May, 2008

• 21 May

  New plan by the U.S.: ‘Commercial Annexation’ of Abkhazia?

  Some Russian media are writing with concern that after the US delegation headed by Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs Matthew J. Bryza and US Ambassador to Georgia John Taft visited Sukhumi (capital of Abkhazia), the tone in Abkhazia’s leadership’s statements has changed.

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• 21 May

  Tbilisi accusing Moscow of escalating tensions and increasing troops

  Georgian government officials have shown the footage to a BBC reporter, which is supposed to prove that Russia has been deploying heavy armaments in Abkhazia.

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• 21 May

  Combat operations of Mujahideen in Shatoi and Urus-Martan districts

  Occupation sources admit that on the night of 13 Jumada Al-‘Awwal 1429 (18 May 2008), mobile unit of Mujahideen attacked a base of murtadin gang of “Internal Affairs Directorate” in the settlement of Dai, Shatoi district of Wilayah Nokhchicho (Ichkeria/Chechnya) of the Caucasus Emirate. Russian kuffar (infidels/invaders) with reference to …

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• 21 May

  Russia’s records

  The results of implementation of the Putin-Medvedev projects require no comments. Russia is ahead of the entire planet in the decrease of the population, and 134th in the population’s life expectancy.

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• 21 May

  Putin and Sechin robbed Khodorkovsky out of plain greed

  Former deputy chief of presidential administration, now vice premier Igor Sechin was the initiator of both trials of the YUKOS board. This is the statement made to The Times by ex-CEO of that Russian oil company, Mikhail Khodorkovsky.

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• 21 May

  Putin humiliates Medvedev

  The war between Dmitry Medvedev and Vladimir Putin has actually already begun. Supporters and associates of the Kremlin’s former ringleader are now holding leading posts in the new government of Russia.

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• 21 May

  Kremlin sees nothing wrong with Moscow mayor’s calls to take Sevastopol away from Ukraine

  Moscow was perplexed about the decision made by the Ukrainian authorities to ban Moscow mayor Luzhkov from entering Ukraine. Moscow found nothing wrong with Luzkov’s calls to start redrawing the Ukrainian map and handing the port city of Sevastopol, Crimea, to Russia.

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• 21 May

  Moscow: APC blows up after parade

  It was only by a miracle that an emergency did not happen on the Red Square, where an armored vehicle was passing as part of a column,” The Tvoy Den (“Your Day”) periodical writes referring to its sources.

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• 21 May

  Rival Lebanese sign deal to end crisis

  DOHA (Reuters) – Rival Lebanese leaders signed a deal on Wednesday to end 18 months of political conflict that had pushed their country to the brink of a new civil war. The deal, concluded after six days of Arab-mediated talks in Qatar, paved the way for parliament to elect army …

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• 21 May

  TIMELINE: Political impasse in Lebanon

  (Reuters) – Rival Lebanese leaders reached a deal on Wednesday to end 18 months of political conflict that had pushed their country to the brink of a new civil war. Here is a chronology of Lebanon in the last 18 months.

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