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Radical Muslims Growing in Number and Influence in Russia, Silantyev Says

January 21, 2013 JRL Russia List Assassinations, Beatings, Threats, Religion, Terrorism

File Photo of Mosque in Kazan and other Landmarks

(Window on Eurasia – Paul Goble – Staunton, January 17 – http://windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2013/01/window-on-eurasia-radical-muslims.html) Last year was a “successful” one for radical Muslims in the Russian Federation and hence “a failure for their opponents,” Roman Silantyev says. As a result, the upcoming twelve months promise to be “still more unfavorable for [Moscow’s] policies in the Islamic direction” both at home and abroad. […]

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Moscow Blasts West’s ‘Syria Terrorism Logic’

December 21, 2012 JRL Russia List Middle East, North Africa, Terrorism

MOSCOW, December 21 (RIA Novosti) – The West’s policy of dividing Syrian terrorists into “the bad” and “the not so bad” is dangerous, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Friday. “Our colleagues at the UN Security Council refuse to condemn terrorist attacks,” he said in an interview with the RT television network. “They say terrorism is bad but at […]

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Russia Falls in Top 10 of Nations Affected by Terrorism – Report

December 11, 2012 JRL Russia List Terrorism

File Photo of Little Boy Leaving Flower by Informal Outdoor Memorial to Terrorism Victims Featuring Photos and Flowers

MOSCOW, December 11 (RIA Novosti) – Russia ranks highest in the world among upper-middle-income countries affected by terrorism and ninth overall, according to a new report by an Australian think-tank. Other former Soviet republics ranked considerably lower in the Global Terrorism Index*, a new measure of the impact of terrorism, released last week by the Institute for Economics & Peace […]

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Fear of terror attacks on decline in Russia – poll

December 7, 2012 JRL Russia List Terrorism

MOSCOW. Dec 6 (Interfax) – The share of Russians fearing they may fall victim to terror attacks has declined from 70% to 59% since 2010, the Public Opinion Foundation said. Fears are the biggest in small towns (70%) and the Southern and North Caucasian Federal Districts (75%). The sociologists held the poll in 43 regions of Russia. Some 36% rule […]

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NEWSLINK: The Caucasus Emirate Goes Global

November 15, 2012 JRL Russia List Chechnya, Dagestan, North Caucasus, Foreign Policy, Security, Visas, Middle East, North Africa, Terrorism

(The Caucasus Emirate Goes Global – Stratfor.com – Gordon Hahn – Dr. Gordon M. Hahn is Senior Associate at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, D.C. – www.stratfor.com/other-voices/caucasus-emirate-goes-global) Gordon Hahn writes on the influences of international Islamic terrorism upon unrest in the Caucasus: For a decade almost all observers ignored, downplayed, and obfuscated an ugly truth about […]

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Daghestan Becomes Hotbed Of North Caucasus Insurgency

November 5, 2012 JRL Russia List Assassinations, Beatings, Threats, Chechnya, Dagestan, North Caucasus, Religion, Terrorism

(RFE/RL – Tom Balmforth – November 05, 2012) MOSCOW — Suicide bombings in police stations. Muslim clerics gunned down in broad daylight. Shoot-outs between insurgents and security forces. These have become run-of-the-mill headlines in Russia’s troubled North Caucasus region of Daghestan. Last week, unidentified gunmen shot dead an imam and two of his male relatives as they drove to morning […]

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Russian Environmentalists Skeptical As Spy Chief Blames Al Qa’idah For Wildfires

October 7, 2012 JRL Russia List Environment, Terrorism

(Interfax – October 3, 2012) Russian environmentalists have poured cold water on claims by the head of the country’s main security service that Al-Qa’idah was responsible for forest fires in a number of countries across the European Union over the summer. In remarks reported by the privately-owned Interfax news agency on 3 October, Aleksandr Bortnikov, head of the Federal Security […]

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Nearly 40% of Russians Justify Islamic Anger With Innocence of Muslims – Poll

October 1, 2012 JRL Russia List Middle East, North Africa, Politics, Government, Protests, Elections, Religion, Terrorism, United States, U.S.-Russian Relations

MOSCOW. Sept 28 (Interfax) – Sixty-two percent of Russians are aware of the Innocence of Muslims scandalous film released in the United States. Thirty-three percent of them have heard a lot about the film, and 6% are monitoring the situation closely, the Levada Center told Interfax. Thirty-nine percent of the respondents learned about the film in the poll of 1,601 […]

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Russian Prosecutors Seek ‘Innocence of Muslims’ Ban

September 18, 2012 JRL Russia List Corruption, Law, Police, Courts, Crime, Media, Internet, Social Media, Television, Religion, Terrorism

MOSCOW, September 16 (RIA Novosti)-The Prosecutor General’s Office has declared the film “Innocence of Muslims” extremist and will seek a court ruling to ban the controversial video in Russia, its spokeswoman said on Monday. Before a court ruling the Prosecutor General’s Office has instructed the federal mass communications watchdog “to take measures to prevent media distribution of the information contained […]

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Leave a comment Islam, Law, Media, Internet, Social Media, Television, Muslims, Terrorism, Youtube

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