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The FBI arrested a refugee from Uzbekistan at Chicago's O'Hare Airport on charges that he planned to travel overseas to fight for a terrorist group and give up his life if necessary. AURORA, Colorado — The FBI arrested a refugee...
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Uproar Widespread Over Chechnya Trip
9 February 2012
By Nikolaus von Twickel / The Moscow Times
... activists and is triggering a political scandal in their homeland. Johannes Hübner, a deputy of the Free Democratic Party in the Austrian parliament, said Wednesday that he intended the two-day trip earlier this week to find out whether returning refugees would face political repression in the North Caucasus republic. "I do not have the impression that returnees would face prison or persecution," he said by telephone from Vienna. Hübner and his colleague Johann Gudenus, leader of...
Try Telling Tbilisi That You Can't Buy Me Love
6 February 2012
By Paul Rimple
... island countries anything at all? In September 2010, Georgia gave tiny Tuvalu $12,000 to cover the cost of "transportation of medical cargo" after Tuvalu voted for the Georgia-sponsored resolution at the UN General Assembly for the rights of refugees to return to Abkhazia and South Ossetia. Cash-strapped Tuvalu returned the favor a year later by recognizing Sukhumi and Tskhinvali, among rumors of a Russian payoff. The Kremlin reportedly gave Nauru $50 million for it's recognition of Georgia's...
Lavrov Sees Iran 'Chain Reaction'
19 January 2012
The Associated Press
... important trading partner with calls for more talks. Although Moscow, which built Iran's first nuclear power plant, has backed some previous UN sanctions, it has recently rejected new ones. Lavrov predicted that a military attack on Iran would send refugees streaming into Azerbaijan and further on to Russia. He said sanctions on Iranian oil are simply "aimed at stifling the Iranian economy and the population in an apparent hope to provoke discontent." Russia believes that "all...
Wallenberg Files Exist, Official Says
31 January 2012
The Associated Press
... secret contacts between the Western Allies and the Nazis and were eager to learn about his connections. Wallenberg had been recruited for his rescue mission in Budapest by a U.S. intelligence agent, with Swedish government approval, on behalf of the War Refugee Board created by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. But he is not known to have been engaged in intelligence gathering. Susanne Berger, a German researcher who advised a Swedish-Russian working group that conducted a 10-year investigation that ended...
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