just somethin that came to mind...
and just when some serious material comes up.
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War has just begun!
Russians "liberate" cities and villages that were already dead.

Thursday 02 March 2000 Mujahideen Destroy Two Russian Bases near Shatoi Killing 135 Russians

Mujahideen Fulfill Their Promise to Surprise the Russians

The Mujahideen commenced their participation in the upcoming Russian General Elections by launching stinging attacks against Russian forces in Chechnya. Mujahideen sources confirm that an attack was launched against a Russian base between the mountains of Shatoi and Vedeno, early Wednesday morning, 01 March 2000. By the Grace of Allah Most High, the Mujahideen surrounded the enemy base and killed 60 Russian soldiers. The Mujahideen quickly regrouped and launched another attack against a second base that was located nearby. Mujahideen sources confirm that 75 Russian soldiers were killed in the second attack, and that both operations resulted in the capture of large quantities of arms and ammunition.

The Mujahideen have launched this latest series of attacks against the enemy as part of an effective hit-and-run campaign that is eating away at the strength of the Russian Military. The attacks also fulfill the Mujahideen's pledge to turn the enemy forces head over heels, and to send them a warning sign that these attacks are the first in a series of crushing blows that are going to be conducted against Russian colonial forces across Chechnya.

Mujahideen Eye Russians in Shatoi From Mountain Heights

The Commander of Russian forces in Chechnya has claimed that his army of drunkards and drug addicts had "captured the last major rebel stronghold in Chechnya following fierce fighting that left 150 Mujahideen dead." The Russian General's comments, made in reference to the mountain village of Shatoi, are false and misleading. Mujahideen sources confirm that no Mujahideen units were ever stationed in the village as the Mujahideen refrain from positioning themselves in populated areas to help spare the civilian population as much fighting as possible. Russian soldiers themselves have admitted that they did not find a single member of the Mujahideen in Shatoi.

The Russians are now in the small mountain village. However, they are being watched. They are being hunted and they will die soon insha-Allah. Like eagles in the sky and like lions in the brush, the Mujahideen are watching every move the Russians make. They will soon pounce upon the Vodka army and its bribery battalions and will teach them once again why the mountains of Shatoi are described as the Lion's Den, insha-Allah.

Names of 96 Russian Soldiers killed in Wednesday's Operation whose Bodies were Recovered by the Mujahideen:

