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Theories about Possible Perpetrators of the Murder of Boris Nemtsov
Ukraine Signs New Russian Gas Dealby noreply@rferl.org (RFE/RL)
Kyiv has signed a new agreement to buy Russian gas over the next three months at a price of $248 per thousand cubic meters.
Kyiv has signed a new agreement to buy Russian gas over the next three months at a price of $248 per thousand cubic meters.
Salutin' Putin: inside a Russian troll house by Shaun Walker in St Petersburg
Former workers tell how hundreds of bloggers are paid to flood forums and social networks at home and abroad with anti-western and pro-Kremlin comments
Just after 9pm each day, a long line of workers files out of 55 Savushkina Street, a modern four-storey office complex with a small sign outside that reads “Business centre”. Having spent 12 hours in the building, the workers are replaced by another large group, who will work through the night.
The nondescript building has been identified as the headquarters of Russia’s “troll army”, where hundreds of paid bloggers work round the clock to flood Russian internet forums, social networks and the comments sections of western publications with remarks praising the president, Vladimir Putin, and raging at the depravity and injustice of the west.
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Former workers tell how hundreds of bloggers are paid to flood forums and social networks at home and abroad with anti-western and pro-Kremlin comments
Just after 9pm each day, a long line of workers files out of 55 Savushkina Street, a modern four-storey office complex with a small sign outside that reads “Business centre”. Having spent 12 hours in the building, the workers are replaced by another large group, who will work through the night.
The nondescript building has been identified as the headquarters of Russia’s “troll army”, where hundreds of paid bloggers work round the clock to flood Russian internet forums, social networks and the comments sections of western publications with remarks praising the president, Vladimir Putin, and raging at the depravity and injustice of the west.
Continue reading...Is There a Feud Over a New Tsar in the Kremlin?
Vladimir Putin’s ten-day absence from the public eye has become the most discussed event in Russia this past month, and also highlights the country’s crisis of governance. According to Donald Jensen, resident fellow of the Center for Transatlantic Relations, keeping the increasingly polarized political forces under control is becoming a much harder challenge for Putin.
FBI: A 'Most Wanted Terrorist' Killed in Philippinesby webdesk@voanews.com (VOA News)
The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation on Wednesday confirmed that one of its "most wanted terrorists" was killed during a police raid in the Philippines in January. Zulkifli bin Hir was a leading member of the Islamist militant group Jemaah Islamiyah, which is responsible for numerous bombing attacks in the Philippines. The group Jemaah Islamiyah is believed to be linked to al-Qaida and has a long track record of attacks in Indonesia, including the deadly 2002 bombing of a nightclub in Bali. The FBI said DNA taken from the scene of the raid matched that of bin Hir's relatives. The raid that killed the terrorist also killed 44 police commandos. The U.S. State Department had offered $5 million for the arrest of bin Hir. Three years ago, the Philippine military reported that he had died in an airstrike, but he surfaced again last year in Mindanao under protection of a Moro Islamic Liberation Front splinter group. In a statement, David Bowdich, assistant director in charge at the FBI Los Angeles field office, said the agency had taken bin Hir off its most-wanted-terrorists list and thanked the Philippine police. "Once again, the men and women of the FBI express sincere condolences to the brave officers of the Special Action Force who lost their lives while attempting to apprehend this dangerous fugitive," Bowdich said. Some information for this report came from Reuters.
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Staunton, March 7 — One of the most positive aspects of the enormous number of holidays post-Soviet states have is that in advance of them journalists often focus on important issues that they otherwise neglect. March 8 is international women’s day, and in the region, many are writing about the status of women.
Two articles this past week, very much part of this pattern, deserve attention. One notes that discrimination against women remains very high in Uzbekistan as it does in many other countries. And another, still more disturbing, new studies show that violence against women along with such violence accepted as legitimate is a major problem in the South Caucasus.
The article on Fergananews.com points out that March 8, International Women’s Day, has been transformed in Uzbekistan from its original purpose of promoting women’s rights into an occasion for the state to pay attention to women at least one day a year and celebrate what it has supposedly done for them.
Tashkent’s record is not good. Although the Uzbekistan constitution asserts that men and women have equal rights, that is not the case, it points out. Since 1991, there has been only one woman minister, and there is not a single woman heading an oblast, city or district at the present time.
As a result, and despite the existence of female deputy heads at many levels who are supposedly responsible for promoting women’s equality, the Uzbekistan government now does little to challenge and often actively helps the prevailing patriarchal male-dominated culture of that Central Asian country.
For example, women under 35 who wish to travel abroad must get the notarized approval of a husband or other relatives before they are allowed to do so. Tashkent says this is to prevent human trafficking, but the implication of this is that all young women are viewed as potential prostitutes and their male relatives are viewed as the only ones who can stop them.
Much of the government’s discriminatory treatment of women is superficially gender neutral, Fergananews.com reports. That is, categories of jobs traditionally held largely or even exclusively by men are given special benefits, while those traditionally held largely or even exclusively by women are not.
But there are quite obvious ways in which the Uzbekistan authorities mistreat women: Most of those forced to harvest cotton are women, given the pictures of the happy workers Tashkent television always shows. And more disturbingly, only women are subject to forced sterilization, sometimes without even being told they are “being subjected to this procedure.”
The situation in the three countries of the South Caucasus is also discouraging, according to the Social Science in the South Caucasus website. Domestic violence is widespread: with one in 11 married women in Georgia now a victim of physical domestic violence, something 78 percent of Georgian women say should be handed privately, and at least 25 killed by their husbands or partners last year.
In Armenia, the situation is also bad. That country still does not have any laws against domestic violence – Azerbaijan and Georgia both do — and Amnesty International reported in 2008 that as many as 25 percent of Armenian women have been victims of physical violence from their husbands, partners, or other family members.
Meanwhile, in Azerbaijan, as the Council of Europe reported a year ago, 83 women were killed as a result of domestic violence and another 98 committed suicide after being subjected to it. As a result, CRRC-Azerbaijan, in a project funded by Sweden, conducted a survey on attitudes of various groups there about violence toward women.
