Word: yanina
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...peninsula's 278,000-strong Muslim Tatar population is viewed by the government in Kyiv as "peaceable vegetable growers," as Popovich puts it, strange things are happening there. Arabs from Saudi Arabia and elsewhere are providing funds and supplies of extremist Islamist Russian-language literature from Chechnya, according to Yanina Sokolovskaya, Ukraine correspondent of the Russian daily Izvestiya. A Tatar paramilitary organization, 100 or so members of which reportedly fought in Chechnya against the Russians, is quietly training in the hills of Crimea. And the idea of "marrying Crimea to Chechnya," Sokolovskaya says, is becoming more and more popular among...