Sagalete, and that Marbella is famous as a place of exiled dictators, in particular, Cuban dictator Batista, who failed, despite US support, to topple Fidel Castro during the landing of his troops, equipped by the CIA, in the Bay of Pigs. "During the White Revolution, Putin's chair swayed. His authority is questioned ... After the Bay of Pigs, Batista went into exile in Marbella. It is possible that Putin would find in Marbella another stronghold, from which he can rule", wrote Vanitatis. The portal also reports that Luzhkov wants to build something similar for himself, but on the coast of Morocco. His property was bought there by his wife. The upcoming purchase of real estate on Spain's Sunny Beach by Putin was also reported with reference to Spanish newspaper Diario SUR also by Swedish magazine Svenska Magazinet Costa del Sol in an article entitled "Vladimir Putin wants to Sunny Beach (Vladimir Putin vill till Solkusten)", Spanish newspapers El norte de Castilla and Sur, as well as Norwegian Spania Avisen and Finnish Fuengirola. Kavkaz Center