TONY BLAIR FINDS RUSSIA A PLACE IN NATO
Kommersant, November 19, 2001, p. 1
The letter concerns a radical reorganization of NATO leading structures. Blair suggests a Russian-North-Atlantic Council comprised of 19 NATO states and Russia.
BASIC RUSSIAN-MOLDOVAN TREATY TO BE SIGNED
Kommersant, November 19, 2001, p. 2
Until now, the signing was mostly prevented by the situation with the Trans-Dniester region, the political problem breeding economic ones.
THE KURSK WAS KILLED BY THE AMERICANS… WITHOUT EVIDENCE
Russiya, November 19, 2001, p. 2
Northern Fleet Chief-of-Staff Mikhail Motsak said right after President Vladimir Putin’s visit to America, that the Kursk had been killed by an American submarine.
Indirect evidence shows presence of a foreign submarine indeed.
EDUARD SHEVARDNADZE IS READY TO FIGHT TERRORISM WITH MOSCOW
Moskovsky Komsomolets, November 20, 2001, p. 2
The statement is too vague, however. Vague enough to understand that this is but PR.
Shevardnadze began with promising to do everything in his power to do away with terrorism in the Caucasus. He said afterwards, however, that he viewed all 8,000 Chechens in Georgia as “refugees” with no evidence to the contrary. Shevardnadze apparently does not consider Gelayev’s recent raid to Abkhazia and other similar “pranks” an evidence.
As a matter of fact, Shevardnadze himself admits he does not control all of Georgia.
PRESIDENT PUTIN SENT A LETTER
Moskovsky Komsomolets, November 20, 2001, p. 2
The letter was sent by participants of the Civilian Forum scheduled for November 21 and 22.
The open letter was signed by leaders of 11 human rights organizations and mentioned about 200 victims of “violence” in the course of the last two years.