Those surveyed were asked whether and to what extent they agreed with two statements: “’There are times when women deserve to be beaten’” and “’Women should tolerate violence in order to keep their families together.’” The results have now been tabulated, and they are frightening.
Twenty-two percent of Azerbaijanis say that they agree with the notion that there are times when women should be beaten, with a total of 40 percent indicating that they believe women should tolerate violence to keep their families together. Not surprisingly, men are more inclined than women to make such declarations, by 13 percent regarding the first and by nine percent in the second.
But what should be of particular concern because of the larger problems it reflects, the CRRC-Azerbaijan report says 16 percent of Azerbaijani women believe there are times when women should be beaten and –more worrisome still– 36 percent of women believe they should tolerate such abuse in order to keep families together.
Again, as one might expect, the study found that such attitudes were more common in rural areas than in urban ones, more widespread among the poor than among those better off, and more often found among those with relatively little education than among those with university degrees.
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43 Die as Russian Trawler Sinks, TASS Reportsby webdesk@voanews.com (Reuters)
At least 43 people have died and 26 are missing after a Russian trawler sank late Wednesday in the western Pacific Ocean near the Kamchatka Peninsula, the TASS news agency reported, citing an officer at a maritime rescue coordination center in the area. There were 132 people on board the Dalniy Vostok freezer trawler and 63 people have been rescued from icy waters, TASS said. The ship was carrying 78 Russian nationals, as well as 54 foreign nationals from Myanmar, Ukraine, Lithuania and Vanuatu, the news agency said. The trawler wrecked in the Sea of Okhotsk, 330 kilometers west of the Krutogorovsky settlement in the Kamchatka region and 250 kilometers south of the city of Magadan, TASS said. The home port of the trawler, which was owned by Magellan LLC, was Nevelsk in Russia's Sakhalin region, TASS said.
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С затонувшего траулера «Дальний Восток» забрали всех выживших
Газета.Ru На месте, где затонул траулер «Дальний Восток», больше не осталось спасательных плотов, сообщает РИА «Новости». По мнению спасателей, если кто-то из членов команды еще находится в воде, шансов выжить у него нет. Всего удалось спасти 63 человек. Из воды также достали ... Число спасенных после крушения траулера «Дальний Восток» увеличилось до 63Коммерсантъ Камчатка готова принять пострадавших с затонувшего траулераInterfax Russia Спасательных плотов на месте крушения судна в Охотском море больше нетРИА Новости Радио Свобода -НТВ.ru -Комсомольская правда Все похожие статьи: 283 » |
A man charged with the killing of the opposition politician Boris Y. Nemtsov told a court on Wednesday that he had been beaten and pressured to confess.
More than 54 dead and 60 suffering from hypothermia after Russian freezer trawler Dalniy Vostok
sank in the Sea of Okhotsk
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54 dead after trawler sinks off Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula
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several remained missing after a Russian trawler sank late Wednesday near the Kamchatka Peninsula.
several remained missing after a Russian trawler sank late Wednesday near the Kamchatka Peninsula.
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Russian Artists Face a Choice: Censor Themselves, or Else
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The Allied officers refused to allow Russian guards to search the trains or to check travellers’ documents, and for that reason the Russian authorities would not let the trains proceed
Berlin, April 1
All Allied rail traffic between Berlin and West Germany is now at a standstill. By this morning there were four Allied trains standing either at Helmstedt, just inside the British zone, or at Marienborn, five miles on the Russian side of the frontier. These included the American trains from Frankfurt and Bremerhaven, which were both stopped at Helmstedt, and the British up and down trains between Berlin and the British zone, which were held by the Russians at Marienborn. The Allied officers refused to allow Russian guards to search the trains or to check travellers’ documents, and for that reason the Russian authorities would not let the trains proceed.
All Allied rail traffic between Berlin and West Germany is now at a standstill. By this morning there were four Allied trains standing either at Helmstedt, just inside the British zone, or at Marienborn, five miles on the Russian side of the frontier. These included the American trains from Frankfurt and Bremerhaven, which were both stopped at Helmstedt, and the British up and down trains between Berlin and the British zone, which were held by the Russians at Marienborn. The Allied officers refused to allow Russian guards to search the trains or to check travellers’ documents, and for that reason the Russian authorities would not let the trains proceed.
A train from the British zone to Berlin has returned, according to an official communique, “for administrative reason.” Last night’s train from Berlin remained at Marienborn until to-night and during the day a restaurant car was allowed to leave the British zone to feed passengers. Press correspondents who wished to travel with this car were, it is reported, prevented from doing so by British “security.”
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The body of Boris Nemtsov, assassinated on February 27, 2015. Photo by Meduza.
As can be expected, there is a wide range of theories now being published and discussed about the possible forces behind the assassination of opposition leader Boris Nemtsov, who was gunned down February 27, two days before he was to lead a protest march against the Russian government’s war on Ukraine and its anti-crisis measures.
These range from official hypotheses made by law-enforcement officials in state media, to semi-official theories publicized in state or pro-government media from anonymous sources, to theories made by unofficial pro-government and anti-government voices in social media.
Here’s a list of some we have found which we will update:
Official:
- Islamists angry at Nemtsov’s support for the Charlie Hebdo cartoonists; this theory was indicated by Vladimir Markin, spokesman for the Investigative Committee.
- Other opposition leaders within Russia or dark outside forces interested in “destabilizing Russia” and willing to make a “sacrificial victim” (Vladimir Markin); these include “right-wing Ukrainian field commanders like Dmitro Yarosh and Dmitro Korchinsky, ex-leader of UNA-UNSO,” who recently spoke of “the need to commit terrorist attacks in Russia (TV Zvezda)
- Russian ultranationalists; Nemtsov’s case has been reportedly assigned to a group at the Investigative Committee headed by Maj. Gen. Igor Krasnov, a senior special cases investigator known for his past work on the cases of ultranationalists, RBC.ru reported, citing Prokhorov, lawyer for Anna Duritskaya, Nemtsov’s companion who was with him on the night he was murdered.
