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We are not already on December 17 that I think of the resolutions of the New Year that will ring as surely this: In 2011 I want to go back to my size of 29 November 2010! And as a result I will succeed in this feat of ... ummm ... about November 28, 2011? It vicious circle!

But I just do rien.c is the addiction (Small vocabulary lesson here (story you hear) The addiction is the phenomenological sense, conduct which is based on a desire repeated and unstoppable, despite the motivation and efforts to evade the subject. ...) The more fat, the more sweet ... I'm more addicted \u0026lt;3

It's getting worse and worse every year ... Only this week with 3 times we have customers bring homemade treats all the more delicious one that warms this planet autres.Plus it gives me more of fare would there be a link? Feeling my body approached the end result of reserves to survive a possible shortage?! I do not know but one thing is sure it tasted good Christmas!

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Creative!

"The creativity describes the ability of an individual or group to imagine or construct and implement a new concept, a new object or find an original solution to a problem. "

With the arrival of winter I have want to put even the tip of my nose off! I take this opportunity to spoil me and return to my winter recreation: Point-of-cross, Scrapbooking, Sewing and Knitting the newly. I am pleased with the creative leisure. It is very important to me to appropriate certain objects and to distinguish myself from others in making some things to my image of me. I also like the next "green" (surprisingly) is to do things yourself and recovered items that have joined the garbage otherwise. I love to create with my hands and I think it's a real therapy. Which brings me to a small nod to Creative Journal by Anne-Marie Jobin . A book that helps me make a concrete complex concept: Spirituality. I urge all those who think that meditation is very vague!

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A camel on the shoulder in Ulan Bator, Mongolia

series aired on a Camel on the shoulder (Radio Suisse Romande) from 6 to 10 September 2010.

Ulaanbaatar: urban life in nomadic land

journalist Frederick Lavoie shows us the lives of the Mongolian capital Ulan Bator, between sedentary nomadic traditions and realities.

Yurt lost in the endless moonscape, nomads on horseback bringing their animals scattered across the steppe. The romance of Mongolian life dream.

But since the fall of communism in 1990, the reality is far from rosy for descendants of Genghis Khan. Can no longer count on help from the state after a series of harsh winters, hundreds of thousands of nomads leave the steppe to plant their yurt in the suburbs polluted and unhealthy in the capital.

Result: in 20 years, the population of Ulaanbaatar has grown from 540,000 people to between 1.1 and 1.6 million according to estimates. Ironically, half the three million Mongolians crowded so today in the state capital of the world's least densely populated. At
hillside around a downtown socialist architecture, neighborhoods yurts constantly expanding surround the capital. In those dusty towns, young professionals dream of an apartment, study abroad or work in the Mongolian mining industry booming. Others see the city rather as a necessary step, hoping to quickly raise enough money to buy a herd and return to a nomadic life. If

Mongolian traditions die hard, despite rapid urbanization, the isolated Asian company is still surprisingly liberal. Uninhibited, young rockers with long hair inflame their audiences with their Western-inspired heavy music. In the crowd of skinheads are the Mongolian hello Hitler Recalling that if Mongolia is open, foreigners are not always welcome, especially if they come from threatening neighboring China. After two decades
post-communist relatively quiet Mongolian democracy still looking. Suukhbaatar the square outside the parliament building and a huge statue of the conqueror Genghis Khan, angry citizens braved the cold to remind the government of its unfulfilled promises.
1 / 5: Life yurt (listen or download the show)
Habit and well cared for hair, suitcase in hand, thousands of professionals cross at dawn the door of their yurt in the suburbs Capital unhealthy. Direction: downtown Ulan Bator.

Torbat a young social worker, dreams of a city apartment and study abroad. Meanwhile, he lives with his wife and baby Ankhtsetseg in a yurt equipped: fridge, TV, microwave, stove and ... aquarium.

born in the country, Torbat loves urban life easier and more diverse than his brother knows that pastoralists. But he hates the neighborhood of yurts, where the air polluted by smoke from coal and firewood is unbearable with the arrival of cold weather. He has put all his energy build a better life for her children, even sacrificing his own.

The guest: Gaëlle Lacaze
Ethnologue, a specialist in Mongolia. Lecturer in anthropology at the University of Strasbourg. Author in 2006 of the guide Mongolia: Land of shadows and lights Olizane editions.

Gaëlle Lacaze talks about yurts neighborhoods that surround the capital Ulan Bator, where there are hundreds of thousands of former nomads. She tells us about the extremely precarious living conditions, social dislocation and total lack of prospects in these suburban yurts.
2 / 5: Fragile democracy (listen or download the show)
In the intense cold of April 2010, more than five miles down on Mongols Suukhbaatar Square, central square of Ulan Bator demand the government resign.

At their head, Ouyang, 34, petite woman and hypercharismatique. Surrounded by towering men, the leader of the civil movement denounces the corruption of a government that has lost public trust as it does not fulfill its election promises.

Huddled in a tent on the square, the former journalist with eight companions triggers a strike hunger. Weakened, she talks about her ambitions for democracy in Mongolia still shaky, 20 years after the fall of communism.

Fourteen days later, authorities will forcibly detain strikers to the hospital.

Guest: Jacques Legrand
Jacques Legrand, professor of Mongolian language and literature, is now president of the National Institute of Oriental Languages and Civilizations (INALCO). He is the author of numerous books on history, culture and language of Mongolia, including a French-Mongolian dictionary (Monsudar, Ulaanbaatar, 2007).

Jacques Legrand tells us about the evolution he travels the country since 1967. It tells the upheavals of the fall of communism, the arrival of a market economy, the decline of nomadism and the discovery of immense wealth in the basement of Mongolia. The opportunity to listen to the sounds of the very special Mongolian language.

3 / 5: In memory of Genghis Khan (listen or download the show)

Swastika in the neck, nor be responsible Gansouren fascist or Nazi. It is nationalistic. As his time was his hero, Genghis Khan, the Mongol conqueror greater.

In a gym, where he teaches taekwondo, leader Khoukha Mongol (Blue Mongolia) speaks of his organization nationalist attacks against Chinese employers "disrespectful" and his great vision of unity for the Mongolian people. His wife Otguirid, weightlifting coach, explains the importance of sports to demonstrate the strength of his nation.

Guest: Françoise Aubin
Françoise Aubin is Research Director Emeritus at the CNRS and the Centre for Research on the Far East of Paris-Sorbonne.

She explains why Genghis Khan is a national hero in Mongolia while the West is always in the as a bloodthirsty barbarian. She tells us that Genghis Khan was and how he himself has built his legend.

4 / 5: Heavy Mongolian (listen or download the show)

This evening of celebration for the cult band Nisvanis. Mongolian rock pioneers, they celebrate leur14e anniversary on stage. Other younger formations come to honor them.

Amgalan, Nisvanis singer is all smiles. He remembers the early days when it was difficult to find instruments in Ulaanbaatar and that his music was inspired by Nirvana escape the crowds.

Sunny, leader The training Lemons, has struggled to make his parents accept her choice to become a rock musician, an occupation not pay very little in the Mongolian population. But today, with its little star, he appears regularly in China and Japan.

Ougui is the head honcho of the Mongolian rock scene. It is he who arranges all the shows. If being a rock star does not lead to capital in Mongolia, he was pleased at least that society is liberal enough not to try him for his long hair and her clothes gothic.

Guests: Gregory Delaplace
Delaplace Gregory, an anthropologist, is conducting a post-doctoral research University of Cambridge (Mongolia and Inner Asia Study Unit) in England, on the dead and the "invisible things" in contemporary Mongolia. Since 1999, his fieldwork in the capital and the north-west, with a population of nomadic pastoralists, have led to interest in subjects as diverse as the new urban practice of feng shui, historiography of collectivization and the Mongolian rap.

