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[REGNUM] On August 9, the Albanian prosecutor's office reported that a group of seven prisoners involved in drug trafficking pleaded guilty and cooperated with the investigation after seeing the evidence collected against them.
According to the Albanian news agency Telegrafi, one man was sentenced to five years in prison, another two to three and a half years, and four to three years in prison.
Earlier, seven more members of the same group did the same. The drug dealers were arrested at the end of March 2021 during Operation Mountain. The police called the operation unsuccessful, since the leaders of the group managed to stay free.
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[REGNUM] A total of 33 foreign reconnaissance aircraft approached the borders of Russia during the week. Such data are provided on August 9 by the official publication of the Ministry of Defense "Krasnaya Zvezda".
It is also reported that during the week 11 foreign drones were seen carrying out aerial reconnaissance along the Russian borders.
It is noted that all these objects were tracked by Russian radar stations. In order to prevent violation of the border, fighters from the air defense duty forces were sortied twice.
According to the Ministry of Defense, there were no violations of the airspace of the Russian Federation in any of the episodes.
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[TheGuardian] An individual tagged as a human rights activist, Kovalyov is widely reviled by Russian military as a murderer and terrorist enabler, for his role in the murder of several Russian soldiers held in captivity in Grozny, Chechnya, in early 1995.
According to Wikipedia:
Sergei Kovalyov was accused by Russian General Gennady Troshev, that during the Battle of Grozny, Kovalyov offered Russian soldiers to surrender. He promised that their life, health and honor would be preserved. But most of those who gave up were killed.
Russian nationalist Alexander Prokhanov in his Zavtra newspaper also accused Kovalyov in mistreatment of Yevgeny Rodionov's mother, Lyubov Vasilievna.
According to Prokhanov, she asked for Kovalyov's help in finding her kidnapped and later killed son in 1996, but he roared in response: "Why did you come to me? You raised the murderer".
From the memoirs of Russian General Gennady Troshev:
In the battles for Grozny, the first prisoners appeared, around whom they turned battles involving Moscow politicians, human rights activists and journalists.
The then Commissioner for Rights played a particularly bad role in this person in the Russian Federation called S. Kovalev, who openly called on our soldiers to surrender in captivity under his mighty guarantees of liberation. And about what awaits them in captivity of "good" Chechens, they did not think too much. I will quote here the words of the captain Sergei N., who languished for eight months in a pit near Shali:
"I asked God for one thing - die faster ...
On beatings, sadistic torture, public executions and other "charms" of the Chechen captivity can be said for a long to him, the reader will not be surprised. But now the chopping off of heads, the removal of skin and scalps from living soldiers, crucified bodies in the windows of houses, the federal troops for the first time collided in Grozny."
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
