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New racehorse owners will face 'fit and proper person' test from next summer
London :: United Kingdom | about 8 hours ago
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New racehorse owners to face 'fit and proper person' test from next summer • Ruling body outlines plan to drive out 'undesirables' • 'Impractical' to apply test to all existing owners Mourilyan, right, has carried the colours of the Chechen President,...
Tags: BHA, Ramzan Kadyrov, existing owners, proper persons, Oliver Codrington, United Kingdom, London, Chechnya, Kadyrov, Natalya Estemirova, Anna Politkovskaya, Grozny, British Horseracing Authority, Horse racing in Great Britain
Kingdom to monitor H1N1 among pilgrims
Riyadh :: Saudi Arabia | 6 days ago
Credibility Assistant Deputy Minister of Health for Preventative Medicine Dr. Ziad Al-Memish said on Tuesday the Kingdom has implemented �comprehensive� programs to combat swine flu based on recommendations made during this past summer�s summit of health ministers...
Tags: swine flu, pilgrims arrived, Saudi Arabia, Riyadh, Chechnya, Russia, Tsentoroy, Ramzan Kadyrov, Grozny, Second Chechen War, Influenza A virus subtype H1N1, Influenza, Swine influenza, flu pandemic in the United Kingdom, flu pandemic, Pandemics, Animal virology, Health in the United States, Geography of Saudi Arabia, Jeddah, Hajj, Mecca, Red Sea, Health Medical Pharma
Chechen Rebel Leader Could Be Among 20 Militants Killed by Government Forces
Saint Petersburg :: Russia | 6 days ago
Credibility Government forces killed more than 20 militants in Chechnya on Friday, law enforcement authorities said. Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov said it was possible that Chechen rebel leader Doku Umarov was among those killed in the fighting in the province�s...
Tags: rebel leader, chechen rebel, government forces, Russia, Saint Petersburg, Ramzan Kadyrov, Kadyrovtsy, Second Chechen War, Dokka Umarov, Chechnya, War Conflict, Law Crime
Promises on Democracy Greeted With Cynicism
Moscow :: Russia | 6 days ago
Credibility President Dmitry Medvedev on Thursday held out the remote republic of Tuva to illustrate Russia�s need for political reform and promised to make electoral changes that would promote democracy. But opposition activists and independent analysts said his...
Tags: Russia, Moscow, Politics of Russia, Dmitry Nikolaevich Medvedev, Medvedev, United Russia, Politics, Dmitry Medvedev, Gazprom, Vladimir Putin, Ingushetia, Ramzan Kadyrov, Chechnya, Fairness of the Russian presidential election
International Flights Resume From Chechnya
Moscow :: Russia | 6 days ago
Credibility Chechnya began its first international flights in 15 years on Monday, sending off a plane filled with Muslims on the annual Hajj pilgrimage to Saudi Arabia. The Boeing 757 carrying more than 200 pilgrims took off from Grozny International Airport on Monday,...
Tags: Saudi Arabia, international flights, Russia, Moscow, Chechnya, Kadyrov, President of the Chechen Republic, Politics of Chechnya, Akhmad Kadyrov, Second Chechen War, Ramzan Kadyrov, Grozny, Politics, Second Chechen War crimes and terrorism, Disaster Accident, Islam in Russia
From the campaign for real patriarchy | Andrew Brown
London :: United Kingdom | 7 days ago
Credibility From the campaign for real patriarchy At the extreme of patriarchy, a man is defined by his ability to kill the daughter who displeases him People here often lightly say that religions are misogynistic or patriarchal. But it takes a Chechen to tell us...
Tags: United Kingdom, London, Second Chechen War, Moscow theater hostage crisis, Human Interest, Ramzan Kadyrov, Kadyrov, Chechnya, Social Issues
A miracle baby in Dagestan | Andrew Brown
Stockholm :: Sweden | 8 days ago
Credibility A miracle baby in Dagestan Qur'anic verses appear on the skin a baby in the Caucasus. Local politicians agree that it must be a miracle. A nine-month old boy in Dagestan, a North Caucasian region bordering Chechnya, has become the object of pilgrimage...
Tags: Dagestan, child abuse, Sweden, Stockholm, Urticaria, Miracle, Second Chechen War, Chechnya, Rash
Top rebel possibly slain in Chechnya operation
Lon :: Burkina Faso | 9 days ago
Credibility Many of the bodies were torn apart and impossible to identify. Dokku Umarov might be among those slain,” Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov said. Kadyrov however added that Islam Uspakhadzhiyev, another top rebel leader, was identified among the bodies.
Tags: Chechnya, Burkina Faso, Lon, Ramzan Kadyrov, Caucasus Emirate, Akhmad Kadyrov, Adam Delimkhanov, Politics, Second Chechen War, Islam in Russia, Dokka Umarov, War Conflict, Kadyrov, President of the Chechen Republic, Counter-insurgency operations during the Second Chechen War, Environment, Guerrilla phase of the Second Chechen War, Law Crime
The danger in being a journalist in Russia today
Moscow :: Russia | 10 days ago
Credibility Elena Milashina is a leading investigative journalist at Novaya Gazeta , one of Russia's few remaining independent, outspoken newspapers. A small, Moscow-based paper, Novaya Gazeta is famous for its alarming number of murdered journalists.
Tags: Russia, Ramzan Kadyrov, death penalty, Chechnya, Moscow, Novaya Gazeta, Second Chechen War, politics, Freedom of the press in Russia, Natalya Estemirova, Anna Politkovskaya, Censorship in Russia, Grozny, Politics of Chechnya, Guerrilla phase of the Second Chechen War, Dokka Umarov, War Conflict, Kadyrov, Kadyrovtsy, UN moratorium on the death penalty, Capital punishment, Human rights, Benita Ferrero-Waldner, Law Crime, Social Issues
EU prize highlights Russia murders of rights workers
Brussels :: Belgium | about 1 month ago
Credibility Moscow-based NGO Memorial has walked away with the EU's 2009 Sakharov prize for freedom of thought after a bloody year for human rights activists in Russia. "We hope to contribute to ending the circle of fear and violence surrounding human rights defenders...
Tags: human rights, Russian Federation, Jerzy Buzek, NGO Memorial, European Parliament, Chechnya, president jerzy, rights prize, parliament president, rights defenders
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