Delaplace Gregory is the author of "The invention of the dead. Burials, ghosts and contemporary photography in Mongolia," Northeast Asia Collection, Supplement to Studies & Siberian Mongols, Tibetan & Central Asian, Paris, 2009.

Delaplace Gregory talks about the rock culture in Mongolia, one of the only people to resist nationalism that followed the end of communism and the reconstruction of identity "purely" Mongolia. We present ultra famous groups as Mohanik or Tatar, their vision of Mongolian society, their demands in a country undergoing profound change.

5 / 5: Nomads in the soul (listen or download the show)
Each year, thousands of nomadic herders to leave life to settle in the suburbs polluted and unhealthy Capital. More by necessity than choice.

In one of the city still without electricity in yurts, Batchtolong leveled his newly acquired land, on which he lived with his mother Ningoui. Setter for the air conditioner 26 years, the city is a must. His dream: to buy a herd and return to live in the desert as their ancestors.

At 450 miles away, in the province of Bulgan, and Otgon Tomurbaatar not leave anything in the world for their harsh nomadic life. Even if they have lost half their herd during the harsh winter of 2010, television has taught them that life would be much better in the capital, where there unemployment, pollution and disease. In their yurt lost, at least they are "only to breathe the air" for miles around, pleads Otgon. The guest

: Tsogzolmaa Sambuu
Tsogzolmaa Sambuu organizes tourist trips in Mongolia including working with the Swiss Agency Area East and West. It gives us the latest news from the capital Ulan Bator.

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: The nomadic steppe outside

Article published in the section Holidays / Travel Press September 30, 2010

Ulan Bator, Mongolia - Clean Air, the yurt planted in the middle of nowhere, the farmer to horse leading his flock in the endless steppe: Do not look for the romance of the nomadic Mongolian Ulan Bator, it is not there. However, the traveler who has the courage (or obligation) to linger in the polluted capital will not regret its plunge into the depths of the fascinating culture of Mongolia, Buddhism between nomadism, and ... heavy metal.

Before entering a yurt, the traditional round dwelling nomads, we do not hit. In the countryside, and city. The practice can be confusing for foreigners, accustomed to respect for privacy. But in the dusty outskirts of Ulan Bator, where the eye can extend hillside yurts of the thousands of exiles in rural areas, there is nothing more normal than joining a stranger unannounced to drink tea with milk salty.

Do not expect the great outpouring of politeness and warmth found in other countries with overwhelming hospitality. Accustomed to self-sufficiency and independence of the nomadic life, the Mongols welcome you to their humble abode in you having a stool, sweets and tea ... before returning to go about their business, until you begin the discussion, unfortunately limited by the language barrier.

Think again. You Welcome, you do not disturb. Feel like at home. Really. Not as a guest but as a family member, helping a little, like the others.

And then the departure time arrives. No agonizing separation. You leave as you came, after brief greetings. Without false promise of return.
Coming out of the yurt, the shock is brutal. You're not in the middle of the campaign, as you would have thought to see the cows grazing on the few herbs on dry land. You are in the city.

To keep the privacy offered by the endless steppe, nomads have settled down, paradoxically, all fenced their land. Everyone lives in his little world, limiting the life of the neighborhood trade. Surprising in a society dominated by poverty, neighborhood solidarity that comes with such difficulty in finding a niche.

Mongolian capital

Back downtown, Suükhbaatar place, the main square. Yurts have given way to towering gray buildings. The large glass building in front of you seems straight out of Dubai. In fact, it is mainly a symbol of small failures of capitalism Mongolian. Nearly completed, it remains unoccupied and will be demolished due to problem of foundations.

For centuries, nomads have lived without fixed capital. Until the Communists, in power for more than six decades, launching the first real wave of urbanization, the influence of the Soviet big brother. By failing to test the beauty of the urban landscape, hard to say they have succeeded ...

The arrival of capitalism in 1990 has seen the emergence of several small shops and even pubs and restaurants run by Westerners crossing into Mongolia before you take a wife, so countries.

Shops Mongolian specialize in products instead of cashmere, winter goats hair that makes the country's international reputation in the fashion industry.
By selling the fruit of nomads, they try to forget the pollution of the Avenue of Peace, the main street of the city, where many citizens are protected from contaminated air in surgical masks. The traveler, it would best protect themselves from pickpockets, whose camera from the author of these lines was nearly the victim in the heart of the city in the afternoon ...


A must for most visitors, Ulaanbaatar is a must. Some arrive after a long stay in the railway train from Moscow through Siberia. It is also the transit point for exploring the steppes and the nomadic life on horseback.
Tourists also converge in Ulan Bator in July for the Naadam national celebration, during which the Mongols are measured at archery, running and horse in Mongolian wrestling, always clad in traditional costumes .

Ulaanbaatar is also a point of pilgrimage for some. Ganden Monastery, not far from downtown, became the gateway to the Buddhist heritage of Mongolia in full resurgence. He is one of the few to have survived the repression of religion under communism.

Under his wobbly gait as the capital of a developing country, the liberal mindset of Ulaanbaatar surprises and charm. Mongolian traditions are important but they do not interfere with the aspirations of modern youth. During our stay we were even treated to a spectacle of heavy metal music provided by several groups of the emerging Mongolian scene. It is for such moments of discovery qu'Oulan Bator, despite its ugliness and dirt frontage, deserves to be discovered.

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The Olympian challenge Sochi

File published in La Presse, September 25, 2010

MOSCOW - Sochi is currently a challenge Olympian. Taking short three years ago by obtaining surprise of the 2014 Winter Games, the Russian resort built in haste her Olympic dream. And nothing can stop the Russian government, who wish to e eyeful to re ste world. Neither a hunger strike citizens expropriated. Neither environmentalists who cry ecological disaster. Neither the explosion of costs just to drive up the bill for tens of billions of dollars.

On the main road to Krasnaya Polyana, the dust never has time to fall. Hundreds of trucks pass each day with a bang to transport materials needed for Olympic construction.

"It may be temporary, but we do not live here temporarily!" Claudia gets carried away, fifty. Resident of the village has always been, she was indignant to see the serenity of Krasnaya Polyana Olympic swept away by the wave.

In 2014, it was in this mountain village 60 km from Sochi that all events will take place with snow. The tiny ski existing outdated now live in the shadow of four major Olympic complex. And the modest homes of the villagers must accustom the tallest hotels under construction.

"I'm against since the beginning. Everybody is against it, but nobody asked us our opinion," says Claudia while carrying her groceries. "They organized the games just to launder money!" she exclaims, exasperated, before disappearing into his car without disclosing his name.

A little later, Vyacheslav Soulimenko, 71, to be responsible "for progress", so for the Olympics. "But on the other hand, I fear for the environment. They have killed thousands of trees and animals have fled," said the hunter and tourist guide, sipping a beer in the middle afternoon on a park bench.

No games green
"We could have a Green Olympics, as the organizers had promised," believes his side Kaptsov Dmitri, a militant faction of the ecologist, a local environmental organization. "But the project ran into Russian reality."

According to him, to hold the Games without environmental consequences Russia should prepare at least four or five years before submitting his candidacy. However, after the speech of Vladimir Putin flamboyant in July 2007, the International Olympic Committee has taken on faith in the project dear to the country's strong man ... even though the city candidate at that time did not have any facilities necessary for the Games.

Taken aback by their victory, the organizers could not carry all the expertise necessary to minimize environmental impacts, says Dmitri Kaptsov. "Instead of respecting the laws, they change. If before it was a crime to cut some trees in an area now is completely legal."

