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Fear of Putin made the Chechens vote for him, according to an analysis by “Le Figaro”

Paris (France) | 15 December 2005

Le Figaro, newspaper of the French right wing, does not differ from Atlantist newspapers: invectives are hurled in view of the re-establishment of the electoral process in Chechnya.
Its edition dated November 28, 2005 bears the headline “Electoral farce in devastated Chechnya”. The article by (…)

For “Libération”, in Beslan, all Russians are culprits or accomplices

Paris (France) | 9 September 2005

Among the articles written to mark the anniversary of the slaughter of Beslan, many of them hold the Russian forces responsible for the final outcome of the events. They are not being criticized for not protecting the hostages but they are being accused of killing children during an irrational (…)

“A Common Struggle”

by Yuri Ushakov

8 September 2005

September is a sad month both for Russia and the United States. The world remembers the atrocities of Beslan and September 11. Both tragedies were provoked by abominable terrorist actions. The world should remember what must be done to fight such criminal acts and how a double-standard policy (…)

“God, nobody knows what happened?”

by Kim Tsagolov

7 September 2005

The fact that the Russians are not that welcomed in the Caucasian North is quite exagerated. There is no one from the Federation in that region whose blood is not Russian in a 50, 60 and 70%. Of course, there was the war in Chechen in which the local power and the Federals made a lot of (…)

“Just the fact of meeting with Basáyev triggered rage”

by Andreï Babitsky

7 September 2005

I took some vacations and went to Prague by car. I drove through Czequia, Poland, Ukraine, and ended my tour in a cab up to Ingushetia. I wanted to meet with the military chief Doku Umarov and the new president Abdul Halim Sadulaiev. I talked to the representatives of the government of (…)

Beslan, London: the different media faces of terrorism

by Voltaire Network

Lille (France) | 7 September 2005

Close to the anniversary of hostage taking and massacre of Beslan, Russia gets upset about the audience that the authors of these acts in the West have. The “war on terror” is increasingly presented as what it is: a Western political argument to justify an imperialist policy. At the same time, (…)

Hired guns

Beslan: the mystery clarified one year later

by Thierry Meyssan

Paris (France) | 7 September 2005

It is not wise to assess the current international situation without taking the strategic reality into account. During the September 3, 2004 hostage taking in Beslan, Russia, resulting in 186 children killed, the major media outlets distanced themselves from the horror by throwing their support (…)

Russia: a "Godfather" against the Kremlin

Boris Berezovski, the smuggler

Paris (France) | 26 April 2004

Boris Berezovski has created himself, among the Western media, the image of a liberal businessman chased by the authoritarian Vladimir Putin. Nevertheless, his fortune is not a result of his entrepreneurial skills. What he really did was, together with a score of oligarchs and with the help of (…)