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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.

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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.

Thank you!

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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.

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The United States and Russia swap their spies in Vienna

Article published in Le Figaro 10 July 2010.

The exchange agents took place yesterday afternoon at the airport in Vienna, a center of espionage during the Cold War. But the spirit of suspicion that existed previously between Russians and Americans was a mere shadow of himself. The screenplay written quickly slide by U.S. authorities and Russia in recent days has proceeded as planned.

few hours after the swap, ten Russian spies arrested by U.S. authorities on June 28 landed in Moscow. They had left New York on Thursday evening, immediately after a summary trial in which they all admitted participating in a "conspiracy to act as an agent of a foreign government without being duly registered."

Meanwhile, in Moscow in the middle of the night, the president Dmitry Medvedev pardoned four Russian citizens who were serving long prison sentences, three of them for spying the benefit of Western powers: the scientist Igor Sutyagin, weapons expert, was arrested in 1999, Aleksander Zaporojski, former agent of Russia's foreign intelligence service, jailed since 2003, and Sergei Skripal, a former military intelligence colonel sentenced in 2006 to thirteen years in prison.

Russian media was explained yesterday, however, the presence of evil Gennady Vasilenko on the list of pardoned. The former KGB agent ephemeral was first arrested in 1989 on suspicion of having ties with the CIA and released the following year. Converted into private security, he was arrested and tried again in 2006, ostensibly for illegal possession of weapons.

During the two weeks would have taken the spy scandal, the White House and the Kremlin have proved generous with comments. Once the problem is solved, they did not hide their relief at having managed to avoid the pitfalls that could have been yet another chill in relations still fragile between the two countries.

"This action has been accomplished in the overall context of improving US-Russian relations," has made it clear that the Russian Foreign Ministry in a terse statement issued yesterday morning.

For Russians, the spy incident is now closed. In their view, the links between Washington and Moscow could even emerge strengthened.

Privacy

In Moscow, experts suggest to be official since the beginning of the scandal that the arrest of spies was primarily designed to destabilize the Obama Administration. Conservative elements within the security apparatus and the U.S. would want to bother the president and prevent a Russo-American rapprochement.

If the White House was pleased also that the scandal espionage has been resolved so quickly, she warned her that she did not drop our guard, however. In an interview on public television PBS, the chief of staff to President Obama, Rahm Emanuel, said that the arrest of spies "sends a clear signal, not only Russia but other countries who want to try (to send spies), as we watch them. "

Attention will now turn to the ex-spy and their new life. Vicky Pelaez, the Peruvian-born journalist who is the only non-Russian spies of the 10 deported to Moscow yesterday, was offered, according to his lawyer, free housing in the Russian capital, visas for her children and a lifetime pension of $ 2,000. She said she had rather return to his homeland.

Better not wait no longer on the shelves a story of espionage signed Anna Chapman, the 28 year old redhead whose privacy has been widely spread in the press before leaving the United States, the ten officers had to sign a document forbidding them to reveal details of their life as a spy for commercial purposes.

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Moscow and Washington will share their spies

Article published in Le Figaro, 9 July 2010.

From yesterday, a Russian scientist accused of helping the CIA, was transferred Vienna.

ESPIONAGE Moscow and Washington want to get it over with the scandal that rocks the bilateral relations over the past two weeks. The Russians have agreed to release four prisoners convicted of spying for Western powers, stated in late afternoon the U.S. Department of Justice. In return, Americans should move to Russia ten people arrested by the FBI on June 28 last the United States and accused of collaborating with the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR). The eleventh, Christopher Metsos, took off after being freed on bail Cyprus.

A first exchange took place as early as yesterday. The scientist Igor Sutyagin, arrested in 1999 for spying for the British and Americans, called his father yesterday afternoon to confirm his arrival in Austria. From there he was due to fly to London, escorted by a British official, he will be released. Overnight, the alleged spy Anna Chapman, pretty redhead, 28, should be, in turn, escorted incognito from New York to Moscow.

The family of Igor Sutyagin which revealed ongoing negotiations. A spokesman for the U.S. State Department limited himself to recognize that the fate of the spies had been discussed between representatives of both countries. Just as the Russian authorities. The relatives and lawyer Igor Sutyagin indicated that the researcher had been transferred earlier this week from prison in the north to Moscow. The Russian authorities have offered him to sign a document which confirms his guilt, in exchange for which he was pardoned and deported. The event took place in the presence of American diplomats, according to the family, who met the researcher on Tuesday.

