Some bad news for Putin ( the beginning of the end, it seems):

Putins Popularitätskurve fällt

In Russland sieht es derzeit offenbar nicht so aus, dass Interimspräsident Wladimir Putin bei den Präsidentschaftswahlen am 26. März die absolute Mehrheit erhält. Bei einer Umfrage des russischen Fernsehens stürzte Putin innerhalb einer Woche von 55 Prozent auf 48 ab.!!!!!

Moskau - Einer am Sonntag im russischen Fernsehen veröffentlichten Umfrage zufolge gaben nur 48 Prozent der 1600 Befragten an, Putin im März wählen zu wollen. Noch in der Vorwoche hatten 55 Prozent für Putin votiert.

http://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/nf/0,1518,62409,00.html

Azeri soldiers kill three comrades, flee barracks 01/31/2000

Reuters English News Service
01/31/2000

BAKU, Jan 31 (Reuters) - A group of Azeri soldiers shot dead two officers and a fellow soldier at the weekend before fleeing their barracks, Azerbaijan's Defence Ministry said on Monday.

Ministry spokesman Ramiz Melikov told Reuters the incident occurred on Saturday at a military base 400 km (250 miles) west of the capital Baku. He did not say how many soldiers took part.

"A criminal case has been opened and we're trying to ascertain the motives behind the shooting," Melikov said. "At the moment it's not clear what the reason is for this bloodshed."

Soldiers and their parents are often quoted in the Azeri press complaining about poor conditions and bullying at the oil-producing republic's military bases.

RUSSIA CRUSHING CHECHYN TERRORISTS.., WE ALL LOVE OUR SONS, WHO FIGHT SO VIGOROUSLY FOR GRETA RUSSIAN CAUSE.., AND YOUR REWARD COMES SOON, MY FRIEND (-:
RUSSIA CRUSHING CHECHYN TERRORISTS.., WE ALL LOVE OUR SONS, WHO FIGHT SO VIGOROUSLY FOR GRETA RUSSIAN CAUSE.., AND YOUR REWARD COMES SOON, MY FRIEND (-:
RUSSIA CRUSHING CHECHYN TERRORISTS.., WE ALL LOVE OUR SONS, WHO FIGHT SO VIGOROUSLY FOR GRETA RUSSIAN CAUSE.., AND YOUR REWARD COMES SOON, MY FRIEND (-:RUSSIA CRUSHING CHECHYN TERRORISTS.., WE ALL LOVE OUR SONS, WHO FIGHT SO VIGOROUSLY FOR GRETA RUSSIAN CAUSE.., AND YOUR REWARD COMES SOON, MY FRIEND (-:RUSSIA CRUSHING CHECHYN TERRORISTS.., WE ALL LOVE OUR SONS, WHO FIGHT SO VIGOROUSLY FOR GRETA RUSSIAN CAUSE.., AND YOUR REWARD COMES SOON, MY FRIEND (-:RUSSIA CRUSHING CHECHYN TERRORISTS.., WE ALL LOVE OUR SONS, WHO FIGHT SO VIGOROUSLY FOR GRETA RUSSIAN CAUSE.., AND YOUR REWARD COMES SOON, MY FRIEND (-:RUSSIA CRUSHING CHECHYN TERRORISTS.., WE ALL LOVE OUR SONS, WHO FIGHT SO VIGOROUSLY FOR GRETA RUSSIAN RUSSIA CRUSHING CHECHYN TERRORISTS.., WE ALL LOVE OUR SONS, WHO FIGHT SO VIGOROUSLY FOR GRETA RUSSIAN CAUSE.., AND YOUR REWARD COMES SOON, MY FRIEND (-:CAUSE.., AND YOUR REWARD COMES SOON, MY FRIEND (-:

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Killed for her cause / Woman's wish denied at her funeral 01/31/2000
SELCAN HACAOGLU

Islamic feminist sought right to pray with men in mosque

Houston Chronicle
01/31/2000

ANKARA, Turkey - Even in death, Konca Kuris was denied her last wish - that women be allowed to pray alongside men. It was a desire that cost the religious feminist her life at the hands of Islamic radicals.

Police dug up Kuris' naked body from the basement of a hideout used by Islamic militants who videotaped weeks of abuse they inflicted before suffocating her. The bodies of dozens of male victims also have been found, and a second female victim was discovered Friday.

