Russia’s president meets with recovered Ingush leader (Russian Information Agency Novosti)
President Dmitry Medvedev met on Friday with the leader of the south Russian republic of Ingushetia, who has returned to work after surviving an assassination attempt.
Medvedev to meet North Caucasus muftis and leaders (Itar-Tass)
SOCHI, August 28 (Itar-Tass) — Russian President Dmitry Medvedev will meet North Caucasus muftis and regional leaders in his Black Sea residence on Friday to discuss the tense situation in the predominantly Muslim region.
Eurovision 2009: Baku continues to deny that voted for the Armenian song subjected to interrogation (PanARMENIAN.Net)
Jean Réveillon: Any breach of confidentiality of vote or interrogation of individuals is totally unacceptable.
Russia says kills al Qaeda agent in North Caucasus (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
Russian security forces said on Monday they had killed an al Qaeda agent and a second rebel fighter in its troubled North Caucasus region of Dagestan. Russian officials say cash from foreign-based radical Islamic organizations is funding the recent surge of violence in Dagestan and the other two North Caucasus regions of Chechnya and Ingushetia in which dozens of people have died.
Russia says kills al Qaeda agent in North Caucasus (KYIV Post)
MOSCOW, Aug 31 (Reuters) – Russian security forces said on Monday they had killed an al Qaeda agent and a second rebel fighter in its troubled North Caucasus region of Dagestan.
Protesters gather outside Azerbaijani embassy to support Hajizada (The Collegian)
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Roughly 30 people stood across the street from the Azerbaijani embassy Friday afternoon chanting, “freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, free Adnan and Emin.”
Other News (Bernama)
BAKU (Azerbaijan), Aug 29 (Bernama) — President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev has Saturday sent a letter of congratulation to Yang di-Pertuan Agong Tuanku Mizan Zainal Abidin on the country’s holiday, Independence Day, Azerbaijan’s news agency (Azertac) reported.
Turkmenistan plans Caspian naval base amid dispute (AP via Yahoo! News)
Turkmenistan will establish a naval base on the Caspian Sea, the Central Asian nation’s president said Monday — a move that could inflame disputes over the area’s lucrative hydrocarbon fields.
Sooner or later Azerbaijan will have to engage in dialogue with NKR (PanARMENIAN.Net)
Masis Mailyan: Baku’s reluctance to recognize Nagorno Karabakh as a party of the conflict can be explained by its unwillingness to solve the problem in the light of objective reality.
Turkey, Armenia to launch talks on diplomatic ties (AP via Yahoo! News)
Armenia and Turkey, bitter foes for a century, took a step toward reconciliation Monday by announcing they would launch final talks aimed at establishing diplomatic ties. But they won’t discuss the deepest source of their enmity: the World War I-era massacres of Armenians under Ottoman rule.
A Song Contest Becomes a Hot Spot in Feud Between Countries (New York Times)
The simmering conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan has moved into the Eurovision Song Contest.
Turkey, Armenia seek diplomatic ties (MSNBC)
Armenia and Turkey agree to final talks aimed at establishing diplomatic relations and resolving a rift that dates to the massacres of Armenians under Ottoman rule nearly 100 years ago.
Stalin Planned to Annex Parts of Iran, Turkey and China (Moldova.org)
By Paul Goble Stalin viewed the secret protocols of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact which allowed Moscow to seize the Baltic countries, Bessarabia, and part of Poland as “a model” for the subsequent annexation of portions of Iran, Turkey and China, an Azerbaijani scholar has suggested. And while the Soviet dictator did not succeed in doing so in any of these cases, largely because of Stalin’s …
