"In Russia, a different protest; Young, talented leading exodus for jobs, money" by Kathy Lally, Washington Post / March 9, 2011
MOSCOW — While protesters have been marching in the Middle East demanding liberty, Russians have been mostly silent. Instead of packing the streets, some have been quietly packing their bags, pursuing freedom in a new wave of emigration.
The departures are not easily documented because they are mostly unrecorded, but they have become the talk of the independent press and professional circles here. Russians blame their malaise on an authoritarian system in which political limits have settled over society as a whole, dead-ending career opportunities.
Now I'm feeling kinship with the Russian people.
“There is a general feeling that a wall has gone up,’’ said Dmitri Oreshkin, a geographer and political analyst who described the new wave of emigration in a widely quoted Novaya Gazeta article at the end of January. “Everyone is asking me if it’s time to leave.’’
Yeah, TELL ME about it!!!
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“They really do not want to leave,’’ he wrote in his article. “But here they have nowhere to go, nothing to do, and no hope.’’
Yes, I used to love reading my copy of the Boston Globe in the morning; however, that seems like ages ago.
Btw, where are the Russians going?
Oreshkin said the young, talented, and ambitious are most likely to leave — professionals like Natalya Kuzmina, 29, a cardiac intensive care doctor who departed Moscow in January.....
Kuzmina, who is not Jewish, got a five-year residency at a Jerusalem hospital, where she describes herself as thriving....
The Russian government, she said, allocated money to the Moscow hospital where she worked, but it never filtered down to where it was needed. “Every institution is corrupted,’’ she said. “We cannot move anywhere. We are stuck.’’
I hear ya' there!
Kuzmina plans to return in five years, but Oreshkin said such career moves often become permanent. “They create a life there,’’ he said, “and they don’t return.’’
It's the story of the AmeriKan media and the blogs!
That's why YOU and I are HERE, dear readers.
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And crap like this is what put us here:
"Teens held in Moscow airport bombing; Russia names suspect, arrests 2 of his siblings" by Sergei Venyavsky, Associated Press / February 10, 2011
ROSTOV-ON-DON, Russia — Chechen rebel warlord Doku Umarov has claimed responsibility for the attack that killed 36 and injured more than 180. He said in a video posted Monday that many more such attacks will follow if Russia does not allow the Caucasus to become an independent Islamic state governed by Sharia law....
See: Russian Through the Boston Globe
Gee, another Israeli-based security firm in charge of airport security when "terrorists" slipped through.
In another video released over the weekend, Umarov appeared with a young man whom he said was being sent to Moscow on a suicide mission. No mention was made of the airport bombing, and it was unclear when the video was made. Kommersant quoted a local imam as saying that the man in the video resembled Yevloyev.
Yeah, about those videos:
Prop 101: Al-CIA-Duh and the OSI
Prop 101: Al-CIA-Duh's Greatest Hits
Prop 101: The "Terrorism" Business
New York Times Admits War on Terror is U.S. Creation
I don't like the CIA-Duh channels, readers.
Umarov has claimed responsibility for an array of terrorist attacks, including last year’s double suicide bombing of the Moscow subway system that killed 40 people.
Some observers have questioned Umarov’s claim.
Ben West, an analyst at Stratfor, a global intelligence analysis company, said in a written comment that Umarov could have claimed the attack to boost his profile after a fallout with other rebel leaders last fall. Russian officials have said that militants in Chechnya are linked to Al Qaeda and other foreign terror groups and depend on them for funding.
They keep waving around CIA-Duh, sigh.
Chechen rebels have fought two separatist wars against Russian forces since 1994. Major offensives in the second war died down about a decade ago, but the Islamic insurgency has spread across neighboring North Caucasus provinces, stoked by poverty, official corruption, and abuses against civilians by security forces.
Attacks on police and other authorities have become a near-daily occurrence.
CIA-Duh never sleeps.
Late Tuesday, three explosions hit different areas of Chechnya’s provincial capital, Grozny, wounding three police officers and two civilians, the Interior Ministry’s regional branch said yesterday.