1. Vladimir Zhelonkin, Colonel from Nizhnevartovsk, Khanti-Mansi Province
2. Albert Glazkov, Colonel from Volzhski, Volgograd Province
3. Valentin Vdovichenkov, Lieutenant-Colonel from Borovsk, Kaluga Province
4. Aleksandr Shalomeyev, Lieutenant-Colonel from Tchaikovskii, Perm Province
5. Boris Troshin, Lieutenant-Colonel from Beresnyaki, Perm Province
6. Vitaliy Kucenko, Major from Kamyshin, Volgograd Province
7. Alexander Chernogorov, Major from Zarechni, Penza Province
8. Vladimir Plykin, Major from Klintsi, Bryansk Province
9. Georgy Volkov, Major from Aleksin, Tula Province
10. Anatolii Guzhvin, Captain from Ruzaevka, Mordovia Province
11. Pyotr Vashilin, Captain from Saratov, Evenk Province
12. Artem Otmakhov, Captain from Nefteugansk, Khanti-Mansi Province
13. Maxim Dzodzuashvili, Soldier from Dudinka, Taimyr Province
14. Arthur Isenko, Soldier from Izhevsk, Udmurtia Province
15. Pavel Oganessyan, Soldier from Kasimov, Ryazan Province
16. Vladimir Smolyakov, Soldier from Borisoglebsk, Voronezh Province
17. Grigory Lobanovsky, Soldier from Kalach, Voronezh Province
18. Vladislav Titov, Soldier from Alatir, Chuvashia Province
19. Boris Mulyar, Soldier from Pyatigorsk, Stavropol Province
20. Andrey Chub, Soldier from Isilkul, Omsk Province
21. Chulpan Yurinsky, Soldier from Izhevsk, Udmurtia Province
22. David Kaminsky, Soldier from Sarank, Mordovia Province
23. Andrey Fadeev, Soldier from Shakhty, Rostov Province
24. Dines Yelistratov, Soldier from Georgiu-Dezh, Voronezh Province
25. Egor Sumin, Soldier from Livni, Oryol Province
26. Loenid Belkin, Soldier from Syzran, Samara Province
27. Dmitriy Vexler, Soldier from Volgograd, Volgograd Province
28. Eduard Chernogorov, Soldier from Engels, Evenk Province
29. Mikhail Feklistov, Soldier from Oriol, Oryol Province
30. Egor Yelagin, Soldier from Esse, Stavropol Province
31. Eduard Protas, Soldier from Sikivkar, Komi Province
32. Fyodor Eremeev, Soldier from Morshansk, Tambov Province
33. Gennadii Tarasov, Soldier from Orsk, Orenburg Province
34. Victor Kapitonov, Soldier from Rossosh, Voronezh Province
35. Georgy Dremin, Soldier from Oriol, Oryol Province
36. Yaniv Plykin, Soldier from Sochi, Krasnodar Province
37. Gleb Lovchev, Soldier from Eyisk, Krasnodar Province
38. Yuriy Igoninas, Soldier from Vorkuta, Komi Province
39. Guennady Starukhin, Soldier from Rodniki, Ivanovo Province
40. Igor Tarasov, Soldier from Isilkul, Omsk Province
41. Victor Starostin, Soldier from Skopin, Ryazan Province
42. Yevgeny Netto, Soldier from Surgut, Khanti-Mansi Province
43. Dmitrijus Narolin, Soldier from Morshansk, Tambov Province
44. Igor Kondratenko, Soldier from Omsk, Omsk Province
45. Ivan Alnikov, Soldier from Novomoskovsk, Tula Province
46. Dmitry Gurin, Syzran, Samara Province
47. Janavicius Zak, Soldier from Taganrog, Rostov Province
48. Kirill Lashaury, Soldier from Ozersk, Chelyabinsk Province
49. Aleksey Karpov, Soldier from Astrakhan, Astrakhan Province
50. Konstantin Gurin, Soldier from Znamensk, Astrakhan Province
51. Loenid Vladas, Soldier from Surgut, Khanti-Mansi Province
52. Daniil Zuev, Soldier from Ivanovo, Ivanovo Province
53. Mark Andreyev, Soldier from Balashov, Evenk Province
54. Yurii Arefyev, Soldier from Eletz, Lipetsk Province
55. Oleg Kipiani, Soldier from Cheboksari, Chuvashia Province
56. Michail Serebryakov, Soldier from Moscow, Moscow Province
57. Vladislav Luzhkov, Soldier from Belgorod, Belgorod Province
58. Aleksandr Geyhman, Soldier from Astrakhan, Astrakhan Province
59. Oleg Haybullin, Soldier from Tara, Omsk Province
60. Vitalii Panin, Soldier from Kharabali, Astrakhan Province
61. Murtaz Pazenko, Soldier from Shchigry, Kursk Province
62. Oleg Shvetsov, Soldier from Nefteugansk, Khanti-Mansi Province
63. Yevgeniy Rutskoi, Soldier from Inta, Komi Province
64. Dmitrijus Agapov, Soldier from Tara, Omsk Province
65. Otar Plykin, Soldier from Serdobsk, Penza Province
66. Nikolaj Mikhailichenko, Soldier from Rossosh, Voronezh Province
67. Yevgeny Gazmanov, Soldier from Sosnogorsk, Komi Province
68. Otar Rudensky, Soldier from Michurinsk, Tambov Province
69. Pavel Stroev, Soldier from Magnitogorsk, Chelyabinsk Province
70. Valeri Kolotov, Soldier from Shuya, Ivanovo Province
71. Pavel Ignatichev, Soldier from Sikivkar, Komi Province
72. Ivan Gershkovich, Soldier from Tolyatti, Samara Province
73. Peter Bodrov, Soldier from Kursk, Kursk Province
74. Nikolay Titov, Soldier from Volzhski, Volgorad Province
75. Mark Panin, Soldier from Sochi, Krasnodar Province
76. Peter Khaev, Soldier from Shebekino, Belgorod Province
77. Klim Pazenko, Soldier from Moscow, Moscow Province
78. Pyotr Khaev, Soldier from Mozhga, Udmurtia Province
79. Revaz Vasserbaum, Soldier from Inza, Ulyanovsk Province
80. Yaniv Vernik, Soldier from Adygeisk, Adygeya Province
81. Rodion Mamaev, Soldier from Esse, Stavropol Province
82. Sergey Pugach, Soldier from Solikamsk, Perm Province
83. Nikolaj Stotsky,Volgodonsk, Rostov Province
84. Sergey Martinov, Soldier from Omsk, Omsk Province
85. Evgeniy Khidiyatullin, Soldier from Sarank, Mordovia Province
86. Vagiz Rutskoi, Soldier from Moscow, Moscow Province
87. Rinat Fedorov, Soldier from Stavropol, Stavropol Province
88. Vakhtang Sukhoruchenkov, Soldier from Belgorod, Belgorod Province
89. Igor Dasaev, Soldier from Buguruslan, Orenburg Province
90. Valentin Titov, Soldier from Shuya, Ivanovo Province
91. Rinat Bodrov, Soldier from Kalach, Voronezh Province
92. Evgeniy Adamov, Soldier from Serdobsk, Penza Province
93. Valery Sazontyev, Soldier from Barysh, Ulyanovsk Province
94. Mikhail Feklistov, Soldier from Lgov, Kursk Province
95. Victor Dremin, Soldier from Kirov, Kaluga Province
96. Evgeny Igumnov, Soldier from Maloyaroslavets, Kaluga Province

