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The director of the CIA’s National Clandestine Service, the storied home of the agency’s most secretive intelligence operations, has announced that he plans to retire, The Daily Beast has learned.
CIA spokesman Dean Boyd confirmed that the director announced his retirement “after a long and distinguished career at CIA. We thank him for this profound and lasting contributions to both CIA and to our nation’s security.”
As a practice, the CIA doesn’t identify the head of the clandestine service by name. But Frank Archibald was outed in a Twitter post in 2013, and details of his biography were known to some journalists. Archibald, who was 57 when he took the job that year, reportedly served tours in Pakistan and Africa and also headed the CIA’s Latin America division. The Associated Press reported that Archibald "once ran the covert action that helped remove Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic from power."
Archibald’s retirement comes at a transitional moment for the CIA. The agency’s director, John Brennan, is considering major changes to the agency’s structure, including the possible creation of new intelligence centers and doing away with the traditional division of CIA into its analysis group and the clandestine service.
“This would be to their mind the greatest threat to their independence since they were created as the Directorate of Plans back in 1951.”
Critics of the reorganization, which hasn’t been formally proposed and, officials have stressed, isn’t a done deal, see it as potentially undermining some of the CIA’s core capabilities in favor of organizing the agency around regions of the world. Some in the National Clandestine Service in particular view a reorganization as a threat to the high-degree of independence it has traditionally enjoyed within the intelligence bureaucracy.
“This would be to their mind the greatest threat to their independence since they were created as the Directorate of Plans back in 1951,” one former official said.
Brennan is slated to make public remarks on Monday at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York, where he’ll be interviewed by journalist Charlie Rose. The CIA hasn’t announced what, if any, news Brennan plans to make. But former officials said they’d been anticipating that he might soon unveil more of his thinking about any reorganization.
The CIA has also seen some shakeups in the senior ranks of late. Earlier this month, President Obama tapped David Cohen to be the CIA’s new deputy director. Cohen, a senior Treasury Department official, has been the chief architect of the administration’s sanctions regime against Iran.
Also this month, Lt. Gen. John F. Mulholland Jr., who previously was deputy commander of U.S. Special Operations Command, became the CIA’s new associate director for military affairs. In recent years, the CIA and special operators have worked more closely together than ever, most famously in the successful raid that killed Osama bin Laden in Pakistan 2011.
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US Counterterrorism Efforts in Yemen Continue Despite Upheaval by webdesk@voanews.com (Sharon Behn)
U.S. officials say that despite the rebel siege in Yemen's capital and uncertainty swirling around the resignation of the country's president, Abd Rabbuh Mansour Hadi, the United States continues to have a military presence in the country. "There is a footprint of U.S. military personnel in there that has been dedicated to counterterrorism operations. They are still there,” Pentagon press secretary Rear Admiral John Kirby said Friday. Yemen is seen as a key counterterrorism player in Washington's fight against al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula, or AQAP. The al-Qaida group has been behind several terrorist plots, including the recent attack on a French satirical magazine that left 12 dead. But one U.S. counterterrorism official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said Washington’s operations in Yemen have been heavily dependent on Hadi. “The success we’ve been able to have against al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula was due in large part to Hadi’s willingness to cooperate,” the official told VOA. Houthi rebels, largely Shiite, are strongly opposed to the Sunni-based AQAP. This could play in Washington’s favor, said Barbara Bodine, a former U.S. ambassador to Yemen and the current director of Georgetown University’s Institute for the Study of Diplomacy. “Ironically, whatever else is on that agenda of theirs, and how they play into the political process, the Houthis in their own way would be an ally with the United States, if both sides choose to deal with each other,” Bodine said. The rebels took over the capital earlier in the week and surrounded Hadi in his residence, but they stopped short of declaring a coup. Yemen’s parliament is to decide Sunday whether to accept Hadi’s resignation. What political agenda the Houthis will pursue is not yet clear. The result, said State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki, is “tensions, and a great deal of violence on the ground. It’s an incredibly fluid situation and we are watching very closely.” Psaki said Washington continued to stay in touch with a “range” of officials in Yemen, but she would not give further details. The U.S. counterterrorism fight had been one of the primary objectives in Washington’s partnership with Hadi and Yemen. Kirby said that while having a willing partner in Yemen would make the U.S. battle against al-Qaida there much more effective, the chaos would not stop Washington’s counterterrorism fight. “We’ve also proven the ability to go after terrorists in various places around the world unilaterally, and we will still retain that right, that responsibility, and we will still make sure we have the resources to do that,” he said. VOA's Jeff Seldin and William Gallo contributed to this report.
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After an Anxiety-Filled Campaign, Greek Voters Consider a Turn to the Left by By SUZANNE DALEY and DIMITRIS BOUNIAS
Battered by years of economic trouble, Greeks may turn to the leftist Alexis Tsipras and his party when they go to the polls on Sunday.
Progress, Some Areas of Disagreement in Cuba Talksby webdesk@voanews.com (Pamela Dockins)
U.S. and Cuban officials are reporting progress from initial talks in Havana on re-establishing diplomatic ties. U.S. Assistant Secretary of State (for Western Hemisphere Affairs) Roberta Jacobson said while there was agreement on a broad range of issues, there also are some “profound disagreements” between Washington and Havana. VOA State Department correspondent Pam Dockins has the story.
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Saudi, Yemen Developments Are Sudden Complications for Obama by webdesk@voanews.com (Luis Ramirez)
The death of Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah and the collapse of Yemen’s government have cast further uncertainty on U.S. efforts to fight militants in the Middle East and also contain Iran’s influence in the region. VOA White House correspondent Luis Ramirez reports on the new complications facing the Obama administration and its Middle East policy.