In 2007, green groups have managed to move the planned bobsleigh run, which would have destroyed the natural habitat of many animals. This was their only victory. After a brief collaboration, Greenpeace, WWF Ecologist Faction and turned their backs on the state company responsible for the work, Olympstroï.

"There has never been more attention devoted to environmental projects in Russia," says Alexandra Kasterine for its part, spokesman Olympstroï. It indicates that the damage caused to the environment will be offset by the addition of 20 000 hectares of protected forest to national park near Sochi.

For Green, the main environmental threat touches the river Mzymta. Along the river are being built alongside a new road and a railway to link the airport to the Olympic venues Krasnaya Polyana. "Half the city of Sochi as to drink," Dmitry Kaptsov concerned. At a cost of whopping 6.5 billion, the project includes 23 bridges and six tunnels for railway trains and automobiles.

This road and other "unexpected" charges have tripled the Olympics. In June, the Ministry of Regions has estimated that the private and public investment for the 242 facilities for the Games would total 950 billion rubles, or $ 31 billion.

Critics are pointing to the corruption that plagues the country to explain in part the cost explosion. A contractor accused in particular an official of the presidential administration have demanded 12% of the value of a contract in jars of wine. The officer was dismissed from his post in August and is facing criminal charges.

Hunger Strike
As for the main site of the Games, a few hundred meters from the Black Sea, stadiums and arenas are beginning to take shape. The passage of the Press three years ago, the lowlands of Imereti - as the locals call this area a few villages scattered about forty miles from the center city of Sochi - which were cornfield surrounded by some houses .

In his garden, Lyubov Fourssa has an amazing view on the skeleton of the future ice palace of 12,000 seats, which will host the speed skating short track and figure skating. But not for long. By December, she will leave her home.

It is part of a hundred families expropriated by the authorities. When the city presented its candidacy, however, assured her that no citizen would have to relocate.

After a hunger strike for 24 days in May, failing to receive visits required from Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, Ms Fourssa and eight other residents were able to meet with Olympic officials who promised them better compensation. Like most, she finally accepted a brand new house a few miles away in the nearby village of Nekrassovskoe.

Matioukha Alla's family did the same thing. And as the mother of three children, have been expropriated for their money. "Many families did not even have toilets in their former home," she said. Ms.

Matioukha believed to have been useless anyway to resist the dream cherished by the Prime Minister Putin. "The Olympics is a state project. No matter what we'd said we would have been displaced," she says.

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Sochi pending future
slogan printed on the t-shirt most popular in Sochi summarizes the ambition of the city: "Sochi: city of the future". If the resort to the Future, because the Soviet past will always overshadow the present.

Sochi would be an international city, but foreigners are still a curiosity. And for good reason. Even the Russians increasingly deserting the subtropical resort, once darling pearl of the Black Sea to the Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin, whose. Only President Dmitry Medvedev and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin insist on maintaining an official residence in the "summer capital" of Russia.

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The explanation is simple: in Moscow, it is usually cheaper to fly to Egypt or Turkey. There, accommodation and meals are cheaper and better quality. And most importantly, the Russian tourist did not undergo the awful customer service of his fellow ...
is that despite the billions of dollars invested in it for the Games in 2014, traces of Soviet architecture and mentality are struggling to disappear in Sochi.

However, since the first visit of La Presse in Sochi in the summer of 2007, a month after getting win the Games, the city has definitely changed for the better.
Several buildings have sprung up, the facades of apartment buildings have been renovated with fresh - and conditions - the state systems, electric and pipeline have been redone. And Sotchinois are unanimous on the main achievements of the Olympic preparation: the development of roads and widening, which required urban prowess.

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In Olympic bubble
If Sochi remains deeply Soviet Olympic tourists should still not too worried. The 2014 Winter Games will be held immune from the daily problems of the city. In a well orchestrated Olympic bubble.

Here's the scenario: arrival of visitors and athletes to the brand new airport, opened four months ago only. From there, a German train fast and modern transports in five minutes at the stadium and arenas in the Olympic Park Imereti lowland, a stone's throw from the beach. Direction of the mountains, always by train, we reached in half an hour the village Krasnaya Polyana, site of alpine skiing, nordic and freestyle and the bobsleigh track.

With any luck, winter 2014 will cover the village and neighboring peaks of a natural white coat. This was not the case last season, when the anger sweeping the Vancouver Olympic organizers because of the absence of snow ...

No need to leave the Olympic venues to sleep either. Although bonded facilities, 23,000 hotel rooms are provided for tourists. Visitors

the bravest dare to venture into the center city of Sochi, to over 40 km of the facilities Olympics.

There, at least one socio-economic miracle in the next four years, they gather the real Russian life. In the eyes of a grandmother who tries to sell the products of his garden in a corner to add to his meager pension, or the gaudy richness reflected in the window of the Dior boutique. Away from the Olympic isolation. ***
Sochi
Population: 400,000 inhabitants.
Location: At about 1200 km southwest of Moscow, the city covers 150 km on the edge of the Black Sea, at the same latitude as Toronto.
Area: 3790 km2.
Industries: Tourism (4 million visitors per year) and health (300 spas).
Crowd expected for the games: 1 million visitors and 5,000 athletes.

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Chess and Mars

Article published in La Presse, September 24, 2010

MOSCOW - He says he was abducted by aliens and is suspected of ordering the murder of a journalist. Kirsan Ilyumzhinov eccentric president of a small Russian republic is the head of the International Chess Federation for 15 years. Next Wednesday, it could be checkmated by an ex-world champion.

The real battle, in Khanty-Mansiysk, is place in the shadow of chess. In this small oil town in western Siberia, while the masters are competing this week honors the 39th World Chess Olympiad, two men play their part in the wings.

And all shots are allowed to get the grand prize: the presidency of the International Chess Federation (FIDE).

The reward may seem trivial for ordinary mortals. But not for the eccentric outgoing president Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, who believes that chess, this "cosmic game" available to humans by the aliens, save the world from the Apocalypse ...

Neither Anatoli Karpov, Soviet chess legend, who believes that comedy Ilyumzhinov long enough.

For months, the two Russians are campaigning around the world to gather the support of national federations. Karpov can count on the vote of large countries like France, Germany and the United States.

But in this part, all pieces have equal value. And his opponent is supported by federations of several micro-states and developing countries, which he promised would help. Ilyumzhinov advantage.

Anatoly Karpov has accused the outgoing president of the FIDE have transformed into a "corrupt organization" during her 15 years reign. Corrupt, as the small Buddhist republic of Kalmykia in the Russian Caucasus, led Ilyumzhinov unchallenged since 1993.

Exactly, next month, he will leave politics. The 48 year old millionaire who made his fortune in the booming post-Soviet car, plans to devote to the development of the sport and world peace.

One of his projects: a global center for chess 24-story-shaped piece of a king at Ground Zero. In addition to game rooms, the building would house the temples of the main monotheistic religions.

During his 17 years as head of Kalmykia, Kirsan Ilyumzhinov has made chess a compulsory subject in schools in the republic of 300,000 inhabitants. It also has built-Chess City, a luxury chess which regularly hosts international tournaments.

With aliens

Critics suspect of masterminding the murder of an opposition journalist in 1998, where one of his aides was convicted. Moreover, his account of a journey with extraterrestrials in 1997, on which he returned without discomfort, has dismayed many Russian politicians.

Despite his eccentricity, Ilyumzhinov has managed to survive for long political changes in Russia. In recognition of his unwavering loyalty to power his candidacy for the FIDE has been supported by the Russian chess federation, whose vice president is an adviser to the head of state Dmitri Medvedev.

As for accusations of corruption, Ilyumzhinov has responded with a defamation lawsuit against Anatoly Karpov. He said the world champion of 1975 is any more an "aging player" who can not accept losing the public's attention.

