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SECSTATE SECTOR SECURITY SEMAAN GABY EID SEN SENC SENG SENS SENU SENV SENVQGR SENVSPL SENVSXE SEP SERBIA SERZH SETTLEMENTS SEVN SEXP SF SFNV SG SGNV SGWI SH SHANNON SHI SHUM SI SILVASANDE SIMS SIPDI SIPDIS SIPR SIPRNET SIPRS SIUK SK SKCA SKEP SKI SKSAF SL SLM SLOVAK SM SMAR SMI SMIG SMIL SMIT SMITH SMRT SN SNA SNAP SNAR SNUC SO SOC SOCI SOCIA SOCIETY SOCIO SOCIS SOCISZX SOCR SOCY SOE SOFA SOI SOIC SOLI SOLIC SOM SOMALIA SOPN SORT SOSI SOVIET SOWGC SP SPAS SPC SPCE SPCVIS SPECI SPECIALIST SPILL SPP SPSTATE SR SREF SRIT SRS SRYI SSA SSH ST STAG START STATE STC STEINBERG STEPHEN HADLEY STET STP STR STUDENT SU SUCCESSION SUFFRAGE SULLIVAN SUMMIT SUR SUSAN SV SW SWHO SWMN SX SXG SY SYAI SYMBOL SYR SYRIA SYSI SYTH SZ TA TAGS TALAL TAUSCHER TAX TB TBI TBID TBIO TBIOZK TBKIO TBO TC TCOR TCSENV TD TDA TE TECH TECHNOLOGY TER TERAA TERFIN TERR TERROR TERRORISM TF TFIN TG TGRY TH THANH THE THERESE THIRDTERM THKSJA THOMAS THOMAS THOMMA THPY TI TIA TIBO TIFA TINT TIO TIP TITI TIUZ TJ TK TL TM TN 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KUIR KUM KUNA KUNC KUNH KUNP KUNR KUS KUWAIT KV KVBL KVIP KVIR KVIS KVPR KVRC KVRP KW KWAC KWAK KWAWC KWBC KWBG KWBW KWCI KWCR KWGB KWHG KWIC KWIM KWIR KWKN KWM KWMJN KWMM KWMN KWN KWNM KWNN KWOMN KWPA KWPB KWPG KWPR KWRC KWRF KWRG KWUN KWWT KWWW KX KY KZ LA LAB LABOR LANSANA LANTERN LARREA LARS LAS LAURA LAVIN LAW LB LBAR LBY LE LEAGUE LEB LEBIK LEGAT LEGATT LEIS LEON LEVINE LEW LG LGAT LH LI LIB LICC LIMA LINE LK LMS LN LO LOG LOPEZ LORAN LOTT LOVE LR LS LT LTG LTTE LU LV LVPR LY LZ MA MAAR MACEDONIA MACP MANUEL MANUEL SERGIO GONZALEZ MAP MAPP MAPS MAR MARAD MARANTIS MARIA MARIE MARINO MARITIME MARK MARQUEZ MARR MARS MARTIN MARV MAS MASC MASS MATT MAYA MB MBM MC MCA MCAP MCAPARR MCAPN MCAPP MCAPS MCAT MCC MCCAIN MCCONNELL MCCP MCGRAW MCRM MCTRE MD MDA MDC MDO ME MEA MED MEDIA MEETINGS MENDIETA MEP MEPI MEPN MEPP MERCOSUR MESUR MEX MF MFA MFO MG MGL MGMT MGOV MGT MGTA MH MHUC MI MIAH MIC MICHAEL MICHEL MIGUEL FELIPE CANAHUATI YACAMAN MIGUEL VARGAS MALDONADO MIK MIKE MIL MILI MILITANTS MILITARY MILLENNIUM MINURSO MINUSTAH MITCHELL MJ MK ML MLS MMAR MMED MN MNLF MNNC MNNUC MNU MNUC MNUCH MNUCWA MNUM MNUN MNUR MNUS MNVC MO MOHAMAD MOHAMED HESHAM ELDIN YOUSSEF MOHAMMAD MOLINA MONTENEGRO MONUC MONY MOOPS MOP MOPP MOPPS MOPS MORALES MORG MOROCCO MORS MOS MOTO MOTT MP MPOL MPOS MPP MPS MQADHAFI MR MRCRE MRRR MRS MRSEC MS MSG MSIG MT MTAA MTAG MTCAE MTCR MTCRA MTCRE MTRCE MTRE MTRRE MTS MU MUC MUCN MUKASEY MULLEN MUNC MURAD MURRAY MV MW MX MY MZ NA NAC NACB NADIA NAFTA NAM NAMSA NANCY NAR NARC NARCOTICS NARR NAS NASA NAT NATEU NATGAS NATIONAL NATO NATOAFGHAN NATOBALKANS NATOIRAQ NATOOPS NATOPOLICY NATSIOS NAVO NB NBTS NBU NC NCCC NCD NCT NCTC NDI NDP NE NEA NEC NEGROPONTE NEI NELSON NEPAD NERG NET NEW NFATC NFMS NFSO NG NGO NGUYEN NH NI NICHOLAS NICOLE NIH NIPP NK NKWG NL NLD NLIAEA NLO NMFS NMNUC NMUC NNPT NO NOAA NOI NOK NON NONE NORAD NOTAG NOVO NP NPA NPG NPT NR NRC NRG NRR NRRC NS NSC NSF NSFO NSG NSSP NT NTDB NTSB NTTC NU NUC NUIN NV NW NZ NZUS OA OAO OARC OAS OASC 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06MINSK17 | EMBASSY MINSK WEEKLY REPORT - January 5, 2006 [...] The following are brief items of interest compiled by Embassy Minsk. ------------ Human Rights ------------ 2. Independant Pollster Warned for Illegal Polling On December 30, the Prosecutor General's office issued a warning to head of the Independent Institute of Social, Economic an [...] | 2006-01-10 09:17:00 | Embassy Minsk | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM ECON BO |
06MINSK172 | FORMER OPPOSITION MP SKREBETS CONVICTED [...] (C) Summary: On February 14, the Supreme Court of Belarus convicted former Respublika MP Sergey Skrebets to 30 months in prison for allegedly obtaining bank loans through fraud. He was acquitted on charges of bribery and conducting illegal business activity. The nine months he spent in pre-tri [...] | 2006-02-16 14:45:00 | Embassy Minsk | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM BO |
06MINSK173 | STATE MEDIA VILIFIES AMERICA, OFTEN [...] (C) Summary: In recent months Belarusian state media has become increasingly venomous in its daily attacks against the U.S. and the West. Common themes include charges of espionage, of Western attempts to destabilize the country, and of attempts to overthrow the government in a forced "color" [...] | 2006-02-16 14:45:00 | Embassy Minsk | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL BO |
06MINSK174 | BELARUS AND THE ELECTIONS ACCORDING TO 2001 [...] (C) Summary: Ambassador recently met with former trade union leader and 2001 &single8 opposition presidential candidate Vladimir Goncharik to discuss the current political and economic environment in Belarus. Goncharik noted Belarus, worsening political and economic situation and Belarusians, [...] | 2006-02-16 14:48:00 | Embassy Minsk | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL |
06MINSK178 | Minsk Election Weekly IX (February 11 - February 17) [...] This is the ninth in a weekly series of election-oriented reports, providing brief items of interest related to the March 19, 2006 presidential elections. Post will report on the February 17 registration of candidates process in septel. --------------------- Campaign Preparations --------- [...] | 2006-02-17 15:10:00 | Embassy Minsk | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM PREL BO |
06MINSK179 | DEMONSTRATION PEACEFULLY DISBURSED, SOME ARRESTS [...] (C) At 1800 on February 16, opposition groups Zubr and Charter 97 organized a peaceful demonstration on October Square as part of the Day of Solidarity campaign to encourage public support for the families of the disappeared figures and for overall democratic change in Belarus. Poloffs, who o [...] | 2006-02-17 15:41:00 | Embassy Minsk | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM BO |
06MINSK183 | PARTNERSHIP NGO RELEASES SECOND ELECTION [...] (C) Summary: Despite potentially facing criminal charges for reporting any information that may discredit Belarus, election monitoring NGO Partnership anonymously sent via email its second observation report on the elections. Similar to the first report Post received (Ref A),the second report [...] | 2006-02-21 12:28:00 | Embassy Minsk | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL |
06MINSK184 | State Media Focuses only on Lukashenko [...] (SBU) Summary: The Belarusian Association of Journalists (BAJ) monitored Belarusian media coverage of the March presidential elections from 28 January to 10 February. BAJ found that state media focused almost exclusively on Lukashenko, portraying him in a positive light. For the most part, st [...] | 2006-02-21 12:32:00 | Embassy Minsk | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM BO |
06MINSK185 | YOUTH GROUPS COMMITTED TO DEMOCRATIC CHANGE [...] (C) Summary: While many youth remain reluctant to wander far from President Lukashenko's camp of supporters, some Belarusian youth groups are actively participating in a number of civic initiatives and/or directly supporting opposition candidates Aleksandr Milinkevich and Aleksandr Kozulin in [...] | 2006-02-21 12:57:00 | Embassy Minsk | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL BO |
06MINSK191 | PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES BEGIN THEIR CAMPAIGNS [...] (SBU) Summary: On February 17, the Central Election Committee (CEC) registered President Aleksandr Lukashenko, 10 Coalition leader Aleksandr Milinkevich, former rector of Belarusian State University Aleksandr Kozulin, and leader of the Libera Democratic Party Sergey Gaidukevich as officialpres [...] | 2006-02-22 15:14:00 | Embassy Minsk | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL |
06MINSK192 | BKGB ARRESTS ELECTION OBSERVERS [...] (C) On February 21, BKGB officers arrested four pro-democracy activists, Partnership leaders Nikolay Astreyka and Enira Bronitskaya, NDI employee Aleksandr Shalaika (strictly protect),and Timofei Dranchuk, aide to imprisoned opposition member Andrei Klimov. They arrested the first, Dranchuk, [...] | 2006-02-22 15:14:00 | Embassy Minsk | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM BO |
06MINSK195 | Belarus Special 301 Review [...] Summary and recommendation: Post once again recommends placement of Belarus on the watch list for 2006. Little has changed since Post's 2005 Special 301 input (ref B). Pirated optical media remains the norm, being readily available across the country, including in state-owned stores, and enfo [...] | 2006-02-23 05:50:00 | Embassy Minsk | UNCLASSIFIED | KIPR ETRD ECON BO |
06MINSK200 | Minsk Election Weekly X (February 18 - February 24) [...] This is the tenth in a weekly series of election-oriented reports, providing brief items of interest related to the March 19, 2006 presidential elections. ----------------------- Candidates Get Air Time ----------------------- 2. As per the law, state television and radio scheduled ai [...] | 2006-02-24 07:13:00 | Embassy Minsk | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM PREL BO |
06MINSK205 | BKGB SPREADING FEAR [...] (C) Summary: The BKGB continues to hold, but has not yet charged, the four activists it arrested on February 21 (ref A). Authorities have until 2100 on February 24 to decide whether to release or continue holding the group. The GOB then has two months, with the possibility of extensions, to [...] | 2006-02-24 15:33:00 | Embassy Minsk | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM BO |
06MINSK208 | EMBASSY MINSK BIWEEKLY REPORT - February 24, 2006 [...] The following are brief items of interest compiled by Embassy Minsk. ------------ Human Rights ------------ 2. Jailed Businessman Now a Fugitive On February 9, businessman Nikolai Avtukhovich who is facing tax evasion charges disappeared from house arrest in Grodno on the first day [...] | 2006-02-27 14:40:00 | Embassy Minsk | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM ECON BO |
06MINSK21 | TAIWAN CLOSES MISSION AS MINSK SUPPORTS BEIJING [...] (C) Summary: Taiwan is closing its small trade mission in Belarus, as Minsk grows ever closer to Beijing. In recent months the mission has had no access to GOB officials, but has received requests for help from some in the opposition. The mission never succeeded in its main tasks, promoting p [...] | 2006-01-11 13:49:00 | Embassy Minsk | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECON TW BO |
06MINSK22 | TAIWAN CLOSES MISSION AS MINSK SUPPORTS BEIJING [...] (C) Summary: Taiwan is closing its small trade mission in Belarus, as Minsk grows ever closer to Beijing. In recent months the mission has had no access to GOB officials, but has received requests for help from some in the opposition. The mission never succeeded in its main tasks, promoting p [...] | 2006-01-11 13:49:00 | Embassy Minsk | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECON TW BO |
06MINSK222 | DAS KRAMER V. MFA, ROUND II [...] (C) Summary: Visiting EUR DAS Kramer met on February 23 with MFA America's Desk head Maksim Ryzhenkov. The MFA at the last minute cancelled a higher-level meeting because Kramer refused to allow the GOB to control his schedule. The meeting itself was cordial, despite the repeated accusations [...] | 2006-03-02 12:39:00 | Embassy Minsk | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM ECON BO |
06MINSK223 | OPPOSITION PRESIDENTIAQ CANDIDATE BEATEN AND [...] No summary [...] | 2006-03-02 12:55:00 | Embassy Minsk | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM BO |
06MINSK224 | BKGB CLAIMS OPPOSITION COUP ATTEMPT [...] (SBU) Summary: Chairman of the BKGB Stepan Sukhorenko on March 1 claimed his organization had foiled opposition plans to detonate a bomb during a demonstration on Election Day, resulting in a bloody coup that would ¶lyze8 Belarus. Sukhorenko accused the unregistered election monitoring NGO [...] | 2006-03-02 13:01:00 | Embassy Minsk | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM |
06MINSK225 | ELECTION OFFICIAL TELLS EUR DAS KRAEER ELECTIONS [...] No summary [...] | 2006-03-02 13:08:00 | Embassy Minsk | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PRED |
06MINSK232 | EUR DAS KRAMER MEETS ANALYSTS, CIVIL SOCIETY [...] (C) Summary: Visiting EUR DAS David Kramer met with political analysts, civil society leaders, and students on February 24 to discuss the upcoming presidential elections and the accompanying GOB harassment. Analysts noted Russia,s change in policy from previous campaigns to support President [...] | 2006-03-07 09:26:00 | Embassy Minsk | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL |
06MINSK233 | OPPOSITION CANDIDATE RELEASED FROM DETENTION, [...] (C) Summary: On March 2, opposition presidential candidate Aleksandr Kozulin was released from October Police Station between 1700 and 1800 local time (ref A). Following his release, Kozulin, his wife, and several members of Kozulin's political party went to the site of opposition candidate [...] | 2006-03-07 09:26:00 | Embassy Minsk | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL BO |
06MINSK234 | DAS KRAMER DISCUSSES ELECTIONS WITH MILINKEVICH [...] (C) Summary: On February 24, EUR DAS David Kramer met with deputy campaign managers of the single opposition candidate Aleksandr Milinkevich's campaign team Victor Korneyenko and Aleksandr Dobrovolsky. Korneyenko confirmed Milinkevich's plan to hold a rally on March 2, the same day as Presid [...] | 2006-03-07 15:04:00 | Embassy Minsk | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL BO |
06MINSK238 | Harassment of Opposition Intensifies [...] In recent weeks authorities have greatly accelerated their petty harassment of opposition activists, leading up to the March 19 presidential elections. Police throughout the country are detaining Milinkevich activists, usually releasing them without charge after three hours, and seizing their [...] | 2006-03-11 09:04:00 | Embassy Minsk | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM BO |
06MINSK25 | Latest Polling: Milinkevich Creeps Ahead in Polls, But Not [...] Summary: The results of IISEPS' latest polling shows that Lukashenko retains high ratings, around 53 percent. Opposition support remains low, even for the 10+ opposition candidate Aleksandr Milinkevich. Although Milinkevich's approval ratings did climb several points to 6.6 percent, a growin [...] | 2006-01-12 12:48:00 | Embassy Minsk | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PINR PREL BO |
06MINSK252 | Minsk Election Weekly XII (March 6-March 10) [...] This is the twelfth in a weekly series of election-oriented reports, providing brief items of interest related to the March 19, 2006 presidential elections. ------------------------- Repression and Harassment ------------------------- 2. Milinkevich Activists Sentenced to Jail On Mar [...] | 2006-03-14 08:41:00 | Embassy Minsk | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM PREL BO |
06MINSK255 | Opposition and Police Face Off at Peaceful Rally [...] Summary: On March 2 at 1800 opposition candidate Aleksandr Milinkevich held an election rally in downtown Minsk. The rally attracted an estimated 3,000 participants. Although the event was peaceful and there were no arrests, security services prevented anyone from entering the square where th [...] | 2006-03-14 09:42:00 | Embassy Minsk | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM BO |
06MINSK256 | Trustbank Profits Soar Despite USG Sanctions (C-NE5-00153) [...] On February 28, a spokesman for Belarus' Trustbank (formerly known as Infobank) told the press his bank's profits in January were 6.1 times higher than a year previously, reaching BYR 92.3 million [USD 43,000] that month. Trustbank's gross assets rose 6.2% in January to BYR 156.9 billion [USD [...] | 2006-03-14 09:42:00 | Embassy Minsk | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN PINR EINV ETRD PREL BO |
06MINSK258 | Meeting Voters Illegal in Belarus [...] (U) Summary: In the past week authorities have arrested and jailed or fined several Milinkevich activists, including senior campaign deputies Anatoly Lebedko (fined USD 721) and Vintsuk Vyachorka (sentenced to 15-days in jail),as well as ten other activists each sentenced to 15-days in jail. [...] | 2006-03-14 09:42:00 | Embassy Minsk | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM BO |
06MINSK259 | Meeting Voters Illegal in Belarus [...] (U) Summary: In the past week authorities have arrested and jailed or fined several Milinkevich activists, including senior campaign deputies Anatoly Lebedko (fined USD 721) and Vintsuk Vyachorka (sentenced to 15-days in jail),as well as ten other activists each sentenced to 15-days in jail. [...] | 2006-03-14 09:43:00 | Embassy Minsk | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM BO |
06MINSK260 | Trustbank Profits Soar Despite USG Sanctions (C-NE5-00153) [...] On February 28, a spokesman for Belarus' Trustbank (formerly known as Infobank) told the press his bank's profits in January were 6.1 times higher than a year previously, reaching BYR 92.3 million [USD 43,000] that month. Trustbank's gross assets rose 6.2% in January to BYR 156.9 billion [USD [...] | 2006-03-14 09:43:00 | Embassy Minsk | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN PINR EINV ETRD PREL BO |
06MINSK261 | Opposition and Police Face Off at Peaceful Rally [...] Summary: On March 2 at 1800 opposition candidate Aleksandr Milinkevich held an election rally in downtown Minsk. The rally attracted an estimated 3,000 participants. Although the event was peaceful and there were no arrests, security services prevented anyone from entering the square where th [...] | 2006-03-14 09:44:00 | Embassy Minsk | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM BO |
06MINSK262 | Harassment of Opposition Intensifies [...] In recent weeks authorities have greatly accelerated their petty harassment of opposition activists, leading up to the March 19 presidential elections. Police throughout the country are detaining Milinkevich activists, usually releasing them without charge after three hours, and seizing their [...] | 2006-03-14 09:44:00 | Embassy Minsk | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM BO |
06MINSK264 | Kozulin Continues With Campaign, More Violence [...] (C) Summary: Campaign managers for presidential candidate Aleksandr Kozulin, Aleksei Korol and Oleg Volchek met with Poloffs on March 6 following Kozulin's March 2 beating at the hands of security forces. Although charged with hooliganism, Kozulin has continued with his campaign and his manag [...] | 2006-03-14 13:35:00 | Embassy Minsk | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM BO |
06MINSK265 | CEC Secretary on Early Voting and Problems with [...] (C) Summary: Poloffs met with Central Election Commission (CEC) Secretary Nikolai Lozovik on March 9. Lozovik at first explained Belarus' early voting process and answered questions concerning the censoring of opposition candidate television speeches and the March 2 beating of a candidate at [...] | 2006-03-14 13:35:00 | Embassy Minsk | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM ECON BO |
06MINSK266 | EUR DAS Kramer Meets Analysts, Civil Society [...] (C) Summary: Visiting EUR DAS David Kramer met with political analysts, civil society leaders, and students on February 24 to discuss the upcoming presidential elections and the accompanying GOB harassment. Analysts noted Russia's change in policy from previous campaigns to support President [...] | 2006-03-14 13:40:00 | Embassy Minsk | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL BO |
06MINSK267 | Minsk Election Weekly XII (March 6-March 10) [...] This is the twelfth in a weekly series of election-oriented reports, providing brief items of interest related to the March 19, 2006 presidential elections. ------------------------- Repression and Harassment ------------------------- 2. Milinkevich Activists Sentenced to Jail On Mar [...] | 2006-03-14 13:49:00 | Embassy Minsk | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM PREL BO |
06MINSK268 | EMBASSY MINSK BIWEEKLY REPORT - March 10, 2006 [...] Refrigerator and freezer inventories increased 127 percent in January to 20,000 units. Tire inventories increased 29.7 percent to 28,000 units, chemical fiber inventories increased 20.3 percent to 20,700 tons, and television inventories increased 280 percent to 98,000 units. Meanwhile, truck [...] | 2006-03-14 13:50:00 | Embassy Minsk | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM ECON BO |
06MINSK269 | Opposition Candidate Released From Detention, [...] (C) Summary: On March 2, opposition presidential candidate Aleksandr Kozulin was released from October Police Station between 1700 and 1800 local time (ref A). Following his release, Kozulin, his wife, and several members of Kozulin's political party went to the site of opposition candidate A [...] | 2006-03-14 13:53:00 | Embassy Minsk | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM BO |
06MINSK270 | Milinkevich Team Discusses Campaign Activities [...] (C) Summary: On March 6, Victor Kornyenko, deputy campaign manager for Ten Plus Coalition presidential candidate Aleksandr Milinkevich, provided for P/E Chief an overview of the campaign team's plans ahead of the March 19 elections. Commenting on the March 2 rally near Freedom Square, Kornye [...] | 2006-03-14 13:54:00 | Embassy Minsk | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM BO |
06MINSK274 | DAS Kramer Discusses Elections with Milinkevich [...] (C) Summary: On February 24, EUR DAS David Kramer met with deputy campaign managers of the single opposition candidate Aleksandr Milinkevich's campaign team Victor Korneyenko and Aleksandr Dobrovolsky. Korneyenko confirmed Milinkevich's plan to hold a rally on March 2, the same day as Presid [...] | 2006-03-15 10:09:00 | Embassy Minsk | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PINR BO |
06MINSK275 | DAS Kramer Discusses Elections with Kozulin's [...] (C) Summary: EUR DAS David Kramer met with opposition presidential candidate Aleksandr Kozulin and his campaign team during his recent trip to Belarus. Kozulin claimed the authorities are afraid and are working to increase the level of fear among the population. Kramer underscored the need [...] | 2006-03-15 10:10:00 | Embassy Minsk | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PINR BO |
06MINSK276 | Milinkevich Holds Three Meeting With GOB [...] (C) Summary: Emboffs on March 12 observed three of 10+ Coalition candidate Aleksandr Milinkevich's meetings with voters in Minsk. Milinkevich's messages in all three gatherings focused on "stability should not equal stagnation," "the elections will not be free and fair," and "vote against sel [...] | 2006-03-15 10:10:00 | Embassy Minsk | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM ECON BO |
06MINSK277 | Can't Sell Those Belarusian Goods [...] Summary: Many Belarusian companies, especially those owned by the state (which controls 80% of economic activity),are having problems selling the goods they produce. In February Belarusian warehouses were holding goods totaling 52.9% of average monthly production, worth over USD one billion. [...] | 2006-03-15 12:07:00 | Embassy Minsk | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON PGOV BO |
06MINSK278 | Belarus Buying Indian SU-30s [...] (SBU) In February a number of Indian and Russian press sources announced that Belarus was intending to buy 18 used Sukhoi SU-30 aircraft from India. According to these press reports, India acquired a number of SU-30K fighters in 1997-1998, but is now modernizing its air force. Belarus theref [...] | 2006-03-16 11:10:00 | Embassy Minsk | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL MNUC ETTC BO |
06MINSK279 | Russian Printing Press Stops Producing Independent [...] (SBU) Summary: The Smolensk Printing Plant annulled its contracts with independent newspapers Narodnaya Volya (NV),BDG Gazeta, and the democratic Communist Party of Belarus' Tovarishch on March 13, citing an overwhelming workload. The plant director later stated that the annulments were due [...] | 2006-03-16 14:08:00 | Embassy Minsk | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV BO |
06MINSK28 | LUKASHENKO FEARS WEAK OPPOSITION [...] (C) Summary: Political analyst Valeriy Karbalevich explained that Lukashenko fears the opposition, even though the opposition poses no real threat in the March elections. Lukashenko, perhaps believing his regime's own propaganda, seemingly has not decided whether to allow his two main oppositi [...] | 2006-01-13 11:49:00 | Embassy Minsk | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR BO |
06MINSK281 | BKGB Claims USG Terrorism on Election Day [...] At 1100 local on March 16, chairman of the BKGB Stepan Sukhorenko held a press conference to claim the BKGB had uncovered a plot by the Belarusian opposition, funded and organized by Georgia and the United States, to bomb four schools on Election Day (March 19) as part of a coup against Lukashe [...] | 2006-03-16 14:40:00 | Embassy Minsk | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PTER PHUM CASC BO |
06MINSK282 | Milinkevich Campaign Manager Discusses Last-Minute [...] (C) Summary: On March 15, Sergey Kalyakin, campaign manager for Ten Plus Coalition presidential candidate Aleksandr Milinkevich, provided Pol/Econ Chief an assessment of the candidate's campaign rallies leading up to the March 19 elections. Kalyakin stressed Milinkevich and the campaign team [...] | 2006-03-17 07:56:00 | Embassy Minsk | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM BO |
06MINSK285 | Lukashenko Leads February Poll [...] (SBU) Summary: In a poll conducted just before the presidential campaign began, Lukashenko dominated the field and most Belarusians relied on state media for information. Still, despite lack of access and constant pro- Lukashenko/anti-opposition propaganda, pro-democracy candidate Milinkevich [...] | 2006-03-17 08:46:00 | Embassy Minsk | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM ECON BO |
06MINSK286 | Independent News Does Make a Difference [...] (C) Under the auspices of a DRL Human Rights and Democracy Fund (HRDF) small grant (reftel),the IISEPS polling service conducted the second of six opinion polls in mid-February (septel). IISEPS conducted the first such grant in early December, and plans to conduct the third in April. [Note: [...] | 2006-03-17 08:46:00 | Embassy Minsk | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM KDEM BO |
06MINSK287 | Russian Printing Press Stops Producing Independent [...] (SBU) Summary: The Smolensk Printing Plant annulled its contracts with independent newspapers Narodnaya Volya (NV),BDG Gazeta, and the democratic Communist Party of Belarus' Tovarishch on March 13, citing an overwhelming workload. The plant director later stated that the annulments were due [...] | 2006-03-17 11:16:00 | Embassy Minsk | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV BO |
06MINSK288 | Milinkevich Strong in Grodno [...] (C) Summary: Poloff recently visited the western city of Grodno, hometown of opposition presidential candidate Aleksandr Milinkevich. Despite increasing harassment and pressure from authorities, Milinkevich's regional campaign leaders believe that Milinkevich would readily win an honest elec [...] | 2006-03-17 11:44:00 | Embassy Minsk | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM BO |
06MINSK29 | BELARUS PERSONNEL RE-SHUFFLE: TAKING NO CHANCES [...] (C) Summary: In recent weeks Belarusian dictator Lukashenko has reshuffled several senior positions in his Presidential Administration (PA) and removed the Minister of Health. The odious Viktor Sheiman has moved from heading the Presidential Administration to running Lukashenko's presidential [...] | 2006-01-13 11:49:00 | Embassy Minsk | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR BO |
06MINSK290 | Minsk Election Weekly XIII (March 11-March 17) [...] This is the thirteenth in a weekly series of election- oriented reports, providing brief items of interest related to the March 19 presidential elections. --------- Observers --------- 2. OSCE PA and ODIHR Launch Short-Term Observer Mission On March 16, OSCE Parliamentary Assembly Pr [...] | 2006-03-17 14:24:00 | Embassy Minsk | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM PREL BO |
06MINSK292 | March Madness: Mass Opposition Arrests [...] In the past two weeks authorities have arrested at least 150 opposition activists, jailing many of them for up to 15 days each on charges ranging from participating in an unsanctioned protest, to urinating or shouting obscenities in public. Police allegedly beat several during their arrests. [...] | 2006-03-17 14:30:00 | Embassy Minsk | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM BO |
06MINSK294 | KOZULIN MEETS WITH AMBASSADOR, SEEKS U.S. SUPPORT [...] (C) Summary: In his March 14 meeting with Ambassador, opposition presidential candidate Aleksandr Kozulin presented pictures and names of security service officers who beat him on March 2 (reftel),and noted a letter of appreciation to Secretary Rice and his plea to Russian President Vladimir [...] | 2006-03-17 16:40:00 | Embassy Minsk | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM BO |
06MINSK299 | MILINKEVICH CALLS FOR STREET PROTESTS [...] (U) Summary: Opposition presidential candidate Aleksandr Milinkevich told a press conference on March 20 that the opposition does not recognize Lukashenko as the winner of the obviously falsified elections. Milinkevich is demanding a repeat election, held in a democratic manner without repres [...] | 2006-03-21 07:50:00 | Embassy Minsk | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM BO |
06MINSK305 | INDEPENDENT WEEKLY CLOSED FOR PRINTING MOHAMMED [...] (C) Summary: The Supreme Economic Court first suspended and then closed the independent weekly "Zgoda" for reprinting the Mohammed cartoons as part of a commentary on the violent protests the cartoons had sparked in the Islamic world. The GOB, siding with Belarusian Muslims, condemned the cart [...] | 2006-03-21 15:05:00 | Embassy Minsk | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL BO |
06MINSK306 | SOME DIGGING STILL AT GRODNO CEMETERY [...] (C) Summary: On March 13, Poloff visited the site of the controversial Grodno stadium, built on top of a Jewish cemetery. Poloff confirmed that digging continues at the site, but that it is to finish off the expansion of the stadium, rather than as part of any new project. Poloff did not see [...] | 2006-03-21 15:19:00 | Embassy Minsk | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV KIRF BO |
06MINSK307 | Mass Arrests Follow Elections [...] Summary: The human rights NGO Vyasna and independent press report that at least 108 people, and likely more, were arrested late March 20th and early March 21st. The detained include Anatoly Lebedko, deputy to Milinkevich and leader of the United Civic Party, and his deputy Aleksandr Dobrovolsk [...] | 2006-03-21 15:53:00 | Embassy Minsk | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM BO |
06MINSK308 | Crowd Size Drops On Second Day of Opposition Protests [...] (SBU) Summary: On March 20, opposition presidential candidates Aleksandr Milinkevich and Aleksandr Kozulin organized another protest rally on October Square in Minsk. Emboff observers estimate that between 18:30 and 20:00, 5,000 to 6,000 Belarusians participated in the rally, a significant de [...] | 2006-03-21 16:05:00 | Embassy Minsk | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR PREL BO |
06MINSK309 | OSCE Rebukes Belarus Elections [...] (U) Summary. At a joint press conference on March 20, OSCE Parliamentary Assembly and OSCE ODIHR representatives declared that the presidential elections in Belarus did not meet international standards or OSCE commitments for free and fair elections. Preliminary conclusions from their observa [...] | 2006-03-22 11:01:00 | Embassy Minsk | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR PREL BO |
06MINSK311 | Lukashenko Gives Victory Speech and Fiery Press [...] (SBU) Summary: On March 20, a defiant Aleksandr Lukashenko accepted his presidential "victory" at a press conference held in the cavernous Palace of the Republic and spoke to a full audience, including practically the entire Belarusian government, on live television. Lukashenko stressed Belarusians [...] | 2006-03-22 15:51:00 | Embassy Minsk | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL BO |
06MINSK312 | Sitrep 1: Numbers and Spirits Drop On Third Day of [...] (C) Summary: In the evening on March 21, Poloffs observed the third protest rally on October Square organized by Ten Plus Coalition candidate Aleksandr Milinkevich and Belarusian Social Democratic Party ("Gramada") Aleksandr Kozulin. At the height of the rally, Poloffs estimated that approxim [...] | 2006-03-22 15:51:00 | Embassy Minsk | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PREL BO |
06MINSK314 | LUKASHENKO GIVES VICTORY SPEECH AND FIERY PRESS [...] (SBU) Summary: On March 20, a defiant Aleksandr Lukashenko accepted his presidential &victory8 at a press conference held in the cavernous Palace of the Republic and spoke to a full audience, including practically the entire Belarusian government, on live television. Lukashenko stressed Belar [...] | 2006-03-23 07:04:00 | Embassy Minsk | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL |
06MINSK315 | LUKASHENKO GIVES VICTORY SPEECH AND FIERY PRESS [...] (SBU) Summary: On March 20, a defiant Aleksandr Lukashenko accepted his presidential &victory8 at a press conference held in the cavernous Palace of the Republic and spoke to a full audience, including practically the entire Belarusian government, on live television. Lukashenko stressed Belar [...] | 2006-03-23 07:04:00 | Embassy Minsk | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL |
06MINSK318 | Sitrep 1: Numbers and Spirits Drop On Third Day of [...] No summary [...] | 2006-03-23 14:32:00 | Embassy Minsk | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PREL BO |
06MINSK319 | SITUATION REPORT 2: A RIFT FORMS BETWEEN [...] (C) Summary: On March 22, key member of the Aleksandr Milinkevich presidential campaign Jaroslav Romanchuk offered Ambassador a critical assessment of the team,s efforts to promote democratic change following the likely fraudulent March 19 elections. Romanchuk, a senior member of Anatoly Leb [...] | 2006-03-23 15:34:00 | Embassy Minsk | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM |
06MINSK320 | Sitrep 1: Numbers and Spirits Drop On Third Day of [...] (C) Summary: In the evening on March 21, Poloffs observed the third protest rally on October Square organized by Ten Plus Coalition candidate Aleksandr Milinkevich and Belarusian Social Democratic Party ("Gramada") Aleksandr Kozulin. At the height of the rally, Poloffs estimated that approxim [...] | 2006-03-23 15:44:00 | Embassy Minsk | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PREL BO |
06MINSK321 | Ten Days in Jail for Reading the Bible [...] (C) Summary: On March 14, Poloff met with head of the Christ Convenant Reformed Baptist Church who had just served 10 days in jail for holding an unsanctioned religious service in his private residence. This is the first time in 20 years that a person has been jailed for holding religious wo [...] | 2006-03-23 15:49:00 | Embassy Minsk | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM BO |
06MINSK322 | Situation Report 3: Opposition Crowd Dwindles, Ten Plus [...] (C) Summary: The number of protesters on October Square continues to diminish. On March 22, the fourth night of protests on the square, Emboffs observed approximately 1,000 protesters. Ten Plus Coalition leader Aleksandr Milinkevich congratulated protesters for their determination to remain [...] | 2006-03-23 15:55:00 | Embassy Minsk | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PREL BO |
06MINSK323 | Even More Arrests and Many Convictions Follow Elections [...] Summary: From March 21 to March 23, human rights activists and independent press reported that more people have been arrested and several dozens have already been sentenced for participating in demonstrations following the March 19 presidential elections. Anatoly Lebedko, deputy to Milinkevich [...] | 2006-03-23 15:56:00 | Embassy Minsk | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM BO |
06MINSK327 | Opposition Faces Criminal Charges [...] Summary: Hundreds of opposition activists have recently been charged and convicted for violating the relatively more lenient Administrative Code, and 21 face much more serious charges under the Criminal Code. One person has been sentenced to five months in prison, while the others (including p [...] | 2006-03-24 11:04:00 | Embassy Minsk | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM BO |
06MINSK329 | SITREP 4: KOZULIN'S PLAN FOR A SHADOW GOVERNMENT [...] (C) Summary: A key Kozulin campaign member and a spokesperson for the Zubr youth group spoke to Poloff on March 23 to discuss their plans in the wake of fraudulent elections and massive arrests. Kozulin seeks Milinkevich,s cooperation in creating a new shadow government that will unite all po [...] | 2006-03-24 12:18:00 | Embassy Minsk | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PREL |
06MINSK330 | MFA Refutes U.S. Rejection of Belarusian Elections [...] At a March 23 press briefing, Belarusian MFA Press Secretary Andrei Popov refuted press statements from the White House and State Department denouncing the results of the March 19 presidential elections in Belarus. Popov reminded the journalists that the Belarusian people have made their choi [...] | 2006-03-24 12:24:00 | Embassy Minsk | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL BO |
06MINSK331 | SITUATION REPORT 5: POLICE BREAK-UP PROTEST [...] (C) Summary: Just after 0300 March 24, security forces converged on October Square and arrested nearly everyone taking part in the opposition's on-going demonstration. Although estimates vary and authorities have not released any information, Post believes between 150 and 400 people were arres [...] | 2006-03-24 12:49:00 | Embassy Minsk | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PINR PREL BO CASC |
06MINSK332 | Milinkevich: 500 Arrested Today [...] (C) Summary: On March 24 opposition presidential candidate held a press conference where he estimated that around 500 of his supporters had been arrested early that morning, along with nearly 300 more the previous two days. He called on authorities to release all detainees, and appealed to the [...] | 2006-03-24 16:25:00 | Embassy Minsk | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PREL BO |
06MINSK333 | Sitrep 6: Detainees Exceed 200 [...] (SBU) According to human rights NGO Vyasna, there are now 227 identified protesters who were arrested early this morning. Trials are already underway at many Minsk city courts. According to Vyasna, the sentences of those who have already stood trial range from 5-15 days in jail. Human rights [...] | 2006-03-24 16:32:00 | Embassy Minsk | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR PREL BO |
06MINSK335 | MFA Issues Two Statements In Response To Critical U.S. and [...] On March 24-26, the Belarusian MFA published two statements in response to the U.S. and EU actions and statements against Belarus. The March 24 MFA statement denounced the U.S.-EU decision to impose travel sanctions on Belarusian officials as a "senseless" and "dead-end policy." The statement [...] | 2006-03-27 15:11:00 | Embassy Minsk | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL BO |
06MINSK336 | Sitrep 7: March 25 Protests End In Violence [...] (U) Summary: When police denied an estimated 7,000 protesters access to October Square for the March 25 "Freedom Day" rally, opposition leaders Aleksandr Milinkevich and Aleksandr Kozulin led the crowd to the alternate meeting point Yanka Kupala Park. Milinkevich used this opportunity to launch [...] | 2006-03-27 15:24:00 | Embassy Minsk | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR PREL BO |
06MINSK337 | Up to 1,000 Arrested, Trials Have Begun [...] Summary: Trials for those arrested March 24, when police raided the protest tent camp on October Square, started on March 24. Most of the detained are being sentenced to 10-15 days in trails that last 10 minutes at most. Reportedly, so one has been acquitted. Police detained another estimated [...] | 2006-03-27 15:31:00 | Embassy Minsk | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM BO |
06MINSK338 | Ambassador Delivers Demarche On Wave Of Arrests [...] (C) Summary: On March 24, Ambassador called on MFA Americas Department Director Maksim Ryzhenkov to deliver a joint U.S.-EU message on the recent wave of repression against opposition leaders and activists prior to and following the March 19 presidential elections (ref A). Ambassador noted th [...] | 2006-03-27 15:46:00 | Embassy Minsk | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PREL BO |
06MINSK341 | Minsk Election Weekly XIV (March 18-March 24) [...] This is the fourteenth in a weekly series of election- oriented reports, providing brief items of interest related to the March 19 presidential elections. ---------------- Election Results ---------------- 2. CEC Gives Final Results On March 23, CEC Head Lidiya Yermoshina described L [...] | 2006-03-28 13:08:00 | Embassy Minsk | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM PREL BO |
06MINSK342 | 250 ACTIVISTS CONVICTED IN ONE DAY, KOZULIN BEATEN [...] (U) Summary: As of March 27, approximately 250 people who were detained for participating in post-March 19 election protests were sentenced to up to 15 days in jail. Those sentenced included former presidential candidate Aleksandr Milinkevich's stepson, a former Polish ambassador to Belarus, [...] | 2006-03-28 15:01:00 | Embassy Minsk | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL |
06MINSK343 | Candidates React to Regime Crackdown [...] (U) On March 26, opposition presidential candidate Aleksandr Milinkevich issued a statement expressing solidarity with all those beaten and arrested by authorities on March 25, including his rival opposition leader Aleksandr Kozulin. Expressing his desire to continue to challenge the illegiti [...] | 2006-03-28 16:10:00 | Embassy Minsk | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL BO |
06MINSK348 | Where's Lukashenko? [...] Summary: On March 28 the GOB indicated Lukashenko's inauguration would not take place March 31 as had been widely reported and prepared for. This followed an eight-day period where Lukashenko disappeared from public view. Only on March 28 did a wan and de- energized Lukashenko reappear for a [...] | 2006-03-29 11:28:00 | Embassy Minsk | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL PINR BO |
06MINSK358 | 480 PEOPLE SENTENCED [...] (C) Summary: As of March 28, nine Minsk district courts had convicted in two days of trials 480 people for participating in post-presidential election demonstrations. Human rights lawyers have called the authorities' treatment of detainees "barbaric" and claim detainees are regularly denied fo [...] | 2006-03-29 14:55:00 | Embassy Minsk | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL |
06MINSK359 | PARTNERSHIP NGO RELEASES FINAL ELECTION [...] (C) Summary: With its leaders currently in prison, election monitoring NGO Partnership anonymously sent via email its final election observation report. Although much shorter and less analytical than the earlier ones, this report declared that the Belarusian presidential elections were not de [...] | 2006-03-30 07:26:00 | Embassy Minsk | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL BO |
06MINSK36 | Minsk Election Weekly IV (January 6-January 16) [...] This is the fourth in a weekly series of election-oriented reports, providing brief items of interest related to the March 19, 2006 presidential elections. -------------------- Signature Collection -------------------- 2. Lukashenko Leads in Signature Collections; Other Meets Minimum [...] | 2006-01-17 13:49:00 | Embassy Minsk | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM PREL BO |
06MINSK364 | USD 2.5 BILLION IN RUSSIAN SUBSIDIES IN 2005 [...] (U) Summary: According to the best numbers available, Russia provided approximately USD 2.531 billion in subsidies, mostly energy, to Belarus in 2005. Of that, USD 1.236 billion came from the sale of discounted natural gas, USD 1.149 billion from the sale of discounted crude oil, and USD 146 [...] | 2006-03-31 06:59:00 | Embassy Minsk | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EPET PREL ENRG ETRD BO |
06MINSK365 | BKGB USES COLD WAR TECHNIQUES TO GRAB POLITICAL [...] (C) Summary: Belarusian security services seem to have employed old tools of the trade to silence a senior opposition activist, Vyacheslav Sivchik. On March 23, unknown persons impersonated Embassy local employees and possibly used falsified diplomatic plates to abduct Sivchik. They then seve [...] | 2006-03-31 07:27:00 | Embassy Minsk | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL BO |
06MINSK369 | PROTESTER POSSIBLY DEAD, KOZULIN CHARGED FOR [...] (C) Summary: Independent news sources on March 30 circulated a story that Sergei Otroshchenko, allegedly a protester beaten by security forces on March 25 who subsequently went missing, died from his injuries in a Minsk hospital. The GOB denies the death and claims they have no information a [...] | 2006-03-31 14:18:00 | Embassy Minsk | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL |
06MINSK370 | EMBASSY MINSK BIWEEKLY REPORT - March 31, 2006 [...] The following are brief items of interest compiled by Embassy Minsk. ------------- Post Elections ------------- 2. Milinkevich Tells All in Poland During his March 29 trip to Poland, former opposition candidate Aleksandr Milinkevich opined that the democratic movement in Belarus wi [...] | 2006-04-03 09:22:00 | Embassy Minsk | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM ECON BO |
06MINSK374 | LUKASHENKO FOUND, LOOKS ILL [...] (C) Summary: Lukashenko has been found. After a two-week absence from the public eye, and after missing all the events surrounding the tenth anniversary of the Union State Treaty, Lukashenko appeared on state television on April 4. In two short segments an atypically weary and soft-spoken Luk [...] | 2006-04-05 15:44:00 | Embassy Minsk | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR BO |
06MINSK381 | GAZPROM'S THREATS A PLOY FOR STRENGTHENING UNION? [...] (U) Summary: Gazprom and Minsk have been arguing for years over control of the GOB's Beltransgaz pipeline network. To date Lukashenko has fended off Russian attempts to take over the company, and at the same time has secured rock-bottom natural gas prices for his country-one of the main factor [...] | 2006-04-07 09:46:00 | Embassy Minsk | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ECON PREL ENRG ETRD BO |
06MINSK383 | KOZULIN'S WIFE MEETS AMBASSADOR [...] (C) Summary: On April 4, Irina Kozulin, wife of imprisoned opposition presidential candidate Aleksandr Kozulin, told Ambassador that her husband is still suffering from back pain and has bronchitis, but visible signs of his beatings have disappeared. However, he is receiving good treatment a [...] | 2006-04-07 14:11:00 | Embassy Minsk | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL |
06MINSK386 | EMBASSY MINSK WEEKLY REPORT - April 7, 2006 [...] The following are brief items of interest compiled by Embassy Minsk. -------------- Post Elections -------------- 2. Milinkevich's European Tour Opposition leader and former presidential candidate Aleksandr Milinkevich traveled to Vienna (April 3 and 4) and Strasbourg (April 5 and [...] | 2006-04-10 13:41:00 | Embassy Minsk | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM ECON BO |
06MINSK390 | OPPOSITION COALITION TO STAY TOGETHER [...] (C) Summary: In recent days Poloffs and Ambassador have spoken with a number of senior members of Milinkevich's 10 Plus coalition. All agreed that the coalition will continue to exist and will keep Milinkevich as the leader, despite some resistance from one coalition party. Post election the [...] | 2006-04-11 06:19:00 | Embassy Minsk | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL BO PHUM |
06MINSK393 | PARTNERSHIP FOUR LANGUISH IN JAIL [...] (C) Summary: On April 6, the Ambassador and DCM met with the families of the four jailed Partnership activists (reftel). Ambassador stressed the USG has not forgotten about their loved ones, and that he will continue to insist the GOB release all four immediately. The families expressed thei [...] | 2006-04-12 12:12:00 | Embassy Minsk | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV BO |
06MINSK394 | PARTNERSHIP FOUR LANGUISH IN JAIL [...] (C) Summary: On April 6, the Ambassador and DCM met with the families of the four jailed Partnership activists (reftel). Ambassador stressed the USG has not forgotten about their loved ones, and that he will continue to insist the GOB release all four immediately. The families expressed thei [...] | 2006-04-12 12:12:00 | Embassy Minsk | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV BO |
06MINSK395 | STUDENT EXPULSIONS FOLLOW PARTICIPATION IN [...] (C) Summary: Although the Ministry of Education (MOE) denied reports that students would be expelled for political reasons, approximately 15 students who participated in demonstrations following the March 19 presidential elections have been expelled from Belarusian universities. In a March 2 [...] | 2006-04-12 13:57:00 | Embassy Minsk | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL BO |
06MINSK397 | LUKASHENKO INAUGURATED: A PALE IMAGE [...] (C) Summary: Belarusian dictator Aleksandr Lukashenko was inaugurated in a brief, highly orchestrated and sparsely attended ceremony in Minsk April 8. In an unusually short speech, a depressed looking Lukashenko stressed his re-election represented the people,s will and lashed out at outside [...] | 2006-04-12 15:21:00 | Embassy Minsk | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL |
06MINSK403 | VIOLENT ARRESTS, POOR PRISON CONDITIONS, AND [...] (C) Summary: Nearly three weeks have passed since the March 19 presidential election and the subsequent wave of arrests of street protesters. Detainees who were recently released have shared with independent press and Emboffs their accounts of violent arrests and meager prison conditions. Th [...] | 2006-04-13 13:12:00 | Embassy Minsk | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL |
06MINSK408 | MARINICH RELEASED [...] (C) Summary: Imprisoned opposition member Mikhail Marinich was released from jail April 14 after serving two years on trumped up charges. A Minsk court April 12 ruled to release Marinich a full year earlier than his sentence required. The 66-year-old Marinich, Belarus' former Ambassador to L [...] | 2006-04-14 12:14:00 | Embassy Minsk | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL |
06MINSK413 | Oil-for-Food: GOB Not Investigating Self [...] The GOB has taken and almost certainly will not take any actions as a result of the Independent Inquiry Committee (IIC) looking into Iraqi Oil-for-Food violations (ref A). Post asked the MFA if there was any domestic investigation. The MFA replied that this is a complicated situation, and tha [...] | 2006-04-14 13:17:00 | Embassy Minsk | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KFIN PGOV IZ BO |
06MINSK420 | Economic Problems Growing, but Reform Only by Force [...] (U) Summary: On April 7, DCM hosted a discussion among a number of leading Belarusian economists. All agreed that the GOB is facing Russian pressures to sell Beltransgaz, but disagreed whether Lukashenko would allow this sale. While admitting that the Belarusian economy has had a number of su [...] | 2006-04-18 12:08:00 | Embassy Minsk | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD PREL USTR BO |
06MINSK422 | CIVIL SOCIETY REGROUPS POST ELECTIONS [...] (C) Summary: Ambassador and Poloffs met separately with human rights activists, civil society leaders and political analysts following the March 19 presidential elections to learn about their post-election plans. Most of the civil society leaders agreed that Milinkevich proved to be a good le [...] | 2006-04-18 14:08:00 | Embassy Minsk | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL BO |
06MINSK427 | EMBASSY MINSK WEEKLY REPORT - April 18, 2006 [...] The following are brief items of interest compiled by Embassy Minsk. -------------- Post Elections -------------- 2. Milinkevich in Germany Former 10+ Coalition presidential candidate Aleksandr Milinkevich on an April 7 trip to Berlin met with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Deputy [...] | 2006-04-19 13:19:00 | Embassy Minsk | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM ECON BO |
06MINSK428 | UCP UNHAPPY WITH COALITION [...] (C) Summary: On April 17, United Civic Party (UCP) deputy Jaroslav Romanchuk in a meeting with Poloff expressed his frustration with the activities and organization of the opposition's main coalition. Claiming to speak for his party, Romanchuk said the UCP presented a proposal to reform the o [...] | 2006-04-19 13:47:00 | Embassy Minsk | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM BO |
06MINSK43 | EMBASSY MINSK WEEKLY REPORT - January 17, 2006 [...] The following are brief items of interest compiled by Embassy Minsk. ------------ Human Rights ------------ 2. Polish Activists Fined The Grodno Border Control Unit on January 5 fined two Union of Belarusian Poles (UBP) activists Andrei Pochobut and Andrei Pisalnik the maximum USD 1 [...] | 2006-01-19 05:41:00 | Embassy Minsk | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM ECON BO |
06MINSK431 | MILINKEVICH'S WIFE MEETS AMBASSADOR [...] (C) Summary: On April 17, Ambassador met with Ten Plus Coalition leader Aleksandr Milinkevich's wife, Inna Kulei, who is the president of the newly formed Committee for the Defense of the Repressed (PCDR). This committee provides educational, employment, humanitarian, and medical assistance [...] | 2006-04-20 10:48:00 | Embassy Minsk | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL INR BO |
06MINSK433 | EU VISA BAN IMMEDIATELY EFFECTIVE [...] (C) Summary: On April 10, the EU expanded its visa ban list for Belarus from six to 37 senior GOB officials involved in election fraud and human rights abuses. Switzerland announced on April 12 that it would abide by the ban as well. In the first week of existence the ban has already prevente [...] | 2006-04-20 13:07:00 | Embassy Minsk | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR CVIS BO |
06MINSK436 | OPPOSITION COALITION LACKS PLANS [...] (C) Summary: On April 21, Ambassador met with the senior leadership of the United Civic Party (UCP),one of the main members of the opposition 10 Plus coalition. Anatoly Lebedko, head of the UCP, made it clear that the opposition had no plans for what to do after the elections, and even now h [...] | 2006-04-21 13:48:00 | Embassy Minsk | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM BO |
06MINSK44 | SIGNATURE CAMPAIGN MOVING FORWARD, DESPITE HARASSMENT [...] (SBU) Summary: The signature collecting campaign, the second phase of the presidential election, is in full swing. The Central Election Committee gave contenders until January 27 to collect the 100,000 signatures needed to be registered as a presidential candidate. President Lukashenko's init [...] | 2006-01-19 06:46:00 | Embassy Minsk | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL BO |
06MINSK442 | OPPOSITION ILL-PREPARED FOR CHERNOBYL [...] (C) Summary: The Minsk authorities granted the opposition permission to hold the Chernobylski Shliakh (The Chernobyl Path),a demonstration commemorating the 20th anniversary of the Chernobyl power plant tragedy, on April 26. The Ten Plus Coalition is "organizing" the event, but the leadershi [...] | 2006-04-24 13:27:00 | Embassy Minsk | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL BO |
06MINSK443 | BELARUS, RUSSIA, S-300S AND IRAN [...] (C) Summary: A prominent British journal recently wrote that Moscow might be selling S-300 anti-aircraft missile systems to Iran, using Belarus as a middleman to hide the sale. Although all three governments have denied such a sale, on April 21 Minsk received its first delivery of Russian S-3 [...] | 2006-04-24 13:41:00 | Embassy Minsk | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PARM ETRD ETTC MARR IR BO |