The killings have horrified the country, but Kuris' slaying also has focused attention on the role of women in Islam, a flash point that was underscored when male relatives at her funeral last week refused to allow her eldest daughter to pray beside her coffin.

"Who are the real Muslims, those who have killed Konca or those who go to mosque together, women and men?" asked Necati Dogru, a columnist for the newspaper Sabah.

Sibel Eraslan, a female commentator, wrote in the Islamic newspaper Akit, "One more person paid with her life for being different and searching for her own voice."

But at Ankara's main Kocatepe mosque, worshipper Nese Ince spoke out against Kuris' feminist brand of Islam. "I don't want the Islam that I have believed in for years to be changed," she said.

Kuris at first was a member of the militant group Hezbollah, which is trying to establish an Islamic state in southeastern Turkey and which is not related to the Lebanese militia of the same name.

She traveled to Iran with a delegation from the organization but gradually became disillusioned with the group's attitude toward women.

She demanded the right to pray alongside men and that prayers be said in Turkish and not the traditional Arabic, which few Turks understand. Although Kuris wore a traditional Islamic head scarf, she said head scarves or the full black robes worn by some religious women were optional and not required in Islam.

Kuris' feminist views infuriated Hezbollah, which is dominated by traditional, rural Kurds.

In early 1998, she began to receive anonymous telephone calls. "Are you inventing a new religion?" the voices asked, according to the newspaper Milliyet.

In July of that year, three militants kidnapped Kuris from in front of her home in the southern port of Mersin, and she was never seen again.

Videotapes of Kuris' interrogation were discovered about two weeks ago during a police raid on a Hezbollah safe house in Istanbul, Sabah reported. It said they showed militants stuffing a picture of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, the founder of secular Turkey, into her mouth.

The newspaper also said the militants accused Kuris of seeking to become a Salman Rushdie or Taslima Nasrin, Muslim writers considered heretics by Muslim radicals.

Kuris was apparently suffocated with a pillow or clothing in the basement of a house in the central Anatolian city of Konya. In death, she also was kept from her goal of equality. Her body
was buried in a different corner of the basement than those of the murdered men.

At her funeral, the dispute over her views erupted in full force.

"I will carry out my mother's last will," shouted Kuris' eldest daughter, Sirma. But men blocked her from the male section of the mosque.

Mosques are divided into sections by gender, with the separate area for women usually in the back.

Another female relative, Necla Olcer, finally pushed the men aside and stood near the coffin as the Islamic preacher quickly read the prayers and hastily ended the funeral.

Photo: 1. The family of slain Islamic writer Konca Kuris, 38, gathers around her coffin in Mersin, Turkey, last week. Kuris, a feminist, demanded the right to pray alongside men, but the women who did so at Kuris' funeral had to push their way to the front; Mug: 2. Konca Kuris

RUSSIA IS GREAT VICTOR

ALL THROUGHOUT HISTORY.., THE MUSLIM, HAS TERRORIZED AND PILLAGED THE PEOPLES OF THE WORLD, WHEN THEY NEEDED LAND...CHECHYN SHOULD BE ASHAMED..FOR COWARDLY ATTACK ON HOTELS, IN MOSCOW...YOUR DAY COMES SOON...**S**

Flash news: CHECHENS are leaving GROZNY, reports
Kavkaz.centre.

Âîîðóæåííûå ñèëû ×ÐÈ îñòàâèëè ãîðîä Äæîõàð. ×å÷åíñêîå êîìàíäîâàíèå ñîîáùàåò î ïëàíîâîé ïåðåäèñëîêàöèè ñâîèõ ïîäðàçäåëåíèé TOP
 íî÷ü ñ 31 ÿíâàðÿ íà 1 ôåâðàëÿ Âîîðóæåííûå ñèëû ×ÐÈ îñòàâèëè ÷å÷åíñêóþ ñòîëèöó. Øàìèëü Áàñàåâ çàÿâèë, ÷òî ïðîâåäåíà ïëàíîâàÿ ïåðåäèñëîêàöèÿ ïîäðàçäåëåíèé ìîäæàõåäîâ, çàùèùàâøèõ ãîðîä Äæîõàð. Ïî åãî ñëîâàì, ×å÷åíñêàÿ Àðìèÿ âûïîëíèëà ïîñòàâëåííóþ ïåðåä íåé áîåâóþ çàäà÷ó. Øàìèëü Áàñàåâ ïîä÷åðêíóë, ÷òî Âîîðóæåííûå ñèëû ×ÐÈ áóäóò äåéñòâîâàòü â äàëüíåéøåì â ñîîòâåòñòâèè ñ óòâåðæäåííûì ïëàíîì îáîðîíû ×å÷åíñêîãî ãîñóäàðñòâà.