Krasnov’s cases include that of Ivan Mironov, the nationalist accused of attacking Anatoly Chubais, head of Unified Energy System (RAO UES) in 2006, who was later acquitted in 2010, and also the ultranationalist group BORN [Battle Organization of Russian Nationalists] some of whose members have been convicted of murdering a number of people associated with opposing hate crimes including anti-fascist activists and a judge, and some of whom are still awaiting a verdict.
That suggests that the Kremlin is moving in the direction of fingering extremists in the ultranationalist movements, which at first were encouraged during patriotic campaigns unleashed with Russia’s forcible annexation of the Crimea, then later reined in by Putin in some cases when intellectuals began to complain about their incitement of violence against Ukrainians.
- Exposure of corruption in purchase of medical equipment in Yaroslavl (Dmitry Peskov, Kremlin spokesman).
Semi-Official
- Other opposition leaders who have scores to settle.
- Ukrainian paymasters disappointed that Nemtsov didn’t sufficiently destabilize Russian society;LifeNews claimed an investigator told them this hypothesis:
“Boris Nemtsov traveled to Ukraine a number of times and actively contacted the representatives of the so-called party of war, whose purpose was to overthrow the government in Russia. They could have sent cash to him to destabilize the situation in Russia. For this cash, Nemtsov’s Ukrainian partners may have quite likely expected from him work in splitting Russian society. But not only did the split not happen, on the contrary, a consolidation of Russian society occurred. Understanding that they would not obtain any result, Nemtsov’s sponsors could have removed the politician, unable to realize their plans, said a source in the investigative group.”
- Third party in love triangle jealous of his relationship with model; LifeNews claimed a high-ranking law-enforcement official told them this theory
“The girl with whom Boris Nemtsov was with at the moment of his murder is a citizen of Ukraine. As we have already determined, she recently flew from Moscow to Switzerland to have an abortion from the politician. We can’t rule out that an ordinary conflict over her could have taken place.”
- Political activity related to position as deputy in Yaroslavl legislature (Interfax source)
- Business activity (Interfax source)
Unofficial – Pro-government
- The CIA; Russia-Insider.com says “There are folks in Langley tonight who get a promotion.”English-language Pravda has also published claims that the CIA is behind the assassination attempt.
- Ramzan Kadryov says, “Western intelligence striving by any means to provoke internal conflict” was responsible
- Other opposition figures, to create a martyr and undermine the government
- Dmitro Yarosh and Aslan Alkhanov; Two unverified articles published here and here by an obscure online news site <a href="http://pravosudija.net" rel="nofollow">pravosudija.net</a> (which means “There is No Justice”) claim that Ukrainian ultranationalist Yarosh, head of Right Sector and now a member of parliament and deputy head of the Verkhovna Rada’s Commitee for Defense and Security, together with an unknown man, Aslan Alkhanov, were behind Nemtsov’s murder. The story makes a neat package tying together the most notorious Ukrainian ultranationalist, frequently the subject of Kremlin conspiracy theories with a man with a Chechen name, and also claims the involvement of CANVAS, the NGO supported by the US-funded National Endowment for Democracy. According to this site, Alkhanov, who was “the main thread to the contractors of Nemtsov’s killing,” was himself found dead February 28 of self-inflicted gunshot wounds in Klyonovskoye Troitskogo, a suburb of Moscow. None of these stories could be confirmed at all, and the motive is hazy; presumably the claim is like the “Ukrainian paymasters” or “destabilization” stories indicating a falling out between various opponents of the Kremlin.
Unofficial – Anti-government
- “Novorossiya” fighters in the Donbass or their Russian ultranationalist supporters in Russia
- Anti-Maidan movement (bikers, Afghan vets, Cossacks)
- Anyone motivated by “climate of hatred” incited by Anti-Maidan marchers, Dmitry Kiselyev, state TV, billboards, print media against “fifth columnists”. This reason for Nemtsov’s death was cited most often by participants in the March 1 memorial procession for Nemtsov who were interviewed by Hromadske TV.
- Putin government through FSB or through cut-outs; in a speech this weekend at Tufts Universityopposition Duma deputy said Ilya Ponomarev says, “I think it’s pretty obvious that it’s this regime, this system that is to blame.”
Significance of Date
- Russians are very familiar with history, and many memorized in school the story of the Reichstag fire on February 27, 1933, which enabled the Nazis to come to power by claiming the Communists were plotting against them and burned down the parliament. Hitler was able to get the Reichstag Fire Decree suspending civil liberties in Germany as a result of the fire. To this day historicans debate whether a Communist was indeed to blame or whether the Nazis themselves set the fire, but it is invoked as a classic example of a false-flag operation that could then be used to justify a crackdown.
- The date is the anniversary of the forcible take-over of the parliament in Crimea, and the takeover of airports and airfields the following day, which led to the forcible annexation of the Crimea;
- Many have noted that this is also Special Forces Day, which was just established this year, to celebrate the Special Operations Forces founded in March 2013 and empowered to fight in Russia’s interests abroad; these are the “polite people” or “little green men”. Putin himself served in foreign intelligence in the KGB, not the special forces, and as he signed the decree on the very day of Nemtsov’s murder, it’s not likely the murderers chose this date in advance. On the other hand, the preparation of the decree for his signature would have been known in advance inside the government, the combination of all the dates may indicate deliberate symmetry.
We’ve taken a look at these various theories and here’s our analysis.
1. Business partners, jealous lovers, or other private persons – In most cases involving money and love triangles, the victim is killed inside or right outside their home. The murderer is not going to want to risk being seen in a wide-open public space, or caught on surveillance cameras. The fact that Nemtsov was killed in a wide-open space with lots of possible witnesses, and surveillance cameras in a highly-secure area near the Kremlin, tends to suggest that personal reasons are not involved.
