https://www.viexpo.com/second-chechen-war/archive-through-april-13-2000/ Disaster Message Service Discussion Board en-US Fri, 22 May 2026 20:14:20 +0000 wpForo 60 https://www.viexpo.com/second-chechen-war/archive-through-april-13-2000/paged/2/#post-22932 Thu, 13 Apr 2000 20:28:00 +0000 Second Chechen War igor https://www.viexpo.com/second-chechen-war/archive-through-april-13-2000/paged/2/#post-22932 https://www.viexpo.com/second-chechen-war/archive-through-april-13-2000/paged/2/#post-22931 Thu, 13 Apr 2000 20:25:00 +0000

The President notes in the statement, which RIA Novosti has received from the Presidential press-service, that "the matter concerns protection of the life, honour and dignity of Russian citizens. The Dudayev-Maskhadov regime, which has usurped power in that region of the Russian Federation has created on the territory of Chechnya a criminal terroristic enclave in which arbitrariness, lawlessness, violations of elementary human rights reign supreme, stresses the president in his statement.


"Having desecrated the fundamental principles of Islam, hiding themselves behind the norms of the Sharia, the bandits have launched a real war against the entire population of Chechnya, says Vladimir Putin.


National and regional discrimination, hostage-taking, slavery and slave-trade, murders, rapes, and public executions have become common place in the republic. The result is that between 1992 and until now about 220,000 Russians and 650,000 Chechens were compelled to leave the republic, points out the Acting President of Russia in his statement.]]> Second Chechen War igor https://www.viexpo.com/second-chechen-war/archive-through-april-13-2000/paged/2/#post-22931 https://www.viexpo.com/second-chechen-war/archive-through-april-13-2000/#post-22930 Thu, 13 Apr 2000 20:12:00 +0000 military build-up
Anti-NATO show of
force on Polish border

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By I. J. Toby Westerman
© 2000 WorldNetDaily.com

Russian President Vladimir Putin and Belarussian President Alexander Lukashenko will meet this Sunday to discuss a military build-up on the Belarussian border with Poland, according to official Russian sources.
Poland is one of the newest members of the NATO alliance.

Colonel-General Leonid Ivashov, external relations official for the Russian Defense Ministry, stated that the leaders of Russia and Belarus will discuss an increase of their forces opposing NATO on the Belarussian border.

The report was carried by the Voice of Russia World Service, the official broadcasting service of the Russian government.

Though Poland is currently the only official member of NATO bordering Belarus, the increase in military forces could have significant implications for Latvia and Lithuania, which also border Belarus, and which have expressed their interest in joining NATO. Ukraine, another neighbor of Belarus, is split on the question of membership in NATO.

Ivashov stated that the discussion of the two presidents regarding a military build-up was a response to "American-led aggression against Federal Yugoslavia."

Russia has also consistently voiced its opposition to NATO expansion eastwards.

Ivashov said the forces to be stationed on the border would be defensive in nature, and consistent with the new military policy adopted by the Union of Russia and Belarus.

Russia and Belarus have grown increasingly close since the signing of a treaty combining the two states into a community on April 2, 1996. On December 8, 1999, Russia and Belarus declared a union of the two states. Defense is one of a number of national functions that Russia and Belarus are placing under the control of the union.

Lukashenko, a former collective farm manager and admirer of Josef Stalin, is the president of the union.

As reported in WorldNetDaily, Ivashov recently warned that Russia was drawing up plans for military intervention into Kosovo, should Moscow determine that NATO's forces will not properly protect the Serb population in the province.

Moscow and Minsk have been planning a combined military command on the western border of Belarus for some time. Ivashov's statement, however, puts the new military structure within the context of Russia's continuing bitter hostility to NATO's activities in Kosovo.

Lukashenko is enthusiastic in his support of using Belarus' western borders for the defense of Russia. In the past, he has called for the re-establishment of the Soviet Union, and has retired the national flag of Belarus in favor of the flag of Belarus used in the Soviet era.

A return of Russian military to the Polish border opens a second point of tension between Russia and NATO over the Kosovo question.

It is also reminiscent of the alignment of forces in Eastern Europe immediately prior to the Second World War when Soviet Russia invaded Poland following Hitler's initial assault.

