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...from various quarters for allowing organized crime - which flourished under the reign of autocratic President Franjo Tudjman, who led Croatia's independence struggle - to grow even more rampantly after the country's transition to democracy. "The authorities are obviously incompetent to stand up to organized crime," said opposition MP Vladimir Sisljagic at a press conference on Monday. "This situation is a result of 18 years of turning a blind eye to war profiteering and gangsterism...
...Even Croatia's top policeman joined the angry chorus. "At least half of the force is incompetent or corrupted," admitted police director Vladimir Faber in a television interview on Sunday. "So many people only got jobs in police because they had political connections, completely regardless of their qualifications." But critics of Faber point out that he, too, gained his position by virtue of his allegiance to Croatia's Prime Minister, Ivo Sanader...
Earlier this month, someone shot and killed Ruslan Yamadayev, whose family helped win the Chechen war for Vladimir Putin when it sided with him against Shamil Basayev's terrorists and their radical Wahhabi allies. The Yamadayevs, however, ran afoul of Ramzan Kadyrov, the man Putin installed as ruler of Chechnya. And so Yamadayev, a hero of Russia, a colonel of the Russian Army and, until recently, a member of the Duma, was dismissed as the Chechen regional head of Putin's United Russia Party. His brother Sulim, also a hero of Russia and a Lieut. Colonel of the Russian Army...
...February 2, 1912, in much the same spirit, 35-year-old Frederick Law jumped off the Statue of Liberty's observation platform. He and his 100-pound parachute landed with a thud on Liberty Island's stone coping, a few yards from the water. A Russian man named Vladimir Ossovski performed a similar stunt a year later when he jumped from a bridge in Rouen, France into the river Seine. In 1975, a member of the CN Tower's construction crew parachuted off the building - at 1,815 feet (553 m), the world's tallest free-standing structure...
...VLADIMIR PUTIN gets tiger cub for his birthday, plans to teach it tiger-claw judo flip...