RA’s Daily Russian News Blast – August 24, 2009
TODAY: Ingush President returns to work; concerns about dam surfaced decade ago; Georgian minister retracts comments on US aid; Medvedev in Mongolia. TB alert; anniversary of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact sees debates resurface.
President Medvedev is, according to ITAR-TASS, confident that Ingushetian President Yunus-Bek Yevkurov, who is returning early from convalescence, will institute order in the region. Yevkurov has expressed a desire to see an increase in the number of police following an upsurge in violence. The Kremlin has rejected claims from a Chechen website that separatist group the ‘Battalion of Martyrs’ was responsible for the Sayano-Shushenskaya hydrodam disaster as part of an ‘economic war’ against Russia. Apparently no explosives were found at the site. According to the Washington Post, the Kremlin had been advised in 1998 that the plant had fallen into desuetude and was unsafe to work in.
President Medvedev is, according to ITAR-TASS, confident that Ingushetian President Yunus-Bek Yevkurov, who is returning early from convalescence, will institute order in the region. Yevkurov has expressed a desire to see an increase in the number of police following an upsurge in violence. The Kremlin has rejected claims from a Chechen website that separatist group the ‘Battalion of Martyrs’ was responsible for the Sayano-Shushenskaya hydrodam disaster as part of an ‘economic war’ against Russia. Apparently no explosives were found at the site. According to the Washington Post, the Kremlin had been advised in 1998 that the plant had fallen into desuetude and was unsafe to work in.