'Absolute Schizophrenia' Reigns In Kadyrov's Chechnya, Says Filmmaker
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Published on Mar 2, 2015
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Marine Loizeau, journaliste française, présente son documentaire "Tchétchénie, une guerre sans traces" au micro d'Emmanuel Faux.Réagissant à la mort de Boris Nemtsov, opposant de Vladimir Poutine, elle raconte que "Boris Nemtsov craignait pour sa vie" et pense que la Russie "ne tolère plus d'opposition". Concernant l'enquête suite à cet assassinat, elle "sourit et trouve assez triste" l'idée que Vladimir Poutine prenne en main personnellement cette enquête. Elle explique que Boris Nemtsov "n'était pas une menace" et était même "un dissident tellement l'opposition n'existe plus en Russie".Marine Loizeau voit dans la Tchétchénie d'aujourd'hui un mélange "de Dubaï et de Las-Vegas", ajoutant que le pays est "en pleine schizophrénie". Sur le président Tchétchène, Ramzan Kadyrov, "il a un culte de la personnalité" et veut être "le meilleur élève de Vladimir Poutine" allant jusqu'à supprimer le jour de commémoration de la déportation des tchétchènes par Staline. La vie des habitants est rythmée par "le pouvoir de la terreur" et par "les méthodes mafieuses".Retrouvez tous les soirs l’invité d’Europe Nuit dans Europe Nuit de 22h à 22h30.
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Marine Loizeau, journaliste française, présente son documentaire "Tchétchénie, une guerre sans traces" au micro d'Emmanuel Faux.Réagissant à la mort de Boris Nemtsov, opposant de Vladimir Poutine, elle raconte que "Boris Nemtsov craignait pour sa vie" et pense que la Russie "ne tolère plus d'opposition". Concernant l'enquête suite à cet assassinat, elle "sourit et trouve assez triste" l'idée que Vladimir Poutine prenne en main personnellement cette enquête. Elle explique que Boris Nemtsov "n'était pas une menace" et était même "un dissident tellement l'opposition n'existe plus en Russie".Marine Loizeau voit dans la Tchétchénie d'aujourd'hui un mélange "de Dubaï et de Las-Vegas", ajoutant que le pays est "en pleine schizophrénie". Sur le président Tchétchène, Ramzan Kadyrov, "il a un culte de la personnalité" et veut être "le meilleur élève de Vladimir Poutine" allant jusqu'à supprimer le jour de commémoration de la déportation des tchétchènes par Staline. La vie des habitants est rythmée par "le pouvoir de la terreur" et par "les méthodes mafieuses".Retrouvez tous les soirs l’invité d’Europe Nuit dans Europe Nuit de 22h à 22h30.
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Published on Mar 3, 2015
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Filmer pour dénoncer, tel est le but de Manon Loizeau, réalisatrice et grand reporter qui a notamment voyagé dans des pays en guerre ou sous le joug de pouvoirs autoritaires comme la Syrie, l’Iran ou le Yémen. Son dernier documentaire, Tchétchénie, une guerre sans traces, se penche sur la vie des habitants de ce pays muselé par la Russie.
Filmer pour dénoncer, tel est le but de Manon Loizeau, réalisatrice et grand reporter qui a notamment voyagé dans des pays en guerre ou sous le joug de pouvoirs autoritaires comme la Syrie, l’Iran ou le Yémen. Son dernier documentaire, Tchétchénie, une guerre sans traces, se penche sur la vie des habitants de ce pays muselé par la Russie.
'Absolute Schizophrenia' Reigns In Kadyrov's Chechnya, Says Filmmaker by noreply@rferl.org (Dmitry Volchek)
Manon Loizeau, a French documentary filmmaker, has produced numerous works on the restive recent history of Chechnya. She speaks to RFE/RL's Russian Service about her latest, "Chechnya: War Without Trace," which looks at life under pro-Kremlin strongman Ramzan Kadyrov.
Mehdi Hashemi Rafsanjani is given three jail sentences on corruption and security charges
Mehdi Hashemi Rafsanjani, the son of Iran’s former president Ayatollah Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, has been handed down three jail sentences amounting to 15 years on corruption and security charges, Iran’s chief prosecutor told state media on Sunday.
The Tehran Revolutionary Court handed down sentences of seven, five and three years for three separate offences including one “security issue”, and Hashemi has 20 days to appeal, said Gholamhossein Mohseni-Ejei.
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(LONDON) — Three male teens from Britain who reached Turkey before being deported to the U.K. and arrested are believed to be the latest examples of a worrying trend — the rising number of young Britons seeking to travel to Syria to join extremists there.
The three suspects were being questioned at a central London police station after their alleged bid to get to Syria, coming soon after three British schoolgirls managed to elude authorities and get to Syria last month. The girls are believed by police to have joined Islamic State militants in their self-declared caliphate in parts of Syria and Iraq.
