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Ingushi law enforcers suspend crackdown on militants till daylight.
NAZRAN, February 12 (Itar-Tass) -- Russian commandos suspended till daylight the operation to eliminate a group of militants blocked in a forest in the North Caucasus Republic of Ingushetia.
Ingushi security service spokesman Ilyas Dygov told Tass estimated
15-25 militants rendered resistance and ten of them were reportedly
killed. The remaining militants have been surrounded.
"In the morning the operation will resume," Dugov said, adding
"security officers several times proposed to the bandits to surrender, but
they opened fire in response".
The gunmen were blocked in the vicinity of Datykh and Arshty, Sunzha
district of Ingushetia.
.Moldova's Voronin to step down as Communist leader.
CHISINAU, February 12 (Itar-Tass) -- Former Moldova's President
Vladimir Voronin will step down as the Communist Party leader and has
already selected a successor.
"We have already chosen the future new party leader," Voronin told
reporters on Thursday, but did not identify the candidate. He only said
"he is a young, tall and very energetic man."
Voronin has headed the Communist Party for 15 years. It lost the
parliamentary election to the opposition last year and several
distinguished representatives, as well as rank-and-file members withdrew
from the party.
.Arms plane crew handed over to immigration in Thailand.
BANGKOK, February 12 (Itar-Tass) -- The crew of the Il-76 cargo plane
comprising four Kazakhs and a Belarussian has been handed over to Thai
immigration authorities on Thursday after prosecutors dropped charges
against them.
The plane of the Air Georgia Airlines en route from North Korea landed
in Bangkok for refueling on December 11 and local authorities found 35
tons of weapons onboard, which violated a UN resolution banning arms
exports from Pyongyang.
The crew denied accusations of illegal arms possession and
misinforming Thai authorities of the type of cargo, saying they were
unaware that weapons were loaded instead of officially declared
"mechanical accessories". They said the plane was en route to Sri Lanka
and the Middle East, but did not know the final destination.
"This case does not involve Thailand and an indictment would not be
beneficial for relations with those countries," said Kayasit
Pissawongprakan, director general of Thailand's attorney general's office
adding the crew would be deported, as requested by their home countries,
which promised further investigation.
However the lawyer of the crew said pilots should not be deported, as
all charges against them have been dropped and no criminal case
instituted. "The crew has to return to Kazakhstan onboard their plane," he
said.
Il-75 flight navigator Viktor Abdullayev said at least three days were
necessary to prepare the aircraft for take-off.
"We all have only one feeling and want it all to be over as soon as
possible," he told Tass. "Back home we will need to recover from the
stress and return to work," he added.
.Russian love helps Nigerian survive minus 60 frosts.
VORKUTA, February 12 (Itar-Tass) -- Ardent love to a Russian woman
made a young man from Nigeria resettle to the city of Vorkuta beyond the
Polar Circle where temperature fell below minus 60 degrees Centigrade this
winter.
"It is love that brought me here," Gerald Obinali told Tass on
Thursday. He is the first African ever registered in Vorkuta, a coal
mining town in Komi Republic that originated from a Gulag forced labor
camp in 1932.
Obinali said he arrived several years ago in Russia and worked as a
cook in a Moscow restaurant. There he met his future wife Anna, who
arrived in Moscow from Vorkuta to visit her relatives.
"We got married and decided to move beyond the Polar Circle where we
had son Denis born to us," he said.
Obinali has received the Russian citizenship and continues to work in
Moscow, but often visits Vorkuta.
"It is my home here. In Moscow I have to work a lot, but in Vorkuta I
can relax and play snowballs with my son. The Polar region has become my
second motherland," he said.
Vorkuta immigration service said it was the first case for an African
to get residence registration in the city, where mostly labor migrants
from former Soviet republics - Kirgizia, Ukraine, Azerbaijan - arrive.
