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...been declared on us, where the enemy is unseen and there is no front. This is regrettably not the first and I fear not the last terrorist act." SERGEI IVANOV, Russia's defense minister, on last week's seizure of a Russian school by terrorist insurgents...
...southwest corner. "It's over," said Givi Targamadze, chairman of Georgia's Parliamentary Committee for Defense and Security. "The only thing that remains to be seen is who will come from Moscow to take Mr. Abashidze to Russia." That same night, the secretary of the Russian Security Council, Igor Ivanov, arrived to tell Abashidze it was time to go, and they soon left for Moscow. As Abashidze flew into exile, fireworks flared over the regional capital, Batumi, and celebrations erupted on the streets. Chalk up another bloodless victory for Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili's "rose revolution." Last November, crowds...
...affairs from the engine room as diplomats and politicians talk on the bridge. In Qatar, two Russian security agents lost their cloak of invisibility when they were charged with helping to assassinate Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev, a former Chechen President with alleged links to al-Qaeda. The Russian Foreign Minister, Igor Ivanov, denounced their arrest as "unsubstantiated" and blasted Qatar for "virtually becoming Yandarbiyev's patron" - but at the same time defended the agents as "members of the Russian special services ? linked to the battle against international terrorism." Which is almost like saying they didn't do it and if they...
...breakup of the country. Shevardnadze, meanwhile, rejected pleas - by his own advisers and the U.S. State Department - to resolve the crisis through negotiations. Yet he finally caved in on Sunday afternoon after Saakashvili gave him an ultimatum to go at talks mediated by Russian Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov. The key factor was when the army withdrew its support from the veteran president. Georgia's constitution says new elections must be held within 45 days. In the meantime Burdzhanadze will serve as acting president...
...abandons what the Kremlin calls its "anti-Russian orientation." The statements came at a conference on the reform and development of Russia's armed forces, held in Moscow last week and attended by senior state officials, military brass and national media editors. President Vladimir Putin and Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov both spoke at the conference. Ivanov said Russia should be ready to carry out preemptive strikes anywhere in the world its interests require. This is a departure from official Russian military doctrine, which currently calls only for sufficient defensive capability, says Alexander Pikayev, a security analyst with the Carnegie Moscow...