PanARMENIAN.Net – The Head of the Management Board of the Russian Chess Federation said that boycotting Olympiad in Istanbul isn’t a right method for solving problems.
As Ilya Levitov said in an interview to Chess-News, “it’s necessary to achieve the right solution in a constructive way, rather than by boycotting the Olympiad. To write a letter and meet with Yazic; talk to him, understand his motivation and position, and try to change his stance”.
Earlier, Turkish Chess Federation President Ali Nihat Yazici banned the arbiters from seven chess federations from working at the Olympiad. According to some reports, the affected federations may fully boycott the main team event of the year, which will be held in Istanbul from the end of August until the beginning of September.
On June 25, the main organizer of the Olympiad and the President of the Turkish Chess Federation announced a decision to resign FIDE Vice-President’s post, Chess-News said.
via Russia won’t boycott Chess Olympiad in Istanbul – PanARMENIAN.Net.
Moscow, June 27 (IANS/RIA Novosti) The downing of a Turkish jet by Syrian forces should not be considered a provocation or allowed to further destabilise the situation in the region, the Russian foreign ministry has said.
“The escalation of politics and propaganda, including on the international level, is especially dangerous when efforts are being undertaken to mobilize all major outside players to channel the situation in Syria in a political direction,” ministry spokesman Alexander Lukashevich said.
Russia is concerned with the situation, and urges both Ankara and Damascus to cooperate in the investigation of the incident, Lukashevich said in a statement.
Syria shot down a Turkish F-4 fighter jet over the Mediterranean Sea last Friday.
Syrian officials said the jet invaded the country’s air space, while Turkey insisted it was attacked over international waters.
The attack prompted fears that Turkey may use the incident as a pretext to launch a military operation in Syria, torn by a civil war that has killed at least 12,000 people since March 2011, according to the UN.
A NATO meeting called Tuesday at Turkey’s request denounced the attack on the jet, but said the incident would not be viewed as aggression against the alliance, which could have given NATO a valid pretext to attack Syria.
Turkish President Abdullah Gul said Tuesday the incident has exposed “the paranoia that has gripped the Syrian Army”.
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via Russia urges Syria, Turkey against clash – NY Daily News.
Turkey is considering the purchase Russia’s S-400 Triumf anti-aircraft weapon system amid growing tensions in the region. According to local media, Turkey’s government is choosing between Russia’s S-400, US Patriot missile defense system, China’s FD 2000 system and French-Italian Eurosam SAMP/T.
Russia’s system is capable of combating all existing types of strategic offensive weapons, including missiles with the ground speed of 5,000 m/s, AWACS planes and reconnaissance-strike systems.
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via Turkey wants to buy Russian defense system: Voice of Russia.
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Updated: 06/13/2012 10:52:31 AM PDT
ANKARA, Turkey — Russian ex-spy Anna Chapman has walked a Turkish catwalk in a long red dress at a fashion show, flanked by two men posing as secret service agents in black suit and sunglasses.
Hikmet Eraslan said Wednesday his Dosso Dossi clothing company donated to Chapman’s charity foundation for children with poor eyesight in Volgograd in return for her appearance last Friday.
The 30-year-old Chapman was deported from the United States in 2010 along with nine other Russian sleeper agents. She appeared on the runway in the Mediterranean city of Antalya, a top Turkish vacation destination.
Chapman has been keeping a high profile since her deportation to Russia, modeling, editing a magazine, giving lectures and running the foundation.
via Russian ex-spy Anna Chapman takes a turn on catwalk in Turkey – San Jose Mercury News.
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Declaration of statement by the chairman of “Bargavac Ayastan” (Prospering Armenia)
(PA) party Gagik Tsarukyan not to form a coalition with the ruling Republicans Party has yet proved to be a game. Upon PA party officials statement that they will not agree on coalition with the ruling party and that they will declare their decision regarding minister portfolio in the government until May 31 enables us to think that Tsaraukyan is conducting discussions with ruling party.