Poland could again find itself on the front line facing massed Russian -- and Belarussian -- divisions]]> Second Chechen War igor https://www.viexpo.com/second-chechen-war/archive-through-april-13-2000/#post-22930 https://www.viexpo.com/second-chechen-war/archive-through-april-13-2000/#post-22929 Thu, 13 Apr 2000 17:31:00 +0000 How's NASDAQ doing today, moron?
;]]> Second Chechen War dimitri https://www.viexpo.com/second-chechen-war/archive-through-april-13-2000/#post-22929 https://www.viexpo.com/second-chechen-war/archive-through-april-13-2000/#post-22928 Thu, 13 Apr 2000 16:08:00 +0000 Second Chechen War jakeb https://www.viexpo.com/second-chechen-war/archive-through-april-13-2000/#post-22928 https://www.viexpo.com/second-chechen-war/archive-through-april-13-2000/#post-22927 Thu, 13 Apr 2000 16:05:00 +0000 Once more the mad goy Igor is BORING this board to death by his idiotic cut and pastes.

This unemployed man has nothing better to do]]> Second Chechen War jakeb https://www.viexpo.com/second-chechen-war/archive-through-april-13-2000/#post-22927 https://www.viexpo.com/second-chechen-war/archive-through-april-13-2000/#post-22926 Thu, 13 Apr 2000 13:50:00 +0000 http://www.serbia-info.com/ SITE HAS BEEN ALTERED BY ALBANIAN HACKERS]]> Second Chechen War igor https://www.viexpo.com/second-chechen-war/archive-through-april-13-2000/#post-22926 https://www.viexpo.com/second-chechen-war/archive-through-april-13-2000/#post-22925 Thu, 13 Apr 2000 13:39:00 +0000 0241 GMT, 0003
Afghanistan’s ruling Taliban warned Russia not to attack alleged terrorist training camps in Afghanistan, reported Reuters April 12. According to the same report, Russian Security Council Secretary Sergei Ivanov said he would not rule out the possibility of air strikes. Given Russia’s antagonistic relationship with the Taliban and its historic support of its opposition Northern Alliance, air strikes are likely.

Russia has repeatedly accused the Taliban of supporting Chechen rebels. The Taliban has offered the separatists military assistance and opened diplomatic ties. A Russian bombing campaign would send a clear message that Moscow will neither tolerate nor forgive insurgents or their supporters. More importantly, it would interrupt Iran and Pakistan’s Afghan peace initiative, which could lead to international recognition of the Taliban’s government.

Now is the opportune time for Russia to attack Afghanistan. Russia’s near victory in Chechnya has spurred Chechen leaders to look elsewhere for asylum. Sorties over Afghanistan might discourage more Chechen rebels from fleeing there. Moscow has repeatedly decried involvement by other countries in what it considers an internal insurgency. Georgia, Iran, the United States and Turkey have allegedly given aid to the Chechen rebels, but Russia can’t respond militarily to these diplomatic measures. It can, however, assault Afghanistan.

Afghanistan is the only country to openly support the Chechen rebels. Russian President-elect Vladimir Putin accused Afghanistan of not only supporting but also training the Chechen rebels. Attacking Afghanistan would show the rest of the world that Russia will not tolerate outside interference in internal matters. This would also provide fodder for Russia’s nationalistic rhetoric, momentarily distracting the populace, which is growing weary from the continuing battles in Chechnya.

Also, the international community isn’t likely to condemn a Russian attack on Afghanistan. First, the United States has already bombed Afghanistan for its support of terrorism. Second, only Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates recognize the legitimacy of the Taliban rule. Finally, and more importantly, with Afghanistan openly supporting the Chechen rebels, the international community will be hard pressed to criticize Russia for protecting its national security. Similar to its justification for possible air raids over Georgia, Russia can attack Afghanistan without fear of reprisal.

Even Iran and Pakistan, who are initiating peace talks between the Taliban and its opposition Northern Alliance, will not oppose a Russian offensive. In an unprecedented move of cooperation, Iran and Pakistan are hoping to bring about some level of stability in the region in order to encourage foreign investment, regional cooperation and trade and to strengthen their respective economies. Despite the fact that air strikes could destabilize the Taliban and deter the Northern Alliance from considering peace talks, neither Iran nor Pakistan has the political or military might to counter Russia.