Igor Sutyagin, who has always denied being a spy, said his relatives that he had seen an initial list of ten other people who could be exchanged with him. He cited only a few names, including those of Sergei Skripal, a former Russian military intelligence colonel, and Aleksander Zaporojski, former agent of foreign intelligence service. According Sutyagin, the idea of this exchange came from the U.S. authorities. Since no American is being held for espionage in Russia, the prisoners made by Moscow should all be Russian citizens. No law in Russia and the United States does not provide for such an exchange, the decision has been taken in the highest spheres power.

a process fraught with pitfalls

The White House and the Kremlin to date show little talkative. Viktor Kremenyuk, deputy director of the Institute of USA and Canada Russian Academy of Sciences, believes that "both countries do not want to harm their rapprochement initiated by Barack Obama. Kremenyuk familiar Igor Sutyagin. Before being arrested for spying in 1999, Sutyagin was a researcher specializing in arms for his institute. "Many of the accusations against him are pure invention," said Kremenyuk.

In all likelihood, Sutyagin, as alleged spies arrested in the U.S., does not hold any sensitive information and therefore does not represent a threat to Russian national security. Kremenyuk believes that the rapid conclusion of the case "does not mean that Russian-US relations have a bright future ahead of them. The bilateral reconciliation "will always be fraught with difficulties. There are people on both sides, formed during the Cold War, who want to derail the process, "referring to American conservatives.

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Moscow seeks to rein in local potentates

Article published in Le Figaro, 7 July 2010.
Версия на Russian in Inosmi.ru: Moscow is trying to rein in regional rulers

Mourtaza Rakhimov, puissant président du Bachkortostan, n'est plus en odeur de sainteté au Kremlin.

C'est venu tout d'un coup, après dix-sept ans de règne sans partage sur le Bachkortostan pétrolifère (Bachkirie, dans l'Oural). Le 19 juin, la chaîne fédérale NTV, propriété the state gas giant Gazprom, incendiary broadcasts a story on the clan of President Murtaza Rakhimov, 76 years: corruption, extortion, appropriation of state property. "Each bird must complete the Bashkir Family Finances Rakhimov," drops the narrator.

In the process, other pro-Kremlin media have put the game. In late June, the official newspaper Rossiyskaya Gazeta repeated the same arguments to discredit Rakhimov, warning that "the actions of local government have already fallen in an area of focus for law enforcement agencies. This week, Rakhimov sued for defamation against NTV, also threatening to attack other media who question his honesty.

Last February, Murtaza Rakhimov had nevertheless always favored by Moscow. In an interview with the same Rossiyskaya Gazeta, he explained how he would participate in the process of "modernization" dear to President Dmitry Medvedev. In October 2006, Vladimir Putin, then president, Rakhimov had re-appointed. What the media "fail" to mention is that the wrongdoing alleged against him are now mostly dating from before this date ...

Negotiate skilfully

The question now is not whether Rakhimov will retain his position at the end of his term in October 2011, but it will be removed before the deadline. Since the abolition of elections of regional leaders in 2004, the Russian president theoretically plenty of time to appoint and remove the 83 "heads" of the federation. But the reality is more complex. Like other dinosaurs of the regional power, Rakhimov mapped out a political-economic machine that has become the guarantor of stability in the republic. To avoid problems, Moscow has to negotiate with diplomacy. Last January, President of Tatarstan, Mintimer Shaimiyev, asked what his mandate is not renewed. He proposed as his successor his loyal prime minister vow fulfilled by the Kremlin. Since then, other potentates have preferred the golden retirement in the war against the "vertical of power" dear to Vladimir Putin.

But another fight is announced for the Kremlin. This December will expire on the fifth term of office of Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov. The powerful elected official gave no sign he was ready to leave himself the seat he has held for eighteen years.

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The Kyrgyz voted for stability

Report published The Cross in June 28, 2010.

(Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan) The voters have spoken yesterday by referendum for the establishment of a parliamentary democracy, to restore stability.

At polling station in School No. 24 in the center of the capital, Bishkek, the speakers spit an instrumental version of Indian Summer Joe Dassin to encourage voters to cast their votes in ahead the ballot box. On everyone's lips, four words: stability, peace, order and legitimacy. The message from the Acting Chair Rosa Otunbayeva is probably past the referendum on the new constitution will give his government, the coup d'état of April 7, the legitimacy it needs until the parliamentary elections in September. It will seek to restore order, peace and restore stability in Kyrgyzstan.

