Russia 110705 Basic Political Developments
Emergency counter-terrorism measures in force in North Caucasus
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- Anti-terrorist operation launched in Grozny district of Chechnya.
- Teenage ‘Laser hooligan’ detained in Grozny.
- Lasers banned in Chechnya
- Russia sends 2nd expedition to support its Arctic claims
- Rescuers find miner dead at Kuzbass coalmine.
- People injured in helicopter crash in Irkutsk region being taken to hospitals.
- Islam has leading number of moral believers – poll
Emergency counter-terrorism measures in force in North Caucasushttp://rt.com/news/line/2011-07-05/#id13679 11:19 An emergency “counter-terrorist operation” is underway in the North Caucasus close to the Chechen capital, Grozny, on Tuesday, RIA Novosti news agency reports. Security officers are searching for a militant group, according to the administration of the Federal Security Service for the republic. Members of the group are suspected of terrorist activity. 12:10 05/07/2011ALL NEWS
http://www.itar-tass.com/en/c154/179380.html 5/7 Tass 101 GROZNY, July 5 (Itar-Tass) —— An anti-terrorist operation regime was declared in the Grozny district of Chechnya, a source in the republican branch of the Federal Security Service told Itar-Tass on Tuesday. “According to available operational reports, the gunmen, who are involved in the terrorist acts and are masterminding terrorist acts, which can be resounding, are hiding in the southern part of the Grozny district,” the source said. “To combat the criminal activities of the gangs the Chechen emergency headquarters decided to launch an anti-terrorist operation at midnight on July 5,” the source said. The anti-terrorist operation is being carried out on the area from the north-eastern outskirt of Lakha-Varanda, down the Argun River southward to the administrative border between the Grozny and Shatoi districts, along the administrative border between the foresaid districts and along the administrative border between the Grozny and Urus-Martan districts to the north-eastern outskirt of Lakha-Varanda. 01:46 05/07/2011ALL NEWS
http://www.itar-tass.com/en/c154/179169.html 5/7 Tass 292 A GROZNY, July 5 (Itar-Tass) — A ‘laser hooligan’ was detained in the Chechen capital of Grozny on Monday, the press service of Chechnya’s Interior Ministry reports. “Employees of the interior department of the Grozny located a ‘laser hooligan’ who almost blinded a plane pilot who was returning to Grozny airport on Monday evening,» the Interior Ministry’s press service went on to say. The plane was preparing to land at Grozny airport when the pilot informed the air traffic controllers at the airport that a laser ray had been directed at the plane from the ground. The interior department’s staff was put on alert. The hooligan was identified and detained within an hour. He turned out to be a teenager (b. 1994) from Petropavlovskaya settlement of the Grozny district, the Chechen Interior Ministry said.
Jul 5, 2011 03:11 Moscow Time The head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov has ordered a ban on the sale of laser pointers in the Republic. The measure is expected to eliminate possible cases of pilots being blinded from the ground. Kadyrov stressed that he would personally monitor the implementation of his order. Since the beginning of the year there have been several dozen attempts at blinding pilots by “laser hooligans”. The greatest number of incidents has happened in Rostov-on-the Don, as well as in the Moscow airports "Vnukovo" and "Sheremetyevo". So far in all cases, the crew has managed to land without incident.
MOSCOW, July 5 (RIA Novosti)Nuclear-powered icebreaker Rossiya will leave the port of Murmansk on Tuesday to accompany research vessel Academician Fyodorov on a second mission to determine the boundaries of Russia's continental shelf in the Arctic. Russia is still in a dispute with Canada over the Lomonosov Ridge, with both countries trying to persuade a UN commission that it is an extension of its own continental shelf. The sides have agreed that scientific evidence should resolve the dispute. "The Rossiya icebreaker will accompany the research ship during the entire length of the expedition to ensure the consistency of the vessel's speed, which is crucial for precise measurements," said Yekaterina Ananyeva, spokesperson for Rosatomflot. The main goal of the two-month-long expedition is to measure the thickness of the bottom silt along the Lomonosov Ridge as part of the evidence that supports Russia's territorial claim. The settlement of the dispute in Russia's favor will give the country the right to develop vast energy resources on the Arctic shelf. Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin reiterated last week that Russia will not backtrack on its territorial claims on the underwater Lomonosov and Mendeleev ridges in the Arctic region and will protect its geopolitical interests "firmly and consistently." Russia sent the first expedition on a similar mission last year, when Academician Fyodorov was accompanied by the Yamal nuclear icebreaker.