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Medvedev sacks Moscow Mayor

Article published in La Presse, September 28, 2010

The biggest political battle of the last 10 years Russia ended yesterday. The powerful mayor of Moscow Yuri Luzhkov was sacked by President Dmitry Medvedev, whom he had "lost confidence". These are not accusations of corruption and mismanagement that have been right to judge the extravagant ... but the fact that he dared criticize the head of state, says our contributor.

Moscow - Arriving at his office yesterday morning, Yuri Luzhkov was told he was no longer mayor of the capital for several minutes. President Dmitry Medvedev had just published on its website its termination letter. With immediate effect.

The chief magistrate of the capital of 10 million people would Yet had expected. For three weeks he was no longer in the good graces of the Head of State.

At issue: an article signed by him in which he criticized so thinly veiled Medvedev's leadership, suggesting that he preferred that of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, former president and strongman of the country always.

followed a media campaign to discredit him. After years of silence on his alleged embezzlement TV, the channels controlled by the Kremlin competed originality to blacken the image of the colorful mayor: corruption, negligence, favoritism his wife to become millionaire entrepreneur during the 18-year reign of her husband ... All shots were allowed.

Last week, in agreement with the Kremlin, Yuri Luzhkov went reflect on his future in Austria, where he found himself officially with the family to celebrate its 74th anniversary. Upon returning to work Monday, all observers expected his resignation. But the relentless politician did not budge: he would not leave his post on his own.

Prosecutions for?

For the first time in two years as president, Medvedev has had to dismiss a recalcitrant regional leader. The law allows it entirely from the abolition of gubernatorial elections by his predecessor Putin in 2004. In recent months, all other regional dinosaurs had chosen to leave "voluntarily" to power in exchange for a symbolic position or a comfortable retirement free from justice.

The question that arises now the All-Moscow after this affront to the president, the Russian judicial system "rediscovered" it suddenly malpractice era Luzhkov?

One thing is certain, the ousted mayor can not count on Putin to temper a head of state in his wounded pride. Yesterday the Prime Minister said he fully supported the presidential decision.

few names circulate to replace Yuri Luzhkov. We already know that the next mayor of the capital will be more docile than his fiery predecessor, all candidates owe their political career in Putin-Medvedev tandem.

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Lawrence Cannon in Moscow: "We do not at all intend to militarize the Arctic "

Article published in La Presse, September 17, 2010

Moscow - an official visit to Moscow, the Foreign Minister of Canada Lawrence Cannon defended Canadian sovereignty in the Arctic yesterday, but flatly refused to talk about "militarization" the region.

"We do not intend to militarize the Arctic," he said at a news conference, accompanied by his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov.

Paradoxically, Minister Cannon went on to pointing out that Canada will exercise its sovereignty in the Arctic "first by a robust presence of Canadian forces and equipment which must necessarily surround their presence."

In August, when the Conservative government unveiled its policy on the Arctic, he said that Canadian sovereignty back to "very far", it is "well established and based on our ownership history. "But she has never been recognized internationally.

Evidence to UN
By 2013, Canada intends to submit to the Committee responsible for implementation the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea evidence that the Lomonosov Ridge is an extension of Canadian territory. "We believe our record will prevail, with the support of scientific evidence," said Minister Cannon yesterday.

But on this point, Russia already has a head start. In 2001, she filed the first studies to support the theory of attachment these seamounts in Eurasian continent. They were neither rejected nor accepted. Since then, the Russians support their case.
Denmark also started the game and seeking recognition as the backbone continuity of Greenland.

The attraction for the Arctic has increased in recent years the melting of the ice cap more accessible deposits of oil which could represent 13% of oil reserves and 30% of undiscovered natural gas the globe. The United States and Norway also have claims.

Ottawa does not worry Moscow
Minister of Foreign Affairs of Russia did not seem too concerned about the Canadian position yesterday. "Any claim must be based on scientific facts that the commission's review. This is where we decide who is right and who is wrong," said Sergei Lavrov.

Even if Russia also deployed troops in the Arctic, we can not speak of militarization of the territory, he said: "Canada and Russia are of course a liability for the security of their borders and inland Maritime passing near these borders. And we will naturally fulfill this responsibility by practical action steps. "

" We do not see what could be the contribution of NATO in the Arctic, "said Minister Lavrov, without further detail.

Canada regularly intercepted Russian bombers that s 'nearing its air space in the North. In August, during a visit to the Arctic, where he had gone to observe the military exercises more and more impressive each year, Prime Minister Stephen Harper s That was indeed functioning as an incident of its kind to justify the purchase of 65 stealth fighters he had to announce at a cost of $ 16 billion.

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Mayor of Moscow in the sights of the Kremlin

Article published September 13 in La Presse

The days of the powerful mayor of Moscow at the head of the Russian capital are numbered. In trying to sow discord between President Dmitry Medvedev and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, Yuri Luzhkov has won their anger. To discredit the Kremlin has launched an unprecedented media sling.

Moscow - "Moscow suffocated in the smoke while the mayor was saving his bees?" Asks the narrator in a serious tone. This is the kind of criticism that had not wiped Yuri Loukjov for over a decade Russian TV. But last week, the "investigations" incriminating against Moscow Mayor flood the federal channels, carefully controlled by the Kremlin.

Friday, NTV got the ball rolling. The chain, owned by the state gas giant Gazprom, has aired a documentary entitled "The case is in the hat", referring to the distinctive headgear of the mayor.

The report accused Luzhkov particular have dropped his countrymen during forest fires this summer. While his city was suffocated by smoke, he waited several days before to interrupt his vacation abroad.

Upon his return, the narrator notes, the mayor has allocated 105 million rubles (3.5 million) for the care of victims of fires and 256 million ... for those bees. Beekeeping is a favorite pastime of the colorful mayor.

The report "revealed" as the fortune accumulated by his wife (2.9 billion according to Forbes), queen of real estate in Moscow, was no stranger to the duties of her husband ...
Accusations of corruption and mismanagement at the site of Luzhkov are not new. What is new is that they find their way up airwaves.

In 18 years as head of the capital, Yuri Luzhkov has been able to navigate through the changes of guard in the Kremlin to maintain control of his megalopolis of 10 million.

Open Letter

But last Wednesday, he committed the unpardonable. In an open letter, the mayor criticized as thinly veiled President Medvedev's decision to stop construction of a section of highway at the request of environmentalists. He suggested that Putin's authoritarian approach, which tends to favor the continuation of work, is better to resolve the country's problems as the head of state, more inclined to compromise.

Following publication, an anonymous source in the Kremlin told the Interfax news agency that the attack "would not remain without appropriate response." Since then, the documentary-shock swarm.

Luzhkov again on Friday asserted that he had no reason to leave office before the end of his fifth term in 2011.

Legally, Dmitri Medvedev may refer the mayor as he pleases. But he must first find a successor, and no name currently appears to be unanimity in the corridors of the Kremlin. Meanwhile, the propaganda is responsible for burning down the mayor of 73 years, who dared to choose confrontation.

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Abkhazia a" country "in seduction mode burns

Article published in the newspaper La Presse, Le Soir and La Croix in August-September 2010

late August, Russia announced it had deployed in Abkhazia missiles pointed at the very pro-Western Georgia. Abkhazia? Officially, this is a region of Georgia. However, this area claims to be an independent nation. Moscow has recognized two years ago almost to the day.

is a normal summer day at the border between Russia and Abkhazia Psaou. Russian side of the Abkhazian border traders rusty old push their carts filled with melons five wickets to passport control. A few dozen Russian tourists in flip-flops are dragging their suitcases with wheels and seek to exceed the merchants. The tone rises. "We go to the sea, we! "Says a Russian, irritated by the long wait in the unbearable heat that suffocates the entire region for weeks. Abkhaz side, however the duty is a matter of seconds. All those who come from Russia are welcome!