In Dagestan, Chechnya’s eastern neighbor, two policemen were killed last evening in the town of Khasavyurt by shots from a passing car, regional Interior Ministry spokesman Vyacheslav Gasanov said.
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"Politician, militants killed in violence
MAKHACHKALA — Four Islamic militants and a local politician have been killed in drive-by shootings, shootouts with police, and accidental bombings in Russia’s volatile North Caucasus region, officials said yesterday. Provinces in the mainly Muslim region have been increasingly roiled by violence and clashes between police and Islamic militants (AP)."
See what most of the rumbling is in my agenda-pushing, war-promoting paper?
"Female bomber kills 1, wounds 6 in Russia" by Associated Press / February 15, 2011
MAKHACHKALA, Russia — A suicide bomber blew herself up while trying to enter a police station in the southern Dagestan region yesterday, killing a soldier and wounding six others, officials said.
The bomber was stopped by a military patrol as she tried to enter the building in the central village of Gubden, said Vyacheslav Gasanov, regional police spokesman. The victims were soldiers who guard the police station, and those wounded in the attack have been hospitalized, Gasanov said.
Dagestan is the largest and most ethnically diverse province of the predominantly Muslim Northern Caucasus region and is increasingly beset by almost daily violence that stems from two separatist wars in neighboring Chechnya.
Also yesterday, a suspected Islamic militant was killed in a shootout with security forces outside Makhachkala, Dagestan’s capital. Gasanov said two policemen were wounded.
Islamic militants have stepped up their attacks on military, police and civilians both in Northern Caucasus provinces and in central Russia.
A 20-year-old suicide bomber from Ingushetia, another province that borders Chechnya, blew himself up at Moscow’s busiest airport last month, killing 36 and wounding more than 180 people.
Human rights groups and critics of Kremlin-appointed provincial governments say that federal forces and police trigger the violence with extrajudicial killings, arrests, kidnappings, and other abuses.
Hey, wait a minute. That's the way we run our wars for empire!
Some government critics assert that young men have no other options but to join the insurgents because corrupt officials blacklist their families to extort bribes.
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Related: Chechnya leader hunts for a 2d wife
Here is one boom you can only hear through the rustling of print:
Man blows himself up at supermarket
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Friend, right.
What your friend censored, dear readers:
"MOSCOW -- A man blew himself up with a grenade near a supermarket in northeastern Moscow yesterday, Russian news agencies said. No further injuries were reported. There was no indication the blast was intended as a terrorist act. UTAR-Tass quoted an official as saying a domestic quarrel was apparently the motivation (AP). "
Oh, I see why that gets scrubbed. Not really useful to the war agenda, is it?
More BG BS to wade through:
"Opposition leader detained at rally
MOSCOW — Russian police detained an opposition leader and a dozen activists during a rally in Moscow yesterday that drew hundreds of protesters. Several hundred activists headed by Sergei Udaltsov of the anti-Kremlin Left Front group braved freezing temperatures to rally in central Moscow to protest what they said was the Kremlin’s stifling of democracy, as well as government corruption and rising prices (AP)."
Related: Russia’s ruling party sweeps local elections
Gorbachev to receive Russia’s highest honor
Gorbachev rips Putin, Russian regime
What an ungrateful globalist a**hole.
Besides, who cares? His time has passed.
"Judge’s aide says Russian tycoon’s trial fixed; Alleges verdict imposed under political pressure" by Lynn Berry, Associated Press / February 15, 2011
MOSCOW — The judge who convicted oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky did not write the verdict and read it against his will in the Moscow courtroom, the judge’s assistant said yesterday.
The assertion, detailed in a lengthy interview, provides a rare look inside Russia’s judicial system, where judges are susceptible to political pressure....
Remember Gonzales-gate or whatever it was, Americans?
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Related: Unrest in Russia
Also see:
Wealthy Russian lawmaker flees to US, fears assassination
Orphanage fire in Estonia kills 10 disabled children
Ruling coalition in Estonia wins unprecedented second term
Ex-leader denies role in reporter’s killing
Family detained after hiding twin babies at border
Also see: Uranium Coming Out of the Ukraine