All electors met yesterday morning said they had voted for the new Constitution, which proposes to increase the small former Soviet republic in Central Asia of a presidential system to a parliamentary system. None, however only support unconditionally to the Provisional Government. "It is still better than the Bakiyev regime! Aïnagoul Doboulbekova launches, controller in an electrical substation, referring to the ousted president two months ago and a half. They, at least they have some conscience and are proud of their people. "

" If they had not made their coup, there would never have had all these victims in April (note: 87 dead), said Lyubov Derkach, who came to vote with her 4 month old. But at the same time, they never succeeded in taking power in another way. Bakiyev was installed for life. "The president Otunbayeva repeated for weeks that the new Constitution is the only chance to restore stability. A parliamentary system prevent concentration of power in the hands of one person. That is why Rosa Otunbayeva insisted that the exercise takes place as scheduled, despite the violence that struck the south and left more than 400,000 refugees and displaced persons.

Also, everything has been done to ensure maximum participation of voters. Given the number of displaced people and people who have lost their documents, every citizen could vote at any polling station in the country without identity papers, provided they are recognized by two members of the Committee election. In the South, brigades of mobile ballot boxes have been organized vote for those who feared to leave their homes.

ethnic Uzbek refugees huddled in camps in Uzbekistan have been repatriated this week, sometimes against their will, according to Amnesty International, so they can participate in the referendum. Kyrgyz political scientist Nur Omarov doubt however that the new Constitution is sufficient to ensure a bright future in Kyrgyzstan: "The important thing is not the kind of republic we have, but people who are in power. And for now, he says, most contenders for high office are bosses from previous regimes who seek to regain their place.

In the south, the vote was held under heavy guard. If the violence continued between the majority Kyrgyz and the Uzbek minority, the situation remains tense. The trigger unrest that killed at least 264 deaths remains a mystery. Kyrgyz security services did announce on Thursday the findings of their investigation: family Bakiyev has financed Uzbek Islamist linked to al-Qaida and the Taliban in Afghanistan so they plundered the South in order to derail the referendum process and to bring to power former president.

If the idea of involving clan Bakiyev can not be excluded, the Uzbek Islamists is far-fetched, according to numerous testimonies collected by La Croix last week in Osh, the epicenter of violence. Photos and videos taken in this city by foreign tourists during the clashes clearly show the ethnic groups in Kyrgyzstan looting the city as well as police and military liabilities, if not complicit.

The possible complicity of the police suggests that members of the provisional government having control over the police and army could be responsible for the violence. The disagreement within the government, made up of different political opposition is an open secret in Bishkek. If an external force does not usurp the power of low Rosa Otunbayeva, the outbreak could still come from within.

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Kyrgyz Constitutional Referendum high risk

Report published in La Presse, June 26, 2010

Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan - torn by ethnic conflict that has claimed hundreds of lives, Kyrgyzstan will vote tomorrow for a new constitution. An exercise in high-risk move that could make or break the provisional government in search of legitimacy. And raise a new wave of violence, says our contributor.

In five years, has Bazyl Abdyjalanov saw two revolutions to pass under the eyes. Tomorrow, the caretaker of the entrance to the White House in Bishkek, Kyrgyz government headquarters, will vote "for peace."

"I will vote for the new Constitution, of course. We will have peace and then the interim government will work, "says the sexagenarian.

In March 2005 he was in spite of himself at the forefront of the "Tulip Revolution" that ousted President Askar Akayev, who was accused of authoritarianism. Then, last April, he saw the same way Akayev's successor, Kurmanbek Bakiyev, be ousted by a angry mob for the same reasons. Both times Bazyl Abdyjalanov took to his heels. As the presidents.

Bazyl believes that the Kirghiz "absolutely must participate in the referendum." Not that it's a big supporter of the proposed new Constitution - he has not read anyway - but because the mere fact of holding a democratic vote after a coup represents hope of stabilization its small former Soviet republic in Central Asia.

For the interim government, this referendum is crucial. Acting Chair, Rosa Otunbayeva no secret that exercise is his only chance gain legitimacy before the general elections scheduled for September.

Great upheavals

The two Presidents the country has experienced since its independence in 1991 have used their position to enrich themselves, usurping power and quell any opposition. Move from a presidential to a parliamentary republic would prevent the concentration of power in the hands of one man, provides the provisional government.

"The important thing is not what kind of republic we have, but who are the people in power, nuance, however, the Kyrgyz political scientist Nur Omarov. And for now, most contenders to the high office are former chiefs of previous regimes who seek to regain their place. This does not portend better days.

