News Digest
PAYMENT OF MASKHADOV REWARD TO INTENSIFY SEARCH FOR BASAYEV – ALKHANOV
By empty (3/15/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Chechen President Alu Alkhanov hopes that the Federal Security Service\'s (FSB) steps to pay its promised reward for information on the whereabouts of separatist leader Aslan Maskhadov will help intensify the search for guerrilla leader Shamil Basayev. \"I am confident that now Basayev will hardly be able to feel safe wherever he is hiding - a region, a community, a forested area or the mountains,\" Alkhanov told Interfax on Tuesday. \"After the promise to pay most of the pledged money was kept, and the population knows that it is no myth, people will appear who will launch their own search for Basayev and his associates and inform the authorities of their progress,\" the president said.NEW RESISTANCE LEADER SAYS CHECHENS \'WILL FORCE RUSSIA TO ACCEPT PEACE\'
By empty (3/15/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
In his first address to the Chechen people, posted on 14 March on chechenpress.co.uk, Abdul-Khalim Sadulaev, who was identified last week as the legitimate successor to slain Chechen President Aslan Maskhadov, said the latter\'s death will not change the Chechen leadership\'s commitment to \"the total restoration of the country\'s independence from Russia.TWO OPPOSITION PARTY MEMBERS ARRESTED IN TAJIKISTAN
By empty (3/15/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Rahmatullo Zoyirov, head of Tajikistan\'s Social Democratic Party, told a news conference in Dushanbe on 14 March that Tajik police have arrested two party members in Soghd Province, RFE/RL\'s Tajik Service reported. In a statement published the same day by Avesta, Zoyirov said that Nizomuddin Begmatov, a candidate in the 27 February parliamentary elections, and Nasimjon Shukurov, Begmatov\'s representative, were arrested on 12 March and charged the next day with defamation and hooliganism. Likening the event to the Stalinist repressions of 1937, Zoyirov said that the party members were targeted on trumped-up charges for attempting to stand up for their rights and the rights of others.TURKMEN OPPOSITION LEADER CALLS FOR INTERNATIONAL PRESSURE
By empty (3/15/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Khudaiberdy Orazov, a former Turkmen deputy prime minister and now an exiled opposition leader, told Russia\'s \"Nezavisimaya gazeta\" in a 14 March interview that change will come about in Turkmenistan only if the international community exerts heavy pressure on Turkmen President Saparmurat Niyazov. Orazov criticized the United States for lacking a \"thought-out policy\" on Turkmenistan and noted that such U.S.Visit also
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