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Staunton, January 23 – The recent statement by Vladimir Putin’s press secretary, Dmitry Peshkov, that “there are things more important than laws” is the latest sign of a fundamental shift in Russian governance from the dictatorship of laws that Putin promised when he came to office to a dictatorship of morality resembling the situation in Iran and opens the way to totalitarianism.
Even in a dictatorship of law, Mikhail Fishman points out in a commentary on Slon.ru, the authorities can be highly selective in enforcing this or that provision, but law remains an important benchmark for society. But under a dictatorship of morality, that restriction is gone and the authorities are freed even from that restriction.
This “Iranianization of Russia,” the commentator argues, is opening the way to the revival of totalitarianism in which law is merely a formality and not something Russians can count on.
Five or six years ago, Fishman says, Russians would have assumed that the actions of the authorities and courts would involve the selective use of law so that the powers that be could get their way. But now, it is increasingly clear to them that legal formalities are “secondary” to those other things which Peshkov says are “more important than law.”
What are these things? According to Fishman, “the chief one is the archaic and fundamentalist idea that any alternative to the uniquely true point of view is intentionally amoral” and that the authorities need not defend their position but those who oppose them must try to do so even while the authorities are denouncing them as immoral.
“Justice instead of law is a broad moral sanction,” he continues, because it allows the Russian courts to dispense with even “the public demonstration of legality” and replacing it instead with propaganda about doing the right thing. That reduces the importance of law and opens the way to an ugly past.
“Mutating in this way,” Fishman continues, “the Russian political system has already passed from one stage to another;” and the implications of this shift go far beyond the way in which the authorities are using the courts and the judicial system more generally.
For example, the Moscow analyst argues, this has led to “the new intensification of fighting in the Donbass,” something that has taken place not so much because Putin wants it but because, as Gleb Pavlovsky noted, the Kremlin leader “has fallen victim to his own propaganda and his regime has fallen into the trap of its own moral imperatives.”
Russia’s “sovereign democracy” of the 1990s, Fishman says, would today be “correctly described as hybrid with its fake decorations formally constructed on legal principles.” As a result, the Russian government looked for provisions in the legal code to bring charges against Mikhail Khodorkovsky but now it feels no particular need to find them.
These imperatives have consequences which even their authors do not recognize in advance, Fishman says. Thus, “in place of a virtual war for spheres of influence is beginning a real war [and] the words ‘party’ and ‘fraction’ are losing their meaning to the extent that the parliament has become accustomed to voting unanimously.”
All this resembles what happened in Iran under the ayatollahs, but there is at least one reason for thinking that “the term ‘Iranianization’ is not completely appropriate.” And it is this: Iran has been moving away from that even as Russia moves toward it. No one in Moscow wants to think about the implications of that, Fishman concludes.
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A report in the British newspaper "The Telegraph" says the U.S. National Security Agency intercepted communications between the primary suspects in the murder case of former Russian spy Aleksandr Litvinenko, linking his poisoning to the Russian government
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US Woman Sentenced for Conspiring to Provide Support to ISby webdesk@voanews.com (VOA News)
The U.S. Justice Department says a woman accused of conspiring to provide material support to al-Qaida and Islamic State has been sentenced to four years in prison. Shannon Conley, 19, of Colorado was charged last April. The Justice Department said Conley and a co-conspirator worked with other individuals to aid the designated foreign terrorist organizations The department said Conley met her co-conspirator on the Internet, and he told her he was an active Islamic State member. It said the two became engaged and Conley made plans to travel to Syria. The department said Conley joined the U.S. Army Explorers to be trained in U.S. military tactics and in firearms as part of the conspiracy. She also obtained first aid/nursing certification. Federal Bureau of Investigation agents met with Conley several times to try to dissuade her from traveling overseas to support a foreign terrorist organization and engage in jihad, the Justice Department said. Agents arrested her when she tried to board a flight from Denver International Airport to Turkey. A later search of her home reportedly produced DVDs, books and articles about al-Qaida and other terror groups and jihad. U.S. Attorney John Walsh said Conley was lucky that she was arrested before leaving the United States. "Had she succeeded in her plan to get to Syria, she would likely have been brutalized, killed or sent back to the United States to commit other crimes," he said. "This sentencing highlights the rapidly changing, shrinking nature of the world and the implications for law enforcement and public safety," said Special Agent in Charge Thomas Ravenelle. He added that terrorist groups now have the ability to recruit U.S. residents to commit violence or provide other support on their behalf.
