Daily Archives: July 29, 2006

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, and Yakemenko reminded him that the slogan “Russia for Russians” might lead to a civil war.

Kadyrov met some Chechen young people among Nashi activists. He hugged them and talked Chechen to them, and his only words in Russian were “We [Chechens] have fallen behind. Now we should become first.”

Then Kadyrov’s attention was diverted to some tents with banners “Our Army”, where Nashi activists are trained for fighting against the humiliating treatment of juniors in Russian armed forces. While Nashi activists were admiring Kadyrov’s Hermes shoes, a frightened man ..read more

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 ut-Tahrir al-Islami) Lashkar-e-Taiba The Islamic Group (Jamaat-e-Islami) Taliban Islamic Party of Turkestan Society of Social Reforms (Jamiat al-Islah al-Ijtimai) Society for the Revival of the Islamic Heritage (Jamiat Ihya at-Turaz al-Islami) House of the Two Holy (Al-Haramein) Islamic Jihad Jund ash-Sham

According to an accompanying interview with FSB Anti-Terror chief Yuri Sapunov, the groups had to fulfill three criteria to be listed.

First, carrying out activities that set to change the Constitution of the Russian Federation by violence, armed methods, which include a number of terrorist methods.

Second, relations with illegal armed organizations and other extremist groups that are active in the North Caucasian region.

Third, ..read more