06MINSK445 | The GOB Prepares For Bird Flu [...] (SBU) Summary: The GOB on March 24 ratified a plan to prevent avian influenza (AI) from appearing in Belarus and to isolate it in case of an outbreak. Belarus has long banned poultry product imports and animal feed from nations with confirmed cases of AI but just recently issued decrees on pr [...] | 2006-04-24 13:56:00 | Embassy Minsk | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KFLU PGOV PHUM ECON CASC BO |
06MINSK446 | POLITICAL PROTESTANTS WANT CHANGE [...] (C) Summary: Prominent Belarusian Protestant leaders recently described for Ambassador their continued registration problems and the increasing hostility that they face from the GOB. Most of the leaders agreed that their communities are ready to bring change to Belarus, claiming that young [...] | 2006-04-24 14:02:00 | Embassy Minsk | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL BO |
06MINSK448 | ELECTION OBSERVERS REMAIN IN JAIL, OTHER ACTIVISTS [...] (U) Summary: Opposition activists are still coping with security service harassment and fighting court cases based on nefarious charges. Authorities extended the pre-trial detention of election observers of the NGO Partnership by another two months. They are still not allowed to meet with r [...] | 2006-04-26 13:14:00 | Embassy Minsk | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM |
06MINSK451 | Belarus Makes and Russia Loses Billions on Oil [...] Summary: During a recent seminar an energy expert from Belarus' Ministry of Economics explained that Belarus buys crude oil from Russia for well below market rates. With current high oil prices the GOB stands to benefit by USD 3.9 billion this year (14% of GDP),while the Russian budget could [...] | 2006-04-27 08:52:00 | Embassy Minsk | UNCLASSIFIED | EPET ECON ETRD PREL ENRG USTR BO |
06MINSK453 | WOMEN LEADERS READY FOR CHANGE IN BELARUS [...] (C) Summary: DCM hosted a luncheon discussion on women's roles in Belarusian society and politics for visiting speaker Darryl Glenney and Belarusian women leaders. While the guests admitted that Belarusian women are involved in the country's political life, they denounced the current women o [...] | 2006-04-27 08:52:00 | Embassy Minsk | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KWMN SCUL BO |
06MINSK456 | Belarus to Export Sugar to Cuba [...] Belarusian Prime Minister Sergey Sidorsky led a delegation of GOB officials and state-owned businesses to Cuba April 20 to 23. In addition to the usual exhortations of fraternal socialist comradeship, in a deal only possible between two command economies Belarus agreed to import 100,000 tons of [...] | 2006-04-27 09:57:00 | Embassy Minsk | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ETRD PREL USTR EAGR CU BO |
06MINSK458 | LUKASHENKO BOTCHES POTASH EXPORTS [...] (U) Summary: Potash is Belarus' second largest export commodity, earning the country USD 609 million in 2005. Most of this revenue went to the GOB, which owns the sole potash producer. In order to squeeze more money from this valuable export, last year Lukashenko created a potash exporting c [...] | 2006-04-27 10:13:00 | Embassy Minsk | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV EMIN ETRD EAGR BI |
06MINSK459 | 4,000 PARTICIPATE IN CHERNOBYL MARCH, OPPOSITION [...] (U) Summary: Approximately 4,000 people participated in the opposition's annual Chernobyl march that took place at the National Academy of Sciences in Minsk. Before the demonstration began, however, authorities arrested several opposition activists, including United Civic Party leader Anatol [...] | 2006-04-27 14:17:00 | Embassy Minsk | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM PREL BO |
06MINSK460 | MILINKEVICH DISCUSSES STATE OF THE OPPOSITION [...] (C) Summary: In an April 24 conversation with Ambassador, Belarusian opposition leader and former Ten plus Coalition presidential candidate Aleksandr Milinkevich described tensions within the democratic forces. He named United Civic Party leader Anatoliy Lebedko as the strongest dissenter. C [...] | 2006-04-27 14:23:00 | Embassy Minsk | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL BO |
06MINSK461 | IT PARK CONCEPT GOOD, BUT COMPANIES SKEPTICAL [...] (U) Summary: The GOB is in the process of creating its own Silicon Valley, an IT park in Minsk. The park will offer a number of tax and other administrative advantages to a limited range of high-tech companies. The head of the park also hopes to create a venture capital fund to provide inves [...] | 2006-04-28 11:31:00 | Embassy Minsk | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON EIND ETTC BO |
06MINSK462 | EMBASSY MINSK WEEKLY REPORT - April 28, 2006 [...] The following are brief items of interest compiled by Embassy Minsk. -------------- Post Elections -------------- 2. Lebedko Fined $30 for Swearing On April 25, Minsk Sovetsky district judge Oksana Relyavo found United Civic Party chairman Anatoly Lebedko guilty of petty hooliganis [...] | 2006-04-28 11:32:00 | Embassy Minsk | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM ECON BO |
06MINSK463 | Post-Election Polling: Lukashenko Wins, but Not by As Much [...] Summary: The IISEPS polling service recently unveiled the results of the first post-election poll. IISEPS found that about 64% of the electorate voted for Lukashenko, 20% less than the regime claims. Despite this discrepancy, a slim majority of Belarusians view the elections as free and fair. [...] | 2006-04-28 11:35:00 | Embassy Minsk | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL PINR SOCI ECON BO |
06MINSK464 | HRDF POLLING SUCCESSFUL, LEAFLETS SEIZED [...] (C) This is the second report on implementation of a DRL grant to provide independent opinion polling in Belarus. Under the auspices of a DRL Human Rights and Democracy Fund (HRDF) small grant (ref A),the IISEPS polling service conducted the third of six opinion polls in late March/early Apri [...] | 2006-04-28 11:51:00 | Embassy Minsk | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM KDEM BO |
06MINSK470 | OPPOSITION,S TENUOUS PLANS FOR LABOR DAY RALLY [...] (SBU) Despite the recent imprisonment of most of the main opposition leaders (reftel),Ten Plus Coalition press secretary Pavel Mazheiko told Poloff on April 28 that the May SIPDIS 1 demonstration would not be canceled. Party of Communists of Belarus' deputy chairman Valery Uknalyev, who i [...] | 2006-04-28 14:22:00 | Embassy Minsk | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM BO |
06MINSK477 | Small Protest Jeopardizes Remaining Free Activists [...] On May 1, Belarusian Social Democratic Party Hramada head Stanislav Shushkevich led approximately 300 people carrying signs and waving banned national flags from the Belarusian National Academy of Sciences (NAS) to Bangalore Square for a rally in honor of Labor Day (ref A). [Note: While autho [...] | 2006-05-03 14:43:00 | Embassy Minsk | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PINR PREL BO |
06MINSK479 | The Gas Dance Begins [...] Summary: Belarus and Gazprom have entered into negotiations of sorts on the price of gas for 2007. Gazprom announced that Minsk can expect to pay USD 145/tcm (up from USD 466.68/tcm),while the GOB responded it could agree to an 11 percent price increase (to USD 51.81). Other than consecutive [...] | 2006-05-04 05:52:00 | Embassy Minsk | UNCLASSIFIED | EPET ECON PREL ENRG ETRD USTR BO |
06MINSK483 | Belarus Special 301 Notification [...] No summary [...] | 2006-05-04 11:43:00 | Embassy Minsk | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ETRD KIPR USTR BO |
06MINSK486 | Pandemic Influenza Talking Points Delivered [...] No summary [...] | 2006-05-04 12:53:00 | Embassy Minsk | UNCLASSIFIED | TBIO KFLU KPAO SENV BO |
06MINSK493 | EMBASSY MINSK WEEKLY REPORT - May 5, 2006 [...] The following are brief items of interest compiled by Embassy Minsk. ----------------------- International Relations ----------------------- 2. Lukashenko: Consolidation of Political Forces Is No Problem During a meeting in St. Petersburg, Aleksandr Lukashenko told Russian President [...] | 2006-05-05 14:25:00 | Embassy Minsk | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM ECON BO |
06MINSK494 | Regime Nationalizing and Milking Economy [...] Summary: By most estimates the GOB controls about 80% of economic activity, but the state has refused to divulge the exact amount. Over the past few years the state's share of the economy has been growing as the GOB renationalizes previously privatized companies and increases its ownership sta [...] | 2006-05-05 14:31:00 | Embassy Minsk | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ETRD PREL USTR BO |
06MINSK498 | SOBR PAVLICHENKO PRESENTS "DICKENS-ESQUE [...] (C) Summary: An independent newspaper interviewed Special Forces Rapid Response Unit (SOBR) head Dmitry Pavlichenko on April 21. He spoke about the nascent stages of his military career, his troubled family life, the genuine satisfaction he receives from leading SOBR, and his vision for Belar [...] | 2006-05-11 08:19:00 | Embassy Minsk | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR BO |
06MINSK50 | Minsk Election Weekly V (January 16-January 20) [...] This is tha fifth in a wEekly series of election-oriented reports, providing brief items of interest related to the March 19, 2006 presidential elections. ------------------ Signature Campaign ------------------ 2. SIgnature Updates The initiative groups of the following presidential [...] | 2006-01-20 13:56:00 | Embassy Minsk | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM PREL BO |
06MINSK501 | NOVAK POST-ELECTION RESULTS MIRROR THOSE OF [...] No summary [...] | 2006-05-11 14:16:00 | Embassy Minsk | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM PREL BO |
06MINSK513 | Youth Activist Gets Two Years Restricted Freedom [...] SUMMARY: After a six-day postponement, the trial of Malady Front activist and anti-Lukashenko graffitist Artur Finkevich concluded on May 10. Although Finkevich had been facing up to twelve years in prison, the judge sentenced Finkevich to two years of restricted freedom. During two days of h [...] | 2006-05-16 06:01:00 | Embassy Minsk | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM BO |
06MINSK514 | LUKASHENKO'S NEW GOVERNMENT [...] (U) SUMMARY: President Aleksandr Lukashenko has formed a new government with a more streamlined organization and new directives relating to information media, energy, housing, construction, and trade. New cabinet appointments included a new deputy prime minister and five new ministers: energy [...] | 2006-05-16 06:03:00 | Embassy Minsk | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PINR BO |
06MINSK520 | INTERNAL POWER STRUGGLE HINDERS OPPOSITION MOVEMENT [...] (C) Summary: High-level opposition members told Pol/Econ Chief on May 11 that the power struggle between United Civic Party (UCP) leader Anatoly Lebedko and Ten Plus Coalition candidate Aleksandr Milinkevich was hindering the opposition movement. Activists doubt the two leaders would reconcil [...] | 2006-05-16 14:14:00 | Embassy Minsk | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM BO |
06MINSK521 | EMBASSY MINSK WEEKLY REPORT - May 12, 2006 [...] The following are brief items of interest compiled by Embassy Minsk. ------------- Civil Society ------------- 2. Zubr Leader Nikita Sasim Sentenced to Three Months in Jail On May 12, Zubr youth leader Nikita Sasim was sentenced in Baranichsky Regional Court to three months arrest f [...] | 2006-05-16 14:26:00 | Embassy Minsk | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM ECON BO |
06MINSK527 | DEMONSTRATORS BRIEFLY DETAINED NEAR RUSSIAN EMBASSY [...] (U) Approximately 70 people at 20:00 on May 16 gathered in front of the Russian Embassy, which is adjacent to the U.S. Embassy, wearing EU handkerchiefs and holding candles to protest the Kremlin's support of President Lukashenko. Five minutes into the demonstration, a dozen OMON riot police o [...] | 2006-05-17 14:19:00 | Embassy Minsk | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PINR PREL BO |
06MINSK528 | THE BELARUSIAN PARTY OF FREEDOM: AN ACTIVE PLAYER [...] (C) Summary: On May 16, Poloffs met with the leader of the unregistered Belarusian Party of Freedom (BPF) Sergey Visotsky at the latter's request to discuss his party's activities. The BPF first appeared in 1993 as a student initiative and, according to Visotsky, remains a youth organization [...] | 2006-05-18 10:29:00 | Embassy Minsk | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM BO |
06MINSK530 | KAZAKHS ON LUKASHENKO'S HEALTH, CORRUPTION [...] (C) Summary: On April 27, Pol Chief met with the Kazakh Political Counselor, Bakhram Auanasov, who claimed to have information that Lukashenko received treatment by Russian doctors after the election, possibly for prostate cancer or for exhaustion. He also explained that Lukashenko remains in [...] | 2006-05-22 07:43:00 | Embassy Minsk | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL BO |
06MINSK531 | DESPITE RHETORIC, MOSCOW NOT TO PUSH MINSK HARD [...] (C) During a recent conversation with Pol/Econ Chief, Vladimir Pavlenko, Counselor for Internal Political Affairs in the Russian Embassy, noted that despite strong statements from Gazprom, the Kremlin would not allow gas prices to stand in the way of an "extremely close alliance with Belarus." [...] | 2006-05-22 07:47:00 | Embassy Minsk | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ENRG BO |
06MINSK532 | EMBASSY MINSK WEEKLY REPORT - May 19, 2006 [...] The following are brief items of interest compiled by Embassy Minsk. ----------------------- International Relations ----------------------- 2. Lukashenko Receives Syrian Baath Party Official On May 18, Aleksandr Lukashenko told Abdullah al-Ahmar, assistant secretary general of Syri [...] | 2006-05-22 11:32:00 | Embassy Minsk | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM ECON BO |
06MINSK534 | PSI Points Passed to Belarus [...] No summary [...] | 2006-05-22 11:32:00 | Embassy Minsk | UNCLASSIFIED | KNNP MNUC PARM PREL BO |
06MINSK537 | MILINKEVICH ON THE LEBEDKO PROBLEM, RUSSIAN [...] (C) Summary: On May 22, Ambassador met with leader of the unified opposition Aleksandr Milinkevich. Milinkevich had just completed a long-delayed talk with Anatoly Lebedko, a likely contender for Milinkevich's position. Milinkevich stated this talk convinced him Lebedko would not quit the co [...] | 2006-05-22 13:58:00 | Embassy Minsk | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM BO |
06MINSK538 | Belarus Suffers Large Crop Loss, Still Expects [...] (SBU) Summary: Spring has finally come to Belarus and, along with it, President Aleksandr Lukashenko's mad fervor to attain an unrealistic harvest yield. Lukashenko raised the national quota of grain to 8.4 million tons, a 700,000-ton increase to Lukashenko's 2005 quota that was never achieved [...] | 2006-05-22 14:12:00 | Embassy Minsk | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR PGOV PHUM ECON BO |
06MINSK543 | LUKASHENKO PRAISES SOVIET UNION, CRITICIZES WEST [...] (SBU) Summary: In his May 9 Victory Day speech, Belarusian dictator Aleksandr Lukashenko lauded the Soviet Union's might and asserted Belarusians would effectively repel today's "foreign interference" just as they did in WWII. Lukashenko looked healthier than he did following his April 8 inau [...] | 2006-05-23 12:13:00 | Embassy Minsk | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PREL BO |
06MINSK545 | Belarus Supports U.S. ITU Candidacy [...] No summary [...] | 2006-05-23 14:10:00 | Embassy Minsk | UNCLASSIFIED | ECPS AORC BO |
06MINSK555 | GRODNO/VOLKOVISK TRIP HIGHLIGHTS [...] (SBU) Summary: On May 16-17, Ambassador toured the Grodno oblast in the western part of Belarus, stopping first in Grodno and then in Volkovisk. Recently released political prisoner Levonevskiy described his deplorable prison conditions. Free trade unionists noted increasing GOB pressure on [...] | 2006-05-26 08:35:00 | Embassy Minsk | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM EINV BO |
06MINSK556 | GRODNO/VOLKOVISK TRIP HIGHLIGHTS [...] (SBU) Summary: On May 16-17, Ambassador toured the Grodno oblast in the western part of Belarus, stopping first in Grodno and then in Volkovisk. Recently released political prisoner Levonevskiy described his deplorable prison conditions. Free trade unionists noted increasing GOB pressure on [...] | 2006-05-26 08:35:00 | Embassy Minsk | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM EINV BO |
06MINSK557 | GRODNO/VOLKOVISK TRIP HIGHLIGHTS [...] (SBU) Summary: On May 16-17, Ambassador toured the Grodno oblast in the western part of Belarus, stopping first in Grodno and then in Volkovisk. Recently released political prisoner Levonevskiy described his deplorable prison conditions. Free trade unionists noted increasing GOB pressure on [...] | 2006-05-26 08:35:00 | Embassy Minsk | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM EINV BO |
06MINSK558 | BELARUS TO BAN U.S., CANADIAN OVERFLIGHTS [...] (U) Belarusian dictator Aleksandr Lukashenko during his May 23 presidential address to the National Assembly ordered his government to take "adequate" measures against the U.S. and Canada for denying PM Sergey Sidorsky's plane from refueling in their territories en route to and on the return fr [...] | 2006-05-26 12:25:00 | Embassy Minsk | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR PBTS PREL PGOV BO |
06MINSK559 | GOB SUSPENDS THREE INVESTIGATIONS OF TWO [...] (C) Summary: During the first two weeks of May, GOB authorities announced that investigations into the 1999-2000 disappearances of two opposition activists and the 2004 murder of a journalist were suspended. Independent investigator Garry Pogonayilo believes the lack of progress is due to th [...] | 2006-05-26 12:26:00 | Embassy Minsk | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PREL BO |
06MINSK56 | Jeans Campaign: Youth Try To Unite Through Denim [...] (C) Summary: The human rights NGO Charter97 recently reported that on January 16 the Free Belarus Coalition launched the "jeans campaign." The youth-driven jeans campaign, which grew out of the Day of Solidarity nonviolent resistance campaign, aims to provide Belarusians a safe way to expre [...] | 2006-01-24 08:44:00 | Embassy Minsk | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PINR BO |
06MINSK560 | LEBEDKO EXPLAINS HIS OPPOSITION TO MILINKEVICH [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a May 23 meeting with Ambassador, Belarusian opposition figure and United Civic Party (UCP) chairman Anatoliy Lebedko discussed his recent visit to Washington, points of disagreement within the opposition coalition and commented on Russian-Belarusian relations. Lebedko is push [...] | 2006-06-01 12:17:00 | Embassy Minsk | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL BO |
06MINSK565 | Lukashenko's State of the Republic Tirade [...] (SBU) Summary: In his May 23 annual address before parliament, Lukashenko declared all is well in Belarus. He raised the trial balloon of establishing a Party of Power, but said he himself did not need it. He ordered the parliament and government to work with the four pillars of society, labo [...] | 2006-06-01 12:23:00 | Embassy Minsk | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ECON PREL PHUM BO |
06MINSK572 | Another Monument to a Repressor [...] (U) On May 26, authorities unveiled a statue of Felix Dzerzhinsky on the grounds of Belarus' Military Academy. The 10.5-foot bronze statue is identical to the one that for years stood in front of the KGB's infamous Moscow headquarters, the Lubyanka, and was the first icon removed by demonstrat [...] | 2006-06-01 12:52:00 | Embassy Minsk | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM ECON BO |
06MINSK574 | EMBASSY MINSK WEEKLY REPORT - May 26, 2006 [...] The following are brief items of interest compiled by Embassy Minsk. ----------------------- International Relations ----------------------- 2. Iran To Aid Belarus' Nuclear Industry, Lukashenko To Visit Iran On May 25, Iranian Ambassador Abdolhamid Fekri said at a news conference in [...] | 2006-06-02 06:08:00 | Embassy Minsk | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM ECON BO |
06MINSK580 | Opposition Activist Convicted of Sedition [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On May 25, a Milinkevich campaign worker, Sergei Lyashkevich, was tried in Shchuchin regional court on charges of inciting mass disorder. The prosecution's evidence included seized electronic media, written testimony, and oral testimony by two dubious witnesses. Following the [...] | 2006-06-02 10:13:00 | Embassy Minsk | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM BO |
06MINSK581 | Belarus: Iran Demarches Passed; No Response [...] On June 2, acting Pol/Econ Chief delivered ref A and B Iran demarches to Oleg Anisimov, Second Secretary in the MFA's America's Department. When Anisimov heard Poloff wanted to discuss a new U.S. proposal for Iran, he commented that, "your policy will of course change for the worse." He di [...] | 2006-06-02 10:22:00 | Embassy Minsk | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV IAEA KNNP USNC IR BO |
06MINSK582 | PINSK VISIT NOT IDEOLOGICALLY PURE [...] (C) Summary: On May 24 and 25 DCM and Econoff visited the southern cities of Pinsk, Beryoza and Beloozyersk, as well as a newly discovered Holocaust mass grave near Bronnaya Gora. Local activists in Beryoza seemed preoccupied with their problems with the BKGB, but activists in Beloozyersk are [...] | 2006-06-02 10:40:00 | Embassy Minsk | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON PHUM KNAR BO |
06MINSK584 | BELARUS NAMES FOR ASSET FREEZE [...] (C) Post provides the following information to supplement that gathered by the Department in consideration of placing assets freezes on certain Belarusian regime officials. Natalya Petkevich ----------------- 2. (C) Natalya Petkevich: Petkevich was appointed as Deputy Head of the Presi [...] | 2006-06-02 12:54:00 | Embassy Minsk | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR PHUM BO |
06MINSK585 | Belarus: UNHRC Demarche Delivered [...] No summary [...] | 2006-06-05 04:19:00 | Embassy Minsk | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM BO |
06MINSK588 | TEN PLUS APPROVES TWO-YEAR STRATEGY [...] (U) Summary: The Ten Plus Coalition's Political Council on May 22 approved a two-year plan aimed at removing Belarusian dictator Aleksandr Lukashenko and promoting democracy. The plan concentrates most of its energy in the "For Freedom" movement, which calls for pro-democratic civil society gr [...] | 2006-06-05 12:45:00 | Embassy Minsk | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM BO |
06MINSK599 | BELARUS: 2006 REPORT ON INVESTMENT DISPUTES AND [...] (SBU) Post submits its annual contribution for the 2006 Report on Investment Disputes and Expropriation Claims. During the year the Belarus Government continued with its policy of fundraising through confiscation of transiting goods, although this process appears to be declining. The State Cu [...] | 2006-06-09 04:44:00 | Embassy Minsk | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | CASC EFIN EINV KIDE OPIC PGOV BO |
06MINSK600 | IMF: Belarus Faces Falling Growth [...] (SBU) Summary: In a recent briefing a visiting IMF team acknowledged that the Belarusian economy has seen strong growth the past few years, driven mainly by the re-export of Russian oil, but also to a lesser extent to growing productivity. However, Belarus also faces a number of significant pr [...] | 2006-06-09 07:59:00 | Embassy Minsk | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD PREL USTR BO |
06MINSK602 | EMBASSY MINSK WEEKLY REPORT - June 2, 2006 [...] The following are brief items of interest compiled by Embassy Minsk. ----------------------- International Relations ----------------------- 2. Belarus Skeptical about UN Human Rights Special Rapporteur On May 31, following consultations with representatives from Russia's MFA, Belar [...] | 2006-06-09 09:22:00 | Embassy Minsk | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL PHUM ECON EPET EAGR ENRG BO |
06MINSK603 | BSDP Says Kozulin Not Vote Splitting, Supports Hunger [...] SUMMARY: On June 1, the Belarusian Social Democratic (Gramada) Party (BSDP) held a press conference to discuss March's presidential elections. BSDP described the elections as neither fair nor democratic and argued that Kozulin's candidacy motivated significant participation by Belarusian vot [...] | 2006-06-09 10:03:00 | Embassy Minsk | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM PREL BO |
06MINSK605 | CZECHS BLOCK SENIOR GOB VISAS, PASS [...] (C) Summary: The Czech Embassy recently passed over information that Lukashenko's son, Dmitry, and Prime Minister Sergei Sidorsky and his family all applied for Czech visas. The Czechs did not issue to Dmitry or Sidorsky, even though neither is on the EU's visa ban list. The Czech Charge also [...] | 2006-06-09 12:57:00 | Embassy Minsk | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR PHUM BO |
06MINSK606 | FMCT Points Passed to Belarus [...] No summary [...] | 2006-06-09 13:32:00 | Embassy Minsk | UNCLASSIFIED | MNUC PARM PREL KNNP CDG BO |
06MINSK607 | Latest Iran Points Passed to Belarus [...] On June 9, Econoff delivered reftel Iran information to Igor Ugorich, Counselor in the MFA's Department of International Security and Arms Control. Ugorich did not provide any substantive response. 2. Comment: Post does not expect the GOB will issue any statements even slightly critical of [...] | 2006-06-09 13:32:00 | Embassy Minsk | UNCLASSIFIED | KNNP IAEA PREL MNUC IR BO |
06MINSK608 | REGIONAL OUTREACH TO GOMEL REGION HIGH, SUPERVISED [...] (U) Summary: On June 1-2, Ambassador traveled to the regional capital city Gomel and surrounding villages to conduct public outreach. Opposition and civil society representatives described the repressive conditions in which they exist, but the civil society representatives also criticized the [...] | 2006-06-09 13:33:00 | Embassy Minsk | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ECON PHUM BO |
06MINSK619 | POST-ELECTION PROFILE OF BELARUSIAN YOUTH GROUPS [...] (C) SUMMARY: On April 25-27 and May 3-4, Poloffs met with representatives of five Belarusian youth organizations: Zubr, which announced its formal dissolution in May 2006; Third Way; Association of Belarusian Students; Volnaya Moladz; and New Life Church. All of these groups have been direct [...] | 2006-06-13 13:35:00 | Embassy Minsk | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PINR BO |
06MINSK627 | EMBASSY MINSK WEEKLY REPORT - June 9, 2006 [...] The following are brief items of interest compiled by Embassy Minsk. ----------------------- International Relations ----------------------- 2. Russian Ambassador Against Belarus' Retaliation for Travel Bans On June 8, the Russian Ambassador to Belarus, Aleksandr Surikov, described [...] | 2006-06-14 06:08:00 | Embassy Minsk | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL PHUM ECON EPET EAGR ENRG BO |
06MINSK628 | State Forces Competition to the Lowest Common Denominator [...] (SBU) Summary: On June 8, General Manager for Coca-Cola Beverages Belarus Alexander Denisov listed for Econoff a number of problems Coke faces in Belarus. In recent months the Minsk City government has been removing hundreds Coca-Cola refrigerators the company gave to street kiosks selling Cok [...] | 2006-06-14 06:08:00 | Embassy Minsk | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD PREL USTR BO |
06MINSK629 | Gas Negotiations Drag On, and On [...] Summary: Gas price negotiations have continued behind closed doors between the GOB and Gazprom, with no deal apparently reached at the most recent session on June 1. Russian media, quoting Gazprom officials, claim that Gazprom sent the GOB a contract listing USD 200 as the price for 2007, an i [...] | 2006-06-14 12:43:00 | Embassy Minsk | UNCLASSIFIED | EPET ECON PREL ENRG ETRD USTR BO |
06MINSK630 | PARTNERSHIP ELECTION OBSERVERS FACE TRIAL [...] (C) Summary: On June 13, Ambassador and DCM met with the wives of two of the jailed Partnership activists (independent election observers). The wives said their husbands' moods were still high, given their circumstances. Two of the four activists were recently moved to a new detention center [...] | 2006-06-14 13:25:00 | Embassy Minsk | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV BO |
06MINSK633 | LOCAL ELECTION DATE SET AND LUKASHENKO ALREADY [...] (U) On June 9, Belarusian president Aleksandr Lukashenko issued the order to hold elections for local district and city councils (soviets) on January 14, 2007 with the possibility of postponement to January 28. The last local elections were held in 2003, but opposition activists won few of the [...] | 2006-06-15 13:18:00 | Embassy Minsk | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PREL BO |
06MINSK637 | The Belarusian Lottery: Who Is Actually [...] (SBU) Summary: Belarus' lottery industry is booming. The two largest of Belarus' 30 registered lotteries gross USD 6 million per month, with half of that amount going to the GOB to purportedly finance social and sports programs. In light of the industries' high profits, Lukashenko in May ord [...] | 2006-06-15 13:28:00 | Embassy Minsk | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON PGOV BO |
06MINSK638 | Youth Flash Mobs on Rise Despite Repression [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Flash mobs have increasingly become one of the principal methods of protest by anti-Lukashenko activists since the March presidential elections. Consequently, Belarusian authorities have steadily intensified their already significant repression of flash-mob activists. Police [...] | 2006-06-16 05:13:00 | Embassy Minsk | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM SOCI BO |
06MINSK639 | MOTHER OF FUGITIVE OPPOSITION ACTIVIST DELIVERS [...] (C) On June 12, Galina Sivchik, mother of opposition activist Vyacheslav Sivchik, told DCM that prosecutors dismissed her complaint against the authorities' failure to investigate the circumstances surrounding her son's March abduction and beating during post presidential election demonstratio [...] | 2006-06-16 05:23:00 | Embassy Minsk | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL BO |
06MINSK640 | THE NATIONAL LIBRARY: LUKASHENKO'S DIAMOND OR [...] (U) Summary: The June 9 grand opening of the Belarusian National Library, a 23-story glass diamond-shaped monstrosity on the outskirts of Minsk, was again postponed. Although the authorities did not give a reason for the delay, independent news sources expect it is related to the perennial pro [...] | 2006-06-16 05:30:00 | Embassy Minsk | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL BO |
06MINSK641 | BELARUS’ TOP 50 OLIGARCHS [...] (C) Summary: Econoff recently received a list purporting to show Belarus' top 50 oligarchs and their net worth. An internet search found another, slightly older list that is nearly identical to the first. Post cannot confirm the sources or exact information in these lists, but rates the information [...] | 2006-06-16 06:08:00 | Embassy Minsk | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR ECON ETRD BO |
06MINSK646 | EUR/ACE COORDINATOR DISCUSSES ASSISTANCE NEEDS [...] (C) SUMMARY: On June 5, an EUR/ACE and USAID delegation led by Ambassador Thomas Adams met with representatives of Belarusian opposition non-governmental organizations (NGOs),political parties, and independent news media. Belarus' two main independent opinion pollsters also briefed the deleg [...] | 2006-06-16 14:20:00 | Embassy Minsk | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV EAID PHUM PINR BO |
06MINSK648 | Sudan and Belarus Sign Military Pact, Minsk Stays Silent [...] (U) On June 16, on-line Sudanese newspaper the Sudan Tribune announced that Sudanese Defense Minister General Abdelrahim Mohamed Hussein signed a military cooperation protocol with his Belarusian counterpart Leonid Maltsev on June 15 in Minsk. The article claimed Hussein was in Belarus June 13 [...] | 2006-06-19 10:06:00 | Embassy Minsk | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PARM ETRD UNSC SU BO |
06MINSK652 | Lukashenko's Potash Hole Grows Deeper [...] (U) On June 13, Belarus closed all four of its potash mines. With exports falling due to Lukashenko's insistence on above-market prices, Belarus no longer had any place to store the potash it was digging up. The problem began in 2005 when Lukashenko ignored market reality and ordered the ferti [...] | 2006-06-20 09:55:00 | Embassy Minsk | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON PGOV EMIN ETRD EAGR USTR PHUM BO |
06MINSK653 | EMBASSY MINSK WEEKLY REPORT - June 20, 2006 [...] The following are brief items of interest compiled by Embassy Minsk. ----------------------- International Relations ----------------------- 2. Putin Signals Hike in Gas Price to Belarus, Impatient on Union During a Shanghai Cooperation Organization Press Conference, Russian Preside [...] | 2006-06-20 10:01:00 | Embassy Minsk | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL PHUM ETRD EINV |
06MINSK654 | DEMONSTRATION [...] (SBU) At 20:00 on June 16 near the Russian Embassy (adjacent to U.S. Embassy),45 activists were briefly detained while observing the Day of Solidarity. The Day of Solidarity takes place on the 16th of every month in support of jailed and missing opposition activists. Similar to the May 16th [...] | 2006-06-20 11:42:00 | Embassy Minsk | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PINR PREL BO |
06MINSK659 | CSTO Castigates NATO And Its Neighbors [...] Summary: The Russian Secretary General of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) on June 20 gave a press conference in which he ridiculed NATO and opined that its military installations in Eastern European countries were part of a military agenda in Russia's backyard. He stated CST [...] | 2006-06-21 12:10:00 | Embassy Minsk | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV BO |
06MINSK664 | Belarus Faces Pension Crisis [...] Summary: On May 18, Econoff met with the head of the Ministry of Labor's pension office, and on May 30 attended a conference where several GOB officials described an upcoming pension crisis. Belarus has 2.6 million pensioners, 27% of the population, and this number will grow in coming years. T [...] | 2006-06-21 14:57:00 | Embassy Minsk | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ELAB EFIN SOCI BO |
06MINSK666 | NATO Materials Seized from Local Deputies [...] The Lithuanian Embassy, NATO POC in Minsk, informed post on June 21 that they sent a group of twelve elected members of local government councils to NATO headquarters in Brussels for an informational visit June 15-16, organized by NATO's Public Diplomacy Division. Upon their return to Minsk on [...] | 2006-06-22 10:55:00 | Embassy Minsk | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PARM PHUM BO |
06MINSK669 | POLL OF BELARUSIAN ELITES SHOWS SUPPORT FOR OPPOSITION [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On June 9, Oleg Manaev, head of the de- registered IISEPS sociological research center, presented the results of additional post-election polling to the Ambassador. Throughout May, IISEPS polled 60 respondents, described as "laders and experts" inside and outside Belarus' gvernm [...] | 2006-06-23 05:45:00 | Embassy Minsk | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PINR SOCI ECON BO |
06MINSK671 | EMBASSY MINSK WEEKLY REPORT - June 23, 2006 [...] The following are brief items of interest compiled by Embassy Minsk. ----------------------- International Relations ----------------------- 2. State Weekly Says Belarus Should Freeze Opposition U.S. Accounts On June 22, BelTA correspondent Viktor Lovgach wrote in the pro- governme [...] | 2006-06-23 12:21:00 | Embassy Minsk | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL PHUM ETRD |
06MINSK679 | ACTIVIST SEEKS TO EXPAND ROLE OF WOMEN IN BELARUS [...] (C) Summary: In her new role as head of the Commission on Women in the United Civic Party (UCP),Women's Independent Democratic Movement (WIDM) chair Lyudmila Petina told DCM she is searching for ways to encourage women to become more politically active, including the possible creation of a w [...] | 2006-06-27 12:54:00 | Embassy Minsk | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREF KWMN SCUL BO |
06MINSK680 | MFA MEETS WITH AMBASSADOR-DRUMS UP GOB OUTCRY OVER [...] (C) Summary: On June 23, Head of the MFA's U.S. and Canada Desk Sergey Sergeyev formally relayed GOB irritation with the U.S. imposition of visa bans and financial sanctions against GOB officials. Ambassador reiterated the USG had long warned the GOB the U.S. would take such actions against GO [...] | 2006-06-27 12:54:00 | Embassy Minsk | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM BO |
06MINSK682 | Media Focuses on Lukashenko and Putin at CSTO-EAEC Summit [...] SUMMARY: On June 23, the heads of state and foreign ministers of countries belonging to the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) and the Eurasian Economic Community (EAEC) met in Minsk for the organizations' tandem summits. Belarusian media coverage focused heavily on statements by [...] | 2006-06-28 13:38:00 | Embassy Minsk | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV ECON EINV WTRO USTR BO |
06MINSK683 | GOB Mocks U.S. Financial Sanctions But Responds In Kind [...] (SBU) Summary: The GOB has threatened to freeze the assets of President George Bush and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice in response to the financial sanctions imposed by the U.S. on President Lukashenko and nine other members of his regime. Affected Belarusian officials have denied the exis [...] | 2006-06-29 11:11:00 | Embassy Minsk | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV BO |
06MINSK689 | State Dominates Banking Sector [...] Summary: Belarus has a poorly developed capital market, and the financial sector almost exclusively consists of banks. The joint stock exchange/currency exchange lists very few companies and is mostly engaged in currency exchange for the government. The banking sector is almost completely dom [...] | 2006-06-30 12:31:00 | Embassy Minsk | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN EINV KCOR BTIU PGOV AFIN BO |
06MINSK690 | BELARUS NAMES FOR ASSET FREEZE, TRANCHE 2 [...] (C) Post provides the following information to supplement that gathered by the Department in consideration of freezing the assets of certain Belarusian regime officials. This is the second cable in this series (reftel). Aleksandr Radkov ---------------- 2. (C) Radkov became Minister o [...] | 2006-06-30 12:35:00 | Embassy Minsk | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR PHUM BO |
06MINSK691 | GOB APPEALS TO EU TO STOP "SPIRAL OF PRESSURE" [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Lithuanian Ambassador to Belarus gave U.S. Ambassador copies of three letters from Belarusian Minister of Foreign Affairs Sergey Martynov to: Javier Solana, High Representative for the Common Foreign and Security Policy, Secretary General of the Council of the European Unio [...] | 2006-06-30 13:11:00 | Embassy Minsk | CONFIDENTIAL | ELAB PREL PGOV ECON EINV WTRO USTR BO |
06MINSK692 | OPPOSITION LEADER OUTLINES MULTIPLE PROBLEMS IN [...] (C) Summary: During a June 26 meeting with Ambassador, pro-democracy Belarusian Party of Communist (BPC) head Aleksandr Kalyakin described the United Democratic Forces (UDF) plan of action outlining "concrete" measures to coordinate the activities of the UDF leaders and to mobilize activists. [...] | 2006-06-30 13:27:00 | Embassy Minsk | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREF BO |
06MINSK694 | EMBASSY MINSK WEEKLY REPORT - July 7, 2006 [...] The following are brief items of interest compiled by Embassy Minsk. ------------- Civil Society ------------- 2. On July 6, the trial of former presidential candidate Aleksandr Kozulin began in Moskovsky District Court in Minsk. Kozulin supporters, journalists, and representatives i [...] | 2006-07-10 05:15:00 | Embassy Minsk | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL PHUM ETRD |
06MINSK701 | LUKASHENKO PRAISES ECONOMY, SEEKS BETTER RELATIONS WITH [...] (U) SUMMARY: President Aleksandr Lukashenko gave his Independence Day address on July 1 at the Palace of the Republic. He vowed that Belarusians would never forget the sacrifices their families made during WWII and thanked survivors for rebuilding Belarus into a strong nation. He then praised [...] | 2006-07-10 06:40:00 | Embassy Minsk | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ECON PREL PHUM BO |
06MINSK707 | IN-FIGHTING AND DISORGANIZATION STAGNATES UDF [...] (SBU) Summary: The internal power struggles and disorganization within the United Democratic Forces (UDF) are affecting the UDF's support among democratic-minded Belarusians and its ability to initiate a formable movement against Lukashenko. At least two clans have formed in the UDF and are b [...] | 2006-07-10 13:39:00 | Embassy Minsk | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM BO |
06MINSK711 | Belarus: Radioactive Metal Found [...] Independent newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda reported on May 30 that Minsk police investigating fraud searched scrap metal collection station Number 29 and found 6.5 tons of unregistered scrap metal. Police told the paper an Armenian citizen was the sole worker at the station and that the peopl [...] | 2006-07-11 05:50:00 | Embassy Minsk | UNCLASSIFIED | ENRG MNUC PARM SENV TRGY BO |
06MINSK719 | BELARUS ON THE EVE OF THE G8 SUMMIT [...] (C) Many in the Belarusian opposition are hopeful G-7 leaders will raise Belarus at the G8 Summit in St. Petersburg in an effort to convince Russia to stop both its support for the repressive Lukashenko regime and its efforts to establish a union with Belarus that could extinguish defacto Belar [...] | 2006-07-12 13:48:00 | Embassy Minsk | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON PHUM BO |
06MINSK720 | POST REVIEW OF GLOBAL FUND TO FIGHT AIDS, [...] On June 27, 2006 USAID Country Representative, USAID Activity Manager and an Embassy Poloff met with UNDP HIV/AIDS Program Manager, the UNDP Resident Representative and the Belarus Global Fund Project Manager to discuss the results of Phase I of the project (which ends November 30, 2006) and p [...] | 2006-07-12 13:49:00 | Embassy Minsk | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID KHIV SOCI TBIO BO |
06MINSK731 | KOZULIN VERDICT [...] (C) SUMMARY: On July 13, former opposition presidential candidate Aleksandr Kozulin was sentenced to five and a half years in a medium security prison on one charge of disturbing the peace and two counts of hooliganism. The six-day proceedings were at times chaotic and drew a heavy presence [...] | 2006-07-14 13:37:00 | Embassy Minsk | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREF BO |
06MINSK737 | Opposition Leader Assures Ambassador He's A Man of [...] (C) Summary: United Democratic Forces leader Aleksandr Milinkevich and his wife Inna Kulei provided a frank, yet optimistic assessment of the opposition coalition during the Ambassador's July 14 farewell meeting with them. Ambassador stressed that many in the opposition, especially the youth [...] | 2006-07-17 13:37:00 | Embassy Minsk | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM BO |
06MINSK738 | Opposition Party Leader Arrested in Rally Near Russian [...] (SBU) On July 17, a Belarusian court sentenced United Civic Party (UCP) leader Anatoly Lebedko to 10 days in jail for "minor hooliganism" for attempting to participate in a July 16 protest near the Russian Embassy in Minsk. Authorities also charged activist Evgeny Askerko, whose trial followed [...] | 2006-07-17 14:06:00 | Embassy Minsk | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM BO |
06MINSK740 | EMBASSY MINSK WEEKLY REPORT - July 17, 2006 [...] The following are brief items of interest compiled by Embassy Minsk. ----------------- Political Parties ----------------- 2. Pro-Lukashenko Communists Proclaim Merger with Opposition Communists On July 15, the leadership of the pro-Lukashenko Communist Party of Belarus (CPB) de [...] | 2006-07-18 03:48:00 | Embassy Minsk | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL PHUM ECON EPET EAGR ENRG BO |
06MINSK758 | IISEPS Polling: Lukashenko Still Enjoys Popular Support [...] SUMMARY: On July 10, Director of the independent polling service IISEPS Oleg Manaev gave Ambassador the results of two opinion surveys conducted in June. Lukashenko maintains a high support rating, with 55 percent of those polled claiming they would vote for Lukashenko again should elections b [...] | 2006-07-21 05:35:00 | Embassy Minsk | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL PINR SOCI ECON BO |
06MINSK759 | VICTIMIZED BELARUSIAN STUDENTS GET CHANCE TO STUDY [...] (C) Summary: Inna Kulei's Committee for the Defense of the Repressed (CDR) has successfully placed approximately 250 Belarusian students who have been victimized for their political activities in universities in neighboring countries. Discrepancies exist over precisely how many of these stud [...] | 2006-07-21 05:46:00 | Embassy Minsk | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM BO |
06MINSK763 | EMBASSY MINSK WEEKLY REPORT - July 21, 2006 [...] The following are brief items of interest compiled by Embassy Minsk. --------- Elections --------- 2. United Opposition Forces Preparing for Early Local Elections On July 18, Belarusian Popular Front Deputy Chairman Viktor Ivashkevich announced that, despite the government's tentati [...] | 2006-07-21 13:33:00 | Embassy Minsk | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL PHUM ECON EPET EAGR ENRG BO |
06MINSK764 | Pro-Lukashenko Communists Hijack Opposition Party [...] (C) SUMMARY: On July 15, the pro-government Communist Party of Belarus (CPB) and the opposition Belarusian Party of Communists (BPC) held rival conferences regarding the CPB-proposed merger of Belarus' two communist parties. According to CPB Central Committee Secretary Georgy Atamanov, CPB's [...] | 2006-07-21 14:36:00 | Embassy Minsk | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL BO |
06MINSK77 | Minsk Election Weekly VI (January 20-January 27) [...] (U) January 27 is the final day for presidential contenders to submit signatures. Each contender must submit a minimum of 100,000 signatures to the Central Election Committee. This is the sixth in a weekly series of election-oriented reports, providing brief items of interest related to the Ma [...] | 2006-01-30 14:06:00 | Embassy Minsk | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM PREL BO |
06MINSK784 | BELARUSIAN SECURITY FORCES SEARCH APARTMENT OF [...] (C) The Latvian Embassy on July 25 released a press statement protesting the July 25 search of a Latvian diplomat's residence by Belarusian security forces. On July 26, Latvian DCM Juris Poikans confirmed with Pol/Econ Chief that at 3am on July 25 three "unidentified Belarusians in plain clo [...] | 2006-07-27 08:50:00 | Embassy Minsk | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREF BO |
06MINSK785 | POLICE BRIEFLY DETAINED OPPOSITION LEADER [...] (C) On July 26, two Polotsk traffic police officers stopped a vehicle carrying former opposition presidential candidate Aleksandr Milinkevich, his wife Inna Kulei, press secretary Pavel Mazheiko, and Belarusian Popular Front deputy SIPDIS chairman Aleksey Yanukevich on their way to visit po [...] | 2006-07-27 08:52:00 | Embassy Minsk | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREF BO |
06MINSK787 | LUKASHENKO FINDS A NEW FRIEND IN HUGO CHAVEZ [...] Summary: On July 23-25, Lukashenko hosted Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez in Minsk, marking the first official visit of a Latin American leader in Belarus' history. During the series of meetings and ceremonies, the leaders lauded each other's political and economic policies and occasionally [...] | 2006-07-27 10:57:00 | Embassy Minsk | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV ETRD VE BO |
06MINSK791 | NGO Partnership Case Begins, Families and Observers [...] (SBU) On July 28, the criminal trial against four young people associated with the NGO Partnerstvo (Partnership) began in Minsk's Tsentralny district. Belarusian authorities accused Timofei SIPDIS Dranchuk, Aleksandr Shalaiko, Nikolai Astreiko, and Enira Bronitskaya of operating an illegal [...] | 2006-07-28 12:48:00 | Embassy Minsk | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM BO |
06MINSK794 | PRESSURES ON LUKASHENKO: CURRENT STATE OF PLAY [...] (C) Summary: Although Lukashenko secured a third term in office through rigged March presidential elections, the regime is grappling with unprecedented political and economic pressure from the East and the West, and to a limited extent, from within. Belarusians interpret Gazprom's plans to q [...] | 2006-07-31 13:09:00 | Embassy Minsk | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON PHUM BO |
06MINSK795 | OPPOSITION COALITION SET TO LAUNCH THREE-STEP [...] (C) Summary: Pol/Econ Chief and Poloff met with United Democratic Forces (UDF) Political Council member Viktor Ivashkevich to discuss the UDF's preparations for the tentatively scheduled 2007 municipal elections and the new executive body that was formed to implement the coalition's plan of ac [...] | 2006-07-31 13:26:00 | Embassy Minsk | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM BO |
06MINSK796 | LATVIAN DIPLOMAT HAS RESIDENCE RAIDED, IS MALIGNED [...] (C) On July 30, Belarusian Television's (BT) analytical program "Center of Attention" - a program known for its anti-Western shows - broadcast an expose on the Latvian diplomat accused of distributing pornographic materials (reftel). The program targeted the Latvian diplomat for his sexual o [...] | 2006-07-31 14:20:00 | Embassy Minsk | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ASEC PREL PHUM BO |
06MINSK809 | NO ENVIRONMENTAL DAMAGE FROM RUSSIAN PIPELINE [...] Belarusian and Russian press are reporting that on July 27 an oil leak occurred on the Unicha-Polotsk section of the Druzhba pipeline in the Russian region of Bryansk, which is near the Belarusian border. News reports indicate that the accident resulted from corrosion in the pipeline. Russi [...] | 2006-08-01 13:31:00 | Embassy Minsk | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM ECON BO |
06MINSK819 | US and European Heads of Mission Press for Access to NGO [...] (SBU) U.S. and EU embassies in Minsk have taken an assertive and coordinated approach to spotlighting the criminal trial against four young leaders of the prominent NGO Partnerstvo (Partnership). Belarusian authorities accused Timofei Dranchuk, Aleksandr Shalaiko, Nikolai Astreiko, and Enira B [...] | 2006-08-02 14:14:00 | Embassy Minsk | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM BO |
06MINSK820 | Belarus Announces Potash Contract with China, China Claims [...] (U) Despite recent claims from the GOB that Belarus has signed a contract to supply potash to China, it remains unclear whether China and Belarus have reached an agreement. China is Belarus' largest buyer of potash, and the lack of a contract has caused Belarus' overall potash exports to drop [...] | 2006-08-03 05:42:00 | Embassy Minsk | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EMIN ETRD EAGR USTR BO |
06MINSK831 | Female Tent City Heroes Reaffirmed Commitment to [...] (U) On July 28, leader of the Women's Independent Democratic Movement (WIDM) Ludmila Petina presented the release of the organization's latest information bulletin, "We Are Women," in the Embassy's Public Affairs Section building (reftel). The bulletin included interviews and editorials from [...] | 2006-08-04 06:57:00 | Embassy Minsk | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM KWMN BO |
06MINSK838 | UN HLD Demarche Delivered, MFA Requests U.S. Participation [...] Poloff delivered reftel talking points on the UN High Level Dialogue (HLD) on International Migration and Development to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) in the form of a non-paper on August 4. The talking points were received without comment. 2. Separately, MFA Department for Humani [...] | 2006-08-04 14:07:00 | Embassy Minsk | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM EAID PREF SMIG UNGA BO |
06MINSK839 | NGO PARTNERSHIP LEADERS CONVICTED [...] (C) On August 4, Judge Leonid Yasinevich convicted four young leaders of the election monitoring NGO "Partnerstvo" (Partnership) for allegedly operating an illegal organization that "infringes on the rights of the Belarusian people" (reftel). In a courtroom open only to international observe [...] | 2006-08-04 14:35:00 | Embassy Minsk | CONFIDENTIAL | BO PGOV PHUM |
06MINSK840 | OPPOSITION LEADER VYACHORKA PRAISES USG EFFORTS, [...] (C) Summary: In their first meeting, Belarusian opposition leader Vyachorka asserted to Charge on August 2 that United Democratic Forces (UDF) members were united behind UDF leader Aleksandr Milinkevich and are recruiting and mobilizing a growing number of citizens frustrated with the regime. [...] | 2006-08-04 14:43:00 | Embassy Minsk | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM BO |
06MINSK847 | LUKASHENKO CRITICIZES U.S. BUT SEEKS GREATER [...] (U) Summary: President Lukashenko, meeting with his Belarusian Ambassadors August 1, stated that increased U.S.-EU harassment was due to Belarus' increasing geopolitical importance and its role in forming a multi-polar world. The President claimed Belarus was ready for bilateral partnerships [...] | 2006-08-09 04:51:00 | Embassy Minsk | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON PHUM BO |
06MINSK848 | OPPOSITION LEADER KALYAKIN OFFERS CANDID VIEW OF [...] (C) Summary: In their first meeting, Belarusian opposition leader Kalyakin asserted to Charge August 8 that the United Democratic Forces (UDF) is committed to spreading independent information, supporting democratic institution building, and protecting activists from GOB persecution. Kalyakin [...] | 2006-08-09 07:18:00 | Embassy Minsk | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM BO |
06MINSK857 | CHARGE EXPRESSES CONCERN WITH LATVIAN DIPLOMAT [...] No summary [...] | 2006-08-09 12:33:00 | Embassy Minsk | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM BO |
06MINSK860 | EMBASSY MINSK WEEKLY REPORT - AUGUST 11, 2006 [...] The following are brief items of interest compiled by Embassy Minsk. ----------------------- International Relations ------------------------- 2. Lukashenko Pushes for Stronger UN Role On August 1, President Lukashenko asserted that Belarus seeks to strengthen the role of the United [...] | 2006-08-10 04:49:00 | Embassy Minsk | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL PHUM ECON EPET EAGR ENRG BO |
06MINSK866 | BOBRUISK OPPOSITION PREPARES FOR LOCAL ELECTIONS [...] (C) Summary: To gauge the strength of opposition forces ahead of upcoming municipal elections, Poloffs traveled to Bobruisk on July 20, as the southeastern city was preparing for Lukashenko's September annual harvest festival. Although marginalized and weakened, opposition political parties [...] | 2006-08-10 13:03:00 | Embassy Minsk | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL ECON BO |
06MINSK876 | MFA BAITS AND SWITCHES ON COORDINATED U.S.-EU [...] (C) Summary: On August 11, Charge delivered the coordinated U.S.-EU demarche to MFA Counselor on the U.S. and Canada Desk Pavel Pustovoy regarding the imprisonment of former opposition presidential candidate Aleksandr Kozulin and four leaders of the independent election monitoring NGO "Partn [...] | 2006-08-11 15:46:00 | Embassy Minsk | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PREL BO |
06MINSK881 | EMBASSY MINSK WEEKLY REPORT - August 14, 2006 [...] The following are brief items of interest compiled by Embassy Minsk. ----------------------- International Relations ----------------------- 2. Parliament Leader Receives Iranian Delegation On August 9, Chairman of the Belarusian House of Representatives Vladimir Konoplev receive [...] | 2006-08-14 13:45:00 | Embassy Minsk | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL PHUM ECON EPET EAGR ENRG KTDB BO |
06MINSK887 | KOZULIN'S PARTY PREPARES FOR LOCAL ELECTIONS [...] (C) Summary: Senior Belarusian Social Democratic Party "Gramada" (BSDP) members corroborated reports that the health of imprisoned BSDP leader and former presidential candidate Aleksandr Kozulin is degenerating, but insisted the BSDP has no plans to replace Kozulin as party leader. They cha [...] | 2006-08-17 06:12:00 | Embassy Minsk | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PINR BO |