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Argentine Government Thinks Rogue Agents Killed Prosecutorby webdesk@voanews.com (Reuters)
Argentina suspects rogue agents from its own intelligence services were behind the death of a state prosecutor investigating the deadly 1994 bombing of a Jewish community center in Buenos Aires. Alberto Nisman was found dead in his apartment late Sunday, a gunshot wound to his head and a .22-caliber pistol by his side along with a single shell casing. He had been scheduled to appear before Congress on Monday to answer questions about his allegation that President Cristina Fernandez conspired to derail his investigation of the attack. His death and a blizzard of conspiracy theories around it have rocked Argentina. The government said Nisman's allegations and his death were linked to a power struggle at Argentina's intelligence agency and agents who had recently been fired. It said they deliberately misled Nisman and might have had a hand in writing parts of his 350-page complaint. "When he was alive, they needed him to present the charges against the president. Then, undoubtedly, it was useful to have him dead," the president's chief of staff, Anibal Fernandez, said Friday. Iranian group suspected Argentine courts have accused a group of Iranians of planting the 1994 bomb, which killed 85 people. Nisman claimed last week that Fernandez opened a secret back channel to Iran to cover up Tehran's alleged involvement in the bombing and gain access to Iranian oil needed to help close Argentina's $7 billion-per-year energy deficit. Fernandez's government called the accusation absurd. Iran has repeatedly denied any link to the bomb attack. The Argentine government's chief of staff said Friday that he didn't believe Nisman even wrote his own report. "I have worked quite a bit with prosecutor Nisman. I know he was a well-qualified expert in the law. He could not have written this nonsense," he said. "It is totally clear he had nothing to do with it, but there were people around him who had a different agenda." Although the government said there was a conspiracy to falsely accuse the president and then do away with Nisman, no one has been arrested in the case so far. Officials initially said Nisman's death looked like suicide, but the lead investigator said it was suspicious and that all leads were being followed. Intelligence chief replaced The head of Argentine intelligence was replaced in December, resulting in the firing of agents who had been helping with Nisman's investigation. Nisman had accused agents from another faction within the state intelligence apparatus of being part of Fernandez's alleged plot to clear the Iranian suspects. One of those fired in the December shakeup was Antonio Stiusso, a senior spy who had helped Nisman with the probe. The government said Stiusso falsely told Nisman that two men implicated in the case against the president were state intelligence agents. Wiretapped phone conversations of the two were key to Nisman's accusation that the government was trying to whitewash the 1994 car bombing. Fernandez said Thursday that she did not believe Nisman took his own life. "Nisman's accusation never was, in itself, the true operation against the government. ... The true operation against the government was his death, after accusing the government," she said in a post on Facebook. Those close to the late prosecutor have doubted from the beginning that he killed himself. Friends described him as upbeat ahead of his scheduled appearance before Congress on Monday.
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Kazakh Police Detain Journalists Ahead Of Planned Rallyby noreply@rferl.org (RFE/RL's Kazakh Service)
Journalists and rights activists who planned to rally in support of a Kazakh magazine that was ordered closed last month were reportedly being detained as they left their homes by police
Sir Robert Owen, then a High Court judge, requested a public inquiry so that he could consider material examining if the Russian state had a role in Litvinenko's murder
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As the Litvinenko Inquiry prepares to start its public hearings, we outline the events surrounding the dissident's poisoning by polonium in London
Conspiracy theories: Who killed Alexander Litvinenko?by Edward Malnick, Lyndsey Telford and Claire Newell
With the public inquiry into the death of murdered Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko due to begin, the question of who was responsible for the mini-nuclear attack of polonium poisoning arises once more
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Putin Seen Declaring War on Kyiv the Only Way He Can – By Blaming Ukraine by paul goble (noreply@blogger.com)
Paul Goble
Staunton, January 24 – Like the dictators he has modeled himself on, Vladimir Putin has issued the only kind of declaration of war against Ukraine he is going to make: the Kremlin leader has blamed Ukrainians and those working with them for the combat losses Russian forces are suffering in the Donbas and thereby preparing his country for more losses ahead.
After weeks and even months in which Russian officials have lied about the presence of Russian forces in Ukraine and tried to cover up losses there, Putin said yesterday that responsibility for deaths in the Donbas lies on “those who have given such criminal orders,” even though they know the only way forward is via “peace talks and means of a political character.”
At a meeting of the Russian Security Council, the Kremlin leader said that “we often hear, including from today’s official Kyiv” that it is committed to that “means of resolving questions” but “in practice, everything is proceeding entirely differently. I hope,” he concluded, that in the end, good sense will triumph” (ria.ru/world/20150123/1043946750.html).
Putin added that Moscow has not received an answer from Kyiv to Russian proposals for resolving the conflict in the Donbas. “Unfortunately,” he continued, “we not only have not received any real answer to our proposals, but we see “that the Kyiv authorities have given an official order about the start of major military operations” throughout the region.
Many of those who have been in denial about what Moscow is doing in Ukraine will undoubtedly contort themselves again in order to maintain that Putin is a peacemaker not a warmonger and that Ukraine is to blame for everything, thus allowing themselves an excuse not to take any action.
But those who do so in the wake of the obvious role of Russian forces in the destruction of the Donetsk airport are deceiving themselves every bit as much as those who 75 years ago accepted Hitler’s suggestion that the Poles had attacked Germany and Stalin’s claim that the Finns had attacked the USSR, forcing those two dictatorships to act.
Putin’s statement, which such people will write off as just the latest salvo in Russia’s propaganda war, shows how wrong they are. As Yury Vasilchenko points out in a commentary in Kyiv’s “Delovaya stolitsa” yesterday, the Kremlin leader, like his predecessors, is preparing his countrymen for major combat losses (dsnews.ua/politics/putin-obyasnil-rossiyanam-chto-im-stoit-zhdat-tysyachi-grobov-23012015154500).
And thus Putin’s words delivered yesterday are as close to a real declaration of war as someone like Putin is going to make because he knows that he doesn’t have to be more explicit and that he almost certainly will not be held to account if he continues to lie, muddy the waters, and blame the victim of his own aggression.
Even yesterday, Vasilchenko points out, Putin couldn’t tell the truth: No one in Kyiv has given the order he says the government there has, and Putin himself still refuses to acknowledge the concentration of Russian forces on Ukrainian territory, something which “testifies to Putin’s intentions to launch an attack.”
“Beyond any doubt,” the Ukrainian commentator says, Putin’s words represent a declaration on his part that a major invasion of Ukraine is in the offing. Such a campaign “can begin at any moment.” What lies behind Putin’s statement? First, Vasilchenko says, the Kremlin leader want to intimidate the West into re-writing the Minsk agreements in Russia’s favor.
Second, Putin is preparing his own population for the “enormous number of killed and wounded” Russians are going to suffer in such a campaign by suggesting to his countrymen that they are engaged not as aggressors but as peacekeepers and that all the fault is on the side of the Ukrainians and their backers.