Moreover, since the arrival of the provisional government, composed of members from different factions of the opposition, several companies were nationalized in the country. "They use the same old mechanisms of hidden privatization (to enrich)," said Nur Omarov, who nonetheless supported the overthrow of Bakiyev.

political scientist and doubt that the interim government will accept the verdict of the polls. "I think they falsify the result if it is not in their favor. "

The two previous coups have shown that it is rather easy to overthrow the rulers with the support of several thousand supporters, even without guns. In the capital Bishkek, nobody does that another political group trying to seize power by force. If the provisional government loses referendum tomorrow, and its credibility, the chances of coup will only increase. Ethnic violence


The main concern for the proper conduct of the referendum, however, is in the south. Two weeks ago, violence between Kyrgyz and Uzbek minority claimed hundreds, perhaps thousands of deaths. Approximately 400 000 people, mainly ethnic Uzbek, had fled their homes. Most have returned, but many have found their houses burned.

Thursday, Kyrgyz security services have said they had determined the identity of the perpetrators of ethnic violence: Uzbek Islamist movement linked to al-Qaeda and Afghan Taliban, financed by the family of former president Bakiyev. The authorities said their goal was to Derai the referendum process so that the former president could return to power.

If the hypothesis of the involvement of clan Bakiyev is likely that the role of Uzbek Islamists is crazy, according to numerous testimonies collected by the press last week in Osh, the epicenter of violence.

Whatever the identity of the instigators of the troubles, one thing is certain: nothing prevents them to hit back and push a little more low Kyrgyz State to failure.

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In Osh, the barricades are removed, not Rosa Otunbayeva

Report published June 21, 2010 in La Presse and La Croix.

Osh, Kyrgyzstan - The barricades are lifted. In the second city of Kyrgyzstan, the epicenter of ethnic violence in recent weeks the army has restored this weekend traffic between neighborhoods Kyrgyz, Uzbek and mixed unopposed. Refugees timidly begin to return, but mistrust and rumors ew clashes remain.

Begaïm Nouralieva returns to his home for the first time in more than a week. With a dozen other neighborhood residents Kyrgyz Shahid Tepa, predominantly Uzbek, she was escorted to his home by armed soldiers. "We are not afraid of our neighbors, but the Uzbeks who come from elsewhere," said the frail 47 year old nurse, visibly frightened.

Uzbek neighbors welcomed him warmly. Seeing her house ransacked and looted, Begaïm collapses in tears. But she refuses to acknowledge the residents and advance to the identity thieves. According Begaïm, "time will tell" if it is possible for 30 families Kyrgyz Shahid Tepa continue to live there.

For now, however, it is better not to take risks. After a few bags full of clothes, plastic, Kirghiz leave in armored vehicle.

few minutes earlier, armor still undone makeshift barricades in the neighborhood, drawn up by the Uzbek minority to protect itself from new attacks. In less than an hour, they move trucks and concrete cylinders placed across the road, even getting the backing of the Uzbeks, although opposed to the operation.

In Osh, if trust between Kyrgyz and Uzbek minority majority is far from being returned, tensions subside. Some thousands of Uzbeks, the main victims of violence, have even gone back home during the weekend. The UN says the conflict has displaced and 400,000 refugees. At the border post

improvised VLKSM opened in an emergency the first day of hostilities, hundreds of refugees returning to Kyrgyzstan, straddling the barbed wire covered with a flowered rug. Rumours and tension


But everyone is on guard. In Osh, rumors fuse, leaving some doubt about the events. Even today, it remains unclear what started the fighting on the night of June 10 to 11

Before the blaze, ethnic tensions were real either. But the motives and identity of the instigators of violence in the country's second city, which later spread to other locations in southern Kyrgyzstan, remain unclear.

there was rape of student Kyrgyz by a gang of young Uzbeks in a dorm downtown? Rumor Kyrgyz assured, but no direct witness. For the Uzbek minority, the first episode of the conflict, the attack on their headquarters by hordes of masked arsonists, presumably Kyrgyz, with the help of armored vehicles and soldiers.

The extent of damage and casualties, which are counted in hundreds or thousands, suggest that the violence was organized. Many citizens and officials suspect the former mayor of Osh Melisbek Myrzakmatov, of having ordered the killings. The main person denies and accuses Islamists unlikely groups linked to international terrorism.

Some say the mayor wanted to help the deposed president Kurmanbek Bakiyev, ousted in April, to regain control of southern Iraq. By derailing the constitutional referendum next Sunday, at the same time it would undermine the authority of the fragile interim government.