Decline of The West
by George Szamuely
Antiwar.com

February 29, 2000

The Media & Mitrovica: NATO's Handmaidens

It was always only a matter of time before NATO resumed the bombing of Yugoslavia. This is an election year. Bill Clinton was ready to commit mass murder to hold on to the Presidency. He is ready to do the same for Al Gore and Hillary. All the ingredients needed to restart the campaign are already in place. The KLA, hoisted to power by the United States, was never going to be content with Kosovo alone. Its ambition all along has been to create a Greater Albania, comprising Kosovo, South Western Serbia, Western Macedonia, and, of course, Albania proper. NATO delivered Kosovo; now it is time to deliver the rest.

The KLA's tactics have not changed. Too cowardly and ineffectual to take on the Yugoslav army, it stages assassinations and grenade attacks in the hope of provoking Serb retaliation. The US Government and its NATO minions denounce Serb "atrocities" and issue dire threats. And CNN and the New York Times make themselves available to spread lies like unpaid whores. During the past few weeks the KLA has been busy. First, they have been making a final push to secure an ethnically pure Albanian state in Kosovo. Most of Kosovo's Serb population has already been driven out. There remains one final Serb enclave in the northern part of the town of Mitrovica. Day after day, the KLA has been staging demonstrations demanding that Albanians be allowed to "return" to their homes in the Serb sector.

Last week, 50,000 Albanians marched on Mitrovica and tried by force to get across the bridge over the Ibar River. The Serbs believe (with good reason) that these so-called "returning" Albanians are actually be KLA agents trying to provoke violence and NATO intervention. Serb suspicions are well-founded. KFOR commander Klaus Reinhardt actually praised the demonstrators who used violence against his own troops: "They have shown the way they want to live and are demonstrating for a better future. They want a united city." He obviously knows that "united" means Serb-free - an outcome that obviously pleases him. The demented NATO Supreme Allied Commander Wesley Clark announced that "Mitrovica is going to be multi-ethnic, and that means ending the intimidation and other dirty work of the military units, gangs and thugs who have been sent there by Belgrade." Clark, as usual, offered no evidence to support his ravings. To Clark "multiethnic" means Serb-free.