British police said the three males, two 17-year-old boys and a 19-year-old man, have been arrested on suspicion of planning terrorist acts. They haven’t been charged and their names haven’t been released.
When the schoolgirls managed to slip into Syria despite a search by both Turkish and British authorities, there was finger-pointing on both sides. Things were quite different Sunday, as Turkey and Britain hailed the fruits of their cooperation.
The male trio left Britain several days ago, traveling to Spain and then flying from Barcelona to Turkey. They were detained in Istanbul Friday after British officials notified Turkish authorities.
British legislator Keith Vaz, chairman of the Home Affairs Select Committee, said the case shows that the number of young Britons trying to reach the conflict zone in Syria “is on a much larger scale” than had been thought.
Vaz praised Turkish authorities for acting quickly to prevent the teens from entering Syria.
Police counterterrorism officials and security services personnel have said their resources have been badly stretched as they try to maintain surveillance on the growing number of individuals interested in joining the extremists. They have warned that some who return after spending time in the conflict zone plan to launch attacks inside Britain.
A senior Turkish government official, who can’t be named because of Turkish rules that bar civil servants from speaking to journalists without prior authorization, said the two 17-year-old boys had been detained at Istanbul’s Sabiha Gokcen airport Friday by Turkish authorities who were acting on intelligence provided by British officials.
The teenagers were planning to travel to Syria, the official said. Turkish authorities believe they wanted to join IS extremists, but the official cautioned that they weren’t “100 percent” certain that was their aim.
The 19-year-old man was detained at the airport after questioning by police based on profiling at the airport, the official said. British police originally believed only two teens were traveling, but soon learned that a third was involved.
They were deported to London on Saturday — instead of Spain as is the normal procedure in Turkey — because Britain insisted that they be returned to Britain, the Turkish official said.
The Turkish official described the incident as a “‘joint Turkish-British operation,” and said Turkey welcomed the timely intelligence provided by Britain.
“Turkey is doing all that it can to stop the passage into Syria, but there has to be cooperation,” the official said. “This operation shows what can be achieved when there is cooperation.”
Turkey’s strategic position as a convenient link between Western Europe and Syria has meant that an increasing number of Britons have traveled there to use it as a jumping off point to enter Syria and link up with IS.
British police say roughly 700 Britons have traveled to Syria to join extremists. Recent cases indicate a growing number of young women are traveling there to become “jihadi brides.”
Authorities say Internet-based social media have made it much easier for young Britons to communicate with extremists inside Syria and that many are also drawn by websites touting the attraction of living under Islamic law.
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Suzan Fraser reported from Ankara.
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Russia was ready to bring its nuclear weapons into a state of alert during last year's tensions over the Crimean Peninsula and the overthrow of Ukraine's president, President Vladimir Putin said in remarks aired on Sunday. Putin's comments, in a documentary being shown on state TV, highlight the extent to which alarm spread in Russia in the weeks following Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych's ouster in February 2014 after months of street protests that turned...
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Robert A. Durst, the scion of a New York real estate family, was arraigned on Sunday morning in New Orleans after being arrested on first-degree murder charges in a killing 15 years ago in Los Angeles, law enforcement officials said.
For years, questions have swirled around Mr. Durst about the unsolved killing of a close friend in Los Angeles in 2000, and about his first wife’s disappearance in 1982, and the shooting and dismemberment of a Texas neighbor in 2001.
Mr. Durst is the subject of an HBO documentary series examining the unsolved killings of the friend, Susan Berman, and the ex-wife, Kathleen Durst. The final episode of the documentary, “The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst” was scheduled to air on Sunday night.
Mr. Durst’s lawyer, Chip B. Lewis, said in a telephone interview that the arrest of his client on Saturday, in the lobby of the JW Marriott Hotel in New Orleans, was on murder charges in the death of Ms. Berman.
Last week, Mr. Durst said in a telephone interview that he did not have the “faintest idea” who killed Ms. Berman, nor did he know what happened to his first wife, who has been declared legally dead. Speaking in a gravelly monotone, he did say that he felt “complicit” in the disintegration of their marriage and the violent episodes that accompanied it.
The Los Angeles district attorney recently reopened an investigation into Ms. Berman’s death, and is tying it to the case of Mr. Durst’s missing wife in New York. Mr. Durst went on trial in 2001 for the murder of the Texas neighbor, Morris Black. A jury found him not guilty, though Mr. Durst admitted having dismembered Mr. Black’s body.
On Sunday morning, in an appearance at the Orleans Parish Criminal District Court, Mr. Durst was arraigned on a charge of first-degree murder. He appeared in a nearly empty courtroom wearing an orange jumpsuit. He was accompanied by two lawyers; four F.B.I. agents were also present.
