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Stranded fishermen in Vietnam continue hunger strikehttp://english.ruvr.ru/2010/12/16/36945707.html Dec 16, 2010 09:57 Moscow Time The Russian fishermen in Vietnam continue their hunger strike for the fourth successive day, but their condition is sharply worsening. They are currently awaiting a doctor from the Russian Consulate in Ho Chi Minh. Five fishermen are taking part in the action. The sailors have been unpaid for a year and a half. The owner of their ship stranded in Vietnam owes the crew more than $140,000.
http://www.itar-tass.com/eng/level2.html?NewsID=15784953&PageNum=0 16.12.2010, 09.36 IRKUTSK, December 16 (Itar-Tass) - Angarsk Vice-Mayor Dmitry Chernyshev, who is in charge of housing and public utility affairs, has been hospitalized in a serious condition on Thursday morning following an assassination attack against him. A city administration source has told Itar-Tass that the crime was committed at the entrance-way of the building where Chernyshev lives. An assailant fired point-blank from a sawn-off rifle. Investigators and criminalists from the Angarsk city department of the RF Investigation Committee (SKP) are pursuing all the avenues of inquiry into the assassination attempt against Vice-Mayor Dmitry Chernyshev, Vladimir Salovarov, Senior Assistant to the Director of the SKP Investigation Office, has told Itar-Tass. Salovarov said the question of instituting criminal proceedings in connection with the "attempt at murder" is under consideration on the strength of Articles 30 and 105 of the Penal Code of the Russian Federation. December 16, 2010 7:37
http://www.interfax.ru/news.asp?id=169406 GOOGLE TRANSLATION Angarsk. December 16. Interfax-Siberia - in Angarsk (Irkutsk Region) on Thursday morning was an attempt on the vice-mayor Dmitry Chernyshev. As reported by Interfax-Siberia "senior assistant director of the regional GC UPC Vladimir Salovarov," in the beginning of the tenth morning, local time, when an officer came out of the doorway at home, where he lives, for it opened fire. " "The vice-mayor was hospitalized. He was wounded in the leg. At the scene found just enough" - said V. Salovarov. At the scene of an accident investigation team is working. According to V. Salovarov, soon to be prosecuted for attempted murder. 16 December 2010, 11:08 Mufti killers will be punished – Medvedevhttp://www.interfax-religion.com/?act=news&div=8021 Moscow, December 16, Interfax - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has offered his condolences to the friends and family of Anas Pshikhachev, mufti of the North Caucasus republic of Kabardino-Balkaria, who was murdered on Wednesday. "He was an outstanding religious figure of unquestionable authority who openly opposed extremism," spokeswoman Natalya Timakova quoted the president as saying. "It is clear that this heinous murder was committed because of his active stance," Medvedev was quoted as saying. The president has ordered that all possible assistance be provided to the victim's family, Timakova said. "We will continue to support Muslims in Kabardino-Balkaria, and I am certain that the murderers will be punished," Medvedev was quoted as saying. Pshikhachev was killed in the republic's main city of Nalchik on Wednesday evening. Two unidentified men challenged him to come out of his home at about 7:30 p.m. They then fired at least four shots from 9 mm pistols at him. Pshikhachev, aged 47, died from his wounds. A criminal case based on charges of premeditated murder and illegal arms possession has been launched. A senior Muslim leader in the North Caucasus, Ismail Berdiyev, told Interfax-Religion that Pshikhachev had receive death threats in the past. "Just recently at a meeting with the presidential envoy [to the North Caucasus Alexander Khloponin] he said: "They come, look me in the face brazenly and say: "We have decided to kill you. What do you think of that?" Berdiyev said it was difficult to say who could be behind the murder but noted that the mufti had actively resisted extremism. "Whatever it may be, there is no religion here. It's pure gangsterism," Berdiyev added. 16 December 2010, 11:10