The meandering 100 km border separating the capital, Sukhumi, roll on a new road now, courtesy of Russia, now on asphalt fragmented from before the fall of the USSR. At the time, Abkhazia and its 213 km of seafront on the Black Sea was the Soviet tourist paradise. Today, 99% of the approximately 800,000 tourists it receives each year are Russian.

Sukhumi. Or Sukhumi, Georgian, since except for Russia, Venezuela, Nicaragua and the microscopic island of Nauru, the Abkhazia region of Georgia remains legally.

Two years ago too, the capital of some 50 000 people had only one traffic light. Today, they number a few dozen brand new. Several buildings still bear the scars the bloody war of secession against Georgia in 1992-1993, which left 13 000 dead. But new buildings are gradually starting to sprout.

"Thank you Russia!"

Avenue de la Paix, elderly people waiting outside a bank the security guard's signal to go collect the 500 rubles ($ 17) pension paid to them Abkhazia. "Thank you Russia!" Without her we would only have that! " Launches Lyudmila, 68, a retired physician who continues to teach at the university and hospital care. Later, she will go to another bank harvest the 2900 rubles offered by the Russian state.

is that, as more than 90% of Abkhazians, Lyudmila was easily obtained Russian citizenship in the early 2000s. If Russia does not consider at the time the Georgian separatist regions as countries, it was already made in their respirator. Recognizing Abkhazia and South Ossetia, August 26, 2008, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has simply formalized the relationship.

Less than 24 hours after our interview request, Abkhaz President Sergei Bagapsh, receives us in his presidential office. Abkhazia, in recognition of evil, is in seduction.

"We do not intend to beg anyone to recognize us," said the president, however, in office since 2004. "The most important thing is to build a rule of law, democracy, respect for the international community understands that we want peace and stability, not war, and therefore that we must recognize."

The fact that the International Court of Justice has confirmed, on July 22 last, the legality of Kosovo's independence, recognized by 69 states, do not change anything for his "country", said Sergei Bagapsh. "But this demonstrates again that the decision Russia's recognition of Abkhazia was absolutely right. "

Protected in war

For President, safeguarding independence pass through economic development, mainly from tourism and agriculture, Abkhazia is a major producer of citrus. But, ironically, it all depends on Russian money.

This year, with Russia will almost double the Abkhaz meager budget of about 135 million dollars. Including services to Russian citizens in Abkhazia, triple it.

Another paradox, the Russian military presence in Abkhazia ensures independence of the republic, Sergei Bagapsh believes. It deters the President of Georgia Mikheil Saakashvili, seeking to regain by force the separatist territories, as in the blitzkrieg of August 2008 in South Ossetia.

And here lies the main achievement of this conflict, says the president of Abkhazia. After years of uncertainty, "people feel now that peace has come, they themselves can decide their fate." The pensioner Lyudmila

confirms: "We know that if a war with Georgia, the Russians will be there to defend ourselves."

Georgians left behind

In south-east of Abkhazia, populated mostly by Georgians, we see the situation from a different perspective.

The road to get to Gali is also dilapidated and depressing than the city itself. During the 1992-1993 war, the majority of residents have fled to Georgia for fear of reprisals by Abkhaz separatists.

Since then, nothing has been rebuilt, and the town is now too large for its population of several thousand people, or that of a big village.

Here, most people have secretly Georgian citizenship in addition to the Abkhaz. Some also have a Russian passport, to be entitled to services. Education in Georgia is prohibited, many parents send their children to school across the "border".
In a cafe, Russian soldiers control a bottle of vodka. In their view, men grumbled to whisper in Georgia.

At the entrance stands a giant portrait Gali President Bagapsh, as if to mock men recycled taxi drivers waiting at his feet for unlikely customers. Languages take time to untie. "In 20 years they have not even managed to redo the road!" finally complains Guram, pot-bellied fifties, after a long apology ironic Abkhazia independent.

"Before, the town was bustling, people strolling, remembers there. Now, life is bad. In Georgia, for cons, everything is beautiful! Especially the roads!"

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It happened lots of things:

September 27 to October 17, 2010 - last show in the great Hall of the City of Refuge Army Hi (the room will be requisitioned to retrieve the furniture and offices that are in places that will be rehabilitated)

from early June to mid November 2010 - exhibition of artist flags (2nd festival of the flame) to Felletin Lavaveix-les-Mines and Crocq (Creuse)

from mid-July to August 15, 2010 - group exhibition at Lavaveix-les-Mines

May 2010 - exhibition at the small cafe Aubusson, "the Fabulous Destiny."

I'm tired I sleep like a log at the moment and I'm typing too much on the computer for computer next year ... I'd like a slave for the slave machine type on which slavery would tell me what I must endure.

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"The only real journey is not to go to other landscapes, but in having new eyes. "Marcel Proust (in Search of Lost Time)

" Novalis "was an exploratory Corinne Boutella. The artist's hand gesture graph - writing - up 'that meets the canvas ...
Then she uses the memory structure becomes an atmosphere, a place of color, a journey inside feelings.
ambiences Hugo's emerge from these small sizes while maintaining a very contemporary line.

Novale, is, n: newly cleared land, fallow. in plur. fields.

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The end of summer

Hey yes it is 7:00 p.m. ET sombre.Signe it is already inevitable that winter, so ok let's start with the fall, knock on our doors. I am one of those loves, nay, who loves the summer and a bit put off by the icy weather of winter. But all this history from the right foot here is a small list of things I like about winter. To consume without moderation when there is enthusiasm on the internet to check the balance on his credit card to see if have little afford to install the heater under the grass in our yard ....

1 - Go see a Christmas movie in the cinema and when we go out it's snowing big flakes.

2 - bundle up in coverage on Sunday morning and skip lunch because it is "too good".

3 - Enter from outside, have red cheeks and eat something hot.

4 - Power to shop EVERY night of the week because instead of the kingdom is open 6 days 7 before the holidays.

5-Cooking! In winter it is spoiled with stuff long preparation and not afraid to heat the house fesant operate the oven.

6 - Listen to TV Series and "type" of emissions throughout the night.

7 - Spending the day in a creative project!

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life I love you! Thanks to

It is in these small details that make life unique. These things only when we appreciate serious rethinking. Small follies that we are own and which have to recognize. And if you took the time to enjoy every second?

Me and kitten has had its fair has little rituals that bind us and gives me the impression that we share something special ... One of our hobby is to go eat lunch at Roberto * at the end of the day. What is good to go just when the sun begins to set. The goodwill of the supper is finished, the waitresses have finished their "rush", are more calm and prepared. We make sure to choose a seat mounted on a window. Then we have applications in turn have if they want blind''blinds''. Were quick to say no then, after a day's work it makes us greater happiness than to be lulled by the last rays of sun of this beautiful day that is dying (ah Jess and poetry ) .

is our ritual, and people know it. The waitress gives me the impression when we look to share a little bit with us this little "something." They bring me then to put marshmallows in my hot chocolate, and we demandens: "it's been that you had not seen what will be a lunch? ". They seem to us a complicit wink our little secret ritual. Then, as often we'll have lunch fessons pleasure and that's when it follows a talking about our lives, our dreams our common goal etc.. between two butcher toast. ( is always the same: I give my kitten egg and strangely we finished eating at the same time? I always start with the toast to strawberry jam to avoid that it can cool down. Then the potato and I keep the best for Hunger ( slip ): bacon!) I love this little routine between us!


Thank kitten to share it with me!

