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Russia is not interested in settlement of conflicts in Georgia and this country’s entrance to NATO, and therefore, provokes Georgian- Abkhazian and Georgian-Ossetia conflicts, experts consider. ” Moscow appears to think that so long as Georgia is in conflict with its breakaway regions and Russia, Georgia will not be allowed …

After a guerrilla attack on the village of Muzhichi, members of the “Memorial” human rights centre conducted a painstaking survey of village residents, gathering comprehensive information about the raid. Tamerlan Akiyev, head of Memorial’s Nazran office, has kindly provided an article written specially for Prague Watchdog about the results of …

Condoleezza Rice, the US secretary of state, has urged Russia to help resolve tension in Georgia’s rebel regions rather than “contributing to it”.   Rice was in Tbilisi, the country’s capital, on Thursday in a show of support for Georgia, an ex-Soviet state which wants to join Nato and is …

Gangs of the Russian invaders from the so-called North Caucasus Military District are ready “to provide assistance to the Russian troops in case the situation gets more aggravated in the conflict zones in Abkhazia and South Ossetia”, as gang leader of Russian North Caucasus Military District, Sergei Makarov, said.

From July 5 to July 7, an international Islamic conference entitled “The Place and Role of Sufism in the Islamic World,” which gathered together more than 200 clergymen from Russia and other countries, was held in the Chechen town of Gudermes. According to official sources, the event was organized by …

Sources from the Province of Ingushetia, The Caucasus Emirate, reported that a unit of the Caucasus Armed Forces (Mujahideen) consisting of over 100 fighters entered the village of Muzhichi early morning of Rajab 6, 1429 (July 9, 2008). At the same time the locals said that the number of Mujahideen …

On this photo Kvachkov looks very much like a Hollywood character: Dr. Hannibal Lecktor    Colonel of Russia’s Main Intelligence Directorate (GRU), Vladimir Kvachkov, who was recently acquitted of charges with an assassination attempt on Anatoly Chibais, announced last Friday that he resumes his “military and political work”, as Russian media …

Bank of Russia would like to find out how the Russian population will react if the 1-kopeck and 5-kopeck coins get withdrawn from the circulation, as Director of Department of Cash Circulation of Russia’s Central Bank, Alexander Yurov, said at the conference entitled “Circulation of Cash Currency: Models, Standards, Trends”.

The New York Times writes that Russia’s President Dmitry Medvedev said during his meeting with the foreign journalists the other day that the United States is now in “deep crisis” and the US has no right to give any advises to other countries on how to conduct their policies.

Blasts and arsons in the gang formations called the “Russian Army” are continuing. July 1 an “unidentified explosive device” was set off on one of the launchpads of the Russian invaders’ missile base 40 km away from the city of Barnaul in Altai, which Russia invaded and is now retaining …