Tajik women are migrating abroad in increasing numbers On 2 August, three men from Tajikistan returned home for the last time. A flight from Yekaterinburg, Russia, to Dushanbe, the Tajik capital, delivered the bodies of Ilhom Saidbekov and Subhiddin Mirzoev. An Interior Ministry official told RFE/RL's Tajik Service that Saidbekov, a 31-year-old resident of Vose, in southern Tajikistan, became ill and died in Omsk. Mirzoev, a 21-year-old from Jirgatol, was killed in an auto accident. The same day, a Novosibirsk-Khujand flight brought home the body of a man from Panjkent identified only as Yoqubov. He was 36 years old and killed under unknown circumstances.
22 August 2005 -- Officials say Chechnya's law-enforcement bodies have killed the self-designated "emir" of the Urus-Martan Raion, Ruslan Vakhayev.
22 August 2005 -- Rescue teams in Russia's Caucasus have ended their search for two Polish mountain climbers trapped in an ice crevice and presumed dead.
Russian and Chinese officials at the opening of the exercises on 18 August 22 August 2005 (RFE/RL) -- Russian and Chinese forces -- taking part in their first-ever joint military maneuvers -- are preparing for exercises involving the use of real ammunition on China's east coast.
21 August 2005 (RFE/RL) -- Pope Benedict XVI addressed a Mass near Cologne, Germany, today that drew an estimated 1 million Roman Catholic worshippers as he prepared to conclude a visit marked by attempts to reach out to leaders of other religions.
21 August 2005-- Russian President Vladimir Putin today praised the son of assassinated Chechen President Akhmed-haji Kadyrov.
Pope Benedict XVI (file photo) 20 August 2005 -- Pope Benedict XVI today urged Muslims to join forces with Christians in trying to combat the spread of terrorism.
20 August 2005 -- An explosion in the capital of Russia's southern republic of Daghestan today killed three policemen and wounded a fourth.
Chinese paramilitary troops (file photo) 20 August 2005 -- Russian and Chinese paratroopers today landed along China's northeastern coast as some 9,000 soldiers from the two countries began the second stage of their first-ever joint military exercises.
The Maris are a Finno-Ugric people who at the time of the 1989 Soviet census numbered some 670,000, of whom some 43 percent lived in their titular republic.
19 August 2005 (RFE/RL) -- A leading Russian veterinary official has called on the international community to aid efforts to contain an outbreak of bird flu in Siberia.
The fears of many foreign scholars that the Tenth Finno-Ugric Congress that took place this week in the capital of the Republic of Marii El would be hijacked by the republican government following the untimely death in July of its president have proved well-founded. According the Tallin-based Information Centre of Finno-Ugric Peoples and a U.S. scholar who attended the congress, the republican authorities went to extraordinary lengths to prevent any contact between foreign delegates and members of the Mari national movement Mari Ushem. At the same time, Marii El President Leonid Markelov assured congress participants in Yoshkar-Ola of his commitment to democratization and equal rights for the Mari minority, and he dismissed unfavorable commentary as "unfounded attacks by the Finnish and Estonian press." (For brief background on this minority group, see "Who are the Maris?" --> /featuresarticle/2005/08/99fff660-2b82-423e-968b-ed117d76e4b9.html .)
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