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The best -and the worst- places to be a mother according to Save the Children’s 11th annual “Mothers’ Index”. It seems Europe’s last fascist state, Putler’s RuSSia, has failed again:
http://www.savethechildren.org/newsroom/2010/the-best-and-worst-places.html
With this “quality,” no wonder Russia has more orphans now than she had immediately after WWII
Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov has joined Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on a list of 40 “predators of press freedom” compiled by Reporters Without Borders.
The list, compiled annually since 2000, contains politicians, officials and groups who “cannot stand the press, treat it as an enemy … are powerful, dangerous, violent and above the law,” the organization said in a statement Monday.
Reporters Without Borders said Kadyrov was linked to the murders of two outspoken critics of Moscow’s handling of the conflict in Chechnya, Anna Politkovskaya and Natalya Estemirova. Politkovskaya was gunned down in Moscow in 2006, and Estemirova was abducted in Grozny last July and found dead hours later in Ingushetia.
“Both these murders had Kadyrov’s prints on them, as have many others that have taken place under the regime of terror he has imposed in Chechnya,” the group said.
http://news.smh.com.au/breaking-news-world/watchdog-names-40-predators-of-the-press-20100503-u2mh.html
Turning to Putin, the group accused him of being responsible for increased state control over the country’s media, deteriorating working conditions for independent journalists and human rights activists and promoting “a climate of pumped-up national pride” that encourages the persecution of dissidents and fosters impunity.
Five journalists were murdered in the country in 2009, bringing the overall death count since 2000 to 22, it said.
Along with Taliban leader Mullah Omar, Kadyrov is the only new entry on this year’s list, which brings together dictators like North Korea’s Kim Jong Il with rebel militias from Somalia and the Philippines and Mexican drug cartels.
Russia is the only country with two politicians on the list, which features five other post-Soviet leaders: Alexander Lukashenko of Belarus, Azerbaijan’s Ilham Aliyev, and the presidents of Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan.
@“Both these murders had Kadyrov’s prints on them, as have many others that have taken place under the regime of terror he has imposed in Chechnya,” the group said.
“‘If you don’t,’ Kadyrov told me, `we’ll bring your entire family here right now, including all the women and children, and we’ll kill them in front of you and then kill you.’
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article7114077.ece
Eternal Russian victory in the peaceful North Caucasus continuing on May 3:
Eleven police injured in grenade attack on S. Russian police station [in Ingushetia]
http://en.rian.ru/russia/20100504/158862757.html
Police officer injured in North Caucasus attack [in Kabardino-Balkaria]
http://en.rian.ru/russia/20100503/158851358.html
(And more, of course.)