Monday, February 13, 2012

Russia

Four Bodies Recovered After Daghestan Shoot-Out

17 January 2005 -- A local official in Daghestan said today the bodies of four gunmen killed in an hours-long firefight with Russian security forces in the Caucasus republic have been recovered from the ruins of a house destroyed in the assault.

TEXT SIZE - +

January 17, 2005

Abdulmanap Mussaev, spokesman for Daghestan's Interior Ministry, said the bodies were too badly damaged to be identified immediately and laboratory tests would be needed to do so.

According to Mussaev, authorities said during the weekend that there were five gunmen and a search for the remaining body continued.

The gunmen exchanged fire for 15 hours over the weekend with Russian security forces before the house they were holed up in outside the Daghestan capital Makhachkala was destroyed after being fired upon by a tank and other heavy artillery. A police officer was also killed in the shoot-out.

(AFP/ITAR-TASS)

Syrians in the northwestern town of Kfar Nubul pose with a cartoon depicting Russia

Angry Over Syria, Arab World Threatens Russian Boycott

Groups in a number of Arab states, angry over the Russian-Chinese veto of a UN resolution aimed at stopping the violence in Syria, have called for a one-day boycott of Russian and Chinese goods on February 12. More

Alla Dzhioyeva attends a protest by her supporters in Tskhinvali on January 28.

South Ossetian Opposition Leader Hospitalized After Raid

Alla Dzhioyeva, the opposition candidate whose victory in a runoff ballot in November for de facto president of Georgia's breakaway region of South Ossetia was swiftly annulled by the republic's Supreme Court, was taken to a hospital after a raid by some 200 masked security personnel on her headquarters in Tskhinvali. More

Protesters gather behind a banner reading "Honest Elections" during a demonstration in Moscow on February 4.

How To Rig An Election

A whistle-blower in Samara explains how the authorities fixed the Duma elections in December -- and plan to do the same in the presidential vote in March. More