Posted by Sean on October 15, 2005
Nalchik has rightly dominated the news this week. But a lot of other newsworthy events have occurred. Here is the brief weekly rundown of some of things that I found interesting.
—In Voronezh, a Peruvian student was a killed and two other foreign students were injured in an attack by skinheads. In response, 200 Voronezh students rallied this week to denounce racism and xenophobia. This is just coming over Interfax: on Friday, a group of skinheads recently attacked a group of Muslim prayer house in Sergiyev Posad in Moscow and brutally beat up leader of the local Muslim organization Arsan Sadriyev.
—It seems that the U.S. government is trying to save face after being thrown out of Uzbekistan. As I reported last week, Condi Rice dropped Uzbekistan from her Central Asian trip. Now she says that the U.S. doesn’t need those bases anyway ..read more
Posted by Sean on October 15, 2005
Nalchik has rightly dominated the news this week. But a lot of other newsworthy events have occurred. Here is the brief weekly rundown of some of things that I found interesting.
—In Voronezh, a Peruvian student was a killed and two other foreign students were injured in an attack by skinheads. In response, 200 Voronezh students rallied this week to denounce racism and xenophobia. This is just coming over Interfax: on Friday, a group of skinheads recently attacked a group of Muslim prayer house in Sergiyev Posad in Moscow and brutally beat up leader of the local Muslim organization Arsan Sadriyev.
—It seems that the U.S. government is trying to save face after being thrown out of Uzbekistan. As I reported last week, Condi Rice dropped Uzbekistan from her Central Asian trip. Now she says that the U.S. doesn’t need those bases anyway ..read more
Posted by Sean on October 15, 2005
There isn’t too much to add by way of news on the militant attack in Nachlik, the provincial capital of Kabardino-Balkariya republic. Other obligations kept me from writing about it as things were unfolding. I can, however, point readers to a few places that give links to news stories as well as some analysis. Andy from Siberianlight.net has a good rundown of events as well as his take on the incident here and here. My friend and colleague Dave a.k.a. “Johnnie B. Baker” also has some thoughts on the subject. For up to date news on the incident I highly recommend periodic checks of the Interfax News Agency. Finally, as always David Johnson’s Russia list is an invaluable place for a collection of latest news and analysis.
In fact, there are a few articles worth commenting from today’s JRL #9267. The first is from The Economist on the expansion of ..read more