According to others, the mayor or mafia groups wanted to rid the city of Uzbek traders successful.

What is certain today is qu'Och, Jalal-Abad and other towns and villages in southern Kyrgyzstan are defaced, torn and divided. Several

Kyrgyz do not hide their nationalistic sentiments and believe that the Uzbeks, who form 15% of the population, should leave "their" country. Even if they have lived for centuries.

Uzbeks, they do not trust the authorities and security forces, controlled almost without exception by the Kyrgyz majority. Not surprising for them that the only people arrested in connection with the disturbances are an ethnic Uzbek or "foreign mercenaries".

In the coming weeks if the calm sets in, thousands of Uzbeks, internally displaced or refugees, will find their homes looted or burned. Kirghiz also lost their homes, and hundreds will have to decide if they return to their neighborhood predominantly Uzbek.

reconciliation committees were created, but for now, Uzbeks and Kirghiz disagree on one point: it only takes a spark to deliver fuel to the fire.

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distrust: a diplomat to ease tensions

My picture of Kyrgyz Acting President, published in La Presse on June 19, 2010.

Osh, Kyrgyzstan - Calm, moderate, asked. The Acting President of Kyrgyzstan is the opposite of his country. Yesterday, Rosa Otunbayeva toured ec lair in Osh, the epicenter of ethnic violence in recent days. Greeted by an angry mob, the former diplomat has sought to calm the spirits, which included a call for racial segregation. Our collaborator has followed.

When Rosa Otunbayeva happens, nobody applauded. But no one booed either. Citizens' complaints, however, are numerous in a country on the brink of civil war. But despite his low Authority, the interim president managed to escape the melee.

The 59 year old woman is accustomed to negotiation. Since the mid-80s, Rosa Otunbayeva working in diplomacy. She was three times Minister of Foreign Affairs of Kyrgyzstan, including twice in critical times.

In the fall of the USSR in 1991, she took control of external relations of an independent country in spite of himself. In 2005, after helping the overthrow of Akayev popular by the "tulip revolution", it did so in hopes of reforming a corrupt and dysfunctional state system.

But his illusions of having rapidly changing flights, she joined her former ally revolutionary Kurmanbek Bakiyev. Last April, Chairman, became dominant after five years in power, was also ousted by violent riots that have 87 dead.

Surprisingly, the member Otunbayeva, the more moderate leaders of coup plotters, who was appointed to the interim presidency. His term was to last only six months, but due to problems that inflame the country since it was extended in May to December 2011.

immaculate in his dress, which is almost forgotten his discreet beige flak jacket, Rosa Otunbayeva clashes among his peers. From his positions as ambassador to the United States and the United Kingdom in the 90s, she returned westernized. In the manner, tone, such as speech, it can take in Kyrgyz and Russian, but also in English, a language little known to his countrymen.

In Osh, the president came yesterday to listen to a devastated population and enraged. Kyrgyz and Uzbek residents of the country's second city accuse each other of being the source of violence that killed 192 people in under a week, according to a report very partial, probably "several times" to Notice of Otunbayeva. She even told the Russian daily Kommersant that it would multiply "by 10 official figures. This could increase to 2000 the number of deaths.

To cease hostilities, the provisional government was powerless, he recalled with vehemence representatives from districts in Osh. After defending its actions, Otunbayeva has listened for over an hour, taking notes, the fiery speeches of women and men, all ethnic Kyrgyz, like her. Given the tense atmosphere, the few Uzbeks present did not dare speak.

Several speakers called for an end mixed neighborhoods in Osh, the separation of the two historic communities of the city, and demanded that the president take stern measures against the minority.

"Come on, let's relax. Some of you are very emotional in their statements, and we do not need this," Rosa Otunbayeva sliced his turn came.

But in the street, the Kyrgyz crowd, brandishing photos of relatives taken hostage in areas of Uzbekistan, was even larger. And angrier.

In his little shoes, the Acting Head of State, hidden under an umbrella and protected by bulletproof briefcases of his bodyguards, was still required to speak. "I promise you peace two days. "

too long for the protesters. And the weakness of the presidency of this small woman is strong then emerged when she had to yield to the head of the Osh police, which wanted to regain control of Uzbek neighborhoods within 24 hours.

In the chaos of Kyrgyzstan, Rosa Otunbayeva has almost the weight of his conscience.

