By empty (9/9/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Russia views the UN Security Council\'s anti-terrorist list as incomplete and wants Chechen extremists who have committed crimes against Russian citizens to be added to it, Foreign Ministry spokesman Mikhail Kamynin told Interfax on Friday. \"Unfortunately, the \'anti-terrorist\' list does not yet include the names of certain people who have committed crimes against Russians,\" Kamynin said. \"To our surprise, they feel quite comfortable in individual Western countries and continue to take steps to destabilize the situation in Chechnya and the entire North Caucasus, collect funds and recruit mercenaries for a \'dirty\' war against the Chechen people and Russia as a whole,\" he said.By empty (9/8/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Russia will use every opportunity to achieve the extradition of Chechen emissaries Akhmed Zakayev and Ilyas Akhmadov, Special Representative for International Cooperation in the Fight against Terrorism and Organized Crime Anatoly Safonov told a Thursday press conference at the Interfax main office. \"Naturally, we will use every political and judicial chance. We are already using them,\" he said.By empty (9/8/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The Federal Drug Control Service has seized 1,126 kilograms of marijuana, some 563 million doses, in an operation in Ingushetia, the local drug control department told Interfax on Thursday. \"This amount of drugs is worth more than $1 million on the black market and is the largest consignment of drugs to have been seized in Russia in 2005,\" it said. \"The owner of the consignment has been identified and criminal charges have been brought against him,\" it said.By empty (9/7/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
A serviceman was killed as a result of an explosion on the outskirts of Khasavyurt. The blast reportedly occurred when an engineer reconnaissance unit was combing a street, a spokesman for the Khasavyurt Interior Department told Interfax on Wednesday. The incident is under investigation.The Central Asia-Caucasus Analyst is a biweekly publication of the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute & Silk Road Studies Program, a Joint Transatlantic Research and Policy Center affiliated with the American Foreign Policy Council, Washington DC., and the Institute for Security and Development Policy, Stockholm. For 15 years, the Analyst has brought cutting edge analysis of the region geared toward a practitioner audience.
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