Kavkaz News

President Vladimir Putin hinted at last week’s NATO summit in Romania that Russia would work to break up Ukraine, should the former Soviet republic join the military alliance, Kommersant reported Monday. Putin “lost his temper” at the NATO-Russia Council in Bucharest during Friday’s discussions of Ukraine’s bid to join NATO, …

Russia’s recent moves and statements concerning Georgia and its breakaway regions are raising tensions and “undermining a fragile situation”, a Nato spokesman has said.Speaking in Brussels, James Appathurai said: “Nato is watching with concern and wants to see all parties avoid the kind of rhetoric which is escalating tensions.”

According to news sources in Wilayah Ghalghaycho (Ingushetia) of the Caucasus Emirate, one of murtad officers a member of “Ministry of Internal Affairs” gang was shot dead in the village of Ali-Yurt last Wednesday. Local puppet sources said that “the policeman died of negligence in handling of weapon”.

The AlKavkaz website has reported that on 23 Rabi Al-Akhar 1429 (29 April 2008), sabotage unit of the Mujahideen of Dargo sector (commander Amir Osman) of the Eastern Front of Armed Forces of the Caucasus Emirate (commander Amir Aslambek), ambushed armed gang of Kadyrovans near the village of Canni-Vedeno.

Occupation sources in Wilayah Dagestan of the Caucasus Emirate report that the ringleader of a gang named “Interior Ministry of Dagestan” A. Magomedtagirov has said that the intelligence got information on possible attacks of Mujahideen in several cities: Shamilkala (former Makhachkala), Khasavyurt, Kizilyurt, Kizlyar, TemirHanShura (formerly Buinaksk), Kaspiysk, and Derbent.

Georgia’s breakaway regions, saying it had evidence Tbilisi was readying its forces for an attack. Georgia denied it had any plans to attack the separatist Abkhazia and South Ossetia regions, but the Russian move marks a new escalation in a crisis between the two ex-Soviet neighbors that has already alarmed …

MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia said on Thursday an extra contingent of its troops had begun arriving in Georgia’s breakaway region of Abkhazia, a move Tbilisi said was an illegal act of military aggression.

MOSCOW (Reuters) – Next week a lawyer with little foreign policy experience will become Russian president and lead a country with a nuclear arsenal, a UN veto and volatile relations with its neighbors and an energy-dependent West.

TBILISI (Reuters) – Moscow’s sabre-rattling over two disputed regions of Georgia is driven by Kremlin hardliners who want to push Russia’s next president into an anti-Western stance, diplomats in both countries said.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Authorities in Azerbaijan are still demanding more complete documentation before they will release a consignment of Russian equipment destined for an Iranian nuclear power plant under construction at Bushehr.