Archive for July, 2006
Mr. Kadyrov Visits Nashi
By Sean at 29 July, 2006, 7:14 pm
Kommersant reports that Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov made a trip to Camp Nashi. Apparently Kadyrov was so impressed that he invited Nashi to set up shop in Chechnya.
Kadyrov took a tour of the camp, beginning with the central alley called Sovereign Democracy Avenue. Then he saw an imitation of Eternal Fire monument, [...]
Read More >>Russia’s "List of 17"
By Sean at 29 July, 2006, 7:02 pm
Yesterday, the Kremlin’s newspaper Rossiisskaia gazeta released a list of seventeen organizations (and English version is here) that the FSB considers terrorist. The list includes:
Shura of the United Forces of the Mujahedeen of the Caucasus
People’s Congress of Ichkeria and Dagestan
al-Qaeda
Asbat al-Ansar
Al-Jihad
Islamic Group (Al -Jamaa al -Islami)
Muslim Brotherhood (Al-Ikhvan al-Muslimun)
The Party of Islamic Liberation (Hizb [...]
Sychyov Case in Shambles
By Sean at 27 July, 2006, 5:19 pm
If this week’s news is any indication, it appears that Nashi’s efforts to solve dedovshchina by flooding the Russian military with its activists will prove difficult. First, all the prosecution’s five witnesses in the Sychyov Case have recanted their testimony or pulled out completely. For those who aren’t familiar, last New Year’s Private [...]
Read More >>A New Look
By Sean at 26 July, 2006, 4:54 am
If you’ve been here before, you’ll notice that I changed the look of the blog. If this is your first visit, this won’t matter to you much. I got tired of all the green and the open space on the left and right sides of the template. So thanks to Blogger Templates, [...]
Read More >>Camp Nashi
By Sean at 24 July, 2006, 5:54 pm
The Nashi summer camp at Lake Seliger opened itself up to media on Saturday, giving reporters a chance to get a glimpse of how members train to become tomorrows “Our Army”. As I wrote last week, Nashi has adopted a platform that encourages its youth to join the Russian military. According to Kommersant [...]
Read More >>Evaluating the Counter G8
By Sean at 20 July, 2006, 4:49 pm
There are plenty of evaluations coming out about Russia and the G8. What did Putin gain? What did he lose? Does it matter? Let’s put the successes and failures of the state aside and think about the opposition. There were two “counter-conferences” held in St. Petersburg last week: the Other [...]
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