2. Ukrainian government or State Department paymasters. Those positing the involvement of the Ukrainian or any Western government in the assassination who are unhappy with their charge’s supposed work for them have to explain why these putative pay-masters looking to “punish for poor performance” or conversely “split society” didn’t wait until March 1, and a presumably failed march with fairly low turnout (or a wildly successful march), to then settle their scores — and thus miss an opportunity for a high-profile event first to attract support of their cause. Given that in Russia, murders and arrests tend to intimidate dissidents rather than fuel them to more protest, this seems counterintuitive to their hypothetical interests.
There’s also the obvious problem that if these paymasters want to recruit new helpers, making obvious examples of poor performers by executing them may tend to drive down recruitment.
3. Western intelligence seeking destabilization of Russia. The argument that any assassination “destabilizes society” seems readily credible until we contemplate that in Russia, killing an opposition leader without much of a following in the broader society does not achieve the desired affect.
There have been dozens of assassinations in the last 25 years of journalists, priests, civic activists, lawyers, parliamentarians, artists, and business people. None of these affected the rule of Vladimir Putin whatsoever; other factors were involved in the demise of Mikhail Gorbachev and Boris Yeltsin. Russia is already severely destabilized by Putin’s own actions in Ukraine, the fall of the ruble’s value and the price of oil. The effect of a chill on speech and assembly would arguably provide more stability (albeit of the potentially volatile kind due to state oppression), rather than destabilization.
This could be projection by Kremlin-controlled media, as one key way in which Russian-backed separatists and suspects who were trained in Russia, according to Ukrainian police, have destabilized cities like Lugansk and Kharkiv is to commit high-profile assassinations or bombings (see the cases of the Russian ultrarightist activist Aleksandr Prosyolkov who came to Lugansk from Moscow; Aleksandr “Batman” Bednov in Lugansk; and at least 10 bombings of Kharkiv in which Maidan activists and other civilians have been killed.)
4. Russian opposition itself making of Nemtsov a “sacrificial victim”. This is a version of the “false flag” technique in subversive activity, and is also likely a projection based on the Kremlin’s own methods. The single greatest disinformation story that the Kremlin has put out regarding Maidan is that the snipers who killed 100 people were from Right Sector or other ultrarightist forces who killed their own fellow demonstrators as well as police to provoke a violent coup. While some of the demonstrators may have shot police, the evidence also indicates that most demonstrators were unarmed and shot by riot police.
Furthermore, there is indication that not only did the Kremlin have a scenario for takeover of the Crimea and the Donbass before Yanukovych fled, Yanukovych had plenty of reasons to flee without actually facing gunmen in his own office or residence — which never occurred.
Blogger Oleg Kashin has an interesting post about the “sacrificial lamb” theory, noting that he himself heard this theory espoused during his own police interrogations regarding the 2010 attack on him which left him severely injured, after which he was eventually forced to flee Russia to live abroad.
An investigator asked him if he didn’t think the attack on him was meant to “destabilize Russia” or was an effort by opposition to make him into a “sacrificial victim.” He didn’t think that about his own case, and doesn’t think it about Nemtsov’s case now, either. He took it at face value for what it was: government-related intimidation to punish him for blogging critically about an environmental issue.
Ilya Ponomarev argued backward from the actual “audience” that would be most affected by the assassination to discard both the “sacrificial lamb” and “destabilization of society” theory:
“The audience for that crime was not the Russian people; the target audience is within the Russian elites, who knew Nemtsov very well, and even those who were Putin supporters had great respect and they knew him as first vice prime minister; and elites in the West – an even greater target than elites in Russia.”
Not ordinary Russians or “all of Russia” were affected, because if Nemtsov had any recognition value, it was only as a figured hated for his association with the Yeltsin regime. Rather, it would be the liberal intelligentsia in Russia and its supporters in the West who knew Nemtsov and his value who would be most affected.
As Ponomarev pointed out, unlike other figures who were less transparent, everything about Nemtsov was known, including his love affairs and business dealings and he was never shy about expressing his opinion on a wide range of issues. That made it difficult for officials to control him.
5. Ultranationalist or nationalist-Bolshevik or other type of groups to the right or left of the Kremlin operating on their own. The assassination of the most visible enemy designated by Anti-Maidan as “the organizer of Maidan” is not merely intended to “discredit Putin” — who is already quite discredited. Rather, it signals to Putin that extremists will hedge him in by “taking care of” enemies they believe may influence him, to one extent or another in the “fifth column.”
Regardless of the forces or interests at play in the murder of Nemtsov, it’s likely that suspects in the murder will be delivered quickly — already there is talk of “license plates from Ingushetia or Ossetia,” Caucasian republic near Chechnya, which indicates that a Chechen or other Caucasian, the standard culprits for crimes in Russia may turn out once again to be involved.
For one, a key feature of the annual report of Aleksandr Bastrykin delivered last Friday, February 27(the same day as Nemtsov’s murder) is that 86% of murders are solved, and that the percentage of such cases has increased since last year. After boasting about this facet of his Investigative Committee — which he believes makes the reason self-evident for separating the investigative functions from the prosecutor’s office — he will be under pressure to make good on his claim, not to mention under considerable political and media pressure with such a high-profile case.
For another, the faster the government can find a credible scapegoat, even if the investigation and trial process drags out for years, the more any undesirable fallout can be controlled.
Ilya Ponomarev predicted that in the next few weeks, the culprit will likely be found:
“Their face will be on Russian TV, their biographies and the evidence — ‘the evidence’ — would be on RT, very nicely presented,conveyed in perfect English by people like Ms. Boykov…conveyed in perfect English, and with all the proof that is needed to convince a Western audience. My personal bet is that it will be somebody next to Khodorkovsky whom Kremlin really fears.”
(Note: The Interpreter is a project of the Institute for Modern Russia which is funded by Pavel Khodorkovsky, son of Mikhail Khodorkovsky. )
6. The Kremlin. When political killings have occurred in the United States, Latin America, Asia or Africa, media have no trouble questioning whether the government in power could be involved somehow. Yet when it comes to Russia, such probing is instantly relegated to the category of “conspiracy theory” and discredited as tin-foil hattery.
