Vladimir Rozanskij

A mujahed in the fight against the Soviet occupation, he will be the "spiritual" head of the new Afghan Islamic Emirate. Member of the powerful Nurzai family. An intermediary figure beween the political and military soul of the Taliban.

Presented at the Vladivostok Economic Forum. Transforming the Kurili Islands into an off-shore area. Urban development of Eastern Siberia, with cities of over a million inhabitants. The Kremlin bets on Chinese and Japanese cooperation. Russians aim to make the Arctic route the main link between Europe and Asia.

Negotiations between Afghanistan’s new rulers and the National Resistance Front, heir to the Northern Alliance, have failed. The resistance is led by former Vice President Saleh and the son of the late Ahmad Shah Massoud, the Lion of Panjshir. Claims that the resistance’s stronghold has fallen have been denied, but both sides have suffered heavy losses in the fighting.

Economic problems accentuated by the pandemic will falling cost of energy resources heavily felt. Inflation at record levels; agriculture affected by drought. In 2020, 96% of financial reserves will be used to meet debts. Clash with Moscow on the spread of Kazakh.

Moscow has been treating the Afghan Islamists as reliable interlocutors for years. Compared to al-Qaeda and the Islamic State, the Afghan Emirate offers a more acceptable and repeatable model: a mix of patriotism and Islamism. The Kremlin will struggle to contain any extremist regurgitation.

Berdymukhamedov fires government members and local officials. They are accused of taking pandemic containment measures such as wearing masks and closing public places. Bribes to get treatment at overcrowded hospitals. The drama of students and cotton pickers.

Special military exercises organised in Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan. The Russians have several bases in the region. The Kremlin's ties with the anti-Taliban Northern Alliance. Afghan extremists likened to Ukrainian anarchists of the 1917-1921 period.

Archbishop Feofan (Kim) of Korea presided over the ceremony. It is the second mobile tent of nomadic peoples used as a place of worship. Dedicated to the Blessed Matron of Moscow, a seer venerated throughout Russia. The Siberian region hosts a lager where 7 priests and 4 deacons serve.

The funds are in addition to another 3 billion already allocated by the government. The project's main target audience will be young people. An initiative supported by Patriarch Kirill (Gundjaev): "We urgently need to respond intervene to the youth crisis", especially after the protests in favour of Aleksej Naval'nyj.

Yuri Prokofiev speaks of a move to change the social-political scenario in the USSR; Gorbačëv was involved in the plan. Thesis of Western conspiracy nurtured. With Putin, today's Russia has restored the much mourned Soviet order.

President Berdymukhamedov wants the harvest in by 27 September rather than late October. Production is run Soviet-style. Ordinary Turkmen are exploited during harvest, children included. Any opposition, including abroad, has been silenced. Turkey backs the Turkmen regime.

For the Patriarch, “sport is not always separated from politics; we saw this as the Games went on”. Before the Olympics, Russia was penalised for violating anti-doping rules. Sport is a means to hold together the Orthodox sphere in the former Soviet Union. Orthodox faith is exalted as "spiritual energy" to compete in the Olympics.