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In the News (Sun 27 Dec 09)

  
  Kondopoga. History and nowadays.
Kondopoga is the administrative centre of the region with the population of 50,000, the population of the town being 38,000.
Kondopoga region (area - 5,900 sq km, population - 47,800) is situated in the centre of Southern Karelia.
The cities of Petrozavodsk, Kondopoga, and Medvezhyegorsk are on Lake Onega.The island of Kizhi houses the internationally known architectural organization of that name.
www.kondopoga.ru /EN   (1500 words)

  
 Russian Blog: Kondopoga
Mozgalyov, 33, is a Kondopoga resident with a criminal record.
He was convicted in 1999 for killing a local crime lord in Petrozavodsk in the fall of 1998.
All is quiet in Kondopoga, which held memorial services for the dead earlier in the day.
konstantin2005.blogspot.com /2006/09/kondopoga.html   (2092 words)

  
  RIA Novosti - Russia - Russian court returns Kondopoga brawl case to prosecutors
KONDOPOGA (Karelia), November 14 (RIA Novosti) - A court in Kondopoga in northwest Russia ruled Tuesday that the case of a defendant accused of starting a brawl in the city in early September, which led to mass riots, be returned to prosecutors.
A confrontation between local Russians in Kondopoga, in the Republic of Karelia, and Caucasus nationals, left at least two city residents dead and culminated in nationalist riots that shook the town, as residents demanded that non-Russians be expelled.
The court upheld a motion forwarded by the defendant's lawyers, who asked the court to combine the case of their defendant Sergei Mozgalev with the case of Yury Pliyev, who investigators determined was also among the initiators of the brawl at the Chaika restaurant.
www.en.rian.ru /russia/20061114/55620840.html   (314 words)

  
 CENTRAL ASIA - CAUCASUS ANALYST   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The events led to a violent outbreak in Kondopoga, led mostly by ethnic Russians who attacked Chechens and other residents from the Caucasus, and their property.
This kind of outlook apparently prevailed among those who participated in the Kondopoga outburst, where local Russians proposed expelling all people of “Caucasian nationality.” While their native town was their immediate concern, they believe these sorts of actions should take place all over the country.
The other important aspect of the Kondopoga affair is that contrary to the protest in 2005 caused by abolishing perks enjoyed by pensioners, all age groups participated in the demonstration.
www.cacianalyst.org /view_article.php?articleid=4552   (1811 words)

  
 Interfax > Politics   (Site not responding. Last check: )
This can be seen from the fact that the Kondopoga authorities accepted the local residents' demands, while a resolution passed by a rally, was signed by individual deputies of the city legislature and representatives of the public.
The principle of supremacy of law must be absolutely observed in Kondopoga and in the rest of Russia, while emotions and the nationalistic sentiment musty be relegated.
If the Kondopoga police had been more efficient in curtailing serious crimes, including massive fights, the current crisis would not have erupted, while the nationalists would not have scored new points in their campaign," the Chechen prime minister said.
www.interfax.ru /e/B/0/28.html?id_issue=11582244   (428 words)

  
 RIA Novosti - Russia - Russian court returns Kondopoga brawl case to prosecutors
KONDOPOGA (Karelia), November 14 (RIA Novosti) - A court in Kondopoga in northwest Russia ruled Tuesday that the case of a defendant accused of starting a brawl in the city in early September, which led to mass riots, be returned to prosecutors.
A confrontation between local Russians in Kondopoga, in the Republic of Karelia, and Caucasus nationals, left at least two city residents dead and culminated in nationalist riots that shook the town, as residents demanded that non-Russians be expelled.
The court upheld a motion forwarded by the defendant's lawyers, who asked the court to combine the case of their defendant Sergei Mozgalev with the case of Yury Pliyev, who investigators determined was also among the initiators of the brawl at the Chaika restaurant.
en.rian.ru /russia/20061114/55620840.html   (330 words)

  
 Russia Blog: In the Absence of Rule of Law – Xenophobia and Vigilantism
Kondopoga, Karelia Region – this small industrial town not far from Finland has been the center of attention for two weeks straight in Russia.
But on the night of September 1, 2006, angry Kondopoga rioted and set fire to a school attended by Muslim children, as well as a public market, several grocery stores, and a restaurant, all properties owned by local Chechen migrants; they also fought with police SWAT teams that tried to disperse the riot.
The Kondopoga incident comes only weeks after the terrorist bombing of a Moscow marketplace, where three Slavic students targeted immigrants from the Caucuses and Central Asia.
www.russiablog.org /2006/09/in_the_absence_of_rule_of_law.html   (1232 words)

