http://www.aysor.am/en/news/2011/05/03/armenia-russia-society/
A Union of Armenian-Russian NGOs will be established in Armenia. A joint forum will be held in Armenia in late May to discuss establishment of the Union.
Coordinator of the forum, Arsen Mkrtchyan told Aysor.am correspondent that around 170 Armenian NGOs have submitted a bid to join the Union.
According to him, coordination of the activities of Armenian and Russian NGOs will help create a new format of cooperation, dictated by friendly and partner relations between Armenia and Russia.
Reports: Russian officer who blew whistle on US spy ring charged with high treason
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By The Associated Press – 15 minutes ago
MOSCOW — Russian news agencies say the former Russian intelligence officer who helped U.S. authorities uncover the spy ring that included Anna Chapman has been charged with high treason and desertion.
Ten so-called sleeper agents who collected information for Russia were arrested last summer and deported.
Russian news agencies cited a statement Tuesday from the Federal Security Service that said the indictment of Alexander Poteyev, the officer who tipped the U.S. authorities off about the spy ring, has been passed to Moscow's main military court. The service would not confirm the charges.
High treason carries a maximum of 20 years' prison under Russian law, while desertion is seven years.
Russian media said Poteyev fled to the U.S. just before the arrests were announced.
Intellectual piracy rampant in Russia – report
http://rt.com/news/line/
RT News line, May 3
Russia and China do not protect intellectual property rights at a sufficient level, US Trade Representative Ron Kirk announced on Monday. Kirk’s office recently updated the list of countries with a high level of intellectual piracy. This year, this list includes eight new countries, among them Canada and India. The list serves as a reminder to the governments to improve the situation with intellectual property rights protection, but it does not lead to imposing any sanctions. Brazil, Greece, Mexico and Jamaica are among 29 countries where the protection of intellectual property rights is improving, according to the document.
03 May 2011, 10:09
Chechen mufti dismisses U.S. commission's criticism of lack of religious freedom in republic
http://www.interfax-religion.com/?act=news&div=8413
Grozny, May 3, Interfax - Chechen Mufti Sultan Mirzayev has dismissed conclusions by the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom that freedom of religion and other freedoms are violated in Chechnya.
"We deem it necessary to state that the right to freedom of religion guaranteed by the Russian Constitution is fully exercised in the Chechen Republic. There has not been a single fact of denial of registration of a religious association, regardless of its faith," the Chechen Muslim Board said in an official statement.
"While there was not a single mosque in the republic at the beginning of the 1990s, they exist in all populated areas now. The Archangel Michael Cathedral has been rebuilt virtually from bottom up in the center of Grozny. Orthodox Christian churches are also being built in other places where groups of Orthodox believers live," Mirzayev said.
"The republic's leadership permanently supports religious associations of Muslims and Christians. If need be, houses of worship for members of other faiths will be built," he said.
The conclusions that freedom of religion is violated in Russia on the whole and in the Chechen Republic in particular "have been made without carefully examining the situation, which can only be regretted," he added.
Russian president legalizes order of determining terrorism threat
http://vestnikkavkaza.net/news/politics/13478.html
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has signed a federal law on amendments to the law on fighting terrorism, RIA Novosti reports.
The law was adopted by the parliament on April 22, 2011, and approved by the Federation Council on April 27. The law sets levels of terrorism threat, which determine measures needed for protecting individuals, society and the state.
The order of determining the threat and additional measures will be defined by the president.
Amendments to Russian law on countering terrorism http://english.ruvr.ru/2011/05/03/49764002.html
May 3, 2011 11:23 Moscow Time
The Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has signed into law the draft on making amendments to the Federal Law on countering terrorism, says the Kremlin’s press service. The draft, adopted by the State Duma and approved by the Senate in April this year, provides for establishing terrorist threat levels that would call for some extra moves to ensure personal, public and state security against terrorist threats. The levels are due to be determined by the President. The new law will makes it possible to timely react to the threat of terrorist attack.
May 03, 2011 11:08
Search under way for militant who could be used to commit terror act on Umarov's orders (Part 3)
http://www.interfax.com/newsinf.asp?id=240984
MOSCOW. May 3 (Interfax) - Russian law enforcement services are searching for North Caucasus gang member Ibragim Torshkhoyev, who could be used to stage a terrorist attack on orders from militant leader Doku Umarov, a spokesman for the National Antiterrorist Committee (NAC) told Interfax.
"The information available to us confirms that Torshkhoyev is currently hiding in a forested and mountainous district on the territory of Chechnya," he said.
Torshkhoyev, 20, hails from the city of Armavir in Russia's southern Krasnodar territory, the spokesman said.
"He is a member of gangs active in the North Caucasus. He may be used by Umarov to stage a terror act," he said.
A Krasnodar territory police spokesman told Interfax on April 14 that measures were being taken to detain Ibragim Torshkhoyev from the city of Armavir, who could be heading to Moscow to commit a terrorist attack there.
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Chechen charged with terrorism for allegedly assembling letter bomb for Danish daily
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By The Associated Press – 14 minutes ago
COPENHAGEN — Denmark's top prosecutor has charged a Chechen-born man with terrorism for allegedly preparing a letter bomb likely intended for a Danish newspaper that published cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad.
Joergen Steen Soerensen said Tuesday that Lors Doukayev wanted to "seriously frighten the population" and destabilize Denmark with the explosive device.
Doukayev, a boxer born in the Russian republic of Chechnya and currently a resident of Belgium, was slightly injured while allegedly assembling a letter bomb in a Copenhagen hotel. No one else was injured.
If found guilty he faces a life sentence, though generally this is reduced in Denmark to 16 years in prison.
A trial is set to start May 16.
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