Posted on 08 April 2010
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Opposition leaders say they have taken control of security and government buildings but president refuses to resign Opposition leaders in Kyrgyzstan today declared that they had seized power and had taken control of security headquarters, state television and various government buildings. The declaration came a day after riot police shot dead at least 60 people as protesters attempted to storm the main government building in the capital, Bishkek. The opposition leader, Roza Otunbayeva, called for President Kurmanbek Bakiyev to resign and said she planned to run an interim government for six months to draft a new constitution for the central Asian state. But Bakiyev said in an email that he would not give up power, raising the spectre of prolonged instability in the former Soviet republic. “I have not relinquished and will not relinquish power,” Bakiyev wrote, according to the respected news agency 24.kg. “What’s more important now is to stop the violence and the crazy rage of the crowd that spilled over on the streets and squares of Bishkek and other cities.” Bakiyev, however, acknowledged he had little influence over events. “Unfortunately, although I am the incumbent president, I do not have any real levers yet,” he told Russia’s Ekho Moskvy radio station. Speaking in Bishkek’s ransacked parliament building this morning, Otunbayeva said Bakiyev was currently in the south of the country and had apparently taken refuge in the town of Jalal-Abad. Asked whether the new government had plans to arrest him, she said: “He should resign. His business is finished in Kyrgyzstan.” She went on: “You can call what happened here a popular uprising or a revolution.
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Posted on 28 February 2010
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Officials say more than 400 killed in 8.8-magnitiude quake, with tens of thousands more made homeless Rescue workers were today continuing to search for survivors after one of the biggest earthquakes ever recorded killed more than 400 people in Chile and left tens of thousands homeless. Fears that a number of Pacific nations would be hit by a tsunami generated by the magnitude 8.8 quake were allayed, however, when the waves turned out to be smaller than expected, prompting the lifting of a Pacific-wide alert. Carmen Fernandez, the head of the National Emergency Agency, said 1.5 million Chileans had been affected by the disaster, with 500,000 homes severely damaged. The country’s president, Michelle Bachelet, declared a “state of catastrophe” in central Chile . “It was a catastrophe of devastating consequences,” she said. International leaders were quick to offer their assistance to the Chilean authorities. Gordon Brown said Britain “stands ready to help”, while Barack Obama promised that the US “will be there” if Chile asks for aid. The US secretary of state, Hillary Clinton – due to start a five-nation tour of Latin America tomorrow – said: “Our hemisphere comes together in times of crisis, and we will stand side by side with the people of Chile in this emergency.” The full extent of the quake damage remained unclear as dozens of aftershocks continued to ripple across the nation. In Concepción – Chile’s second largest city, 70 miles from the epicentre – nurses and residents pushed the injured through the streets on stretchers. Survivors wrapped in blankets walked around in a daze, some carrying children in their arms
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Posted on 22 December 2009
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• Reports of sums taken are exaggerated, bank says • Crime network re-emerges as US cyber chief is named The FBI is investigating the activities of a notorious Russian internet gang amid accusations that it stole tens of millions of dollars from US banks. The hackers, known as the Russian Business Network, had been quiet for two years after masterminding a string of hi-tech crimes including identity theft, fraud, spam and child pornography. But the gang could be back in action, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal which suggested that Citigroup was the focus of a federal investigation linked to the Russian group. It claimed that an attack believed to have been orchestrated by the network netted large sums of money after targeting Citigroup’s computer systems. Reports of the cyber attack came as the White House today named its head of cyber security as Howard Schmidt, who had a similar role for several years under George W Bush. He will co-ordinate US government, military and intelligence efforts to repel hackers. There has been a string of reports about hacking attacks on the US government in recent months, as well as the theft of more than £5m from systems belonging to the Royal Bank of Scotland. The threats led President Obama to declare that defence against internet attacks was a “national security priority” – a shift which culminated in Schmidt’s appointment
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Posted on 03 December 2009
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Russian prime minister holds forth on topics from polar bears to terrorism in annual four-hour TV phone-in Vladimir Putin has given his clearest hint yet that he is preparing to get back his old job as president during a masterful performance at his annual question and answer session with the Russian public. Putin, currently prime minister, spent more than four hours answering carefully screened questions from across Russia on subjects including the Lada car and whether the Iranians have built a nuclear bomb yet. Asked by a mining student whether he wanted to be president again, Putin replied: “I will think about it,” adding “There’s still plenty of time.” Ever since he made way for Dmitry Medvedev to take over the presidency in 2008 after eight years in office, there has been speculation that he is planning to return at the next presidential election in 2012. Today Putin did nothing to dispel the impression that he is Russia’s most accomplished and popular politician – and that it is he who actually runs the country. Most of his questioners apparently agreed
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Posted on 30 November 2009
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An explosion hit a railway in Russia’s Caucasian region of Dagestan early today, the Interfax news agency reported quoting police officials.
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Posted on 29 November 2009
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A powerful homemade bomb sent a high-speed Moscow-to-St Petersburg train careening off its tracks, according to Russian officials, killing at least 26 people in what officials consider an act of terrorism.The head of Russia’s…
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Posted on 28 November 2009
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Top government officials among the dead, as Moscow blames homemade bomb that could signal renewed campaign by Chechen rebels Russia was tonight coming to terms with its most deadly terrorist attack in years after investigators confirmed that a powerful improvised bomb caused Friday’s devastating train crash in which at least 26 people, including several top government officials, were killed. The head of Russia’s FSB counter-terrorism agency, Alexander Bortnikov, said the bomb, hidden on the railway line between Moscow and St Petersburg, contained the equivalent of 7kg (15.4lb) of TNT. Officers had found “elements of an explosive device”, he said. Today two huge cranes lifted up wreckage at the crash site as workers searched for the missing. Officials said 18 people were still unaccounted for. Nearly 100 people injured in the crash were being treated in hospitals. Russia’s president, Dmitry Medvedev, called for calm amid speculation the explosion could be the start of a new campaign by Chechen extremists. “We need there to be no chaos, because the situation is tense as it is,” he told Russian TV.
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Posted on 28 November 2009
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Officials in Russia say a bombing has killed the police chief of a town in the violence-plagued Ingushetia province.
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Posted on 27 November 2009
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France is negotiating to sell a high-tech warship to Russia, which would mark the first time that a NATO nation — and a founding member at that — sold arms to the country the treaty organization was created to oppose.
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Posted on 21 November 2009
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ST.PETERSBURG, Russia – Russia’s President Dmitry Medvedev on Saturday chided officials in the ruling Kremlin-backed party with unprecedented bluntness, saying they should…
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