And third, Vasilchenko continues, Putin is interested in triggering a new wave of “anti-Ukrainian hysteria in the Russian Federation.” Kremlin propagandists following his lead “will soon hatred to Ukrainians, ‘who have killed our sons,’ demand from the Kremlin ‘a war to a victorious conclusion,’ and accuse the West of being behind the conflict.”
Putin needs not only the complete support of his own people for his aggression but he also – and according to Vasilchenko, this is “the main thing” – must not allow the emergence of “anti-war attitudes in society,” attitudes which “could appear when caskets with the bodies of Russian soldiers arrive not by the dozens as now but by the hundreds.”
How should Ukraine respond? According to Vasilchenko, it must simultaneously prepare for the coming Russian attack and “intensify its diplomatic work so that Brussels, Berlin and Paris will not give in to Putin’s blackmail.” And in no case must Ukraine agree to any modification of the Minsk agreements.
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Putin Wants to Break Ukraine Not Seize the Donbas, Moscow Analysts Say by paul goble (noreply@blogger.com)
Paul Goble
Staunton, January 24 – Those who hope for a resolution of what Moscow has managed to label “the Ukrainian crisis” need to recognize that Vladimir Putin has no interest in the Donbas or even some mythical “Novorossiya.” He wants to destroy the independence of Ukraine and is using both military and diplomatic means for the achievement of that goal.
That is the judgment of some of the best analysts in Moscow, two of whom, Igor Eidman and Pavel Felgengauer, have offered parallel arguments and conclusions in their latest commentaries (kasparov.ru/material.php?id=54C24C01AB7EC and obozrevatel.com/politics/96175-tsel-kremlya-ne-donbass-a-kiev-rossijskij-voennyij-ekspert.htm).
According to Eidman, Putin’s tactics in Ukraine remain the same: “the imitation of a step back” in order to allow “two steps forward along the path of expansion.” At present in fact, he points out, “Russia is introducing new military units in the Donbas and increasing attacks on Ukrainian forces.”
In a related move, “the Russian side is imitating a readiness for dialogue and for some concessions. As a result, the new Russian attack will not lead to a toughening of the position of the West and a strengthening of sanctions.” No one wants to irritate “’the Russian bear,’” and everyone seems to think that there can be “’a peace process.’”
But such people “do not understand that the Russian dictator needs all these talks in order to soften the reaction of the West to the expanding occupation of Ukraine.” He has no intention of stopping. “He doesn’t need the Donbas or even a mythical ‘Novorossiya.’ He wants to destroy the independence of Ukraine.”
Putin has never accepted the overthrow of Yanukovich, the Moscow commentator says, and he will continue to fight until he has “his own new puppet” in Kyiv, a kind of “Yanukovich-2.”
“The chief problem for the world,” he continues, is that “the Russian president is ill.” He views himself as a great historical figure blest by God and undefeatable -- rather than a minor chekist officer he in fact is who came to power thanks “to a tragic chain of accidental circumstances.”
Given his mania, Putin has “decided neither more nor less to subordinate Ukraine to himself.” Such an idea is ultimately condemned to failure, but he cannot admit that to himself or others and is counting on others to help him achieve his goal.
Felgegauer, perhaps Russia’s most distinguished independent military analyst, says that those dealing with Moscow on Ukraine “need to understand what Russia’s strategic goals are.” These are “now completely understandable” and involve in the first instance “regime change in Kyiv.”
Putin doesn’t like the current cast of leaders in Ukraine, but that is far from the central issue, Felgengauer continues. “Moscow is interested in a constitutional reform in Ukraine which will guarantee what Russia needs” – keeping Ukraine out of Western organizations and maintaining its neutrality.
Moscow wants a Ukraine in which “pro-Russian forces there will have a veto.” It doesn’t care about Ukrainian territory “as such.” It is interested “not so much in the Donbas as in Kyiv and in having definite control over all of Ukraine which in general must be a country with limited sovereignty.”
In pursuit of that goal, Felgengauer says, Moscow is applying “various kinds of pressure on Ukraine: military, political and economic with the goal of destabilizing the situation and changing the regime.”
Russia doesn’t yet have a candidate to take over in Kyiv. It even, the Moscow military analyst says, “still hopes that Petro Poroshenko ‘will think it over’” and be prepared to agree to what Moscow wants. It is even “not against” the notion that the extreme right might seize power given that this would isolate Kyiv from the West by appearing to confirm Russia’s line.
“Obozrevatel,” the Ukrainian outlet to which Felgengauer gave his interview, summed up his remarks in the following way: Given Putin’s goals of subordinating all of Ukraine rather than seizing the Donbas, “negotiations will not help; it is necessary either to win in war or lose sovereignty.”
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Rockets Target Mariupol In Rebels' Eastern Ukraine Offensiveby noreply@rferl.org (RFE/RL)
Ukraine's Interior Ministry says 15 civilians were killed and 46 injured on January 24 when the government-held port city of Mariupol was targeted by heavy barrages of Grad rockets as part of a Russian-backed separatist offensive.
DRESDEN, Germany — Ahmed, a 36-year-old Moroccan, hoped to find a better life in Europe’s economic powerhouse, Germany. But these days in Dresden, he said, he is afraid to walk the streets.This urban phoenix rebuilt from ashes after World War II is the center of a movement against immigrants — Muslims in particular — that has shocked much of the rest of Germany even as anti-immigration marches have spread to 10 cities nationwide. Downtown Dresden, Ahmed and other immigrants here say, has become a no-go zone for them on Monday nights, when the Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamization of the West — or Pegida, in German — stages its weekly rallies.Read full article >>
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Is Kadyrov Working with Surkov to Become Part of a New Putin Tandem -- or Even More? by paul goble (noreply@blogger.com)
Paul Goble
Staunton, January 24 – Ramzan Kadyrov’s outspoken comments on Ukraine and his organization of an enormous pro-Muslim demonstration in Grozny in response to the attacks and march in Paris are raising questions among some in Russia as to his current and future goals and how congruent they are with those Vladimir Putin has.