06MINSK890 | EMBASSY MINSK WEEKLY REPORT - AUGUST 11, 2006 [...] The following are brief items of interest compiled by Embassy Minsk. ----------------------- International Relations ------------------------- 2. Lukashenko Pushes for Stronger UN Role On August 1, President Lukashenko asserted that Belarus seeks to strengthen the role of the United [...] | 2006-08-17 06:13:00 | Embassy Minsk | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL PHUM ECON EPET EAGR ENRG BO |
06MINSK893 | GOB - "AVIAN INFLUENZA NOT BEHIND 100,000 POULTRY [...] (U) Summary: Approximately 100,000 chickens have died in two separate accidents at Belarusian poultry farms since July 14. The GOB stressed that human error was at fault and maintained that AI was not detected. Health officials reiterated that the deaths were unfortunate accidents, but ass [...] | 2006-08-17 07:41:00 | Embassy Minsk | CONFIDENTIAL | TBIO KSTH ECON PREL SOCI WHO PGOV PHUM BO |
06MINSK9 | Media Mistaken: Partnership Will Observe Elections [...] (C) Summary: On January 4, Emboffs met with civil initiative Partnership director Nikolai Astreiko to inquire about press reports that Partnership would not be monitoring the March presidential elections. Astreiko stated that Partnership plans to observe the entire electoral process, and proc [...] | 2006-01-05 14:05:00 | Embassy Minsk | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL BO |
06MINSK903 | MINSK AUTHORITIES LIQUIDATE KALYAKIN'S OPPOSITION [...] (U) Summary: On August 17, authorities liquidated the Minsk chapter of the Belarusian Party of Communists for alleged violations of "registration protocol" in 1999. The closure of the Minsk chapter would result in the de facto liquidation of the party -- headed by senior united opposition lea [...] | 2006-08-18 13:29:00 | Embassy Minsk | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM BO |
06MINSK904 | BUILDING THE CASE FOR DEMOCRACY: MONITORING NEEDED [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 8. Summary ------- 2. (C) On August 17, the Belarusian Central Election Committee confirmed that the municipal elections will be held on January 14, 2007. The democratic opposition believes, and we agree that these elections are the [...] | 2006-08-18 13:41:00 | Embassy Minsk | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM OSCE BO |
06MINSK910 | Belarusian High-Level Attendance at 61st UNGA [...] According to the MFA's response to post's demarche on Belarusian participation at the U.N. General Assembly (UNGA) (reftel),the members of the Belarusian delegation will include: A.Head of State The MFA did not provide information on President Aleksandr Lukashenko's attendance at UNGA. [...] | 2006-08-21 13:31:00 | Embassy Minsk | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL OTRA OVIP KSEP UNGA BO |
06MINSK911 | EMBASSY MINSK WEEKLY POL/ECON REPORT - August 18, 2006 [...] (U) The following are brief items of interest compiled by Embassy Minsk. TABLE OF CONTENTS INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS ----------------------- - Lukashenko Stipulates Eurasian Customs Union (para. 2) - Belarus and Ukraine Discuss Cooperation (para. 3) - Lukashenko Greets Indian, South Korea [...] | 2006-08-21 13:36:00 | Embassy Minsk | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM ECON EPET EAGR ENRG KTDB BO |
06MINSK924 | Nomination for 006 USNATO/USEU POL-MIL Conference, [...] No summary [...] | 2006-08-25 07:23:00 | Embassy Minsk | UNCLASSIFIED | AMT MARR NATO PREL BO |
06MINSK937 | BELARUS' MOST PROFITABLE STATE-RUN COMPANIES [...] (C) Summary: The GOB published its list of state-owned companies contributing the most revenue to the GOB budget in 2005. This list suggests some significant changes in the Belarusian economy, particularly in the fertilizer and oil industries, since the GOB prohibited publication of its list [...] | 2006-08-28 10:54:00 | Embassy Minsk | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ETRD PREL USTR BO |
06MINSK938 | EMBASSY MINSK WEEKLY POL/ECON REPORT - AUGUST 28, 2006 [...] The following are brief items of interest compiled by Embassy Minsk. TABLE OF CONTENTS INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS ----------------------- - Lawmaker Calls Union State Act 99 Percent Ready (para. 2) - CSTO Consultations on Military Training (para. 3) LOCAL ELECTIONS --------------- - Op [...] | 2006-08-28 11:33:00 | Embassy Minsk | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL PHUM ECON EPET EAGR ENRG KTDB BO |
06MINSK939 | "INDEPENDENT" MP CLAIMS TO PROMOTE GRADUAL CHANGE [...] (C) Summary: On August 23, "independent" Belarusian MP Abramova met unofficially with Pol/Econ Chief to encourage the USG to bolster support for independent media. According to Abramova, only economic reform and greater press freedoms, not radical change, are palatable to the Belarusian people [...] | 2006-08-28 12:16:00 | Embassy Minsk | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREF PHUM BO |
06MINSK94 | GOB Ready to Cooperate to Fight Money [...] (U) In a surprisingly cooperative meeting between Deputy Chief of Mission (DCM) and members of the State Control Committee (SCC),the GOB was responsive to Post's request for information on GOB practices to combat money laundering and terrorism finance. On January 5, 2005, DCM met with Direct [...] | 2006-01-31 14:31:00 | Embassy Minsk | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN KCRM PGOV BO |
06MINSK95 | EMBASSY MINSK BIWEEKLY REPORT - January 31, 2006 [...] The following are brief items of interest compiled by Embassy Minsk. ------------ Human Rights ------------ 2. GOB Deems Defamatory Documentary "Not Discriminatory" On January 14, the Prosecutor General's Office ruled the controversial documentary about gypsies in Belarus that aired [...] | 2006-02-01 05:45:00 | Embassy Minsk | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM ECON BO |
06MINSK951 | MILINKEVICH, BACK IN BELARUS, TOUTS SOLIDARITY AND [...] (C) Summary: In a meeting with Charge on August 29, United Democratic Forces (UDF) leader Milinkevich argued that the opposition remains united and said he would be publicly involved in the run up to the local elections. He and his wife spoke of their efforts to create solidarity among Belaru [...] | 2006-08-31 13:15:00 | Embassy Minsk | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL BO |
06MINSK957 | PROTESTANTS THREATEN TO PROTEST FORCED SALE OF [...] (C) Summary: On August 22, the GOB ruled that the New Life Church must sell their church building to the local government at a price far below market value and vacate the property by September 1, although no action has been taken by the authorities to date. Church leaders insist that the GOB' [...] | 2006-09-01 10:39:00 | Embassy Minsk | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM ASEC BO |
06MINSK963 | EMBASSY MINSK WEEKLY POL/ECON REPORT - SEPTEMBER 5, [...] The following are brief items of interest compiled by Embassy Minsk. TABLE OF CONTENTS LOCAL ELECTIONS --------------- - Opposition Council Discusses Local Coalitions (para. 2) CIVIL SOCIETY ------------- - Milinkevich Visits France, Opposes Union State (para. 3) - Police Seize Prot [...] | 2006-09-05 10:32:00 | Embassy Minsk | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL PHUM ECON EPET ENRG KTDB BO |
06MINSK964 | CHARGE'S PRESS CONFERENCE ELICITS INTEREST OF [...] (U) On August 31, Charge hosted a press conference with members of the Belarusian independent media and local representatives of various international media outlets. After delivering a brief opening statement, Charge and journalists engaged in a spirited hour-long question-and-answer session [...] | 2006-09-05 12:52:00 | Embassy Minsk | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL BO |
06MINSK965 | EMBASSY HOSTS VICTIMS AND FAMILIES OF KOZULIN AND [...] (SBU) On September 1, Charge and A/DCM hosted a reception for family members of imprisoned former opposition presidential candidate Aleksandr Kozulin, recently released Partnership NGO activists Aleksandr Shalaiko and Enire Bronitskaya and their families, and the family members of still impri [...] | 2006-09-05 12:52:00 | Embassy Minsk | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM BO |
06MINSK971 | BELARUS GEARING UP FOR NUCLEAR POWER PLANT [...] (C) The GOB continues to advocate the construction of a nuclear power plant (NPP) in Belarus. Although a decision has not officially been made, the state media's positive propaganda indicates that Lukashenko plans to build an NPP whether Belarusians agree or not. GOB officials maintain the N [...] | 2006-09-07 08:51:00 | Embassy Minsk | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG TRGY PARM MNUC BO |
06MINSK972 | MOBILE SATELLITE DEMARCHE DELIVERED [...] Poloff delivered reftel talking points to the Americas Desk at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) in the form of a non-paper on September 1. The talking points were received without comment. MOORE [...] | 2006-09-07 08:57:00 | Embassy Minsk | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC ECPS EU EWWT IMO INMARSAT KHLS BO |
06MINSK975 | BREST OPPOSITION PUSHES ON DESPITE GOB PRESSURE [...] (C) Summary: An August 22-23 visit by Poloffs to the Western border city of Brest received heavy attention from state security services. Local activists, already under siege by the regime, kept their commitments to meet with Poloffs despite the threat of even further scrutiny from the BKGB. [...] | 2006-09-11 12:28:00 | Embassy Minsk | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV PREF BO |
06MINSK976 | PRO-REGIME NEO-NAZIS INTIMIDATE INDEPENDENT MEDIA, [...] (C) Summary: Following March's stolen presidential elections, the pro-government, pan-Russian, neo-Nazi group "Russian National Unity" (RNE) appears to have undertaken a campaign of intimidation against Belarus' independent media and opposition political parties. This campaign apparently incl [...] | 2006-09-11 13:01:00 | Embassy Minsk | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL BO |
06MINSK978 | REGIONAL OPPOSITION PARTIES COALESCE FOR LOCAL [...] (C) In preparation for Belarus' upcoming municipal elections, the regional chapters of parties within the opposition United Democratic Forces (UDF) coalition continue to sign cooperation agreements with their Belarusian Social Democratic Party "Gramada" (BSDP) counterparts. Despite enthusias [...] | 2006-09-11 13:52:00 | Embassy Minsk | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PINR BO |
06MINSK981 | LUKASHENKO RECEIVES IRANIAN FM, ANNOUNCES VISIT TO TEHRAN [...] (SBU) President Aleksandr Lukashenko on September 7 urged Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki to use his two-day visit to Minsk to dramatically bolster bilateral economic cooperation and accepted the Iranian president's invitation to visit Tehran. In a separate meeting with Belarusian [...] | 2006-09-12 11:20:00 | Embassy Minsk | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV ETRD BO |
06MINSK982 | NAM ATTENDEES DEMARCHE DELIVERED [...] Poloff delivered reftel talking points on the Middle East and terrorism to the Americas Desk at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) in the form of a non-paper on September 8. The talkig points were received without comment. MOORE [...] | 2006-09-12 11:21:00 | Embassy Minsk | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL UNGA PTER PHUM BO |
06MINSK984 | UNSC RESOLUTION DEMARCHE DELIVERED [...] Poloff delivered reftel talking points to the Americas Desk at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) in the form of a non-paper on September 8. The talking points were received without comment. MOORE [...] | 2006-09-12 11:21:00 | Embassy Minsk | UNCLASSIFIED | PARM PREL KNNP MNUC WMD CT KPAO PTER KN KS BO |
06MINSK994 | EMBASSY MINSK WEEKLY POL/ECON REPORT - SEPTEMBER 8, [...] (U) The following are brief items of interest compiled by Embassy Minsk. TABLE OF CONTENTS LOCAL ELECTIONS --------------- - Opposition Party Forms Bloc For Independence (para. 2) - Opposition Coalition Secretariat In Operation (para. 3) - Brest Opposition Questions Council Members (pa [...] | 2006-09-12 11:23:00 | Embassy Minsk | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM ECON EPET ENRG KTDB BO |
06MONTEVIDEO10 | URUGUAY PASSES UNION PROTECTION LAW [...] (U) Summary. On December 22, Congress passed a law on the ""promotion and protection"" of unions. The heated six-month debate clearly aligned the ruling FA coalition with union interests on one side and business organizations and the opposition on the other. The law bans discrimination agai [...] | 2006-01-05 16:34:00 | Embassy Montevideo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB ECON EINV PGOV UY |
06MONTEVIDEO1012 | VAZQUEZ' HONEYMOON IS OVER [...] (C) Summary: President Vazquez' approval rating dipped below fifty percent for the first time according to an October poll. When he was sworn in eighteen months ago, his approval rating stood at sixty-nine percent. The anti-climax surrounding a possible Free Trade Agreement (reftel),a worsen [...] | 2006-10-25 18:47:00 | Embassy Montevideo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON SOCI ELAB MARR UY |
06MONTEVIDEO1068 | LACKLUSTER XVI IBERO-AMERICAN SUMMIT IN MONTEVIDEO [...] (SBU) Summary: The XVI Ibero-American Summit took place in Montevideo on 3-5 November without major logistical or security incidents. Leaders from 22 Latin American and European countries focused on "Migration and Development," though we detected few concrete accomplishments in these areas. [...] | 2006-11-06 19:13:00 | Embassy Montevideo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL AORC SOCI XM SP PO UY |
06MONTEVIDEO1078 | URUGUAY DEMARCHED ON COUNTRY RESOLUTIONS AT UN [...] (C) On November 8, Political Counselor met with the MFA's Director for Political Affairs Alvaro Gallardo, his Deputy Gerardo Pratto and acting Director for Multilateral Affairs Beatriz Nunez to deliver ref A senior level demarche and to discuss country specific human rights resolutions. (Note: [...] | 2006-11-09 18:54:00 | Embassy Montevideo | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL UNHRC KTIA UN UY |
06MONTEVIDEO1083 | URUGUAY DEMARCHED ON CUBA EMBARGO RESOLUTION [...] No summary [...] | 2006-11-09 18:55:00 | Embassy Montevideo | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL UNGA UN CU UY |
06MONTEVIDEO1084 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED TO URUGUAY ON AUSTRALIAN [...] No summary [...] | 2006-11-09 18:55:00 | Embassy Montevideo | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL UNGA UN CU UY |
06MONTEVIDEO1097 | HOW MERCOSUR HAS CHANGED [...] (C) Summary and Introduction: This telegram contains a healthy dose of subjective analysis designed to stimulate constructive debate on an issue of regional importance. The Embassy is keenly interested in Mercosur, not only because its headquarters are located here, but also because we have [...] | 2006-11-16 13:31:00 | Embassy Montevideo | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD ECON PREL AORC SOCI UY |
06MONTEVIDEO11 | ECON MINISTER OPENLY PROMOTES AN FTA WITH U.S. [...] (SBU) Summary: Economy and Finance Minister Danilo Astori's openly advocated negotiating Free Trade Agreements (FTA) with the US and China this year, according to a recently published interview. He also said that Uruguay's left had matured and that it realized that investment meant jobs, and [...] | 2006-01-05 16:47:00 | Embassy Montevideo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON ETRD EINV UY |
06MONTEVIDEO1100 | URUGUAY REMAINS NON-COMMITTAL ON INTERNATIONAL LAW [...] (C) On November 15, PolCouns delivered ref A demarche to acting Director of Multilateral Affairs Beatriz Nunez. Nunez gave a provisional reply based on her personal opinion that the GOU was ""guarding"" its position to perhaps obtain some type of tactical advantage. Nunez offered to meet later [...] | 2006-11-16 17:16:00 | Embassy Montevideo | CONFIDENTIAL | ILC UNGA UY |
06MONTEVIDEO1101 | URUGUAY ON BELARUS' ANTI-U.S. RESOLUTIONS [...] (C) On November 15, PolCouns delivered ref A demarche on countering Belarus' anti-US resolutions at the UNGA and soliciting GOU support for the Third Committee Resolution on Belarus, sponsored by the US. Demarche was delivered to the MFA's Acting Director of Multilateral Affairs Beatriz Nunez. [...] | 2006-11-16 19:15:00 | Embassy Montevideo | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL BO UY |
06MONTEVIDEO1102 | URUGUAY DEMARCHED ON NOVEMBER 17 SPECIAL SESSION [...] No summary [...] | 2006-11-17 19:11:00 | Embassy Montevideo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL UNGA IS UY |
06MONTEVIDEO1111 | SCENESETTER FOR CODEL GOODLATTE'S VISIT TO URUGUAY [...] (SBU) Summary: Embassy welcomes Codel Goodlatte to Uruguay and greatly appreciates its contributions to US foreign policy objectives. Your November 28-29 visit comes at an auspicious time in our bilateral relationship and will coincide with the arrival of the US Ambassador to Uruguay, Frank E [...] | 2006-11-22 15:44:00 | Embassy Montevideo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OREP OVIP EAGR ECON UY |
06MONTEVIDEO1122 | URUGUAY DEMARCHED ON GPOI/CFAC PARTICIPATION [...] On November 17, PolCouns delivered reftel demarche to the MFA's Director for Mulilateral Affairs Beatriz Nunez. The Charge also raised the issue with the MFA's Director General Jose Luis Cancela on November 21. Both officials responded favorably to the proposals for sending at least one Uruguay [...] | 2006-11-27 20:01:00 | Embassy Montevideo | UNCLASSIFIED | MARR MASS PREL GT CI AR UY |
06MONTEVIDEO1143 | UY MOVES TO PREVENT DAMAGE FROM PROTESTS [...] (U) Summary: November 29, President Vazquez ordered the Uruguayan military to create a protective ring around the controversial Botnia paper mill in order to prevent possible acts of sabotage. The GOU also filed a complaint against Argentina with the International Court of Justice demanding a [...] | 2006-12-01 10:36:00 | Embassy Montevideo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV SOCI UY |
06MONTEVIDEO1155 | SUSPENSION OF TITLE III OF LIBERTAD ACT - URUGUAY [...] (C) Upon taking office on March 1, 2005, the left-of-center Frente Amplio government immediately renewed diplomatic relations with Cuba, which had been previously suspended by the Batlle administration. This move appears to have been a gesture by President Vazquez to the more radical elements [...] | 2006-12-05 15:45:00 | Embassy Montevideo | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD ETTC PREL CU UY |
06MONTEVIDEO1179 | LEFT USING HUMAN RIGHTS TO DISCREDIT US [...] (SBU) Summary: Uruguay's leftist groups increasingly resort to human rights as an anti-U.S. rallying cry. Uruguayan press coverage of Augusto Pinochet's death on Human Rights day serves to reinforce the local assertion that leftists are the only "true" defenders of human rights. Recently declassifi [...] | 2006-12-13 11:45:00 | Embassy Montevideo | CONFIDENTIAL | PROP PHUM PREL PINR KPAO UY |
06MONTEVIDEO1182 | AMBASSADOR MEETS WITH ECONOMY MINISTER ASTORI [...] (C) Ambassador Baxter held his first official meeting with Economy Minister Danilo Astori on December 12. The two had previously met in Washington to launch the U.S.-Uruguay Bilateral Investment Treaty (BIT). The Ambassador said he was hoping that our Trade and Investment Framework Agreement [...] | 2006-12-14 11:07:00 | Embassy Montevideo | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ETRD PREL UY |
06MONTEVIDEO1194 | URUGUAY VOICES DEEP DISSATISFACTION AT MERCOSUR [...] (C) Summary: At the Brasilia Mercosur ministerial, Economy Minister Astori publicly expressed some of the strongest criticism of Mercosur to date by a GOU official. Referring to Mercosur's situation as "dreadful," Astori called on partner states to take action on two issues: 1) the Argentine [...] | 2006-12-19 20:31:00 | Embassy Montevideo | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ETRD EINV PREL UY |
06MONTEVIDEO139 | URUGUAY UPDATE ON UNESCO CONVENTION ON CULTURAL [...] (U) This telegram responds to action request in paragraph 2 of ref A. 2. (SBU) The Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions adopted last October in Paris is not on Uruguay's legislative agenda. The National Congress ends its recess on March 1. We a [...] | 2006-02-09 18:25:00 | Embassy Montevideo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD SCUL SOCI UNESCO UY |
06MONTEVIDEO149 | DISPUTE OVER PULP MILLS DEEPENS [...] (C) Summary: The pulp mill dispute between Argentina and Uruguay (reftel) has only intensified in the past month, and the dispute, which until recently had been a provincial issue for Argentina, has become a national cause in Uruguay for which vital interests are at stake. Uruguay contends tha [...] | 2006-02-13 19:08:00 | Embassy Montevideo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV SENV SOCI EAGR AR UY |
06MONTEVIDEO155 | MINISTER'S TOUGH TALK ON PAPER MILL DISPUTE, [...] (C) Summary: During a meeting with Charge to discuss upcoming visits to the U.S. (ref A),Industry Minister Jorge Lepra commented that Uruguay is searching for international support in its dispute with Argentina over the construction of giant paper mills on a shared river (ref B). He added th [...] | 2006-02-14 16:26:00 | Embassy Montevideo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EPET ENRG SOCI UY |
06MONTEVIDEO175 | UNIONS SHOW THEIR MUSCLE THROUGH RASH OF PLANT [...] Summary: Ever since it took office in March 2005, the Frente Amplio administration has engineered a shift in labor relations in favor of workers, starting with the derogation of a decree enabling police to intervene in plant occupations and culminating with the recent passage of the Union Pro [...] | 2006-02-22 09:48:00 | Embassy Montevideo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB ECON EINV PGOV UY |
06MONTEVIDEO178 | (S) IRANIAN DIPLOMATIC PRESENCE IN URUGUAY [...] (S/NF) This telegram responds to action requests in paragraph 2 of reftel. 2. (S/NF) From the open source diplomatic list of officials at the Iranian Embassy in Montevideo: #¿NOMBRE? Spouse: Mrs. Fereshteh Faraji #¿NOMBRE? Spouse: Mrs. Seyedeh Fezeh Jafari (Hassani) #¿ [...] | 2006-02-22 17:40:00 | Embassy Montevideo | SECRET//NOFORN | PINR PREL UY |
06MONTEVIDEO196 | URUGUAY ON DONATIONS TO IRAQI AND AFGHAN SECURITY [...] (S/NF) PolCouns delivered reftel demarche to the MFA's Director General for Political Affairs Ambassador Bruno Faraone on February 24. After discussing some of the items on the list, Faraone said weapons donations were not possible, but that he would look into the ""feasibility"" of donating [...] | 2006-03-01 12:55:00 | Embassy Montevideo | SECRET//NOFORN | MARR MASS MOPS PINS PREL AF IZ UY |
06MONTEVIDEO197 | HAMAS [...] No summary [...] | 2006-03-01 12:57:00 | Embassy Montevideo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UY |
06MONTEVIDEO199 | REQUEST FOR URUGUAY TO CONDEMN AL-AKSARIYA SHRINE [...] No summary [...] | 2006-03-01 13:01:00 | Embassy Montevideo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM KPAO PTER IZ UY |
06MONTEVIDEO207 | URUGUAY CANNOT BACK DOWN ON PAPERMILL CONSTRUCTION [...] (C) The GOU has roundly rejected President Kirchner's March 1 public offer (ref A) to seek a solution to the papermill dispute by halting construction for 90 days while environmentalists conduct a study. Vice President Nin Novoa did not help matters by characterizing Kirchner's ""plea"" as imperti [...] | 2006-03-02 17:32:00 | Embassy Montevideo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KSUM UY |
06MONTEVIDEO229 | VAZQUEZ SAYS HE WANTS A FREE TRADE AGREEMENT [...] (C) Summary: Charge met with President Tabare Vazquez at the Embassy's request on March 7 to advise the President on his upcoming meeting with the Secretary on March 11 at the margins of Michelle Bachelet's inauguration ceremony in Santiago, Chile. Vazquez explicitly stated that he wanted a F [...] | 2006-03-07 16:09:00 | Embassy Montevideo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ETRD PINR KCRM AORC UY |
06MONTEVIDEO230 | THE VAZQUEZ ADMINISTRATION AT THE ONE-YEAR MARK [...] (C) Summary: The Frente Amplio (FA) Government completed its first year in power on March 1 with more achievements than setbacks. In typical fashion, little fanfare marked the day as President Vazquez had sent his state-of-the-union report to Congress a week earlier. It is clear that his adr [...] | 2006-03-07 19:06:00 | Embassy Montevideo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON EINV ETRD SOCI ELAB PINR UY |
06MONTEVIDEO239 | OAS CICTE VI DELEGATION PREPARATION [...] (U) This telegram responds to action requests in reftel. 2. (U) Embassy delivered reftel talking points to the MFA Director of Multilateral Affairs Gustavo Alvarez on March 6. Alvarez said that the Uruguayan delegation to the OAS Inter-American Committee Against Terrorism (CICTE) Sixth Regu [...] | 2006-03-09 19:19:00 | Embassy Montevideo | UNCLASSIFIED | PTER OAS UY |
06MONTEVIDEO254 | MERCOSUR - LOVE IT OR LEAVE IT? URUGUAY'S QUANDARY [...] (C) Summary: The GOU's perception of Mercosur has undergone an extraordinary change over the past year, going from wide-eyed enthusiasm to deep disillusion to even questioning the wisdom of full membership. After initial declarations prioritizing the ""deepening of Mercosur"", the GOU experi [...] | 2006-03-14 11:47:00 | Embassy Montevideo | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ETRD PREL PGOV PINR AORC UY |
06MONTEVIDEO259 | VAZQUEZ'S DEALS IN CARACAS: A GOOD FIRESALE [...] (SBU) Summary: On March 14-15, President Vazquez visited Venezuela as part of a six-day Latin American tour. Out of eleven bilateral agreements signed on a variety of issues, two stand out, with the remainder of a mostly cultural or technical nature. The GOU managed to dump on the GOV unprofitabl [...] | 2006-03-16 20:51:00 | Embassy Montevideo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON EINV VZ UY |
06MONTEVIDEO268 | PULP MILLS: VAZQUEZ' TRIP EXPOSES HARSH REALITIES [...] (C) Summary: President Tabare Vazquez returned empty-handed from an erratic eight-day tour of regional countries designed to drum up support for Uruguay's position in the serious paper mill dispute with Argentina (ref A). From our point of view, the trip was a disaster, especially his confusi [...] | 2006-03-20 18:34:00 | Embassy Montevideo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV SOCI EINV ECON AORC UY |
06MONTEVIDEO295 | FRENTE'S GENERAL ASSEMBLY OPENS WAY FOR FTA TALKS [...] On March 25, the General Assembly of the Frente Amplio (FA) overwhelmingly rejected a motion from the Communist Party, which would have modified the FA's program to explicitly prohibit any FTA talks with the U.S. By doing so, the FA implicitly allowed President Vazquez to open [...] | 2006-03-28 12:11:00 | Embassy Montevideo | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ETRD EINV ECIN UY |
06MONTEVIDEO296 | URUGUAY GROWS STRONG FOR THIRD CONSECUTIVE YEAR [...] Summary: In 2005, Uruguay met its key IMF targets and achieved a 6.6% growth rate, outpacing expectations and driving real GDP back to pre-crisis levels. Still, despite the ongoing strong recovery, per capita GDP (in dollar terms),investment and several social indicators remained below pre [...] | 2006-03-28 12:15:00 | Embassy Montevideo | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ETRD EINV ECIN UY |
06MONTEVIDEO298 | URUGUAY: ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL TOPICS (C-AL6-00402) [...] (C/NF) This telegram responds to Washington analysts' request for information, per ref A. 2. (C/NF) Summary: Though a small country, Uruguay is important to U.S. national interests as an example of long-standing democracy in a region that has largely lurched to the populist left. Policy makers we [...] | 2006-03-28 15:04:00 | Embassy Montevideo | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PINR ETRD UY |
06MONTEVIDEO3 | REQUEST FOR U.S. ENGLISH SPECIALIST [...] (U) PROGRAM DESCRIPTION: Post requests an English Teaching Specialist to work with the Office of English teaching of Secondary Education and conduct three, 2-day workshops on writing and speaking skills, for secondary school teachers. 2. (U) PROGRAM DATES: February 13-24, 2006. Post understands i [...] | 2006-01-03 14:13:00 | Embassy Montevideo | UNCLASSIFIED | OEXC SCUL UY |
06MONTEVIDEO306 | VAZQUEZ SENDS STRONG SIGNAL ON FREE TRADE AGREEMENT [...] (C) Summary: Minister of Industry and Energy Jorge Lepra invited me to a private one-on-one meeting in order to transmit an urgent message from President Vazquez. Lepra relayed that Vazquez has not wavered in his commitment to a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with the U.S. and that he still expec [...] | 2006-03-29 20:44:00 | Embassy Montevideo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ETRD OVIP UY |
06MONTEVIDEO309 | GOU MAKES EARLY PAYMENT TO IMF AND GETS UNUSUALLY [...] On March 30, Minister of Economy Astori and IMF's Deputy Managing Director Carstens announced that the GOU would make an early payment of its debt with the IMF (principal and interests) maturing in 2006. International markets celebrated the $625 million operation by raising their demand for [...] | 2006-03-31 18:18:00 | Embassy Montevideo | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EINV UY |
06MONTEVIDEO345 | MINISTER ASKS FOR SIGNAL OF USG OPENNESS TO AN FTA PRIOR TO VAZQUEZ-POTUS MEETING [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see Para #5. 2. (C) Summary: Charge met with Industry Minister Lepra on April 10, shortly after Lepra's return from the Joint Commission on Trade and Investment (JCTI) meeting in Washington. Lepra was positive about the JCTI's atmospherics but stress [...] | 2006-04-11 19:04:00 | Embassy Montevideo | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ETRD PREL UY |
06MONTEVIDEO353 | PAPER MILLS DISPUTE: NO END IN SIGHT [...] (SBU) The long-running dispute between Argentina and Uruguay over construction of giant pulp mills on a shared river seems to have worsened and entered into a more litigious phase after Presidents Vazquez and Kirchner canceled their plans to meet on the issue last week. Uruguayan public critic [...] | 2006-04-12 19:19:00 | Embassy Montevideo | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL SOCI EINV SENV AORC AR UY |
06MONTEVIDEO358 | SUSPENSION OF TITLE III OF LIBERTAD ACT - URUGUAY [...] (C) Upon taking office on March 1, 2005, the left-of-center Frente Amplio Government immediately renewed diplomatic relations with Cuba, which had been previously suspended by the Batlle administration. This move appeared to have been a gesture by President Vazquez to the more radical element [...] | 2006-04-18 19:32:00 | Embassy Montevideo | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD ETTC PREL CU UY |
06MONTEVIDEO376 | PAPERMILL DISPUTE HAS FINLAND'S ATTENTION [...] (U) In Uruguay there has been widespread dissatisfaction over reports from Sao Paulo that Brazil and Argentina will not support the papermill dispute's submission to Mercosur's conflict resolution mechanism, as Presidents Lula da Silva and Nestor Kirchner apparently consider the affair to be p [...] | 2006-04-26 19:55:00 | Embassy Montevideo | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL SOCI EINV SENV AORC UY |
06MONTEVIDEO379 | VAZQUEZ DELIVERS CLEAR PUBLIC SIGNAL OF SUPPORT [...] On an official visit to Mexico prior to his arrival in the U.S. on April 30, President Vazquez delivered his clearest-yet public signal of support for an Uruguay-U.S. bilateral Free Trade Agreement (FTA). In the press conference that followed his meeting with Mexican President Fox, Vazquez f [...] | 2006-04-27 15:29:00 | Embassy Montevideo | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD ECON PREL MX UY |
06MONTEVIDEO38 | FTA COMMENTS IGNITE INTERNAL/EXTERNAL DEBATES [...] (C) Summary: Economy Minister Astori's open advocacy of a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with the US (ref A) last week has drawn sharp reactions at home and abroad because a ""leftist"" Mercosur government has publicly said it wants to talk with us about free trade. Domestically, there's been the [...] | 2006-01-12 18:38:00 | Embassy Montevideo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ETRD EINV UY |
06MONTEVIDEO397 | URUGUAY DEMARCHED ON IRAN'S CANDIDACY TO UN HUMAN [...] No summary [...] | 2006-05-03 19:57:00 | Embassy Montevideo | CONFIDENTIAL | KUNR PHUM UNHRC PREL UY |
06MONTEVIDEO4 | MILL DISPUTE TROUBLES RELATIONS WITH ARGENTINA [...] (SBU) Summary: The dispute over Uruguay's planned construction of cellulose (wood pulp) processing mills on a shared river has led to strained relations with Argentina. After a World Bank report cleared European investors to begin construction, Argentine environmental groups attempted to bloc [...] | 2006-01-03 18:10:00 | Embassy Montevideo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV ECON EINV SENV AR UY |
06MONTEVIDEO415 | SCENESETTER AMBASSADOR MAISTO'S VISIT TO URUGUAY [...] (SBU) Summary: Your visit to Uruguay on May 18 comes on the heels of a very successful May 4 meeting between Uruguayan President Vazquez and President Bush in Washington. Uruguay is important to U.S. interests as an example of temperate, long-standing democracy in a region that has largely lu [...] | 2006-05-10 17:24:00 | Embassy Montevideo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OVIP PREL AORC PGOV SOCI UY |
06MONTEVIDEO418 | VAZQUEZ LOBBIES HARD FOR TRADE TALKS WITH U.S. WORKING GROUPS FORMED [...] (C) Summary: President Vazquez appears to have wasted no time in pushing his trade agenda. At the May 8 Cabinet meeting, he recounted the results of his ten-day trip to the U.S. and Mexico, and of his meeting with POTUS on May 4. He advocated for expanded trade talks with the U.S., which he [...] | 2006-05-11 15:01:00 | Embassy Montevideo | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD ECON PREL UY |
06MONTEVIDEO419 | URUGUAY: MDA DEMARCHE ON AMBASSADOR'S MEETING IN [...] No summary [...] | 2006-05-11 15:08:00 | Embassy Montevideo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AORC ICRC PHUM PREF IS SZ UY |
06MONTEVIDEO448 | GOU CRITICAL OF MERCOSUR BUT STILL INTENDS TO [...] (C) Summary: Harsh criticism of Mercosur continues unabated in Uruguay, fueled by a worsening dispute with Argentina, Brazil's distraction with regional events, and an increased marginalization of Mercosur's smaller members in the decision-making. The trade bloc could tilt towards a more pol [...] | 2006-05-19 14:00:00 | Embassy Montevideo | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD ECON PREL UY |
06MONTEVIDEO459 | OAS AMBASSADOR JOHN MAISTO'S MAY 18 VISIT TO [...] (C) U.S. Permanent Representative to the Organization of American States (OAS) Ambassador John F. Maisto visited Montevideo on May 18 to discuss Summit of the Americas follow-up, the June OAS General Assembly, and U.S./Uruguayan bilateral relations. He met with President Vazquez, lunched with [...] | 2006-05-24 14:06:00 | Embassy Montevideo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL OAS UNSC UY |
06MONTEVIDEO46 | URUGUAY'S PUBLIC UNIVERSITY SYSTEM IN CRISIS [...] (U) Minister of the Economy, Daniel Astori recently stated that Uruguay must decentralize and strengthen its system of higher education or risk a faltering economy. Post analysis concurs with Astori's assessment. Statistics show that the vast majority of university-age students will never ac [...] | 2006-01-13 18:09:00 | Embassy Montevideo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV SOCI EINV ELAB UY |
06MONTEVIDEO465 | MERCOSUR AGREES ON STEPS FOR VENEZUELA'S ENTRY [...] (SBU) Summary: On May 24 in Buenos Aires, the four Mercosur countries and Venezuela agreed on a draft document detailing the necessary steps for Venezuela's entry into the trading bloc. While Venezuela will have to adopt the Common External Tariff (CET) within four years, it will be allowed [...] | 2006-05-25 20:27:00 | Embassy Montevideo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECON PREL UY |
06MONTEVIDEO468 | URUGUAY UNENTHUSIASTIC ON RESETTLEMENT OF CUBAN [...] No summary [...] | 2006-05-26 17:27:00 | Embassy Montevideo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF SMIG CU UY |
06MONTEVIDEO469 | URUGUAY: DEMARCHE ON NAM/G-77 UN REFORM DELIVERED [...] No summary [...] | 2006-05-26 17:30:00 | Embassy Montevideo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AMGT AORC UNGA UY |
06MONTEVIDEO473 | URUGUAY STILL DITHERING ON PSI [...] (C) Per instructions reftel, we have at various opportunities urged the GOU to endorse the Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI) Statement of Interdiction Principles and encouraged it to attend the Senior Level Political meeting in Poland, in June. Embassy understands that the embassies of [...] | 2006-05-26 17:53:00 | Embassy Montevideo | CONFIDENTIAL | MNUC PARM PGOV PHSA PREL KNNP UY |
06MONTEVIDEO490 | URUGUAY: DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON U.S. STATEMENT ON [...] No summary [...] | 2006-05-31 21:11:00 | Embassy Montevideo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IR UY |
06MONTEVIDEO529 | PULP MILL DISPUTE GOES TO COURT [...] (SBU) Summary: Uruguay's dispute with Argentina over the construction of two pulp mills on a shared river (reftels) has reached the International Court of Justice (ICJ). On June 8, both sides, backed by expensive international law firms, presented their opening arguments to the ICJ's 15 magistr [...] | 2006-06-09 18:02:00 | Embassy Montevideo | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL SOCI KLIG EINV EWWT AORC SENV AR UY |
06MONTEVIDEO55 | URUGUAY: REPORTING IRAN TO THE UN SECURITY COUNCIL [...] (C) On January 18, Polcouns delivered reftel demarche and talking points to MFA Director for Multilateral Affairs Gustavo Alvarez. Alvarez listened attentively and seemed particularly interested in what steps the UN Security Council might take in response to the international community's grow [...] | 2006-01-19 11:50:00 | Embassy Montevideo | CONFIDENTIAL | KNNP PARM PREL IR EU AORC UY |
06MONTEVIDEO553 | URUGUAY: DEMARCHE ON MDA/JUNE 20 CONFERENCE [...] No summary [...] | 2006-06-15 19:49:00 | Embassy Montevideo | UNCLASSIFIED | PREF PREL PHUM ICRC AORC IS UY |
06MONTEVIDEO554 | URUGUAY DEMARCHED ON HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL [...] (C) On June 12, PolCouns delivered ref A demarche conveying US priorities and concerns on the upcoming inaugural session of the UN Human Rights Council to the MFA's Director for Multilateral Affairs Gustavo Alvarez. Alvarez registered the points attentively and said that the GOU was in line wi [...] | 2006-06-15 20:29:00 | Embassy Montevideo | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL AORC UY |
06MONTEVIDEO555 | SCENESETTER FOR UPCOMING TRADE TALKS IN WASHINGTON [...] (C) Summary: Following the successful Vazquez/POTUS encounter in the Oval Office on May 4, trade talks between GOU negotiators and USTR have been scheduled to take place at a meeting in Washington during the last week of June. The GOU is now much more focused on discussing a Free Trade Agreemen [...] | 2006-06-16 15:32:00 | Embassy Montevideo | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ETRD PREL AORC UY |
06MONTEVIDEO56 | URUGUAY ON UN REFORM AND THE WAY FORWARD [...] (C/NF) On January 19, Embassy delivered ref A demarche to MFA Director for Multilateral Affairs, Gustavo Alvarez. Since he did not raise any of the issues in ref B, those points were not covered. Alvarez listened attentively to the talking points and said that Uruguay was much interested in t [...] | 2006-01-19 11:51:00 | Embassy Montevideo | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL KUNR PHUM UN ADCO UY |
06MONTEVIDEO563 | MDA DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON PREVENTING CONFERENCE [...] No summary [...] | 2006-06-20 20:12:00 | Embassy Montevideo | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC PHUM PREF PREL IRCE UY |
06MONTEVIDEO567 | MERCOSUR: THE ARGENTINE PRO TEMP PRESIDENCY AND [...] (C) Summary: Argentina's pro temp presidency of Mercosur is seen in Uruguay as a resounding failure that weakened the trading bloc's institutions. The conflict over the paper pulp mills overshadowed the entire presidency, as the dispute spun out of control and Argentina blocked the GOU's att [...] | 2006-06-21 20:52:00 | Embassy Montevideo | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD ECON PREL PINR AORC UY |
06MONTEVIDEO570 | CHINESE AND KOREAN AMBASSADORS' PERSPECTIVES ON [...] (C) Summary: Charge met separately with Ambassadors from the Peoples Republic of China (PRC) and South Korea to discuss regional perspectives in the wake of Assistant Secretary Shannon's trip to Asia on April 8-15. Chinese SIPDIS Ambassador Wang Xioyuan said he had been briefed on A/S Shann [...] | 2006-06-22 19:26:00 | Embassy Montevideo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECON ETRD PINR OTRA CH JA KS UY |
06MONTEVIDEO574 | GOU DEMARCHED ON OAS MLAT AND OPTIONAL PROTOCOL [...] (U) Embassy contacted various GOU interlocutors to discuss reftel demarche, including officials in the MFA's Office of International Treaties and International Law, and a subject material expert on MLATs at the Ministry of Education and Culture. (Note: The GOU does not have a Ministry of Justic [...] | 2006-06-23 17:20:00 | Embassy Montevideo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL AORC KCRM UY |
06MONTEVIDEO598 | WTO DOHA ROUND DEMARCHE DELIVERED [...] No summary [...] | 2006-06-29 11:52:00 | Embassy Montevideo | UNCLASSIFIED | WTRO ETRD ECON UY |
06MONTEVIDEO616 | URUGUAY'S FTA AT CROSSROADS WHILE VENEZUELA JOINS [...] (C) Summary: President Vazquez is caught between wanting a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with us and Brazil's open opposition to it. On June 23, Brazil's visiting Foreign Minister explicitly warned the Uruguayans that an FTA with us would be damaging to Mercosur and Uruguay. On June 26, GOU and [...] | 2006-07-05 18:03:00 | Embassy Montevideo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ETRD ECON PGOV AORC UY |
06MONTEVIDEO625 | URUGUAY DEMARCHED ON NORTH KOREAN MISSILE LAUNCHES [...] No summary [...] | 2006-07-07 16:42:00 | Embassy Montevideo | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KN PARM KNNP UY |
06MONTEVIDEO640 | HAGUE RULING ON PULP MILLS FAVORABLE TO URUGUAY [...] No summary [...] | 2006-07-13 16:03:00 | Embassy Montevideo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV SENV SOCI KLIG EINV AR UY |
06MONTEVIDEO685 | URUGUAY: MERCOSUR SUMMIT MATCHES LOW EXPECTATIONS; [...] (C) Summary. According to the media and a cross-section of Uruguay's political leadership, the results of the Mercosur Summit held in Cordoba July 20-21 met Uruguay's low expectations. The media dutifully reported the event but focused more on issues of importance to Uruguay, especially the d [...] | 2006-07-31 17:55:00 | Embassy Montevideo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECON ETRD UY |
06MONTEVIDEO744 | URGENT DEMARCHE TO URUGUAY ON UNSC LEBANON [...] (SBU) Embassy delivered reftel demarche to MFA offices of Vice Formin Maria Herrera and Director General for Political Affairs Alvaro Gallardo. No substantive comment was received from the officials other than that Uruguay hoped for a lasting peace in the region. Embassy expects to pursue more [...] | 2006-08-14 14:21:00 | Embassy Montevideo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PTER MOPS UN UNSC IS LE UY |
06MONTEVIDEO746 | USTR VISIT PROMPTS PRESIDENT VAZQUEZ TO OPENLY [...] (C) Summary: The recent visit by Assistant United States Trade Representative for the Americas Everett Eissenstat and USTR's Senior Director for Brazil and the Southern Cone, Sue Cronin, sparked an intense internal debate over the future direction of Uruguay's trade relationships and pitted o [...] | 2006-08-14 19:07:00 | Embassy Montevideo | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD PREL ECON PGOV AORC UY |
06MONTEVIDEO755 | SOLICITING URUGUAY ON CONTRIBUTIONS TO UNIFIL [...] (C) On August 16, Charge delivered reftel demarche to the MFA's Deputy Foreign Minister Maria "Belela" Herrera in order to solicit an immediate Uruguayan troop contribution to the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL). Herrera implied that the GOU was inclined to support UNIFIL's r [...] | 2006-08-16 20:14:00 | Embassy Montevideo | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR MOPS PREL LE UY |
06MONTEVIDEO774 | PRESIDENT VAZQUEZ MOVES FORWARD ON US TRADE AGENDA [...] (C) Summary: Since the August 7-10 visit of senior USTR officials to Uruguay (reftel),President Vazquez has been assiduously preparing his domestic constituency for deeper trade ties with the United States. He has publicly stated that the feasibility of a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) could be [...] | 2006-08-22 20:21:00 | Embassy Montevideo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ETRD PGOV ECON AORC UY |
06MONTEVIDEO785 | URUGUAY DEMARCHED ON US CONCERNS ABOUT HUMAN [...] (C) On August 22, PolCouns delivered reftel demarche to the only available officer in the MFA's office of the Director General for Political Affairs Alvaro Gallardo, stressing that the US had genuine concerns that new Human Rights Council (HRC) was less than balanced on its treatment of Israel [...] | 2006-08-23 19:08:00 | Embassy Montevideo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM UNHRC UY |
06MONTEVIDEO811 | US-URUGUAY TRADE AGENDA: VAZQUEZ CONTINUES TO SHAPE THE [...] (C) Summary: President Vazquez has now expanded the debate beyond a trade agreement with the U.S. by seeking similar accords with India and China. In a meeting with the Charge, Industry Minister Lepra confirmed that Vazquez is very much in charge and determined to succeed. Lepra said he unde [...] | 2006-09-01 19:42:00 | Embassy Montevideo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ETRD ECON UY |
06MONTEVIDEO825 | MAJOR COCAINE BUST IN URUGUAY [...] (U) On September 5-6, the Uruguayan National Police's anti-drug unit DGRTID scored major success against international narco-traffickers operating here. The unit's "Operation Chimed" resulted in the largest cocaine HCl seizure (over 300 kg) in Uruguayan history. Police arrested twenty-four i [...] | 2006-09-06 20:21:00 | Embassy Montevideo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SNAR PREL KCRM UY |
06MONTEVIDEO828 | ECONMIN ASTORI SAYS GOU IS ON TRACK FOR JCTI [...] (C) Summary: Charge met with Economy Minister Danilo Astori on September 6 to ascertain the GOU's plans prior to the October 2-3 JCTI in Montevideo. Astori noted President Vazquez's personal investment to build consensus for his FTA vision and stressed the importance of the upcoming Vazquez- [...] | 2006-09-07 18:43:00 | Embassy Montevideo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ETRD ECON UY |
06MONTEVIDEO829 | URUGUAY ON NAM SUMMIT DEMARCHE [...] (C) On September 6, PolCouns raised reftel demarche topics of Terrorism, Democracy and the Middle East with MFA Director for Multilateral Affairs Gustavo Alvarez. Alvarez said that Uruguay "tended to be more of an observer than a member of the Non-Aligned Movement" and was unlikely to be activ [...] | 2006-09-07 20:00:00 | Embassy Montevideo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNGA PTER PHUM CU UY |
06MONTEVIDEO860 | VAZQUEZ ASKS FOR TRADE AGREEMENT WITH U.S. [...] (C) At noon today I was called by President Vazquez. He had two messages. First, he was very pleased that the U.S. Senate had ratified the Bilateral Investment Treaty, saying that "it gave him great satisfaction." Second, he told me he had met this morning with his "trade cabinet" of six mi [...] | 2006-09-14 19:33:00 | Embassy Montevideo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECON ETRD UY |
06MONTEVIDEO907 | ENCE PULLS MILL PLANS IN URUGUAY; BLOCKADE RETURNS [...] (SBU) Summary. The Spanish company ENCE informed the GOU that it will relocate its planned paper mill, but we suspect that the mill may never be built. Reports also indicate that Argentine protesters renewed last season's blockade of bridges into Uruguay and called on the remaining paper mill [...] | 2006-09-25 19:42:00 | Embassy Montevideo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV SENV SOCI ECIN ETRD AR UY |
06MONTEVIDEO936 | URUGUAY ON UNSC RACE [...] (C) On September 29, per instructions reftel, PolCouns delivered UNSC demarche to the MFA's Director for Multilateral Affairs Gustavo Alvarez and his deputy Beatriz Nunez. Both listened attentively to the points and visibly cringed at the contents of the non-paper quoting excerpts from Preside [...] | 2006-10-02 16:08:00 | Embassy Montevideo | CONFIDENTIAL | UNSC VE GT UY |
06MONTEVIDEO948 | URUGUAY IN LINE WITH US ON PREVENTING POSSIBLE [...] (C) On October 4, I delivered reftel demarche on possible North Korean nuclear tests to Director General for Political Affairs Alvaro Gallardo per instructions reftel. After reviewing the talking points, he volunteered that he saw "no problems" in supporting the demarche, qualifying only that [...] | 2006-10-04 19:38:00 | Embassy Montevideo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KN PARM KNNP UY |
06MONTEVIDEO951 | URUGUAY ON UNSC RACE [...] (C) This message supplements information provided in Ref A. 2. (C) Ref B indicated that Venezuela is unlikely to pull out of the race before the October 16 UNGA vote that will decide the contested Latin American seat on the UNSC for 2007-2008. However, on October 4 (without any prompting o [...] | 2006-10-05 17:20:00 | Embassy Montevideo | CONFIDENTIAL | UNSC PREL GT VE UY |
06MONTEVIDEO963 | DICTATORSHIP'S WOUNDS STILL FELT IN URUGUAY [...] (SBU) Summary and Introduction: Uruguay's ongoing debate over the teaching of history and a recent public shouting match between the sons of important actors during Uruguay's dictatorship both illustrate the importance of that period to modern politics and policy in Uruguay. The complex history of [...] | 2006-10-11 13:37:00 | Embassy Montevideo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM SOCI ELAB UY |
06MONTEVIDEO977 | ONCE AGAIN, THE PULP MILLS PLAGUE URUGUAY [...] (SBU) Summary. The long-running dispute between Argentina and Uruguay over the construction of pulp mills on a shared river shows no signs of letting up. For the second time this tourist season, Argentine environmental protesters will block international bridges linking the two countries. Wor [...] | 2006-10-13 16:58:00 | Embassy Montevideo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL SOCI KLIG EINV EWWT AORC SENV AR UY |
06MONTEVIDEO980 | BIOTECH CONFERENCE HITS THE MARK [...] (U) Summary: Post thanks EB and IIP for their assistance (ref A),which allowed Post to present a timely and well-targeted biotechnology seminar in Uruguay. A broad cross-section of key biotech decision makers attended the seminar October 12, and the conference achieved positive results. Sp [...] | 2006-10-16 19:11:00 | Embassy Montevideo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR ECON ETRD TBIO UY |
06MONTREAL1063 | SNAPSHOT OF A BORDER COMMUNITY: MONTREAL WHTI [...] (SBU) Recently, as part of an ongoing WHTI outreach program, Consul General Montreal and Econoff visited small towns along the Quebec/US border to view how integrated the border communities are, and discuss the impact of WHTI. An example of completely integrated towns is the Stanstead, Quebec [...] | 2006-10-05 20:01:00 | Consulate Montreal | CONFIDENTIAL | CA CASC CMGT CPAS ECON KPAO PREL KTRD |
06MONTREAL1205 | CANADA'S LIBERAL LEADERSHIP RACE: DION EMERGES AS [...] (C/NF) Former Environment Minister Stephane Dion emerged the surprise winner of the Liberal Leadership convention, held in Montreal from November 30-December 2, coming from fourth place to beat frontrunner Michael Ignatieff, 2521 to 2084 delegate votes. Ignatieff, though an eloquent and passi [...] | 2006-12-04 21:38:00 | Consulate Montreal | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER MARR EINV CA |
06MONTREAL1219 | Camcording in Montreal theaters: perspectives [...] (SBU) Summary and Comment: The Canadian Motion Picture Distributors Associations (CMPDA) Montreal anti-piracy division and the Montreal division of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) gave two different perspectives on the scope and impact of camcording in Montreal theaters to Econcouns [...] | 2006-12-12 12:32:00 | Consulate Montreal | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ETRD KIPR CA |
06MONTREAL1220 | Camcording in Montreal theaters: perspectives [...] (SBU) Summary and Comment: The Canadian Motion Picture Distributors Association's (CMPDA) Montreal anti-piracy division and the Montreal division of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) gave two different perspectives on the scope and impact of camcording in Montreal theaters to Econcouns [...] | 2006-12-12 15:50:00 | Consulate Montreal | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ETRD KIPR CA |
06MONTREAL255 | MONTREAL-BASED TELEMARKETING SCHEMES TARGET [...] (U) Summary. Montreal's relatively cheap labor and energy costs combined with strict privacy laws and lax telemarketing regulations have made it an attractive location for contact centers of all kinds, and the city now finds itself second only to Toronto for the dubious title of "telemarketin [...] | 2006-03-01 20:26:00 | Consulate Montreal | UNCLASSIFIED | KCRM PREL ECON CASC CA |
06MONTREAL365 | IPR in Montreal Part 1 - An International Hub for [...] (U) Summary. As of May 2005, nearly 50% of the world's pirated movies, and 78% of illegal camcording in Canada, could be traced back to seventeen Montreal theaters. The combination of first-world release dates, simultaneous bilingual release of movies, sophisticated camera technology, and [...] | 2006-03-28 21:07:00 | Consulate Montreal | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ETRD KIPR CA |
06MONTREAL436 | IPR in Montreal Part 2 - Music Fans and Industry [...] (U) The strength and popularity of Quebec's music and film industries have made them attractive targets for illegal file sharing and pirating. Quebec music and films are routinely pirated and sold at Montreal-area flea markets along with internationally recognized music and films. Although l [...] | 2006-04-11 18:07:00 | Consulate Montreal | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD KIPR CA |
06MONTREAL518 | Montreal Outreach on WHTI [...] Summary. The visit of DHS US-Visit Director Jim Williams and Department of States Ann Barrett, Managing Director of U.S. Passport Services, gave post an opportunity to get our message about WHTI out to a number of influential audiences and journalists in Montreal. Exports to the U.S. are extr [...] | 2006-05-03 20:00:00 | Consulate Montreal | UNCLASSIFIED | CMGT CPAS CASC KTRD KPAO PREL CA |
06MONTREAL572 | AMBASSADOR MEETS WITH ICAO'S TCB DEPUTY DIRECTOR ON [...] (SBU) Summary and Action Request (para 9): The Deputy Director of ICAO's Technical Cooperation Bureau (TCB) Bachar Hakim, visited the Ambassador on May 17, 2006 to inform him of TCB's recommendations to Syrian Arab Airlines on the replacement of ten aging Boeing aircraft, which are currently [...] | 2006-05-18 19:18:00 | Consulate Montreal | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR ETRD ECON PREL ICAO CA SY UNDP |
06MONTREAL616 | Visit of NASA Deputy Administrator Dale to the [...] (U) Summary: On May 23, NASA Deputy Administrator Shana Dale and NASA Assistant Administrator Michael F. OBrien met with the Acting President of the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) Carole Lacombe and a team of CSA experts to discuss current and future areas for U.S.-Canadian space cooperation. E [...] | 2006-06-01 12:59:00 | Consulate Montreal | UNCLASSIFIED | TSPA CA |
06MONTREAL622 | UPDATE ON HYDRO-QUEBEC'S ENERGY PLANS [...] (U) Summary: On May 23, Embassy Ottawa EMIN Brian Mohler and ConGen Montreal Econoff Anne Coleman met with Marie-Jose Nadeau (please protect),Hydro Quebec's Executive Vice-President for Corporate Affairs, at the utility's Montreal headquarters. Ms. Nadeau provided an overview of Hydro Que [...] | 2006-06-02 18:03:00 | Consulate Montreal | CONFIDENTIAL | ENGR CA |