There are a lot of free jobs at local coal mines and one-room apartment in
downtown Vorkuta costs mere 160 - 200 thousand rubles (5 - 6.5 thousand US
dollars).
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Ingushi security service spokesman Ilyas Dygov told Tass estimated
15-25 militants rendered resistance and ten of them were reportedly
killed. The remaining militants have been surrounded.
"In the morning the operation will resume," Dugov said, adding
"security officers several times proposed to the bandits to surrender, but
they opened fire in response".
The gunmen were blocked in the vicinity of Datykh and Arshty, Sunzha
district of Ingushetia.
.Moldova's Voronin to step down as Communist leader.
CHISINAU, February 12 (Itar-Tass) -- Former Moldova's President
Vladimir Voronin will step down as the Communist Party leader and has
already selected a successor.
"We have already chosen the future new party leader," Voronin told
reporters on Thursday, but did not identify the candidate. He only said
"he is a young, tall and very energetic man."
Voronin has headed the Communist Party for 15 years. It lost the
parliamentary election to the opposition last year and several
distinguished representatives, as well as rank-and-file members withdrew
from the party.
.Arms plane crew handed over to immigration in Thailand.
BANGKOK, February 12 (Itar-Tass) -- The crew of the Il-76 cargo plane
comprising four Kazakhs and a Belarussian has been handed over to Thai
immigration authorities on Thursday after prosecutors dropped charges
against them.
The plane of the Air Georgia Airlines en route from North Korea landed
in Bangkok for refueling on December 11 and local authorities found 35
tons of weapons onboard, which violated a UN resolution banning arms
exports from Pyongyang.
The crew denied accusations of illegal arms possession and
misinforming Thai authorities of the type of cargo, saying they were
unaware that weapons were loaded instead of officially declared
"mechanical accessories". They said the plane was en route to Sri Lanka
and the Middle East, but did not know the final destination.
"This case does not involve Thailand and an indictment would not be
beneficial for relations with those countries," said Kayasit
Pissawongprakan, director general of Thailand's attorney general's office
adding the crew would be deported, as requested by their home countries,
which promised further investigation.
However the lawyer of the crew said pilots should not be deported, as
all charges against them have been dropped and no criminal case
instituted. "The crew has to return to Kazakhstan onboard their plane," he
said.
Il-75 flight navigator Viktor Abdullayev said at least three days were
necessary to prepare the aircraft for take-off.
"We all have only one feeling and want it all to be over as soon as
possible," he told Tass. "Back home we will need to recover from the
stress and return to work," he added.
.Russian love helps Nigerian survive minus 60 frosts.
VORKUTA, February 12 (Itar-Tass) -- Ardent love to a Russian woman
made a young man from Nigeria resettle to the city of Vorkuta beyond the
Polar Circle where temperature fell below minus 60 degrees Centigrade this
winter.
"It is love that brought me here," Gerald Obinali told Tass on
Thursday. He is the first African ever registered in Vorkuta, a coal
mining town in Komi Republic that originated from a Gulag forced labor
camp in 1932.
Obinali said he arrived several years ago in Russia and worked as a
cook in a Moscow restaurant. There he met his future wife Anna, who
arrived in Moscow from Vorkuta to visit her relatives.
"We got married and decided to move beyond the Polar Circle where we
had son Denis born to us," he said.
Obinali has received the Russian citizenship and continues to work in
Moscow, but often visits Vorkuta.
"It is my home here. In Moscow I have to work a lot, but in Vorkuta I
can relax and play snowballs with my son. The Polar region has become my
second motherland," he said.
Vorkuta immigration service said it was the first case for an African
to get residence registration in the city, where mostly labor migrants
from former Soviet republics - Kirgizia, Ukraine, Azerbaijan - arrive.
There are a lot of free jobs at local coal mines and one-room apartment in
downtown Vorkuta costs mere 160 - 200 thousand rubles (5 - 6.5 thousand US
dollars).
-0-nec