Those questions have acquired even more urgency, Polina Rostovtseva says in a report yesterday on URA.ru, because of the role Putin’s own eminence gris, Vladislav Surkov, played in Kadyrov’s rise earlier and of the role Surkov’s associates are said still to be playing with the Chechnya leader now (ura.ru/content/svrd/23-01-2015/articles/1036263907.html).
Until the Grozny meeting, no individual leader in Russia had been able to organize a meeting larger than those organized by Putin. (The Bolotnaya meeting was a collective enterprise.) And that, Rostovtseva says, leads one to ask what the Kremlin thinks about that and whether Kadyrov “could repeat the fate of Joseph Dzhugashvili.”
Polling agencies “close to the Kremlin,” she says, show that in recent months, Kadyrov ranks higher than most regional leaders and at a par with many federal ones. Moreover, he has shown himself more willing to speak out on issues like Ukraine about which others defer completely to the Kremlin.
According to one URA.ru source, this means that many in the Kremlin consider the Chechen leader “not only a regional politician who is responsible for controlling the Chechen region” but also “possibly” as someone who could assume a more powerful central post closer to Putin.
Konstantin Kalachev, the head of the Moscow Political Experts Group, says that in Russia today, there are only “two real politicians” – Putin and Kadyrov. “All the rest only play at politics” and even those within Putin’s command “are secondary relative to Putin. Kadyrov is also secondary but of all the regional politicians, he has the most informal authority.”
Surkov’s people may be promoting this. In 2007-2008, Kremlin sources told URA.ru, Surkov himself worked on Kadyrov’s image. He was interested in transforming the Chechen leader into “a quasi-Putin.” Now, these sources say, “several” of Surkov’s people “to this day” continue to work with Kadyrov.
One Kremlin source, speaking on condition of anonymity, said that “the stronger Kadyrov’s postion has become, the more actively they advise him to swear his faithfulness to Vladimir Putin.” Another source who used to work in the Kremlin says Putin may view too much support for Kadyrov or anyone else as a warning sign.
That in turn raises the question as to how the Kremlin views the meeting in Grozny Kadyrov has just hosted. Pavel Svyatenkov, a political analyst and commentator, says it is clear that the Chechen leader viewed the meeting as a change to “position himself as a leader of the Muslims in Russia and correspondingly as a figure of federal importance.”
The Kremlin should be concerned about that because any strengthening of Kadyrov’s position will be opposed by some in Moscow particularly among those who will conclude that what Kadyrov is doing could “weaken Russia’s position in Chechnya.”
The URA.ru journalist says that people acquainted with the situation say that Surkov’s people were involved in organizing the meeting and that they did so along the lines of the Nashi street movement they had put in play earlier. If so, one of her interlocutors said, that means that the Kremlin “not only sanctioned this political show but helped organize it” possibly to advance Kadyrov as a link to Muslims at home and abroad.
.Some analysts, Rostovtseva says, believe that Kadyrov sought to use the meeting to “build up his own political capital and to demonstrate that not so much to the Kremlin as to society as a whole.” Obviously, there is “life after Vladimir Putin, [and] Kadyrov is a young politician” and it is far from clear that he will be as loyal to any successor as he is to Putin.
Aleksey Grazhdankin, deputy director of the Levada Center polling agency, says that Kadyrov will find it hard to build on his Chechen base because many Russians have anything but a positive view of him. But Kalachev suggests that his low ratings now could easily change given his backing for traditional values and Russia’s moves in Ukraine.
The political analyst suggests that one should consider what Kadyrov is doing from a longer-term perspective of perhaps ten to thirty years. If so, then many things become possible: “Could anyone have thought in 1914 that sometime a Georgian with the name of Dzhugashvili would head the territory of the former Russian Empire?”
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Missile attack by pro-Russian rebels kills at least 10 in Ukraineby Chris Johnston and agencies
Mariupol market hit by long-range weapons, says Donetsk police chief
A missile attack by pro-Russian rebels has killed at least 10 people in Mariupol, the Ukraine port city controlled by government forces.
Vyacheslav Abroskin, the police chief of the Donetsk region, said in a Facebook post on Saturday that long-range missiles had hit a market in an area that has come under attack from rebels in recent days.