*** The Roberto is a small restaurant in Saguenay offering daily menus and fast food.

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fashionnista!

Thanks to all shops compulsively who prefers quantity to quality so they do not have time to use their clothing as fashion has changed and that they bought others.

Thanks to all those for whom it a crime against nature than wearing the same things two seasons in a row.

and

Thanks to all commodes or closets rigid at one time may no longer contain all the beautiful clothes of our fashionnista forcing them to divest a part of their collection to add new pieces and avoid a sentence for offending public decency by having to postpone their leggings last year.

Thank you all for your clothes-not-worn-at-all ends up at the little shop where I Friprix for lower costs. I love this place. No vendor to offer you: "A belt with that?". Never regret for the dress-who-you-will-too-a-wonderful-but-who-you-will-cost-a-month d'épicerie not so beautiful it all is said and done in the evening or you look at your stick head Boyard penssant: "What luck that the ball has more than 3 more than I ate this week.

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{now} - A ritual of Friday Soule mama (stolen on the blog of Jane) One photo - no words - capturing a moment of the week. A simple, special, special moment. One moment we want to capture, enjoy and remember forever.

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Russia, Putin plays

Article published in La Presse and La Tribune de Geneve August 3, 2010.

Moscow - Russian authorities assert control forest fires that raged for over a week in 14 regions of the country. Contradictory information filtering show rather they leave they are overwhelmed by the magnitude of the disaster. Affected by the criticism, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin blames his subordinates, says our contributor.

Over 500 000 hectares and 77 villages burned, 7,000 fires still active, 40 deaths and hundreds of people on the street: Russia burns, rescuers are disorganized, but Vladimir Putin is in control .

Yesterday afternoon, while President Dmitri Medvedev decreed a state of emergency in seven regions of the country, the prime minister and strongman of the regime summoned the Russian officials in the affected areas. "I want to hear today How is the reconstruction of homes. I want reconstruction plans for every region, every town, every house. "

The tone is firm, but the requirement impossible to fulfill." I need a list of all the wounded, signed by you, the governors' , "he added.

Obviously, Vladimir Putin has not digested the criticisms that have served him last Friday the residents of Verkhnyaya Vereya, village razed in the region of Nizhny Novgorod." You have nothing done to prevent it burning! "had launched a hysterical woman with a stoic prime minister came to see the extent damage. The sequence

"omitted" by the Russian state television has found its way from YouTube a few days later. The independent Russian media have also slammed the lack of preparation by the authorities in the fight against fires.

Therefore, the former president started the blame on regional leaders, however, appointed by himself and by his loyal successor, Dmitry Medvedev, since the abolition of gubernatorial elections in 2004. During his visit to Verkhnyaya Vereya, he advised local politicians who felt he lost the confidence of their fellow citizens to make their resignations.

"To reduce the risk of a recurrence of such events requires future development of federal and regional programs to ensure safety against fire, said the Prime Minister to local leaders.

But this time it is too late. Residents of several villages have been abandoned to their fate. In the Voronezh region, for example, dozens of young people have formed squads of volunteers to tackle the flames approached their home, reported the AFP yesterday. Contradictory information



The distribution of aid Disaster looks laborious. Aware that the country is plagued by corruption, Vladimir Putin has indicated that funds would be released "under the control of the representatives of the Kremlin in the regions, so they are not diverted."

He also expects that citizens and officials dishonest advantage of the situation to get money to which they are not entitled. "The houses will be reconstructed according to actual market prices (...) and the list of victims will be checked thoroughly. The crooks and thugs must not have a chance to take advantage of the situation," said Prime Minister yesterday .

Meanwhile, the Ministry of Emergency Situations, responsible for the fight against fire, proved officially optimistic in its efforts to curb the fires. Some 265 villages were spared from the flames in one day through the work of engineers.

"Three hundred new fires occur on average each day and 95% of them are off the day they are located," said a spokesman for the Ministry yesterday. Yet, official data supplied by the same department are talking about a tenfold increase in the number of households between Sunday and Monday, from about 700 to 7000 ...

In the series of contradictory and vague information, officials said last weekend that two nuclear sites were threatened by fires. Other officials were quick to deny the news.

Yesterday the Minister Sergei Shoigu has yet "tenfold" means to fight the flames near the Federal Center for Nuclear Research of Sarov, in the heart of one of the areas most affected by forest fires. Because of the smoke too thick, the tankers could not fly near Sarov yesterday. The extinction of the fire was given this afternoon.

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firefighters drained, Russia burns

Report published in La Cross, La Presse, La Tribune de Genève and Le Soir August 2, 2010.
Mokhovoe, Moscow Region - drained by more than one month's heat wave almost no rain, tens of thousands of hectares of forest and peat fires are prey for a week in Russia. Entire villages were razed. Our collaborator visited Mokhovoe, 150 km southeast of Moscow , where villagers were forced to defend themselves from the heat, lack of help from authorities.

When the flames started to advance on Mokhovoe village located 150 km southeast of Moscow, Thursday noon, Beliakova Lyubov and her neighbors are praying out in the dusty streets, Orthodox icons by hand. "In five minutes the air became black as night. The earth was burning beneath our feet. We realized that it did not bode well, "said the retired accountant.

The cross with the inscription "May God protect you" planted at the entrance of the village could not save him. Let alone the Russian authorities. The 150 inhabitants of Mokhovoe never been warned of the approach of the fire and no action was taken to evacuate.

Left to themselves, surrounded by a high forest and drained peatlands in Soviet times for fuel, villagers had to get by. "The men rushed to the edge of the forest to cut trees to prevent fire from advancing," says Beliakova. Nothing to do. Within minutes, the village no longer existed. One apartment building was untouched by flames. Twelve houses and three buildings were destroyed. Those who owned a car were able to escape. But in this poor village, populated mainly retirees, some did not have that luxury.

"They are suffocating in the cellar. Maria Mourougova shows the small concrete shelter in the garden vegetables roasted to its neighbors. They were six to hide and were trapped when the flames razed almost all gardens that fed the village. Born in

Mokhovoe Maria Mourougova, Engineer of 34 years, now lives in the town of Kolomna, 50 miles and a ferry crossing the village. "I managed to come in time to save my mother. But why people who must care for our safety they have done nothing ? "She rages. "Under the Soviet regime was better organized. "It shows a building inhabited by two old ladies. "They wanted to flee into the forest burned and died," she advance, although, officially, the two women are among seven villagers still missing. Further, two disabled people who have died in their basement, unable to stand. "The engineers have not only occupied the forest and left to burn the village," complains Ms. Mourougova, supported by other residents. An ill-equipped firefighter death is yet wanting to protect the village.

Putin visit

During a visit on Friday in another village ravaged near Nizhny Novgorod, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin was greeted by a hysterical crowd accusing the government of inaction. The strong man of the country laid the blame on local government, demanding the resignation of politicians "to whom public trust is called into doubt." Vladimir Putin also promised to quadruple aid provided to victims of wildfires, to 200,000 rubles (€ 5,000) per family. "With this sum, we can just rebuild the fence of our garden," Lyubov believes Beliakova, who did not have insurance, like other villagers.

Beside her, the embers still smoldering from Mokhovoe, men are busy digging up piles of charred metal. "Soon, scrap metal thieves will pass," said one of them. "And it is better to already have the equipment when we rebuild rather than buy. But do we rebuild Mokhovoe? Despite Putin's pledges to rebuild the villages affected "by this winter, residents are skeptical that the authorities will want to invest in their village, already aging and gloomy before the fire. Agricultural Mokhovoe never really recovered from the fall of communism and the closure of the factory on the corner, like thousands of other villages in the country. And

to rebuild, yet will he go down that aid to the victims. Saturday, Kirill Orthodox patriarch called on officials not to divert funds intended for victims, a common practice in the country, plagued by corruption. "The money will be paid to people is sacred money. Nobody raises their hands on this money because rich on the misfortunes of others is a great sin before God, "he said in a televised speech.