"The problem here comes from Belgrade," spluttered UN Ambassador Richard Holbrooke, "This is not a simple question of local Serbs who are all stirred up north of the bridge. This is being stirred up by the Yugoslav authorities and the Yugoslav leadership is directly responsible for this." It is hard to appreciate fully the repulsiveness of a man like Holbrooke. This is a creature who for years has been shedding phony tears about the supposed atrocities perpetrated on Bosnian Moslems and the Kosovo Albanians. And here he is now refusing to believe that Serbs are genuine in their desperate desire to hold on to their ancestral homes. No, it is all being orchestrated by that terrible man, Slobodan Milosevic. Such lies serve to justify future violence against the Serbs. Last week's KLA-staged demonstration was a great success. KFOR announced that it will facilitate the "return" of the Albanians into northern Mitrovica. And, if this leads to violence, well, we know who will be to blame. One need hardly mention, of course, that there are no NATO plans to facilitate the return of Serbs to Pristina or Pec or any other part of Kosovo from which they have been driven out.

The KLA is also waging a nasty little war in Serbia. It has been crossing the border from Kosovo and killing any Serb it can get its hands on. Belgrade has responded by sending security forces to defend the isolated villages in the Presevo Valley from terrorists. The KLA aim is to seize South West Serbia they refer to it as "Eastern Kosovo" and attach it to Kosovo. Jonathan Steele writes in the Guardian that the United States has "started to build a mini-base right on the border line between Kosovo and Serbia proper, close to the village of Dobrosin, from where tanks and troops in an observation tower look down on the increasingly brazen street forays by guerrillas in broad daylight." Evidently, the Americans see nothing wrong with this cross-border infiltration, flagrantly in violation of all the UN Security Council Resolutions. The KLA is seeking to provoke Serb retaliation and engineer a "refugee" flow from Presevo there are some 70,000 Albanians living there-into Kosovo. According to the Washington Post "'Presevo is an issue of real concern', said a Western diplomat in the Kosovo capital of Pristina. 'There is a potential for big involvement by Serb security forces,' and considerable anxiety that if reports of abuses mount, US and allied troops stationed in Kosovo could be pressured to intervene."

"Pressured to intervene"! Where would this pressure come from? The usual crowd-Clinton, Albright, Holbrooke, Talbott and so on. Once again, we are about to be sold a bill of goods about the United States accidentally stumbling into a war-with the "best of intentions," of course. NATO Secretary-General, Lord George Robertson is already blustering away: There is "no doubt that Milosevic will have a hand in some of the provocations being organized on the Serb side," he declared, "There is clearly rising tension in the southern part of Serbia and large numbers of additional Yugoslav troops have moved into the area. And I would warn anybody who seeks to be provocative on whatever side of the divide they may be that again we will not tolerate action being taken." Robertson's show of even-handedness is, of course, a crock. Remember Robert Gelbard, US Envoy to the Balkans, who in 1998 denounced the KLA as a "terrorist" organization? This is all part of a little charade that these creepy little politicians play on the public to demonstrate that they resort to force only after much heavy and pained deliberation.

When the bombing starts, the media will be present and politically correct with all the appropriate denunciations and lamentations. They have already started whipping up hysteria. Reporters pour out thousands of anguished words about Albanians who supposedly have fled from the northern part of Mitrovica. Expelled or murdered Serbs get a "News in Brief" mention, if they are lucky. Here is the Times' Carlotta Gall writing about Mitrovica: "For whatever reason [sic], Albanians engaged the French in heavy firefights, and in the resulting melee two French soldiers were wounded….According to the general, a crowd of Albanians gathered Sunday morning near a French guard post after a grenade exploded and wounded five Albanians. The crowd began throwing stones at French soldiers. Then a man appeared from a house, shouted at the people to get down, and fired directly at the soldiers, hitting one in the stomach and a second as he moved to react. The events are likely to aggravate relations between the French troops and the ethnic Albanians here. Thousands flocked today to the burial of the one man killed by French troops during the fighting Sunday. Avni Haradinaj, 35, a former guerrilla fighter of the Kosovo Liberation Army and a local hero, was buried with full honors by his former comrades in arms. His coffin, draped in the red Albanian flag, was carried up the hill to the edge of a wood outside the city, through a crowd of some 3,000 mourners. The general tried to reassure the Albanians of French neutrality. 'If we were shot at by Albanians, it is difficult to arrest Serbs,' he said." Note that Ms. Gall suggests twice that Albanians have good reason to doubt French neutrality. Evidently, if a NATO country is not murdering or arresting Serbs, then it cannot possibly be neutral.

