News From Former USSR

A Very Dim View of Russian President Putin

According to the survey, which was covered by Agence France-Presse, barely 17% of respondents said that Putin defends "ordinary people" and over 63% said that they were "tired of waiting for positive changes" from Putin.

Andijan Massacre In Uzbekistan

The dust may be settling in Andijan, Uzbekistan after the recent uprising and the state’s brutal, corrupt dictatorship, but the implications of this heroic and tragic episode will hunt this Uzbekistan regime until it falls. The blocking of all TV and internet news sites for a week, did not stop the word leaking out of hundreds of deaths, the firing on peaceful demonstrators from a helicopter, the trucks full of trigger-happy soldiers which ploughed into the crowds, not once but three times, murdering people who could no longer tolerate the vileness of their government and who had no other option left. There were 600 Muslims, murdered by this puppet of US imperialism, who stashed his gold in the Bank of England, whose daughter was caught with a plane full of gold in Moscow, and this is President Karimov who approves of boiling people alive. The writing is on the wall, Mr. Karimov.

The uprising was sparked by the imprisonment and show trials of 23 local businessmen who were accused of adhering to a non-existent terrorist movement, Akramiya, but who were simply putting into practice the social justice inherent in Islam – giving to the poor, living modestly, praying…A math teacher, Azkramjon Yuldashev, the supposedly leader of a terrorist group (his friends call themselves Birodar (Brotherhood), and he was imprisoned 7 years ago for doing this and writing in 1992 a pamphlet Yimonga Yul (Path of Faith), which is not political, but moral – arguing for Islamic practices of charity and brotherhood. His brochure had no call whatsoever to seize power violently. While they are accused of being a terrorist cell, their real crime is acting outside of President Karimov’s authority and showing the people that there is an alternative to the cutthroat robber baron "capitalism" of post-Soviet Uzbekistan. There is also speculation that they were arrested because some local rivals and friends of Karimov, resented their success and the authorities decided to confiscate their businesses for themselves.

Yuldashev has found a way in this present situation of anti-socialism and anti-communism in Uzbekistan to provide some human dignity to the local population through his Islamic principles of sharing, charity and the embedding of moral principles in all aspects of life, including economic. This requires no foreign consultants earning over $100,000 tax free salaries, no NGO pushing neoclassical economic textbook and management skill courses, no foreign loans or control of the economy, no importing of crass, commercial, violent, erotic western culture. It promotes no mass unemployment, no mass corruption, no huge bureaucracy taking bribes and taxes at every turn, not to mention the swarms of underpaid crude, cocky militia, always on the lookout for baksheesh.

This present path by President Karasimov and his independent Uzbekistan has been a wreck – impoverishing over 80% of the people, creating a vicious westernized elite which acts completely without any morals or concern for the people:

• there are no longer any quality controls on food or products;

• health care is being privatized under the guiding hand of US imperialism;

• contracts or the license to open up a business are obtained only through bribes to high officials;

• willful actions, like cutting of trees (the country is 90% desert), seizing of public territory, entrapment and blackmailing are everyday occurrences;

• Uzbekistan now stands 114^th out of 144 in the index of corruption. Everything now is solved in Uzbekistan by bribery and by blackmail.

Changes are bound to come, and Yuldashev in the present anti-Communist hysteria might just do the trick, arriving at socialism through other means.

Russian Duma Threatens Sanctions Against Georgia

MOSCOW – Lawmakers of the State Duma, lower house of the Russian parliament called on the Russian leadership to impose sanctions against Georgia if it "takes unilateral steps, uncoordinated with Russia, in connection with the problem of the Russian military bases."

Due to Georgian authorities’ policy towards the Russian military bases, the lawmakers proposed to recall the Russian envoy from Tbilisi to Moscow, and to stop issuing visas to the Georgians traveling to Russia. In addition, the Duma urged the Russian leadership to "toughen the measures regarding the deportation of Georgian citizens who are staying in Russia without any visas or have violated the registration rules."

Russia should start decreasing fuel and electricity supplies to Georgia, the Duma stated.