Even so, the simplest explanation for the murder of an opposition leader against the dramatic backdrop of the Kremlin walls and towers and St. Basil’s Cathedral, on the eve of a public anti-war march, is that forces in power or close to the government were most motivated and most capable of the deed.
There are a number of factors that support government involvement in some form:
a. Nemtsov was under constant surveillance. This was proven multiple times as his cell phone calls were publicized in the press and his meetings with people were broadcast on TV. His killers would know where he was meeting his girlfriend and where he might stroll after dinner on his way home. Presumably if an attempt was made on Nemtsov while he was under surveillance, agents could prevent it or quickly nab the culprits. Even if it seems to some unlikely Nemtsov wasn’t under total 24/7 surveillance, in the period leading up to a high-profile march, he would be.
b. The videotape from the security camera trained on the Bolshoi Moskvoretsky Bridge indicates the involvement of a city vehicle in deliberately blocking the view of the murder and making escape possible. As we noted regarding the video, there is suspicious activity as people get in and out of the vehicle and then make a getaway in a passenger car. This is the key indication of possible official collusion. Other video cameras much closer to the scene of the crime likely caught more details, but the footage has not been publicized.
c. A fear that the march might get more than the barely 30,000 that the government mustered for the Anti-Maidan cause, even paying demonstrators, bussing in protesters, and urging unions and local government to turn out people dependent on the state for their salaries. Had 30,000 appeared for “Spring” — and it’s not clear at all that they would, although a rally last March produced that many — the Kremlin might have felt it had a significant challenge. It’s not a challenge it would have been overwhelmed with, however, as experience shows that with just a few dozens arrests and long sentences of 4-5 years such as in the Bolotnaya Square cases, the government could deter participation in large rallies. Even so, it could represent a fresh round of challenges.
d. Recent leak of a document purporting to come from the Kremlin indicating plans to annex the Crimea and the Donbass long before Yanukovych was toppled. So much effort has been spent on finding reasons to discount or downplay this document that it may be overlooked that it simply could be true. In that case, a leak from a top official would need to be punished and further leakers or would-be publishers discouraged. Perhaps the Kremlin does not (yet) know who the leaker is and needs to smoke him out.
Many believed Novaya Gazeta‘s Dmitry Muratov was in great danger when he announced the leak days before publication, yet to attack or jail him might not get as much publicity as the assassination of an opposition leader about to lead a large public march. Nemtsov was also planning to release a report himself.
e. A demonstrable need in advance of various threatened or anticipated crackdowns to have a powerful deterrence in place to prevent protest. These range from from blocking of independent media websites, Western social media like Twitter and Facebook, due to untenable demands on these companies to place their servers on Russian territory, to further taxation and austerity measures, and a law that will define “undesirable” organizations with foreign ties in addition to the “foreign agents” law.
Whatever person or group committed the murder of Nemtsov, one thing seems certain about their planning: they hoped that the indelible image broadcast by media all over the world of a Kremlin critic lying dead just outside the Kremlin’s walls — which he had never assailed in his lifetime — would serve as a powerful image to strike fear into the hearts of any other challengers.
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Китай предложил построить китайско-монголо-российский экономический коридор
Ведомости Глава МИД КНР Ван И предложил построить китайско-монголо-российский экономический коридор, который будет проходить через весь евразийский континент, сообщает Прайм со ссылкой на пресс-релиз МИД КНР. Эту идею Ван И высказал во время встречи с министром ... Китай предложил китайско-монголо-российский экономический коридорРИА Новости Россия, Монголия и Китай построят общий экономический коридорРоссийская Газета Китай выступил с идеей создания китайско-монголо-российского экономического коридораКоммерсантъ ФБА «Экономика сегодня» -ИА Амур.инфо Все похожие статьи: 17 » |
At Least 54 Dead After Russian Fishing Trawler Sinks in Pacificby Reuters <moscowtimes@themoscowtimes.com>
At least 54 crew on a Russian fishing trawler died and 15 were missing after it sank in freezing waters off the Kamchatka Peninsula in the Western Pacific Ocean late on Wednesday, officials in the area said.
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At least 54 people have died and 15 are missing after a Russian freezer trawler carrying an international crew of 132 sank in far-eastern Russia.
Ukraine Signs New Russian Gas Dealby noreply@rferl.org (RFE/RL)
Kyiv has signed a new agreement to buy Russian gas over the next three months at a price of $248 per thousand cubic meters.
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Хуситы разграбили генконсульство России в Адене
РИА Новости Ранее сообщалось, что генеральное консульство РФ в Адене пострадало во время бомбежки международной коалиции во главе с Саудовской Аравией. Источник в посольстве РФ в Йемене рассказал РИА Новости, что в настоящее время рассматривается возможность закрытия ... Российское генконсульство в Йемене разграблено повстанцами-хуситамиКоммерсантъ Шиитские мятежники разграбили Генеральное консульство России в АденеРадиостанция ЭХО МОСКВЫ В Йемене атаковано генконсульство России. Из страны экстренно готовятся эвакуировать наших согражданПервый канал Ведомости -Маяк -Независимая газета Все похожие статьи: 355 » |
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Луганская область на Пасху откроет границу с Россией
Lenta.ru Луганская область откроет границу с Россией в пасхальные дни, сообщает в четверг, 2 апреля, агентство УНН. «Я попросил, чтобы на Пасху и поминальные дни пограничники открыли границу там, где есть смежные села с Российской Федерацией. И там, и здесь живут украинцы. Новости России: Россия откроет границу с Луганской областью на ПасхуАктуальные новости - периодическое издание о событиях в мире Луганская обл. на Пасху откроет границу с РФ, - МоскальРБК Украина На Пасху ЛНР откроет границу с РоссиейОбщественно-политическая газета "Трибуна" Деловой портал КАПИТАЛ -Апостроф Все похожие статьи: 15 » |
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Порошенко рассказал, кто остановит агрессора на Донбассе
Время новостей TimeUA.com Президент Украины Петр Порошенко заявил о том, что выйти из ситуации, которая сложилась на Донбассе, поможет только привлечение международной миротворческой миссии под эгидой ООН. Как информирует tsn.ua, об этом сообщает пресс-служба главы государства. "Если мы ... и другие » |
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Russia reportedly issues new threat to NATO over forces in Baltics
Fox News Russia reportedly has made a new threat to begin "destabilizing actions" in the Baltic republics of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania if NATO moved more forces into those countries. If theRussian threat is carried out, it could represent the greatest ... and more » |
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Salutin' Putin: inside a Russian troll houseby Shaun Walker in St Petersburg
Former workers tell how hundreds of bloggers are paid to flood forums and social networks at home and abroad with anti-western and pro-Kremlin comments
Just after 9pm each day, a long line of workers files out of 55 Savushkina Street, a modern four-storey office complex with a small sign outside that reads “Business centre”. Having spent 12 hours in the building, the workers are replaced by another large group, who will work through the night.