A few days earlier Carlotta Gall was at her most dishonest. She began her piece with standard indignation: "A week after Serbs rampaged through the northern part of town, killing eight Albanians and forcing 120 to flee, the exodus continues, perhaps more quietly, but at a similar pace of 120 to 150 a day. The Serbs, outraged at a rocket attack on a Serbian bus that killed two and a grenade attack on a cafe that injured 15, said the rampage was a moment of anger." She is referring to the rocket attack on a bus carrying Serb civilians - the act that started the most recent violence. But she is not buying into the notion of Serb rage. "International observers and the police said the violence possessed a certain method and organization," she explains, "Ensuing actions show a similar pattern. Apartment buildings have been made targets, and the resident Albanian families have been persuaded, ordered or frightened to leave." Buried deep almost at the end in her story is the revelation just how untypical the events of Mitrovica are. The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees had just issued a report on the treatment of minorities in Kosovo. And surprise, surprise "virtually all the attacks on minorities are committed by Albanians on Serbs, Roma, Muslim Slavs, Turks and others, many of whom live in protected enclaves. Only in Mitrovica are Albanians still persecuted." So why is she paying such inordinate attention to these few hundred Albanians? Could it be because that is where the reporters are being directed by the US Government to look?

The eagerness with which reporters swallow every lie was clearly in evidence in Jane Perlez's story in the New York Times last week: "The United States and allied governments have detected direct radio links between Mr. Milosevic's special police in Serbia and Serbian militants in the city of Mitrovica. The Yugoslav leader is also encouraging his plainclothes police to travel to Mitrovica and has ordered a buildup of special police units along the border between Kosovo and the rest of Serbia." No mention of the KLA. No mention of the Serbs' desperate fight for survival in Kosovo. Just straightforward US Government propaganda calculated to justify any future US military action. By the way, what was in those radio messages? Apparently, they "included statements like 'they are going here, they are going there,' referring to movements by Albanian militants rather than direct orders." "Albanian militants" in northern Mitrovica! Wasn't it supposed to have been "ethnically cleansed"? So what could they possibly be doing there?

This is the moment of greatest danger. It is up to all of us to point out the scandalous lying NATO is engaged in. And to make clear that we do not wish to be citizens of a terrorist state.

Saladin what do you do substitute Russian force where Chechen is supposed to be?Anyways give your dumbass head a shake and get with reality.

To Saladin:

You are fuucking bullsheeter, go fucck yourself. Fuccking lier.

Saladin, if I find our where you live, I'll sue you for unathorized use of my "Random Russian Names Generator" application.

Oh yeah, another little mistake -- By documents (and especially dog-tags) Russian soldiers are carrying, you can't tell where they are from, only where their garrison was stationed. E-mail your friends at www....net, and tell them that.

Putin Leading Russia Towards ‘Modernized Stalinism’

MOSCOW, Mar 1, 2000 -- (Agence France Presse) Vladimir Putin is overseeing the introduction of a dark era of "modernized Stalinism," Yelena Bonner, widow of rights activist Andrei Sakharov, said in an opinion piece published Wednesday.

Bonner and a raft of leading Russian rights activists urged the West to "re-examine their attitude toward the Kremlin leadership, to cease indulging it in its barbaric actions, its dismantlement of democracy and suppression of human rights."

The harshly-worded polemic urged the "democratic world" to support "our efforts to stop the war in Chechnya; restoration of freedom of the press; and the activity of civil rights and national-minority organizations."

The article, published in the English-language Moscow Times, marked a rare critical outburst in Russia, where press and television carry largely pro-Putin coverage.

It painted a stark picture of life under Putin, who became acting president on December 31 following the shock resignation of Boris Yeltsin, and remains the overwhelming favorite to win March 26 elections.

"Under Putin, a new stage in the introduction of modernized Stalinism has begun. Authoritarianism is growing harsher, society is being militarized, the military budget is increasing," the group added.

Special units of the FSB domestic intelligence agency were being recreated within the military, military education is being reintroduced into schools, university students and high school graduates were being drafted.

"Nationalist and anti-Western propaganda is increasing. The influence of the security agencies is increasing," the authors noted.

The Andrei Babitsky case highlighted civil rights concerns, they said, noting that three-quarters of civil rights organizations had been stripped of their right to conduct legal activity.