06MONTREAL676 | MONTREAL REACTIONS TO THE TORONTO ARRESTS [...] (C) Montreal has a diverse population, receiving 88% of the province's immigrants. According to the 2004-05 report from the Quebec Ministry of Immigration and Cultural Communities, 27.6% of the Island of Montreal's residents are foreign-born. The greater-Montreal area has an estimated Musl [...] | 2006-06-16 18:56:00 | Consulate Montreal | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PGOV CPAS CVIS CA |
06MONTREAL820 | Montreal Hosts the First Ever OutGames [...] Montreal is set to host the 1st World OutGames from July 26-August 5. An offshoot of the Federation of Gay Games (held this year in Chicago),which has traditionally focused on providing a venue for homosexuals to openly engage in sports competitions, the OutGames has added a three-day inter [...] | 2006-07-28 13:00:00 | Consulate Montreal | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM SOCI CASC CA |
06MONTREAL826 | QUEBEC GOVERNMENT STRATEGY PURSUES KYOTO TARGETS, [...] (C/NF) Summary. On June 15th, the Quebec Government released its Climate Change Strategy, including plans to improve public transportation systems, adopt California,s fuel-efficiency standards for vehicles and impose a carbon tax. This announcement follows some five months after Montreal h [...] | 2006-07-28 19:28:00 | Consulate Montreal | CONFIDENTIAL | SENV ECON ENRG CA |
06MONTREAL922 | Montreal Celebrates OutGames Success - Part 2 of 2 [...] The 1st World OutGames, held in Montreal June 26-August 5, drew some 500,000 spectators, 10,248 athletes, and 5,200 volunteers and has been touted by officials, media, and human rights activists alike as a success. The three-day conference on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) Huma [...] | 2006-08-24 20:16:00 | Consulate Montreal | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM SOCI CASC CA |
06MONTREAL993 | Blue Lantern Level 3: Pre-License End-Use Check, [...] (SBU) Econoff contacted Venga Aerospace Systems, Inc. President Hirsh Kwinter on August 31 to verify the information requested (reftel). Venga Aerospace Systems has both aerospace and 3-D graphics divisions. Kwinter runs the company from his residence in Montreal. The company has no facilitie [...] | 2006-09-17 11:56:00 | Consulate Montreal | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETTC KOMC CA |
06MOSCOW10013 | RUSSIAN FEDERATION COUNCIL CHAIRMAN ON US, [...] (C) Summary: In advance of his trip to the US to commemorate 9/11, Russian Federation Council Chairman Sergey Mironov previewed with the Ambassador a fall legislative effort to amend the Law on Extremism. Mironov said the reaction to the announced merger of leftist political parties was en [...] | 2006-09-10 08:28:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM PGOV RS |
06MOSCOW10227 | BREAKFAST WITH ROGOZIN: TALES OF A KREMLIN PROJECT [...] (SBU) Summary: As the political season commences, the rise and fall of former Rodina Party Chairman Dmitry Rogozin is a cautionary tale for other politicians seeking poster-boy status in Kremlin electoral projects and a timely reminder of the ability of the Presidential Administration to int [...] | 2006-09-13 15:06:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR RS |
06MOSCOW10230 | RUSSIAN REACTION TO TORGAU '06 POSTPONEMENT [...] (C) SUMMARY: In response to U.S. insistence on extending Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) protection to personnel participating in this year's Torgau '06 bilateral military exercise, the GOR seized the initiative to postpone, but not cancel, the event and left the door open for continued bi [...] | 2006-09-14 07:46:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR MCAP MOPS PREL RS |
06MOSCOW10247 | OPIC FINANCE: SDM BANK [...] No summary [...] | 2006-09-14 11:41:00 | Embassy Moscow | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN OPIC RS |
06MOSCOW10248 | TOP OFFICIAL AT RUSSIAN CENTRAL BANK GUNNED DOWN [...] (C) The Central Bank of Russia's (CBR) First Deputy Chairman Andrei Kozlov was fatally shot on September 13. Kozlov was a key figure in the GOR's efforts to crack down on money laundering, insider trading, and other illegal banking activity. His death is most likely connected to his efforts [...] | 2006-09-14 12:20:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | KTFN EFIN ECON PREL RS |
06MOSCOW1025 | MFA HUMAN RIGHTS OFFICIAL ON REGULARIZING TIES, UN [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a January 18 meeting, A/S Lowenkron and Vladimir Parshikov, Director of the MFA Department of Humanitarian Cooperation and Human Rights, agreed to more frequent consultations. Lowenkron laid out the USG position on the UN Human Rights Council, and Parshikov responded that the [...] | 2006-02-01 14:15:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KUNR PHUM RS |
06MOSCOW10285 | RUSSIA PROTESTS JAMESTOWN CONFERENCE ON NORTH [...] (C) Acting MFA North Americas Department Director Aleksandr Khudin requested a meeting with PolCouns to express GOR concern over the September 14 Jamestown Foundation conference in Washington on "The Future of the North Caucasus." Noting that Jamestown conferences on the North Caucasus had b [...] | 2006-09-14 14:45:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM PTER PINR RS |
06MOSCOW10289 | RUSSIAN PUBLIC'S VIEWS ON POLICE AND HUMAN RIGHTS [...] SUMMARY: An overwhelming majority of the Russian public believes that human rights abuse by police is widespread according to recent polling data. The police, on the contrary, believe they are unfairly maligned, but recognize problems within the MVD. These and other findings presented on Se [...] | 2006-09-14 15:01:00 | Embassy Moscow | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM SOCI RS |
06MOSCOW10309 | RUSSIAN MFA UNCLEAR ON TRANSNISTRIAN REFERENDUM [...] (C) Summary: In a meeting with Embassy three days before Transnistria's September 17 referendum, MFA Transnistrian negotiator Valeriy Nesterushkin provided no clarity on how Russia will treat the referendum result. While acknowledging that whatever the result, Transnistria would not be recog [...] | 2006-09-15 09:02:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL OSCE PBTS MD RS |
06MOSCOW10324 | RUSSIAN COMMUNISTS PROTEST MILITARY COOPERATION [...] (SBU) Russia's Communist Party (KPRF) followed through September 14 on its promise to demonstrate against military cooperation with NATO and the U.S., including the now-postponed Torgau '06 exercise (reftel). According to media reports, demonstrations took place in Moscow, Saratov, Omsk, Yar [...] | 2006-09-15 13:19:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR MOPS PGOV RS |
06MOSCOW10370 | ORTHODOX CLASSES NOW MANDATORY IN SOME RUSSIAN [...] (C) SUMMARY. Public schools in the Bryansk, Kaluga, Smolensk, and Belgorod regions have incorporated a mandatory Orthodox culture course into their curriculums. Eleven other regions are offering the subject as an elective. Supporters say the move is needed to counter the spiritual vacuum left [...] | 2006-09-18 07:06:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL KDEM RS |
06MOSCOW10382 | LAVROV'S MIDDLE EAST DIPLOMACY [...] (C) Summary: With FM Lavrov's September 7-9 trip to the Middle East, promotion of a "universal" peace process, experts' conference, renewed Syria track, and support for the Arab League ministerial session at UNGA, the GOR continues to seek "player" status in the region. Practically, GOR sup [...] | 2006-09-18 11:43:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PARM IS SY LE RS |
06MOSCOW1043 | UZBEKS REFUSED ASYLUM IN RUSSIA [...] (C) The Russian Federal Migration Service has refused to grant asylum to 13 Uzbeks whom the Government of Uzbekistan wants extradited for alleged connections to the uprising in Andijon last May. The group's lawyer, at the urging of UNHCR, has appealed that decision to Russian courts and will [...] | 2006-02-02 14:10:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PHUM PREL RS |
06MOSCOW10432 | EXTRANCHECK: POST-SHIPMENT VERIFICATION: FGUP [...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12C of the Export Administration Act. 2. Reftel requested a post-shipment verification to determine the legitimacy and reliability of the end- user, Federal State Unitary Enterprise Research Institute for Co [...] | 2006-09-19 07:11:00 | Embassy Moscow | UNCLASSIFIED | BEXP ETRD ETTC RS |
06MOSCOW10434 | EXTRANCHECK: PRE-LICENSE CHECK: STATE [...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12C of the Export Administration Act. 2. Reftel requested a Pre-license check to determine the legitimacy and reliability of the end-user, State Research Institute of Aviation, Moscow, Russia. The company is [...] | 2006-09-19 07:11:00 | Embassy Moscow | UNCLASSIFIED | BEXP ETRD ETTC RS |
06MOSCOW10438 | RUSSIA AND KOSOVO: THE POLITICS OF DELAY [...] (C) Summary: Russia will seek to delay the conclusion of the Kosovo status process beyond year's end, arguing that a negotiated settlement will be more enduring than one forced on Serbia. The GOR does not like UN Special Envoy Ahtisaari's draft status recommendations and might balk at agre [...] | 2006-09-19 12:31:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM UNMIK SR YI RS |
06MOSCOW10439 | RUSSIAN SECURITY COUNCIL SECRETARY ON IRAN, FROZEN [...] (C) Summary: In a September 18 meeting, Russian Security Council Secretary Ivanov briefed on his September meetings in Spain with Iranian Security Council Secretary Larijani, UNSYG Annan, and former President Gonzales; raised concerns over mixed messages to Iran; and reiterated Russia's willi [...] | 2006-09-19 12:51:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ETTC PARM IR RS |
06MOSCOW10486 | REFERENDUM RESULTS: PRICEY WRINKLE TO THE FIVE [...] (C) Foreign Minister Lavrov's short statement encapsulates GOR reaction to the referendum: the results were no surprise and the partners should return to the talks. MFA Transnistrian negotiator Valeriy Nesterushkin contended that the Transnistrians will most likely demand removal of the post [...] | 2006-09-19 15:39:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL OSCE PBTS MD RS |
06MOSCOW105 | WIDENING PROBLEMS FOR RUSSIAN POLICY IN THE NORTH [...] (C) SUMMARY. The North Caucasus is a crucible in which the weakness of the Russian state and its ambivalence about how to overcome that weakness are compounded. In part thanks to its failed policy there, the challenge for Russia in the North Caucasus has changed over the last ten years. Jus [...] | 2006-01-11 15:03:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER PHUM EAID PREL RS |
06MOSCOW10502 | THE IMMIGRANT EXPERIENCE IN MOSCOW, PART ONE [...] (C) SUMMARY. This is part one of a two-part series on the typical experiences of immigrants in Moscow. The current cable describes the experiences of a partly disabled Chechen male who has lived on and off in Moscow for the past 20 years. The second cable relates the experiences of a Kazakh f [...] | 2006-09-20 12:35:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL KDEM RS |
06MOSCOW10603 | A CLOSER LOOK AT THE MURDER OF RUSSIA'S #2 BANKER [...] (C) Summary. One week after the brutal murder of First Deputy Central Bank Chairman Andrey Kozlov, there have been no apparent breaks in the case, and few believe the perpetrators will ever be caught. In contrast to the cynicism surrounding the criminal investigation, a wide swath of the econo [...] | 2006-09-21 13:59:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ETTC ECON PTER PREL RS |
06MOSCOW10605 | KREMLIN UNHAPPINESS CAUSES MOSCOW'S "DOMASHNIY" [...] (C) Ekho Moskvy Editor-in-Chief Aleksey Venediktov confirmed to Embassy September 19 that a newly-minted television program hosted by him and telejournalist Svetlana Sorokina had been pulled from the air following a September 10 episode that the authorities had apparently found too controversi [...] | 2006-09-21 14:46:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM SOCI RS |
06MOSCOW10606 | AEROFLOT-BOEING DEAL: STILL ALIVE - FOR NOW [...] (C) Summary: A surprising "white knight" - billionaire Alexandr Lebedev, minority shareholder in Aeroflot - with $40 million from his own pocket has resuscitated the Boeing deal that as of September 15th, looked near demise. Lebedev's move might give the Kremlin a face-saving to allow the Boei [...] | 2006-09-21 15:24:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PREL EAIR RS |
06MOSCOW10607 | RUSSIA PREEMPTS SAAKASHVILI UNGA SPEECH: UNOMIG [...] (C) Summary: Convoking the Friends of Georgia on September 21, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Karasin expressed concern over the deteriorating status of Georgian-Abkhazian relations, passed draft language on an UNOMIG resolution that condemns -- sharply and at length -- GOG operations in t [...] | 2006-09-21 16:03:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV RS GG |
06MOSCOW10620 | RUSSIA: AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH ANATOLIY CHUBAYS [...] (C) Summary: In a September 19 meeting with the Ambassador, UES CEO Chubays was very upbeat about UES reform and the liberalization of electricity prices. He confidently predicted that strategic investors and IPOs in London and Moscow would raise the investment UES needs to meet its five y [...] | 2006-09-22 08:26:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | AF ECON ENRG IAEA KNNP PGOV RS |
06MOSCOW10665 | THE IMMIGRANT EXPERIENCE IN MOSCOW, PART TWO [...] (C) SUMMARY. This is part two of a two-part series on the typical experiences of immigrants in Moscow. The first cable described the experiences of a partly disabled Chechen male who has lived on and off in Moscow for the past 20 years. The current cable relates the experiences of a Kazakh fem [...] | 2006-09-22 13:27:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL KDEM RS |
06MOSCOW10689 | RUSSIA: PUBLIC CHAMBER MEMBER ON PRESS FREEDOM [...] (C) SUMMARY: Pavel Gusev, owner and editor-in-chief of Moskovsky Komsomolets (MK) and member of the Public Chamber, described a "media vertical" of direct government ownership and indirect corporate persuasion that has left the majority of Russians with a limited range of viewpoints and most o [...] | 2006-09-22 13:37:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR PHUM RS |
06MOSCOW10692 | ODIHR DIRECTOR STROHAL'S VISIT: OSCE "REFORM" AND [...] (C) Summary: During a September 19 meeting with OSCE Office of Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) Director Strohal, DFM Grushko emphasized once again Russia's desire for OSCE "reform." However, ODIHR's harshest critic had much softened his tone, according to Strohal, while sti [...] | 2006-09-22 15:09:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV OSCE RS |
06MOSCOW10704 | HUMAN RIGHTS OMBUDSMAN LUKIN ON NGO [...] (C) In a September 22 meeting with the Ambassador, Human Rights Ombudsman Vladimir Lukin endorsed moving forward on the proposed U.S.-Russian roundtable on democracy and human rights, and said he was prepared to discuss modalities when in Washington October 10-12. Lukin offered to intercede on [...] | 2006-09-25 09:25:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM SOCI RS |
06MOSCOW10719 | EXTRANCHECK: PRE-LICENSE CHECK: (A) VNESH OPT [...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12C of the Export Administration Act. 2. Reftel requested a Pre-license check to determine the legitimacy and reliability of the end-user, (A) Vnesh Opt Torg and (B) FSUE Scientific and Tech. Atlas, Moscow, [...] | 2006-09-25 10:56:00 | Embassy Moscow | UNCLASSIFIED | BEXP ETRD ETTC RS |
06MOSCOW10720 | EXTRANCHECK: PRE-LICENSE CHECK: VF COMPANY, [...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12C of the Export Administration Act. 2. Reftel requested a Pre-license check to determine the legitimacy and reliability of the end-user, Vtoroy Front Company (VF Company),Moscow, Russia. The company is li [...] | 2006-09-25 10:57:00 | Embassy Moscow | UNCLASSIFIED | BEXP ETRD ETTC RS |
06MOSCOW10777 | RUSSIAN ENERGY:CASPIAN PIPELINE CONSORTIUM UPDATE [...] (C) Summary. This fall the Caspian Pipeline Consortium (CPC) faces both its long-awaited expansion decision and a serious tax case being brought against the CPC's Russian (CPC-R) operations. Expansion will once again be on the agenda of the September 27-28 shareholders meeting, where western [...] | 2006-09-26 04:04:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG ECON PREL RS |
06MOSCOW1083 | RUSSIAN OPPOSITION LEADER BORIS NEMTSOV REJOINS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Boris Nemtsov, erstwhile co-leader of the Union of Right Forces (SPS),will head an SPS committee charged with forging a permanent alliance among democratic opposition forces. News of the appointment came January 28, just a day before GOR officials charged Nemtsov's former busi [...] | 2006-02-03 13:13:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM ECON PINR RS |
06MOSCOW10839 | RUSSIA REMAINS OPPOSED TO SECURITY COUNCIL ACTION [...] (C) We shared reftel points September 25 with Vladimir Safronkov, Chief of the UN Political Affairs Section in the MFA's IO Department, asking that Russia work with other Security Council members to form a consensus on the need for the Burmese regime to undertake democratic reforms. Safronkov [...] | 2006-09-26 14:43:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM UNSC BM RS |
06MOSCOW10842 | GOR ENFORCES NGO REGISTRATION DEADLINE [...] (C) Russian Federal Registration Service officials have clarified that foreign NGOs that have not been re-registered by October 18 will have to stop their external activities, but will be able to continue "internal operations." NGOs are hurrying to submit their paperwork, but according to reg [...] | 2006-09-27 05:02:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM EAID PREF KDEM PREL RS |
06MOSCOW10855 | RUSSIAN STOCK MARKET REPORT 2006 [...] Since its consolidation in 1996, the Russian stock market has experienced growth that has led emerging markets and rivaled developed markets. Capitalization was close to USD 1 trillion by the end of August, compared to USD 346 billion at the end of August 2005, and USD 177 billion at the end [...] | 2006-09-27 08:34:00 | Embassy Moscow | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN ECON EINV RS |
06MOSCOW10861 | RUSSIA'S "DEMOCRATS" IN DISARRAY [...] (C) Summary: Russia's "democrats" remain in near-terminal disarray. Personality disputes, disagreements over accommodating with the Kremlin, differences over the viability of political activity, and difficulties in political party registration undercut efforts aimed at uniting in advance o [...] | 2006-09-27 11:16:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR RS |
06MOSCOW1088 | RCFS DIRECTOR CONVICTED, PUT ON PROBATION [...] (SBU) A Russian court on February 3 convicted Russian-Chechen Friendship Society (RCFS) Executive Director Stanislav Dmitriyevskiy of inciting national hatred, as had been widely expected. The Nizhniy Novgorod court gave Dmitriyevskiy a two-year suspended sentence and placed him on probation [...] | 2006-02-03 13:40:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PREL PREF RS |
06MOSCOW10982 | RUSSIA SUPPORTS ONE YEAR EXTENSION OF SUDAN PANEL [...] No summary [...] | 2006-09-28 14:11:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV UNSC SU RS |
06MOSCOW10984 | RUSSIAN ENERGY: PSAS -- THE VIEW FROM SAKHALIN AND [...] (C) Summary. From discussions in Moscow and Sakhalin this week, Production Sharing Agreements (PSAs) may be out of favor, but they are far from being driven out of business. Shell (Sakhalin-2) appears to have dodged the bullet of having its environmental license revoked, but still faces tough [...] | 2006-09-28 14:34:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG ECON PREL RS |
06MOSCOW10985 | AMBASSADOR'S SEPTEMBER 27 MEETING WITH RUSSIAN [...] (C) In a September 27 meeting with the Ambassador, Russian Finance Minister Aleksey Kudrin gave few details on debt relief for Afghanistan, but noted he hoped to conclude a bilateral agreement by February 2007. On Iraq, Kudrin said resolving the Qurna-2 license issue was important but not a [...] | 2006-09-28 14:45:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN ETRD PREL PGOV RS |
06MOSCOW10986 | "NOT WAR, BUT CLOSE:" RUSSIAN REACTION TO GEORGIA [...] (C) Summary: DFM Karasin told Ambassador September 28 the arrest of Russian officers in Georgia "could have been a casus belli." Russian reaction "will be more reasonable." Russia "has the impression that it cannot rely on its American partners." Karasin asked for U.S. help in freeing the o [...] | 2006-09-28 15:11:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR NATO GG RS |
06MOSCOW10990 | NATO SOFA RATIFICATION: VERDICT STILL OUT [...] (C) SUMMARY: According to the Foreign Ministry, the Russian Government is completing its review of the NATO Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) -- which was signed last year -- and expects to send it to the Duma "within weeks." The MFA assured us that all GOR entities, including the Ministry o [...] | 2006-09-29 07:22:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR MOPS PGOV RS |
06MOSCOW11002 | RUSSIA: CENTER-REGIONAL RELATIONS UNDER STRESS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Federal-local relations in Russia are under increasing stress due to the implementation of the Local Self-Government Law of 2003. This law cuts the flow of tax dollars to regional and local government in order to spur the localities to become entrepreneurial in developing their [...] | 2006-09-29 11:41:00 | Embassy Moscow | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR PREL RS |
06MOSCOW11024 | INITIAL REACTION TO 2006 IRF REPORT [...] (U) Ministry of Foreign Affairs Spokesman Mikhail Kaminin told reporters that the 2006 International Religious Freedom Report amounted to a repetition of groundless claims that there are restrictions on religious freedom in Russia. He said that U.S. officials had repeatedly ignored GOR explan [...] | 2006-09-29 14:00:00 | Embassy Moscow | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PREL KDEM RS |
06MOSCOW11029 | RUSSIAN REACTS TO ARRESTS OF SOLDIERS IN GEORGIA [...] (C) Summary: The Ambassador strongly encouraged restraint in a September 29 telephone conversation with Deputy Foreign Minister Karasin. Karasin responded that he appreciated U.S. responsiveness and welcomed Tbilisi's decision to permit joint patrolling of the Kodori Gorge. The MFA confir [...] | 2006-09-29 15:38:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR NATO GG RS |
06MOSCOW11032 | EXTRANCHECK: PRE-LICENSE CHECK: [...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12C of the Export Administration Act. 2. Reftel requested a Pre-license check to determine the legitimacy and reliability of the end-user, Technoservicepribor, Moscow, Russia. The company is listed on BIS li [...] | 2006-10-02 08:31:00 | Embassy Moscow | UNCLASSIFIED | BEXP ETRD ETTC RS |
06MOSCOW11079 | CPC AND SHTOKMAN: SOME RESIGNATION, SPRINKLED WITH [...] (C) SUMMARY. On September 28, Ambassador met with Chevron's VP for Business Development Jay Pryor and the company's Russia chief, Ian MacDonald. On Shtokman, Chevron believes it has little chance of affecting the outcome of the now-politicized deal, but noted that market realities (missing t [...] | 2006-10-03 07:18:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG ECON PREL RS |
06MOSCOW11107 | RUSSIAN SANCTIONS ON GEORGIA TO STAY FOR NOW [...] (C) Following President Putin's October 1 comments that Georgia's arrest of Russian officers was an act of "state terrorism," new measures targeting Georgia are being enacted. As of October 3, flights between Georgia and Russia have been halted for "recertification." Ferry service between So [...] | 2006-10-03 13:57:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PINR ETRD GG RS |
06MOSCOW11137 | UNITED RUSSIA SEEKS MAJORITY IN OCTOBER 8 [...] (C) A September 28 - 29 visit to Chuvashiya in the run-up to the October 8 State Council elections found: -- five of the Republic's twenty-two parties on the ballot, with a sixth --the Party of Pensioners-- denied registration, and joining the Party of Life in supporting Rodina's quest to cr [...] | 2006-10-04 12:44:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM PINR RS |
06MOSCOW11169 | POSSIBLE NORTH KOREAN NUCLEAR TEST [...] (C) Summary: DFM Alekseyev told the Ambassador October 4 that Russia recognized the seriousness of the situation following the DPRK's announcement and understood U.S. concerns. Alekseyev urged that the Security Council move deliberately to craft a response, but was lukewarm about a potenti [...] | 2006-10-04 14:22:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PARM KNNP KN RS |
06MOSCOW11172 | UNITED RUSSIA IGNORES THE PARTY OF LIFE IN LIPETSK [...] (SBU) Lipetsk oblast and city are tightly controlled by United Russia Governor Oleg Korolyev. Oblast regional elections will be held on October 8 and it is widely believed in Lipetsk that YR will win a decisive majority. While the Communist Party (KPRF) continues to have loyal followers, it ap [...] | 2006-10-04 15:32:00 | Embassy Moscow | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KDEM RS |
06MOSCOW11241 | YOUR MOSCOW VISIT FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTH ASIA [...] (C) We welcome your visit to Moscow as a chance to engage the GOR face-to-face on sensitive regional issues and begin to chip away at Moscow's misconceptions about U.S. intentions in the region. It is a commonplace assumption that Moscow's policies in Central and South Asia are fueled by a [...] | 2006-10-06 07:01:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ENRG PTER SNAR RS |
06MOSCOW11252 | RUSSIA: DAS KRAMER MEETINGS ON NGOS AND HUMAN [...] (C) Summary: EUR DAS David Kramer reinforced US concerns over NGO re-registration and encouraged Human Rights Ombudsman Lukin to finalize details of an "unofficial" human rights/democracy dialogue. Both Lukin and Public Chamber member Nikonov acknowledged bureaucratic difficulties and endo [...] | 2006-10-06 07:26:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV RS |
06MOSCOW11256 | RUSSIA: E/CBA FRANK MERMOUD'S ENERGY DISCUSSIONS [...] (C) Summary: During his September 18-21 visit to Moscow, E/CBA Frank Mermoud's GOR and private sector interlocutors described continued GOR debate on new subsoil and strategic sectors legislation, growing displeasure with Production Sharing Agreements (PSAs) coupled with assurances that existi [...] | 2006-10-06 09:55:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG ECON PREL RS |
06MOSCOW11260 | EXTRANCHECK: PRE-LICENSE CHECK: CHANCE [...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12C of the Export Administration Act. 2. Reftel requested a Pre-license check to determine the legitimacy and reliability of the end-user, Chance 2003 LLC, Kostroma, Russia. The company is listed on BIS lice [...] | 2006-10-06 11:39:00 | Embassy Moscow | UNCLASSIFIED | BEXP ETRD ETTC RS |
06MOSCOW11261 | EXTRANCHECK: PRE-LICENSE CHECK: TETIS PRO, [...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12C of the Export Administration Act. 2. Reftel requested a Pre-license check to determine the legitimacy and reliability of the end-user, Tetis Pro, Moscow, Russia. The company is listed on BIS license appl [...] | 2006-10-06 11:39:00 | Embassy Moscow | UNCLASSIFIED | BEXP ETRD ETTC RS |
06MOSCOW11262 | EXTRANCHECK: PRE-LICENSE CHECK: [...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12C of the Export Administration Act. 2. Reftel requested a Pre-license check to determine the legitimacy and reliability of the end-user, Elektroneftemash, Moscow, Russia. The company is listed on BIS licen [...] | 2006-10-06 11:39:00 | Embassy Moscow | UNCLASSIFIED | BEXP ETRD ETTC RS |
06MOSCOW11264 | EXTRANCHECK: POST-SHIPMENT VERIFICATION: [...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12C of the Export Administration Act. 2. Reftel requested a post-shipment verification to determine the legitimacy and reliability of the end- user, Federalnaya Sluzhba Ohrany, Moscow, Russia. The company wa [...] | 2006-10-06 11:40:00 | Embassy Moscow | UNCLASSIFIED | BEXP ETRD ETTC RS |
06MOSCOW11266 | KREMLIN HUMAN RIGHTS CHAIRWOMAN PROMISES NO [...] (C) Chairwoman of the Presidential Administration Council for Civil Society and Human Rights Ella Pamfilova emphatically assured Ambassador October 5 that "nothing would happen" to curtail the activities of NGOs not re-registered by the October 18 deadline. Pamfilova's office was monitoring t [...] | 2006-10-06 11:52:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM SOCI RS |
06MOSCOW11275 | RUSSIA: NGO REGISTRATION UPDATE; DEADLINE [...] (C) Summary: In an October 5 conversation with Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Yakovenko, the Ambassador urged the GOR to extend an October 18 deadline for the re-registration of foreign NGOs and underscored the damage that would result from a suspension in their external programs. Yakovenko [...] | 2006-10-06 14:28:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PREL RS |
06MOSCOW11276 | UNITED RUSSIA AIMS TO WIN BY A WIDE MARGIN IN TUVA [...] (SBU) Embassy visited the Republic of Tuva October 1-5, in advance of the October 8 regional election. Tuva is tightly controlled by Regional Head Sherig-Ool Oorzhak, who became a member of United Russia (YR) eight months ago, and it is widely believed that YR will win a decisive majority, wit [...] | 2006-10-06 14:41:00 | Embassy Moscow | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM PHUM PREL SOCI RS |
06MOSCOW11279 | THE OCTOBER 8 REGIONAL ELECTIONS AS A PROVING [...] (C) The October 8 elections are being viewed by commentators here as a rehearsal for the 2007 State Duma elections (which some see as a rehearsal for the 2008 presidential contest). Viewed from that vantage point, the contests, in nine regions and republics of Russia, should offer the Kremlin [...] | 2006-10-06 15:05:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM PHUM PREL SOCI RS |
06MOSCOW11280 | PREPARING THE GROUND FOR UNSC ACTION ON DPRK [...] (S) Summary: DFM Alekseyev told the Ambassador October 6 that Russia found a DPRK nuclear test to be "absolutely unacceptable" and stressed that the North Korean regime had received this message from Russia in clear and unmistakable terms. Responding to the Ambassador's urging that Russia [...] | 2006-10-06 15:08:00 | Embassy Moscow | SECRET | PREL PARM KNNP UNSC KN RS |
06MOSCOW11310 | MANAGED DEMOCRACY IN ACTION: ASTRAKHAN REGIONAL [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In advance of October 8 regional elections, we visited Astrakhan Oblast and found: -- The Kremlin-backed United Russia party in the lead and expecting to gain a majority in the regional Duma; -- A popular United Russia governor who touts his ability to use his contacts in th [...] | 2006-10-06 16:31:00 | Embassy Moscow | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM PHUM RS |
06MOSCOW11313 | RUSSIA: DEMARCHE ON MURDER OF POLITKOVSKAYA [...] (C) In an October 9 conversation with First Deputy Foreign Minister Denisov, the Ambassador delivered reftel demarche, underscoring deep U.S. concern over the murder of journalist Anna Politkovskaya, referring also to Department and White House public statements, and stressing the need for a [...] | 2006-10-09 10:38:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL PGOV RS |
06MOSCOW11315 | RUSSIA-GEORGIA: NO LET-UP [...] (S) Russian officials continue to reject relaxation of economic sanctions. About 150 Georgians have been deported. Police document checks have intensified. Georgians here on work permits are seeking other citizenship. However, official actions in Moscow hit ethnic Georgian Russian citizens [...] | 2006-10-09 10:54:00 | Embassy Moscow | SECRET | PREL MARR ETRD UNSC GG RS |
06MOSCOW11316 | POLITKOVSKAYA’S DEATH SENDS SHOCK WAVES THROUGH [...] (C) The October 7 murder of internationally-known investigative journalist Anna Politkovskaya has sent shock waves through Moscow. A public demonstration has been held, the co-owner of Novaya Gazeta, the newspaper where Politkovksaya had worked since 1999, is offering a 25 million ruble reward for [...] | 2006-10-09 11:14:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM PHUM PREL RS |
06MOSCOW11317 | MOSCOW'S REACTION TO THE DPRK NUCLEAR TEST [...] (S) The Ambassador met twice with Deputy Foreign Minister Alekseyev on October 9 to discuss North Korea's nuclear test and next steps. Alekseyev said that Russia takes extremely seriously the test and Russia agrees that strong measures are warranted. Alekseyev handed over a statement (text b [...] | 2006-10-09 11:28:00 | Embassy Moscow | SECRET | PREL PARM KNNP UNSC KN RS |
06MOSCOW11371 | RUSSIAN ENERGY: RUSSIANS RETHINK SHTOKMAN [...] (C) Summary. Gazprom's October 8 decision to reject foreign equity participation in the giant Shtokman gas and LNG project in the Barents Sea, in favor of developing the field itself, reflects a growing trend towards energy nationalism, and genuine concern about maintaining control of such a [...] | 2006-10-10 15:01:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG ECON PREL RS |
06MOSCOW11372 | RUSSIA-ABKHAZIA: SEEKING A DEAL AT THE UNSC [...] (C) DFM Karasin convoked Ambassador October 10. He hoped for "a more constructive and flexible" U.S. approach to the Russian draft UNSCR on UNOMIG mandate renewal and said the Europeans are willing to be flexible. If the resolution included a "blunt message" to Tbilisi on its Kodori operatio [...] | 2006-10-10 15:08:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR UNSC GG RS |
06MOSCOW11388 | ELECTION LAW REQUIREMENTS FOR PROSPECTIVE DUMA [...] (U) This message reviews the electoral procedures in place for participating in the 2007 elections to the Duma. There have been no amendments to the electoral law since the Duma eliminated the "against all candidates" ballot option before the summer break. In order to be elected a Duma Deputy, [...] | 2006-10-11 13:05:00 | Embassy Moscow | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV KDEM RS |
06MOSCOW11413 | REGIONAL ELECTION RESULTS: UNITED RUSSIA WINS AS [...] (SBU) As expected, the Kremlin's United Russia received a plurality or majority of votes cast in the elections for nine regional legislatures on October 8. Other key findings: -- the experiment with managed, two-party democracy seems to have succeeded from the perspective of the Presidential [...] | 2006-10-11 14:52:00 | Embassy Moscow | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM PHUM PINR RS |
06MOSCOW11488 | DPRK NUCLEAR TEST RESOLUTION: DEMARCHE DELIVERED [...] (C) We delivered reftel demarche October 12 to MFA First Asia Department Senior Counselor Oleg Davydov, who advises DFM Alekseyev on North Korean issues. Davydov said that his superiors will "mull" over the draft resolution to assess what had been changed from earlier drafts and the Russian [...] | 2006-10-12 14:08:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PARM MNUC KNNP UNSC KN RS |
06MOSCOW11489 | RUSSIA-GEORGIA: BACKLASH AGAINST THE BACKLASH? [...] (C) Summary: The Public Chamber has condemned bureaucratic moves that have targeted ethnic Georgians, but few elected officials have followed suit. Deportations have temporarily slowed, but arrests of Georgians who are accused of not having legal status in Russia continue. There is anecdo [...] | 2006-10-12 14:49:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM GG RS |
06MOSCOW11490 | PUTIN REACTS TO POLITKOVSKAYA ASSASSINATION [...] (C) President Putin, three days after the murder of outspoken investigative journalist Anna Politkovskaya, issued his definitive public statement that everything would be done to find the killers and bring them to trial. Russia's Prosecutor General, in fact, has already assumed charge of the [...] | 2006-10-12 16:18:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM PHUM PREL RS |
06MOSCOW11533 | THIRD CONTRACT KILLING EVOKES MEMORIES OF 1990'S [...] (C) Summary. Vneshtorgbank banker Alexander Plokhin was gunned down October 11 in an apparent contract killing, the third in Moscow in a month. Foreign investors are growing increasingly concerned by the perception of lawlessness in the streets of Moscow, although local business leaders are ta [...] | 2006-10-13 12:50:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN ETTC PREL PTER RS |
06MOSCOW11539 | RUSSIA-GEORGIA UPDATE [...] (C) Summary: Arrests and deportations of Georgians accused of violating immigrations laws continue, but no new measures have been enacted against Georgia or against ethnic Georgians living in Russia. No reliable numbers are available for the number of Georgians found not to have legal stat [...] | 2006-10-13 14:46:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM PREF GG RS |
06MOSCOW11540 | RUSSIAN-CHECHEN FRIENDSHIP SOCIETY ORDERED CLOSED [...] (U) A Nizhniy Novgorod court on October 13 ordered the Russian-Chechen Friendship Society (RCFS) to be closed. According to press reports, the court found that the organization violated the NGO law. Specifically, it ruled that RCFS had allowed its Executive Director Stanislav Dmitrievskiy to [...] | 2006-10-13 14:47:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PREL RS |
06MOSCOW11582 | GEORGIA UPDATE: OCTOBER 16 [...] (C) Deportations of undocumented Georgian nationals continue. Round-ups have slowed in Moscow, but picked up in St. Petersburg. Russian and Georgian officials continue to trade insults and veiled threats. Harassment of ethnic Georgians may have peaked thanks to a backlash from Russians of m [...] | 2006-10-16 15:36:00 | Embassy Moscow | SECRET | PREL MARR ETRD PREF GG RS |
06MOSCOW11584 | INFORMATION REGARDING UNSCR 1718: DEMARCHE [...] (C) We delivered reftel demarche October 16 to MFA First Asia Department Senior Counselor Arkadiy Lavrov, who advises DFM Alekseyev on North Korean issues. (Note: Alekseyev is currently in South Korea, accompanying PM Fradkov and will not return to Moscow before October 23). Pointing to Rus [...] | 2006-10-16 15:57:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PARM MNUC KNNP UNSC KN RS |
06MOSCOW11629 | GEORGIA UPDATE, OCTOBER 17 [...] (C) A Georgian detainee from St. Petersburg died of an asthma attack as he waited at a Moscow airport to board the plane deporting him to Georgia. This was the third plane to deport Georgians, bringing the number of deported to over 400. Some 300 more Georgians have received deportation or [...] | 2006-10-17 14:16:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR PREF GG RS |
06MOSCOW11631 | RODINA: SATISFIED BUT SUING [...] (SBU) Rodina had a poor showing in the October 8 regional elections; it crossed the 7 percent threshold for representation in only one region: Astrakhan. Nevertheless, Deputy Chair of Rodina's Executive Committee Maksim Puchkov in an October 12 conversation found cause for optimism in the vo [...] | 2006-10-17 14:42:00 | Embassy Moscow | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM PHUM SOCI RS |
06MOSCOW11632 | YABLOKO AT A LOSS AFTER OCTOBER 8 ELECTIONS [...] (C) In an October 11 meeting, Yabloko Deputy Chairman Sergey Mitrokhin and Political Department Head Galina Mikhaleva said the party is facing an existential crisis following the poor results of the October 8 elections, where the party polled in the two percent range. Mitrokhin charged red ta [...] | 2006-10-17 14:47:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM PHUM PREL RS |
06MOSCOW11637 | NGO RE-REGISTRATION STATE-OF-PLAY AS OF OCTOBER 17 [...] (U) With the October 18 NGO re-registration deadline looming, the Federal Registration Service reports that: -- 80 NGOs have been re-registered, 42 of them U.S. NGOs; -- 70 re-registration applications are pending; -- only three NGOs have to date been denied re-registration. One of them, a T [...] | 2006-10-17 14:59:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM PREL PREF RS |
06MOSCOW11652 | PSYCHIATRY ABUSED FOR COMMERCIAL ENDS [...] (C) Anecdotal evidence suggests that psychiatry is increasingly being used as a tool, especially in more "sophisticated" urban areas like Moscow, in the resolution of family squabbles or business disputes. The interpretation of a 2001 law on legal expertise activities allegedly has been used [...] | 2006-10-18 10:04:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM PINR RS |
06MOSCOW11686 | STRATEGIC SECTORS LAW SUBMITTED TO GOVERNMENT [...] (C) Summary. The Ministry of Industry and Energy (MIE) on October 13 submitted the draft law on Foreign Investment in the Strategic Sectors for government review. Contrary to press reports that the new draft reduces the number of strategic sectors that would be regulated by the new legislation [...] | 2006-10-18 13:47:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EIND ENRG PREL RS |
06MOSCOW11689 | DEADLINE FOR FOREIGN NGO RE-REGISTRATION [...] (C) SUMMARY: Federal Registration Service officials suggested October 18 that they expect all foreign NGOs that have applied for re-registration to be approved as the deadline for applications passed. According to the latest FRS statistics, 91 NGOs have been re-registered, and 79 others hav [...] | 2006-10-18 14:14:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM PREF KDEM EAID RS |
06MOSCOW11690 | GEORGIA UPDATE: OCTOBER 18 [...] (C) Deportation orders against Georgian continue; the Georgian Embassy claims about 1000 Georgians have been told to leave without being detained. Georgians are expected to take Russian citizenship in greater numbers as a protective move. Georgian restaurants are reopening. The official mood [...] | 2006-10-18 14:36:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR PREF GG RS |
06MOSCOW11695 | ELECTORAL COMMISSION CHAIRMAN ON ELECTIONS [...] (C) Central Electoral Commission (CEC) Chairman Aleksandr Veshnyakov reviewed the October 8 regional elections, recent developments in electoral technology, prospects for the 2007 regional and national (Duma) elections, and possible further amendments to the election law in a meeting with Embas [...] | 2006-10-19 06:13:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM SOCI RS |
06MOSCOW11698 | MOSCOW EXPERTS ON DPRK NUCLEAR TEST [...] (C) Summary. Despite the GOR's strongly negative reaction to the reported nuclear test and its cooperation on UNSC 1718, Moscow's Korea watchers were for the large part critical of U.S. policies, arguing that the impasse over the DPRK program could have been avoided had the U.S. acted differ [...] | 2006-10-19 06:40:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PARM MNUC KNNP UNSC KN RS |
06MOSCOW1171 | RUSSIA COMFORTABLE WITH STATUS QUO IN BELARUS [...] (C) Summary: The MFA's official stance on Belarus seems to have shifted from resigned noninterference to passive support for Lukashenko and the status quo. However, Russian activists and leaders of the Belarusian opposition based in Moscow have not given up hope that determined resistance wi [...] | 2006-02-08 08:53:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR BO RS |
06MOSCOW11729 | RUSSIA-GEORGIA: DAS BRYZA CONVERSATION WITH [...] (C) DAS Matt Bryza and Ambassador called on Russian DFM Grigoriy Karasin October 6. Karasin said Russian patience with Georgia was at an end, and catalogued Russian views of the worsening relations, culminating with the arrest of Russian soldiers immediately after NATO offered Georgia Intensi [...] | 2006-10-19 09:57:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR PHUM PREF GG RS |
06MOSCOW11765 | OCT 18 MEETING WITH KREMLIN ECONOMIST DVORKOVICH [...] (C) SUMMARY. In a wide ranging discussion with Economic Minister-Counselor October 18, Arkadiy Dvorkovich, Head of the Experts Group of the Russian Presidential Administration exuded quiet confidence about the difficult path of economic reform in Russia. He cited recent positive movement acro [...] | 2006-10-19 13:00:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ENRG ETRD KIPR |
06MOSCOW11771 | GEORGIA UPDATE, OCTOBER 19 [...] (C) News of detention of Georgians continues to appear, with the Volga Federal District the latest site. The Georgian Embassy claims that educational institutions are still being used in some areas to locate undocumented Georgians, though a Moscow official denies this ever happened inside th [...] | 2006-10-19 14:13:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR PREF GG RS |
06MOSCOW11773 | A/S BOUCHER HEARS RUSSIAN WORRIES ABOUT AFGHANISTAN [...] (C) Summary: During October 9 consultations in Moscow, A/S Boucher outlined U.S. intentions in Central Asia, stressed steps we were taking to address terrorism and narcotics trafficking in Afghanistan, and reviewed U.S. nuclear policies in South Asia. Foreign Ministry officials and the Rus [...] | 2006-10-19 15:05:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER SNAR ENRG XD ZK RS |
06MOSCOW11775 | RUSSIA IPR: OUTSPOKEN LIBERAL LEGISLATOR ON CIVIL [...] (U) This message is sensitive but unclassified. Not intended for Internet distribution. 2. (SBU) Summary. Federation Council Senator Ludmila Narusova shares our sense that the Duma will likely pass a flawed Part IV of the Civil Code this fall. She intends to speak to Putin about her co [...] | 2006-10-20 05:28:00 | Embassy Moscow | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ETRD KIPR RS |
06MOSCOW11778 | MIGRATION SERVICE DIRECTOR ROMODANOVSKIY ON NORTH [...] (C) SUMMARY: Federal Migration Service Director Konstantin Romodanovskiy told PRM/Admissions Director Terry Rusch October 6 that Russia would consider resettlement of North Koreans to the U.S. on a case-by-case basis, repeating what other GOR interlocutors have told us previously. Separately, [...] | 2006-10-20 06:44:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PREL RS |
06MOSCOW11821 | DELIVERY OF JOSEPH-KISLYAK LETTER [...] (SBU) We delivered reftel letter to Sergey Petlyakov, Chief Counselor in the Arms and Technology Transfer Policy Division of the Foreign Ministry's Department for Security Affairs and Disarmament (DVBR) on October 19. 2. (S) Petlyakov said he would ensure Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ki [...] | 2006-10-20 14:02:00 | Embassy Moscow | SECRET | PARM PREL MCAP KNNP LY RS |
06MOSCOW11830 | SCENESETTER: TREASURY U/S LEVEY'S VISIT TO MOSCOW [...] (C) On behalf of the U.S. Mission in Russia, we extend a warm welcome to you and your delegation. Your visit offers an opportunity to continue your discussions with the Russians on combating terrorism financing as well as our grave concerns about Iran's and North Korea's activity in this rega [...] | 2006-10-20 14:25:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON KTFN EFIN PTER OTRA OVIP RS |
06MOSCOW11831 | NGO RE-REGISTRATION UPDATE: NDI, IRI APPROVED [...] (U) The Federal Registration Service (FRS) informed NDI and IRI on October 20 that they had been re-registered. IRI has already been added to the list of approved organizations on the FRS website. Both were told to pick up their documents on October 23. Amid heightened international and Ru [...] | 2006-10-20 15:01:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM EAID KDEM PREF RS |
06MOSCOW11833 | RUSSIAN RESPONSE TO ATGM TRANSFER TO SYRIA [...] (S) SUMMARY: Russia's investigation into the transfer of anti-tank guided missiles to Syria has confirmed that some Russian-made weapons had been funneled to Hizballah. As a result, the head of the Tula design bureau responsible for the transfer has been fired, and the Foreign Ministry has [...] | 2006-10-20 15:23:00 | Embassy Moscow | SECRET | PREL PARM ETTC RS SY IS |
06MOSCOW11834 | HUMAN RIGHTS OMBUDSMAN GIVEN ADDITIONAL POWERS [...] (SBU) Summary. On October 16, President Putin signed into law amendments to the Federal Constitutional Law on the Human Rights Commission, which considerably broaden the Human Rights Ombudsman Office's powers. The new legislation gives the Ombudsman the right to propose parliamentary probes in [...] | 2006-10-20 15:28:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM PHUM PREL RS |
06MOSCOW11890 | OCTOBER 23 NGO RE-REGISTRATION UPDATE [...] (SBU) We continue to receive positive reports on the re-registration of foreign NGOs. Of the 29 NGOs that USAID is tracking, another three have been registered by the Federal Registration Service (FRS) since October 20, bringing the total re-registered to eleven. Of the remaining eighteen, s [...] | 2006-10-23 14:12:00 | Embassy Moscow | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM EAID KDEM PREF RS |
06MOSCOW11931 | S/CT URBANCIC DISCUSSES CHECHNYA WITH DEPUTY [...] (C) Summary: Russia's Deputy Presidential Representative to the Southern Federal District briefed Deputy S/CT Urbancic on Chechnya, placing it solely in the category of a terrorist conflict. Recognizing that mistakes were made by the GOR, he noted the importance of economic opportunity and [...] | 2006-10-24 14:31:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PHUM PREL RS |
06MOSCOW11938 | INVITATION ACCEPTED: THE NEW DELHI NOVEMBER 18-19 [...] No summary [...] | 2006-10-25 05:53:00 | Embassy Moscow | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ENRG ETRD EAGR KPWR EAID BEXP PGOV RS |
06MOSCOW11987 | EUR A/S FRIED MEETS RUSSIAN HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (C) Summary: In his October 21 meeting with EUR A/S Fried, Russia's Human Rights Ombudsman Vladimir Lukin urged presidential endorsement of the unofficial human rights dialogue initiative organized by his office and the Moscow Carnegie Center, against a backdrop of public disenchantment wit [...] | 2006-10-25 13:43:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL PGOV RS |
06MOSCOW11988 | EXTRANCHECK: PRE-LICENSE CHECK: MOSCOW [...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12C of the Export Administration Act. 2. Reftel requested a Pre-license check to determine the legitimacy and reliability of the end-user, Moscow Institute of Radio-Technique Electronics and Automation (MIRE [...] | 2006-10-25 14:03:00 | Embassy Moscow | UNCLASSIFIED | BEXP ETRD ETTC RS |
06MOSCOW11989 | IN ANNUAL Q&A, PUTIN EXCLUDES THIRD TERM, WORRIES [...] (SBU) On October 25, President Putin hosted his annual "direct line to the President," during which he answered questions from Russia's regions and from Russian speakers abroad (Sevastopol, Ukraine). This year's "direct line" lasted 2 hours and 54 minutes, outstripping last year's by one minu [...] | 2006-10-25 14:16:00 | Embassy Moscow | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV KDEM SOCI PINR RS |
06MOSCOW11994 | A/S FRIED'S MEETING WITH U.S. NGOS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Representatives of four U.S-based NGOs told EUR A/S Fried that they were trying to keep a low profile in light of the NGO law, approaching elections, and increasing GOR assertiveness, especially statist, in key economic sectors. Although NGOs were under increasing scrutiny and [...] | 2006-10-26 07:49:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM EINV KDEM RS |
06MOSCOW12000 | DRAFT MOSCOW LEGISLATION MAY LIMIT "RELIGIOUS [...] (SBU) Summary. The Moscow City Duma is considering a quality-of-life bill which, if adopted in its present form, would allow authorities to fine those engaged in many forms of street solicitation, including "religious agitation." Some religious organizations here worry that if passed as curren [...] | 2006-10-26 11:37:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM PHUM PREL RS |
06MOSCOW12029 | PRESERVING LEBANESE PM SINIORA'S GOVERNMENT: [...] (S) We delivered reftel demarche October 25 to MFA Middle East and North Africa Department Senior Counselor Vladimir Baibakov. Baibakov provided the following points: -- the GOR was aware of the concern over the SARG's attempt to undermine the Siniora government; -- Russia sees Siniora a [...] | 2006-10-27 05:49:00 | Embassy Moscow | SECRET | PREL PGOV PTER KDEM MOPS RS |
06MOSCOW12035 | OLMERT VISIT: AUSPICIOUS START [...] (C) Summary. Israeli PM Ehud Olmert's first working visit to Moscow as prime minister coincided with the 15th anniversary of Israel-Russia renewed diplomatic ties. The issues discussed in Olmert's three meetings--with President Putin, FM Lavrov and Defense Minister Ivanov--included the Middl [...] | 2006-10-27 10:45:00 | Embassy Moscow | SECRET | PREL PGOV PINR IS RS |
06MOSCOW12036 | TRANSNISTRIA: WHY IS VALERIY NESTERUSHKIN SMILING? [...] (C) Russian diplomacy has become more active with Moldova since Putin and Voronin met August 8. The rise of Yanukovich in Ukraine has helped Russia exert leverage over Moldova, helping to roll back the agreement between Moldova and Ukraine on customs that so irritated the Transnistrians. Russ [...] | 2006-10-27 11:03:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR ETRD MD RS |
06MOSCOW12042 | FORMER RUSSIAN PM KASYANOV: OPPOSITION WOES, [...] (C) In a recent one-on-one lunch with Ambassador, a confident ex-prime minister Mikhail Kasyanov cited reasons to be optimistic about his presidential prospects: -- the business community's alleged latent support for his economic reform agenda; -- the weakness of current contenders Medve [...] | 2006-10-27 11:43:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PINR SOCI RS |
06MOSCOW1212 | PUBLIC CHAMBER HEAD VELIKHOV DESCRIBES EFFORTS TO [...] SUMMARY. In a February 6 meeting with the Ambassador, Public Chamber Secretary Yevgeniy Velikhov expressed hope that the Chamber could positively influence the implementing regulations for the controversial NGO legislation. He dismissed recent spying accusations against NGOs as nonsense. He [...] | 2006-02-08 12:35:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM PINR RS |
06MOSCOW12139 | GOR DOWNPLAYS PROSPECT OF VIOLENCE IN BISHKEK [...] (C) In an October 31 meeting, Maksim Peshkov, Director, First CIS Department (Central Asia),attributed Kyrgyzstan's current turmoil to the failure of the Bakiyev-Kulov "tandem" to achieve political and economic stability. He said that Bakiyev, representing the South, and Kulov, the North, co [...] | 2006-10-31 14:22:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KG RS |
06MOSCOW12143 | NINETEEN PARTIES REGISTERED FOR 2007 ELECTIONS; [...] (C) The Federal Registration Service (FRS) has completed its inspection of the 35 political parties that filed for re-registration according to the new, more stringent requirements of the amended electoral law. A FRS representative at an October 26 press conference reported that sixteen of th [...] | 2006-11-01 07:37:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM SOCI RS |
06MOSCOW12158 | RUSSIA IPR: AMBASSADOR'S 10/31 MEETING ON CIVIL [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In an October 31 meeting with Presidential Advisor Veniamin Yakovlev and Duma Legislative Committee Chairman Pavel Krasheninnikov, Ambassador outlined top USG concerns regarding draft Part IV of the Civil Code on IPR and strongly urged action now to correct serious inconsistencie [...] | 2006-11-01 10:52:00 | Embassy Moscow | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KIPR ETRD WTO RS |
06MOSCOW12159 | CHECHEN PRESIDENCY: KADYROV SAYS HE HAS PUTIN'S [...] (C) Ramzan Kadyrov said privately that Putin has told him he will name Kadyrov President of Chechnya before the end of the year. Dagestani Duma Member Gadzhi Makhachev (protect) told us November 1 that Kadyrov revealed this to him in a conversation at Kadyrov's Bayram ('Id al-Fitr) party in G [...] | 2006-11-01 11:27:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER MARR RS |
06MOSCOW12161 | DOT DEPUTY SECRETARY CINO'S MEETING WITH RUSSIAN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. In a October 24 meeting with Deputy Secretary Cino, Russian Railroads (RZhD) Vice President Vadim SIPDIS Morozov discussed on-going RZhD restructuring efforts and competition in the rail sector. Morozov said GE's diesel engines had been found incompatible with Russia's mostl [...] | 2006-11-01 11:47:00 | Embassy Moscow | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ELTN OVIP PREL RS |
06MOSCOW12168 | RUSSIA: LEFT-OF-CENTER PARTY MERGER FINALIZED [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On October 28, the new Spravedlivaya Rossiya ("A Just Russia") party was formally established in a merger of the Russian Party of Life, Rodina, and the Party of Pensioners. The leader of the new party is Federation Council Chairman and Russia Party of Life Chairman Sergey Miron [...] | 2006-11-01 13:43:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PINR KDEM PGOV RS |