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Турчинов заявил, что силовики крепко держат оборону в Мариуполе
РИА Новости В субботу украинские силовики сообщили об обстреле Мариуполя, обвинив в нем ополченцев. В штабе ДНР опровергли информацию силовиков, отметив, что у сил ополчения в районе Мариуполя нет артиллерийских систем, которые смогли бы обстрелять этот район. Ситуация в ... МВД Украины заявило о гибели 15 мирных жителей в МариуполеНТВ.ru Турчинов возложил на Россию ответственность за гибель мариупольцевГазета.Ru Турчинов: силовики крепко держат оборону в МариуполеМосковский комсомолец Украинское национальное информагентство -ЛІГА.net -РБК Украина Все похожие статьи: 52 » |
Authorities: US Anti-Terror Ops Suspended in Yemenby webdesk@voanews.com (VOA News)
Thousands of Yemenis marched in protest Saturday against the Shi'ite rebel Houthi group, two days after the resignation of the president and the government. Witnesses say demonstrators marched from a square near Sana'a University toward what had been the homes of the country's leaders in the capital city. On Friday, senior U.S. security officials said U.S. counterterrorism operations have been suspended in Yemen,following the collapse of the U.S.-backed government. Sources close to the situation said the resignations of Yemeni President Abd Rabbuh Mansour Hadi and the government of Prime Minister Khaled Bahah has left U.S. anti-terror operations in the country "paralyzed." Reuters (news agency) is quoting three U.S. officials as saying the halt in operations included drone strikes. It remained unclear late Friday how long the suspension will be in place. U.S. forces work alongside Yemeni security personnel in monitoring al-Qaida on the Arabian Peninsula, or AQAP, from a key intelligence post in southern Yemen. But officials late Friday said much of that intelligence operation is now controlled by Shi'ite rebels, known as Houthis, who seized key government installations Thursday and forced out the government. Houthi rebels are opposed to AQAP, as well as the United States. Meanwhile, Yemen's political future remains unclear, with parliament preparing to decide Sunday whether to accept the resignation of President Hadi. Reuters quoted the president Friday as saying the government does not want to be involved in "an unconstructive political maze." Both pro- and anti-Houthi rallies were held across Yemen Friday, but reports from the capital say the situation was relatively calm. In Sana'a Friday, U.N. envoy Jamal Benomar called on all parties to "engage in inclusive consultations with each other that will produce an agreement on how to move forward from the current crisis." U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, speaking at an economic forum in Switzerland, voiced concern over the growing crisis. "Governance has been challenged by an al-Qaida-affiliated terrorist organization that has launched attacks inside and outside of the country, by a secessionist movement in the south, and most recently by a rebel movement in the north that has now spread across the country and challenged the sovereignty of the entire state," said Kerry. Earlier Friday, the U.S. Defense Department described the situation in Yemen as "still very unclear" and said the United States does not yet have a "full picture." U.S. State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said U.S. officials are in touch with what she called a "full spectrum of political leaders" in Yemen. She said the Houthis are a legitimate political constituency and have a right to participate in the government, but said the United States condemns their use of violence. Former U.S. Ambassador to Yemen Barbara Bodine told VOA that while the full extent of Houthi demands is not clear, Washington does share common interests and should consider working with the rebels. "I do think there is room for us to work with this group, and I think we have to work with this group," she said. "The Houthis are a political reality in Yemen." The Houthi motto is: "God is Great, Death to America, Death to Israel, Curse on the Jews, Victory to Islam." Analysts say those views have created doubts about the extent to which they would be willing to work with Western countries.
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Rockets struck homes and a market in the Azov Sea port city of Mariupol on Saturday killing at least 10 people in the latest indication that the war has flared up again in eastern Ukraine.
In a very rare ruling, a man who threw acid on another man in Tehran about a decade ago has been sentenced to be blinded based on the Islamic eye-for-an-eye retribution law.
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Obama to Visit India by webdesk@voanews.com (VOA News)
U.S. President Barack Obama heads to India Saturday to hold talks with Prime Minister Narendra Modi on climate change and economic ties. Obama becomes the first U.S. president to attend India's Republic Day ceremony on January 26, marking the day when the South Asian country's constitution went into effect in 1950. The two leaders established a rapport when Modi visited Washington last year. The Indian leader invited the president and first lady as his guest for the ceremonies. The president's visit to India includes a bilateral summit and economic talks between U.S. and Indian business leaders. The president had planned to visit the famed Taj Mahal on Tuesday, but canceled those plans to fly to Saudi Arabia, following the king's death there. The White House said in a statement Saturday that the president would depart India following a speech on Tuesday. Vice President Biden was to lead a delegation to Riyadh but will remain in Washington "It is not often that a President of the United States comes to India to be part of the Republic Day celebrations. So symbolism is there, there's going to be a lot of photo opportunities," said C. Raja Mohan, Distinguished Fellow, Observer Research Foundation, an India-based think tank. "But at the same time, on nuclear, on defense, on climate change, there'll be significant effort to produce new understandings." India has deployed around 50,000 security personnel throughout the capital, New Delhi, and a no-fly zone set to be in place during a parade Monday.
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Police in eastern Ukraine say rocket fire has killed at least 10 people in the port city of Mariupol, just hours after the top rebel leader in the Donetsk region said there will be no further peace talks with Kyiv. Reuters (new agency) quotes the police chief as saying rebels shelled a residential sector of the city. On Friday, Russian-backed Alexander Zakharchenko, head of the self-declared Donetsk People's Republic, said his forces would attack government troops until reaching the borders of the Donetsk region. He said his fighters were advancing against Ukraine combat troops after seizing control of a long-contested airport on Thursday. Separatists currently control key territory in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions near the Russian border, after launching a rebellion nine months ago against Ukraine rule. Zakharchenko was quoted in Russian media as saying he saw "no point" in further four-party peace talks. He told Interfax news agency the Minsk peace talks format agreed on last year was "a mistake" that "we will not make again." Separately, Russia's Interfax news agency quoted rebel military official Eduard Basurin as saying more than 750 Ukrainian troops have been killed in recent days, in the battle for the now-destroyed Donetsk airport. He said more than 100 Ukraine tanks and other fighting vehicles have also been destroyed. The rebel claims have not been independently confirmed. U.N. officials, relying on reports from the conflict zone, say they have tallied 262 deaths in the past nine days. In Moscow Friday, Russian President Vladimir Putin blamed Ukraine for the latest escalation of violence in the. He accused Kyiv of launching an offensive using artillery and aviation that he said has killed or wounded dozens of people, including women, children and the elderly. Doctors Without Borders said Friday that the situation for civilians caught in the conflict zone is now "dire." The international medical charity said doctors close to the frontline are "struggling to treat the wounded with dwindling supplies," while heavy fighting prevents medical teams from reaching the hardest-hit areas. The United Nations human rights agency said Friday that the death toll from the conflict has passed 5,000. But spokesman Rupert Colville said the death toll could be far higher than the official estimate of 5,086 deaths. In Washington Friday, State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said the U.S. remains deeply concerned by the increasing violence and bloodshed in eastern Ukraine, which she said has has resulted from a surge in Russia-backed separatist attacks against the cease-fire line in what appears to be a general offensive. She said Russia-backed separatists have carried 1,000 attacks since early December. Psaki said Russia is actively supporting the separatists by supplying them with heavy weaponry and vehicles, including tanks, armored personnel carriers, and heavy artillery pieces, as well as providing military personnel for exercising ongoing tactical support. She again called on Russia to stop the flow of heavy weapons, fighters, and advisors, and restore Ukraine’s control along its side of the international border and allow OSCE monitoring along both sides of the border.
