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...impact very much resembles that of a terrorist attack.' PETAR DIMITROV, Bulgarian Energy Minister, on the effect of Russia's decision to temporarily cut off gas supplies to his country...
...Moscow More Voices Silenced In a chilling reminder of the high cost of speaking out in Russia, a prominent human-rights lawyer and a journalist were gunned down by a masked assassin in broad daylight on Jan. 19. While authorities have no immediate suspects, the lawyer, Stanislav Markelov, had opposed the early release of a Russian officer convicted of killing a Chechen woman. More than 1,000 people gathered in Grozny, the Chechen capital, to condemn the shootings...
...double murder was bold even by the standards of Moscow, a city that has become used to assassinations over the past few years. "This murder shows that political murder [has] become the decisive factor in Russia's social life, and the use of force the main argument against a personality," Sergey Mitrokhin, head of the liberal Yabloko Party, said in a statement. The hit on Markelov, the second such high-profile assassination in the capital's center in five months, "casts us back to the 1990s," Gennady Gudkov, deputy head of the State Duma's Security Committee, told journalists...
...what really put Markelov in the spotlight was his representation of the family of Elza Kungayeva - the 18-year-old Chechen woman whom Budanov had strangled in his quarters in March 2000 just as Russia's second war in Chechnya was beginning. The Budanov case became a symbol for the thousands of human-rights abuses committed by both sides in Chechnya. Budanov served part of a 10-year sentence but was paroled for good behavior and released last Thursday. At the news conference just before his death, Markelov said he might file an appeal against Budanov's early release...
...Latin America was still known for its economic and political isolation. But today the region "is much more globalized," Shifter notes. "Countries like Brazil, Venezuela and Mexico are more connected internationally." China's trade with Latin America has increased tenfold this decade; meanwhile, countries such as India, Iran and Russia have discovered that other nations apart from the U.S. and Cuba actually exist in this hemisphere...