Bonner and her co-authors said the modernized form of Stalinism had been re-established" during Yeltsin's reign under the cover of democratic and market reforms applauded by the West.

Two-thirds of Russians worked for nothing or symbolic wages, twice Stalin-era levels; more than one million people were languishing in gruesome prisons.

"Add to that the victims of two Chechen wars and the mafia terror throughout the country. Yet today, all the citizens of the country are free and may even travel abroad. Modernization!"

Powerful businessmen known as "oligarchs" ensured a compliant mass media, the rights activists wrote, adding: "Elections in such conditions have become a farce.

"The mass media pour filth upon all serious opponents of the Kremlin and barely let their voices be heard. Falsification of vote counts has flourished," they said saying that at least real elections were possible within the Communist Central Committee."

A Kremlin spokesman said "we have no comment."

Putin's potential rivals for the Kremlin, Moscow's powerful mayor Yury Luzhkov and ex-prime minister Yevgeny Primakov, saw their poll ratings destroyed by a vicious mud-slinging campaign in state-controlled media orchestrated by the presidential administration.

Russian Banker Says Putin Mania Could End In Tears

MOSCOW, Mar 1, 2000 -- (Reuters) Vladimir Putin, widely seen as the most promising person to end Russia's economic woes as next president, might end up being hated like past leaders Mikhail Gorbachev and Boris Yeltsin, says a top Russian banker.

Pyotr Aven, president of Alfa Bank and a former foreign trade minister, wrote in the leading business daily Kommersant on Tuesday that Russia was entering a new era of hope, but the opportunity could still be squandered.

Acting President Putin is expected to cement his position as Russian head of state when the country goes to the polls on March 26.

"Vladimir Putin is the new Russian wonder, the focus of elevated expectations and many years of unfulfilled hopes. That explains his fantastic ratings," Aven said, referring to opinion polls which give Putin up to 60 percent support.

"True, the greater the hopes today, the deeper the disappointment tomorrow. It's like a pendulum. And the more popular is the leader promising wonders, the more he will be hated when the miracle does not happen," he said.

This happened with Soviet leader Gorbachev and Yeltsin, Russia's first president, he added. "Alas, this will probably happen with Putin."

Aven, who started a soul-searching debate among the Russian political and business elite last year with a similar article analyzing liberal reforms, said Russia had to deal with basic ethical issues before it could transform its economy.

His latest thesis echoed many of the planks of Putin's campaign platform, which has focused on pledges to build a strong state and revive the country's moral fiber, while moving towards a market economy.

"Russia needs firm principles and clear morals," Aven wrote in an unusually frank critique of Russian society and the country's hitherto vacillating attitude towards reforms.

He lamented the lack of a moral beacon, saying the Russian Orthodox Church could not play the same role as the Christian Church does in the West, nor could the business elite. Much, he said, depended on the president.

Aven said there had been some improvement since Soviet days but Russia was plagued by a lack of business ethics, leaving foreign investors especially prey to liars, thieves, corrupt and irresponsible officials and unscrupulous businessmen.

He said society regarded tax evasion and bribe-taking as almost acceptable behavior. "A whole system of institutional measures is needed to cure the illness, and I repeat, a transformation of public morality.

"We will have to wait a long time before a deep, effective morality takes root, possibly decades."

Appeal by Gennady .A. Zyuganov, candidate for President of Russia


For the victory of patriots of Russia


Citizens of Russia! My compatriots!

I appeal to you in a difficult time when a new grave threat is hanging over our Motherland.

The authorities are trying to conceal the truth about the tragic situation in the country. It is my duty to bring it to each voter.

* * *

Should the current policy be continued, at the beginning of the summer Russia will see a new economic collapse.Millions of people will lose their jobs. Prices will skyrocket. People's meager savings will further depreciate. Pensions, stipends, allowances and wages payments will be again stopped.

Housing rents, communal fees, transport fare and communications rates will zoom several times over.

Free education and medical services will be abolished.

* * *

The oligarchs that have robbed the people know better than others that a new collapse is approaching fast.

To remain in power, they have decided to deceive you once again.