The nondescript building has been identified as the headquarters of Russia’s “troll army”, where hundreds of paid bloggers work round the clock to flood Russian internet forums, social networks and the comments sections of western publications with remarks praising the president, Vladimir Putin, and raging at the depravity and injustice of the west.
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Security officials in Russia's second largest city say they have detained two alleged members of a banned Islamic organization.
The girlfriend of the Germanwings co-pilot suspected of downing a plane is reportedly too scared to return to her German home town for fear of an angry backlash from residents.
One of the most wanted Nazis in the world has died aged 93 without having been punished for a murder conviction.
Kazakh police have detained a former grand mufti of neighboring Kyrgyzstan, Rakhmatulla-Hajji Egemberdiev, who is wanted in Bishkek on suspicion of tax evasion.
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Russia Proposes Superhighway to Alaska
Wall Street Daily At a recent meeting of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the head of Russian Railways, Vladimir Yakunin, put forth a bold plan for a massive trans-Siberian highway. This superhighway project, called the Trans-Eurasian Belt Development, includes a major ... and more » |
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Лукашенко: Без американцев на Украине невозможна никакая стабильность
Ведомости Президента Белоруссии Александра Лукашенко настораживает, что США "открыто не были подключены" к мирному урегулированию на Украине. Он сказал это в интервью Bloomberg. По его оценке, еще не упущен момент для сохранения целостности Украины и для политического ... и другие » |
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Salutin' Putin: inside a Russian troll house
The Guardian The nondescript building has been identified as the headquarters of Russia's “troll army”, where hundreds of paid bloggers work round the clock to flood Russian internet forums, social networks and the comments sections of western publications with ... Kremlin says Russians are drinking less and exercising more. Are they?Christian Science Monitor all 39 news articles » |
In 1888, the "Scramble For Africa" was nearly over. European powers had carved out their colonies, and Imperial Russia still lacked a "place in the sun." But adventurer Nikolai Ivanovitch Achinov came up with a bizarre plan to create a Russian territory in what is now Djibouti. The following year, he and a small group of Cossacks raised their flag above the village of Sagallo. But after French objections, the tsar disowned them and the colony lasted less than a month.
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Ukraine to buy cheaper Russian gas for next three months
Reuters Ukrainian officials also saw signs of goodwill in relations between Ukraine's state gas concern Naftogaz and Russia's Gazprom (GAZP.MM) as they tried to work out a lasting solution to a dispute which has been soured politically by Russian support for ... Ukraine agrees cheaper short-term gas deal with RussiaBBC News |
Ukraine and Russia sign 3-month gas deal at $248RT
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A Dozen New Words and Phrases that are Redefining Russian Life by paul goble (noreply@blogger.com)
Paul Goble
Staunton, April 2 – Political developments come so thick and fast that they are often forgotten only hours or days after they occur – unless they leave traces in the language and thus redefine how people, who make use of words and phrases used to encapsulate them, view a larger range of events.
Many Americans, for example, could not provide a detailed description now of what happened 40 years ago at the time of the political crisis that came to be known as Watergate. But few do not instantly understand that the addition of the suffix “-gate” to any word means that it has the potential to grow into a major scandal.
Thus, it is important to keep track of such linguistic innovations because some may come to play a larger role in the future than stories attracting more attention right now. Consequently, Snob.ru has performed a very useful service by providing definitions of 12 new terms that have entered the Russian lexicon over the last month (snob.ru/magazine/entry/90417).
Which ones will survive is an open question as are the connotations they may take on, but they are worth noting, and both the terms themselves and the definitions Snob provides are given below:
- Atmosphere of Hatred. First used by Boris Nemtsov in 2010, the term entered general use among Russians following his murder at the end of February this year to describe the sense Russians have that hatred is spreading among them.
- “Spring Sharpening.” A term used by Putin’s press secretary to criticize what he said was the obsessive speculations among Russians about why the Russian president disappeared from sight for ten days.
- Dolce and Habbana. A brand that is now for many Russians a synonym for all that is wrong with Europe after the firm supposedly announced that it was working on the creation of “synthetic children.”
- “Life for Putin.” An echo of the title of Glinka’s opera, this term came into widespread use after Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov said he was prepared to die for Putin whether he was in office or not.
- “What Color is Your Dress?” A question prompted by the appearance on social networks of a dress that appears to be one color in one light and a different one in a different light, something Russians extrapolated to describe the way in which one event looks one way to some and very different to others.
- “Mulbabar.”According to the founder of Snob, this word is the name the ancient Sumerians gave to the planet Jupiter and by extension applies to any world in which there are no serious conflicts or disagreements.
- The Fire in Novodevichy. A reference to a destructive fire in one of the Russian capital’s most important cemeteries, often extended by Russians in social network commentaries to refer to all kinds of disasters in their country and sometimes leading them to say “the Kremlin is burning.”
- “On the Recommendation of the Special Services.” Kseniya Sobchak used this term to explain why she was leaving Russia to save herself from attacks. Now, Snob says, it is being used by Russians to describe how to act in any situation where no guidance from anyone is required, such as “to go to work” or “to lie down to sleep.”
- “Path to the Motherland.” The name of the film about the Russian occupation of Crimea, this term is now being used by Russians to refer to the illegal acquisition of anything, including by shoplifting.
