Long-haul truckers in Kursk suspended their strike over the weekend but only after officials there agreed not to raise fees or fines on them, yet another indication that the five-week old labor action has brought some real success
Staunton, April 6 — Tajikistan is being pressured to shut down the Islamic Rebirth Party, something that will drive its members into the underground and make the Islamist threat there greater; and Dagestani leaders want to adopt an earlier Tajik policy and call home those from that republic now studying in Muslim schools abroad, something […]
Staunton, 3 June – In an echo of the success Abkhazians had in pressing for the ouster of their republic’s leader, 271 delegates to a May 31 meeting in Makhachkala calling itself “the Extraordinary Congress of the Peoples of Dagestan” has demanded that Moscow fire Ramazan Abdulatipov as republic head and replace him with one […]
The Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic has been dismissed for poor performance. Anatoly Karibov, a former Deputy Prime Minister, has been appointed as an acting Prime Minister. Acting Governor of Dagestan, Ramadan Abdulatipov, sacked the whole government of the republic, claiming poor performance. This happened on Monday at a meeting on the socio-economic situation […]