Air strikes would satisfy two separate Russian objectives. One, Russia would limit the Chechen rebels’ options for retreat and send a warning to future insurgents. Two, Moscow would, at the very least, stall peace talks in Afghanistan. This would further delay the Taliban’s chances for international recognition. Launching air strikes would be a less costly and more effective way to punish Afghanistan than resuming support for the Northern Alliance]]> Second Chechen War igor https://www.viexpo.com/second-chechen-war/archive-through-april-13-2000/#post-22925 https://www.viexpo.com/second-chechen-war/archive-through-april-13-2000/#post-22924 Thu, 13 Apr 2000 13:33:00 +0000
State television showed pictures of Temirbulatov in the village of Komsomolskoye, where he confessed before the cameras that he had shot Russian soldiers in the head during the last war. Temirbulatov was arrested in March in Duba-Yurt.]]> Second Chechen War igor https://www.viexpo.com/second-chechen-war/archive-through-april-13-2000/#post-22924 https://www.viexpo.com/second-chechen-war/archive-through-april-13-2000/#post-22923 Thu, 13 Apr 2000 13:18:00 +0000
MOSCOW, Apr 13, 2000 -- (Agence France Presse) Soviet partisan Vasily Kononov was to appear before a Latvian court Thursday as a Russian citizen after President-elect Vladimir Putin granted him Russian citizenship, ITAR-TASS reported.

The Latvian High Court of Appeal was scheduled to hear the case of the 77-year-old former partisan who was sentenced to six years imprisonment in January for war crimes committed during the German occupation of the Baltic country.

However, for the first time in his life, Kononov will stand as a citizen of the Russian Federation, despite having lived in Latvia all his life.

The move by Putin has ensured that the case, which has already added new tension to the brittle relationship between the two countries, becomes an international affair.

The Russian government reacted sharply to the arrest a year and a half ago and conviction this year of Kononov, who allegedly killed nine civilians in an attack on a Latvian village in 1944.

Kononov maintains he is innocent and was not in the village that year.

A statement issued by the Kremlin press service on Wednesday explains that the granting of citizenship is "not only an answer to one man's problem but a sign of respect for the forces which contributed to the overall victory over Fascism.

"This accusation of war crimes is based on groundless evidence and is historically and morally unacceptable. It is slanderous to millions of anti-Fascist veterans and is aimed at an ultimate revision of the course and result of the Second World War. Russia categorically rejects such a premise and demands the end of the political persecution of anti-Fascist fighters of the war," the statement said.

The Russian foreign ministry has accused Riga of not following international legal norms by refusing to allow Kononov to see the Russian ambassador to Latvia and doctors sent from Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov to assess his health and offer him medical assistance.

Boris Malakhov, from the ministry's press service, said the "actions relating to the veteran are outrageous."

And last month, Putin sealed his support for Kononov saying: "Russia will protect all soldiers of the Great Patriotic War wherever they live."

A subject of contention for the Appeal Court is the fact that the former commander was found guilty under a law passed in 1993, 49 years after the event. Kononov's lawyer says international legal practice dictates that a person cannot be convicted by a law not in existence at the time of the crime.

Russia has tried to get international institutions to intervene, but the minorities commissioner for the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe has said that there should be no meddling in the case as it is still being appealed.

The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Mary Robinson, also discussed the matter with Russian authorities during her recent visit.

Russian Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov claims 150 such cases are pending in Latvian courts, ITAR-TASS reported.

But he is confident foreign attention will prevail.

"International pressure on Latvia is taking shape, and there is reaction already," the minister said recently.

However, Ivanov noted that Russia is prepared to enforce sanctions on Latvia in order to free Kononov.

"The question of economic sanctions on Latvia must be considered ... but we think that political methods must be used for now," he said.

Relations between Latvia and Russia have often been tense since Latvia regained its independence from the Soviet Union in 1991, with Moscow imposing sanctions on Riga in 1998 for perceived discrimination against the local ethnic Russian minority.

In February, former Russian president Boris Yeltsin refused to accept a prestigious medal from Latvia, accusing the government of violating the rights of its 2.4 million ethnic Russians and persecuting wartime members of the anti-Nazi resistance.

Latvia and its Baltic neighbors hope to win invitations to join NATO when the security alliance next considers expanding in 2002, a move Russia has vociferously opposed]]> Second Chechen War igor https://www.viexpo.com/second-chechen-war/archive-through-april-13-2000/#post-22923