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May 19 / 6:19am

Russia's Prosecutor General: Opposition = Terrorism

by Kerkko Paananen

The Russian Prosecutor General's Office has accused the country's opposition of encouraging terrorism, Vedomosti reported. "Ideologists of Western-style democratisation of Russia" coordinate radical youth groups, and the number of terrorist attacks carried out by the groups has grown, Deputy Prosecutor General Viktor Grin said.

Grin said that terrorists were trying to influence public opinion by "encouraging supposed defenders of human rights, opposition activists, separatists, and members of armed rebel groups." Leonid Gozman, leader of the right-wing Right Cause party, noted that the Prosecutor General's Office has thus admitted who it is really fighting against.

Grin identified two groups -- the banned National Bolshevik Party and the ultranationalist Movement Against Illegal Immigration -- and accused them of engaging in extremist activities. Grin said the National Bolsheviks have been trained to fight law enforcement officers similar to the uprisings in Georgia, Ukraine and Kyrgyzstan.

Grin's statement was in reply to a question from the Russian State Duma's Committee on Security. Duma speaker Boris Gryzlov and Federation Council speaker Sergey Mironov expressed anger at press articles, which appeared after the metro bombings in Moscow, saying the articles reflected the views of Islamist terrorists.

http://www.vedomosti.ru/newspaper/article/2010/05/18/234519

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May 16 / 6:56am

Black Widows: Russia's Bitter Harvest

by Kerkko Paananen

As the Moscow bombings remind, the simmering insurgency and brutal crackdown in the Caucasus have left a landscape of damaged women, some all too ready to spread their pain to Russia's heartland.

The last time Patimat Magomedova saw her daughter, she was puttering around the house, manicuring her nails and using henna to dye her hair bright red. Maryam Sharipova, 27, had traveled a thousand miles to Moscow and climbed onto a crowded subway train at rush hour with an explosives-packed belt strapped around her waist. She was accompanied by a 17-year-old girl, also from Dagestan, who blew herself up at another station.

In the Russian news media, the women were immediately dubbed "black widows." Their assault on the subway was taken as proof that the country had been shuttled back to the fearsome days when hollow-eyed female militants stalked Moscow and other cities far from the wars where their men fought Russian forces. The subway bombings also sent ripples of unease across the turbulent, mostly Muslim republics strung along Russia's southern edge.

But it came as slim surprise that women were ready to die. This is a landscape of damaged women, grieving losses they dare not dwell upon. The closer you get to the fighting in the Caucasus, the murkier it appears. The violence in Dagestan, Chechnya, and Ingushetia is not easy to classify -- it is a mix of rebels who want independence, Islamist extremists bent on waging jihad, local clan and gang warfare and sectarian strife.

And as the fighting intensifies, it is the men who disappear. Masked agents pound on the door and cart them off for questioning. They come back beaten, or not at all. Sometimes the men are rebels; other times, their affiliations are bafflingly vague. It is the women who are left behind, their status and material comforts tangled up in the choices of their fathers, sons and husbands.

http://articles.latimes.com/2010/apr/13/world/la-fg-women-bombers13-2010apr13

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Apr 2 / 9:50am

Dino MC47 - 29.03.2010

by Kerkko Paananen

http://newtimes.ru/articles/detail/18814
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Jan 20 / 2:11am

Neo-Nazi Terrorism in Russia Today

by Kerkko Paananen

Nazi terrorism. This is exactly how we should call the problem facing our society today. For many people, ultra-rightist terrorism is a relatively unfamiliar, new and to a great extent incomprehensible phenomenon. That is why bureaucrats, politicians, the media, the security forces, and the expert community mostly prefer to ignore the real problem, presenting it instead as a series of isolated, unrelated excesses.

For those who monitor the situation attentively, however, it is obvious that, over the past few years, neo-Nazis have made the qualitative shift from street violence to the tactics of terrorist groups supported by a well-developed infrastructure of extreme rightists. It suffices to analyze ultra-rightist internet resources and the statistics of nearly daily crimes to understand the scale and nature of the problem.

Repressive methods are powerless to tackle complex phenomena of this sort: the Nazi milieu, which has been actively growing in recent years, is capable of successfully reproducing itself. In order to really combat the ultra-rightist underground we need to destroy this movement’s well-developed infrastructure, in particular the convergence between Nazi terrorists and state officials.

http://chtodelat.wordpress.com/2010/01/14/january-19-committee-neo-nazi-terrorism-in-russia-today/

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