Hairy...

Happy Birthday... did you get tanked or WHAT?

Kim,

I saw the movie you talked about...about as bad as some of Igor's links. LOL..

How's life with the old ball & Chain. Lookin to get out yet or is he still happy to go down you?

ALLAM, Not sure how you can show up here and expect to be taken seriously, after all that has been said.
Have you no self respect at all?

Kim

PS: So you were at the Cannnes film festival, were you? I think not.

kim:
re: 7:39 post.

to ask the question is to know the answer.

i hear tell he's moved to jordan; new jordanian
address, anyhoo...

-_-

Igor, re the stratfor article, you make no comment. Isn't this likely to cause more instability in the region?

It seems as if there is a "cold War style" battle going on between the US ans Russia for control of the area. I can see how this may benefit Russia in the short-term, but it will continue to weaken the economies of other CIS members. If Russia wants to create a trade zone, why would it weaken the economies of its trade partners.

I don't understand - could you please explain how you see this situation. Thanks

Kim

L'menexe,
Hi,
rhetorical of course.


Kim

Hello, what's up, galz and boyz?

Russians trap 400-800 rebels in major mountain drive: officials
MOSCOW, May 30 (AFP) -
Russian forces said Tuesday they had encircled 400 to 800 rebel fighters in Chechnya's treacherous southern mountains as part of a major new drive against the separatist guerrillas.

Seventy-five rebels have been killed so far in the operation according to the AVN military news agency, 10 more than officials announced Monday.

http://sg.dailynews.yahoo.com/headlines/asia/article.html?s=singapore/headlines/000530/asia/afp/Russians_trap_400-800_rebels_in_major_mountain_drive__officials.html

Dimitri,

What is happening now in Chechnya? Every day, Russia admits "several" of its men are being killed. Is there a reason not to believe this? Are the soldiers fighting amongst themselves? By your count how many fighters are alive? How many more days, months, years will it take the "mighty" Russian army to "liberate" a tiny republic with a few thousand fighters (of which by your count "several thousand" have already been killed)? How many lives is Russia willing to sacrifise? How many civilians lives will it cost? Think about this.

Another major setback for Russia:

Senior Russian Official Killed by Mine in Chechnya

By Elizabeth Piper

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia suffered a serious setback in breakaway Chechnya Wednesday when a mine blast killed its second highest civilian official in the rebel region.

The Moscow-appointed deputy mayor of the capital Grozny was also killed in the blast, and the mayor wounded.

Sporadic fighting was also reported in Chechnya's southern mountains, where Moscow says it has launched a major new offensive this week. Both
sides said they had made advances in the eight-month war and had killed several of their opponents.

A Kremlin Chechnya spokesman said Sergei Zverev, deputy to Moscow's civilian administrator in the region, and deputy mayor Nusreda Khabuseyeva had been killed when their car ran over a mine in a southern suburb of Grozny late Tuesday.

Mayor Supyan Makhachayev, also in the car, suffered head injuries. Shots were fired from nearby bushes
after the car hit the mine.

``We think the terrorist attack was aimed at killing the mayor of Grozny,'' said the spokesman, Konstantin Makeyev.

Nikolai Koshman, Russia's main civilian envoy in Chechnya, went to the area to investigate. He and Security Council Secretary Sergei Ivanov said they would establish who was behind the attack.

Interior Minister Vladimir Rushailo told RIA news agency that Moscow would never hold negotiations with rebel leaders.

``The Chechen fighters' assertions about possible talks are no more than empty words,'' he said.

Kim I think the article is about Russia making it's own finished goods and not just exporting raw materials.This will make the economy grow and will boost Russia's GDP.

KIEV, May 31, 2000 -- (Reuters) Thousands of angry nationalist protesters marched in the western Ukrainian city of Lviv on Tuesday to demand the expulsion of all Russian-speakers from Ukraine and to protest against the killing of a local composer.

Local reporters told Reuters by telephone from Lviv that up to 3,000 demonstrators of different ages marched through the center of the town, chanting "Down with the Russians!" and "Death for death!"

Hundreds of protesters later vandalized a nearby coffee house where popular Ukrainian folk music composer Ihor Bilozir was fatally injured in a brawl with a group of Russian-speaking visitors earlier this month.

Official reports say that Bilozir, 45, was performing Ukrainian folk songs at a birthday party for one of his friends when the Russian-speaking company, singing vulgar Russian songs, interrupted him.

Officials, who have reluctantly said that one of the attackers was the son of a senior police officer, described the incident as a drunken brawl with no political or ethnic motives.

Lviv, with a population of around 800,000, is the heartland of the nationalist movement in the former Soviet republic.

Many protesters demanded that all Russian-speaking servicemen be sacked from local police and security forces. Others said Russian pop music should be banned from cafes and restaurants.

The Ukrainian Popular Rukh, a leading nationalist party in parliament, said in a statement that it blamed the country's leadership for "inaction" and for ignoring the "vandalism of Ukrainian sacred ideals and desecration of the state language".

Ukrainian is officially the only state language but many among the 50-million nation treasure the continued strong coexistence of Russian and Ukrainian cultures.

Tens of thousands of people attended Bilozir's funeral later in the day. Ukraine's official agency DINAU said the funeral service and a later march were held under the slogan "No language - no nation, no nation - no state!"

The ceremony passed quietly.

Spokesmen for the regional administration and police told Reuters the situation in Lviv was "firmly under control" and that no further incidents had taken place.

Mikhail Arkhipov, acting deputy envoy of the RF government in the Chechen Republic, has hosted today a Mozdok news conference involving Hamid al Hayyat, a former mercenary from Jordan engaged in the Chechnya hostilities.


Hamid al Hayyat's Russian was fluent enough when he spoke to newsmen. In 1986 to 1992 he studied in Kiev's polytechnical institute where he made friends with some of North Caucasus residents, the RF governmental envoy's press service told RIA Novosti.


He came to Chechnya last autumn since his Chechen partners had promised huge profits from restoration of the republic's satellite communication. Thus he found himself in Gelayev's grouping and was in it until the March event in the village of Komsomolskoye. Al Hayyat claims that he has never in his life fired a shot - the militants were using him as a carrier.


Being pardoned al Hayyat is no longer in custody. Lawenforcements have checked his words and found he was not engaged in grave crimes, according to the press service.


Hamid told reporters that he got completely disappointed in the Islam propagated by the militants. "They make a loose interpretation of the Koran, using its surahs solely to start a quarrel with another militant grouping". In everyday life, however, the bandits break the Moslem tradition taking drugs, killing adherents of the same faith, said the Jordanian.


Hamid witnessed the militants cut out the heart of a still alive Russian soldier and hang it on a tree.


The final disappointment came when his "brothers-in-arms" left the wounded in Komsomolskoye telling them to blast themselves and otherwise threatening to shoot them.


"Far not all safely left Komsomolskoye, Hamid recalled. I was among the first hundred militants leaving the village but did not know whether I would survive. Later I learned about three hundred fighters killed and nearly 500 heavily wounded who were left to die like dogs. It was when some Chechens and I grew confident that we should surrender and we did it near Urus-Martan".


Hamid al Hayyat called a great number of Arabs, Pakistanis and others who, like himself, have been deceived and now are with Khattab, Basayev and other "field commanders" to lay down arms and go back home to their families.


Hamid's further destiny is quite clear - being no subject to criminal liability, he is to be repatriated to Jordan

Kim,
check mail.

Russia suffered a serious setback in breakaway Chechnya Wednesday when a mine blast killed its second highest civilian official in the rebel region.

How is it a SERIOUS SETBACK if Chechens kill CHECHENS?