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A nun living in an Italian convent has given birth to a surprise baby after complaining of stomach pains, according to the Italian press.
The White House says U.S. President Barack Obama will travel to Saudi Arabia on January 27 to meet with the country’s new monarch, King Salman.
Obama: Time to Help Middle-Class Americansby webdesk@voanews.com (VOA News)
U.S. President Barack Obama said it's time to "do more to restore the link between hard work and growing opportunity for every American." In his weekly address Saturday, the president reiterated economic points he made in his State of the Union address earlier this week. Obama said with a much improved economy, the country now has to choose what it wants the future to look like. He asked the question, "Will we accept an economy where only a few...do spectacularly well? Or will we commit ourselves to an economy that generates rising incomes and rising chances for everyone who makes the effort?" The president said the country can afford to do the things to help the middle class "by closing loopholes" in the tax code that he says "stack the decks for special interests and the superrich, and against responsible companies and the middle class."
Overnight shelling killed at least 15 people and wounded over 70 in the eastern Ukrainian city of Mariupol. Buildings had their windows blown out in the attack and many were set alight after the bombardment. Bodies lie in the street while OSCE observers try to document the damage Continue reading...
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Most Russian Cities are Dying and Without Immigration More Will, New RBK Study Concludesby paul goble (noreply@blogger.com)
Paul Goble
Staunton, January 24 – Over the last 25 years, 71 percent of Russia’s 1100 cities lost population, almost one in five lost more than 25 percent of its residents, and 18 lost more than half of their residents, a clear indication that the dying out of Russia many have talked about is not confined to villages and rural areas.
That is the conclusion offered by three researchers at Russian Business Consulting in what they say is the first of a series of articles investigating changes in Russia’s urban landscape since 1989 that they will be publishing in the course of the coming weeks (daily.rbc.ru/special/society/22/01/2015/54c0fcaf9a7947a8f1dc4a7f).
There are currently 1128 cities in the Russian Federation, including both occupied Crimea and the administratively closed centers, and as of the beginning of this year, 69.5 percent of Russians, just over 100 million people live in them. Over the last 25 years, 60 places lost city status, but one -- Magas, the capital of Ingushetia -- was built from scratch and acquired it.
Between 1989 and 2014, there were 8.2 million more deaths than births in Russia’s cities, the study says, and the population would have sunk in far more of them had it not been compensated by the influx of migrants from the villages and other countries and the inclusion of additional territory and hence population in some cities.
Because of these factors, the researchers say, the urban population of Russia grew by 3.7 million over the period, but if one does not include administrative changes, then the growth in Russia’s cities over the last 25 years was only 0.9 percent.
The number of cities with populations less than 12,000 – which is one of the criteria for classifying a place as a city – increased from 157 to 246. Most of those should have been stripped of their urban status, but only nine were – and those two, Chekhov and Gornozavodsk in Sakhalin Oblast, were among the top ten population losers during the period.
Even slightly larger cities suffered declines, the RBK researchers say. Among cities with 50,000 or fewer residents, their combined population fell from 18.9 million to 16.7 million. “And these are official data,” the investigators say. “In reality, the situation could be still worse.”
Places in the far east and far north suffered the most while the cities with the greatest growth were either those in the North Caucasus, those in oil and gas processing regions, or Moscow. North Caucasus cities grew primarily as a result of greater births over deaths and migration from rural areas. Moscow grew because of migration from other regions and countries.
The population of St. Petersburg is dying out “more strongly than in Moscow,” but the losses of the northern capital were “largely compensated by migration and the inclusion within the borders of the city of neighboring municipal formations.”
Sixty-seven regions of the Russian Federation have seen a population decline since 1989, with most of the losers being in the predominantly ethnic Russian regions of the center of the country or in company towns where the industry closed. “By the end of the 1990s, Russian industry had contracted by 50 percent” from where it was in 1990, official statistics show.
The only oil and gas city that grew on its own without immigration was Shali in Chechnya, but its growth had less to do with the expansion of industry than with subsidies, given that four-fifths of its budget came from outside aid. “In other words,” the RBK writers says, “the city grew but it lives not on its own money.”
“Thanks to high prices for oil in the 2000s, the negative tendencies in the development of Russian cities slowed down,” but with the price of oil having declined, they suggest, these trends are likely to reassert themselves in the years ahead, especially flight from the smallest cities to the megalopolises. Ethnically Russian cities are likely to suffer the most, with the populations there aging as a result.