Nalchik, December 16, Interfax - Investigators have already identified those behind the Wednesday evening murder of Kabardino-Balkaria's spiritual Muslim leader Anas Pshikhachev. "Investigators have made progress in probing this brazen crime. Preliminary reports suggest that there are already suspects," Arsen Kanokov, president of the restive North Caucasus republic, told Interfax on Thursday. "I have no doubt that this barbaric crime will be resolved," he said. "No one will manage to shatter the situation in the republic. The death of one of the most influential religious figures in the North Caucasus must unite the Muslims of our republic in bringing peace and stability to Kabardino-Balkaria," the republic's leader said. Kanokov attends Pshikhachev's funeral on Thursday. Top Muslim Cleric Shot Dead In Volatile Caucasushttp://www.rferl.org/content/muslim_cleric_murder_kabardino_balkaria/2249767.html December 16, 2010 The top Muslim cleric in Russia's volatile region of Kabardino-Balkaria has been shot dead. A spokeswoman for the regional investigators said that Anas Pshikhachev, the region's top mufti, was attacked by two unidentified assailants just outside his home in the town of Nalchik on December 15. He received several gunshot wounds and died of his injuries on the spot. President Dmitry Medvedev expressed his condolences to the mufti's family. Kabardino-Balkaria is located near the volatile regions of Chechnya, Daghestan, and Ingushetia, where the authorities are battling a Muslim insurgency and attacks on government officials are a near-daily occurrence. compiled from agency reports Unknown gunmen kill mufti of North Caucasian region http://www.itar-tass.com/eng/level2.html?NewsID=15784423&PageNum=0 15.12.2010, 23.30 NALCHIK, December 15 (Itar-Tass) - Wednesday night, unknown gunmen shot and killed the mufti of the North Caucasian region of Kabardino-Balkaria, Anas Pshikhachev. He was killed at 19:30 near his private house in the district of Alexandrovka, the regional capital Nalchik. "Two unknown gunmen asked him to go out of the house and made no less than four shots at him from a 9 mm gun," a source at the regional Investigations Committee told Itar-Tass. "Four shells have been found at the site of the crime." The mufti died on the spot. A criminal case citing articles of the Criminal Code on purported murder and illegal circulation of weaponry has been instituted. At the time of reporting, a group of operatives and investigators was working at the site. Anas Pshikhachev was into a working class family in Nalchik October 11, 1967. He began his career of an Islamic cleric in 1989 when he graduated from a local junior college of the construction industry. In the 1990’s, Pshikhachev studied for four years at the International Islamic University in Tripoli, Libya, and later on at the Islamic Institute of Kabardino-Balkaria. He authored more than fifty works on the issues of theology and religion and drafted a curriculum for the Islamic schools of higher learning in Russia, which got official authorization of the federal Ministry of Education and Science. “This was an outstanding and doubtlessly authoritative religious personality who put up an overt opposition to extremism,” Russian President’s press secretary Marina Timakova said quoting the words of President Dmitry Medvedev. “There’s scarcely any doubt this mean assassination was committed because of his active position,” she said, adding that Medvedev had ordered to provide all the necessary assistance and aid to the mufti’s family. On behalf of the President, Timakova said the federal authorities will continue supporting the Moslem community of Kabardino-Balkaria. “We’re sure revenge will reach the assassins,” she said. December 16, 2010 14:57 PM Two Wounded After Attack On Police Checkpoint In Chechnya http://www.bernama.com.my/bernama/v5/newsindex.php?id=550499 GROZNY, Dec 16 (Bernama) -- Two policemen were wounded in a fire attack on a police post in Chechnya's Achkhoi-Martan district, a source at the Chechen Interior Ministry told Russian news agency, Itar-Tass. "Unidentified gunmen opened fire at a travelling police post from fire arms in Achkhoi-Martan village at around 21:10 Moscow time on Wednesday. Two policemen were wounded. They were taken to hospital in Achkhoi-Martan," the source said. The police are combing the area from were the fire attack had come. 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