(19.6.2014) As the Georgian delegation was unwilling to be more flexible in discussing other issues on the agenda, including the non-use of force and security guarantees in the region, their consideration has been postponed to the next meeting planned for early October, the Russian Foreign Ministry said.
Geneva hosted another round of consultations as part of international discussions on the South Caucasus on June 17-18, in which officials from Abkhazia, Georgia, Russia, the US, and South Ossetia took part under the UN, OSCE, and EU co-chairmanship. The Russian delegation was led by State Secretary and Deputy Foreign Minister Grigory Karasin.
27.06.2014 - 20:20 [ Institute for War and Peace Reporting ]
On May 27, thousands of protestors in Abkhazia stormed the presidential administration, causing President Alexander Ankvab to flee to a Russian military base.
In the days that followed, Abkhazia’s parliament held a non-confidence vote. And after three years as president, Ankvab was forced to resign. His prime minister followed suit the day after.
People on the outside were left wondering what was going on… The protests were led by a group of opposition parties known as the Coordinating Council, united by one thing – dissatisfaction with Ankvab.
(3.6.2014) If Russia is looking for more land to grab, breakaway South Ossetia is interested. “Inspired” by the example of Crimea, South Ossetia’s separatist leader said on June 2 that his tiny Caucasus region can’t wait to glue itself to the Russian Federation.
“This historic moment should come,” said de-facto President Leonid Tibilov, news agencies reported. “We have good chances of becoming part of Russia.”
(24.6.2014) In this age of separatist referendums, breakaway South Ossetia’s apparent plans to run a show of hands on joining Russia should not hit as a shock. It appears to be quite the thing these days.
The new dominant party in the region’s miniature, 34-seat de-facto parliament ran in a de-facto June-8 parliamentary vote on a ticket of surrendering to Moscow South Ossetia’s declared sovereignty. Now the party, United Ossetia, says it will live up to its name and make sure South Ossetia merges with its Russian cousin, North Ossetia. “We will be staying true to our slogans,” declared Anatoly Bibilov, South Ossetia’s de-facto parliamentary speaker, ITAR-TASS reported. “The question [of acceding to Russia] will be put to a referendum.”
(7.6.2014) Alexander Pliev, the leader of the Narodnaya party, blamed what he said were incompetent government officials for the slow recovery process.
1981 wechselte er zum sowjetischen Geheimdienst KGB, besuchte ein Weiterbildungsinstitut in Minsk und arbeitete später im Sicherheitsministerium von Südossetien, damals noch Teil der Sowjetunion.
Als die Sowjetunion 1991 endgültig zerfiel und sich Südossetien von Georgien abspaltete, wurde Tibilow Chef des südossetischen Geheimdiensts[1]
After the ACLU sent open records requests as part of its investigative report on police militarization, SWAT teams in Massachusetts claimed they were exempt because they were private corporations.
Some SWAT teams in the state operate as law enforcement councils, or LECs, which are funded by several police departments and overseen by an executive board largely made up of local police chiefs.
Linux, the most widely used open source operating system in the world, has scored a major publicity coup in the revelation that it is used on 94% of the world’s top 500 supercomputers.
Den Vorsitzenden Richter Rainald Gerster interessierte lediglich, »ob die Umstände rechtfertigen, was da passiert ist«. Hier sei das »normale Polizeirecht« angewendet worden, begründete er seine Entscheidung. Die Polizei habe »wegen massiver Beeinträchtigungen der öffentlichen Sicherheit« eingreifen müssen, sagte er. Der Staat sei »derjenige, der im Recht ist, weil er das stärkere Argument hat«, so Gerster. Die »Prävention, anders als die Repression« hänge »auch von der Vermutung ab«.
In an unprecedented vote forced on EU leaders by British Prime Minister David Cameron, the European Council voted 26-2 on Friday to nominate Luxembourg‘s Jean-Claude Juncker as president of the executive European Commission, a British official said.
Der NSA-Ausschuss erfragt nur, was er schon lange hätte wissen können. Echte Aufklärung geschieht dort nicht. Das übernehmen allein die Medien, nicht die Parlamentarier.
