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...many intelligence and security specialists share [Belkovsky's] views." Shevtsova thinks things really started going wrong last year. The massacre in Beslan in September, in which over 300 children and adults died after pro-Chechen rebels seized a school in North Ossetia, "underlined the failure of the Kremlin's Chechnya operations," she says. The final destruction of Yukos in December, when Baikal Finance Group, a consortium linked to the state-owned Russian oil company Rosneft, bought its main oil producing unit, Yuganskneftegaz, for a knockdown price, "demonstrated the state's unwillingness to guarantee private property." And Yushchenko's victory...
...take years to improve. "There is an increased risk of cancer and other conditions," Professor John Henry, former head of the U.K.'s National Poisons Service, told Nature magazine last month. While deliberate poisoning hasn't been proven, it isn't unknown in Russia and its former satellites. In Chechnya in March 2002, a rebel commander named Khattab died after handling a letter coated with an unidentified poison; the Russian foreign-intelligence service fsb claimed credit. In July 2003, Russian investigative journalist Yuri Shchekochikin died from a sudden, agonizing disease whose symptoms included blistering; doctors blamed an allergic reaction...
Many of the questions asked concerned current events, like the crises in Darfur and Chechnya...
Indeed, while responding to questions about genocides in Sudan, Armenia and Chechnya, Wiesel shied away from the term, preferring to call it “mass murder...
...bargain welcoming Tehran back into the international community has so far failed to interest Bush. RUSSIA/CHECHNYA Bush has been a stalwart friend to Vladimir Putin, who has sold Bush on his view that Chechen rebels are part of global jihad. Bush offered little complaint as Putin cracked down in Chechnya and at home. Putin repaid the favor by openly backing Bush's re-election, and is further strengthened by oil at $50/bbl. Even so, no U.S. Administration will keep smiling if the Kremlin continues its campaign to stifle the press and opposition. INTERNATIONAL LAW Europe has grown restive with...