06MOSCOW1219 | DANISH CARICATURE CONTROVERSY PRODUCES FALLOUT IN [...] (C) SUMMARY: On February 6, Chechnya's controversial Acting Prime Minister, Ramzan Kadyrov, announced that Danish NGOs would be banned in his republic because of the insult to Muslims caused by the caricatures in a Danish newspaper. GOR officials distanced themselves from Kadyrov's position, [...] | 2006-02-08 14:14:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL PINR RS |
06MOSCOW12190 | 11/1 DEADLINE HITS: AEROFLOT LOOSES 787 SLOTS, BUT [...] (SBU) As of today, November 1, Boeing has pushed back the potential delivery schedule for Aeroflot's proposed purchase of 22 787 Dreamliners from 2009-2011 to 2011-2013. By today, Aeroflot was to have either secured Board approval for the acquisition or have signed an intermediate lease for si [...] | 2006-11-01 15:58:00 | Embassy Moscow | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON PREL EAIR USTR RS |
06MOSCOW12200 | MOSCOW WELCOMES ANNOUNCEMENT OF RESUMPTION OF [...] (U) The Russian government welcomed the agreement to resume the Six-Party talks. Russian officials, including Defense Minister Sergey Ivanov, Security Council Secretary Igor Ivanov, and Deputy Foreign Minister Aleksandr Alekseyev accepted the announcement as "exceedingly positive." Alekseye [...] | 2006-11-02 09:25:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PARM KNNP KN RS |
06MOSCOW12231 | DEMARCHE ON DISRUPTION OF CHISINAU-MOSCOW RAIL [...] (C) We made reftel demarche November 1 to Ambassador Valeriy Nesterushkin, MFA negotiator for Transnistria. Nesterushkin made two notes of fact. In the first tick, he said the decision to cancel trains no. 47 (Moscow-Chisinau) and 48 (Chisinau-Moscow) was taken by Russian Railroads, not the G [...] | 2006-11-02 14:07:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ETRD PBTS MD UP RS |
06MOSCOW12232 | PROPOSED ECONOMIC SANCTIONS BILL LIKELY TO PASS [...] (U) On October 27, United Russia Duma Deputies submitted a bill that would empower the Russian President to impose economic sanctions against any country, legal entity, or person in the event of an "emergency situation." The bill is still in its early stages. While there are differing views [...] | 2006-11-02 14:19:00 | Embassy Moscow | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL ECON RS |
06MOSCOW12257 | GEORGIA-RUSSIA: FM BEZHUASHVILI GETS RUSSIA'S [...] (C) Georgian FM Bezhuashvili told Ambassador November 2 that he "got the message" passed to him bluntly November 1 by FM Lavrov and Security Council Secretary Igor Ivanov: that the Russians believe Georgia will begin military action in Abkhazia or South Ossetia; that Russia will confront Georg [...] | 2006-11-02 14:32:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR ETRD GG RS |
06MOSCOW12259 | RUSSIAN MFA CRITICIZES DAS BRYZA'S FINANCIAL TIMES [...] (C) MFA North America Deputy Director Vladimir Vinokurov contacted Political M/C November 2 to highlight the ministry's critical reaction to comments made about the Northern European Gas Pipeline (NEGP) by DAS Bryza in an October 30 Financial Times of Germany interview. Vinkurov told us the [...] | 2006-11-02 15:39:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ENRG RS |
06MOSCOW12261 | RUSSIAN ELECTRICITY SECTOR PRIVATIZATION BEGINS [...] (C) Summary. Russian electricity monopoly, RAO UES, on October 31 sold 14.4 percent of daughter company WGK-5 for $459 million, marking the first of the restructured power generating companies to be successfully privatized. Speculation that Gazprom would acquire the entire offering proved to [...] | 2006-11-02 16:31:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | ECON EIND ENRG PREL RS |
06MOSCOW12265 | OWNER VOWS TO PUSH FOR VIGOROUS INVESTIGATION OF [...] (C) A resolute Marat Gelman told us October 31 that he intended to use his remaining official contacts to energize a languishing criminal investigation of the October 21 attack on his Moscow Gelman Art Gallery. Law enforcement officials had "done nothing" since ten men smashed twenty paintings [...] | 2006-11-03 04:56:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV KDEM SCUL RS |
06MOSCOW12310 | MORE NGOS RE-REGISTERED [...] (C) SUMMARY: The re-registration of foreign NGOs is continuing apace, with 148 approved by the backlogged Federal Registration Service. A majority of U.S. NGOs known to the Embassy are re-registered, with Human Rights Watch expecting approval any day. In the North Caucasus, the FRS and tax [...] | 2006-11-03 16:15:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL PGOV PREF EAID KDEM RS |
06MOSCOW12311 | RUSSIA: NATIONALISTS TO MARCH ON NOVEMBER 4 [...] SUMMARY: On Russia Unity Day, November 4, a large nationalist "Russia March" is planned for several Russian cities, including Moscow. Russia March is being organized by the Movement Against Illegal Immigration (DPNI) and is supported by several other nationalist and fascist groups, and by som [...] | 2006-11-03 16:25:00 | Embassy Moscow | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV KDEM PHUM PINR PINS RS |
06MOSCOW12347 | RUSSIAN MFA ON TALKS WITH GEORGIA [...] (C) The Russian MFA was disappointed that Georgian FM Bezhuashvili brought no deliverables with him to his November 1-2 talks in Moscow. The Russians are hearing rumors of a major cabinet reshuffle in Tbilisi. Proposed talks between President Saakashvili and South Ossetian leader Kokoity are [...] | 2006-11-07 15:30:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR GG RS |
06MOSCOW12369 | RUSSIAN NATIONALIST MARCH FIZZLES [...] (SBU) Decisive action by the Moscow city authorities and waning enthusiasm for the enterprise produced smaller-then-predicted attendance at the March 4 nationalist "Russian march." In the end, fewer then three thousand Muscovites participated on Saturday, a fraction of the number of police an [...] | 2006-11-08 16:18:00 | Embassy Moscow | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM PHUM PINR RS |
06MOSCOW12371 | MOSCOW'S REACTION TO BISHKEK VIOLENCE: "ANOTHER [...] (C) The GOR has reacted cautiously to events in Bishkek. After the news of the November 7 violence reached Moscow, DFM Denisov told the Ambassador that the GOR was keeping a close watch on the situation and urging calm. Director of the MFA's First CIS Department (Central Asia) Maksim Peshkov t [...] | 2006-11-08 16:32:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KG RS |
06MOSCOW12390 | RUSSIA ON DEBT RELIEF FOR IRAQ [...] No summary [...] | 2006-11-09 12:59:00 | Embassy Moscow | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN IZ RS |
06MOSCOW12394 | RUSSIA IPR: PART IV OF CIVIL CODE ADVANCES [...] (U) This message is sensitive but unclassified and is not intended for Internet distribution. 2. (SBU) Summary: The State Duma passed Part IV of the Civil Code in its second reading on November 8. The third and final reading of the law is likely to take place within the next ten days. [...] | 2006-11-09 14:24:00 | Embassy Moscow | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KIPR ETRD WTO RS |
06MOSCOW12395 | TREASURY U/S LEVEY'S MEETING WITH RUSSIA'S FEDERAL [...] (C) In a meeting on October 24 with Treasury Under Secretary Stuart Levey, Federal Financial Monitoring Service SIPDIS (FFMS) Chief Viktor Zubkov said he shared the USG's concern about North Korean financial flows. He recounted how the FFMS had investigated information on North Korean enti [...] | 2006-11-09 14:35:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | KTFN EFIN ETTC ECON PTER PREL RS |
06MOSCOW12396 | TREASURY U/S LEVEY DISCUSSES DPRK, IRAN WITH [...] Summary. (C) In meetings October 23 and 24 with Treasury Under Secretary Levey, officials from the Central Bank (CBR),Finance Ministry and private Russian banks downplayed the possibility that North Korean and Iranian entities are actively using the Russian financial system to launder money [...] | 2006-11-09 14:37:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | KTFN EFIN ETTC ECON PTER PREL RS |
06MOSCOW12402 | RUSSIAN DFM KISLYAK: BILATERAL RELATIONS UPDATE [...] (C) Summary: In a November 8 meeting with the Ambassador, DFM Kislyak expressed concern over the potential impact of US congressional elections on WTO and bilateral nuclear cooperation. He argued again that US sanctions against Sukhoi were symbolic of the failings in bilateral relations -- [...] | 2006-11-09 15:58:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KNDP ECON ETRD RS |
06MOSCOW12424 | RUSSIA: TERRORISM FINANCING COORDINATING OFFICER [...] (C) Post's Terrorism Financing Coordinating Officer (TFCO) is Kathleen Doherty, Economic Policy Unit Chief, 7-495-728-5186. Unclassified email is: DohertyKA@state.gov. Classified email is: DohertyKX@state.sgov.gov. 2. (C) Post's Deputy TFCO is Clayton Hays, Financial Economist, 7-495-728-5 [...] | 2006-11-13 15:05:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | KTFN EFIN PTER RS |
06MOSCOW12441 | RUSSIAN REACTION TO EVENTS IN GEORGIA [...] (C) MFA 4th CIS Department Director Andrey Kelin told us November 13 that Georgia shows no willingness to meet Russia's "simple" demands for normalizing relations. He downplayed the effects of the sacking of former DefMin Okruashvili. He fretted that an "alternative election" in South Osseti [...] | 2006-11-14 15:13:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR PBTS UNSC OSCE GG RS |
06MOSCOW12448 | BRYANSK: CASE STUDY OF A REGIONAL PARTY OF POWER [...] (SBU) Summary: Once a keystone of post-Soviet Communist control, the political scene in Bryansk region is now dominated by United Russia (YR). YR has attracted the youth, business, and elite vote - votes that used to be divided between the Communist Party and liberal parties like the Union of [...] | 2006-11-15 09:34:00 | Embassy Moscow | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM KDEM SOCI RS |
06MOSCOW12457 | RUSSIA'S DEFENSE MINISTER RAISES PUBLIC PROFILE [...] (C) SUMMARY; Deputy Prime Minister and Defense Minister Sergey Ivanov has made himself more available to the media and the general public in recent weeks. Although he is careful to limit his remarks to issues within his core portfolio, an "interactive interview" in a prominent newspaper las [...] | 2006-11-15 15:56:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV MARR MCAP PREL RS |
06MOSCOW12458 | RUSSIAN ENERGY: UPDATE ON SAKHALIN-1 OPERATIONS [...] (SBU) In light of press reports indicating that the GOR was slowing the Sakhalin-1 consortium's operations, we contacted ExxonMobil's Sakhalin office to get an update. According to Michael Allen, ExxonMobil's government relations head on Sakhalin, as of November 16 the consortium had still not [...] | 2006-11-16 05:27:00 | Embassy Moscow | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EPET ENRG ECON PREL RS |
06MOSCOW12470 | COUNTRY RESOLUTIONS IN THE UNGA THIRD COMMITTEE: [...] (C) In a November 16 conversation, Grigoriy Lukyantsev, Head of the UN Division of the MFA's Department of Humanitarian Cooperation and Human Rights, told us that Russia would oppose resolutions on the human rights situations in Iran, Belarus and Uzbekistan. He said Russia would support a N [...] | 2006-11-16 13:38:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM UNHRC RS |
06MOSCOW12471 | NGO REGISTRATION UPDATE: NOVEMBER 16 [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. The Federal Registration Service (FRS) has now re-registered 159 foreign NGOs, including Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International. We understand FRS has rejected five NGOs, although none appear to be U.S. organizations. The authorities have disseminated draft guidelines [...] | 2006-11-16 14:25:00 | Embassy Moscow | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL PGOV PREF EAID KDEM RS |
06MOSCOW12473 | RUSSIA WELCOMES CONSULTATIONS ON U.S. MISSILE [...] (S) Oleg Burmistrov, Chief of the Political-Military Section of the Foreign Ministry's North America Department, told us 13 November that Moscow appreciated the 3 November visit of Undersecretary of Defense Stephen Cambone, who briefed Deputy Prime Minister and Defense Minister Sergey Ivanov [...] | 2006-11-16 15:08:00 | Embassy Moscow | SECRET | MARR MCAP PARM PREL RS |
06MOSCOW12481 | EXTRANCHECK: PRE-LICENSE CHECK: LE MONTI MR. [...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12C of the Export Administration Act. 2. Reftel requested a Pre-license check to determine the legitimacy and reliability of the end-user, Le Monti Mr. Evgeny Mirmovich, Moscow, Russia. The company is listed [...] | 2006-11-17 11:15:00 | Embassy Moscow | UNCLASSIFIED | BEXP ETRD ETTC RS |
06MOSCOW12482 | EXTRANCHECK: PRE-LICENSE CHECK: (A) JSC CHOP [...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12C of the Export Administration Act. 2. Reftel requested a Pre-license check to determine the legitimacy and reliability of the end-user, (A) JSC CHOP Vityaz-S (D359202) AND (B) JSC CHOP Vityaz-S (D358555),[...] | 2006-11-17 11:15:00 | Embassy Moscow | UNCLASSIFIED | BEXP ETRD ETTC RS |
06MOSCOW12498 | FURTHER ELECTORAL LAW CHANGES: MORE LEVERS OF [...] (SBU) Summary. A draft electoral law, which passed its third and final Duma reading on November 17, contains vague provisions which could be used to increase levers of central control over the electoral process. The draft would allow the exclusion of candidates who run negative TV ad campaign [...] | 2006-11-17 14:26:00 | Embassy Moscow | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV KDEM RS |
06MOSCOW12501 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: NOVEMBER 17 UNGA EMERGENCY [...] No summary [...] | 2006-11-17 15:41:00 | Embassy Moscow | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL UNGA IS RS |
06MOSCOW12528 | A/S FRIED CONVERSATION WITH RUSSIAN DFM KARASIN, [...] (C) Assistant Secretary Daniel Fried and Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Grigoriy Karasin focused on Georgia, Ukraine and Moldova in a two hour discussion November 15. Karasin dismissed Georgian conciliatory steps as cosmetic; Fried said they are real and Russia should respond by ending sanct [...] | 2006-11-20 13:48:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR PBTS ETRD GG MD UP RS |
06MOSCOW12549 | A/S FRIED'S NOVEMBER 15 MEETING WITH DFM TITOV ON [...] (C) Summary: In a November 15 meeting with DFM Titov, A/S Fried made clear that the U.S. intended to move forward on Kosovo quickly after UN Special Envoy Ahtisaari presented the sides with his proposal after the Serbian parliamentary elections. He stressed that putting off the status decis [...] | 2006-11-21 11:28:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV YI RS |
06MOSCOW12557 | UNITED RUSSIA STUMBLES ON REGIONAL LEGISLATION [...] (C) SUMMARY: United Russia is far from united on the direct election of mayors. United Russia Duma members introduced legislation to eliminate the direct election of mayors, in what may have been a misguided attempt to implement Putin's call to transfer more authority to the regions. Predict [...] | 2006-11-21 13:43:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PINR KDEM PGOV RS |
06MOSCOW12563 | EXTRANCHECK: PRE-LICENSE CHECK: M.P.CHUMAKOV [...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12C of the Export Administration Act. 2. Reftel requested a Pre-license check to determine the legitimacy and reliability of the end-user, M.P. Chumakov Institute of Poliomyelitis and viral encefalitides of [...] | 2006-11-22 05:27:00 | Embassy Moscow | UNCLASSIFIED | BEXP ETRD ETTC RS |
06MOSCOW12569 | PUTIN RAISES BANK SECTOR CONCERNS WITH STATE [...] (SBU) On November 14 President Putin delivered his first ever full-length address dedicated to Russia's banking system. He called for expanded lending to the real economy, especially small and medium business and regionally beyond the lucrative markets of Moscow and St. Petersburg. He presse [...] | 2006-11-22 08:17:00 | Embassy Moscow | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN ETRD RS |
06MOSCOW12572 | RUSSIA: WINTER POWER SHORTAGES EXPECTED [...] (C) Summary. Government officials and industry analysts are expecting power shortages in Russia this winter as electricity consumption growth strains the existing power infrastructure. UES Head Chubays has warned GOR officials all year about looming electricity shortfalls. UES is considering [...] | 2006-11-22 08:53:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EIND ENRG PREL RS |
06MOSCOW12587 | RUSSIAN ENERGY: CRUNCH TIME FOR CPC [...] (C) Summary: On November 20, the Ambassador met with Chevron Vice Chairman Peter Robertson and head of Chevron's Russian operations, Ian MacDonald. The conversation centered on CPC expansion but included brief discussions of the Burgas-Alexandropoulis bypass pipeline (BAP),and the on-going t [...] | 2006-11-22 13:01:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG ECON PREL RS |
06MOSCOW12591 | RUSSIA: BARRIERS TO BUSINESS: CREDIT, TAXES, AND [...] (SBU) Summary. A recently-released survey of 3,000 business shows a surprising convergence of opinion between small, medium, and large enterprises about what stands in the way of commercial success in Russia. Respondents uniformly identified the high cost of credit, high tax rates, and ineff [...] | 2006-11-22 14:51:00 | Embassy Moscow | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EINT RS |
06MOSCOW12592 | RUSSIAN MFA ON DRAFT IRAQ UNSCR [...] (C) We shared reftel documentation, including the draft Iraq UNSCR, on November 21 with Vladimir Safronkov, Chief of the UN Political Affairs Section in the MFA's International Organizations Department. Safronkov said that Russia had no problem with the draft in principle and had so instruct [...] | 2006-11-22 14:56:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNSC IZ RS |
06MOSCOW12593 | RUSSIA: TERRORIST FACILITATORS AND INCITERS [...] No summary [...] | 2006-11-22 15:02:00 | Embassy Moscow | SECRET | KTFN EFIN ETTN PTER PREL RS |
06MOSCOW12595 | PRESIDENT PUTIN, DEFMIN IVANOV ADDRESS RUSSIAN [...] (C) SUMMARY: Putin and Defense Minister Ivanov candidly acknowledged many of the military's internal problems during a 16 November senior commanders conference in Moscow. The two leaders promised various remedies ranging from higher salaries and better treatment for soldiers to steep increas [...] | 2006-11-22 15:41:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | MCAP PREL PGOV PHUM RS |
06MOSCOW12600 | RUSSIA'S RELATIONS WITH BELARUS [...] (C) Summary. Another Putin-Lukashenko meeting has come and gone with few evident results. It occurred against a widespread perception here that Putin would like to rein in Lukashenko as part of Russia's growing assertiveness. Unresolved problems, most notably those related to energy, plague [...] | 2006-11-24 10:38:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON BO RS |
06MOSCOW12609 | BELGOROD: UNITED RUSSIA, THE GOVERNOR, AND THE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Major local business owners, who are United Russia regional deputies, in conjunction with the Russian Orthodox Church, dominate all spheres of activity in Belgorod Oblast, which Embassy visited recently. Governor Savchenko is a strong leader who combines a flair for populist s [...] | 2006-11-24 11:31:00 | Embassy Moscow | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KDEM RS |
06MOSCOW12628 | RUSSIA KEEPS UP THE PACE IN MIDDLE EAST DIPLOMACY [...] (C) Summary: Following the assassination of Lebanese Minister Gemayel, Russia has become increasingly concerned about political violence in Lebanon, but is unwilling to press Damascus on its role. The MFA preferred to offer legalistic arguments about whether there was compelling proof of S [...] | 2006-11-27 08:18:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IS SY LE IZ RS |
06MOSCOW12630 | CENTRAL ELECTORAL COMMISSIONER REVIEWS TRIP TO [...] (C) Central Electoral Commission Chairman Aleksandr Veshnyakov described to Ambassador November 21 his reaction to State Duma-adopted amendments to the existing electoral law (reftel). Veshnyakov's key judgments: -- elimination of the minimum threshold for voter turnout in Russia was premat [...] | 2006-11-27 09:15:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM PHUM RS |
06MOSCOW12631 | VOLGOGRAD: INTERESTED IN INCREASED ACADEMIC AND [...] (U) Sensitive But Unclassified. Not for internet distribution. Propriety Information. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: During Ambassador Burns' November 16-17 trip to Volgograd, government, business and civil society representatives emphasized their desire to see stronger academic and business coopera [...] | 2006-11-27 09:25:00 | Embassy Moscow | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EINV PGOV EAGR SOCR PINR RS |
06MOSCOW12637 | DUTCH NGO REFUSED RE-REGISTRATION [...] (SBU) The Federal Registration Service refused the NGO Stichting Russia Justice Initiative (RJI) last week, citing technical problems with its application. The technical reasons included questions about RJI Executive Director Ole Solvang's authority to represent RJI during the process and in [...] | 2006-11-27 13:12:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PREF PHUM EAID KDEM RS |
06MOSCOW12643 | DEMARCHE ON DEPORTATION OF UZBEK ASYLUM SEEKER [...] (C) We met November 22 with MFA Human Rights and Humanitarian Cooperation Department Deputy Director Mikhail Lebedev and his staff to discuss the deportation of Rustam Muminov to Uzbekistan and to underline U.S. concerns about deportation of other asylum seekers to Uzbekistan given Tashkent' [...] | 2006-11-27 14:50:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM PREF UZ RS |
06MOSCOW12646 | EXTRANCHECK: POST-SHIPMENT VERIFICATION: [...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12C of the Export Administration Act. 2. Reftel requested a post-shipment verification to determine the legitimacy and reliability of the end- user, Federalnaya Sluzhba Ohrany, Moscow, Russia. The company wa [...] | 2006-11-28 05:44:00 | Embassy Moscow | UNCLASSIFIED | BEXP ETRD ETTC RS |
06MOSCOW12666 | RUSSIA'S APPROACH TO POST-ORANGE UKRAINE [...] (C) Summary: Russia has reinvigorated its engagement with Ukraine, focusing on practical cooperation. Last month's Fradkov-Yanukovich meeting, which yielded a gas deal, set the stage for the December 23 Putin-Yushchenko Summit. Russian attitudes, however, still seem to lack an appreciation [...] | 2006-11-28 16:30:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV UP RS |
06MOSCOW12702 | RUSSIA: CEMENTING OUR ECONOMIC RELATIONS [...] (C) Summary: After thirteen years of tough negotiations, we finally have in hand a bilateral agreement on Russia's accession to the WTO. Understanding that we are not yet out of the woods, with hard work ahead in the multilateral forum, we should take full advantage of the improved atmosphere [...] | 2006-11-30 03:56:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EAGR ENRG ETRD PREL RS EINV |
06MOSCOW12708 | COMMUNIST PARTY: NOT DEAD YET [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Most observers describe the Communist Party (KPRF) as a party on life-support sustained by nostalgic pensioners. The cliche has it that as party stalwart's die off, so too will the KPRF. This assessment, however, ignores a relatively constant level of support, despite the dem [...] | 2006-11-30 12:44:00 | Embassy Moscow | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV KDEM RS |
06MOSCOW12709 | A GUIDE TO RUSSIAN POLITICAL YOUTH GROUPS: PART 1 [...] (C) SUMMARY. This is part one of a two-part message describing Russian political youth groups. This cable contains a summary of the major political youth movements in Russia. Russian political youth groups can be broadly divided into two categories: grassroots organizations driven by idealis [...] | 2006-11-30 13:46:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PREL RS |
06MOSCOW12711 | CIS SUMMITS: GOING THROUGH THE MOTIONS? [...] (C) Summary: After a series of low-impact/low-turnout meetings, CIS Heads of State gathered again in Minsk on November 28. The meeting -- billed as a "working" summit -- will be followed by another, more formal gathering in Astana in December to commemorate the CIS's fifteenth anniversary. [...] | 2006-11-30 13:55:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON PINR BY RS |
06MOSCOW12712 | EXTRANCHECK: POST-SHIPMENT VERIFICATION: [...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12C of the Export Administration Act. 2. Reftel requested a post-shipment verification to determine the legitimacy and reliability of the end- user, Federalnaya Sluzhba Ohrany, Moscow, Russia. The company wa [...] | 2006-11-30 14:09:00 | Embassy Moscow | UNCLASSIFIED | BEXP ETRD ETTC RS |
06MOSCOW12713 | UNITED COMPANY RUSAL: MAKING OF A RUSSIAN NATIONAL [...] (C) SUMMARY. The proposed merger this coming spring of Russian Aluminum (RUSAL),Siberian Ural Aluminum (SUAL Group),and Glencore International AG (Glencore) into "United Company RUSAL" will create the world's largest aluminum producer, unseating Alcoa. Industry insiders cast the deal more [...] | 2006-11-30 14:37:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD ECON RS |
06MOSCOW12717 | RUSSIAN YOUTH POLITICS, OR LACK THEREOF: PART 2 OF [...] (C) SUMMARY. This is the second part of a two-part message describing Russian political youth groups. Russia's youth is overwhelmingly apolitical, and youth groups in general have very little impact on political life in Russia. The small bit of political life that does exist is restricted to t [...] | 2006-11-30 17:10:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR RS |
06MOSCOW12750 | RUSSIA: SOME "DEMOCRATS" UNITE, LARGER DIVISIONS [...] (C) Poor performances in the October 8 regional elections notwithstanding, the democratic, western-leaning political parties and movements --Yabloko, SPS, Other Russia, the Republican Party of Russia-- show few signs of being willing to join forces to contest the March 2007 regional elections [...] | 2006-12-01 14:43:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV RS |
06MOSCOW12751 | LITVINENKO ASSASSINATION: REACTION IN MOSCOW [...] (C) The November 23 death by radiation poisoning of former FSB agent Aleksandr Litvinenko in London has spawned a welter of conspiracy theories in Russia. The media have variously traced Litvinenko's demise to XXXXXXXXXXXX, suicide, Putin's Kremlin, Putin himself, those determined to undermine Put [...] | 2006-12-01 14:44:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM PREL PINR RS |
06MOSCOW12752 | RUSSIAN POSITION ON CFE, ISTANBUL COMMITMENTS [...] (C) The Chief of the Conventional Arms Control Division in the Foreign Ministry's Department of Security Affairs and Disarmament, Anton Mazur, told us 28 November that we could expect "little or no change" in the GOR's approach to Conventional Forces in Europe (CFE) issues at next week's OSCE [...] | 2006-12-01 15:02:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR OSCE PREL RS |
06MOSCOW12757 | GORDEYEV ON THE WARPATH, AND THE DUTCH STRIKE BACK [...] (C/NF) SUMMARY: According to the Dutch AgCouns in Moscow, Dutch veterinary and plant health authorities have run out of patience with their Russian counterparts and are proposing temporarily to halt plant quarantine certification by Dutch authorities of exports of all plant products to Russia. [...] | 2006-12-01 20:23:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | EAGR ETRD PREL WTO RS |
06MOSCOW12763 | CPC UPDATE: FURTHER MOVEMENT TOWARD FINISH LINE? [...] (C) SUMMARY. On December 1, Ian MacDonald, head of Chevron Russia and former head of CPC told us that the hoped-for "seniors'" meeting -- at which a CPC expansion MOU may have been signed -- did not come off this week. However, CPC shareholders held a highly positive meeting which cleared aw [...] | 2006-12-04 03:45:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG ECON PREL RS |
06MOSCOW12764 | RUSSIANS STILL CYNICAL ABOUT NATIONAL PRIORITY [...] No summary [...] | 2006-12-04 03:47:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | EAGR ECON EFIN PGOV PREL RS POL |
06MOSCOW12781 | MFA UNHAPPY WITH PALESTINIAN RESOLUTION ON UN [...] (C) We discussed reftel talking points on the 10th UNGA Emergency Special Session with Vladimir Safronkov, Chief of the UN Political Affairs Section in the MFA's International Organizations Department. Safronkov said that the MFA had already instructed its mission in New York to push for ch [...] | 2006-12-04 15:36:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNGA IS RS |
06MOSCOW12783 | MFA ON UNSC ACTION ON IRAN [...] (C) We raised reftel points with two of our working-level MFA contacts involved on the Iran nuclear issue. They provided separate readouts on the current status of discussions in the Security Council and expressed the GOR's intent to reach agreement on a resolution text. Neither was willing [...] | 2006-12-04 16:29:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MNUC PARM UNSC RS |
06MOSCOW12784 | FOREIGN NGO RE-REGISTRATION NEARING ITS END [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Federal Registration Service (FRS) has re-registered 176 foreign NGOs as of December 1, with another 15 still under consideration, and it is nearing the end of this process. Of the 29 NGOs tracked by USAID, 21 have been re-registered, and eight are awaiting decisions from [...] | 2006-12-04 16:30:00 | Embassy Moscow | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PREF PHUM EAID KDEM RS |
06MOSCOW12819 | KOSOVO: RUSSIAN POSITION ON UNSC VETO HARDENING [...] (C) SUMMARY: In late-November meetings in Moscow, Kosovo Prime Minister Ceku failed to get assurances that Russia would not use its veto when the Security Council takes up the status issue early next year. Russian officials have signaled that they might ultimately deploy a veto to block a UN [...] | 2006-12-07 07:02:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEV UNMIK SR YI RS |
06MOSCOW12838 | RUSSIA WANTS "PREDICTABILITY" IN POST-START [...] (S) Russia will insist on predictability in any arrangement that follows expiration of the START Treaty in 2009, according to Vasiliy Boryak, Chief of the START Office in the Foreign Ministry's Department for Disarmament and Security Affairs. First and foremost, Boryak told us December 7, wa [...] | 2006-12-07 14:16:00 | Embassy Moscow | SECRET | PARM MCAP PREL RS |
06MOSCOW12851 | METROPOLITAN KIRILL SEES POPE BENEDICT AS MORE [...] No summary [...] | 2006-12-08 13:49:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM PINR RS |
06MOSCOW12856 | COMMUNIST PARTY DEPUTY CHAIRMAN LOOKS TO HIS [...] (SBU) Summary. In a December 6 meeting with EUR/RUS Director Mary Warlick, Communist Party (KPRF) Deputy Chairman Ivan Melnikov offered reactions to current domestic political events that confirmed his rumored social democratic leanings, and that suggested he was positioning himself to replace [...] | 2006-12-08 15:33:00 | Embassy Moscow | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KDEM RS |
06MOSCOW12857 | UNITED RUSSIA APPROVES PARTY PLATFORM [...] (C) SUMMARY: United Russia (YR) approved its party platform and action plan for the next ten years at its convention in Yekaterinburg on December 2. Party luminaries followed a tight script, staked United Russia's claim to the political center with a populist tilt, and rallied its members for [...] | 2006-12-08 15:47:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PINR PGOV KDCM RS |
06MOSCOW12878 | GAYDAR'S WEEKEND INTERVIEWS LEAVE QUESTIONS ABOUT [...] (C) A December 6 Financial Times article and two TV interviews with ex-Prime Minister Gaydar broadcast the weekend of December 8 have shed little light on Gaydar's alleged poisoning November 22 in Dublin. Although Gaydar's Moscow doctors have been unable or unwilling to state that Gaydar had [...] | 2006-12-12 08:51:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR KDEM RS |
06MOSCOW12895 | MFA SUPPORTS UNSC THEMATIC DEBATE ON THE MIDDLE [...] (C) We raised reftel points on the UN Security Council's Middle East thematic debate with Vladimir Safronkov, Chief of the UN Political Affairs Section in the MFA's International Organizations Department. We urged the GOR to withhold its support for any statement associated with the debate. [...] | 2006-12-12 13:03:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNSC IS RS |
06MOSCOW12897 | AMBASSADOR VISITS NORTH CAUCASUS, DECEMBER 4-5 [...] (C) Ambassador Burns traveled to the North Caucasus December 4-5 -- the first American Ambassador to visit the region in fifteen years. In Kabardino-Balkaria he discussed with President Kanokov prospects for economic development and political reform. Kanokov provided regional views on frozen [...] | 2006-12-12 14:27:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PARM ETRD PINR GG RS |
06MOSCOW12900 | CHITA: CONDEMNED LAND SEEKS FUTURE AS GATEWAY TO [...] (C) Summary. Squeezed between China and the rest of Siberia and challenged with an oppressively harsh climate, Chita Oblast has historically served as a place of exile and remains one of Russia's poorest regions. The break-up of the Soviet Union led to the collapse of the region's livestock [...] | 2006-12-13 06:51:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON ETRD PINR KN RS |
06MOSCOW12901 | "A JUST RUSSIA": DIFFICULT BEGINNING, UNCERTAIN [...] (C) Spravedlivaya Rossiya (SR) (&A Just Russia8),often referred to as the &second8 Kremlin party, has been officially registered. The party has moved to constitute itself at the federal and local levels, by combining elements of its constituent parties --Rodina, the Russian Party of Life, an [...] | 2006-12-13 11:25:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR KDEM SOCI RS |
06MOSCOW12912 | AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH ROSNEFT'S BOGDANCHIKOV [...] (C) Summary. On December 12, the Ambassador met with Rosneft's President Sergey Bogdanchikov who confirmed that Rosneft is interested in bits of Yukos but that the rumor it will purchase Surgutneftegaz (SNG) is a "fairy tale." He claimed that CPC expansion will be "automatic" once an inter-g [...] | 2006-12-13 15:22:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG ECON PREL RS |
06MOSCOW12914 | RUSSIA: KIRIYENKO REVIEWS TEHRAN VISIT [...] (C) SUMMARY. In a December 13 meeting with the Ambassador, Rosatom Director Kiriyenko provided his impressions from his recent trip to Tehran. He said Foreign Minister Mottaki had been full of bluster, claiming to be unafraid of sanctions and unconcerned about the United States. Mottaki had [...] | 2006-12-13 15:55:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | KNNP PREL ETRD RU IR UN AORC |
06MOSCOW12916 | KASPAROV'S UNITED CIVIC FRONT OFFICES SEARCHED BY [...] (C) On December 13, United Civic Front Chairman Garry Kasparov confirmed press accounts that police had searched his organization's offices the afternoon of December 12. Kasparov told us he thought that "intimidation" was the purpose of the search, which the police for their part described to [...] | 2006-12-13 16:12:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM PINR RS |
06MOSCOW12917 | DFM YAKOVENKO: "DISAPPOINTMENT" OVER US RAISING OF [...] (C) On December 13, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Aleksandr Yakovenko called the Ambassador to register "concern and disappointment" over U.S. efforts in the Security Council to raise the plight of Belarusian opposition leader Aleksandr Kozulin, despite Belarus not being on the UNSC agenda [...] | 2006-12-13 16:37:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM UNSC RS BO |
06MOSCOW12924 | RUSSIA-GEORGIA: TREADING WATER [...] (C) Summary: Russian-Georgian relations are treading water until after both countries recover from their break for New Years and Orthodox Christmas, around mid-January. Georgia has taken pains to tone down the rhetoric, and Putin has noticed. Georgia is dismantling some of the restrictions f [...] | 2006-12-14 10:19:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ETRD GG RS |
06MOSCOW12930 | RUSSIAN ENERGY: AMBASSADOR MEETS WITH SHELL ON [...] (C) SUMMARY. On December 14, the Ambassador met with Chris Finlayson (U.K. citizen),head of Shell's Russia operations, and Alf D'Souza (Australian citizen),Shell's VP for corporate affairs, to discuss the latest developments on the Sakhalin-2 project. Finlayson characterized negotiations w [...] | 2006-12-14 14:39:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG ECON PREL RS |
06MOSCOW12932 | AN ENDGAME FOR DETAINED UZBEKS IN IVANOVO? [...] (C) SUMMARY: UNHCR is developing contingency plans for what may be a final GOR decision on 13 detained Uzbeks in Ivanovo. Our UNHCR and NGO contacts do not have credible information on what the GOR may do, but they expect whatever decision has been made to be implemented as soon as December [...] | 2006-12-14 15:34:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PHUM PREL RS |
06MOSCOW12934 | MFA NEGATIVE ON UNSC BURMA RESOLUTION [...] (C) In a December 14 discussion about reftel draft UNSCR, Vladimir Safronkov, Chief of the UN Political Affairs Section in the MFA's International Organizations Department, told us Russia's initial reaction was negative. He acknowledged Russia had its own concerns about the situation in Bur [...] | 2006-12-14 15:44:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM UNSC BM RS |
06MOSCOW12935 | EXTRANCHECK: POST-SHIPMENT VERIFICATION: [...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12C of the Export Administration Act. 2. Reftel requested a post-shipment verification to determine the legitimacy and reliability of the end- user, Villart Export, Elektrostal, Russia. The company was liste [...] | 2006-12-15 06:42:00 | Embassy Moscow | UNCLASSIFIED | BEXP ETRD ETTC RS |
06MOSCOW12936 | EXTRANCHECK: POST-SHIPMENT VERIFICATION: S- [...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12C of the Export Administration Act. 2. Reftel requested a post-shipment verification to determine the legitimacy and reliability of the end- user, S-Terra, Zelenograd, Moscow, Russia. The company was liste [...] | 2006-12-15 06:43:00 | Embassy Moscow | UNCLASSIFIED | BEXP ETRD ETTC RS |
06MOSCOW12942 | RUSSIAN DUMA DEFENSE COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN TOUR [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Viktor Zavarzin, Chairman of the State Duma Defense Committee, gave his annual briefing to Moscow's military attache corps December 12. During the 90-minute presentation, Zavarzin summarized his committee's legislative activities -- weapons modernization and improvements in s [...] | 2006-12-15 13:28:00 | Embassy Moscow | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MARR MCAP PREL SOCI PGOV RS |
06MOSCOW12960 | AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH ROSNEFT'S BOGDANCHIKOV [...] (C) Summary. On December 12, the Ambassador met with Rosneft's President Sergey Bogdanchikov who confirmed that Rosneft is interested in bits of Yukos but that the rumor it will purchase Surgutneftegaz (SNG) is a "fairy tale." He claimed that CPC expansion will be "automatic" once an inter-g [...] | 2006-12-18 10:59:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG ECON PREL RS |
06MOSCOW12963 | RUSSIAN ENERGY: WINTER GAS, BELARUS, AND THE [...] (C) Summary. This year is no exception to the rule that Gazprom's annual gas tariff negotiations with its CIS customers are blunt instruments, and generally go down to the wire. Deals have not yet been cut with Belarus, Azerbaijan, and Georgia. Gazprom did manage to ink one with Ukraine, th [...] | 2006-12-18 12:00:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG ECON PREL RS |
06MOSCOW12966 | RUSSIA-MOLDOVA: DEAL IN THE WORKS? [...] (C) Summary: The Romanian Embassy in Moscow alleged to us that Moldova and Russia are close to a package bilateral deal that would normalize bilateral political and economic relations, guarantee Moldovan "neutrality" for 50 years, resolve Transnistria along the lines of the Kozak Memorandum, [...] | 2006-12-18 14:25:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ETRD MARR MD RS |
06MOSCOW12981 | THREE DEMONSTRATIONS AND A CONVENTION [...] (C) Political groupings of all stripes made their presence known in Moscow over the December 16-17 weekend: -- "Other Russia" staged its "March of the Discontented." About 2,500 participants from a hodgepodge of groups, united only by their opposition to the current government and rejection [...] | 2006-12-19 14:04:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM PHUM PINR RS |
06MOSCOW12986 | RUSSIA/LEBANON: PM SINIORA'S VISIT [...] (C) PRIME MINISTER SINIORA CAME AWAY SATISFIED WITH HIS DECEMBER 14-16 VISIT TO MOSCOW; THE ATMOSPHERICS WERE EXCELLENT ACCORDING TO LEBANESE AMBASSADOR ASSEM JABER'S READOUT TO THE CHARGE. BESIDES PUTIN, SINIORA MET WITH SECURITY COUNCIL SECRETARY IGOR IVANOV, EX-FOREIGN MINISTER PRIMAKOV A [...] | 2006-12-19 17:02:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EAID IR LE RS |
06MOSCOW12992 | EXTRANCHECK: PRE-LICENSE CHECK: ITRC "MIR", [...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12C of the Export Administration Act. 2. Reftel requested a Pre-license check to determine the legitimacy and reliability of the end-user, ITRC "MIR", Moscow, Russia. The company is listed on BIS license app [...] | 2006-12-20 13:35:00 | Embassy Moscow | UNCLASSIFIED | BEXP ETRD ETTC RS |
06MOSCOW12993 | EXTRANCHECK: POST-SHIPMENT VERIFICATION: [...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12C of the Export Administration Act. 2. Reftel requested a post-shipment verification to determine the legitimacy and reliability of the end- user, Supreme Commercial Court, Moscow, Russia. The company was [...] | 2006-12-20 13:36:00 | Embassy Moscow | UNCLASSIFIED | BEXP ETRD ETTC RS |
06MOSCOW12999 | SOUTH OSSETIA: TALKS AND OBSERVERS [...] (C) We met with Russian MFA Ambassador-at-Large for South Ossetia Yuri Popov on December 19 and 20, delivering reftel demarche on the latter date. Popov said he had not been following the budget issue -- he has just returned from leave -- and said he was unwilling to repeat previous Russian s [...] | 2006-12-20 14:22:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR OSCE GG RS |
06MOSCOW13001 | PATRUSHEV'S NEST OF DANISH SPIES [...] (SBU) FSB Director Nikolai Patrushev alleged that foreign intelligence services were increasingly using NGOs and press bureaus as cover in his annual year-end review December 19. Speaking on the eve of the day in honor of the security services, Patrushev singled out the Danish Refugee Counci [...] | 2006-12-20 14:46:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL PREF RS |
06MOSCOW13002 | RUSSIAN DEVELOPMENT "BANK" TAKES SHAPE [...] (SBU) At a meeting of cabinet ministers on December 14, Economic Development and Trade Minister German Gref delivered a presentation on the prospective scope and functions of a new Russian Development Bank (RDB). Gref's proposal would consolidate the Foreign Economic Activity Bank of the USSR [...] | 2006-12-20 15:01:00 | Embassy Moscow | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN EINV RS |
06MOSCOW13003 | BOEING RUSSIA: AEROFLOT 787 DEAL DEPENDS ON [...] (SBU) According to Boeing sources, Minister of Finance Kudrin, Minister of Economic Development and Trade Gref, and Minister of Industry and Energy Khristenko agreed on December 19 to delay the GOR's decision on Aeroflot's acquisition of 22 wide-bodied jets until the GOR receives written propos [...] | 2006-12-20 15:56:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PREL EAIR USTR RS |
06MOSCOW13005 | RUSSIA'S 2007 BUDGET: A QUICK OVERVIEW [...] (SBU) Despite considerable chatter to the contrary, Russia's 2007 Federal Budget (signed into law December 20 by President Putin) continues to reflect substantial fiscal restraint, with expenditures set to rise by just 1.5 percent of GDP and the primary surplus targeted at 5.3 percent of GDP. [...] | 2006-12-20 15:59:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN PGOV RS |
06MOSCOW13006 | "DENGI FEVER": RUSSIA'S IPO AND CAPITAL MARKET BOOM [...] (SBU) Russia's initial public offering (IPO) bonanza continued to gain momentum in 2006. Fifteen Russian companies launched IPOs this year, raising over $17.5 billion. At the same time, Russia's domestic exchanges have enjoyed explosive growth. Russian companies are increasingly able to ta [...] | 2006-12-20 16:13:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EINV EFIN RS |
06MOSCOW13012 | Novosibirsk: United Russia Stronghold With High [...] (SBU) United Russia's (YR) dominance in Russia's regions is evident in Novosibirsk, where YR holds the governorship, has an absolute majority in the regional parliament, does not view the emergence of the second Kremlin party "A Just Russia" as a threat, and dismisses the influence of "democra [...] | 2006-12-21 08:38:00 | Embassy Moscow | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL ETRD RS |
06MOSCOW13022 | RUSSIA ENERGY: GAZPROM SET TO ACQUIRE CONTROLLING [...] (C) Summary. The British Economic M/C in Moscow confirmed December 20 his understanding that agreement is likely by the end of this week between Sakhalin Energy's partners and Gazprom on the terms of Gazprom's cash acquisition of a controlling stake in Sakhalin-2. Agreement would bring to a [...] | 2006-12-21 14:22:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ENRG EPET PREL RS |
06MOSCOW13025 | MOSCOW REACTION TO TURKMENBASHI'S DEATH [...] (C) Summary. The Russian government reacted cautiously to Turkmenbashi's death and will send the Prime Minister and Head of the Presidential Administration to his funeral. Unofficial reactions encompassed the full range of speculations about succession, and stability in Turkmenistan. Some a [...] | 2006-12-21 15:17:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV TX RS |
06MOSCOW13071 | NIZHNIY NOVGOROD: VERTICAL CONTROL INSUFFICIENT? [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. With President Putin's appointment of Governor Valeriy Shantsev in August 2005, a United Russia political elite with strong business interests now firmly controls Nizhniy Novgorod and its region. The establishment of the regional branch of the second Kremlin-sponsored party, " [...] | 2006-12-22 11:32:00 | Embassy Moscow | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KDEM PINR RS |
06MOSCOW13073 | GERMAN FM STEINMEIER'S MOSCOW VISIT: MIDDLE EAST, [...] (C) SUMMARY: GERMAN FOREIGN MINISTER FRANK-WALTER PAGE 02 RUEHMOA3073 C O N F I D E N T I A L STEINMEIER MET WITH PRESIDENT PUTIN, FIRST DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER MEDVEDEV, AND FM LAVROV IN MOSCOW ON DECEMBER 21. ACCORDING TO A READOUT FROM GERMAN AMBASSADOR WALTER SCHMIDT, WHO PARTICIPAT [...] | 2006-12-22 13:46:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IR LE GE RS |
06MOSCOW13074 | BLACK SEA FLEET RELOCATION: A PORT TOO FAR [...] (C) SUMMARY: Nearly ten years after the 1997 bilateral agreement with Ukraine to use Sevastopol as a base for its Black Sea Fleet, Russia is doing little to plan for the Fleet's possible relocation after the agreement expires in 2017. While the Black Sea Fleet will be on the agenda for the [...] | 2006-12-22 14:30:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR MCAP RS UP |
06MOSCOW13092 | NGO RE-REGISTRATION UPDATE: BACK TO WORK IN THE [...] (SBU) The Federal Registration Service (FRS) has re-registered 192 foreign NGOs as of December 22, including all of those providing aid in the North Caucasus. According to UN sources, the re-registration of International Rescue Committee (IRC) and World Vision, along with the French NGO Acti [...] | 2006-12-26 15:15:00 | Embassy Moscow | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREF PHUM EAID KDEM PGOV RS |
06MOSCOW13098 | MIDDLE EAST: MFA ON LEBANON, SYRIA AND IRAQ [...] (C) Summary: President Putin sought to lower tensions between Lebanon and Syria during back-to-back mid-December visits by PM Siniora and President Asad, according to the Russian MFA, and had urged that a solution to Lebanon's ongoing political crisis be found through negotiations and not i [...] | 2006-12-26 16:02:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV LE SY IZ RS |
06MOSCOW13123 | PRICEWATERHOUSECOOPERS CAUGHT IN YUKOS NET [...] (SBU) Summary. Russian Prosecutors at the Federal Tax Service (FTS) have brought a civil case against International accounting firm PriceWaterhouseCoopers (PWC) in connection with their role as outside auditor of the Russian oil company Yukos. In addition, the firm has been defending itself i [...] | 2006-12-27 15:17:00 | Embassy Moscow | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN EINV ECON RS |
06MOSCOW13124 | RUSSIA'S BROKEN ASYLUM SYSTEM [...] (C) SUMMARY: Asylum seekers in Russia face legal and bureaucratic obstacles in obtaining protection from the GOR, as well as a growing backlash against migrants in general. For many, the only workable solution is resettlement to a third country, as the GOR has yet to devote sufficient attent [...] | 2006-12-27 15:47:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PREL PHUM RS |
06MOSCOW13136 | ZHIRINOVSKIY,S LDPR LOOKS TO THE 2007 ELECTIONS [...] (SBU) December marks the 17th anniversary of the establishment of the Liberal Democrat Party of Russia (LDPR). LDPR's lack of any discernible platform is compensated for by the indomitable LDPR Chairman Vladimir Zhirinovskiy, whose instinct for the outrageous continues to resonate with a sig [...] | 2006-12-28 15:15:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM PGOV PINR SOCI RS |
06MOSCOW13137 | POST-NIYAZOV TURKMENISTAN: VIEWS FROM MOSCOW [...] (C) Summary. While the GOR has officially downplayed its concern about the status of existing energy contracts with Turkmenistan following Niyazov's death, observers here consistently report that gas supplies and Turkmenistan's continuing neutrality are Moscow's foremost concerns as the succe [...] | 2006-12-28 15:15:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON TX RS |
06MOSCOW13166 | INVITATION TO ARF WORKSHOP ON UNSCR 1540 [...] No summary [...] | 2006-12-29 09:43:00 | Embassy Moscow | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PARM KNNP ETTC ARF RS |
06MOSCOW13167 | IRAN: INFORMATION REGARDING UNSCR 1737 [...] No summary [...] | 2006-12-29 09:43:00 | Embassy Moscow | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL MNUC KNNP UNSC RS |
06MOSCOW13168 | ALTAI KRAI: PICKETS AND PLURALISM [...] (SBU) Summary: While Altai Krai is one of the most economically depressed regions in Russia, it has an unusually high level of civic activity and political pluralism and is home to outspoken liberal Republican Party Head Vladimir Ryzhkov. United Russia dominates, but the Communists, Agrarians, [...] | 2006-12-29 09:51:00 | Embassy Moscow | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM KDEM SOCI RS |
06MOSCOW13171 | RUSSIA AND IRAN: AFTER THE SANCTIONS RESOLUTION [...] (C) Summary: Russia has repeatedly told us that when it comes to preventing Iran from developing nuclear weapons, it shares our strategic goal but differs with us over tactics. Moscow's reluctance to agree to coercive measures was on full display during consideration of UNSCR 1737, but in th [...] | 2006-12-29 12:42:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PARM ETRD KNNP MASS IR RS |
06MOSCOW13172 | HARD TIMES FOR RUSSIA'S HUMAN RIGHTS COMMUNITY [...] (C) Civil society and liberal political party leaders are sharply divided over the role of NGOs in partisan politics. While Moscow's most prominent human rights activist strongly defends the policy of overt political opposition, many NGO representatives are uncomfortable with, or opposed to, a [...] | 2006-12-29 15:49:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL KDEM PINR SOCI RS |
06MOSCOW13174 | RUSSIA ENERGY: DOWN TO THE WIRE ON BELARUS GAS [...] (C) Summary. Lukashenko's two-year saga to avoid higher gas prices and the sale of 50 percent of Beltransgaz (BTG - the Belarusian gas pipeline operator) appears to be coming to a close, and he is standing firm on both accounts. Gazprom has dropped its insistence that BTG be part of the deal, [...] | 2006-12-29 16:08:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG ECON PREL RS |
06MOSCOW13175 | RUSSIA NOTIFIED OF ISNPA SANCTIONS [...] (S) DCM delivered on December 29 the notification of new U.S. sanctions levied on four Russian entities for violating the Iran-Syria Non-Proliferation Act. In delivering reftel points, the DCM explained the sanctions reflected our serious concern about potentially destabilizing arms transfers [...] | 2006-12-29 16:17:00 | Embassy Moscow | SECRET | PARM MTCR PREL MNUC ETTC RS |
06MOSCOW1322 | AMBASSADOR'S VISIT TO KAZAN: FEDERALISM, ECONOMIC [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Ambassador's February 6-7 visit to Tatarstan featured themes of federalism, economic opportunity for U.S. firms, and Islam. Republic President Shaymiyev, in a lengthy tour d'horizon, noted that he was taking initiatives not encouraged by Moscow, including diversifying the ec [...] | 2006-02-10 15:18:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON PREL ETRD PINR RS |
06MOSCOW1323 | RUSSIAN DFM SALTANOV ON INVITATION TO HAMAS [...] (C) On February 10 Ambassador Burns called on DFM Saltanov seeking clarification of Putin's invitation to Hamas leadership to visit Moscow. Ambassador said the announcement of an invitation to Hamas had come as an unwelcome surprise to Washington (and other Quartet capitals). It was very im [...] | 2006-02-10 15:26:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER RS |
06MOSCOW1324 | PRESSING RUSSIA FOR RESTRAINT ON GEORGIA [...] (C) Summary: In a February 9 meeting with Chief of Defense General Baluyevskiy, Ambassador Burns urged that Russia exercise restraint in its dealings with Georgia. Baluyevksiy was blunt in complaining about Georgian demands to withdraw peacekeepers from Georgia and charged Tbilisi with inte [...] | 2006-02-11 14:37:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MASS PBTS GG RS |
06MOSCOW1388 | FSB OPERATION IN STAVROPOL DISTRICT: ANOTHER [...] (U) Press February 13-14 reported an FSB operation against an "extremist Islamist" cell in the town of Tukuy-Mekteb, in Russia's Stavropol Kray. Tukuy-Mekteb lies along a regional road about 15 km west of the Dagestani Border and 45 km north of the border with Chechnya. Initial reports said t [...] | 2006-02-14 09:06:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER MOPS PINR PGOV RS |
06MOSCOW1431 | RUSSIA MOVING SLOWLY ON DIVERSITY CONVENTION [...] No summary [...] | 2006-02-14 13:47:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ETRD SCUL UNESCO RS |
06MOSCOW1433 | MOSCOW DEFERS TO GRULAC CONSENSUS ON NEXT UNSC REP [...] No summary [...] | 2006-02-14 14:21:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV UN UNSC GT VE RS |
06MOSCOW1435 | GEORGIA-RUSSIA: EXPECT SHARP RUSSIAN REACTION TO [...] (C) SUMMARY. In the absence of DFM Karasin from Moscow, A/DCM spoke with MFA 4th CIS Department Director Andrey Kelin to emphasize the efforts the USG has been making to moderate Georgian parliamentary action on CIS peacekeepers in South Ossetia (per ref e-mail request). Kelin took careful no [...] | 2006-02-14 15:32:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ENRG |
06MOSCOW1445 | SPRING STATE DUMA SESSION OFF TO SLOW START [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. The spring semester of the Russian State Duma, which began on January 11 and will run through mid-June, got off to a slow start. Deputies are burdened with almost 600 draft laws, with 52 designated as priority bills focusing on water and forestry regulation, transportation safe [...] | 2006-02-15 12:03:00 | Embassy Moscow | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV EAGR EFIN ENRG ETRD PREL PHUM SOCI RS |
06MOSCOW152 | ANTI-SEMITIC ATTACK ON CHABAD SYNAGOGUE IN MOSCOW [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. On the evening of January 11, a 20-year-old man broke into a Lubavitch synagogue in Moscow during prayer services and injured eight men, including an AmCit. None of the victims has life-threatening injuries, but some are reportedly in serious but stable condition. The Foreign [...] | 2006-01-12 16:04:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL RS SOCI |