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Ñåãîäíÿ îêîëî 10 ÷àñîâ ïî ìåñòíîìó âðåìåíè â áîÿõ ñ àãðåññîðàìè ïîãèáëè ãåíåðàëû Àñëàìáåê Èñìàèëîâ è Õóíêàðïàøà Èñðàïèëîâ TOP
Êîððåñïîíäåíò àãåíòñòâà “Êàâêàç-öåíòð” ñîîáùàåò, ÷òî ñåãîäíÿ îêîëî 10 ÷àñîâ ïî ìåñòíîìó âðåìåíè â áîÿõ ñ ðîññèéñêèìè àãðåññîðàìè ïîãèáëè ãåíåðàëû Àñëàìáåê Èñìàèëîâ è Õóíêàðïàøà Èñðàïèëîâ.


It is sad, but partisan war will be more exciting.

FIGHT ON, MY RUSSIAN HEROES.., AND COMRADES!!!VICTORY AWAITS YOU, AND GLORY TO MOST HIGH..., YOU HAVE CLEANSED SCOURGE FROM OUR LAND

FIGHT ON, MY RUSSIAN HEROES.., AND COMRADES!!!VICTORY AWAITS YOu..and glorious snactities, of most glories'

CHECHYNS LIE ABOUT, STREWN ABOUT LAND, LIKE SEETHING,WIMPERING DOGS.., BUT WE , AS GREAT RUSSIAN PRINCE'S..., WILL DEAL GREAT BLOW..TO ALLAH', AND HIS THUGS!GREAT IS DAY, WHEN RUSSIA FLAG.., FLIES ABOVE 'ALL' CHECHYNA!!!!YOU ARE MODEL, FOR ALL WORLD TO FOLLOW..MY COMRADES!!!!!!

RUSSIA IS STRONG NATION.., AND WILL NOT BOW TO LIBERAL U.N, AND LYING U.S. DOGS!!!!!LET U.N COME HERE.., AND ACT AS COWARDLY GUYS....!!!LMAO...WE WILL STRIKE UPON THE HEARTS , OF SUCH INFIDELS......

"""By balalaika ( - 210.138.34.100) on Monday, January 31, 2000 - 07:20 pm:

I happened to meet in my lifetime were not much better than turks. """

If you meant the nation of Turks, use capital "T".

"turk" has a different meaning.

Would you like to elaborate why do you think this way. Has some of them kicked your ass (or arse)?

RUSSIA IS LIKE, GREAT STATUE OF LENIN.....WE ARE CONQUERERS, AS IN TRADITION, OF GLORIOUS SOVIET PAST...WOE TO THAT, WHICH SEEKS , TO IMPURIFY RUSSIA HOMELAND.....THE DAYS OF REAGAN, AND GORBYCHEV...ARE GONE..NEW SOVIET DOMINANCE..COMING....LINE UP NOW..CHECHYN..FOR FOOD STAMP......., AND HOUSING QUARTER...WE WILL PROVIDE FOOD.., BUT YOU MUST WORK.., AND NOT HAVE 23 BABIES..., IS ALL....LAND NOT BIG, FOR TO MANY PEOPLE'S....

CHECHYN WIMPERS IN THE NIGHT.., AS MY BROTHER, DOES CRUSH THE RESISTANCE..LONG LIVE.....RUSSIAN POWER.., AND AWAIT...THE NEW SOVIET EMPIRE..FEAR .......APPROACHETH, FROM WEST....

RUSSIA LINES UP, TO ENLIST SOLDIERS.., TO SLICE OFF EAR..OF CHECHYN THUG GUYZ!!!!!LIFE AS CHECHYN KNOWS.....IS TO CHANGE..SOON, W/ IMPENDING DEFEAT OF DRUG-TRADE LEADER.., AND IDOLATOR-WORSHIP ALLAH FANATICS......