Next year’s presidential elections and ruling party’s wining 30% against the 44% increased the pretention of PA party. Party, for the purpose of justifying the confidence of voters, attracting those hesitating for presidential elections to OY and consequently obtaining majority of votes, demonstrates its power in this way.
Head of Armenian government Tigran Sarkisyan in his response to the question who can hold the post of Prime minister confirmed that OY chairman Gagik Tsarukyan can lead the new government answering that he is happy to have people to hold high posts.
Afterwards, Armenian government head Tigran Sarkisyan’s statement “who said PA would go to opposition” indicate how the ruling party is aware of processes and secret negotiations are under way.
G. Tsarukyan’s name is mentioned among the presidential candidates along with L.Ter-Petrosyan, R.Kocharyan and S. Sarkisyan.
The fact that Tsarukyan won the votes of half million of citizens enables him to be more confident in presidential elections along with flirting with the Republicans fearlessly and being pretentious for prime minister in the newly formed government.
To change the situation to his benefit G.Tsarukyan may form a coalition lead by himself creating a new plan for presidential elections.
Sochi, the site for the 2014 winter Olympics, just happens to be where the russians dispossessed an entire nation exactly 150 years earlier. the survivors’ descendants say it was genocide—and now they’re demanding justice.
1940: Circassian guards at the home of collaborationist Gen. Maxime Weygand. (Margaret Bourke-White / Time & Life Pictures-Getty Images)
Vladimir Putin may think he has trouble enough on Moscow’s streets without worrying about demonstrators outside the country. If so, perhaps he should think again. This week in Istanbul, New York, Brussels, and other world cities, protesters are taking aim at his most cherished project: the 2014 Winter Olympics. Although the facilities at the Caucasus Mountains resort of Sochi are already winning enthusiastic praise from visiting skiers, thousands of angry activists are determined to spoil Putin’s party.
The marchers are Circassians, the descendants of a people who once had their own country on the shores of the Black Sea, between Crimea and the modern-day Republic of Georgia. They lost it a century and a half ago to a brutal campaign by the imperial Russian army to seize the entire Caucasus region. The Circassians resisted for four decades until May 21, 1864, when they finally surrendered and were expelled from the land of their fathers. Until recently their descendants marked the date only with quiet remembrance ceremonies. But in 2007 the International Olympic Committee accepted Russia’s bid to hold the 2014 Games at Sochi—the very place where the Circassians surrendered in 1864. Since then, May 21 has become a day of rage.
“How would you feel—how would the Russians feel, if athletes came from all over the world to ski or ice-skate on the graves of their ancestors—and [the athletes] did not even know they were doing it?” demands Danyal Merza. Last May 21, the 29-year-old telephone technician, along with two other ethnic Circassians, his friends Clara and Allan Kadkoy, traveled from their homes in New Jersey all the way to Turkey, where most members of the Circassian diaspora now live. The four of us ended up near the head of a chanting crowd of thousands of Circassians. The human wave, topped by a foam of anti-Sochi banners, poured down Istanbul’s Istiklal Street before breaking against a triple line of police who stood with truncheons and tear gas outside the Russian consulate.
Speaking into a bullhorn, Merza squared his shoulders and shouted the group’s demands in English: no Sochi Olympics, recognition of the Circassian genocide, and the right to move back to the homeland the Russians seized a century and a half ago. His listeners roared their approval in Turkish, and their voices resounded from the steep houses on either side: “We don’t want Olympics in Sochi!” Allan pumped his fist and shouted along with them. “It’s the first time I’ve chanted without knowing what the words mean,” he told me afterward. His wife was similarly transported. “I could never imagine feeling like this,” she said. “We might not speak Turkish, but we’re all saying the same thing in different languages.”
more: Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics: The Circassians Cry Genocide – The Daily Beast.
As Ilya Levitov said in an interview to Chess-News, “it’s necessary to achieve the right solution in a constructive way, rather than by boycotting the Olympiad. To write a letter and meet with Yazic; talk to him, understand his motivation and position, and try to change his stance”.