FSB Fears of Foreign Espionage in Russia

The Federal Security Service (FSB) Director Nikolai Patrushev has charged that foreign governments are using non-governmental organizations for espionage and to promote changes of governments in former Soviet republics. According to the ITAR-TASS news agency, Patrushev has named the following: m U.S. Peace Corps, which pulled out of Russia in 2003 amid spying allegations; the Saudi Arabia Red Crescent, plus the British and Kuwait aid groups, used by foreign intelligence agencies.

Patrushev has charged that the US Republican International Institute (IRI), which is government funded group that promotes "democracy", held a meeting in Slovakia last April at which "it discussed the possibility of continuing "velvet revolutions" in all post-Soviet space." The IRI has earmarked $5,000,000 to finance any opposition groups in Belarus this year.

The above list does not include all non-government agencies that are funded, like the ones by billionaire George Soros.

Eggs Greet George Soros in Georgia

Protestors carrying signs saying "Down with Mason Soros and his Followers in Georgia!" threw eggs at the billionaire as he left the Tbilisi Marriott Hotel and entered his limousine last month.

Soros arrived in Tbilisi for a three-day visit to mark the founding 10 years ago in Tbilisi his "Open Society Institute." He met with Georgian president Saakashvili whom he financially supported and organized the Georgian counter-revolution. The protestors were supporters of the first president of Georgia, Zviad Gamsakhurdia.

George Soros is the front man for US imperialism and the CIA.

FROM NEWSPAPER
SOVINFORMBUREAU

In a very extensive and detailed analyses of the daily lies over radio, press and TV as to how wonderful Putin is, what a statesman he is, what a people’s elected president he is, what high ratings he has and they are growing with every day. These outright lies are being told daily to the people. Unfortunately we cannot reprint the whole text, since it would take practically half of NSC, but, we give just this statement, which tells it all:

This document was being hidden for 13 years and during the uprising against this injustice on October 4, 1993, this document was burned.

Russia: Skinhead Capital of the World

An expert with the Moscow Human Rights Bureau has told the Interfax agency that there are "about 50,000 skinheads in Russia alone, and about 70,000 in the rest of the world." According to Semyon Charny, skinheads in Russia can be found in approximately 85 cities, and St. Petersburg has the single largest skinhead population – estimated between 10,000 to 15,000.

"Russian skinheads are not united in any kind of unified organization or movement, mainly, they are divided into multitude of separate groups, consisting of three to ten people" said Charny. Skinheads are responsible for majority of last year’s racially-motivated murders and hundreds of racist attacks.

Putin’s Plan Is to Confuse People as to Who Is Who!

Nina Andreeva

In an extensive report by Nina Andreeva, General Secretary of the Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks to the 4^th Convention of the party held on April 16 in Moscow, where she outlined the problems and gave concrete Marxist solutions to their implementation. We just publish an excerpt for our readers as to the present situation in the Communist movements in former Soviet Union.

"In order to solidify Putin’s vertical state government structure and liquidate the rising Bolshevist movement and understanding, the policy is to confuse the people as to who is who!

He has instigated the setting up of another party, using our abbreviated initials AUCPB. This party is called the "All Union Communist Party of Future" and in Russian abbreviated form the initials are the same – AUCPB. They have taken some of our Bolshevik slogans, some of our program and everything meant to confuse the people, while the leader of this bogus well financed party, V. Tikhonov, serves the policies of the Kremlin.

On the territory of former Soviet Union there exist many parties that call themselves communist, socialist or semi-socialist, about 26 parties, plus our AUCPB. In Ukraine there are 6, in Belarus there are 2, in Kazakhstan there are 3, and another 10-15 small parties in other former Soviet republics. In total we have about 50 parties that were set up in order to divide and rule and thus have such a mixture that it prevents unity of actions.

Thus, by supporting financially some of these parties, giving these leaders offices and media time, the present Putin regime is following Imperialist motto of DIVIDE AND RULE! "

From newspaper "Vpered" organ of the Bolsheviks of Byelorussia.

Belarus Expels a Polish Diplomat for His Activities

The Belarusian Foreign Ministry asked the Polish diplomat to leave the county for mixing into the internal affairs of Belarus, which was meant to destabilize the Belarusian society.

Observers are linking this expulsion to the fact that this Polish diplomat was involved in supporting and agitating the "Union of Poles" in Belarus and interference of Polish public and state structures in the activities of a public organization.