- Northern Lights and Solar Eclipses. While normally such things cause people to engage in apocalyptic predictions, among Russians, at least in March 2015, Snob says, they led many Russians to celebrate what must have appeared to them not as a violation of the natural order but as evidence that despite everything it is continuing.
- “Tannhauser.” The name of the Wagnerian opera whose performance in Novosibirsk led the Russian Orthodox Church and other conservatives to demand it not be shown because it offended their sensibilities, the term now is being applied more generally to any such objections.
- Bread on Holidays. This term refers to a decision of the mayor of Tomsk to distribute free bread to pensioners on especially important holidays, an implicit comment on how the Russian authorities often deal with the population.
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Gunmen Target Military Checkpoints Egypt's Sinaiby webdesk@voanews.com (Reuters)
Gunmen armed with rocket-propelled grenades attacked several military checkpoints in Egypt's Sinai on Thursday, killing 15 soldiers and two civilians, security sources said, defying one of the toughest security crackdowns in the country's history. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack but militants who support Islamic State, the ultra-hardline group that controls parts of Iraq and Syria, have carried out similar operations in the Sinai Peninsula. Egypt is gradually recovering from years of political turmoil following the ouster of autocrat Hosni Mubarak in 2011 and foreign investors are starting to return. But the biggest Arab state still faces security challenges on several fronts. Sinai-based militants have killed hundreds of soldiers and police since the army toppled Mohamed Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood -- Egypt's first freely-elected president - in 2013 after mass protests against his rule. That insurgency has spread to other parts of Egypt though bombing attacks in cities and towns are usually far less dramatic. President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi, who has spearheaded an Arab initiative to create a joint military force to confront regional security challenges, says militants based next door in chaotic Libya also pose a threat to Egypt. In January, Islamic State's Egypt wing, Sinai Province, claimed responsibility for a series of attacks that killed at least 30 people. Then-army chief Sissi removed the Muslim Brotherhood from power in mid-2013 and mounted a fierce crackdown on the Islamist movement. Security forces killed hundreds in the streets and arrested thousands, neutralizing what was once Egypt's most organized political group. But Sinai Province and other militant organization who are violently opposed to the U.S.-backed government have proven resilient.
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Верховный суд не стал реабилитировать "кровавого наркома" Ягоду
Правда.Ру Реабилитация основателя системы ГУЛАГ Генриха Ягоды не состоялась - Верховный суд России 2 марта огласил постановление, содержащее отказ в реабилитации казненного через расстрел в 1938 году наркома. Судебная коллегия пришла к решению признать председателя ОГПУ и ... Суд не реабилитировал расстрелянного наркома НКВД ЯгодуBBC Russian Основатель ГУЛАГа реабилитирован не былФонд "Русский мир" Верховный суд отказался реабилитировать главу НКВД Генриха ЯгодуИнтернет-газета Гарри Каспарова NewsEra.ru - ЭРА Новостей -Радиостанция ЭХО МОСКВЫ -ПРАВДА.инфо Все похожие статьи: 47 » |
The defense ministers of Georgia, Turkey, and Azerbaijan converged in Tbilisi on April 2 to discuss military cooperation.
The move is part of an antitrust inquiry into whether the search giant has used its dominant position to give preferential treatment to its own services.
Russian ‘Federalism’ Now Means as Little as It Did in Soviet Times, Shtepa Says by paul goble (noreply@blogger.com)
Paul Goble
Staunton, April 2 – Moscow now runs the federal subjects in much the same hyper-centralized way the Soviet Politburo did before Gorbachev’s perestroika, despite the name of the country now being the Russian Federation and Moscow routinely insisting that Ukraine which is less centralized than Russia must “federalize,” according to Vadim Shtepa.
After the USSR disintegrated, he writes, Moscow dropped the references to “soviet” and “socialist” that were part of the Soviet-era RSFSR but continued to include the term “federation” in the name of the country. But despite the hopes of many, the center worked hard to strip that term of any real content (forbes.ru/mneniya-column/vertikal/284247-zakat-federatsii-kogda-rossiya-vernulas-k-imperskomu-ustroistvu).
The way in which that happened deserves to be remembered, the Russian regionalist says, especially this week on the 23rd anniversary of the Federal Treaty between Moscow and 19 of the 21 non-Russian republics – neither Tatarstan nor Chechnya signed -- that the latter hoped would mark the end of Russia’s imperial traditions.
The reason they were disappointed, he suggests, lies not only in the attitudes of the country’s rulers in Moscow who still wanted to control everything but also in the diverse status of the republics and regions in Russia, something that had not been and did not become “a mark of [genuine] federalism,” even though the adjective remained in the name of the country.
The March 1992 Federal Treaty gave the non-Russian republics “much more authority than the [predominantly ethnic Russian] oblasts and krays,” a reflection of Boris Yeltsin’s suggestion two years earlier that the republics should take “as much sovereignty as they could swallow,” something he never said to the oblasts and krays.
That meant, Shtepa points out, that there was always a constituency for gutting the Federation Treaty and that when Vladimir Putin began to construct his “power vertical,” “the representatives of the oblasts in the Federation Council (where they were the majority) easily voted for doing away with republic sovereignties and for the appointment of regional heads.”
In 1992, however, the Federal Treaty represented an effort to “synthesize” republic sovereignty declarations with “all-Russian interests.” But it was fundamentally flaws in at least two respects. On the one hand, it violated the federal principle of subsidiarity with its voluntary delegation of power by the regions to the center.
And on the other, the agreement itself reflected Russia’s imperial tradition in what it “was concluded not among the regions directly but between them and the center,” an arrangement that “contradicts the historical experience of federations” in other countries. In Russia as before, “the interests of the center were primary and sufficient on to themselves.”
Had the non-Russian republics concluded a treaty among themselves, Stepa says, they would “have acquired the status of state-forming” institutions and “this would have marked the birth of a new federation.” But that did not happen, and as a result, many have “continued to live with the illusion” that the empire disappeared with the USSR.
