Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD)
May 2004 Russia Special Weapons News
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- Bio-Chem Program a Link to Former Soviet Scientists Washington File 13 May 2004 -- Following is a Department of State fact sheet, released May 12, on the U.S. Bio-Chem Redirect Program. The program is a targeted nonproliferation initiative designed to engage former Soviet biological and chemical weapons scientists in open and sustainable civilian research projects with U.S. collaborators
- Russia, Iran nuclear officials to discuss work at Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant IRNA 12 May 2004 -- Completion of (power) Unit No. 1 of the Iranian nuclear power plant in Bushehr and a number of other aspects of cooperation in the field of atomic energy will be the central issues in talks between Russian Atomic Energy Agency Director Alexander Rumyantsev and Iranian Atomic Energy Organization Deputy Director Asadollah Saburi on Wednesday.
- Iranian access to atomic weapons impossible: Russian official IRNA 12 May 2004 -- Iranian access to the atomic bomb is "impossible," said a Russian Foreign Ministry official who was quoted here Wednesday by a local paper.
- PUTIN / CHECHNYA VOA 11 May 2004 -- Russian President Vladimir Putin made a surprise visit to Chechnya early Tuesday, two days after pro-Moscow Chechen President Akhmad Kadyrov was assassinated in Grozny. On his return to Moscow, he ordered the deployment of additional troops in the separatist region.
- Russia: Kadyrov's Death A Blow To Kremlin's Chechnya Policy RFE/RL 10 May 2004 -- Chechnya's pro-Moscow president, Akhmad-hadji Kadyrov, was buried today in his hometown after being killed in a bomb blast in Grozny yesterday. The explosion in the republican capital took place during annual celebrations marking the victory over Nazi Germany in World War II. The assassination marks a sharp setback for Moscow's Chechen policy.
- RUSSIA/CHECHNYA VOA 10 May 2004 -- Pro-Moscow Chechen President Akhmad Kadyrov, killed in a bomb attack at a crowded stadium in the Chechen capital, Grozny, on Sunday, has been buried in his home village in Chechnya.
- RUSSIA/CHECHNYA VOA 09 May 2004 -- The pro-Moscow president of Chechnya was killed along with a number of others in a bomb blast during an annual parade in the Chechen capital, Grozny, to mark Moscow's victory over Nazi Germany in World War Two. The explosion appeared to mark a setback for Russian President Vladimir Putin's claim that the long-running conflict in Chechnya is over.
- Chechen President Killed In Grozny Blast RFE/RL 09 May 2004 -- Chechnya's pro-Russian president, Akhmed-hadji Kadyrov, was killed and Russia's top military commander in the North Caucasus was critically injured today by an explosion that ripped through the seats of a crowded Grozny stadium.
- Tajikistan: Heroin Busts Tie Russian Military To Drug Trade RFE/RL 07 May 2004 -- For years, the Russian military has patrolled the border between Tajikistan and Afghanistan, one of the world's major drug-smuggling routes. Recently the troops' main job has been to stem the flow of Afghan heroin that is smuggled across the border on its way to Russia and Western markets. Now the reported arrests of two Russian border guards with heroin has once again raised questions about the involvement of the Russian military -- at a time when Tajikistan is looking to gradually assume command of the border service.
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