06MOSCOW1536 | RUSSIA-GEORGIA: HARD RUSSIAN LINE ON SOUTH OSSETIA [...] (C) SUMMARY. Both the Russians (4th CIS Department Director Kelin) and Georgians (State Minister for Conflict Resolution Khaindrava) gave us separate readouts of their February 16 talks in Moscow. The talks focused on South Ossetia in the wake of the Georgian Parliamentary resolution callin [...] | 2006-02-16 18:06:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR MOPS RS GG |
06MOSCOW1635 | GEORGIA-RUSSIA: AMBASSADOR PRESSES DFM KARASIN FOR [...] (C) SUMMARY. Ambassador on February 17 outlined to DFM Karasin ongoing U.S. efforts to encourage Georgian restraint on South Ossetia, and urged Russia to act constructively. Ambassador expressed appreciation for FM Lavrov's recent message to the Secretary, and said he expected a formal reply [...] | 2006-02-18 06:55:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR MOPS GG RS |
06MOSCOW1637 | HAMAS VISIT TO MOSCOW [...] (C) SUMMARY. A/DCM met February 17 with MFA Middle East and North Africa Director Sergey Vershinin to follow up on earlier discussion (reftel) on the forthcoming visit of a Hamas delegation to Russia, which will take place March 3. .... END SUMMARY. 2. (C) Timing and Level. Vershinin [...] | 2006-02-20 10:07:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL RS |
06MOSCOW18 | NSC SENIOR DIRECTOR GRAHAM'S MEETING WITH [...] (C) Summary. NSC Senior Director Thomas Graham met December 21 with Modest Kolerov, who was named several months ago to run a new Kremlin directorate dealing with Russia's ties to its neighbors. Kolerov rejected the notion that the U.S. and Russia should engage in a dialogue on Russia's nei [...] | 2006-01-09 12:56:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV RS |
06MOSCOW1840 | RUSSIAN DFM SALTANOV ON HAMAS VISIT TO MOSCOW [...] (C) On February 27 the Ambassador called on Deputy Foreign Minister Aleksandr Saltanov to discuss the upcoming Hamas visit to Moscow and to underline the importance of coordination. Saltanov confirmed that the Hamas delegation, headed by Khalid Meshal and composed of Hamas outsiders, is set [...] | 2006-02-27 16:06:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV RS |
06MOSCOW19 | 2006 DEFENSE BUDGET AND PROPOSED DEFENSE REFORMS - [...] (C) Summary. On December 27 President Putin signed a defense budget of 666 billion rubles (23 billion dollars) for 2006, a nominal increase of nearly 26 percent. It is not clear, however, what if any impact on Russian military capability that allocation towards defense will have. The highe [...] | 2006-01-09 12:56:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR MCAP PARM EFIN ECON RS XB |
06MOSCOW1974 | RUSSIA'S RODINA CONTENDS WITH KREMLIN PRESSURE AND [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Rodina Party has embarked on a campaign to polish its image, softening (but not completely eliminating) its harsh criticism of minority migrants, while focusing on economic opportunity and social justice as the primary avenues for "transforming nationalism into patriotism." [...] | 2006-03-01 08:55:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM SOCI PINR RS |
06MOSCOW2020 | PRESSING RUSSIANS ON HAMAS VISIT [...] (C) Ambassador spoke separately to Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Saltanov and Middle East Envoy Kalugin the evening of February 28, and again on March 1, to stress the importance of sticking firmly to Quartet principles during the Hamas visit to Moscow March 3. Ambassador made clear that [...] | 2006-03-01 15:37:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV RS |
06MOSCOW2070 | SOUTH OSSETIA: DEALING WITH A DYSFUNCTIONAL [...] (C) SUMMARY. Moscow's approach to Georgia is driven by frustration with Tbilisi's defiant attitude to Russian interests, reflected in its pursuit of NATO membership, its championing of anti-Russian alliances in the neighborhood, its strategy of trying to compensate for Georgia's weakness in [...] | 2006-03-02 14:33:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MARR MOPS RS GG |
06MOSCOW2132 | NGO LEGISLATION: LOOKING AHEAD TOWARD [...] (C) SUMMARY: A bit over a month before Russia's new NGO legislation goes into effect, most independent NGO activists are concerned about its implementation but retain a wait-and-see attitude. In recent weeks, the government has initiated investigations against some independent NGOs, but it h [...] | 2006-03-03 14:51:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PINR PREL RS |
06MOSCOW2212 | MOSCOW REACTS TO HAMAS VISIT [...] Summary: While the MFA was able to point to few concrete results from Foreign Minister Lavrov's March 3 meeting with a Hamas delegation, we were told March 6 by the MFA Middle East Peace Process desk that the Moscow-Hamas channel was likely to remain open. In Moscow's estimation, Hamas Polit [...] | 2006-03-06 14:03:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV RS |
06MOSCOW2260 | TRANSNISTRIA: RUSSIA OPPOSES UKRAINIAN CUSTOMS [...] (C) Russian Special Envoy Valeriy Nesterushkin told us March 6 that the Ukrainian customs implementation threatened the future of peace negotiations between Moldova and Transnistria, including the current 5 2 format in which the U.S. participates as an observer, and its prospective April sess [...] | 2006-03-07 15:01:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR MOPS ETRD UP MD RS |
06MOSCOW2327 | NORTH CAUCASUS MUSLIMS: INDEPENDENT VOICE? [...] (C) Summary: The election of Magomed-Khadzhi Albogachiyev as leader of the Coordinating Center of Muslims of the North Caucasus marks a clear step to distance the Moscow-based Center -- and by extension the Muslim clerics in the region, whom it purports to represent -- from the clan-based lead [...] | 2006-03-10 11:52:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR RS |
06MOSCOW2446 | NO SURPRISES IN RUSSIA'S "SUPER SUNDAY" REGIONAL [...] (C) SUMMARY. In regional legislative elections in eight of Russia's regions on March 12, the pro-Kremlin United Russia party appears to have scored a clear victory. Four political parties ran in all eight elections, while Rodina and some smaller parties were kept off the ballot in some of th [...] | 2006-03-13 16:28:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM PINR RS |
06MOSCOW2447 | COURT CASES STIR MUSLIM COMMUNITY IN ASTRAKHAN [...] (C) SUMMARY. Two ongoing court cases in the southern Russian city of Astrakhan have stirred part of the local Muslim community to protest against perceived discrimination. On a February 28 - March 1 trip to Astrakhan, we found that some in its Muslim community suspect that a city order to de [...] | 2006-03-13 16:39:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PHUM KDEM RS |
06MOSCOW2502 | G8 NGO FORUM OFFERS GOR A CHANCE TO BOOST ITS [...] (C) SUMMARY. A range of NGOs, including those involved in human rights issues, took part in a March 9-10 G8 NGO forum in Moscow. The plenary sessions and working group meetings featured lively discussions, both on the GOR's G8 agenda items and on concerns about the state of Russia's civil so [...] | 2006-03-14 15:14:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PINR PREL ECON ENRG RS |
06MOSCOW2593 | TRANSNISTRIA: RUSSIANS CONTINUE TO HOLD MOLDOVA [...] (C) In the absence of Russian Envoy Valeriy Nesterushkin, we delivered reftel demarche on the situation in Transnistria on March 15 to MFA Second CIS Department Deputy Director (Moldova Office Director) Nikolay Fomin. Fomin rejected Transnistrian responsibility for blockading itself, claimin [...] | 2006-03-15 15:55:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD MARR PBTS PREL ML RS |
06MOSCOW2594 | TRANSNISTRIA: RUSSIANS CONTINUE TO HOLD MOLDOVA [...] (C) In the absence of Russian Envoy Valeriy Nesterushkin, we delivered reftel demarche on the situation in Transnistria on March 15 to MFA Second CIS Department Deputy Director (Moldova Office Director) Nikolay Fomin. Fomin rejected Transnistrian responsibility for blockading itself, claimin [...] | 2006-03-15 15:55:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD MARR PBTS PREL ML RS |
06MOSCOW262 | UPDATE ON ATTACK ON MOSCOW SYNAGOGUE [...] (C) SUMMARY. In the aftermath of the January 11 attack on a Chabad synagogue in Moscow (ref A),a prosecutor reported finding ammunition, a list of synagogues and nationalist literature in the home of the attacker. The prosecutor said the attacker was not a member of an extremist organization [...] | 2006-01-13 16:52:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL SOCI RS |
06MOSCOW2760 | MOSCOW CALLS LUKASHENKO'S REELECTION "LEGITIMATE" [...] (SBU) The MFA called Belarus' presidential election "legitimate" in a March 20 press release. (Informal translation of text in para 4). According to the press release, the election took place according to recognized norms of transparency and reflected the will of the Belarusian people. In [...] | 2006-03-20 15:18:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV OSCE BY RS |
06MOSCOW2761 | MFA ON DETAINED UZBEKS [...] (C) REFCOORD delivered ref A demarche to Dmitriy Knyazhinskiy, chief of the migration section in the Department of Humanitarian Cooperation and Human Rights at the MFA. Knyazhinskiy said his office had written "numerous" requests to the Procurator General in support of UNHCR's request for acc [...] | 2006-03-20 16:11:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PHUM PREL RS |
06MOSCOW2914 | RUSSIAN MFA ON AMIS RE-HATTING [...] (C) On March 21 Poloff delivered reftel demarche on re-hatting the African Union (AU) Mission in Sudan to MFA Department of International Organizations Counselor Oleg Kravchenko. Kravchenko agreed that there was no ambiguity in the AU March 10 statement and that its intention was clearly to [...] | 2006-03-22 14:48:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | KPKO PREL SOCI SU RS |
06MOSCOW2927 | FORMER RUSSIAN PRIME MINISTER SAYS "CORPORATION" [...] (C) In a March 21 meeting with the Ambassador, former Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov: -- Claimed current GOR and Kremlin officials were mainly interested in preserving their interests within the status quo, which affected policy decisions and the competition to succeed President Putin in 2 [...] | 2006-03-23 11:17:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM ECON PINR RS |
06MOSCOW2928 | NGO LEGISLATION: VARYING EXPECTATIONS ABOUT [...] (C) SUMMARY: The GOR continues to be opaque about implementation of its controversial new NGO legislation, which is to go into effect next month. It has revealed almost nothing publicly about the legislation's implementing regulations, although one NGO contact told us he had seen draft repor [...] | 2006-03-23 11:17:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL PINR RS |
06MOSCOW2969 | TRANSNISTRIA: RESPONDING TO RUSSIA'S SHIPMENT OF [...] (C) Ambassador made reftel demarche to DFM Karasin March 23. Karasin reiterated that the GOR had serious concerns about developments in Transnistria, but his comments went primarily to political pressures centered in the Duma and in some regions. He acknowledged that current conditions do no [...] | 2006-03-23 15:12:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ETRD PBTS OSCE UP MD RS |
06MOSCOW2974 | RUSSIA-GEORGIA: LOOKING AHEAD [...] (C) Summary: Emotions seem to be cooling (at least temporarily) between Russia and Georgia, and we are seeing a return to low-level business. Statements that would have caused an uproar just a few weeks ago are being dismissed with good humor. But that is a long way from making real progre [...] | 2006-03-24 06:29:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR ETRD PBTS NATO GG RS |
06MOSCOW3035 | AFTER THE ELECTION: MOSCOW VIEWS ON BELARUS AND [...] (C) Summary. Russia's embrace of President Lukashenko's victory in the March 19 Belarus election reflects official Moscow's strong preference for stability in Minsk and its belief that the status quo offers the best chance for that stability. Contacts close to the Belarusian opposition in M [...] | 2006-03-27 05:52:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV BO RS |
06MOSCOW306 | PUTIN SIGNS NGO LEGISLATION [...] (C) SUMMARY: The GOR announced January 17 that President Putin signed the controversial NGO legislation on January 10. That news was made public when a GOR newspaper that publishes such announcements printed the bill's text with an indication of the date of its signing. While Putin had defe [...] | 2006-01-17 12:52:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM RS |
06MOSCOW3115 | NEW COUNTERTERRORISM MEASURES CREATE "VERTICAL OF [...] (C) SUMMARY. On March 6 President Putin signed a bill "On Counteracting Terrorism" that had hastily moved through the Duma and Federation Council in the preceding days. Passed on its first reading in December 2004 (reftel) after the Beslan tragedy, the bill was then shelved because of several [...] | 2006-03-28 10:31:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PREL PTER RS |
06MOSCOW312 | TWO FOREIGN AID NGOS REPORTEDLY BANNED IN [...] (C) SUMMARY: Russian press reported January 16 that an Ingush court had banned two international NGOs working in the North Caucasus and was also considering banning a USG-funded American NGO. The basis of the court's ruling is unclear, and it appears none of the three NGOs was aware that a b [...] | 2006-01-17 15:03:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PHUM PGOV PREL EAID RU |
06MOSCOW3190 | CIVIL SOCIETY COUNCIL CHAIR PAMFILOVA DISCUSSES [...] (C) SUMMARY. In a March 24 meeting with the Ambassador and visiting Coordinator for U.S. Assistance to Europe and Eurasia Thomas Adams, Ella Pamfilova, head of the Presidential body that oversees civil society issues, said her office would help monitor the controversial NGO legislation when i [...] | 2006-03-29 13:59:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PINR PREL EAID RS |
06MOSCOW3202 | AMBASSADOR'S MARCH 29 MEETING WITH RUSSIAN DFM [...] (C) Summary: Ambassador Burns met with Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Grigoriy Karasin March 29 to discuss the outcomes of the Belarusian and Ukrainian elections and recent developments in Moldova, Georgia, and Nagorno-Karabakh. Karasin was sanguine about the March 26 Ukrainian parliamenta [...] | 2006-03-29 14:33:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ENRG ETRD BO UP GG MD RS |
06MOSCOW3218 | THE "FEBRUARY THESES": SURKOV'S PRIMER ON PUTINISM [...] (C) SUMMARY. A February speech by Deputy Head of the Presidential Administration Vladislav Surkov to a United Russia conference sketched out "basic ideological theses" of the Putin Administration. While not attempting to break new ground or crystallize a doctrine of "Putinism," the speech p [...] | 2006-03-30 10:24:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL RS |
06MOSCOW3333 | U.S. NUCLEAR PRIMACY ARTICLE HITS A NERVE [...] (C) Summary: A Foreign Affairs article asserting the advent of U.S. nuclear primacy has caused a stir in the Russian political elite and media and forced Russian leaders to defend the viability of Russia's deterrent force. The thesis plays to the belief that the U.S. regards Russia as a pot [...] | 2006-03-31 08:33:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PARM MNUC PGOV RS |
06MOSCOW3335 | PRESIDENTIAL SUCCESSION MANEUVERING: EARLY STIRRINGS [...] No summary [...] | 2006-03-31 09:06:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON PINR RS |
06MOSCOW3345 | THE RUSSIAN ARMS DEAL WITH ALGERIA: A MODEL FOR [...] (C) SUMMARY. President Putin's March 10 visit to Algeria demonstrated that Russia is actively working to expand into new arms markets to sustain the Russian military-industrial complex. Russia reportedly will sell Algeria 70 combat and trainer jet aircraft, 300 T-90S tanks, air defense syste [...] | 2006-03-31 10:40:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PINR MARR MOPS RS AG |
06MOSCOW3356 | CIVIL SOCIETY HITCHES A RIDE WITH IRATE DRIVERS [...] (C) SUMMARY. When a court in February sentenced an ordinary citizen to four years in prison for his involvement in a 2005 car accident that killed then-Altay Kray Governor Mikhail Yevdokimov, it sparked popular outrage. The perceived injustice of the court's decision inspired a grassroots o [...] | 2006-03-31 11:55:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PINR PREL RS |
06MOSCOW3362 | P-5 HOLD UN CONSULTATIONS MARCH 2 IN MOSCOW [...] (C) Summary: Russia hosted a meeting of P-5 IO Directors March 2 in Moscow to discuss UN Security Council and management reforms, the proposed Human Rights Council, the Peacebuilding Commission, and other issues related to implementation of the World Summit Outcome Document, as well as appoin [...] | 2006-03-31 12:31:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNSC RS |
06MOSCOW3388 | RUSSIAN DEMOCRATIC OPPOSITION LEADER BORIS NEMTSOV [...] (C) In a March 27 meeting with the Ambassador, democratic opposition leader Boris Nemtsov: -- Strongly condemned the falsified election results in Belarus, where the people faced a "catastrophic situation"; -- Suggested that negotiations to form a new government in Ukraine would be prolon [...] | 2006-03-31 13:51:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM PINR RS |
06MOSCOW3389 | GOR PLANS TO TAKE NO ACTION AS A RESULT OF [...] (C) The Russian Government does not intend to take any steps as a result of the findings of the Independent Inquiry Committee (IIC) which investigated the UN's Oil-for-Food (OFF) Program. Despite the IIC's findings that the GOR itself and Russian business firms, political parties and politi [...] | 2006-03-31 13:52:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KFIN IZ RS |
06MOSCOW3457 | MFA PROPOSAL ON COUNTER-NARCOTICS EFFORTS IN [...] (SBU) MFA North America Department Director Igor Neverov recently delivered to the DCM a nonpaper suggesting ways the U.S. and Russia, within the context of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO),can cooperate more closely in the fight against narco-trafficking in Afghanistan. [...] | 2006-04-03 14:27:00 | Embassy Moscow | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV AF RS |
06MOSCOW3507 | GEORGIA-RUSSIA: SOME POSITIVE STEPS -- AND SOME [...] (C) Summary. Russian MFA Fourth CIS Department Director Andrey Kelin told A/DCM April 4 that he was pleased with the "good cooperative spirit" he had met in Tbilisi when finalizing the agreement on withdrawing Russian bases by 2008 that was signed in Sochi March 31. The March 27 South Osset [...] | 2006-04-04 10:51:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR PBTS ETRD OSCE GG RS |
06MOSCOW3510 | RUSSIAN VIEWS ON POST-ELECTION UKRAINE [...] (C) Summary. A week after the Ukrainian election results were announced, reactions in Russia vary widely. Officially, Moscow has been neutral, while the media has buzzed with speculation about the new government's formation and especially Tymoshenko's possible role. Russian pundits are con [...] | 2006-04-04 10:57:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ENRG RS UP |
06MOSCOW3647 | SUDAN: CONTRIBUTION TO UN PEACEKEEPING OPERATION [...] No summary [...] | 2006-04-06 14:58:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KPKO SU RS |
06MOSCOW3687 | RUSSIAN MFA ON BELARUS, UKRAINE ELECTIONS [...] (C) Summary: Charge d'Affaires delivered demarche on Belarus elections (ref A) April 7 to Vyacheslav Kovalenko, who was acting for Deputy Foreign Minister Karasin on CIS affairs. Charge urged Russia to use its influence to help secure release of peaceful protesters who had been detained by [...] | 2006-04-07 17:07:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV BO RS |
06MOSCOW3751 | CODEL FRIST MEETING WITH FM LAVROV [...] (SBU) Summary. Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-TN) and Senators Judd Gregg (R-NH) and Richard Burr (R-NC),accompanied by Ambassador Burns, met April 10 for with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov to discuss current bilateral and multilateral issues. On Iran, Lavrov warned that Rus [...] | 2006-04-10 13:19:00 | Embassy Moscow | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL RS |
06MOSCOW3803 | CODEL FRIST MEETING WITH RUSSIAN EXPERTS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. In an April 10 breakfast meeting with Codel Frist and the Ambassador, Russian experts described the range of challenges facing Russia in the political, economic, and social sphere. Experts agreed that high oil profits disincline the political leadership to push new policy init [...] | 2006-04-11 13:56:00 | Embassy Moscow | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PREL KDEM ECON EATO KHIV RS |
06MOSCOW3815 | RUSSIAN NATIONALIST DMITRIY ROGOZIN GOING ... [...] (C) SUMMARY: Rodina Party chairman Dmitriy Rogozin resigned from that position March 25, as observers expected, and also stepped down from his position as Rodina faction chairman in the State Duma April 4. The departure of the mercurial Rogozin has done nothing to mend internal rifts within [...] | 2006-04-12 07:36:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM SOCI PINR RS |
06MOSCOW387 | RABBI LAZAR ON SYNAGOGUE ATTACK, IMPORTANCE OF [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a January 17 meeting with the Ambassador, Berl Lazar, one of the leaders of Russia's Jewish community, said that though concerns about extremism in the country had been mounting, the January 11 synagogue attack had been a "wake-up call." He said the incident offered opportunit [...] | 2006-01-18 13:08:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV SOCI PREL PINR RS |
06MOSCOW3945 | "OPEN RUSSIA" ON THE ROPES, BUT IRINA YASINA HOPES [...] (C) SUMMARY: On April 12 a Moscow court upheld an earlier ruling freezing the assets of the Open Russia Foundation, which had been founded by and received the bulk of its funding from Mikhail Khodorkovskiy. Open Russia head Irina Yasina told the Ambassador on April 13 that though she planned [...] | 2006-04-14 06:21:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PINR RS |
06MOSCOW396 | OVERZEALOUS IN INGUSHETIYA: NGO BAN CLARIFIED [...] (C) SUMMARY: We have confirmed, as reported reftel, that one foreign NGO has been banned from working in Ingushetiya, while Ingush authorities have acknowledged that a republic Procuracy announcement that another was banned was erroneous. A third, American NGO apparently is still under inve [...] | 2006-01-19 04:15:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREF PHUM EAID RS |
06MOSCOW3979 | INCREASING DIPLOMATIC PRESSURE ON IRAN [...] No summary [...] | 2006-04-14 12:27:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL AORC IAEA KNNP RS IR |
06MOSCOW4079 | HOSSEINI-TASH COMING TO MOSCOW TO MEET EU-3; [...] (C) Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Kislyak told Ambassador in an April 18 meeting that Iran Supreme National Security Council Deputy Secretary Ali Hosseini-Tash, accompanied by an Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister, would be returning to Moscow to meet with the EU-3 April 19 on the margins of cu [...] | 2006-04-19 04:44:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MNUC RS IR CH |
06MOSCOW4083 | UPDATE ON KHODORKOVSKIY ATTACK [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Former Yukos CEO Mikhail Khodorkovskiy suffered a deep cut to the face in an April 14 attack in a prison barrack, one of his lawyers and director of his press center confirmed to us. Our interlocutors told us his team would not seek to press charges against the attacker because [...] | 2006-04-19 04:45:00 | Embassy Moscow | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PINR RS |
06MOSCOW4174 | DAS KRAMER'S MEETING WITH HUMAN RIGHTS OMBUDSMAN [...] (C) SUMMARY: On April 18 EUR Deputy Assistant Secretary David Kramer met with Russian Federation Ombudsman for Human Rights Vladimir Lukin. Addressing Kramer's concern about the recently enacted NGO law, Lukin said that it was still unclear how it would be implemented, but no major moves ag [...] | 2006-04-20 05:30:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM RS |
06MOSCOW4180 | PUBLIC CHAMBER GETS INTO GEAR [...] (C) SUMMARY. In the three months since its inaugural plenary, the Public Chamber has displayed a flurry of activity. Its many commissions, sub-commissions and working groups have begun a busy schedule of meetings on a broad range of issues. Early tensions with the State Duma and other bodi [...] | 2006-04-20 07:11:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR RS |
06MOSCOW4198 | TRANSNISTRIA: "THREE PLUS TWO" TALKS IN MOSCOW [...] (C) Summary: "3 2" talks on Transnistria took place in Moscow April 19 including the mediators -- Russia, Ukraine and the OSCE -- and observers -- U.S. and EU. Russia tried to focus discussion on the customs regime between Moldova and Ukraine. All other sides pushed back, hardest of all Ukr [...] | 2006-04-20 11:46:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PBTS ETRD OSCE UP MD RS |
06MOSCOW4265 | A/S RADEMAKER'S APRIL 12 MEETING WITH DVBR [...] (C) SUMMARY. In an April 12 meeting with Anatoliy Antonov, Director of the MFA's Department for Disarmament and Security Affairs, ISN Assistant Secretary Stephen Rademaker explained that U.S. concerns about Russian treaty compliance were the main obstacles to U.S. support for Russian members [...] | 2006-04-21 06:47:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL MNUC RS |
06MOSCOW4316 | THE CENTRALIZING RUSSIAN STATE MEETS THE NORTH [...] (C) Summary: The lesson of 500 years of Russian statecraft is clear: when the Center is strong, it centralizes, eliminating alternative power structures. Putin, seeking to show that he -- and Russia under his leadership -- are strong, is seeking to centralize. He is doing so by eliminating [...] | 2006-04-21 14:35:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PBTS RS |
06MOSCOW4353 | KOMI: SOCIO-ECONOMIC SITUATION IMPROVING FOR [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Economic progress is visible in the resource-rich Komi Republic, we found on a recent trip to that remote region. Its economy is doing well, in part because of global price gains in oil, gas, and metal, but also because of its growing paper and furniture industries and budding [...] | 2006-04-24 13:10:00 | Embassy Moscow | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD PGOV PREL RS |
06MOSCOW4374 | ZIMBABWEAN TRADE DELEGATION VISITS RUSSIA [...] (C) Poloff met with MFA Africa Department Counselors Mikhail Gulyakin and Andrey Stolyarov April 21 to discuss the April 3-13 visit to Moscow and St. Petersburg of Zimbabwean Reserve Bank Governor Gideon Gono and Transport Minister Chris Mushohwe to promote Russian investment in Zimbabwe. Gu [...] | 2006-04-24 13:53:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ETRD ZI RS |
06MOSCOW4405 | VARNITSA PORT SEIZURE: RUSSIAN VIEWS [...] (C) We raised the April 21 Transnistrian seizure of Varnitsa Port (ref. a) with Russian Transnistria negotiator Nesterushkin April 25. Nesterushkin compared the seizure to the incident several years ago when Moldovan farmers tried to farm land on the Left Bank after receiving privatization vo [...] | 2006-04-25 11:09:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PBTS MD RS |
06MOSCOW4435 | AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH KREMLIN ADVISOR [...] (C) Summary. Ambassador met April 25 with Sergey Yastrzhembskiy, President Putin's Special Representative for Issues of Development of Relations with the European Union. Yastrzhembskiy said preparations for the EU-Russia summit in Sochi in late May were going well, and identified several agr [...] | 2006-04-25 14:24:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV RS |
06MOSCOW4572 | $4.5M U.S. Investment, Andy Warhol and American Corner [...] (U) Sensitive But Unclassified - Not for Internet Distribution. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: Ambassador Burns' visit to Samara April 17-18 revealed a city ripe for additional U.S. investment and eager for increased contacts and exchanges with American academic and business counterparts. The Ambassado [...] | 2006-04-27 12:59:00 | Embassy Moscow | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EINV PGOV SOCI PINR RS |
06MOSCOW4614 | GEORGIA-RUSSIA: MUTUAL COMPLAINTS CONTINUE [...] (C) MFA Georgia Office Director Grigoryev told us April 28 that relations with Georgia were "at a dead end," and he did not know how to get them going again. "Some impetus is needed," he said, "but I find it hard to imagine what it could be." He ran through a litany of complaints: -- Parli [...] | 2006-04-28 13:43:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ETRD GG RS |
06MOSCOW4615 | IRAN AND ENERGY THE FOCUS OF RUSSIAN-GERMAN TALKS [...] (C) Summary: President Putin and Chancellor Merkel focused on Iran and energy issues during largely positive talks on April 26-27 in the Siberian city of Tomsk. Putin's message to Merkel on Iran was that Moscow was willing to put diplomatic pressure on Tehran but was extremely uneasy that [...] | 2006-04-28 14:08:00 | Embassy Moscow | SECRET | PREL PARM ETRD ENRG GM RS |
06MOSCOW4799 | RUSSIA SUPPORTS THIRD ADDITIONAL PROTOCOL [...] (SBU) On May 3 poloff delivered reftel demarche to MFA Legal Department Acting Director Vladimir Tarabrin. Tarabrin said the GOR continues to support the Third Additional Protocol and will support the statutory amendments to the Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement at the conference in Geneva [...] | 2006-05-04 14:12:00 | Embassy Moscow | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREF PREL ICRC RU |
06MOSCOW4839 | LOOKING AHEAD TO PUTIN'S ADDRESS TO THE FEDERAL [...] (C) SUMMARY: Ending lengthy speculation, the Kremlin announced on May 2 that President Putin will present his annual Address to the Federal Assembly on May 10. Delays in its delivery, which some had expected to take place in early April, fueled rumors that Putin had been dissatisfied with ea [...] | 2006-05-05 06:55:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR RS |
06MOSCOW4951 | PUTIN'S ADDRESS TO THE FEDERAL ASSEMBLY BREAKS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: President Putin's hour-long Address to the Federal Assembly on May 10 lacked the broad vision for Russia's future that some had expected. In a lengthy discussion of economic issues, he stressed national priority projects and technological development, and expressed commitment [...] | 2006-05-10 14:20:00 | Embassy Moscow | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON PREL PGOV KIPR KCRM RS |
06MOSCOW5000 | EKHO MOSKVY'S VENEDIKTOV ON SUCCESSION, KREMLIN [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a May 4 meeting, well-connected Ekho Moskvy head Aleksey Venediktov told us he believed the prospects for an extension of President Putin's presidency beyond 2008 had increased, because the two figures Putin was "testing" as potential successors were both gaining little politi [...] | 2006-05-11 14:38:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON PINR RS |
06MOSCOW5008 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: SYRIA/LEBANON RESOLUTION [...] No summary [...] | 2006-05-12 06:19:00 | Embassy Moscow | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL UNSC SY LE RS |
06MOSCOW5030 | MOSCOW OPPOSES CENTRAL AND SOUTH ASIAN [...] (C) Poloff discussed reftel demarche points May 12 with Anatoliy Taksubayev, Deputy Director of the MFA Third CIS (Central Asia) Department. (NOTE: We were unable to make this demarche to the MFA New Threats and Challenges Department, as the Deputy Director and principal staffers responsible [...] | 2006-05-12 13:05:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV SNAR RS |
06MOSCOW504 | A/S LOWENKRON'S MEETING WITH NGO REPRESENTATIVES [...] (C) SUMMARY. On January 17, the same day as the announcement that President Putin had signed the controversial NGO legislation, NGO leaders told A/S Lowenkron and the Ambassador that the legislation was flawed and ambiguous. Although the new legislation will come into force around mid-April, [...] | 2006-01-20 11:59:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM EAID KDEM RS |
06MOSCOW510 | MSF RUSSIA: CHECHNYA IS STILL A HUMANITARIAN [...] (C) MSF-Russia asked us to meet with heads of mission from MSF-France (Manuel Lannaud) and -Belgium (Goran Svedin) January 20 to receive a report on the humanitarian situation in Chechnya (MSF-Holland HOM was out of Moscow). MSF declared that there was still a humanitarian crisis in Chechnya, [...] | 2006-01-20 14:06:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM EAID PREF RS |
06MOSCOW5104 | RUSSIA-GEORGIA: BORJOMI MINERAL WATER BAN [...] (C) Summary: Jacques Fleury, Managing Director of Georgian Glass and Mineral Waters (GGMW),producer of Borjomi water, outlined for us May 12 the company's recent troubles with the Russian government. A press campaign had turned into threats by the GOR to ban import of the water; the ban was [...] | 2006-05-15 09:33:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ETRD GG RS |
06MOSCOW5264 | RUSSIANS AGAINST DELISTING MONIB [...] (C) On May 12 poloff delivered reftel demarche to MFA Afghanistan Section Chief Yuriy Khokhlov, and followed up on the issue with him in a May 15 discussion. On May 17 econoff double-tracked the demarche with Aleksandr Ubilava and Nikolay Ostrokhov from the MFA New Threats and Challenges Dep [...] | 2006-05-18 12:00:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER KTFN UN AF RS |
06MOSCOW5372 | IMPLEMENTATION OF THE NGO LAW: SO FAR, MUCH [...] (C) SUMMARY: In the month since Russia's controversial new NGO legislation formally went into effect, there has been widespread uncertainty about how to comply with it and about its long-term impact. Though implementing regulations have been issued, they fail to address many practical questio [...] | 2006-05-19 13:29:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PROG PREL PINR RS |
06MOSCOW5375 | LETTER FROM U/S BURNS TO DFM KARASIN ON SOUTH [...] (C) PolMinCouns delivered reftel letter May 19 to MFA IV CIS Director Andrey Kelin. Kelin said he would immediately pass the letter to DFM Karasin and DFM Kislyak. The latter needed to see it because, Kelin said, the letter makes an "overstatement" in asserting that "the G8 has decided to in [...] | 2006-05-19 14:23:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR MOPS OSCE GG RS |
06MOSCOW5377 | VLADIMIR LUKIN, RUSSIA'S PRAGMATIC HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Russia's Human Rights Ombudsman Vladimir Lukin will visit the U.S. May 23-26. A former diplomat (who was once Russia's Ambassador in Washington) and Duma member from the Yabloko Party, Lukin has had a mixed reputation in Russia's human rights community. Many activists view him a [...] | 2006-05-19 16:20:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PINR PREL RS |
06MOSCOW5378 | RUSSIA'S DEMOCRATIC OPPOSITION TO CONTINUE [...] (C) SUMMARY: Ambassador met separately May 16 with democratic opposition leaders Nikita Belykh of the Union of Right Forces (SPS) and Irina Khakamada of Our Choice. Belykh insisted that the democratic opposition must do more to rejuvenate the movement and demonstrate that it is capable of i [...] | 2006-05-19 16:20:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM PINR RS |
06MOSCOW5427 | AMBASSADOR'S MAY 22 MEETING WITH HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (U) This is an action request - see paragraph 7. 2. (C) SUMMARY. Ambassador met May 22 with Human Rights Ombudsman Vladimir Lukin, who will visit New York and Washington May 23-26 (reftel). Lukin said President Putin had encouraged him to visit the U.S. to expand the bilateral dialogue on [...] | 2006-05-22 13:54:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL RS |
06MOSCOW5454 | HELSINKI COMMISSION STAFFDEL MEETS WITH MFA NGO [...] (SBU) Summary: In a May 16 meeting with Staffdel Finerty, Valeriy Kuzmin, who heads the MFA department responsible for interaction with Russia's regions, the Parliament, and civil society groups, said that his department also assists domestic NGOs in making contact with international counterpa [...] | 2006-05-23 12:29:00 | Embassy Moscow | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PINR PREL RS |
06MOSCOW5456 | MOSCOW ON IRAQI GOVERNMENT FORMATION [...] No summary [...] | 2006-05-23 13:11:00 | Embassy Moscow | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV KDEM KPAO IZ RS |
06MOSCOW5458 | AMBASSADOR'S MAY 23 MEETING WITH DFM KARASIN [...] (C) Ambassador met with DFM Karasin May 23. Karasin was to leave later that day for a Nagorno-Karabakh trip. He hoped to be pleasantly surprised. With regard to U/S Burns' letter on South Ossetia, Karasin stressed positive movement and labeled the rest a matter of interpretation, but argued [...] | 2006-05-23 13:35:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ENRG IR AJ AM GG BO UP RS |
06MOSCOW5492 | GEORGIAN DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER ON CIS WITHDRAWAL, [...] (C) Summary: Georgian Deputy PM Baramidze told the Ambassador May 23 that he expected Georgia to leave the CIS in a matter of months. Negotiating bilateral agreements with the non-Russian members of the organization would be a priority; it would be important to protect the interests of Georg [...] | 2006-05-24 14:24:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ETRD GG RS |
06MOSCOW5513 | KALININGRAD AGRIBUSINESS FORUM: GERMAN FARMERS TO [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Kaliningrad Oblast's first international agribusiness forum intended to stimulate foreign investment drew a respectable, German-dominated audience of foreign farmers and processors. The oblast minister of agriculture conceded that openly inviting German farmers to come to the o [...] | 2006-05-25 06:26:00 | Embassy Moscow | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR ECON PGOV PINR PREL GM RS |
06MOSCOW5532 | RUSSIAN DFM KARASIN'S REPLY TO LETTER FROM U/S [...] (C) The Russian MFA on May 25 passed to us without comment a written reply from DFM Grigoriy Karasin to the May 19 letter U/S Burns sent him on South Ossetia (Ref A). The letter echoes the principal arguments Karasin made during his May 23 conversation with the Ambassador (Ref B). We underst [...] | 2006-05-25 13:37:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MARR OSCE GG RS |
06MOSCOW5557 | AMBASSADOR'S MAY 23 MEETING WITH DUMA FIRST DEPUTY [...] (C) SUMMARY. Ambassador met May 23 with Duma First Deputy Speaker Oleg Morozov, who agreed that inter-parliamentary exchanges should be encouraged. He noted that a newly created Duma working group will address legislative initiatives proposed by President Putin in his Annual Address. Morozo [...] | 2006-05-26 07:33:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV PHUM PREL RS SOCI |
06MOSCOW5645 | CHECHNYA: THE ONCE AND FUTURE WAR [...] (C) Introduction: Chechnya has been less in the glare of constant international attention in recent years. However, the Chechnya conflict remains unresolved, and the suffering of the Chechen people and the threat of instability throughout the region remain. This message reinterprets the history of [...] | 2006-05-30 09:27:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MARR MOPS RS |
06MOSCOW5740 | RUSSIA: PRESIDENTIAL SUCCESSION SNAPSHOT [...] (C) SUMMARY. Adding fuel to already intense speculation about who will succeed him, President Putin confirmed to state media May 13 that he will endorse a candidate before the March 2008 election. Both Kremlin-connected and independent analysts believe Putin's choice will be driven by a desire [...] | 2006-05-31 13:15:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON PINR RS |
06MOSCOW5741 | RUSSIA SHARES TRILATERAL CONCERNS ABOUT UN [...] (C) Responding to a May 26 demarche (ref A) by Australian, New Zealand and U.S. emboffs on the draft UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (DRIP),Grigoriy Lukyantsev, Head of the UN Division of the MFA's Department of Humanitarian Cooperation and Human Rights said that Moscow h [...] | 2006-05-31 13:22:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM AORC UN RS |
06MOSCOW5742 | RUSSIA WANTS TO SEND OBSERVER TO BLACK SEA FORUM [...] (C) We discussed reftel May 25 with MFA Romanian Section Chief Igor Inyushkin. He agreed that the U.S. and Russia shared common interests in the Black Sea region and appreciated Washington's endorsement of existing regional institutions, underlining Russia's hope that Moscow would be able t [...] | 2006-05-31 13:26:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL NATO MARR MOPS RO RS |
06MOSCOW5760 | MFA HUMAN RIGHTS OFFICIALS ON THE NGO LAW, [...] (C) SUMMARY. In a May 29 meeting with Mikhail Lebedev, Acting Director of the MFA Department on Humanitarian Cooperation and Human Rights, DRL Deputy Assistant Secretary Barks-Ruggles underscored USG concerns that the new NGO law be implemented fairly and transparently. Barks-Ruggles also em [...] | 2006-05-31 14:25:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM KUNR KREL RS |
06MOSCOW5774 | DELIVERY OF LETTER FROM U/S BURNS TO DFM [...] No summary [...] | 2006-06-01 10:55:00 | Embassy Moscow | UNCLASSIFIED | OPDC PREL RS |
06MOSCOW5821 | MFA STATEMENT ON THE SECRETARY'S MAY 31 [...] (U) Following in para 2 is the Embassy's unofficial translation of the text of a Russian MFA statement, released on June 1, on the Secretary's May 31 Iran announcement. 2. (U) Begin text of translated MFA statement: Moscow welcomes the announcement by the American side of its willingne [...] | 2006-06-01 12:34:00 | Embassy Moscow | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL IR RS |
06MOSCOW585 | PUBLIC CHAMBER BEGINS ITS WORK [...] (C) SUMMARY. The Public Chamber began its work on January 22, choosing Academician Yevgeniy Velikhov as its head and picking chairpersons of the seventeen commissions that are expected to do the bulk of its work. President Putin, presiding at the opening plenary, laid out priorities for the C [...] | 2006-01-23 16:04:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL PINR RS |
06MOSCOW5870 | AMBASSADOR'S MAY 26 MEETING WITH FEDERATION [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Ambassador met May 26 with Federation Council Deputy Speaker Dmitriy Mezentsev to discuss interparliamentary relations and cooperation. Mezentsev extended invitations for U.S. participation in the 4th Baikal Economic Forum to be held in Irkutsk in September 2006 and the 15th C [...] | 2006-06-02 12:41:00 | Embassy Moscow | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON PGOV PREL RS |
06MOSCOW5933 | SOUTH OSSETIA: RUSSIAN MFA ON HEIGHTENED TENSIONS [...] (C) Summary: The Russian MFA negotiator on South Ossetia assured us June 2 that Russia supports Georgia's territorial integrity and borders, despite a June 1 public statement implying otherwise. He denied that Russia intends a "creeping annexation" of South Ossetia. In a separate June 2 di [...] | 2006-06-02 14:37:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR MOPS PBTS OSCE GG RS |
06MOSCOW5934 | RUSSIAN PROCURATOR GENERAL DISMISSED [...] (C) SUMMARY: President Putin removed Vladimir Ustinov as Procurator General on June 2. He did not name an immediate replacement. PolPreds Dmitriy Kozak and Aleksandr Konovalov are considered leading candidates to replace Ustinov. The suddenness of the move surprised observers, although rumo [...] | 2006-06-02 14:56:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KCRM PHUM PINR RS |
06MOSCOW5951 | DEMARCHING RUSSIA ON A BURMA RESOLUTION [...] (C) Poloff made reftel demarche June 5 to Petr Ilichev, UN Political Affairs Senior Counselor, MFA International Organizations Department. Ilichev said that Burma did not represent a threat to international peace and security, or to security in the region, and thus was not an appropriate sub [...] | 2006-06-05 12:08:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM UNSC BM RS |
06MOSCOW5997 | RUSSIAN HOSTAGES IN IRAQ [...] (C) Upon learning of the killing of a GOR security guard and the kidnapping of four Russian Embassy employees outside a local market in Iraq on June 3, Ambassador called DFM Saltanov to express condolences and the desire of the U.S. to provide needed assistance. The Ambassador followed up wit [...] | 2006-06-05 14:55:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV RS IZ |
06MOSCOW5998 | CIVIL SOCIETY GEARS UP FOR THE G8 SUMMIT [...] (C) SUMMARY: Faced with the controversial new NGO law and other worrisome developments, independent civil society activists are looking to the G8 Summit as an opportunity to strengthen their positions or at least publicize their causes. Some are willing to take part in the official G8 event f [...] | 2006-06-05 15:13:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM PINR RS |
06MOSCOW6065 | SQUEEZING BELARUS, BUT NOT UNTIL IT POPS [...] (C) Summary. Moscow's embrace of Lukashenko before and immediately after his March 19 reelection has tightened into a clench. Analysts here agree the GOR has sent a blunt message to Lukashenko: he needs to move from talk to action on at least economic integration. Some observers see Moscow [...] | 2006-06-07 04:45:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV BO RS |
06MOSCOW6130 | FORUM FOR THE FUTURE PLANNING MEETING, MOSCOW, MAY [...] (SBU) Summary. Participants at the second Broader Middle East and North Africa (BMENA) Forum for the Future planning meeting agreed that the 2006 Forum will take place at the Dead Sea on December 3, preceded by a senior officials meeting and working dinner for ministers on December 2. Jordan [...] | 2006-06-07 12:30:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KMPI RS |
06MOSCOW6131 | RUSSIAN MFA DEMARCHED ON TRANSNISTRIA MAY PROTOCOLS [...] (C) With Ambassador-at-Large Nesterushkin on vacation until the end of the week, poloff delivered reftel demarche June 7 to Mikhail Yalkin, Moldova Section Chief, MFA Second CIS Department. Yalkin said that there was no change whatsoever in Russian policy or approach to Transnistria. He cha [...] | 2006-06-07 12:31:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | OSCE PBTS PREL MS RS UP |
06MOSCOW6173 | NGO REPRESENTATIVES CONCERNED ABOUT IMPLEMENTATION [...] (C) SUMMARY. DRL Deputy Assistant Secretary Erica Barks-Ruggles discussed the controversial NGO law and the broader human rights and democracy situation in Russia with a range of NGO representatives on May 30-31. She expressed support for NGOs in Russia and asked about current trends for civ [...] | 2006-06-08 11:18:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM EAID KDEM RS |
06MOSCOW6229 | GORBACHEV AND A POLITICAL ALLY BUY INTO [...] (C) SUMMARY: Former Russian President Mikhail Gorbachev announced at a June 7 meeting with foreign journalists that he and a political ally, Duma Deputy Aleksandr Lebedev, had purchased a 49 percent stake in the fiercely independent newspaper "Novaya Gazeta." They made the purchase from the [...] | 2006-06-08 13:35:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PINR RS |
06MOSCOW6262 | RUSSIA SUPPORTS WEDGEWOOD CANDIDACY [...] No summary [...] | 2006-06-09 12:12:00 | Embassy Moscow | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM RS |
06MOSCOW6263 | RUSSIA ON PALESTINIAN ASSISTANCE [...] No summary [...] | 2006-06-09 12:14:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EAID KPAL RS |
06MOSCOW6268 | SEARCH FOR NEW RUSSIAN PROCURATOR GENERAL OVERLAID [...] (C) SUMMARY. Over the past week analysts have tried to read the tea leaves swirling around Vladimir Ustinov's abrupt June 2 dismissal as Procurator General. Speculation has largely shifted from the reasons behind his departure to educated guessing about the effects the choice of his replacem [...] | 2006-06-09 16:38:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PINR KCRM RS |
06MOSCOW6306 | MFA ON HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL [...] (C) Deputy Political Minister-Counselor delivered ref A points to Mikhail Lebedev, Acting Director of the MFA Department for Humanitarian Cooperation and Human Rights, on June 13. Lebedev said the GOR's position on the agenda for the first meeting of the UN Human Rights Council was close to [...] | 2006-06-13 10:19:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL RS |
06MOSCOW6307 | MFA ON PROCESSING OF NORTH KOREANS IN RUSSIA [...] (C) Deputy Political Minister-Counselor delivered reftel points to Mikhail Lebedev, Acting Director of the MFA Department of Humanitarian Cooperation and Human Rights, on June 13. Lebedev said the GOR would have to consider the U.S. request before responding officially. 2. (C) Lebedev sa [...] | 2006-06-13 10:23:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF KN KS RS |
06MOSCOW6334 | GROWTH AND CORRUPTION IN RUSSIA'S REGIONAL [...] SUMMARY: While none would dispute that Moscow leads Russia in economic development, it is increasingly clear that many cities beyond Moscow are experiencing healthy growth. Small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) owners in large provincial cities report expanded opportunities and gradually imp [...] | 2006-06-14 10:08:00 | Embassy Moscow | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EINV ELAB SOCI POL RS |
06MOSCOW6341 | PUTIN-SAAKASHVILI TALKS: PRELIMINARY READOUTS [...] (C) Georgian DCM Shugarov and Russian MFA Caucasus conflicts division chief Dvinyanin gave us preliminary readouts of the June 13 discussion between Russian President Putin and Georgian President Saakashvili in St. Petersburg. They had received brief telephone readouts from their respective su [...] | 2006-06-14 12:40:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ETRD MARR GG RS |
06MOSCOW6354 | RUSSIA SUPPORTS EXTENDING MNF-I MANDATE [...] (C) Poloff delivered reftel demarche to MFA IO/UNSC Section Chief Vladimir Safronkov June 14. Safronkov said Russia fully supports continuing the MNF-I mandate and the DFI/IAMB arrangements and that the GOR would not present any obstacle to the extension. The Russian side would support a po [...] | 2006-06-14 13:51:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNSC IZ RS |
06MOSCOW6358 | U.S.-RUSSIA TALKS ON THE CAUCASUS [...] (C) DAS Kramer accompanied by the DCM called on Russian MFA Fourth CIS Department Director (DAS equivalent) Andrey Kelin June 13 to discuss Caucasus issues. (Kramer met subsequently one-on-one with DFM Karasin on other regional agenda items.) Kramer pushed Kelin hard on Russia's support for s [...] | 2006-06-15 05:04:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR MOPS OSCE GG AM AJ RS |
06MOSCOW6389 | HUMAN RIGHTS OMBUDSMAN LUKIN AGREES WITH USG [...] (C) SUMMARY. In a June 14 meeting, Human Rights Ombudsman Vladimir Lukin agreed with the proposals put forward by EUR DAS David Kramer regarding a U.S.-Russian human rights dialogue. Lukin shared the view that it would be beneficial to announce the creation of the dialogue at the G8 summit. [...] | 2006-06-15 14:31:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL KDEM PINR RS |
06MOSCOW6390 | RESTRICTIONS ON FOREIGNERS IN NORTH OSSETIA [...] (C) Summary: On March 21 the Russian Government issued a decree that puts most of the Republic of North Ossetia off-limits to foreigners. Local authorities began enforcing the decree this month, with immediate effects on international assistance organizations. Most local observers relate th [...] | 2006-06-16 07:06:00 | Embassy Moscow | SECRET | PREL PGOV PREF PBTS MARR MOPS EAID OSCE RS GG |
06MOSCOW6464 | RUSSIAN MFA ON ICTY PIFWC LIKELY IN RUSSIA [...] (C) Poloff delivered reftel demarche June 19 to Andrey Kalinin of the MFA Legal Department. Kalinin and his superior, Department Section Chief Igor Panin (who was traveling at the time),are the only officials in the MFA with a thorough knowledge of the ICTY and the status of PIFWCs. Russia [...] | 2006-06-19 11:49:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | KJUS KCRM PREL ICTY KAWC PHUM BK SR RS |
06MOSCOW650 | SOUTH OSSETIA: JCC ADRIFT AS RUSSIAN-GEORGIAN [...] (C) Russian, Georgian and South Ossetian representatives have been unable to agree to a venue for the next Joint Control Commission (JCC) meeting, according to Russian MFA 4th CIS Department Deputy Director Semyon Grigoriyev. Grigoriyev told us January 24 that Russian Ambassador-at-Large for [...] | 2006-01-24 13:06:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL GG RS |
06MOSCOW6515 | CHECHNYA: DEATH OF SADULLAYEV [...] (C) Summary: Accounts of the June 17 killing of Chechen rebel "President" Sadullayev vary, but it was probably a chance firefight. Reaction has been low-key. Sadullayev's relevance was more political than military, and his death will probably have little effect on the rebels' military or te [...] | 2006-06-20 09:31:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV MARR MOPS PINR RS |
06MOSCOW6535 | RUSSIAN MFA ON PUTIN-SAAKASHVILI TALKS [...] (C) Summary: The Russian MFA notetaker at the June 13 meeting between Presidents Putin and Saakashvili said the discussion was a constructive start to dialogue. He stressed several times that Russia was not a party to any of the frozen conflicts, and that it was the South Ossetians and Abkha [...] | 2006-06-20 12:16:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR MOPS PBTS GG RS |
06MOSCOW6547 | YURIY CHAYKA NOMINATED AS RUSSIA'S PROCURATOR [...] (SBU) President Putin nominated current Minister of Justice, Yuriy Chayka, as the next Procurator General to replace Vladimir Ustinov, who resigned June 2. The Federation Council's Committee on Legal and Judicial Affairs supported the nomination June 19; it will go before the full Federation [...] | 2006-06-20 15:19:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PINR KCRM RS |
06MOSCOW6563 | RUSSIAN SCO REPRESENTATIVE ON JUNE 15 SUMMIT [...] (C) Summary. Russian Ambassador-at-Large for the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Vitaliy Vorobiyov gave us a readout June 20 of the June 15 SCO Summit. He encouraged the United States to have more dialogue with the SCO to avoid misunderstandings, perhaps as a formal "dialogue partne [...] | 2006-06-21 10:39:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER RS IR AF CN KZ |
06MOSCOW6575 | NEW TRIAL ORDERED FOR SYNAGOGUE ATTACKER [...] (SBU) On June 20 the Russian Supreme Court ordered a new trial for Aleksandr Koptsev, who on March 27 had been convicted of knifing nine people in the Chabad synagogue in Moscow on January 11. The trial court had sentenced Koptsev to thirteen years in prison on several counts of attempted mur [...] | 2006-06-21 14:43:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PREL KCRM RS |
06MOSCOW6608 | G-8 POLITICAL DIRECTORS/SENIOR GROUP JUNE 14 [...] (C) Summary. Meeting in Moscow June 14, G-8 Political Directors/Senior Group Members discussed outstanding issues relating to the St. Petersburg Summit statement on nonproliferation, including sensitive technology transfers, the U.S.-India agreement, and how to deal with the DPRK and Iran. [...] | 2006-06-22 09:36:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL PHUM RS |
06MOSCOW6762 | OUT AS PROCURATOR GENERAL, USTINOV RETURNS AS [...] (U) On June 23 President Putin nominated Vladimir Ustinov -- who on June 2 had been removed from his prior position as Procurator General -- to be Minister of Justice. In his new position Ustinov succeeds former Justice Minister Yuriy Chayka, who on June 19 was named as Ustinov's successor as [...] | 2006-06-26 13:12:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV RS |
06MOSCOW6812 | U.S. COMMISSION ON INTERNATIONAL RELIGIOUS FREEDOM [...] (C) SUMMARY: On June 23 the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) met with Federal Registration Service (FRS) Director Sergey Movchan to discuss the expected impact of the recently adopted and not yet implemented NGO law on religious organizations. Movchan upheld the GOR [...] | 2006-06-27 07:05:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PINR PREL RS |
06MOSCOW6815 | SOCIAL MOBILITY IN RUSSIA: WHICH WAY TO THE MIDDLE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: With real average incomes up 66 percent over the past five years, Russia's middle class has begun to emerge from the shadows -- after all, someone other than the mega rich has to be buying all those TV sets, cars and cell phones. Understanding that the movement is now well unde [...] | 2006-06-27 11:10:00 | Embassy Moscow | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON SOCI EINV ELAB EFIN PGOV RS |