Judge Juana Lombard ordered him held without bond and an extradition was scheduled for Monday morning. Mr. Lewis said earlier on Sunday that Mr. Durst would waive extradition.
“We’re waiving extradition so that we can get back to Los Angeles so that we can get back and fight the charges,” Mr. Lewis said.
The details of the warrant were not released on Sunday morning. A spokeswoman for the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department said the warrant was issued by the Los Angeles Police Department. Officials from that police agency did not immediately return calls for comment.
Mr. Durst, 71, was arrested by deputies from the Orleans Parish Sheriff’s Office and booked just before 11 p.m. on Saturday, according to an online record of his arrest. He was being held without bond.
A law enforcement official familiar with the investigation, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said that F.B.I. agents participated in the arrest.
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CLAYTON, Mo. — A 20-year-old man was charged with first-degree assault in the shooting of two police officers in front of the Ferguson Police Department early Thursday morning, according to Robert P. McCulloch, the prosecuting attorney for St. Louis County, who announced the charges in Clayton on Sunday.
The man, Jeffrey Williams, acknowledged firing the shots, Mr. McCulloch said.
He said that Mr. Williams, who is from north St. Louis County, was inside a car “at least for some of the shots.”
The weapon used was a .40 caliber handgun, Mr. McCulloch said, and the authorities have recovered it.
“It was possible he was firing shots at someone other than the police, but struck the police officers,” Mr. McCulloch said.
Mr. Williams was in custody, Mr. McCulloch said. He stressed that the investigation was continuing and that additional arrests may be made. The suspect was found through information provided by community members.
Mr. McCulloch said that Mr. Williams indicated that he had a dispute with some people who were in front of the police headquarters, “which had nothing to do with the demonstrations that were going on.” Mr. Williams indicated that he was firing at the people he had the dispute with, the prosecutor said.
“He is a demonstrator,” Mr. McCulloch said. “He was out there earlier that evening as part of the demonstration. He’s been out there on other occasions, part of the demonstrations.” Mr. Williams was on probation for receiving stolen goods, Mr. McCulloch said.
Several protest leaders quickly took to Twitter to say that Mr. Williams, who is African-American, was not one of them.
DeRay McKesson, who has been documenting the protests on social media since they started last summer, posted to his account, “No, I cannot recall ever seeing the suspected shooter, Jeffrey Williams, at any protests, including the night in question.”
The two officers — one from the county police and the other from the nearby Webster Groves department — were standing shoulder to shoulder as part of a protective line facing demonstratorsacross the street from the police station. At least three gunshots came from a distance behind the demonstrators, as much as 125 yards away, the authorities said.
The demonstration followed an announcement that the Ferguson police chief, Thomas Jackson, was resigning. Mr. Jackson became the latest senior city administrator to step down after a Justice Department report accused the city of using its municipal court and police force as moneymaking tools that routinely violated constitutional rights and disproportionately targeted blacks. The municipal judge and city manager, as well as the top court clerk and two police supervisors, have stepped down in the wake of the report’s release last week.
The two officers, whom the authorities declined to name, were treated at a hospital and were recuperating at home, according to Chief Jon M. Belmar of the St. Louis County Police Department.
The Webster Groves officer, 32, a seven-year veteran, was shot in the face, the bullet entering under his right eye and becoming lodged behind his ear, officials said. The county officer, 41, a 14-year veteran, was shot in the shoulder, with the bullet coming out of his back.
The shooting ratcheted up tensions that have been simmering here since Aug. 9, when a white police officer, Darren Wilson, fatally shot an unarmed, 18-year-old black man, Michael Brown. A grand jury declined to indict Officer Wilson in November.
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Ferguson: Arrest made in connection with shooting of two police officers
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Arrest Made in Shooting of Ferguson Police Officerby webdesk@voanews.com (VOA News)
Police in the St. Louis suburb of Ferguson have made an arrest in connection with last week's shooting of two police officers during a protest outside of police headquarters. The shootings took place early Thursday morning, just hours after the city's police chief resigned following a Justice Department report accusing the department of racially-biased policing. One officer was shot in the shoulder, the other in the face. Both are expected to make full recoveries. No...
By Alexander Motyl March 14
The following is a guest post from Rutgers University-Newark political scientist Alexander Motyl. In a post at The Monkey Cage last week, Motyl argued that realist scholars were doing a poor job explaining Russian behavior. Here, he suggests an alternative theoretical lens, that of empire.