At Mokhovoe, people prefer to rely on their own strength instead of waiting for a hypothetical government assistance, which could be difficult to claim because of the bureaucracy. "Anyway, it's impossible that they give us a new home (elsewhere). There's already a housing shortage in the country, so they probably put us in community residences, "says Beliakova, resigned. His apartment was avoided by the flames, but no gas, no water, no electricity and no garden, not to return. The inhabitants of

Mokhovoe are not the only ones to have made homeless in recent days in Russia. Some 1,875 houses were destroyed by fire in fourteen regions of the country, mostly near the Volga. The Ministry of Regions said that 117 million would be needed for reconstruction.

A provisional toll, 30 people died in fires that ravaged hundreds of thousands of hectares of forests around the country. Yesterday, authorities in the Far East have announced that the flames also earned their region. Despite the 240,000 people mobilized to fight against the fires, the situation is not improving. Yesterday morning, 770 homes Fire was active in the country. The day before, there were two times less.

The weather forecast does not leave room for hope. The heatwave that hit never seen Russia for over a month, with daytime temperatures rarely dipping below 30 degrees over much of the territory is expected to continue at least a week. No significant precipitation is expected to come to calm the flames. Dried, Russia burns.

a heatwave UNPRECEDENTED

In 160 years of weather observation, Russia had never known such heat wave. Last Thursday, the thermometer reached 38.2 degrees Moscow, beating the previous record of 37.2 established ... three days earlier. Last week, smoke from peat fires on the outskirts of the capital came to envelop the megalopolis of 15 million inhabitants, making the air difficult to breathe. According to the observatory on air quality in Moscow, air pollution exceeded ten times the standard Wednesday. The fog has finally cleared up Friday, but hundreds of towns and villages in the Moscow region still live in a dangerous cloud of smoke. Strangely, the Russian authorities did not report deaths resulting from heat and smoke. In 2003, a similar heat wave in Europe had yet caused about 15,000 deaths in France, mostly elderly vulnerable. To beat the heat, everyone has a cure for grandmother. Even Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, who has advised the Russians to drink hot tea. "It promotes sweating and helps to bear the heat stroke," he said. But another "cure" is more popular among Russians: alcohol, however, known for its dehydrating properties. In two months, nearly 2500 people drowned in Russia, due to excessive heat pushing the Russians to swim in bodies of water, often in spite of prohibitions and danger. Last year, nearly three-quarters of drownings recorded in the country had been caused by alcohol. Other heatwave victims: farmers. Nearly a third of cultivated land in Russia have been affected by drought. Twenty-three regions have declared a state of emergency. Third largest exporter of wheat in the world, Russia should produce 20% less this year, while prices may increase by one third.

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Russia: Put the points Ë

Article published in journaux La Croix et La Presse les 29 et 31 juillet.

Translated into Russian by Inosmi.ru: Russians in no hurry to put points on the "e"

Moscou, Russie - Mikhaïl Gorbatchev n'a jamais dirigé l'URSS et Alex Kovalev n'a jamais joué pour le Canadien de Montréal. Il s'agissait plutôt de ... Gorbatchëv et Kovalëv (prononcés "Gorbatchyov" et "Kovalyov"). For 15 years, a pensioner is fighting to put points on the "e" date optional in Russian texts. A singular crusade that could save thousands of an administrative nightmare, "says our contributor.

In the apartment Soviet Viktor Chumakov, the ö ("yo") is located in idol. On walls, on the sheets in the library. Even hamsters, and Erik Ëchka, honor the seventh letter of the Cyrillic alphabet.

"This is a very delicate political issue," joked a grave Viktor Chumakov, 77, author, historian and "ëficateur Chief "proclaimed Russian." patriot I am, and language preservation should be a top priority for state, just after the territorial integrity and sovereignty. "

In 1995, newly retired electrical engineer, Mr. Chumakov makes the manuscript of his first book on the great leaders of Russian history. It is so shocked by the proposal of his publisher to remove all of the final ë. Because, according to official rules spelling, the umlaut over the e is optional, although the seventh letter of the alphabet and pronunciation are quite distinct from the sixth, e, ("Ye"), more widespread.

"I realized that I had to take care of that." For Mr. Chumakov, it's all a matter of respect of Russian, a language that is written as it is pronounced. The aim is also to avoid confusion, although the Russian speakers can recognize without the umlaut ë, except in rare occasions.

Four books on ë and dozens of letters to editors and publishers later, Viktor Chumakov accumulating victories. Several newspapers have given to print the letter borrowed from French in 1783. The Parliamentary Committee on the Russian language, to which he belongs, has published a decree three years ago that mandates the use of ë in passports.

The last two culture ministers argue, the president and began to write "e" in his speeches and his official website. In Ulyanovsk, Lenin's birthplace, a monument in honor of e was even erected in 2005!

But some still resist. This is true of newspaper Rossiyskaya Gazeta official. "When they publish the laws, they remove ë automatically using a program!" enraged Mr. Chumakov. He thought the publication continue to justice, but costs that would have driven have slipped.

Proving its existence

Anti-ë are mainly for the sake of aesthetics and laziness, "says Marina Koroleva, host of the show Talking Russian language on radio Echo of Moscow. "On the Russian keyboards of typewriters and computers, e has always been at the periphery in the upper left," which promotes her ostracism.

Even if it is part of the 4% of Russians who have the letter in their name, admits Ms. Koroleva prefer literary and journalistic without umlaut.

For official documents, however, is another story. During the programming it has spent on ë, listeners told him he had to fight with the authorities to prove their identity and recognition of their assets. On some documents, their names were registered with an E, on others, with an e.

"In Soviet times, there were fewer problems because there was no private property," notes Ms. Korolev. But since then, officials are dishonest people sing for two small points. Some Russians even had to ask for a name change to correct a name administratively without ë.

"There must be a law avoid confusion, whether to require the use of E or make it optional, argues Ms. Korolev. When leaving a blur, it leaves room for corruption. "

STORY OF Ë

> Some Russian authors like Alexander Solzhenitsyn (The Gulag Archipelago), have always insisted that their texts are printed with the dots on ë. > The E has had its heyday between 1942 and 1953, reflecting a strong proponent of two issues: the Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin. "During the war, Pravda s is set to use the E because Stalin wanted to avoid military errors, Viktor Chumakov said. For example, not a quiet town called Berezovka be bombed instead of Berezovka! > The Russian Constitution has 103 "mistakes" in spelling. All points omissions on ë.

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on Yuri Volkov: martyr of Russian nationalists

Article published in the newspapers Le Soir and La Presse on 29 and 30 July 2010.

Moscow - July 14, Yuri Volkov was to celebrate its 23 years. Killed in a fight with a young Chechen woman, he has been rather right to a funeral, despite him becoming a martyr to the cause of Russian nationalist, told our contributor.

At the foot of Tchistie Prudy metro station in central Moscow, photos of Yuri Volkov are surrounded by hundreds of bouquets of flowers, scarves Spartak, his favorite soccer team, and nationalist slogans like " Death to non-Russians. "

A few yards away on the night of July 9 to 10, the young assistant director of the state television channel Rossiya-2 was saying goodbye to his friends after a concert when three young Chechens have passed nearby. One of them struck the shoulder of a friend of Yuri, presumably inadvertently. "What, there is not enough room here? "protested his friend, before receiving a punch to the face. The fight broke out. A few seconds later, Yuri Volkov, mortally wounded in a knife the heart, collapsed.

