Volgograd: 'Ten dead' in second blast to hit Russian city

BBC ^ | Monday, December 30, 2013

[ScaniaBoy]

See post # 12.

[Minutemen]

Chechens gonna pay dearly.

[RitchieAprile]

not to mention vain. he looks poured into that jacket.

are those hypo holders on his breast?

[cunning_fish]

Aleksey Petrovich Yermolov (Russian: Алексе́й Петро́вич Ермо́лов), or Ermolov (4 June [O.S. 24 May] 1777, Moscow - 23 April [O.S. 11 April] 1861), was a Russian Imperial general of the 19th century who commanded Russian troops in the Caucasus War. Yermolov's main tasks were to secure Russia's hold over the Trans-Caucasus, only recently conquered in a hard war with both the Qajars (1805–1813) and the Ottomans (1807–1812), to occupy the Caucasus range separating the new territories from the rest of the Empire and to subdue the ‘savage’ and hostile Muslim tribes inhabiting it. But first he had another, most urgent task: Yermolov had to travel on a mission to Tehran, to evade the execution of Alexander I's promise to restore to Fat′h-Ali Shah Qajar part of the territories acquired by Russia in the Treaty of Gulistan of 1813 [1] During his tenure as commander-in-chief in the Caucasus, Yermolov (by that time promoted to the rank of full artillery general) was responsible for robust Russian military policies in Caucasus, where his name became a byword for brutality. In a reply to the outraged Alexander I, he wrote. "I desire that the terror of my name shall guard our frontiers more potently than chains or fortresses."[2] He was appointed commander-in-chief of the Russian forces in Georgia and commander of the Independent Georgian Corps on 21 April 1816. His promotion to the position was seen as a personal insult by his superiors and earned him many enemies at home.[3] He proved himself an able administrator and successfully negotiated with Persia in 1818, receiving promotion to general of infantry on 4 March 1818. In 1817, he fortified a ford on the Sunzha river and founded the fortress of Grozny the following year. After repelling an attack by the highlanders, he undertook a punitive raid against them. His decisive measures did succeed in keeping many of the allied tribes loyal. For ten years he was both commander-in-chief of the Georgian armies and the imperial ambassador to Persia. His independent character would often lead him to conflicts with the Ministry of War, exacerbated by the personal antagonism of many of its members. He was adored by his soldiers, often fraternising with them, and generally successful in combatting the highlanders of Dagestan, but failed to prevent multiple uprisings. When, in 1825, Yermolov found out that Aleksandr Griboyedov was about to be arrested on charges relating to the Decembrist revolt, he warned him of it, enabling Griboyedov to destroy some compromising papers and avoid arrest.[4] Yermolov's career came to an abrupt end in 1827 and he was replaced with Nicholas I's favorite Ivan Paskevich.[5] The exact reasons are unclear, but he was disliked by Nicholas and was blamed for not keeping the tribes in check. Yermolov was discharged on 7 December 1827 with a full pension. However, four years later, Nicholas restored him in the rank (6 November 1831) and appointed him to the State Council; Yermolov's rank of general of infantry was confirmed in 1833. Yermolov is a highly controversial historical figure. He is respected by Russian people for his military skills, and hated by many Caucasus nations for his brutality. In Russia, he was famous for military prowess, bravery and strategy. His charismatic leadership of imperial armies was romanticized in poems by Alexander Pushkin, Vasily Zhukovsky, and others. However, in the Caucasus (with the exception of Ossetia), Yermolov is infamous for atrocities he had committed. As Caucasus "expert" Charles King puts it: Ermolov was a quintessential frontier conqueror. He was the first to employ a comprehensive strategy for the subjugation of the Caucasus highlands, and his brutal methods would be used, in one form or another, by tsarists, Bolsheviks, and Russian generals into the twenty-first century. Ermolov was the most celebrated and, at the same time, the most hated of Russian commanders in the Caucasus theater. To St.Petersburg society he was the gallant, Latin-quoting senior officer. For generations of indigenous mountaineers he was the dreaded "Yarmul" who razed villages and slaughtered families. Although he gained the supreme confidence of one Tsar, Alexander I, he was treated with suspicion by another, Nicholas I. He was responsible for implementing a series of policies that were at the time hailed as vehicles for civilizing the benighted Caucasus frontier but today might very well be called state-sponsored terrorism.

[cunning_fish]

In fact it is a traditional chechen outfit made out of nazy grey uniform cloth and nazy emblems. Hypo holders are there to keep extra ammo. It is a typical feature on a Caucasian muslim dress. They’ ve borrowed it from cossaks.

[mylife]

This wars been brewing for thousands of years.

[MestaMachine]

Time to call Orkin.

[mylife]

Calling Orkin on the Orcs?

[MestaMachine]

I was thinking more along the lines of cockroaches. Orkin. They kill bugs dead.

[cunning_fish]

IMO, Yermolov’s doctrine was the most effective against the muslims ever implemented. Centerline is no appease.

[GladesGuru]

“Time to call Orkin.”

Time to call Spetznaz.

Fixed it for you.

;-)

[Amberdawn]

AQ may be funded by the saudi’s, but that doesn’t prevent AQ from hating the royal family. Bin Laden wanted to overthrow KSA.

[Amberdawn]

I thought I just read that Umarov was killed. Maybe these bombings are in ‘response’ to that.

[mylife]

But the Orcs are thinking along the same lines.

[~Pandora]

Looks like more black widows

http://voiceofrussia.com/news/2013_12_29/Photos-of-female-suicide-bomber-that-killed-dozens-in-Russias-south-now-public-1600/

[mylife]

Peace through superior fire power.

[MestaMachine]

Isn't spetsnaz Russian for Orkin?

истребители

[mylife]

Well isn’t that lovely?

[mylife]

So now we have to feel up all the women for security.

Fair enough I suppose, if you want to play rough and tumble.

[ConservativeChris]

IBTHTBFRP