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Uzbeks of Kyrgyzstan denounce violence targeting

Report published in The Cross and The Press June 18, 2010

Osh, Kyrgyzstan - ethnic fighting has ceased in southern Kyrgyzstan. But the Uzbek minority in Osh always afraid to leave their devastated neighborhoods. And even to let in aid humanitarian. Because they are more likely to believe that the violence of last week were held directly by local authorities, dominated by the majority of Kyrgyzstan, told our contributor.

"Who will answer for our houses burned, murder, rape?" On a soapbox, surrounded by men in the neighborhood of Uzbek-Shahid Teba, Murat Isakov launches into an impassioned speech. The retired general to whom he made the corporation, Kirghiz, head down. He had come to negotiate the removal of barricades in order to move 20 tonnes of essential commodities.

"We do not want your help humanitarian!" shouted the crowd. Murad, a veteran of the Soviet war in Afghanistan, quiet fellow and continued his diatribe against the general quiet, despite representing him Kirgiz.

"If you want to show the Uzbeks that we are brother peoples, the ball is in your court. Here, everything is calm. We have only to defend ourselves." At

Shahid-Teba, dozens of homes were torched during the violence that began on the night of June 10 to 11 and killed at least 191 deaths, according to official figures grossly underestimated. Nothing in this neighborhood, residents have buried 18 of them in a common grave.

At the checkpoint between Shahid-Teba a mixed neighborhood, soldiers, all Kyrgyz, search cars. Informal leader of the crowd, great orator, said to General Murat Moldochev that the Uzbeks are still afraid of the military, although the shooting stopped.

According to La Presse observed, Osh Uzbek sectors were clearly more affected than areas of Kyrgyzstan, the arsonists left virtually intact.

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In an interview, the mayor of the city, Melisbek Myrzakmatov, denies that ethnic divisions may have caused violence and the Uzbeks have been targeted more than the Kyrgyz. "The common people had nothing to do. Our two peoples have lived together for centuries and now outside forces want to go against each other," he says.

He said the Islamist forces could be linked to "international terrorist groups." There is indeed such movements in the Ferghana Valley, where Osh, but they have never been behind attacks of this magnitude in Kyrgyzstan.

In the streets of Osh, the hypothesis of the involvement of foreign forces or Islamist is much less People in the corridors of City Hall. For Kirghiz like Uzbeks, ethnic clashes have rather to source the mafia and political struggles that led to two coups in five years, most recently in April.

But the mayor insists that several people were arrested during the week and "they are not citizens of Kyrgyzstan."

But La Presse had access yesterday to a prison in State Service of national security, where a dozen men, all Uzbeks, were presented as participants in the violence. It would be the only prisoners arrested in connection with the events occurred in Osh. Some members of security forces did not hide their belief that the Uzbek minority was responsible for the rampage.

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Meanwhile, the Uzbek community, which accounts for about 40% of the population of Osh, accused the authorities of regional discrimination. Few of its members in fact working in the administration and security forces.

Myrzakmatov Mayor denies. "That's because no Uzbek does work in the state apparatus to $ 100 a month," he replied, annoyed. "Who among them enlisted to protect our borders? No other ethnic group Apart from the Kirghiz does serve in our military and defend our borders. "

In the district of Shahid-Teba, Danil Olmata, twenties, sees things differently:" When you send a request to become an employee of the State and they see that you are Uzbek, you're dismissed. I have a law degree, but I'm unemployed. "

For the Uzbeks, the mayor has now become suspect in the outbreak of violence. In an interview this week at the news website Ferghana.ru, vice- Mayor Kamtchibekov Timur, accused her supervisor to have a "direct connection with the events.

Tuesday Kamtchibekov, would have been a champion of the Uzbeks during the violence, was relieved of his duties. Melisbek Myrzakmatov not deny the dismissal of his deputy. But to explain it, he waved to reporters photocopies of a diagnosis of mental illness established by a psychiatric hospital.

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Och torn between Uzbeks and Kirghiz

Report published in La Cross, La Presse and La Tribune de Geneva June 17, 2010.

In Osh, the wounds will take time to heal. Epicenter of ethnic violence that ravaged southern Kyrgyzstan since last Friday, the second largest city is disfigured and robbed of thousands of its inhabitants fled. The Kirghiz, the majority, and Uzbeks, minority, accusing the responsible s policies have exploited their tensions to further their interests.