They have removed Yeltsin from power and announced an early presidential election before the truth is revealed.They have decided to enthrone an obedient and merciless executor who will pacify the hungry and protect the oligarchs' property.

The regime of Yeltsin's heirs will bring you poverty and extermination. Dictatorship and rampant violence are in store for Russia if you let yourselves be deceived.

* * *

To save the country, the economic and social policy must be immediately changed.

The Communist Party of the Russian Federation and the For Victory! movement, which have nominated me for President, have devised a program of the country's salvation.

We have come out with a package of urgent measures which will ensure stable economic growth.

These measures will be carried out by a team of professionals – the Government of People's Trust working under control of the parliament.

* * *

We will immediately raise pensions, allowances and salaries to civil servants.

A minimum wage and pension will be not less than 1,000 rubles.

Salaries of teachers and doctors will be not less than 3,000 rubles.

I guarantee the recovery, within five years, of your savings depreciated by Gaidar and Kiriyenko.We will restore citizens' rights to cheap housing and communal services, to free education and health care.

The State will establish rigid control over prices for basic foodstuffs and essentials.

Electricity and communications tariffs and transport fare will be reduced.

A journey across Russia, from Kaliningrad to Vladivostok, will cost only three minimum wages.

* * *

I know where and how to find money to fulfill my program.

Our country is still very rich.

To "sew the holes" in the budget, the people and the State must be returned the property they have been robbed of.This will let us cut taxes which now stifle domestic production.

This will attract large investments in industries and agriculture.

Millions of highly skilled specialists – workers, engineers, scientists – will be able to get back to jobs they are committed to.All honest entrepreneurs will breathe easily.

I guarantee timely and fair labor remuneration, immunity for legally obtained property.

The State will support enterprises of all forms of ownership, in town and in the country, and will ensure equal conditions for their development.

* * *

The economic growth will help:Stop the extinction of the Russian people.

Ensure a worthy future for our children and grandchildren.

Restore the country's defense potential.

Provide tangible assistance to the development of culture and enhance public spirit.

Wage a resolute struggle against crime and corruption.

* * *

I am not seeking absolute power which Yeltsin sought and which his heirs strive to retain.I am ready to cooperate with all those who share the ideals of justice, sovereignty of the people, and patriotism. With all those who respect freedoms, human rights and everything that is sacred to our nation.Together we will ensure peace and order in the country, and wellbeing of every family.

I am sure that life will get back to normal!

* * *

We will build a Free Russia which we will be proud of. A New Russia that will attract all fraternal peoples. A Great Russia, the first among equals in the international community.

If you want Russia to be like this, vote for me!

The future of our Motherland, your future and the future of your children is in your hands!Your vote can save Russia!

21.02.2000

BY THE WAY, ZYUGANOV IS A SOCIO-DEMOCRAT. SO YOU CAN VOTE FOR HIM WITHOUT WORRIES.

WWW.KPRF.RU

Whitewash fails to hide the horror

Fresh evidence emerges of brutality inside the 'filtration' camps

Wednesday March 1, 2000

Beyond the barbed wire confines of the Chernokozovo detention centre, a screaming crowd of women hurled themselves beneath the wheels of the military bus carrying journalists back from a propaganda tour of the camp.
Dozens laid themselves out on the dusty road in front of the bus; others, waving white flags, gripped on to the windscreen wipers of the moving vehicle, snapping them off from their sockets. The windscreen cracked beneath the pressure of their fists beating on the glass.

"Our sons and husbands are in there," one woman shouted through the window. "They're being tortured. You have to help them."

The military commander in charge of the tour, flushed and sweating, ordered the soldier driving not to stop. It was only when the wheels hit the first protestor that the vehicle finally came to a halt.

This was the second day running that this group of around 60 women had risked their lives to try tell journalists that conditions inside the now-notorious filtration camp were far worse than the military wanted the outside world to believe.

http://www.newsunlimited.co.uk/chechnya/Story/0,2763,141938,00.html

RUSSIA is again BEGGING for US food.

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http://www.lenta.ru/economy/2000/03/01/essen/

To balalaika
Thank you for that link

To Saladin
Good luck you guys

RUSSIA is again BEGGING for US food.
* Sure, State-subsidized US farmers want to live as well. Heh.