06MOSCOW6820 | DFM YAKOVENKO SAYS MOSCOW WELCOMES FRANK [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a meeting with a visiting delegation from the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom June 24, Deputy Foreign Minister Aleksandr Yakovenko: -- Welcomed frank discussion of Russia's human rights record, emphasizing that his ministry routinely facilitated visits by [...] | 2006-06-27 13:05:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PREL RS |
06MOSCOW6839 | AN ARRAY OF CIVIL SOCIETY EVENTS AROUND THE G8 [...] (C) SUMMARY: The menu of civil society events around the G8 Summit has taken shape, although a few uncertainties remain. The main GOR-sponsored event, the so-called Civil G8 to be held on July 3-4, has been supplemented with a human rights roundtable, which some independent activists view as [...] | 2006-06-27 13:44:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM PINR RS |
06MOSCOW6843 | RUSLAN KHASBULATOV ON CHECHEN DYNAMICS [...] (C) Ruslan Khasbulatov, Yeltsin's opponent in the 1993 White House standoff and now professor of economics at the Plekhanov Russian Academy of Economics, gave us his perspective June 27 on dynamics in his native Chechnya. Khasbulatov was upfront about his dislikes in the current political alig [...] | 2006-06-28 09:28:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV MARR MOPS PINR RS |
06MOSCOW7047 | HUMAN RIGHTS OMBUDSMAN LUKIN SUGGESTS CHANGES TO [...] (C) SUMMARY. In a June 30 meeting, Human Rights Ombudsman Vladimir Lukin discussed the paper outlining the proposal for a U.S.-Russian Roundtable on Democracy and Human Rights with the Ambassador. Lukin was positive about the proposal, but based on his consultations with the MFA and Kremlin F [...] | 2006-07-03 09:56:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL KDEM PINR RS |
06MOSCOW7084 | INITIAL REACTIONS IN MOSCOW TO DPRK MISSILE LAUNCH [...] (C) Summary. The Russian MFA issued a strongly worded statement at 2:00 p.m. Moscow time on July 5 in response to the DPRK missile launches. The MFA spokesman was on the record as day began in Moscow calling the launches a "provocation." Our colleagues in the ROK and Japanese embassies tol [...] | 2006-07-05 11:00:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MNUC KN RS |
06MOSCOW7118 | RUSSIAN DFM ON DPRK MISSILE LAUNCHES [...] (C) The Ambassador delivered reftel demarche July 6 to Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Aleksandr Alekseyev. Alekseyev said he was in absolute agreement that it was very important to send the North Koreans a strong and clear signal of the unacceptability of their missile launches. He had deli [...] | 2006-07-06 07:31:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR PARM UNSC KN RS |
06MOSCOW7124 | PUTIN MEETS WITH NGO REPRESENTATIVES AS PART OF [...] (C) SUMMARY: The main GOR-sponsored civil society event, the Civil G8, was held July 3-4 in Moscow. The event brought together a wide range of NGOs for lively discussions on themes, including G8 agenda items as well as the state of Russia's civil society. Putin attended several Civil G8 event [...] | 2006-07-06 08:47:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM PINR RS |
06MOSCOW7293 | FSB CONFIRMS DEATH OF SHAMIL BASAYEV [...] (C) The Federal Security Service (FSB) confirmed to LEGATT at 1715 local that Chechen rebel leader Shamil Basayev was killed in an operation in the early hours of July 10. LEGATT's FSB contacts, who had minutes earlier been unaware of the reports, refused to give further details. 2. (C) Acc [...] | 2006-07-10 14:25:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | MOPS MARR PGOV PINR RS |
06MOSCOW7340 | RUSSIA CLOSES BORDER WITH GEORGIA [...] (C) Russia closed its one border crossing with Georgia on July 8. In response, on July 9 Georgia closed its "border" crossing into South Ossetia. The South Ossetians have hyped the Georgian move, making the false charge that Georgia has cut the road between South Ossetia and Russia's North O [...] | 2006-07-11 14:47:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MOPS MARR PBTS ETRD GG RS |
06MOSCOW7385 | RUSSIA'S GEORGIA POLICY: "THE CAUCASUS BENEATH ME" [...] (C) Russia's policies towards Georgia are the product of three factors: anger unleashed by perceptions of betrayal and disrespect, fear of encirclement by a West intent on dismembering Russia's conception of the "Post-Soviet space," and solidarity with the separatist Abkhaz and South Ossetian [...] | 2006-07-12 11:08:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR MOPS GG RS |
06MOSCOW7493 | WORLD RELIGIOUS LEADERS SUMMIT IN RUSSIA CALLS FOR [...] (C) SUMMARY: Meeting in Moscow July 3-5, more than 200 religious leaders and clergy from over 40 countries called on believers of all faiths to engage in dialogue and partnership to resolve global problems, as well as to challenge terrorism, extremism, and efforts to restrict religious freed [...] | 2006-07-14 06:42:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM SOCI PINR RS |
06MOSCOW754 | SECURITY COUNCIL SECRETARY IVANOV ON LARIJANI TALKS [...] (S) SUMMARY. Ambassador met January 25 with Russian Security Council Secretary Igor Ivanov, who provided a read-out of his January 24 meeting with Iranian Supreme National Security Council Secretary Ali Larijani. Ivanov said "nothing extraordinary" came out of the discussion with Larijani, [...] | 2006-01-25 17:40:00 | Embassy Moscow | SECRET | PREL KNNP RS IR |
06MOSCOW7666 | NEW RESTRICTIVE RUSSIAN ELECTORAL LEGISLATION [...] (C) SUMMARY. A flurry of new, more restrictive legal measures affecting the conduct of elections appeared during the last few weeks of the spring sessions of both houses of the Russian parliament. On July 12, President Putin signed amendments passed by both houses that end the option of voti [...] | 2006-07-18 12:33:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR RS |
06MOSCOW7723 | RUSSIA: APPEAL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS FOR HAITI INTERIM [...] (SBU) Poloff delivered reftel demarche July 19 to Sergey Tarasov, Caribbean Section Chief in the MFA Latin America Department. Tarasov said he would pass the information to his superiors but could not predict whether Russia would provide any assistance to Haiti. He was aware of the High Lev [...] | 2006-07-19 12:44:00 | Embassy Moscow | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ECON EFIN HA RS |
06MOSCOW7769 | TRANSNISTRIA: INDEPENDENCE REFERENDUM [...] No summary [...] | 2006-07-20 14:18:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PBTS MARR MD RS |
06MOSCOW7863 | GEORGIA-RUSSIA: PUTIN-SAAKASHVILI MEETING OFF, LEAVING LITTLE CLARITY AND MUCH SUSPICION [...] (C) Georgian President Saakashvili will not meet President Putin in Moscow at the July 21-22 informal CIS Summit. Both sides agreed to announce they would set up a special meeting in the near future. In a bid to improve the atmosphere Georgian DFM Antadze, meeting with Russian DFM Denisov July 19, [...] | 2006-07-21 14:40:00 | Embassy Moscow | SECRET | PREL MARR MOPS GG RS |
06MOSCOW789 | RUSSIA/GEORGIA: IVANOV DISMISSIVE OF SAAKASHVILI'S [...] (C) SUMMARY. At the end of a January 25 meeting devoted primarily to Iran (ref A),Ambassador raised the Georgian energy supply issue with Russian Security Council Secretary Igor Ivanov. In a brief response, Ivanov dismissed Georgian President Saakashvili's accusations against Russia, callin [...] | 2006-01-26 12:35:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ENRG RS GG |
06MOSCOW7956 | POST-MORTEM ON G8-RELATED NGO EVENTS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Looking back on the four non-governmental events ahead of the G8 Summit, NGO activists and opposition politicians have widely diverging assessments about their implications. Ella Pamfilova's July 3-4 Civil G8 highlighted the broad range of NGOs in Russia, notably those involveQin [...] | 2006-07-26 10:31:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PINR RS |
06MOSCOW797 | A/S LOWENKRON'S MEETING WITH RUSSIA HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (C) SUMMARY. In a January 18 meeting with DRL A/S Lowenkron and the Ambassador, Human Rights Ombudsman Vladimir Lukin said that his office has seen an increase in complaints of human rights violations. Lukin highlighted his office's critical analysis of the first draft of the NGO law, saying [...] | 2006-01-26 14:28:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL SOCI RS |
06MOSCOW802 | A/S LOWENKRON DISCUSSES NGO LAW WITH STATE DUMA [...] (C) SUMMARY. On January 18 DRL A/S Barry Lowenkron and EUR DAS David Kramer met with State Duma Deputy Andrey Makarov. Makarov vigorously )- and at times heatedly )- defended the new NGO legislation, insisting that the text met international legal standards, but he conceded there could be prob [...] | 2006-01-27 07:34:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM RS |
06MOSCOW8024 | GOR REITERATES REQUIREMENTS FOR FOREIGNERS' ACCESS [...] (C) SUMMARY: On June 2, Russian security forces issued revised requirements for foreign NGO workers, reporters, and diplomats seeking access to Chechnya. While our contacts acknowledged that they raised the potential for tighter restrictions on NGOs working in the region, they reported that [...] | 2006-07-27 12:25:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL PREF EAID PGOV RS |
06MOSCOW8047 | GEORGIA-RUSSIA: MFA ON KODORI GORGE [...] (C) We discussed the Kodori Gorge situation July 27 with Dmitriy Tarabrin, Acting Director of the MFA Fourth CIS Department. Tarabrin said the operation had a "military character" that made it a violation of the May 11 1994 ceasefire agreement on Abkhazia. Russia did not, however, want to "d [...] | 2006-07-27 14:16:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MARR MOPS GG RS |
06MOSCOW8117 | GOR HIGH-LEVEL ATTENDANCE AT 61ST UNGA [...] (SBU) The MFA told us that Foreign Minister Sergey Viktorovich Lavrov will likely lead the Russian delegation at the 61st UNGA. The Foreign Ministry is awaiting Kremlin approval of the delegation list. There are no plans at this time for President Putin or PM Fradkov to attend. 2. (SBU) [...] | 2006-07-31 12:54:00 | Embassy Moscow | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL OTRA OVIP KSEP UNGA RS |
06MOSCOW8148 | EXTREMISM LAW SIGNED BY PUTIN [...] (C) SUMMARY. As expected, President Putin signed into law July 28 amendments to legislation "On Countering Extremism," despite concerns among many that the law may restrict legitimate criticism of the government. As noted in reftel, the revised law expands the definition of extremist activity [...] | 2006-07-31 15:47:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM RS |
06MOSCOW8210 | RUSSIAN GOALS FOR APEC 2006 [...] (C) We discussed U.S. APEC priorities on August 2 with MFA APEC Section Chief Pavel Alyanov and sought his views on Russian priorities at the Senior Officials Meeting (SOM) in September. Alyanov said Russia shared many of the same goals as the U.S. in APEC and particularly agreed on the impo [...] | 2006-08-02 14:17:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECON ETRD PTER APECO RS |
06MOSCOW8334 | GOR INTENDS TO EXTRADITE IVANOVO 13 TO UZBEKISTAN [...] (C) SUMMARY: The GOR has announced it intends to extradite 13 men detained at Uzbekistan's request for alleged involvement in the events in Andijon. UNHCR and human rights NGOs have told us that the men have further legal appeals available, but they are pessimistic there will be any reversa [...] | 2006-08-04 13:13:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PHUM PREL RS |
06MOSCOW8427 | AFTER BASAYEV [...] (C) Shamil Basayev leaves behind questions about the future direction of Chechnya, the future direction of the North Caucasus, and future prospects for terrorism, extremism, and militant Jihadism in the region. With no unifying enemy, the leadership of Chechnya is beginning to show rifts. M [...] | 2006-08-08 07:44:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MARR MOPS PINR PTER RS |
06MOSCOW8507 | THE POLITICAL SKIRMISH BEHIND THE "MOSKOVSKIYE [...] (C) SUMMARY: Late last year, Israeli businessman Arkadiy Gaydamak bought the liberal weekly newspaper "Moskovskiy Novostiy" (MN) and promptly announced it would become a pro-Kremlin publication. The newspaper's deputy editor in chief, Svetlana Babayeva, told us July 31 that over half a year [...] | 2006-08-09 13:50:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR RS |
06MOSCOW857 | RCFS DIRECTOR LIKELY TO BE CONVICTED [...] (C) The trial of Russian-Chechen Friendship Society (RCFS) Executive Director Stanislav Dmitriyevskiy is expected to conclude February 3. Oksana Chelysheva, an RCFS staff member, and other human rights contacts have told us they expect Dmitriyevskiy to be convicted. He is charged with incit [...] | 2006-01-27 14:29:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV EAID PREF RS |
06MOSCOW861 | NGOS CHILLED BY SPY ALLEGATIONS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Five days after Russian television aired accusations by the Federal Security Service (FSB) that four UK diplomats and a Russian were caught spying and that one of the diplomats was directly involved in transferring funds to Russian NGOs, the fallout continues. The State Duma den [...] | 2006-01-27 16:33:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL PINR RS |
06MOSCOW868 | A/S LOWENKRON'S MEETING WITH KONSTANTIN KOSACHEV, [...] (C) SUMMARY: On January 19 DRL A/S Barry Lowenkron, Ambassador Burns, and EUR DAS David Kramer met with State Duma International Relations Committee Chairman Konstantin Kosachev. Defending the new NGO legislation, Kosachev insisted that it would clarify the role of NGOs in Russia, not limit t [...] | 2006-01-30 10:25:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM RS |
06MOSCOW8691 | URGENT DEMARCHE ON UN SECURITY COUNCIL RESOLUTION [...] No summary [...] | 2006-08-12 10:40:00 | Embassy Moscow | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PTER MOPS IS LE RS |
06MOSCOW873 | KABARDINO-BALKARIA: AFTERMATH OF OCTOBER ATTACKS [...] (C) Summary: Few local officials in Kabardino-Balkaria are willing to talk about the October 13-14 attacks in Nalchik by Islamic extremists against government, law enforcement and security sites. Those who did during a January 25-26 visit to the Republic by Embassy officers cited joblessness [...] | 2006-01-30 11:25:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL ECON EAID RS |
06MOSCOW9015 | SOUTH OSSETIA: AN "AMUSING" MEETING GETS NOWHERE [...] (C) The Joint Control Commission to negotiate a settlement in the South Ossetia conflict met in Moscow August 17-18 and produced no results. The meeting's main accomplishment was to continue over the full two days without breaking up in acrimony. Georgian DCM Shugarov told us August 18, while [...] | 2006-08-18 14:23:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR OSCE GG RS |
06MOSCOW9018 | RUSSIA AND UKRAINE: TWO CHEERS FOR YANU? [...] (C) Summary: Moscow was pleased that new Ukrainian PM Viktor Yanukovich made his first foreign trip to Russia to meet with President Putin and PM Fradkov in Sochi. Observers here expect that the tone of the relationship will improve, but on substance, few saw Yanukovich as a pushover. On t [...] | 2006-08-18 14:31:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ENRG ETRD UP RS |
06MOSCOW9206 | KHODORKOVSKIY-ASSOCIATED NGO HIT WITH HUGE TAX BILL [...] (C) SUMMARY. Russian tax authorities recently imposed a USD 180,000 bill for back taxes on an NGO headed by one of Mikhail Khodorkovskiy's lawyers. The Federal Tax Service claims the Center for International Legal Defense (CILD) owes taxes on grants it has received from the National Endowment [...] | 2006-08-23 14:30:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL KDEM RS |
06MOSCOW921 | CIVIL SOCIETY COUNCIL CHAIR PAMFILOVA: "WE'LL [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a January 18 meeting with visiting DRL A/S Barry Lowenkron, the Ambassador and EUR DAS Kramer, Ella Pamfilova, head of the Presidential body that oversees civil society issues, said she had strongly opposed the controversial NGO legislation and had weighed in with President Pu [...] | 2006-01-30 12:56:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL PINR RS |
06MOSCOW922 | A RANGE OF EXPECTATIONS ABOUT THE PUBLIC CHAMBER [...] (C) SUMMARY: As the Public Chamber gets down to work following its inaugural plenary on January 22, its members have differing expectations about what it will accomplish. Publicly, many members expressed at least guarded optimism about the Chamber. Privately, views differ appreciably. One C [...] | 2006-01-30 13:11:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PINR RS |
06MOSCOW923 | MINISTRY OF JUSTICE SEEKS TO CLOSE HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Ministry of Justice (MOJ) said publicly on January 27 that it is seeking to revoke the registration of the Russian Human Rights Research Center, which allegedly failed to provide required documentation about its activities in recent years. Center officials and other human rig [...] | 2006-01-30 13:21:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL PINR RS |
06MOSCOW930 | MOSCOW COMFORTABLE WITH UKRAINIAN DEVELOPMENTS [...] (C) SUMMARY. Moscow continues to tell itself that it got the best of Kiev in the year-end negotiations on gas supply, according to the Russian MFA and a number of Embassy contacts. As they see it, the gas deal was an economic boon for Gazprom and the GOR, despite allegations of corruption a [...] | 2006-01-30 13:57:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ENRG RS UP |
06MOSCOW9311 | DPRK: RUSSIAN VIEWS ON IMPLEMENTING UNSCR 1695 [...] (C) Russia will comply with the requirements of UNSCR Resolution 1695 but is unlikely to adopt additional legal requirements directed against the DPRK's missile or WMD programs. MFA Korea Section Chief Aleksandr Vostrikov told us August 23 that responsibility for implementing the resolution [...] | 2006-08-25 12:32:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PARM KNNP MNUC KN RS |
06MOSCOW9346 | LEBANON/UNIFIL: RUSSIA MAY SEND LIMITED CONTINGENT [...] (C) The MFA told us August 25 that Russia is actively considering sending a limited contingent of military personnel to serve in UNIFIL. Vladimir Safronkov, Chief of the UN Political Affairs Section in the MFA's International Organizations Department, said that President Putin had requested [...] | 2006-08-25 14:00:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MOPS MARR KPKO LE RS |
06MOSCOW9354 | RUSSIA WEIGHING ADDITIONAL HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE [...] (C) In addition to contemplating a limited contingent of military personnel to serve in UNIFIL (septel),Russia is considering providing additional shipments of humanitarian assistance to Lebanon according to the MFA and the Lebanese Ambassador in Moscow. MFA Syria and Lebanon Section Chief [...] | 2006-08-25 14:03:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EAID LE RS |
06MOSCOW9356 | BASAYEV'S WIDOW ABDUCTED [...] (C) SUMMARY: The abduction of a female journalist in Chechnya that prompted public appeals from human rights groups could have consequences for the Chechen newspaper that employed her as a stringer and the groups seeking her release, following the revelation that she is Shamil Basayev's wido [...] | 2006-08-25 15:33:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PTER PINR RS |
06MOSCOW9412 | 15TH ANNIVERSARY OF 1991 "COUP": APATHY, PROMISE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. The fifteenth anniversary of the August 1991 "coup" passed with little fanfare. There were no official events, and the Russian population greeted the anniversary with apathy or political antipathy. Despite concern in some circles over increasing restrictions on personal freedo [...] | 2006-08-28 14:14:00 | Embassy Moscow | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KDEM PHUM RS |
06MOSCOW9414 | ABKHAZIA: DFM KARASIN SPELLS OUT TOUGH RUSSIAN [...] (C) Summary: At his initiative, DFM Karasin on August 28 briefed Western Friends Chiefs of Mission on developments in Abkhazia, which he had recently visited. He said Georgia's July operation in the Kodori Gorge was a violation of the 1994 ceasefire agreement and had created a "disbalance" in [...] | 2006-08-28 14:45:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR MOPS UNSC GG RS |
06MOSCOW9415 | DFM KARASIN ON UPCOMING RUSSIAN DIPLOMATIC EFFORTS [...] (C) Summary: After DFM Karasin briefed Friends of Georgia Chiefs of Mission August 28 (Septel),he met with Ambassador Burns bilaterally. They discussed upcoming travel and visits. Karasin favors an end October-early November date for his own meetings in Washington. Karasin briefed on Russ [...] | 2006-08-28 14:51:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MD UP BO RS |
06MOSCOW9436 | A/S LOWENKRON'S VISIT TO MOSCOW [...] (C) SUMMARY. A/S Barry Lowenkron visited Moscow in July attending "The Other Russia" conference sponsored by opposition political parties on the eve of the G8 summit. He also had consultations with a number of Russian officials, politicians, and NGO leaders. These included: Chairperson of th [...] | 2006-08-29 12:32:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM RS |
06MOSCOW9482 | RUSSIAN OIL TO LITHUANIA -- MIXING REVENGE AND BUSINESS [...] No summary [...] | 2006-08-30 12:24:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG ECON PREL LH RS |
06MOSCOW9533 | A CAUCASUS WEDDING [...] (C) Weddings are elaborate in Dagestan, the largest autonomy in the North Caucasus. On August 22 we attended a wedding in Makhachkala, Dagestan's capital: Duma member and Dagestan Oil Company chief Gadzhi Makhachev's son married a classmate. The lavish display and heavy drinking concealed the deadl [...] | 2006-08-31 06:39:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON PINR RS |
06MOSCOW96 | NGO DRAFT LEGISLATION: STILL UNSIGNED BY PUTIN [...] (C) SUMMARY: President Putin has yet to sign or veto the controversial NGO legislation passed in late December by the Duma and Federation Council. Most observers remain convinced that he will sign it, although there is some confusion about the timeframe in which he must make a decision. Assu [...] | 2006-01-11 13:53:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM RS |
06MOSCOW9627 | RUSSIAN DUMA CHAIRPERSON KOSACHEV ON US, IRAN, [...] (C) Summary: In an August 31 meeting with the Ambassador, Chairman of the International Relations Committee of the Russia Duma Konstantin Kosachev expressed concern over the deteriorating tone in US-Russian relations. Kosachev explained his opposition to imposing sanctions against Iran abs [...] | 2006-08-31 14:52:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM KDEM RS |
06MOSCOW963 | AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH RUSSIAN DFM KARASIN, [...] (C) Summary: Ambassador Burns met with Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Karasin January 31 to discuss recent developments on regional issues. They spent most of the meeting discussing Georgia; it was clear that President Saakashvili's accusations concerning the January 22 pipeline explosion [...] | 2006-01-31 14:04:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ENRG UNSC AJ AM GG BO UP IAEA IR RS |
06MOSCOW9817 | RUSSIAN POLITICAL SEASON BEGINS WITH [...] (C) Summary: The Kremlin's involvement, with Deputy Head of Presidential Administration Surkov's apparent encouragement and Putin's purported blessing, in engineering a union of three leftist political parties of marginal to moderate popularity as an officially sanctioned opposition is the [...] | 2006-09-06 08:55:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PHUM RS |
06MOSCOW9823 | RUSSIAN MFA ON HELICOPTER INCIDENT IN SOUTH OSSETIA [...] (C) Summary: Following the September 3 firing on a Georgian military helicopter over South Ossetia, the Ambassador contacted DFM Karasin to highlight the danger posed by the incident and to urge Russia to use its influence with the South Ossetians to prevent its repetition. Karasin acknowl [...] | 2006-09-06 13:15:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MOPS GG RS |
06MOSCOW9953 | RUSSIA NONCOMMITTAL ABOUT FIVE PLUS FIVE MEETING [...] (SBU) After providing reftel talking points to the MFA earlier, we checked with MFA North America on September 8 to see whether FM Lavrov would attend a meeting of the Five Plus Five on the margins of the upcoming UN General Assembly meetings. We were told that no decision had been made abou [...] | 2006-09-08 10:54:00 | Embassy Moscow | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KNNP MNUC PARM KN RS |
06MOSCOW9955 | RUSSIA SUPPORTS RENEWAL OF APEC COUNTER TERRORISM [...] (C) We delivered reftel demarche September 7 to MFA Asian Cooperation Department Deputy Director Valeriy Sorokin and MFA New Challenges and Threats Deputy Director Nikolay Kudashev. Sorokin and Kudashev endorsed extension of the Counter Terrorism Task Force (CTTF) mandate, underlining the i [...] | 2006-09-08 11:16:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECON PTER APECO RS |
06MOSCOW9978 | U.S.-RUSSIAN COUNTERTERRORISM WORKING GROUP [...] (C) SUMMARY: Since the last U.S.-Russian Counterterrorism Working Group (CTWG) convened in Moscow in December 2005, bilateral CT cooperation has continued to move forward even as the pace has remained uneven. Russia has focused on strengthening its capacity to respond to counterterrorism chal [...] | 2006-09-08 13:51:00 | Embassy Moscow | SECRET | PTER PREL PGOV RS |
06MOSUL10 | NINEWA IECI DIRECTOR CLAIMS EVIDENCE OF MISSING VOTERS COULD [...] (C) REO Poloff met with Independent Electoral Commission of Iraq (IECI) Ninewa Governate Electoral Office (GEO) director Oday Abed at his headquarters office at the PJCC on February 6. Abed claims an internal study he is conducting has revealed that over 4,000 families (potentially 15,000 to 1 [...] | 2006-02-07 15:59:00 | REO Mosul | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PINS PGOV PHUM IZ MARR PINT |
06MOSUL11 | SHABEK NATIONAL ASSEMBLYMEMBER ASKS FOR MORE "VISIBLE" USG [...] (C) PRT Leader and REO Poloff met with Shabek national assemblymember Dr. Haneen Al Qado in Mosul on February 8. Al Qado thanked the USG for ongoing assistance but said USG development projects in Ninewa need to be "more visible." Al Qado said he is working with other members of the national [...] | 2006-02-10 18:24:00 | REO Mosul | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PINS PGOV PHUM IZ PINT |
06MOSUL12 | ASSYRIAN PATRIOTIC PARTY REPS CALL FOR CREATION OF A NEW [...] (C) Assyrian Patriotic Party (APP) reps in Ninewa and Dohuk said they believe the answer to problems in Iraq's Christian community could be settled by the creation of a separate province for minorities. APP leader Namrood Betto suggested that "Ninewa Plains" be partitioned from eastern Ninewa [...] | 2006-02-12 15:30:00 | REO Mosul | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PINS PGOV PHUM IZ PINT |
06MOSUL13 | LIBERATION AND RECONCILIATION NATIONAL ASSEMBLY DELEGATE [...] (C) According to newly elected national assembly delegate Sheikh Mohammed Khalaf of the Reconciliation and Liberation Bloc, Iraq's new federal government needs to be more inclusive by "reaching out" to all parties in the country. Khalaf said he would work hard to help issues of unemployment a [...] | 2006-02-14 14:24:00 | REO Mosul | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PINS PGOV PHUM IZ ECON PINT |
06MOSUL14 | IRAQ NATIONAL DIALOGUE COUNCIL CONCERNED ABOUT SHAPE OF [...] (C) The Iraqi National Dialogue Council (INDC) in Ninewa is concerned about the shape of the new national government in Iraq. National assembly delegate Mahmood Al-Azzawi seems afraid Sunni Arabs might be "left out" from playing a larger role in the formation of the government. He said he wo [...] | 2006-02-14 14:38:00 | REO Mosul | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PINS PGOV PHUM IZ MARR PINT |
06MOSUL15 | LOCAL NGO LAUNCHING NEW WOMEN'S CENTER IN MOSUL [...] (SBU) In an effort to address concerns of unemployment, job training, and community counseling for Iraqi women, members of the Assembly of Ninevah NGOs, a local NGO umbrella organization, have created a second women's center for western Mosul. The effort expands on the already existing Iraq W [...] | 2006-02-14 15:00:00 | REO Mosul | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV PHUM IZ ECON ELAB SCUL SOCI PINT |
06MOSUL16 | NINEWA JUDGES FIRE BACK AT DETRACTORS, BLAME SYSTEM FOR [...] (C) Ninewa's judges are having difficulty with the public's negative perception of their work. In part, they blame Iraqi Army (IA) and Iraqi Police (IP) officials for "public statements" made to the press that condemn the judges for faults in the system. The judges make clear, however, that [...] | 2006-02-16 18:10:00 | REO Mosul | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PINS PGOV PHUM IZ PINT |
06MOSUL17 | NINEWA POLICE CHIEF CLAIMS REPORTS OF A RISE IN KIDNAPPINGS [...] (C) Provincial Chief of Police Wathiq Al Qudir told PRT Poloff that reports of an increase in the number of kidnappings and extortions in Mosul are exaggerated. He said rumors that the crimes are targeted specifically against Kurds and Chaldo/Assyrians are false, and denied that incidents are [...] | 2006-02-18 12:46:00 | REO Mosul | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PINS PGOV PHUM IZ MARR PINT |
06MOSUL18 | HOW JA'AFARI PLAYS IN THE PROVINCES: NINEWA REACTIONS TO [...] (C). PRT Ninewa spoke to several political party leaders from across the province to elicit reactions to the Shia coalition's re-nomination of current Prime Minister Ibrahim Al Ja'afari to a second term. The overwhelming majority of political parties appear to be disappointed by the selectio [...] | 2006-02-19 14:01:00 | REO Mosul | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PINS PGOV PHUM IZ PINT |
06MOSUL19 | NINEWA SCIRI REP CLAIMS KURDS NOT SUPPORTIVE OF AL JAAFARI [...] (C). Ninewa Supreme Council for Islamic Revolution of Iraq (SCIRI) Spokesman Aref Yousef claimed that recent personal attacks against Shia coalition nominee and current Prime Minister Ibrahim Al Jaafari as unjust and motivated by Kurds. Yousef accused Kurds of working against Al Jaafari becau [...] | 2006-02-21 15:47:00 | REO Mosul | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PINS PINT PGOV PHUM IZ |
06MOSUL20 | NINEWA ISLAMIC PARTY REPS CALL FOR PROVINCIAL ELECTIONS NOW [...] (C). Ninewa Iraqi Islamic Party (IIP) representative Younis Hashim called for provincial elections immediately. He accused the Kurds (which control the provincial government) of not doing enough to address the lack of basic social services and improve security in Mosul. Hashim said before t [...] | 2006-02-22 17:51:00 | REO Mosul | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PINS PINT PGOV PHUM IZ MARR |
06MOSUL21 | NINEWA SHIAS CLAIM ALL IS CALM AFTER SAMARRA INCIDENT, BUT [...] (C) Shiite political party members, especially among the predominantly Shia Shabek community in Ninewa, have called for calm. They expressed great sadness about the attack on February 22 on the Al-Askariya Shrine in Samarra and said they hoped the incident would not increase tensions between [...] | 2006-02-23 17:08:00 | REO Mosul | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PINS PINT PGOV PHUM IZ MARR |
06MOSUL22 | NINEWA: ALL QUIET ON THE NORTHERN FRONT [...] (C) Two days after the Al-Askariya Shrine was damaged in Samarra, the situation in Ninewa has remained calm. Yousef Muharam of the predominantly Shiite, Shabek Democratic Assembly, and Aref Younis of the Supreme Council for Islamic Revolution of Iraq (SCIRI) reported there were peaceful demon [...] | 2006-02-24 16:37:00 | REO Mosul | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PINS PINT PGOV PHUM IZ MARR |
06MOSUL23 | NINEWA: TAL AFAR SHEIKHS WANT MORE ASSISTANCE FROM USG ON [...] (C) Recent U.S. press coverage has painted a positive picture of Tal Afar's security situation. But some locals see it otherwise. Sunni Arab tribal leaders are upset by what they claim are poor security conditions in Tal Afar. Local sheikhs threatened that Sunnis would leave the city if the [...] | 2006-02-24 16:58:00 | REO Mosul | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PINS PINT PGOV PHUM IZ MARR |
06MOSUL24 | KURDISH VIEWS FROM NINEWA [...] (C) PRT Mosul had lengthy discussions with three Kurdish leaders in late February: two top Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) officials and one from the rival Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK). All were united in their support for continued American presence in Iraq, the difficulties Ja'afari [...] | 2006-03-01 08:54:00 | REO Mosul | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PINS PINT PGOV PHUM IZ MARR |
06MOSUL25 | NINEWA'S KURDS AND THEIR NEIGHBORS: ENCROACHMENT ISSUES [...] (C) Anxieties are building between the Kurds and their neighbors in Ninewa. Since taking control of the provincial government in January 2005, Kurdish political parties have spread their influence through many symbolic gestures in several strategic areas of the province. From Sinjar in the w [...] | 2006-03-04 17:24:00 | REO Mosul | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PINS PINT PGOV PHUM IZ MARR |
06MOSUL26 | NINEWA: A PROVINCIAL COUNCILMEMBER'S VIEWS ON LEADERSHIP [...] (C) Ninewa Provincial Council and Assyrian Democratic Movement (ADM) member, Gevara Zia, said he believed Sunni Arab political parties would control the Ninewa provincial government after elections were held later this year. Zia claimed a "more representative" provincial government would bett [...] | 2006-03-05 08:35:00 | REO Mosul | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PINS PINT PGOV PHUM IZ MARR |
06MOSUL28 | NINEWA: SINJAR YEZIDIS UNHAPPY WITH RULING KURDS [...] (C) Spokesmen for the Yezidi Movement for Progress and Reform (YMPR) demand that influence by the Kurdistan Regional Government and the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) in Sinjar must end or "civil war" would begin. Waad Matto of YMPR claims the KDP has too much control over the police and lo [...] | 2006-03-12 15:12:00 | REO Mosul | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PINS PINT PGOV PHUM IZ MARR |
06MOSUL30 | NINEWA: THE HERO OF TAL AFAR [...] (C) Mayor of Tal Afar Najim Al Jubouri -- the hero of President Bush's March 20 speech in Cleveland -- is a rare leader in a country fraught with fear and uncertainty. His strong leadership, both as chief of police and mayor, helped clean up this city of a quarter-million people in northwest [...] | 2006-03-22 14:52:00 | REO Mosul | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PINS PINT PGOV PHUM IZ MARR |
06MOSUL31 | KURDISH POWER PLAY IN MOSUL: PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT REQUESTS [...] (C) Ninewa Provincial Government leaders called for the immediate transfer of security operations from Coalition Forces (CF) to Iraqi Security Forces (ISF). During a meeting with the PRT and MNF-N, Governor Duraid Kashmoula, Vice Governor Khasro Goran, and Provincial Council Chair Salem Haj I [...] | 2006-03-23 09:09:00 | REO Mosul | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PINS PINT PGOV PHUM IZ MARR |
06MOSUL32 | NINEWA: SHABEK SHIA ON ASHURA ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION AND [...] (C) Minority Shabek Shia in Ninewa reported no major security incidents during the 40-day Anniversary of Ashura. Representatives of the Shabek Democratic Assembly (SDA) and Supreme Council for Islamic Revolution of Iraq (SCIRI) said the only regret they had was when Al Sadr supporters were hec [...] | 2006-03-23 17:36:00 | REO Mosul | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PINS PINT PGOV PHUM IZ MARR |
06MOSUL33 | NINEWA: TAL AFAR AND RABIYA CITY COUNCILS SEARCHING FOR [...] (C) The city councils of the west Ninewa towns of Tal Afar and Rabiya seek to improve security and basic services to their communities. While both councils are pleased with improved security, they realized more work would need to be done to shore up Iraqi Security Forces (ISF) in number and t [...] | 2006-03-24 14:27:00 | REO Mosul | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PINS PINT PGOV PHUM IZ MARR |
06MOSUL34 | NINEWA: PUK NATIONAL ASSEMBLY DELEGATE HAS AN OPTIMISTIC [...] (C) Although national assembly delegates met for the first time last week to take an oath of office, Ninewa PUK deputy director and national assembly delegate Abdelbari Al Zebari believes that talks will not resume until the second week of April. He claims the pause is deliberate yet necessar [...] | 2006-03-24 17:09:00 | REO Mosul | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PINS PINT PGOV PHUM IZ |
06MOSUL35 | NINEWA: "CIVIL WAR IS NOT ON THE AGENDA" [...] (C) Since the bombing of the Golden Mosque in Samarra on February 22, we have asked contacts if they believe civil war is imminent. Several point to areas with high populations of Shia, such as Tal Afar, as ripe for civil war once Coalition Forces are drawn down. Actual incidents range from [...] | 2006-03-26 16:38:00 | REO Mosul | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PINS PINT PGOV PHUM IZ MARR |
06MOSUL36 | KURDS IN NORTHERN IRAQ: PUK REP CLAIMS NINEWA "HANGS IN THE [...] (C) According to the Western Ninewa director of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, Mustafa Khokhe, Ninewa province "hangs in the balance." Ethnic tensions and the flow of terrorism from Iraq's neighbors are all contributing to a potentially combustible situation, he claims. He says Tal Afar, [...] | 2006-03-30 14:04:00 | REO Mosul | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PINS PINT PGOV PHUM IZ MARR |
06MOSUL37 | NINEWA RULE OF LAW ISSUES PART I: NINEWA CRIMINAL JUSTICE [...] (C) In recent months we have heard criticism of the Iraqi criminal justice system in Ninewa. Even officers at the Provincial Joint Coordination Center (PJCC) say they are "tired" of seeing terrorists released by "cowardly judges" or "corrupt" military and police officials. Corruption and cow [...] | 2006-03-30 14:31:00 | REO Mosul | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PINS PINT PGOV PHUM IZ MARR KCRM |
06MOSUL38 | NINEWA RULE OF LAW ISSUES PART II: BASIC PRINCIPLES IN [...] (C) Rule of law in Ninewa, or the lack thereof as many speculate, has negatively affected the public's trust in government institutions and the criminal justice system to protect them. At the root of the problem in Ninewa is poor communication and coordination by Iraqi Security Forces (ISF) [...] | 2006-03-31 11:25:00 | REO Mosul | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PINS PINT PGOV PHUM IZ MARR KCRM |
06MOSUL39 | NINEWA RULE OF LAW ISSUES PART I: NINEWA CRIMINAL JUSTICE [...] (C) In recent months we have heard criticism of the Iraqi criminal justice system in Ninewa. Even officers at the Provincial Joint Coordination Center (PJCC) say they are "tired" of seeing terrorists released by "cowardly judges" or "corrupt" military and police officials. Corruption and cow [...] | 2006-04-01 12:22:00 | REO Mosul | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PINS PINT PGOV PHUM IZ MARR KCRM |
06MOSUL4 | NINEWA KURDS FOCUSING ON PROVINCIAL ELECTIONS [...] (C) REO Poloff met with members of the Kurdish Alliance (KA) to discuss national election results, the new government, security, and the future provincial election. PUK member Abdulbari Al-Zebari claims KA did not perform as well as they should have due to improprieties by local IECI. He sai [...] | 2006-01-30 13:39:00 | REO Mosul | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PINS PGOV PHUM IZ PINT |
06MOSUL40 | HUMAN RIGHTS/NORTHERN IRAQ: MAYOR FEARS KURDISH DESIGNS IN [...] (C) Mayor Bassem Jejo is frustrated by what he sees as blatant efforts by the Kurds to usurp his and the Ninewa provincial government's authority over Telkaif District. He accuses the Kurds of loading the district council with KDP members, allowing Peshmerga to operate checkpoints on major t [...] | 2006-04-01 12:37:00 | REO Mosul | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PINS PINT PGOV PHUM IZ MARR |
06MOSUL41 | NINEWA: TAWAFOQ IRAQI FRONT PARLIAMENTARIAN VIEWS ON IRAN [...] (C) Tawafoq Iraqi Front coalition national assemblymembers, who are predominantly from the Iraqi Islamic Party, told us that U.S. pressure on Iran over nuclear issues is causing Iraq's Shia politicians to resist any formation for the new government. They said the end of U.S. pressure on Iran m [...] | 2006-04-07 16:31:00 | REO Mosul | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PINS PINT PGOV PHUM IZ MARR |
06MOSUL42 | NINEWA: IRAQI ISLAMIC PARTY ON SECURITY [...] (C) Iraqi Islamic Party (IIP) leaders in Ninewa want a more representative Iraqi Security Forces (ISF) and a reduced role of Coalition Forces (CF). They claim the Kurds are meddling with security and politics in the province. IIP reps believe they should play a larger role with helping CF an [...] | 2006-04-08 16:05:00 | REO Mosul | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PINS PINT PGOV PHUM IZ MARR |
06MOSUL43 | NINEWA: PROMINENT - AND SHADY - SUNNI SHEIKH ON SECURITY AND [...] (C) With the advent of democracy in Iraq, Ninewa's tribal leaders in the Sunni Arab community fear losing their traditional influence. However, there are tribal leaders working behind the scenes who still hold sway over politics and business affairs, especially such persons with strong ties t [...] | 2006-04-08 16:13:00 | REO Mosul | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PINS PINT PGOV PHUM IZ MARR |
06MOSUL44 | NINEWA: SCIRI REP BLAMES SUNNIS, USG FOR PROBLEMS WITH [...] (C) SCIRI provincial spokesman Aref Yousef believes delays in the formation of a new central government are the fault of Sunni Arab political parties and the USG. Yousef says Sunni coalitions Tawafoq Iraqi Front (Iraqi Accord Front) and Iraqi Front for National Dialogue (Al Hewar Iraqi Front) [...] | 2006-04-11 11:19:00 | REO Mosul | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PINS PINT PGOV PHUM IZ MARR |
06MOSUL45 | NINEWA: SHAMMAR TRIBAL LEADER ON GOVERNMENT FORMATION, [...] (C) Western Ninewa Sunni Arab tribal leader Sheikh Abdullah Al Yawar believes all ethnic and political groups in Baghdad are responsible for failings with the new government formation. He believes the last government's problems were not only the fault of Prime Minister Al Ja'afari, but also t [...] | 2006-04-14 12:00:00 | REO Mosul | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PINS PINT PGOV PHUM IZ MARR |
06MOSUL46 | NINEWA: PUK NATIONAL ASSEMBLYMEMBER CONFIDENT IMPASSE OVER [...] (C) PUK national assemblymember from Ninewa Abdelbari Al Zebari is an optimist. On a recent visit to Turkey with PUK colleagues for talks with members of the Turkish parliament, the delegation was told -- repeatedly -- that the Iraqis should "get accustomed" to the idea of working with the Tu [...] | 2006-04-14 12:39:00 | REO Mosul | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PINS PINT PGOV PHUM IZ MARR |
06MOSUL47 | NINEWA: TURKOMAN TRIBAL LEADER ON TURKEY, RELATIONS WITH THE [...] (C) Sheikh Seyh Beyatli, leader of the Turkoman Beyatli tribe, believes Turkey is meddling in Turkoman affairs in Iraq. He claims Turkey's main goal is to remove any sort of historical allegiances between the Kurds and Turkoman people to keep federalism from taking hold in Iraq. Beyatli claim [...] | 2006-04-20 11:51:00 | REO Mosul | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PINS PINT PGOV PHUM IZ MARR |
06MOSUL5 | NINEWA CHALDO/ASSYRIANS CONCERNED ABOUT THEIR FUTURE IN [...] (C). REO Poloff met with members of the Beth Nahrain Patriotic Union (BNPU),a Chaldo/Assyrian political party, on January 31, to discuss national election results, security issues, and the future of the community in Ninewa. BNPU member Yacoub Ibrahim said kidnappings and extortions against [...] | 2006-01-31 16:57:00 | REO Mosul | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PINS PGOV PHUM IZ MARR PINT |
06MOSUL50 | NINEWA VIEWS ON CENTRAL GOVERNMENT FORMATION AND SECURITY [...] (C) Reaction by Ninewa's political representatives and government officials towards the formation of a new central government in Baghdad is best described as cautiously optimistic. While there is some finger pointing as to why the process has taken so long (over six months) with no agreement, [...] | 2006-05-19 16:30:00 | REO Mosul | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PINS PINT PGOV PHUM IZ MARR |
06MOSUL51 | NINEWA: PROVINCIAL CHIEF OF POLICE CONFIRMS SECTARIAN STRIFE [...] (S) Provincial Chief of Police Wathiq al-Qudir confirms recent violence in the western Ninewa city of Tal Afar is due to sectarian strife. President Bush mentioned Tal Afar in a speech this year as a beacon of hope after successful counterinsurgency efforts last September helped bring stabili [...] | 2006-05-20 16:17:00 | REO Mosul | SECRET | PREL PINS PINT PGOV PHUM IZ MARR |
06MOSUL52 | NINEWA PRT: MOSUL UNIVERSITY OFFICIALS INTERESTED IN WORKING [...] (C) Dean of the University of Mosul Medical School, Dr. Nazar Qibi, says he is interested in working with PRT Ninewa on projects to benefit the people of the province, but is terrified that any association with the USG or Coalition Forces (CF) might lead to injury or death for himself and his [...] | 2006-05-22 16:12:00 | REO Mosul | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PINS PINT PGOV PHUM IZ MARR |
06MOSUL53 | NINEWA PRT RULE OF LAW: NINEWA CRIMINAL JUSTICE COMMITTEE [...] (C) Rule of law is the foundation of an effective criminal justice system that empowers governments to provide security and stability. Using this concept, the PRT Rule of Law Team is working with local officials on the establishment of the Ninewa Criminal Justice Committee (NCJC). The NCJC a [...] | 2006-05-25 12:20:00 | REO Mosul | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PINS PINT PGOV PHUM IZ MARR KCRM |
06MOSUL54 | NORTHERN IRAQ: NINEWA REACTION TO NEW IRAQI GOVERNMENT [...] (C) Views from Ninewa political, tribal, and government officials on the new -- and permanent -- Government of Iraq vary according to ethnicity. The Shiite community is overwhelmingly upbeat, the Kurds more pragmatic, with Sunnis feeling a bit disaffected and minorities somewhat despondent. [...] | 2006-05-27 13:27:00 | REO Mosul | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PINS PINT PGOV PHUM IZ MARR |
06MOSUL55 | NINEWA: SOURCES CITE SECTARIAN STRIFE IN TAL AFAR [...] (C) Tal Afar is frequently cited in the western media and by USG officials as a good news story in Iraq. Recently, however, we have also heard reports of increased sectarian strife. Some sources say Sunni and Shia conflict in southern Iraq and Baghdad has influenced relations between the two [...] | 2006-05-31 06:14:00 | REO Mosul | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PINS PINT PGOV PHUM IZ MARR |
06MOSUL56 | NINEWA: LOCAL CHRISTIAN OFFICIALS CLAIM INTERNALLY DISPLACED [...] (C) Local religious and political officials report that the number of internally displaced Christians fleeing Baghdad and Mosul to eastern Ninewa is growing. Father Aimen of St. George's Catholic Church in Bartallah claims around 3,000 displaced persons are already residing in Al Hamdiniya Di [...] | 2006-05-31 07:15:00 | REO Mosul | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PINS PINT PGOV PHUM IZ MARR |
06MOSUL57 | CHRISTIAN MILITIAS IN NINEWA PLAINS [...] (C) Christian religious and provincial government officials report Christian militias are operating in minority areas east of Mosul ("Ninewa Plains"). According to Dr. Lalo, assistant governor for the province, Christian forces in Ninewa Plains number approximately 1,250 and are personally be [...] | 2006-05-31 07:33:00 | REO Mosul | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PINS PINT PGOV PHUM IZ MARR |
06MOSUL58 | NINEWA PRT: PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT REACHES OUT TO ITS [...] In an effort to bring the provincial government into closer contact with district constituents, PRT Ninewa and MNF-N have provided logistical support for the Ninewa provincial council to conduct a series of outreach events throughout Ninewa province. The provincial leadership held town meetings [...] | 2006-05-31 08:20:00 | REO Mosul | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PINS PINT PGOV PHUM IZ MARR |
06MOSUL6 | AL MOSUL FREE LIST DISAPPOINTED BY ELECTION LOSS [...] (C). REO Poloff met with Shammar Sheikh Nayif Al Faysal of the Al Jerba tribe in Mosul on February 1, to discuss election results, compensatory seat awards, and the upcoming provincial election. Al Faysal is disappointed that his brother Sheikh Khlaid Al Faysal's Al Mosul Free List (#639) co [...] | 2006-02-01 14:58:00 | REO Mosul | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PINS PGOV PHUM IZ MARR PINT |
06MOSUL7 | NINEWA VICE GOVERNOR REQUESTS MORE AUTHORITY FOR PROVINCIAL [...] (C) PRT TL and REO Poloff met with Vice Governor Khessro Goran and KDP headquarters in Mosul in February 1. Goran believes the new federal government should "give more authority" to provincial governments to help address the needs of the people. Goran spoke at some length about an increase i [...] | 2006-02-03 16:58:00 | REO Mosul | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PINS PGOV PHUM IZ MARR PINT |
06MOSUL8 | TAWAFOQ NATIONAL ASSEMBLY DELEGATES HOPE TO "REFORM" THE [...] (C) REO Poloff met with Tawafoq Iraqi Front (#618) national assembly delegates at the Provincial Joint Command Center (PJCC) on February 2. Tawafoq members said they have many plans to help Ninewa from their positions in the federal government. Izzi Adola said Tawafoq would like to push for a [...] | 2006-02-04 06:49:00 | REO Mosul | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PINS PGOV PHUM IZ MARR PINT |
06MOSUL9 | KURDISTAN ISLAMIC UNION, BRINGING DEMOCRACY BACK TO IRAQI [...] (C) REO Poloff met with Ninewa members of the Kurdistan Islamic Union (KIU) on February 2. KIU provincial director Sabbah Baberi believes KIU, given their strong showing after the December national election, could now play an important role in Iraqi Kurdistan by moving the PUK and KDP, "back [...] | 2006-02-05 11:44:00 | REO Mosul | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PINS PGOV PHUM IZ PINT |
06MUMBAI1253 | HOW SOUTHERN CHHATTISGARH BECAME INDIA'S HUB OF NAXALITE [...] (C) Southern Chhattisgarh has become the epicenter of Naxalite violence in India, with 214 insurgent-related casualties to date in 2006 and every indication that numbers will continue to rise. There are several causes for this escalating crisis. After the state was established in late 2000, [...] | 2006-07-05 11:42:00 | Consulate Mumbai | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PINR PHUM PGOV ASEC CASC IN |
06MUMBAI1261 | MAHARASHTRA POLICE UPDATE ON ISLAMIC TERRORISM IN WESTERN [...] (C) A top Maharashtra anti-terrorist official has told us that the three suspected terrorists killed in the foiled June 1 attack on the RSS headquarters in Nagpur were probably foreigners. J.J. Singh, Additional Chief of Police in the Maharashtra Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS),also acknowledged t [...] | 2006-07-06 10:29:00 | Consulate Mumbai | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER PGOV KIRF KISL CASC ASEC PK IN |
06MUMBAI1266 | FARMER SUICIDES PROMPT PM SINGH TO ANNOUNCE AGRICULTURAL [...] (U) Over 1,600 farmers in eastern Maharashtra's drought-affected cotton belt in the Vidarbha region have committed suicide in the past five years. The GOI has cited crop failure, depressed cotton prices and spiraling debt as the chief reasons for the suicides. During his June 30-July 1 visit [...] | 2006-07-07 06:45:00 | Consulate Mumbai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR ECON EAID PREL IN |
06MUMBAI1286 | CONDITIONS INSIDE CHHATTISGARH'S IDP CAMPS AS MONSOON SEASON [...] (SBU) Due to escalating combat between government, Naxalite-insurgent, and tribal counter-insurgent forces, southern Chhattisgarh had a growing internally displaced persons (IDP) problem in its Dantewara district before monsoon season arrived in late June. Dantewara's 27 IDP camps have appare [...] | 2006-07-10 12:14:00 | Consulate Mumbai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PREL PGOV KWMN KCRM PHUM IN |
06MUMBAI1292 | MULTIPLE TRAIN BOMBINGS KILL OVER 180 AT HEIGHT OF EVENING [...] (U) Over 180 persons died and over 500 were injured in a series of nearly simultaneous bomb explosions on seven trains on July 11 in Mumbai. The bombings occurred in overflowing trains at the height of the city's evening rush hour. All official Americans and their family members are accounted [...] | 2006-07-12 07:52:00 | Consulate Mumbai | UNCLASSIFIED | PTER KISL AEMR PGOV PREL IN |
06MUMBAI1293 | MULTIPLE TRAIN BOMBINGS KILL OVER 180 AT HEIGHT OF EVENING [...] (U) Over 180 persons died and over 500 were injured in a series of nearly simultaneous bomb explosions on seven trains on July 11 in Mumbai. The bombings occurred in overflowing trains at the height of the city's evening rush hour. All official Americans and their family members are accounted [...] | 2006-07-12 08:30:00 | Consulate Mumbai | UNCLASSIFIED | PTER KISL AEMR PGOV PREL CASC IN |
06MUMBAI1307 | MUMBAI REMAINS CALM AS POLICE DETAIN HUNDREDS IN CONNECTION [...] (U) Nearly 48 hours after bombs exploded aboard seven trains traveling Mumbai's western commuter railway line, casualty figures continue to rise, varying between 200 and 186 depending on the source. The number injured has also increased to 772. There have been no reports of Amcit deaths or in [...] | 2006-07-13 12:51:00 | Consulate Mumbai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER KISL PGOV PREL ASEC CASC IN |
06MUMBAI1310 | AS DEATH TOLL NEARS 200, CONTOURS OF MUMBAI BOMBING [...] (C) Despite the local media's poor track record in handling on-the-record remarks, enough reputable media outlets have directly attributed a particular theory of the Mumbai train bombings to senior police leadership that the contours of the investigation are emerging. If the state's media is t [...] | 2006-07-14 13:47:00 | Consulate Mumbai | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER PGOV KISL CASC ASEC PK IN |
06MUMBAI1332 | (C) PAKISTAN'S ISI INVOLVED IN MUMBAI BOMBINGS, TOP POLICE [...] (C) Maharahstra's top police official told the Consul General on July 19 that Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence Directorate (ISI) had a clear hand in the July 7 Mumbai train bombings. P.S. Pasricha, Director General of the state police, said the bombs used in the attacks may point to an A [...] | 2006-07-19 13:29:00 | Consulate Mumbai | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER PGOV KISL CASC ASEC PK IN |
06MUMBAI1356 | POLICE MAKE FIRST ARRESTS IN MUMBAI TRAIN BOMBING CASE [...] (C) Investigators have reportedly made the first formal arrests in connection with the July 7 train bombings in Mumbai that killed over 180 people. If the media reports match information we have received from the police, then those arrested are suspected of having helped move materials for the [...] | 2006-07-21 10:17:00 | Consulate Mumbai | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER PGOV KISL CASC ASEC PK IN |
06MUMBAI1375 | A $5-$6 BILLION "NUCLEAR PARK" FOR U.S. REACTORS IN INDIA? [...] (C) The head of India's state-run nuclear power company told visiting Charge on July 21 that U.S. nuclear suppliers could get their own "nuclear park" of five to six reactors worth $5-$6 billion if the U.S./India civil nuclear agreement becomes reality. S.K. Jain, MD and Chairman of the Nuclea [...] | 2006-07-26 08:08:00 | Consulate Mumbai | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PARM TSPL KNNP ETTC ENRG TRGY PGOV BEXP IN |
06MUMBAI1506 | STILL NO BREAKTHROUGH IN MUMBAI TRAIN BOMBING INVESTIGATION, POLICE SAY [...] No summary [...] | 2006-08-11 18:17:00 | Consulate Mumbai | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC CASC IN KISL PGOV PK PREL PTER |
06MUMBAI1602 | CEQ'S CONNAUGHTON ENCOURAGES MAHARASHTRA GOVERNMENT, [...] (SBU) In a series of meetings on August 24 in Mumbai, CEQ Chairman James L. Connaughton encouraged Government of Maharashtra (GOM) officials and Indian business leaders to support the Asia-Pacific Partnership on Clean Development and Climate (APP). He also briefed his interlocutors on the sta [...] | 2006-08-29 08:04:00 | Consulate Mumbai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG EFIN EINV PREL PGOV SENV SEXP EPET EMIN |