To get to the Sharq Village, just outside of Osh, change of car. The driver Kyrgyz dare venture into the villages populated by Uzbeks. And vice versa. At Chark, resentment is high. But nobody knows for sure to name the perpetrators of the attacks that devastated the village. "The army opened the crossing then other armored truck attacked us, some in uniform, others not. Difficult to say whether they were soldiers or not, "explains Darvan Badalov, 35, showing the remains of dozens of houses and shops burned. Women and children in the village have mostly fled. Without visible arms, men have set up barricades on the road, fearing further attacks.

At the foot of the primary school half-burned down, Takhir Usmanov tells the story of his son, "killed by a sniper as he tried Sunday to extinguish the third school fire in three days. The geologist of 59 years does not mean, however Kyrgyz people, even if he thinks that some of its members are behind the unrest. "There is no bad nation, there are only bad people, "he said, adding receiving condolences from several colleagues and friends Kyrgyz.

According to villagers, the real culprits are the "politicians". And not only Kurmanbek Bakiev, the president toppled by violent demonstrations in April, the interim government of Roza Otunbayeva accused of having lit the fuse of a latent ethnic conflict to regain the reins of government. "The interim government needed to keep this chaos," says another villager. "Bakiyev and the government seek to share power on the back of the Uzbek people," adds a third.

Takhir is hopeful qu'Ouzbeks Kirghiz and can live together again. He is less optimistic about the chances of Kyrgyzstan regain the island of relative stability and democracy in Central Asia that the ex-Soviet republic was after the fall of the USSR. "I would say that I expect honest leaders, but I'm sure the next will be even bandits."

few kilometers from Chark in downtown Osh, life began timidly to resume its course yesterday. On one of the main streets, merchants spread out onions, potatoes, cucumbers, bread, apricots and other products on blankets on the floor. Before them, shops burnt and others spared.

Numerous graffiti "Death to the Uzbeks" a little further, however, had nothing to reassure the minority. Neither the Kyrgyz militia allegiances fuzzy crisscrossing the city, Kalashnikovs slung over their shoulders. The usual mix of downtown and took a shot. Not a trader Uzbek dared to take the flag. The few clients from ethnic minority - more than 40% of the population - went quickly do their shopping, then left immediately.

Used of an agricultural cooperative, the Kyrgyz Bouroul Bourjebaïeva believes that both communities have nothing to gain from these disorders. "It's the elite who creates division, not the people." Just next door, the baker Bekbolot rather blame the Uzbeks, have recently become "too greedy" for his taste. "Why do they want autonomy, recognition of their language and senior positions in government? If it does not please them here, they can return to their historic homeland, Uzbekistan. Meanwhile, the flight of Uzbek traders has a consequence for all its inhabitants. For generations, they were butchers. The meat is now found in Osh.

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Thousands of civilians trying to flee the

Article published in La Croix, La Presse and La Tribune de Geneva June 15, 2010.

For the fourth day, inter-ethnic violence continued yesterday in southern Kyrgyzstan. The provisional toll of 138 dead and 1761 injured would be largely underestimated. Russia and its former Soviet allies have ruled again yesterday for the rapid dispatch of a force of peace, nothing seems able to stop the violence in the short term.

ethnic Uzbek refugees continue to attempt to escape from Kyrgyzstan to Uzbekistan neighbor. In four days they would be more than 100 000 to cross the border to seek refuge in camps. At one checkpoint Souzak District, yesterday they were at least 50 000 others want to visit Uzbekistan. The International Committee of Red Cross talks about a humanitarian situation "critical."

Especially since Uzbekistan has closed its border last night and appealed for international aid for 45,000 refugees (only adult males are counted) and their wives and children who have already been received. "We will stop accepting refugees from Kyrgyzstan because we can not accommodate and do not have the capacity to accommodate them," said said Deputy Prime Minister of Uzbekistan, Abdullah Aripov at Iorkichlok refugee camp on the border.

In Osh and Jalalabad, the second and third cities, the situation remained very tense. The agency reported that the Kyrgyz AKIpress Jalalabad, "a group of armed young men wearing armbands with the slogan" If there are Uzbeks, we will shoot them "" scoured the city. A reporter for The New York Times visited a district of Osh Uzbek Sunday found that almost all buildings were on fire but one marked with red paint of the inscription "Kyrgyz." Several Kyrgyz have also indicated their ethnicity on their cars to avoid being shot at.

