Tuesday, February 14, 2012

Russia

FSB: Will Pay $10 Million To Find Basaev

15 March 2005 -- Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) says it will pay $10 million for information leading to the man who has become the Kremlin's number one foe, radical Chechen commander Shamil Basaev.

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March 15, 2005

The figure is the same amount that the authorities have said they paid informers who disclosed the location of Chechen rebel leader Aslan Maskhadov. Authorities said Maskhadov was killed in a special forces operation in the Chechen village of Tolstoy-Yurt last week.

Yesterday, authorities said they had blown up the house where Maskhadov was killed because they feared the building would have been booby-trapped.

Some human rights activists said the building may have been blown up to destroy any evidence that could cast doubt on official accounts of Maskhadov's killing.

(AP)

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