http://www.kavkazcenter.com/ Latest events in section "Russia" from Kavkaz-Center en http://imgs2.kavkazcenter.com/imgs/smallb.gif http://www.kavkazcenter.com/ 90 33 Sat, 27 Jun 2009 16:24:17 +0300 http://www.kavkazcenter.com/eng/content/2009/06/27/10770.shtml The Times published an article that tells about "the terrible cost of Russia's love affair with vodka". "The mortality rate in Russia in this age group was five times higher for men and three times[...] http://www.kavkazcenter.com/eng/content/2009/06/25/10763.shtml The Russian economy will shrink by 7.9 percent in 2009 despite a recent rise in commodity prices, the World Bank said on Wednesday, a much sharper contraction than the 4.5 percent it forecast earlier. http://www.kavkazcenter.com/eng/content/2009/06/24/10760.shtml Moscow based correspondent of London newspaper "Daily Telegraph" Adrian Blomfield in his article entitled "Kremlin authorises Chechen president to torture Ingushetia rebels", quoted the words of[...] http://www.kavkazcenter.com/eng/content/2009/06/02/10721.shtml Mikhail Trepashkin, a Moscow-based journalist and former FSB colonel, tells in an interview in the Finnish newspaper Helsingin Sanomat that the FSB unit specialized in assassinations is still working. Trepashkin's colleague[...] http://www.kavkazcenter.com/eng/content/2009/05/11/10691.shtml We would like to remind that his brother, Sulim Yamadayev, was killed as a result of assassination attempt in Dubai in March 2009. Isa's other brother; the deputy of Russian State Duma Ruslan Yamadayev was shot dead in downtown[...] http://www.kavkazcenter.com/eng/content/2009/05/10/10689.shtml Meanwhile it is necessary to notice that the "handwriting" of the operations against the Russian structures on manufacture of the chemical weapon in Moscow at 0.00 o'clock on May, 9th, 2009 and in St. Petersburg[...] http://www.kavkazcenter.com/eng/content/2009/04/17/10661.shtml After the successes of the Pakistani Taliban fighters in their struggle against the country's pro-democratic totalitarian puppet regime, the Russian ministry of foreign affairs has banned Russian citizens from travelling there. http://www.kavkazcenter.com/eng/content/2009/03/29/10643.shtml Information has been spread among the Chechen Diaspora in Dubai saying that the ringleader of "Vostok" gang Sulim Yamadayev was killed here on Saturday noon. http://www.kavkazcenter.com/eng/content/2009/03/24/10640.shtml Putin held a "tense" meeting with Kadyrov on Friday, trading thinly veiled barbs about whose responsibility it is for the impoverished Chechnya, The Moscow Times writes. http://www.kavkazcenter.com/eng/content/2009/03/23/10631.shtml The Turkish newspaper "Sabah" reports about the secret meeting of the special services of Turkey and France, which took place in Istanbul and which primary focus has been on the joint efforts to counteract operation[...] http://www.kavkazcenter.com/eng/content/2009/03/17/10604.shtml The Russian Federation is likely to break apart into as many as 30 pieces by the middle of this century as that country's accelerating demographic decline leads some of its smaller nationalities to take steps to try to ensure[...] http://www.kavkazcenter.com/eng/content/2009/02/23/10563.shtml The current global economic crisis brings the greatest threat for the authoritarian regimes of Russia and China, convinced the British newspaper "The Guardian". According to columnist Robert Skidelsky, the stability[...] http://www.kavkazcenter.com/eng/content/2009/02/17/10550.shtml The former minister of Foreign Affairs of the CRI, Akhmed Zakayev may be granted amnesty. Russian presidential envoy, Anatoli Safanov said at a press conference. http://www.kavkazcenter.com/eng/content/2009/02/13/10543.shtml According to the center, the murder was committed for political motives. It is indicated that the general was an active supporter of accommodation of the US Air Force units in Azerbaijan and http://www.kavkazcenter.com/eng/content/2009/02/12/10541.shtml At a press conference in Moscow on February 10, human rights activists reported that natives from Chechnya, who had been tortured with the aim to knock out evidences and then sentenced to long imprisonment terms, are still tortured[...]