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Rescuers find miner dead at Kuzbass coalmine. |
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KEMEROVO, July 5 (Itar-Tass) —— The rescuers have found another miner dead at the emergency coalmine Kiselevskaya in the Kemerovo Region. He was reported missing as a result of the clay mixture fall in the coalmine on June 16. The death toll of the coalmine accident reached two miners. The search for another two miners continues.
The dead miner is Pavel Mikhailovich Yerokhin, who was born in 1981, a source in the regional authorities told Itar-Tass on Tuesday.
The headquarters to clean up the accident told Itar-Tass that the rescuers broke through 80 meters of clay mixture debris and have about 40 meters to pass. The search operation is on in heavy conditions, because the clay mixture can be removed only manually.
On June 16, the clay mixture collapsed at the Kiselevskaya coalmine (Kiselevsk, the Kemerovo Region). Four miners happened to be blocked in the coalmine. The fate of two miners is unclear yet. The coalmining was halted in the coalmine.
12:28 05/07/2011ALL NEWS
People injured in helicopter crash in Irkutsk region being taken to hospitals. |
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MOSCOW, July 5 (Itar-Tass) — Persons injured in a Mi-8 helicopter crash in Russian’s Siberian Irkutsk region are being taken to hospitals, a spokesman for the regional emergencies administration told Itar-Tass over the phone.
“Reports about a crash landing of a Mi-8 helicopter of the UTair air carrier in the Katanga district came at 09:31 a.m. Moscow time on Tuesday. The helicopter crashed some 720 kilometers off the town of Ust-Kut. It carried workers from Ust-Kut to a drilling platform in the Katanga district,” the spokesman said. There were 16 people onboard the helicopter, including three crew members. As a result, two persons died, one man is in critical condition.
“As of now, a UTair helicopter has taken three persons who were injured in the crash. They will be hospitalized at the central clinic of the Kirensky district,” the spokesman added. Another Mi-8 helicopter with rescuers has taken off from the settlement of Vanavary in the Krasnoyarsk territory. Apart from it, one more helicopter may be engaged to take rescuers and medics to the scene of the accident.
04 July 2011, 10:51
Islam has leading number of moral believers – poll
http://www.interfax-religion.com/?act=news&div=8563
*** 13% of Russians are church-goers or visit other religious assemblies
Moscow, July 4, Interfax - Muslims demonstrate the highest rating of commitment to moral norms if compared to followers of other religions.
Thus, the number of Islam believers with low, middle and high moral status is 17%, 41%, 42% correspondingly. In Orthodoxy - 30%, 39%, 31%, among believers of other religions 46%, 23%, 31%, among atheists - 32%, 43%, 25%.
Such a conclusion was made by authors of the Russian Sociological Research Twenty years of reforms through Russians' eyes held by the Sociological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences in all country's territorial and economical districts, in Moscow and St.Petersburg among 1750 respondents aged 18 and older.
Researchers say that 13% of Russians visit churches and religious assemblies. Religious assemblies are much more popular than any coteries, affinity groups, political organizations and youth associations (1-2% each).
Sociologists also found out what idea is able to unite Russian society. The most popular idea is uniting Russian peoples in order to revive the country as a superpower (42% of respondents) while the idea of "purifying the society through Orthodox faith" is shared only by 9% (compared to 6% in 1995).
Share of respondents who stand for consolidation of society on the grounds of social values grows. Thus, if compared to 2001 their number has grown by half and if compared to 1995 - it increased twofold (from 10% and 15% to 21%).
Besides, each fifth Russian today share socialistic views.
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