His friends managed to catch and neutralize the three attackers with the assistance of traffic officers. Souleïmanov Magomed, 24, has admitted the crime and surrendered his knife forces order. His two companions were released on conditions.

Volkov, the martyr

Since then, members of fan club Spartak, which was part Volkov activated. Among them, many nationalists. For them, the murderer is not only a criminal, but a representative of a diaspora unpopular and accused of all evils.

In two weeks they have held three rallies in memory of Volkov Tchistie Prudy station, each time bringing several hundred people. During one of these events, a merchant "not Russian" DVD installed nearby was attacked.

Although the groupings were not allowed, the police have not prevented. Hate slogans against "enemies" of the Russian people now lining the walls of the station.

Yet, Yuri Volkov was not an extreme rightist, said Galina Kozhevnikov, deputy director of the Sova center, an NGO that studies the racist movements in Russia. "It's better for the nationalists. They can more easily use it as an innocent victim to their propaganda."

killings or serious injuries following an altercation beast is not so rare in Russia, said Ms. Kozhevnikov. "There are many dangerous people in Moscow. And it is not only Chechens!"

Release

Sunday, the alleged murderer of Yuri Volkov has been released, which has reignited anger among friends of the young man and nationalists. According to them, influential members of the Chechen diaspora have lobbied the police to hush up the case. They also ensure that the family Volkov receives threats from strangers. Before

objects to the memory of Yuri Volkov, Wednesday afternoon, a supporter of Spartak stood guard while curious passers-by stopped to read the inscriptions nationalists.

"We are pacifists," says Sergei Pozdniakov, 27, who knew vaguely Yuri. He said the nationalists are the minority in the fan club Spartak generally "apolitical and neutral."

's speech Sergei is still ambiguous. "We have a multi-ethnic country, we must ensure that no other racist crimes," said Sergei, before adding: "It is the Chechens who cause incidents. They want to show they are powerful here. We walk away empty, and them, they carry around knives. "

Sergei believes that the friends of Yuri need to continue actions to force the Russian police, deemed corrupt and inefficient to go through with the case. "We must ensure that crime will not go unpunished." RACIST CRIMES



During the first half of 2010, 167 people have been victims of racist crimes in Russia. Nineteen of them died. Most were migrant workers from former Soviet Central Asia and anti-fascists. Racist attacks are still steadily declining, particularly in Moscow. Is that for two years, police have actually started to arrest those responsible for racist violence, although many crimes go unpunished. The Nationalists responded by calling for terrorism against the government, which does not defend enough the "Russian nation", in their opinion.

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media war between the Kremlin and Lukashenko

Article published in the Chronicle "People" of the newspaper Le Soir July 27, 2010

He was one of the most faithful allies of Moscow. But the vagaries of the Belarusian President begin to irritate the Kremlin, which seeks to quietly eject from power. First step: the media war. In early July, the Russian channel NTV broadcast a documentary on the compromise "Batka" ("little father"), in power since 1993 in its former Soviet republic. The film recalls in particular the disappearance of opponents of Belarus in the late 90s. Nothing new in the charges, except that they are broadcast on Russian TV tightly controlled by the Kremlin.

Lukashenko did not take long to understand the signal. But far from wanting to calm things down, the fiery president authoritarian response. A few days later, a government newspaper includes excerpts from an old pamphlet from the opposition on the shenanigans of Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin. July 15, Lukashenko hit even harder: Belarusian state television broadcast a primetime interview the Georgian president Mikhail Saakashvili. The bane of Moscow the opportunity to launch his usual diatribe against the Kremlin.

relations between Minsk and Moscow are at their lowest. Month last, Russia has called for a gas debt of 187 million. Lukashenko responded by demanding payment of $ 260 million for transit of Russian gas destined for Europe. Lukashenko has tried to get closer to the West, but the very Soviet former collective farm manager is unable to shed its image of "last dictator in Europe" in Brussels and Washington.

On the horizon: the next presidential election in Belarus, not later than early 2011. If the Kremlin joins Europe to denounce another fraudulent victory of Lukashenko, his days as president could be counted ...

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For trees, citizens

Article published in La Croix, Le Soir and La Presse between 23 and 27 July 2010.
Перевод на русский от Иносми.ру: Жители Химок на защите леса

Khimki, Russia - In a rare burst of civic engagement in Russia, the inhabitants of a suburban Moscow have stopped the cutting of a wide forest, which must pass a highway. The determination of the people aroused the astonishment and f has raised hopes of a civil society can be heard ... Our correspondent went to meet them.
"We will stay here until they change the plot!" The confident tone, Evgenia Chirikov, the charismatic leader of the Movement for the Defence of the forest of Khimki, speaks to his small army of activists trying to break the crust of the six tents in a camp.

Residents of Khimki, dormitory town of 180,000 inhabitants, are at war for some years. Their enemy: the Federal Highway Agency (Rosavtodor), project manager, and the French firm Vinci, commissioned to build the first section of toll motorway Moscow-Saint Petersburg. According to the current route, the highway bisect the 1000 acres of lush forest, Khimki, threatening the ecosystem of the lung of the capital.

far, the story of the inhabitants of Khimki like thousands of citizen protests. The difference is that this operation takes place in Russia, where such an opposition to power is quite rare. For good reason.

The determination of the inhabitants of Khimki has cost dear to one of them. In November 2008, the local journalist Beketov, which supported Evgenia Chirikov and his band, was found near his home, bathed in its blood for several hours. He survived, but had to amputate a leg and several fingers frozen. It keeps the brain can cause major damage and can not pronounce some words. We never knew who had assaulted him, but his friends accuse veiled mayor of their city to have wanted to silence him.

Despite threats, Evgenia Chirikov, who moved to Khimki precisely to escape the pollution of downtown, has never given up.

"We are for highway, but we do not want her to kill the lung of the city, she says. We are fighting not only for ourselves but for all Muscovites. "Moscow is one of the few capitals in the world yet surrounded by lush green belt.

Opposite the camp, logs are strung in front of seven hectares denuded where great oaks stood still a few days ago. Two weeks ago, a member of the movement observed across a poster that said "Warning, logging," near the airport Sheremetyevo. Upon arrival on militants places, migrant workers who cut down trees have refused to show their papers and fled.

Thirty residents of Khimki and other environmental activists So have toiled day and night in the makeshift camp to prevent the resumption. Russian journalists, even those in official media, following the case with interest.

Suspicions of corruption

For more than a week, Rosavtodor merely stated that the cutting was legal, without recourse to the police to try to dislodge the militants.

In a statement, the agency said it did not need special permits to cut since last November, the Russian government has transformed 144 hectares of protected forest Khimki usable land.

True. But it is precisely this change in zoning dispute that the militants. Supported by Transparency International, they ensure that the process left room for corruption. According to Russian law, we can exploit a protected area if another option is possible. Activists have proposed an alternative route that would have limited impacts on the forest, but the authorities deem it too expensive.

Even the Liberal opposition did not really believe the opportunities for citizens of Khimki to stop work. On his blog, Vladimir Milov, former deputy minister of energy has become a leader of the opposition movement Solidarnost, has acknowledged that he had long doubted their success. "If they can finally stop this illegal logging, it will be a great victory over the arbitrary power." Towards

5am Friday, fifty hooded youths stormed the camp and beat up activists. As police arrived, the attackers had already fled, and officers arrested ... Environmentalists, for illegally lit fires and tried to prevent their departure by lying down in front of their cars.

By late afternoon, the timber had resumed. But

Evgenia Chirikov and his band had not said their last word. Yesterday they were back in the forest, even stronger, and accompanied by a member of the legendary rock musician Yury Shevchuk opposition. And again, the cup was broken.