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Eurasian Secret Services Daily Review

REVIEW TOPICS: Yanukovich’s team in Ukraine concentrates economic and power levers of administration in its hands Scale of mass disturbances in Kharkov, Ukraine, has not been not known since 2001 Ukrainian parliament’s committee head insists on law enforcement bodies reforms Replacements in Security Service of Ukraine come to capital city …

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Riyadh wants to host 2007 Arab summit

CAIRO (AP) — Saudi Arabia has asked Arab leaders to convene their annual summit in the kingdom’s capital, reversing an earlier decision not to host it, the Arab League chief said Monday.

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Eurasian Secret Services Daily Review

REVIEW TOPICS: Russian intelligence has lost Iraq and had no wish to interrogate terrorists Putin sending special Russian spy probe squad to Britain Had Russian secret services any relation to Chechen ‘General’s’ death? 

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Somali gov’t launches media crackdown

MOGADISHU (Reuters) — Somalia’s government, with new emergency powers in hand to tame the chaotic country, ordered four major media outlets to shut down on Monday as the president named a team to take charge of the capital.

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Jazeera journalist released on bail by Egyptian authorities

CAIRO (AP) — A journalist from the pan-Arab Al Jazeera TV channel was released on bail Sunday after being interrogated for possessing     videotapes with fabricated scenes of torture by Egyptian police, her lawyer said.

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Better Late Than Never: Retarded De-communization in Poland

“In a land of shadows where the state has all the power and all the secrets and its citizens have neither, simple survival can require at least a dialogue, if not a deal, with the devil. The lines separating prudence from cowardice, silence from acquiescence and compromise from collaboration can …

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Eurasian Secret Services Daily Review

REVIEW TOPICS: Novaya Gazeta blames Russian secret services, army special-task troops on involvement in death squads Russia seeks British help in Litvinenko’s death probe, asks for permission to interview more than 100 people Russia’s FSB hosts informal meeting of 118 security services from 55 countries

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Eurasian Secret Services Daily Review

REVIEW TOPICS: Purge in Bulgaria’s security services, National Security Service head sent as ambassador to Africa Czechs and Slovaks agree to split military archives Poland’s Communist-era security police members to lose high pensions

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