06MUMBAI1652 | MUMBAI BOMBING INVESTIGATIONS REVEAL DETAILS OF MUSLIM [...] (C) Although police have now arrested 14 men in connection with the July 11 Mumbai train bombings, investigators still appear to know little about the actual perpetrators of the well-planned act of terrorism that killed 187 people and left few traces. All those arrested have been charged on th [...] | 2006-09-08 11:48:00 | Consulate Mumbai | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER PGOV KISL CASC ASEC PK IN |
06MUMBAI1707 | BOEING IDENTIFIES SITE FOR PLANNED MAINTENANCE FACILITY IN [...] (SBU) A senior Boeing official told the Consul General on September 15 that his company has now identified a site for its planned maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) facility in Nagpur. Seattle-based Dinesh Keskar, who briefed us on the margins of the CG's visit to Nagpur, had met with offi [...] | 2006-09-18 13:40:00 | Consulate Mumbai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAIR PREL ETRD EFIN IN |
06MUMBAI1755 | (C) LOCAL MUSLIMS AND PAKISTAN NATIONALS PLANTED BOMBS ON [...] (C) Three local Muslims and four Pakistanis planted the bombs that killed 187 persons on seven Mumbai commuter trains in July, the Mumbai police chief told the Consul General on September 26. A.N. Roy said the police had detained two of the local men who had planted bombs. One of the two men [...] | 2006-09-27 12:09:00 | Consulate Mumbai | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER PGOV KISL CASC ASEC PK IN |
06MUMBAI1803 | WILL FRANCE, RUSSIA REAP THE INITIAL COMMERCIAL BENEFITS OF [...] (SBU) GE and Westinghouse fear that French and Russian companies may be the first to benefit from the commercial opportunities created by successful passage of the U.S./India civil nuclear initiative. The Nuclear Power Corp. of India (NPCIL) confirmed to us that the GOI has approved two new si [...] | 2006-10-08 08:56:00 | Consulate Mumbai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PARM TSPL KNNP ETTC ENRG TRGY PGOV ECON |
06MUMBAI1986 | GUJARAT CHIEF MINISTER MODI SETS HIS SIGHTS ON NATIONAL [...] (C) Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi has his sights on national politics. Everyone we spoke to during a recent trip to Ahmedabad told us that Modi will use an expected state election victory next year to make a bid for the national presidency of the BJP. RSS and BJP leaders in Delhi echo thes [...] | 2006-11-02 12:42:00 | Consulate Mumbai | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL CVIS PHUM KIRF KISL ECON IN |
06MUMBAI1996 | POLICE BELIEVE MUSLIMS TARGETED MUSLIMS IN MALEGAON [...] (C) Maharashtra police are now convinced that Muslim extremists purposefully targeted other Muslims in the September 8 bombings in Malegaon that killed 31 persons and injured over 200. The police have told us that Muslim extremists hoped to inflame communal passions in a city with a history [...] | 2006-11-09 03:03:00 | Consulate Mumbai | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER PGOV KISL ASEC CASC IN |
06MUMBAI2027 | CONSUL GENERAL MEETS GUJARAT CHIEF MINISTER MODI [...] (C) Summary: Consul General met on November 16 with Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi, the first such meeting since Modi's U.S. visa was revoked in 2005. Modi provided a glowing overview of his accomplishments in office, including better roads, universal access to electric power, greater ava [...] | 2006-11-27 11:35:00 | Consulate Mumbai | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM CVIS KISL IN |
06MUMBAI2054 | JULY RELIEF PACKAGE NOT ENOUGH, FARMER SUICIDES CONTINUE IN [...] (SBU) Farmer suicides have continued in the drought affected Vidarbha region of Eastern Maharashtra in spite of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's debt relief package announced in early July. Over 900 farmer suicides have been reported in Vidarbha this year, 300 of which occurred after the July [...] | 2006-12-11 13:03:00 | Consulate Mumbai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR ECON EAID PREL IN |
06MUMBAI2064 | NPCIL OUTLINES ITS VISION OF INDIA'S NUCLEAR FUTURE AT [...] (U) This is an action request. See paragraph 14. Summary ------- 2. (SBU) India hopes to import 20 to 25 foreign nuclear reactors in the coming decades, the head of the country's nuclear power utility told over 25 U.S. companies from the nuclear sector on December 1 in Mumbai. [...] | 2006-12-13 14:25:00 | Consulate Mumbai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PARM TSPL KNNP ETTC ENRG TRGY PGOV ECON |
06MUMBAI2068 | CIVIL NUCLEAR COOPERATION MUST NOT CONSTRAIN INDIA'S [...] (SBU) Anil Kakodkar, chairman of India's Atomic Energy Commission, told Commerce Undersecretary Frank Lavin and U.S. nuclear industry leaders on December 2 that the planned U.S.-India civil nuclear initiative must not constrain India's planned three stage program that will establish a closed nu [...] | 2006-12-14 07:29:00 | Consulate Mumbai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PARM TSPL KNNP ETTC ENRG TRGY PGOV ECON |
06MUMBAI2075 | NPCIL TELLS SEN. SPECTER THAT IT APPLAUDS NUCLEAR LAW, YET [...] (SBU) S.K. Agrawal, director of projects at the Nuclear Power Corporation of India (NPCIL),told Senator Arlen Specter on December 16 that the civil nuclear law passed by Congress would not restrict the company's expansion plans. Without the agreement, the NPCIL's growth would even be slower a [...] | 2006-12-20 11:10:00 | Consulate Mumbai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PARM TSPL KNNP ETTC ENRG TRGY PGOV ECON |
06MUMBAI2090 | MAHARASHTRA'S GRAND VISION FOR THE NAGPUR AIRPORT [...] (SBU) The Government of Maharashtra (GOM) has ambitious plans to convert Nagpur into a major regional transportation hub. During our recent trip to the city, located at the geographic heart of India, the Maharashtra Airport Development Corporation (MADC) explained its plans to build an integrat [...] | 2006-12-28 09:52:00 | Consulate Mumbai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAIR PREL ETRD EFIN EIND EINV PINR IN |
06MUNICH114 | MUNICH SECURITY CONFERENCE OVERVIEW: MERKEL URGES [...] (SBU) The February 3-5 42nd Munich Conference on Security Policy ("Wehrkunde") on "Restoring the Transatlantic Partnership," explored a wide-range of security policy topics, including the future of NATO, its relationship with the EU, Russia's relationship with Europe and NATO, and Foreign and [...] | 2006-02-23 16:28:00 | Consulate Munich | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PARM NATO IAEA NPT ENRG IR GM |
06MUNICH347 | BAVARIAN TIP UPDATE: ARRESTS AND CONVICTIONS; [...] (U) Bavarian police arrested two Romanians and one German May 21 for trafficking in persons (TIP) and pimping in Bavaria and Baden-Wuerttemberg. The arrests were the result of a four-month police investigation launched on the basis of evidence gathered during routine "controls" of brothels in [...] | 2006-06-11 17:22:00 | Consulate Munich | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KCRM PHUM KWMN KJUS PGOV SMIG ELAB GM RO |
06MUNICH357 | CHAROLOTTE KNOBLOCH ELECTED NEW PRESIDENT OF THE [...] On June 7, 2006, at age 73, Charolotte Knobloch was unanimously elected President of the Jewish Council in Germany following the death of Council President Paul Spiegel on April 30. People who know her are confident she will be able to gain broad public support in her new capacity. She has [...] | 2006-06-13 11:02:00 | Consulate Munich | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL PINR GM |
06MUNICH397 | BRUNO'S LAST STAND -- FIRST WILD BEAR IN 170 YEARS [...] Despite all the attention surrounding the World Cup, EADS' woes and health care reform, Bavarians and many Germans have been transfixed by a two-year-old brown bear named "Bruno" that wandered across international borders into Bavaria, a government minister's agenda, a hunter's crosshairs, an [...] | 2006-06-30 13:30:00 | Consulate Munich | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV SENV GM |
06MUNICH400 | BLUE LANTERN PRE-CHECK ON DDTC LICENSE 05-973079: [...] (SBU) POL/ECON Officer and an LES researched bona fides of ref German firm IBR Aeronautical Consulting, and visited Hannes Ross, IBR's owner and sole employee, at his home office on June 29. When asked, Ross explained that the confusion over a firm by the name of EEL (reftel) being listed at [...] | 2006-06-30 16:10:00 | Consulate Munich | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETTC KOMC GM |
06MUNICH437 | EADS/AIRBUS CRISIS -- THE VIEW FROM EADS' MUNICH [...] (SBU) Senior German EADS officials told the Consulate that Noel Forgeard's departure was necessary for EADS to move beyond its current mess, and the Forgeard affair was but one example of the challenges of dealing with spotlight- seeking French partners. As for BAE's divestiture of its EADS [...] | 2006-07-13 12:41:00 | Consulate Munich | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAIR ETRD PGOV EINV PREL EUN FR GM |
06MUNICH558 | EADS' EUROCOPTER -- WHAT AIRBUS WOULD LIKE TO BE [...] (U) Eurocopter, enjoying rising market share, is particularly exuberant over the recent decision by the U.S. Army to purchase up to 352 UH-145 helicopters, the firm's first U.S. defense contract. Eurocopter officials said this would put greater pressure on colleagues at Eurocopter parent EADS [...] | 2006-08-23 16:31:00 | Consulate Munich | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAIR ETRD PGOV EINV PREL EUN FR GM |
06MUNICH715 | EADS/AIRBUS CRISIS -- THE SAGA CONTINUES [...] (SBU) Amid a flood of bad news, a senior EADS official told the Consulate the A380 would, despite delays, be certified for flight. However, the A380's drain on resources was adversely impacting programs such as the A350 and the A400M, possibly resulting in a postponement of the A350 program. [...] | 2006-10-13 13:57:00 | Consulate Munich | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAIR ETRD PGOV EINV PREL EUN FR GM |
06MUNICH767 | MR. PUTIN GOES TO BAVARIA [...] The Bavarian government warmly welcomed Russian President Vladimir Putin during his visit to Munich October 11. Shortly after Putin's visit, the so-called "Days of Moscow" were opened in the Bavarian capital marking the visit of Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov, to whom Minister-President Stoiber aw [...] | 2006-10-31 08:30:00 | Consulate Munich | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL GM RS |
06MUNICH777 | THE CSU'S ANNUAL CONVENTION - STICKING WITH STOIBER, BUT [...] Chancellor Merkel and Bavarian Minister-President Edmund Stoiber made a show of unity at the CSU's annual convention. Behind the facade, however, the CSU is reluctantly marching behind Stoiber - a leader whose glory has visibly faded. Recent polls show the CSU's popularity in Bavaria at arou [...] | 2006-11-03 16:25:00 | Consulate Munich | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV GM |
06MUNICH819 | POLICE RAID TURKISH TERRORIST ORGANIZATION DHKP/C [...] (U) In a coordinated effort led by Munich prosecutors, police from Bavaria, Baden-Wuerttemberg, and North Rhine Westphalia raided the apartments and workplaces of alleged supporters of the Turkish terrorist organization "Revolutionary People's Liberation Front" (DHKP/C) on November 28. Accord [...] | 2006-12-01 15:47:00 | Consulate Munich | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KCRM KWMN KJUS PTER PGOV ASEC GM TU |
06MUNICH838 | PREVIEW OF THE 43D MUNICH CONFERENCE ON SECURITY POLICY [...] (U) The 43d annual Munich Conference on Security Policy, the "Davos" of the security policy world is set to take place February 9-11, 2007 at the Bayerischer Hof hotel in Munich, Germany. Invited guests include heads of state, foreign ministers, defense ministers, parliamentary delegations an [...] | 2006-12-08 11:54:00 | Consulate Munich | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PARM NATO GM |
06MUSCAT10 | MEDIA REACTION: Ex-Syrian Leader's Comments, Economic [...] The privately owned daily "Al-Watan" published an editorial on January 1 under the title "Behind Khadam's Separation": "The former Syrian vice president Abdul Halim Khadam's clashes with fellow Syrian leaders date to former president Hafiz al- Asad's time, but his disputes increased during B [...] | 2006-01-04 08:50:00 | Embassy Muscat | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAO KMDR OIIP MU |
06MUSCAT100 | EMBASSY MUSCAT EAC - 01/25/2006 [...] (SBU) The Ambassador chaired a meeting of the core Emergency Action Committee (EAC) on January 25 to review the Embassy's security posture prior to the local weekend. Members noted no substantive changes in the local security environment since the last meeting (reftel),and agreed that the E [...] | 2006-01-26 10:25:00 | Embassy Muscat | SECRET//NOFORN | AEMR ASEC AMGT PTER CASC KSAC KHLS MU EAC |
06MUSCAT1000 | BUILDING SUPPORT FOR GUATEMALA IN UN SECURITY [...] (C) In a June 20 call on Minister Responsible for Foreign Affairs Yusuf bin Alawi, the Ambassador delivered reftel points, urging Oman's support for Guatemala's candidacy to the UN Security Council. Bin Alawi noted with a smile that Venezuelan President Chavez was in Tripoli during the Minist [...] | 2006-06-20 14:43:00 | Embassy Muscat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL |
06MUSCAT1001 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: TEMPORARY MECHANISM FOR [...] (U) This is an action request for NEA; please see para 3. 2. (C) During a June 20 call on Minister Responsible for Foreign Affairs Yusuf bin Alawi, the Ambassador delivered reftel talking points on the new temporary international mechanism (TIM) for providing assistance to the Palestinians, [...] | 2006-06-21 07:57:00 | Embassy Muscat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KPAL EAID IS MU |
06MUSCAT1004 | INSIDE OMANI DEPORTATION CENTER, SEEKING [...] This is an action request for ECA, DRL, and G/TIP; please see paragraph 11. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (U) A June 19 visit to one of Oman's largest deportation centers revealed a clean and well-organized facility, and included a tour of the arrivals processing rooms, sleeping quarters [...] | 2006-06-21 10:21:00 | Embassy Muscat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREF SMIG PHUM PBTS OEXC KPAO PGOV PREL MU |
06MUSCAT1007 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: YEMENI GCC ASSISTANCE REQUEST [...] (C) Oman FM Bin Alawi affirmed on June 20 that the GCC will respond positively to Yemen's aid request, but amounts will be determined in November. He feared Yemen had exaggerated expectations, and that it lacked the absorptive capacity or management skills to handle such a large sum in such a [...] | 2006-06-21 14:09:00 | Embassy Muscat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EAID PTER MU YM |
06MUSCAT1008 | OMANI FRUSTRATION WITH THE FTA: WE UNDERSTAND BUT [...] (C) In a June 21 meeting with the Ambassador, the Sultan's Advisor for External Liaison, Dr. Omar Zawawi, conveyed Oman's growing frustration with and disappointment over the slow progress of the U.S.-Oman Free Trade Agreement in the U.S. Congress. Zawawi confirmed that other Omani official [...] | 2006-06-21 15:35:00 | Embassy Muscat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ELAB ETRD PGOV PHUM MU |
06MUSCAT1014 | OMANIS REQUEST VISIT TO U.S. DEPORTATION CENTER [...] This is an action request for Department of Homeland Security ICE and CBP. Please see para 4. 2. In response to recent requests by the Royal Oman Police (reftel),the Embassy seeks DHS assistance in arranging a senior-level Omani government delegation to visit immigration detention/depor [...] | 2006-06-26 04:58:00 | Embassy Muscat | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM OEXC KPAO PREL SMIG PBTS PREF MU |
06MUSCAT1015 | OMAN FM UPDATE ON IRAN, GULF SECURITY [...] (C) In a June 20 meeting, FM Yusuf bin Alawi again voiced optimism that Iran would respond positively to the West's latest offer, but noted that several Arab states were angry that details on security assurances to Iran were not discussed with them first. He sees a 1987 Security Council resol [...] | 2006-06-26 07:03:00 | Embassy Muscat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ELNT EWWT EPET XF IR MU |
06MUSCAT1023 | MEDIA REACTION: IRAQI SECURITY; IRANIAN OIL; ARAB LEAGUE [...] On June 26, all Omani papers carried prominent front-page coverage of the previous day's Palestinian attack on an Israeli checkpoint. English-language papers carried wire-service coverage, on which Arabic papers also drew, adding that Palestinian militants had "martyred" themselves. Iran cov [...] | 2006-06-28 05:44:00 | Embassy Muscat | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KPAO KMDR MU |
06MUSCAT103 | IPR SEMINAR RAISES AWARENESS, BUILDS BRIDGES [...] The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO),with MEPI funding, held a successful intellectual property rights (IPR) seminar for Arab prosecutors in Muscat from January 22-24. Following a similar program for judges in Dubai (reftel),the event drew over 45 participants from the MEPI region. [...] | 2006-01-26 12:20:00 | Embassy Muscat | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD EIND PREL KIPR KMPI KPAO MU |
06MUSCAT1032 | SPECIAL MEDIA REACTION: ISRAEL'S GAZA INCURSION [...] Israel's incursion into Gaza was front-paged in Oman's Arabic- language newspapers. Privately-owned "Al-Watan" (circulation 42,000) covered the story most emotionally, with a headline proclaiming, "Israel Begins the Burning of Gaza." An editorial in "Al-Watan" described the Palestinian strik [...] | 2006-06-28 13:59:00 | Embassy Muscat | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KPAO KMDR MU |
06MUSCAT104 | OMAN ONLINE: BIN LADEN TAPE, FTA, DANISH CARTOONS [...] Summary: The Omani Internet message board "al-Sablah" is the liveliest and most comprehensive Arabic-language forum for political and social discourse in the country, touching on issues and personalities rarely addressed in the conventional media. While not totally free, nor wholly reflective o [...] | 2006-01-26 13:35:00 | Embassy Muscat | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAO SOCI MU |
06MUSCAT1046 | ILO DELIVERS WORKSHOP ON FREEDOM OF ASSOCIATION [...] A three-day workshop entitled "Freedom of Association and Social Dialogue" began July 1 for members of Oman's 43 representative committees, educating them on the role of labor unions. Experts from the International Labor Organization (ILO),the Arab Labor Organization (ALO) and from other Gu [...] | 2006-07-02 12:42:00 | Embassy Muscat | UNCLASSIFIED | ELAB ETRD PGOV PHUM MU |
06MUSCAT1048 | TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS: ASIAN AMBASSADORS OFFER [...] (SBU) In a June 27 working lunch hosted by the Ambassador, colleagues from labor-source countries outlined problems faced by their nationals, to include salary arrears, lack of legal status, and in some cases physical or sexual assault. Their suggested improvements include additional labor pro [...] | 2006-07-02 13:20:00 | Embassy Muscat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB PHUM SMIG PBTS PREL MU |
06MUSCAT1054 | MEDIA REACTION: ISRAEL'S GAZA INCURSION, U.S. SENATE [...] Israel's Gaza incursion received front page coverage in both the English and Arabic-language press this week. Most Arabic articles were accompanied by photographs of bombed-out Palestinian government buildings, and scenes of distressed civilians. The U.S. Senate's ratification of the U.S.-Om [...] | 2006-07-03 11:39:00 | Embassy Muscat | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KPAO KMDR MU |
06MUSCAT1064 | CURRENT STATE OF HIV/AIDS PROGRAMS IN OMAN [...] A UNICEF report outlining its next five-year plan for Oman, done in cooperation with the Ministry of Health, provided updated statistics on the AIDS picture. While HIV rates remain low and numerically static, incidence of other sexually transmitted diseases is rising. The Ministry of Health [...] | 2006-07-05 12:34:00 | Embassy Muscat | UNCLASSIFIED | TBIO KHIV SOCI MU |
06MUSCAT1065 | FEMALE GENITAL MUTILATION PART OF NATIONAL ACTION [...] Troubling polling data on the acceptability of female genital mutilation (FGM) in Oman in a 2001 questionnaire for 16-18 year olds led to a 2004 survey of Omani women by the Ministry of Health. The surprising results revealed that more than half of women polled had undergone FGM. UNICEF's co [...] | 2006-07-05 13:53:00 | Embassy Muscat | UNCLASSIFIED | SOCI KWMN PHUM MU |
06MUSCAT1084 | OMAN FULFILLS FTA LABOR PROMISE TO CONGRESS THREE [...] In a surprise, Sultan Qaboos issued a royal decree July 7 that fulfills, three months early, the important labor reforms to which Commerce Minister Maqbool Sultan committed the Sultanate in his March 26 letter to the House Ways and Means Committee Chairman. Minister Sultan told the Ambassador [...] | 2006-07-10 12:01:00 | Embassy Muscat | UNCLASSIFIED | ELAB ETRD PGOV PHUM MU |
06MUSCAT1090 | MEDIA REACTION: GAZA, IRAQI NATIONAL RECONCILIATION [...] Israel's Gaza incursion continued to receive strongly negative coverage in the local press. In a July 7 front-page article, privately owned Arabic-language daily "Al-Watan" (circulation 42,000) reported that Israel had used unspecified "internationally-banned weapons." Arabic papers front-pag [...] | 2006-07-11 07:15:00 | Embassy Muscat | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KPAO KMDR MU |
06MUSCAT1098 | MOVING FORWARD ON MATH AND SCIENCE COLLABORATION [...] This is an action request for OES. Please see paragraph 4. 2. On July 11, Econoff delivered ref A reply to Dr. Sana Sabeel Sulaiman al-Belushi, Director of the Technical Office for Studies and Development, Ministry of Education (MOE). Econoff noted that after careful review of the comments [...] | 2006-07-11 13:16:00 | Embassy Muscat | UNCLASSIFIED | TSPL KGLB PREL SENV MU |
06MUSCAT1117 | TFLE 01: OMAN MEDIA COVERAGE OF CRISIS [...] (U) After providing initial widespread front-page coverage on the crisis and publishing critical editorials of U.S. support of Israel and its veto of an Arab-League sponsored resolution in the Security Council, several media sources have tempered their headlines by highlighting "good news" sto [...] | 2006-07-17 03:59:00 | Embassy Muscat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KMDR KWBG MU |
06MUSCAT1119 | OMAN REACTS POSITIVELY TO SUGGESTED ANTI-TIP [...] In a July 16 meeting with the Ambassador, MFA Under Secretary Sayyid Badr al-Busaidi undertook to review SIPDIS suggested actions to improve upon Oman's TIER 2 Watch List ranking in the Department's 2006 Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report. These actions include passing specific anti-TIP l [...] | 2006-07-17 11:22:00 | Embassy Muscat | UNCLASSIFIED | SMIG PHUM ELAB KCRM PGOV MU |
06MUSCAT112 | EMBASSY MUSCAT EAC - 01/28/2006 [...] (SBU) The Ambassador chaired a meeting of the full Emergency Action Committee (EAC) on January 28 to review the Embassy's security posture following the local weekend. Members noted no substantive changes in the local security environment since the last meeting (reftel),and agreed that the [...] | 2006-01-29 10:58:00 | Embassy Muscat | SECRET//NOFORN | AEMR ASEC AMGT PTER CASC KSAC KHLS KVPR MU EAC |
06MUSCAT1122 | MEDIA REACTION: ISRAEL-LEBANESE CONFLICT; OMANI LABOR [...] SUMMARY: Omani press decries "Israeli aggression." Private "Al-Watan" daily laments "Arab silence." The state-owned "Oman" deems Hezbollah to be conducting "legitimate resistance." In online discussion, participants applaud Oman's new labor law, even if "American pressure" is behind it, and [...] | 2006-07-17 12:11:00 | Embassy Muscat | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KPAO KMDR MU |
06MUSCAT1124 | OMAN EYES CITES ACCESSION [...] In a July 17 meeting, the Ambassador discussed the status of Oman's accession to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Flora and Fauna (CITES) with Under Secretary for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Sayyid Badr al-Busaidi (deputy-minister equivalent). Sayyid Badr [...] | 2006-07-17 14:16:00 | Embassy Muscat | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV PREL MU |
06MUSCAT1145 | SINGAPORE INTERESTED IN MEDRC MEMBERSHIP [...] On July 16, the Ambassador explored the possibility of expanding membership in the Muscat-based Middle East Desalination Research Center (MEDRC) with Omani Ministry of Foreign Affairs Under Secretary Sayyid Badr al-Busaidi. Sayyid Badr noted that he had recently raised this issue with Singapo [...] | 2006-07-22 14:12:00 | Embassy Muscat | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV PREL MU |
06MUSCAT1151 | MEDIA REACTION: CRISIS IN LEBANON; DANGER OF REGIONAL [...] SUMMARY: "Lebanon is burning, and the whole world is standing still watching," according to government-owned daily "Oman," which also calls for a ceasefire to stop "Zionist aggression." A columnist for "Oman" condemns Arab governments for "acting against the will of their citizens." Privatel [...] | 2006-07-24 13:04:00 | Embassy Muscat | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KPAO KMDR MU |
06MUSCAT1169 | TFLE01: IRAN MOVING TO BECOME REGIONAL POWER SAYS [...] (C) Summary: Oman supports the P5 1 incentive package (reftel) to Tehran and has communicated its recommendation to the Iranian government that it accept the offer, according to the Sultan's Special Advisor for Cultural Affairs and frequent "special envoy" of Sultan Qaboos to Iran, Abdul 'Az [...] | 2006-07-30 12:42:00 | Embassy Muscat | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL MU IR KNNP |
06MUSCAT1173 | TFLE01: QANA STRIKE FUELS CRITICAL PRESS COVERAGE [...] The Israeli air strikes on the Lebanese village of Qana drew overwhelmingly virulent and critical front-page press coverage from each of Oman's daily newspapers. Amidst headlines reading "Bloodbath in Lebanon" and "Global Outrage over Israeli Carnage," the dailies concentrated on civilian ca [...] | 2006-07-31 12:47:00 | Embassy Muscat | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KMDR KPAO MU |
06MUSCAT1174 | TFLE01: LEBANON CRISIS COMPLICATES IRAN NUCLEAR [...] (C) In a July 30 meeting with the Ambassador, MFA Under Secretary Sayyid Badr said the crisis in Lebanon is SIPDIS complicating the Iran nuclear matter and may even harden Tehran's position. He urged that greater emphasis be placed on continuing diplomatic efforts to build trust in the reg [...] | 2006-07-31 12:52:00 | Embassy Muscat | CONFIDENTIAL | KNNP PARM PREL AORC MU |
06MUSCAT1177 | TFLE01: OMAN REQUESTS ASSISTANCE IN DELIVERY OF [...] During a July 30 meeting with the Ambassador, Ministry of Foreign Affairs Under Secretary (deputy-secretary equivalent) Sayyid Badr al-Busaidi expressed his concern regarding the logistics of delivering humanitarian assistance for Lebanese relief efforts. Sayyid Badr noted that Oman is current [...] | 2006-08-01 05:30:00 | Embassy Muscat | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL SOCI MU |
06MUSCAT1181 | MEDIA REACTION: CRISIS IN LEBANON [...] SUMMARY: Government-owned daily "Oman" expresses hope that the Rome conference may end Israel/Hezbollah combat; privately owned "Al-Watan" sees the Palestinians as victims of Israeli and "superpower" interests; "Oman" predicts retaliation for the Qana bombing; a columnist for "Oman" compares [...] | 2006-08-01 11:24:00 | Embassy Muscat | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KPAO KMDR MU |
06MUSCAT1183 | TFLE01: OMAN CONDEMNS ISRAELI ACTIONS, CALLS FOR [...] (U) On July 31, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued a statement condemning Israel's airstrikes in Qana, characterizing the actions as a "massacre." Extending its "heartfelt condolences and sympathy to the bereaved families of victims of ongoing military actions," the statement further cond [...] | 2006-08-01 13:17:00 | Embassy Muscat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KMDR KPAO MU |
06MUSCAT1191 | TFLE01: IMMEDIATE CEASE-FIRE, SUPPORT FOR GOL: [...] (C) On August 5, the Ambassador delivered ref A points to Minister Responsible for Foreign Affairs Yusuf bin Alawi. Bin Alawi fully agreed with these points and the broader strategy contained therein, but made clear that the Arab League would not move beyond endorsing Lebanese Prime Minister F [...] | 2006-08-06 06:58:00 | Embassy Muscat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MU |
06MUSCAT1198 | MEDIA REACTION: LEBANON, THE UN, AND THE ARAB LEAGUE [...] SUMMARY: Government-owned "Oman" newspaper says UN ceasefire efforts in Lebanon are insufficient and sees the "Seven-Point Plan" as an opportunity for Arab unity; privately owned "Al- Watan" calls the US-French ceasefire plan a mere diplomatic maneuver and a reward for Israeli "aggression." [...] | 2006-08-07 13:54:00 | Embassy Muscat | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KPAO KMDR MU |
06MUSCAT120 | OMAN SPECIAL MEDIA REACTION: [...] The government-owned Arabic daily "Oman" carried a January 25 editorial under the headline "Palestinian Elections Consolidate Democracy": "Today the Palestinian legislative elections start in the midst of extensive Israeli efforts to block those elections. Palestinian efforts to organize ele [...] | 2006-01-30 11:41:00 | Embassy Muscat | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAO KMDR OIIP MU |
06MUSCAT1204 | HIGHER EDUCATION: MINISTER SEEKS MORE U.S. TIES [...] The Ambassador called on the Minister of Higher Education to discuss the Embassy's work in higher education, in promoting U.S. education, and in helping facilitate ties between U.S. and Omani institutions. In return, the Minister was forthright in asking for more cooperation and additional pr [...] | 2006-08-08 11:22:00 | Embassy Muscat | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV KPAO OEXC SCUL PREL KMPI MU |
06MUSCAT1205 | TFLE01: OMANI FM ASSESSES BEIRUT AL MINISTERIAL [...] (C) On August 8, the Ambassador spoke with Minister Responsible for Foreign Affairs Yusuf bin Alawi regarding the August 7 Arab League meeting in Beirut. As expected, bin Alawi affirmed the Arab League's unanimous support for the Lebanese government, including full support for Prime Minister [...] | 2006-08-08 12:33:00 | Embassy Muscat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MU |
06MUSCAT121 | OMAN MEDIA REACTION: IRAQI NATIONAL UNITY, APPEAL FOR [...] The government-owned Arabic daily "Oman" published an editorial on January 29 under the title "The New Iraqi Government": "The negotiations in Iraq between different political powers are important steps toward national unity. There is a discussion about forming one political bloc which wil [...] | 2006-01-30 11:47:00 | Embassy Muscat | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAO KMDR OIIP MU |
06MUSCAT1218 | TFLE01: OMAN TO TAKE CUE FROM LEBANON ON RESOLUTION [...] No summary [...] | 2006-08-12 13:48:00 | Embassy Muscat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER MOPS UN UNSC MU |
06MUSCAT122 | 2005/2006 REPORT TO CONGRESS ON ALLIED [...] (SBU) ECONOMIC/POLITICAL FACTORS: There have been no major policy changes since the 2004 report (ref B). Oman remains a stalwart ally in the global war on terrorism and key Arab proponent of regional stability, including USG stabilization efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan. Long-standing milita [...] | 2006-01-31 06:48:00 | Embassy Muscat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MCAP MASS MARR MU |
06MUSCAT1222 | MEDIA REACTION: POLITICAL IMPLICATIONS OF [...] SUMMARY: Government daily "Oman" is skeptical that UN Resolution 1701 meets Arab demands, but also says the resolution "restores hope for peace." Private daily "Al Watan" hails the Lebanese military "victory" against Israel, but is wary that Israel's "manipulations" will reduce the potency of [...] | 2006-08-14 12:26:00 | Embassy Muscat | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KPAO KMDR MU |
06MUSCAT1223 | OMAN FTA: MINISTER COMMITTED TO JAN [...] (U) Commerce and Industry Minister Maqbul bin Ali Sultan expressed to the Ambassador his commitment to ensuring that necessary regulations are in place for the U.S.-Oman Free Trade Agreement to take effect on January 1, 2007. He also expressed his government's interest in promoting the FTA th [...] | 2006-08-14 13:31:00 | Embassy Muscat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECON BEXP KIPR PREL MU |
06MUSCAT1248 | OMAN'S CONTRIBUTION TO LEBANESE RELIEF EFFORTS [...] (SBU) On August 20, Econoff spoke with Humaid al-Maani, Deputy Director of the Under Secretary's office, Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA),regarding Omani government efforts to deliver humanitarian assistance to Lebanese government agencies. Al-Maani remarked that the Omani government had a [...] | 2006-08-21 14:05:00 | Embassy Muscat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL EAID LE MU |
06MUSCAT1249 | MEDIA REACTION: SECRETARY'S OP-ED, LEBANESE DEPLOYMENT, [...] SUMMARY: Arabic- and English-languages dailies carry Secretary Rice's op-ed, "A Path to Lasting Peace." The Arabic-language state-owned daily says Lebanese unity is "essential." A private Arabic daily, decrying Israeli "terrorism," calls for a strong Lebanese army, navy, and air force. END [...] | 2006-08-22 03:50:00 | Embassy Muscat | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KPAO KMDR MU |
06MUSCAT125 | OMAN ONLINE: HAMAS VICTORY, AMERICANS INSULTING ISLAM, [...] Summary: The Omani Internet message board "al-Sablah" is the liveliest and most comprehensive Arabic-language forum for political and social discourse in the country, touching on issues and personalities rarely addressed in the conventional media. While not totally free, nor wholly reflective o [...] | 2006-01-31 09:04:00 | Embassy Muscat | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAO SOCI MU |
06MUSCAT1255 | MINISTRY OF MANPOWER COMBATING TIP AND ILLEGAL [...] (SBU) Minister of Manpower Juma bin Ali bin Juma highlighted for the Ambassador some of the challenges that his ministry faces in combating trafficking in persons (TIP),including a burgeoning sponsor system and registration of false companies. The Minister reiterated his commitment to comba [...] | 2006-08-22 11:37:00 | Embassy Muscat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB ETRD PHUM PGOV SMIG MU |
06MUSCAT1259 | VENEZUELAN ENVOY VISITS MUSCAT [...] (U) The Omani press reported August 22 that "Tameer Bo-Ras," the Venezuelan Deputy Minister of Higher Education and "envoy" of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, visited Muscat August 21 and delivered a written message for Sultan Qaboos to Omani Foreign Ministry Under Secretary Sayyid Badr al- [...] | 2006-08-22 15:28:00 | Embassy Muscat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNSC MU |
06MUSCAT126 | OMAN FM IN IRAN: CARROTS, NOT STICKS [...] (C) On January 29, Omani FM Yusuf bin Alawi began an official visit to Iran, meeting with President Ahmadi-Nejad, FM Mottaki, and other officials. His active discussions on invigorating bilateral trade relations, particularly in the oil and gas sector, transport and industrial investment, rai [...] | 2006-01-31 09:16:00 | Embassy Muscat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EPET ETTC ETRD IR MU |
06MUSCAT1267 | GUATEMALAN CANDIDACY FOR UNSC SEAT: OMAN [...] (C) In a meeting August 27 with Omani Foreign Ministry Under Secretary Sayyid Badr al-Busaidi, the Ambassador noted the recent visit of a Venezuelan envoy to Muscat (ref A) and asked about Oman's position on the contested election for a UN Security Council Seat between Venezuela and Guatemala. [...] | 2006-08-28 07:42:00 | Embassy Muscat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNSC MU |
06MUSCAT1268 | OMAN CONSIDERS RECONSTRUCTION ASSISTANCE FOR [...] (C) At a meeting with Omani Foreign Ministry Under Secretary Sayyid Badr al-Busaidi on August 27, the Ambassador SIPDIS urged the Omani government to consider providing humanitarian aid and reconstruction assistance to Lebanon in addition to the humanitarian supplies already delivered (ref [...] | 2006-08-28 07:54:00 | Embassy Muscat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EAID LE MU |
06MUSCAT1277 | MEDIA REACTION: UNSCR 1701, AMNESTY LEBANON REPORT, IRAN, [...] SUMMARY: Government-owned, Arabic-language daily "Oman" worries about renewed conflict in southern Lebanon, lauds Iran's "positive" response on its nuclear capabilities, and reprints excerpts of Seymour Hersh's "New Yorker" article alleging Israeli-U.S. collusion over the conflict in Lebanon. [...] | 2006-08-28 13:14:00 | Embassy Muscat | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KPAO KMDR MU |
06MUSCAT1282 | MICROSOFT, GOVERNMENT INK CONTRACT [...] (U) The Omani government recently concluded a three-year, five million USD per year agreement with Microsoft for the use of the company's licensed products. The contract, which includes a commitment by Microsoft to invest two million USD per year in training programs for government employees a [...] | 2006-08-30 05:31:00 | Embassy Muscat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | BEXP ECON KIPR TSPL ETRD MU |
06MUSCAT129 | OMAN UP ON IPR [...] (U) On January 23, Yahya bin Issa al-Riyami, Oman's newly appointed FTA point-person on IPR issues, reiterated the Sultanate's long-standing interest in protecting intellectual property rights. He reported that an inter-ministerial committee has been effective in combating software and media [...] | 2006-01-31 13:29:00 | Embassy Muscat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD KIPR EIND KMPI MU |
06MUSCAT1299 | SCENESETTER: VISIT OF COMMERCE DAS HOLLY VINEYARD [...] (U) Greetings and welcome to the Sultanate of Oman. My team and I look forward to your arrival on September 16 to promote the U.S.-Oman Free Trade Agreement. In addition to your attendance at a reception for labor and customs officials, we are seeking meetings with the Minister of Commerce a [...] | 2006-09-04 05:20:00 | Embassy Muscat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | BEXP ECON ETRD EAIR EIND PGOV PREL OTRA MU |
06MUSCAT130 | OMAN FM IN IRAN: CARROTS, NOT STICKS [...] (C) On January 29, Omani FM Yusuf bin Alawi began an official visit to Iran, meeting with President Ahmadi-Nejad, FM Mottaki, and other officials. Publicly, Bin Alawi endorsed Iran's right to peaceful nuclear energy while calling for a peaceful solution to the current stand-off. He also spok [...] | 2006-01-31 13:31:00 | Embassy Muscat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EPET ETTC ETRD IR MU |
06MUSCAT131 | EMBASSY MUSCAT EAC - 01/31/2006 [...] (SBU) The Ambassador chaired a meeting of the core Emergency Action Committee (EAC) on January 31 to review the Embassy's security posture prior to the local holiday weekend. Members noted no substantive changes in the local security environment since the last meeting (reftel),and agreed t [...] | 2006-01-31 14:34:00 | Embassy Muscat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AEMR ASEC AMGT PTER CASC KSAC KHLS MU |
06MUSCAT1310 | MEDIA REACTION: VIOLENCE IN IRAQ, UNSCR 1706, ANNAN'S [...] On September 3, government-owned Arabic daily "Oman" (circulation 38,000) carried an editorial, "Control of Violence in Iraq, the Responsibility of all Parties:" "Despite all the loud cries that warned against the continuation of the slaughter and assassinations in Iraq and the severe blood [...] | 2006-09-04 13:03:00 | Embassy Muscat | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KPAO KMDR MU |
06MUSCAT1316 | OMAN URGES MORE DIALOGUE, NOT SANCTIONS, ON IRAN [...] (C) Summary: Minister Responsible for Foreign Affairs Yusuf bin Alawi told the Ambassador September 4 that more dialogue, not sanctions, was needed to reach an agreement with Iran on its nuclear program. The Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister had assured Alawi earlier the same day that Tehran [...] | 2006-09-05 13:50:00 | Embassy Muscat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KNNP IR MU |
06MUSCAT1317 | OMAN UNDECIDED ON CONTESTED GRULAC SEAT ON UN [...] (C) In a meeting with Minister Responsible for Foreign Affairs Yusef bin Alawi on September 4 to discuss a range of issues (septels),the Ambassador made another strong pitch in support of Guatemala's candidacy for the contested GRULAC seat on the UN Security Council. Alawi replied that Oman [...] | 2006-09-05 14:44:00 | Embassy Muscat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNSC MU |
06MUSCAT1327 | ARAB LEAGUE MINISTERIAL DEMARCHE: OMAN [...] (C) Summary: Minister Responsible for Foreign Affairs Yusef bin Alawi will not attend the Arab League Ministerial in Cairo. Alawi is supportive of UNSCR 1701, but criticized Israel for refusing to lift its blockade of Lebanon. On Sudan, Alawi said that Oman will join its Arab League counte [...] | 2006-09-06 12:47:00 | Embassy Muscat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL LE SU MU |
06MUSCAT1328 | DEMARCHE ON NAM SUMMIT: OMAN [...] (C) The Ambassador delivered ref E demarche on September 4 to Minister Responsible for Foreign Affairs Yusef bin Alawi regarding the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) Summit in Cuba, in addition to discussing the upcoming Arab League Ministerial and other topics with the Minister (refs A-C). Alawi [...] | 2006-09-06 13:52:00 | Embassy Muscat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER KPAL UNGA MU |
06MUSCAT133 | OMAN SWEPT BY DENMARK BOYCOTT FERVOR [...] (U) Prompted by the flap over cartoons in Denmark deemed offensive to Islam, Omani consumers are boycotting Danish products with increasing fervor, and grocers are taking note by pulling suspected goods from shelves. Some companies have taken out advertisements to remind consumers that they ar [...] | 2006-02-01 13:57:00 | Embassy Muscat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD PREL MU DA |
06MUSCAT1337 | URGING SUPPORT FOR LEBANON: OMAN [...] (C) Pol/Econ chief delivered ref A and B demarches September 11 to Humaid Maani, Deputy Director of the Office of MFA Under Secretary Sayyid Badr al-Busaidi. Echoing earlier comments to the Ambassador by Minister Responsible for Foreign Affairs Yusef bin Alawi (ref C),Maani responded that O [...] | 2006-09-11 13:50:00 | Embassy Muscat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER MASS EAID LE MU |
06MUSCAT134 | YBA POSES QUESTION RE IRAN [...] (U) Please note action request in para 8. 2. (C) Begin Summary: Notwithstanding the January 30 P5 2 Statement, the Omanis believe the key to a diplomatic solution to the Iranian nuclear crisis may lie in a slight delay before referring the Iranian case to the UNSC, even if no action is cal [...] | 2006-02-01 14:21:00 | Embassy Muscat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EPET ETTC IR MU UN UNSC |
06MUSCAT1345 | MEDIA REACTION: SEPTEMBER 11 FIFTH ANNIVERSARY, ARAB LEAGUE [...] SUMMARY: Omani press gave wide (and surprisingly acerbic) coverage to the fifth anniversary of the September 11 attacks. Columnists in government-owned "Oman" suggested that 9/11 was an Israeli conspiracy and that the post-9/11 U.S. "adventure" has made the world less secure. After the recen [...] | 2006-09-12 13:45:00 | Embassy Muscat | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KPAO KMDR MU |
06MUSCAT1368 | ECONOMIC CHALLENGES, GCC INTEGRATION HIGHLIGHT [...] (SBU) Top government officials and business representatives discussed efforts to both diversify Oman's economy and forge stronger regional integration with its GCC neighbors during an Economist-sponsored roundtable. The closed-door meeting provided the private sector a rare opportunity to en [...] | 2006-09-18 11:40:00 | Embassy Muscat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN ETRD PREL MU |
06MUSCAT1370 | MEDIA REACTION: ANTI-TERROR EFFORTS, PALESTINIAN [...] SUMMARY: Omani dailies cover the Ambassador's presentation of credentials, look positively at the International Religious Freedom Report, and accord major coverage to the unfolding controversy regarding the Pope's comments on Islam. State daily "Oman" stresses the importance of mutual unders [...] | 2006-09-18 12:58:00 | Embassy Muscat | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KPAO KMDR MU |
06MUSCAT1371 | BOND MARKETS AND SME DEVELOPMENT ON CMA AGENDA [...] (U) This is an action message. Please see paragraph 7. 2. (C) On September 11, the Ambassador discussed the recent rise in Oman's securities market with Capital Market Authority (CMA) Executive President Yahya al-Jabri. Al-Jabri commented that the 140-firm Muscat Securities Market (MSM) h [...] | 2006-09-18 13:15:00 | Embassy Muscat | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN EINV PREL KMPI MU |
06MUSCAT1376 | OMAN: SHARP REACTION TO POPE'S REMARKS [...] (C) Summary: Pope Benedict's recent remarks on Islam elicited an unexpectedly strong reaction in the local press, Internet chatrooms, and general conversation. Omani papers have prominently highlighted international critical response to the papal comments, while editorials in Arabic state-ow [...] | 2006-09-19 13:43:00 | Embassy Muscat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KISL MU |
06MUSCAT1382 | SME DEVELOPMENT FOCUS OF DAS VINEYARD VISIT [...] The importance of small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) development took center stage during Deputy Assistant Secretary of Commerce Holly Vineyard's September 16 meetings SIPDIS in Muscat with top government officials. The FTA will provide the USG an opportunity to work closely with its O [...] | 2006-09-20 09:08:00 | Embassy Muscat | UNCLASSIFIED | BEXP ECON EINV ETRD PREL KMPI MU |
06MUSCAT1384 | SUCCESSFUL EPA WORKSHOP CONCLUDES [...] The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA),in association with the International Network for Environmental Compliance and Enforcement, the Omani Ministry of Regional Municipalities, Environment, and Water Resources, and Petroleum Development Oman (PDO),concluded a successful four-day Pri [...] | 2006-09-20 12:04:00 | Embassy Muscat | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL SENV KMPI MU |
06MUSCAT1393 | OMAN NOMINATIONS FOR USPTO NOVEMBER INDUSTRIAL [...] No summary [...] | 2006-09-25 13:00:00 | Embassy Muscat | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ETRD KIPR MU |
06MUSCAT1394 | MEDIA REACTION: PROSPECTS FOR PEACE, ARAB REFORM, OMAN'S UN [...] SUMMARY: Arabic daily "Al-Watan" says an "honest effort" is needed to achieve Middle East peace. State Arabic daily "Oman" calls for "gradual reforms" in the Arab world to stem regional strife. "Oman" also reports Foreign Minister Bin Alawi's UN speech, and notes Western "collusion" with Is [...] | 2006-09-25 13:38:00 | Embassy Muscat | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KPAO KMDR MU |
06MUSCAT1414 | LARIJANI EXPRESSES CONCERNS ABOUT U.S. INTENTIONS [...] (U) This is an action message. Please see paragraph 5. 2. (C) Late evening on September 30, the Ambassador met with Minister Responsible for Foreign Affairs Yusuf bin Alawi to discuss the Minister's September 30 call earlier that evening from Iran's top nuclear negotiator, Secretary for the [...] | 2006-10-01 12:16:00 | Embassy Muscat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KNNP MU IR |
06MUSCAT1422 | MEDIA REACTION: PALESTINIAN GOVERNANCE, U.S.-OMAN FTA, IRAQ [...] SUMMARY: English daily "Oman" laments Palestinian infighting, lauds the "vital role" of the U.S.-Oman Free Trade Agreement (FTA),criticizes America's "failure" to ensure security in Iraq, and says Arab-Israeli peace must precede regional peace. Arabic daily "Al-Watan" chides Israel for its [...] | 2006-10-02 13:12:00 | Embassy Muscat | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KPAO KMDR MU |
06MUSCAT1423 | TRADE AGREEMENT COMPLIANCE AND MONITORING: OMAN [...] No summary [...] | 2006-10-02 13:45:00 | Embassy Muscat | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ETRD PREL MU |
06MUSCAT1442 | AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES IRAN WITH DEPUTY PRIME [...] (C) The Ambassador met with Deputy Prime Minister for Cabinet Affairs Sayyid Fahd bin Mahmud al-Sa'id on October 2 to discuss regional and bilateral issues. In addition to touching on the Middle East Peace Process, the U.S.-Oman Free Trade Agreement, and Omani economic and social development [...] | 2006-10-04 13:33:00 | Embassy Muscat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL IR MU |
06MUSCAT1451 | MEDIA REACTION: SECRETARY'S MIDDLE EAST VISIT, NORTH KOREAN [...] SUMMARY: "Oman" columnist alleges that one aim of Secretary Rice's visit is to divide the Middle East into Arab versus Persian, Sunni versus Shia; "Al-Watan" notes that North Korea's nuclear test coincides with the West's "carrot and stick" policy towards Iran. A columnist in "Al-Watan" call [...] | 2006-10-09 12:39:00 | Embassy Muscat | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KPAO KMDR MU |
06MUSCAT1458 | OFFICIALS SAY OMAN STILL ON TRACK TO PUBLISH NEW [...] (SBU) Summary: Officials at the Ministry of Manpower claim they are on track to publish regulations implementing recent reforms to Oman's labor law before the target date of October 31. The International Labor Organization (ILO) has seen a draft of the regulations and provided comments. Unio [...] | 2006-10-10 11:22:00 | Embassy Muscat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB ETRD KMPI PGOV PHUM MU |
06MUSCAT146 | EMBASSY MUSCAT EAC - 02/04/2006 [...] (SBU) The Ambassador chaired a meeting of the full Emergency Action Committee (EAC) on February 4 to review the Embassy's security posture following the local holiday weekend. Members noted no substantive changes in the local security environment since the last meeting, and agreed that the [...] | 2006-02-06 07:58:00 | Embassy Muscat | SECRET//NOFORN | AEMR ASEC AMGT PTER CASC KSAC KHLS KVPR MU EAC |
06MUSCAT1468 | OMAN MOVES EARLY TO INCREASE VOTER REGISTRATION [...] (SBU) The Omani government has started an early media campaign to increase voter registration. In addition to placing announcements on the radio and in newspapers, the Minister of Interior held an unprecedented question-and- answer session at a gathering of the Oman Journalists Association t [...] | 2006-10-11 12:45:00 | Embassy Muscat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM KMPI MU |
06MUSCAT148 | OMAN CALLS FOR IMPROVED INTERNATIONAL POLIO [...] According to local media, four cases of polio were reported in Oman in 2004 and 2005. Two Yemeni brothers, aged 9 and 10, were treated for symptoms of poliomyelitis, while visiting the Sultanate during the summer of 2005. The Omani Ministry Of Health also reported two cases of polio were "i [...] | 2006-02-06 11:57:00 | Embassy Muscat | UNCLASSIFIED | TBIO PREL SA MU ESTH |
06MUSCAT1482 | MEDIA REACTION: SECRETARY'S MIDEAST TOUR, DPRK NUCLEAR [...] SUMMARY: "Oman" expresses skepticism about Secretary's latest Middle East tour, supports dialogue with Pyongyang, and claims that the Greater Middle East Initiative aims to weaken Arab culture. "Al-Watan" says the West's "double standards" are responsible for North Korea's nuclear program, an [...] | 2006-10-16 11:44:00 | Embassy Muscat | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KPAO KMDR MU |
06MUSCAT1484 | OMAN'S TEXTILE INDUSTRY CONTINUES TO SHRINK [...] (U) Oman's textile industry continues to whither away in terms of value and employment, as government statistics confirm a steep drop in production over the past year. While the upcoming implementation of the U.S.-Oman Free Trade Agreement (FTA) may stop further declines in this sector, it is [...] | 2006-10-17 14:27:00 | Embassy Muscat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD KTEX MU |
06MUSCAT1487 | RAMADAN IN OMAN: SPIRITS ARE HIGH, BUT SO ARE PRICES [...] (SBU) Omanis are in a generally positive mood as Ramadan draws to a close. Seasonal goodwill, however, has been blemished by complaints of price increases on basic foodstuffs and other items. As elsewhere in the region, Omanis are watching Arabic-language serial programs on television produce [...] | 2006-10-21 03:33:00 | Embassy Muscat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SOCI ECON MU |
06MUSCAT149 | OMAN ATTENDANCE AT MENA-OECD MINISTERIAL [...] Following up on reftels, on February 4 Pol/Econ chief spoke to Seif al-Rizaiqi, director of the Minister's office at the Ministry of Commerce and Industry (MOCI) to encourage Omani attendance at the upcoming MENA-OECD Investment Ministerial in Jordan. Al-Rizaiqi confirmed Oman's receipt of th [...] | 2006-02-06 11:57:00 | Embassy Muscat | UNCLASSIFIED | EINV PREL KMPI MU |
06MUSCAT1490 | COMMERCE MINISTER ADDRESSES FTA CONCERNS [...] (U) On October 16, Econoff, Poleoff, and Poleassistant attended Commerce and Industry Minister Maqbool bin Ali Sultan's address on the U.S.-Oman Free Trade Agreement (FTA) to members of the Oman Journalists' Association. Maqbool used the public engagement to highlight the FTA's expected benef [...] | 2006-10-21 08:08:00 | Embassy Muscat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD EINV PREL MU |
06MUSCAT1491 | COMMERCE MINISTER ADDRESSES FTA CONCERNS [...] (U) On October 16, Econoff, Poleoff, and Poleassistant attended Commerce and Industry Minister Maqbool bin Ali Sultan's address on the U.S.-Oman Free Trade Agreement (FTA) to members of the Oman Journalists' Association. Maqbool used the public engagement to highlight the FTA's expected benef [...] | 2006-10-21 08:08:00 | Embassy Muscat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD EINV PREL MU |
06MUSCAT150 | JUSTICE MINISTER WELCOMES ABA LEGAL TRAINING [...] In a January 30 meeting with a visiting delegation from the American Bar Association (ABA),the Minister of Justice provided enthusiastic feedback re a proposed MEPI-funded training program. He recounted the Ministry's plans to develop a judicial training institute, and solicited Embassy and [...] | 2006-02-06 12:02:00 | Embassy Muscat | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV KMPI KJUS OEXC SCUL MU |
06MUSCAT1507 | MEDIA REACTION: SECRETARY'S MIDDLE EAST TOUR, CHALLENGES [...] SUMMARY: Youth-oriented "Al-Shabiba" calls Secretary Rice's Middle East tour "nothing new." Privately owned "Al-Watan" writes about political challenges facing Iraq, Lebanon and Palestine, and claims the Taliban is resurgent in Afghanistan. Government-owned "Oman" says Japan's North Korea p [...] | 2006-10-22 09:58:00 | Embassy Muscat | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KPAO KMDR MU |
06MUSCAT1509 | BIG PLANS AHEAD FOR MUSCAT'S TOURISM INDUSTRY [...] (U) The Ministry of Tourism and government-owned Oman Tourism Development Company (OTDC) are moving forward on ambitious plans to develop tourism-related projects in the Muscat metropolitan area. The government envisions the construction of 16 hotels and a convention center within the next fi [...] | 2006-10-22 10:52:00 | Embassy Muscat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EINV PREL MU |
06MUSCAT1510 | SALALAH PINS ECONOMIC HOPES ON PORT, FREE ZONE, [...] (U) The city of Salalah is banking on the growth of its port, free zone, and tourism industries in ongoing efforts to develop its economy. Government and private sector officials express confidence that proposed investments in these sectors will reshape Salalah by 2010 and position the region [...] | 2006-10-22 10:53:00 | Embassy Muscat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EINV EIND EWWT PREL MU |
06MUSCAT1511 | IMPENDING REGULATIONS MAY TRIGGER INCREASE IN [...] (SBU) Summary: Workers at one of Oman's publicly-owned power plants went on strike before arriving at a settlement on wages and job security. Contacts suggest that the publication of implementing regulations for recent labor law reforms may herald more strikes in the coming year. While conta [...] | 2006-10-22 10:55:00 | Embassy Muscat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB EWWT PGOV ETRD ECON MU |
06MUSCAT152 | MEDIA REACTION: WEST'S HAMAS POLICY, AND AMERICAN UUSE [...] On January 31, tThe privately owned Arabic daily newspaper "al- Watan" published on January 31 an editorial under the headline, "Why the Palestinians are Paying for the Mistakes of Others:": "The EU and the United States are punishing the Palestinians for electing their own representatives... [...] | 2006-02-06 13:42:00 | Embassy Muscat | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAO KMDR OIIP MU |