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Putin Said to Shrink Inner Circle as Hawks Beat Billionaires
Bloomberg Vladimir Putin isn't just angering leaders from Berlin to Washington. He's irking some of his richest friends, too, by snubbing their pleas to end the conflict in Ukraine and ostracizing all but a handful of hardliners. The ruble's plunge has ... Europe Appeals to Putin's Ego As it Seeks Peace in UkraineTIME Turner writes Kerry, Hagel over Putin's nuclear threatsColumbus Dispatch (blog) Russia Is Not Prepared for Life After Putin, but the US Must BeWorld Politics Review Washington Times all 23 news articles » |
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Leviathan: An Incisive Take on Russia Even Putin Couldn't Ignore
The Atlantic Zvyagintsev speculates that with Leviathan, Putin's administration finally decided his films couldn't be ignored. How else to account for the decision made by the country's cultural ministry, under anonymous vote, to fund over a third of Leviathan? Or ... and more » |
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Turner: Putin's Actions Must 'Come With a Price'
DefenseNews.com WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama should take actions to show Russia its alleged military advances in Ukraine "come with a price," says a member of two House national security committees. Rep. Mike Turner, R-Ohio, in a telephone interview ... Obama tries to out-Putin PutinThe Japan Times US Must Be Prepared for Life After Putin, Even if Russia Isn'tWorld Politics Review Turner writes Kerry, Hagel over Putin's nuclear threatsColumbus Dispatch (blog) all 31 news articles » |
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The Chilly Fallout Between Putin and His Oligarch Pals
Businessweek The ruble's plunge has heightened opposition to Putin's backing of the rebellion in Ukraine among his wealthiest allies, prompting the president to shrink his inner circle from dozens of confidants to a small group of security officials united by their ... Putin blames Ukraine's 'criminal orders' for new fightingReuters Europe Appeals to Putin's Ego As it Seeks Peace in UkraineTIME Ukraine's ceasefire has become a farce, with Vladimir Putin the authorReuters Blogs (blog) The Fiscal Times all 3,251 news articles » |
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Европа взывает к самолюбию Путина
inoСМИ.Ru Но когда модератор спросил, как, по ее мнению, конфликт будет развиваться в более отдаленной перспективе, канцлер выступила с геополитической концепцией (кое-кто называет ее фантазией), которую давно уже продвигает российский президент ВладимирПутин. «Позднее, ... |
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Ukraine's ceasefire has become a farce, with Vladimir Putin the author
Reuters Blogs (blog) The real question is whether Russian President Vladimir Putin is ready to compromise, I said. As for dialogue, no leaders have talked as often with their Russian counterparts in the past year as German Chancellor Angela Merkel and her foreign minister, ... The Chilly Fallout Between Putin and His Oligarch Pals Bloomberg Putin blames Ukraine's 'criminal orders' for new fightingReuters Obama's Slap at Putin Provokes Angry ResponseThe Fiscal Times International Business Times UK all 3,340 news articles » |
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Агентство Блумберг утверждает, что Владимир Путин сузил свой ближний круг
Радиостанция ЭХО МОСКВЫ Агентство Блумберг утверждает, что Владимир Путин сузил свой ближний круг до нескольких руководителей силовых структур. Осведомленные источники, приближенные к окружению президента, рассказали агентству, что Путин стал с подозрением относиться к тем, кто обязан ему ... Bloomberg: Путин остался в окружении силовиковГазета.Ru Bloomberg узнал о сужении ближайшего круга ПутинаРБК Bloomberg: Путин сузил свое ближайшее окружение до кучки радикально настроенных силовиковGORDONUA.COM Inopressa-Деловой Петербург -Биржевой лидер Все похожие статьи: 118 » |
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Путин поручил кабмину разработать проект стратегии государственной культурной политики
Московский комсомолец Президент России Владимир Путин поручил правительству РФ совместно с администрацией президента РФ представить проект стратегии государственной культурной политики, сообщается на сайте Кремля в субботу. Также президент поручил представить предложения о приведении ... Путин поручил повысить доступность книг для россиянНТВ.ru Путин вернет России звание самой читающей страны мираФедеральное агентство новостей No.1 Путин поручил повысить доступность книг для населенияИнтерфакс Все похожие статьи: 9 » |
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Путин: МИД нужно проработать вопрос культурного сотрудничества с ЕАЭС
РИА Новости МОСКВА, 24 янв — РИА Новости. Президент России Владимир Путин поручил МИД РФ проработать вопрос о сотрудничестве в области культуры с государствами ЕАЭС и доложить об итогах работы до 1 декабря 2015 года, сообщается на сайте Кремля в субботу. "Министерству ... Владимир Путин поручил разработать новую культурную политику РоссииВести.Ru 15:45 / 24.01.2015 ЕАЭС, МИД, Путин, РоссияПрезидент России Владимир Путин поручил МИД проработать вопрос о сотрудничестве в области ...Дни.Ру Путин поручил МИД проработать вопрос о сотрудничестве с членам ЕАЭС в области культурыВзгляд Все похожие статьи: 14 » |
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Песков: Путин не ждет приглашения на "семерку"
РИА Новости "На днях вышло интервью Ангелы Меркель, канцлера ФРГ, нашего основного партнера в Европе. Она сказала, что Путин не дождется приглашения на "семерку". К слову, Путинего и не ждет, хотя, действительно, мы надеялись, что в прошлом году будет очень хороша "восьмерка" в ... Дмитрий Песков: Владимир Путин не ждет приглашения на G7Коммерсантъ Песков рассказал, что Путин старается детально вникать в любую проблемуАргументы и факты Песков: тема "Путин и его семья" не выворачивается наизнанкуВести.Ru Взгляд Все похожие статьи: 64 » |
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Russian Robot Warrior Drives In A Circle In Front Of Putin
Popular Science Titled “Military cyborg biker presented to Putin,” the video shows a robotic skeleton wearing what appears to be a knock-off Daft Punk helmet driving a four-wheeler slowly around a small track as Russian president Vladimir Putin looks on. Putin ... |
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Putin not flinching on Ukraine despite economic crisis
Reuters MOSCOW (Reuters) - A surge in violence in east Ukraine is undermining international hopes that Russia's financial crisis and Western sanctions will force President Vladimir Putin to change policy on the conflict. There is a growing sense of foreboding ... Obama's Slap at Putin Provokes Angry ResponseThe Fiscal Times UKRAINE OFFICIAL: Putin Is Escalating And Emotional — And Hasn't Spoken ...Business Insider Putin's Ukraine War Is BackBloomberg View RT-Reuters UK all 2,450 news articles » |
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