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Back in the late 1980s and early 1990s, the concept of empire entered Soviet and post-Soviet studies, as scholars attempted to place the end of the Soviet multinational state in an appropriate comparative framework. A variety of excellent books was the result, including edited volumes byBruce Parrott and Karen Dawisha, Barnett Rubin and Jack Snyder, Richard Rudolph and David Good, and Karen Barkey and Mark von Hagen. No less important, the concept of empire entered the post-Sovietological discourse and, as such, lost its former association with Cold War political platforms. Empire, in a word, became respectable, so much so that the term is now used far more loosely with reference to the USSR and Russia than most rigorous scholars of empire would prefer.
Oddly enough, while many of Vladimir Putin’s policies toward the Russian “near abroad” have often been termed imperial or neo-imperial, very little effort has been made to connect Putin’s current imperial aspirations to the obvious fact that the Soviet empire collapsed and that imperial collapse presumably had some impact on Russia’s subsequent trajectory. Although Mikhail Gorbachev’s perestroika weakened the sinews of the empire, the USSR remained intact until 1991, when, within the space of several months, the entire imperial system disappeared and was replaced by independent — or nominally independent — states.
Movements, parties and individuals committed to imperial revival have existed in all post-imperial metropoles. And of course, they have also existed in post-Soviet Russia, with the most obvious example being Vladimir Zhirinovsky and his bizarrely named Liberal Democratic Party, who have been explicitly promoting imperial revival since the early 1990s. But the urge for reimperialization is especially strong in metropoles that survive imperial collapse — or the sudden, rapid and comprehensive dismantling of the core-periphery ties that defined the empire. Metropoles that emerge from decaying empires, those that lose territory over centuries or decades, generally reconcile themselves to the loss of empire and rarely embark on full-scale attempts at imperial revival. In contrast, post-collapse metropoles still retain imperial ideologies, discourses and cultures, while the economic, institutional and social ties that once bound peripheries to cores generally continue to exist, even after the formal core-periphery relationship has been dismantled. Under conditions such as these, there are strong grounds for imperial revival to acquire policy prominence among post-collapse core elites.
There are three good examples of post-collapse cores pursuing imperial revival after their empires collapsed. The Russian Bolsheviks drew on imperial ideologies and took advantage of continuing structural ties and succeeded in reestablishing most of the former Russian empire in 1918-1922. The German Nazis drew on similar ideologies and structural connections, but they failed to reestablish the German Reich in the 1940s. And post-Soviet Russian elites, both in the 1990s, when the imperial discourse first enjoyed a revival among Russian policymakers and intellectuals, and in the period since Putin came to and consolidated power, have progressively encroached on the sovereignty of their non-Russian neighbors. Russian elites have pursued reimperialization in the form of economic schemes intended to bind non-Russian economies to Russia’s, the use of “soft power” propaganda of the indivisibility of the so-called “Russian world” and the cultivation of Russians and Russian speakers in the “near abroad,” and by means of hard power, as in Georgia in 2008 and Ukraine in 2014-2015.
It is with imperial collapse and revival in the analytical background that comparisons of Weimar Germany and “Weimar Russia” become apposite. Both experienced collapse. Both experienced terrible economic hardships in their aftermath. Both blamed the collapse and the economic hardships on democrats. Both sought succor in the imperial traditions and cultures of their nations. Both experienced the coming to power of right-wing nationalists and strong men who promised to reestablish the glory of the nation and its imperial grandeur. And both embarked on soft- and hard-power attacks on their neighbors.
Two observations flow from this analysis. First, it attributes the ongoing Russo-Ukrainian War almost exclusively to Russia’s internal post-imperial dynamics — culture, ideology, discourse, economic and institutional structures—and not to external factors, such as real or perceived threats from the post-collapse core state’s neighbors. Seen in this light, although the Treaty of Versailles may have been punitive, it was not responsible for the Nazis or Hitler’s aggression. Similarly, NATO and the West may have annoyed the Russians, but Putin’s turn to the right and his wars against Georgia and Ukraine are the products of Russian imperial collapse, the nature of his strongman regime and systemically generated attempts at imperial revival.
Second, the outcome of Putin’s attempts at imperial revival is still unclear. Will he succeed like the Bolsheviks, or will he fail, even if at great cost to everybody, like the Nazis? The factor that may decide the outcome today, just as it did in Russia in 1918-1922 and Europe in 1939-1945, is the degree to which other powers get involved in the conflict between post-collapse metropoles and peripheries. In the Russian case, they stayed out, and the Bolsheviks were able to regain much of the empire. In the Nazi case, the great powers got involved and the result was the collapse of the Nazi imperial project. What is striking about today’s Russo-Ukrainian War is the extent to which the great powers — the United States, Germany, France and the United Kingdom — have sided with Ukraine. That suggests that Putin’s imperial project will fail, though just when that will happen and how many lives will be lost in the process remains unclear.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin has not been seen in public for the past nine days leading to concern that the hardman leader may have been overthrown or suffered a medical emergency.
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