Demnächst werde Zchinwal die diplomatischen Beziehungen zu Donezk herstellen. Zuvor hatte Südossetien bereits die Unabhängigkeit der Volksrepublik Lugansk in der Ostukraine anerkannt.
It is not so easy to undo seventy years of one system. But starting the process of looking at a strange and different potential Jewish future is something that I think will help with the big change that may be down the line.
Please allow me to welcome you to Moscow. I am very happy to see you. I will not talk now about the nature of our relations; they are well known.
Unfortunately, the situation in the region is not improving. I am very happy for the opportunity to meet with you and talk about how it is developing and outline certain steps to normalise it. Naturally, we would all very much like for the peace process to be renewed. I know that there are many complications there and I am very happy for the opportunity to exchange views with you on what we need to do together in order to move forward.
PRESIDENT OF THE STATE OF PALESTINE MAHMOUD ABBAS (retranslated): Thank you, Your Excellency, for giving me this opportunity to meet with you. We know how busy you are and particularly value this meeting.
27.06.2014 - 14:23 [ Palestine News & Info Agency ]
Hamdallah’s remarks came as he met with President of the Italian Senate, Pietro Grasso, and the accompanying delegation in the Prime Minister Office in Ramallah, where he stressed the Palestinian government’s commitment to a two-state solution and the establishment of a State of Palestine living side by side with Israel if Israel releases the agreed upon prisoners and stops settlement construction.
The village of al-Araqib, a Bedouin community in the Naqab (Negev) desert in the south of present-day Israel, was razed to the ground by state authorities for the sixty-ninth time since July 2010 last week. This demolition marked the first time police destroyed homes erected within the cemetery area of the village.
27.06.2014 - 14:20 [ Palestine News & Info Agency ]
PPC said 201 Palestinians were arrested in Hebron Governorate, 90 in Nablus, 79 in Bethlehem, 56 in Jenin, 52 in Ramallah, in addition to 36 in Jerusalem, 24 in Tulkarm, 13 in Qalqilya, seven in Tubas and Salfit, and one in Jericho.
A spokesman for Gaza‘s health services, Ashraf al-Qudra, told AFP that the five were wounded after the tanks targeted „two mosque minarets“ east of Khan Younis in southern Gaza, AFP reported.
An 11-year-old boy was in serious condition, he said.
„Für die Einstufung des ‚Islamischen Staates im Irak und der Levante‘ oder irgendeiner anderen Organisation als terroristische Vereinigung ist ein Konsens erforderlich. Noch nicht alle Mitglieder des Sicherheitsrates sind dazu bereit und es handelt sich hierbei nicht um die Haltung der Russischen Föderation…“, so der russische Außenminister.
Chairman of the European Council Herman Van Rompuy promises Ukraine and Georgia a visa-free regime and the full integration of the Georgian, Moldovan and Ukrainian economies on the EU market.
Japan is poised for a historic shift in its defense policy by ending a ban that has kept the military from fighting abroad since World War Two, a major step away from post-war pacifism and a big political victory for Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.
Suchtkranke, Obdachlose und andere „soziale Randgruppen“, die den Regensburger Ordnungshütern ein Dorn im Auge sind, haben es in der Stadt nicht leicht. Das ist spätestens seit April 2013 bekannt. Damals verkündeten Bundes- und Landespolizei, die Stadt und die Staatsanwaltschaft den Beginn eines „modularen Konzepteinsatzes“ beim schon seit 2012 bestehenden „Projekt Sichere Altstadt“ (PSA). Das erklärte Ziel: Rauschgiftkriminalität, aber auch Fahrraddiebstähle und andere Straftaten sollten eingedemmt, unerwünschte „Klientel“ „verdrängt“ werden.
Digitalcourage fordert den Generalbundesanwalt auf, seine Arbeit ernst zu nehmen und endlich tätig zu werden. Die Weigerung, ein Ermittlungsverfahren einzuleiten würde ein schlechtes Bild auf unseren Rechtsstaat werfen und Zweifel an der Unabhängigkeit der Justiz und der Souveränität unseres Landes befördern.
In the latest setback for the Pentagon’s nearly $400 billion F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program, the U.S. military has grounded all of the fighter jets from flight operations after one of them caught fire at Eglin Air Force Base in Florida earlier this week.