“The supporters of imperial centralism typically insist that in the event of such a governmental transformation, Russia would have shared the fate of the USSR.” But there is no basis for that assumption, Shtepa says, noting that in their declarations of sovereignty in 1990-1991, the non-Russian republics indicated that they were prepared for “a single Russian space” to continue as long as their interests were recognized.
Today, their interests, economic as well as political, are less respected than they were in the last two or three years of Soviet times, something they certainly could have seen was a threat as early as the adoption of the Russian Constitution in 1993 which rejected in principle the notion that the federation was to be based on agreement rather than centralized force.
At the present time, Shtepa notes, “it is not fashionable to recall the republic declarations of sovereignty.” Indeed, it may even be dangerous given the new laws “’about the struggle with separatism,’” although some republics such as Tatarstan continue to mark as national holidays the anniversary of their adoption of a sovereignty declaration.
“To overcome the imperial tradition in Russia,” he concludes, could occur were there to be “a new federal treaty. But here the main problem is that today, in contrast to 1992, there are no legitimate subjects to sign it. Governors entirely dependent on the center do not need any [such] reforms.”
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Cultural figures in Russia describe a climate of anxiety as laws banning obscenities have made them compromise their work or face harsh penalties.
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British woman thrown out of Russia for being a 'spy': Nottingham University ...
Daily Mail A British woman has been ordered to leave Russia after being branded a 'spy' by the media for allegedly gathering information about coups and revolutions in the country. A court told Laura Mary Sumner, 25, to leave Russia within ten days, which she has ... Laura Marie Sumner: Nottingham University student 'expelled from Russia for ...mirror.co.uk Russia Expels British Student For Being A 'Spy'ValueWalk all 3 news articles » |
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Россия угрожает ядерным ударом в ответ на передачу Украине оружия
Сводка Украинских и Мировых Новостей Президент России Владимир Путин использует угрозы ядерным оружием для того, чтобы заставить НАТО отойти подальше от российской границы и оставить Балтию и Украину один на один с Кремлем. Об этом пишет The Times со ссылкой на записи разведчиков США после тайной ... The Times сообщила об угрозах России применить ядерное оружиеПолит.ру Западная пресса: Россия готовится нанести ядерный удар по США и НАТООмский городской портал Город55.ру РФ пригрозила НАТО ядерным оружием при попытке вернуть Крым Украине, - The IndependentРБК Украина Биржевой лидер -GIGAmir Все похожие статьи: 66 » |
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Putin spokesman slams Times 'demonizing' Russia over perceived nuclear threat
RT Russia never threatened to use nuclear weapons over Crimea and the Baltic States, according to Vladimir Putin's press secretary. The Kremlin official added the claims were simply 'hysteria' and a 'classic example' of the West's demonization of Russia. Salutin' Putin: inside a Russian troll houseThe Guardian Russia outguns US in information warSydney Morning Herald Russia issues nuclear threat over Crimea and Baltic StatesInternational Business Times UK Bloomberg -Daily Mail -New York Daily News all 110 news articles » |
Forest fires destroyed vast areas of woodland in Canada and Russia between 2011 and 2013, greatly contributing to greenhouse gas emissions that cause climate change, satellite data reveals
Vast areas of forest in Canada and Russia were lost to fire in 2013, according to new satellite data. But there were encouraging signs from Indonesia, where the loss of forest cover fell to the lowest level in a decade.
Scientists from Global Forest Watch collated 400,000 images of the Earth’s surface to map the world’s forests down to a resolution of 30 metres. Their findings showed that overall the world lost 18m hectares of forest in 2013.
As many as 90-95% of fires in Russia are ignited by human interventions ... This is very different to North America.
Indonesian forest losses bucked their recent trend by falling in 2013 to their lowest level in a decade
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The practice of fact-checking politicians’ claims has grown from its initial use by a small group of American journalists to an international movement in journalism with new fact-checking ventures emerging in countries around the globe. Why has fact-checking become such an important part of journalism? How do politicians react to being corrected? How effective are fact-checkers in holding power to account?
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Boreal forest suffering 'significant' losses in Russia, Canada
CBC.ca Some 43,000 square kilometres of northern boreal forest were ravaged in Russia, due mainly to fires, in 2013, while Canada shed another 24,500 square kilometres — amounting to a "very significant" loss in tree cover, according to Dr. Nigel Sizer of ... Forests burning at alarming rates in Canada, RussiaCBS News "Russia Lost Forest The Size Of Switzerland Three Years In A Row"ThinkProgress Russia and Canada lead the world in global forest loss in 2013Mongabay.com all 12 news articles » |
Nottingham University student was researching early 20th century history in Nizhny Novgorod
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Литва возобновила расследование дела о секретной тюрьме ЦРУ
Росбалт.RU ВИЛЬНЮС, 2 апреля. Литовская прокуратура возобновила расследование информации, согласно которой государственные службы безопасности республики помогали Центральному разведывательному управлению США содержать на литовской территории секретную тюрьму. Прокуратура Литвы возобновила расследование деятельности тюрем ЦРУРИА Новости Литва возобновляет расследование о секретных тюрьмах ЦРУВести.Ru Прокуратура Литвы расширила расследование о тайных тюрьмах ЦРУИнтерфакс Корреспондент.net -ГОЛОС АМЕРИКИ -Mangazia Все похожие статьи: 24 » |
Battle Over Pension Reform Flares as Russia Hunts for New Sources of Investmentby By Howard Amos <moscowtimes@themoscowtimes.com>
Top economic officials made an impassioned plea Thursday to preserve the payments employees make to privately managed pension funds as a government battle rages over pension reform.
Two US Women Held in Alleged Bomb Plotby webdesk@voanews.com (VOA News)
Two New York City women have been charged with trying to build a homemade bomb to launch a terrorist attack in the United States. A federal criminal complaint made public Thursday says Noelle Velentzas and Asia Siddiqui were arrested on charges of conspiracy to use weapons of mass destruction. Prosecutors say undercover investigators determined the women were plotting to attack
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