ethnic Uzbek refugees accuse the Kyrgyz army regular, nominally under the control of the interim government to pave the way for gangs to Kyrgyz they commit a "planned genocide" against the Uzbek minority in the country. Uzbek diaspora, which is nearly half the population in some cities in southern Kyrgyzstan, was nevertheless supported the provisional government during the violent riots that overthrew President Kurmanbek Bakiyev, on April 7. But the government control over the situation and even its own army is limited. Acting Chair Rosa Otunbayeva, whose power began to be challenged in Bishkek, recognized its inability to counter the risk of civil war. According

Rosa Otunbayeva, ousted his predecessor Kurmanbek Bakiyev would set fire to the latent ethnic tensions in the south, where it still has significant support and armed, in hopes of regaining control of parts of the country and to overturn the constitutional referendum scheduled for June 27

Without hesitation, Rosa Otunbayeva asked at the outset of the crisis interference of Moscow natural arbiter of conflicts in most former Soviet republics. But Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has not had the same eagerness to intervene in this conflict, "internal" he said, that during the war in the separatist Georgian republic of South Ossetia in August 2008. Is that in Kyrgyzstan, Russian interests are not in dispute. The Russian president has promised a true emergency humanitarian assistance, but the only Russian soldiers who landed at the moment sen reinforcement on Kyrgyz soil came ... to protect military families from the Russian base at Kant.

For most observers, the only option to stop quickly inter-ethnic violence would be sending a force of Russian Peacekeeping or Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), which includes seven former Soviet republics. But in an emergency meeting in Moscow yesterday, the secretaries of the member countries rejected the idea of a rapid deployment of their troops in Kyrgyzstan. The organization said after the meeting that "these measures should be thoughtful," according to its secretary general Nikolai Bordiouja.

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Article published Monday, June 14, 2010 in La Presse and La Tribune de Geneve.

Moscow - Clashes between the majority and the minority Uzbek Kyrgyz made more than 100 dead and 1,250 wounded since Friday in southern Kyrgyzstan. The Provisional Government of the unstable former Soviet republic acknowledges having lost control of the situation.

homes and buildings burned, charred bodies in the streets, shooting day and night, fleeing population. For three days, Osh and Jalal-Abad, second and third cities, are delivered to the exactions and looting of several armed gangs.

If the precise trigger of the violence remains unclear, the fuse was short and easy to turn. Tensions between the two dominant communities are constants in the south of Kyrgyzstan, located in the highly multiethnic Ferghana Valley. There was, however, no such violent clashes between Kyrgyz and Uzbeks since 1990. According

Danil Kislov, editor of news website Ferghana.ru, one that ignited the powder, it was former President Kurmanbek Bakiyev, ousted in the street on April 7. "His men have spread rumors to the effect that the Uzbeks had raped women in Kyrgyzstan, and vice versa." It was enough for the idle youth of this impoverished region to take up arms and leaves vent to his anger nationalist, believes Mr Kislov.

In exile in Belarus, Bakiyev has strongly denied any involvement in the unrest. Guilty or not, the clan of former president, from the region of Jalal-Abad, retains a strong influence in this part of the country. It is in the south that Bakiyev had fled in April, just after the invasion of the seat of the presidency by an angry mob. He was then forced to leave the country.

The curfew in force 24 hours 24 and the state of emergency decreed by the provisional government yesterday in the south are likely to remain so without any real effect. "If the government had the necessary resources, he might be able to calm the game But in the South, they do not have to send soldiers and the North. Police in the region, they remained faithful to Bakiyev, "says Kislov.

To cope with the threat of civil war, the government yesterday ordered his forces to "make fire at will" on gangs. The MoD has also called in reinforcements all army reservists aged 18 to 50 years.

attempt to destabilize

The country's interim president, Rosa Otunbayeva accuses his predecessor fallen to destabilize the already volatile situation before the referendum on a new constitution, scheduled June 27 His dress is becoming increasingly unlikely with the violence this weekend. "Bakiyev does not want the referendum because it would legitimize the provisional government," Danil Kislov analysis.

Saturday, Rosa Otunbayeva found that the situation was "unmanageable" and has asked Russia to send peacekeepers to stop the violence. Moscow has so far refused, arguing that it is a conflict "internal".

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev however, announced the allocation of humanitarian aid but not military. He also promised to discuss the issue today with his counterparts from the Organization of Collective Security Treaty (CSTO), which includes seven former Soviet republics such as Kyrgyzstan.

Meanwhile, thousands of Kyrgyz citizens of Uzbek origin were massed on the border with Uzbekistan yesterday. The Uzbek government has set up camps to house refugees on its territory. Yesterday, they were already 80 000 to cross the border, estimated the Uzbek authorities.