  
 Kondopoga - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Fine examples of Russian wooden architecture survive on the shores of the Lake Onega, notably in Kizhi and Kondopoga.
Kondopoga (Russian: Кондопога, Finnish: Kontupohja) is a town in the Republic of Karelia, Russia.
Kondopoga has a railroad station on the Moscow–Murmansk railroad, some of the largest pulp and paper mills in Eastern Europe, a medical college, and facilities for the manufacture of building materials.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kondopoga   (396 words)

  
 Race riots force migrants to leave Russian town -DAWN - International; September 15, 2006
KONDOPOGA (Russia): Dozens of wrecked market stalls rot in the rain and a restaurant stands burnt and looted, its windows boarded up.
This is the scene of Russia’s latest explosion of race violence in which, for the first time, an alliance of locals and Moscow-based extremists appears to have driven almost an entire ethnic group from a town.
Trouble started in Kondopoga, a town of 40,000 in the Russian province of Karelia, after a bar fight over an unpaid bill between locals and Chechens.
www.dawn.com /2006/09/15/int12.htm   (685 words)

  
 In Russian City, a Rampage of Ethnic Violence
A brawl at the Seagull club this month in Kondopoga, Russia, between Caucasus immigrants and ethnic Russians fueled a series of violent attacks against the immigrants.
But the events in Kondopoga have exposed a strain of ethnic strife that extends beyond the acts of neo-Nazis and skinheads, infecting society as a whole 15 years after the collapse of the Soviet Union discredited the enforced harmony of Russia's many nationalities.
It is not clear exactly how many people fled Kondopoga as the violence flared, but in addition to the 49 Chechens now staying at the camp near Petrozavodsk, many are believed to be staying with friends or relatives.
www.freeserbia.net /Articles/2006/Kondopoga.html   (1162 words)

  
 Kondopoga News
A court in Kondopoga in northwest Russia ruled Tuesday that the case of a defendant accused of starting a brawl in the city in early September, which led to mass riots, be returned to prosecutors.
Prosecutors in the city of Kondopoga in northwest Russia pledged Friday to complete in mid-November a probe into the alleged murder of locals by Chechens.
The riot started after two people were killed in a restaurant brawl Kondopoga went from obscurity to notoriety overnight.
www.topix.net /ru/kondopoga   (718 words)

  
 ITAR-TASS   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The court granted the petition from the lawyers of defendant Sergei Mozgalyov to pool his criminal case with the case of second instigator of the fight - Yuri Pliyev.
Investigators ascertained that "defendant Sergei Mozgalyov provoked a conflict at the Chaika restaurant in the district town of Kondopoga overnight to August 30.
Pliyev fled Kondopoga after the fatal fight and was detained in St. Petersburg.
itar-tass.com /eng/level2.html?NewsID=10980326&PageNum=0   (353 words)

  
 English Russia » Civil disorder in Kondopoga, Karelia
The story is that Chechen (Southern) dwellers of this smal Northern Russian city Kondopoga (Karelia region) killed a few natives of the city.
The possible answer is because the goverment afraids the repetition of civil disorder in other major cities of Russia.
By the way the city hall of this city first agreed to close all the businesses that belong to Chechen people, so there is another cause why other cities can try to repeat the civil disorder and massacre against Southerners.
englishrussia.com /?p=267   (1147 words)

  
 The Provocative and Aggressive Behavior - Kommersant Moscow
The Court of Kondopoga (Karelia, northern Russia) jailed yesterday three Chechens involved in the scuffle in Chaika café, which gave rise to the mass riots.
In Kondopoga, no one but for police could be seen till 6:00 a.m.
The crowd of 2,000 (Kondopoga has 30,000 residents overall) moved to the premises of authorities.
www.kommersant.com /page.asp?id=702460   (508 words)

  
 Union of Councils for Soviet Jews: Window on Eurasia: Kondopoga Clashes 'Metastasize' Across Russia
And given what Kondopoga showed about the actual situation in Russia, there are certain to be more in the future, but when and where remains a matter of speculation.
The Kondopoga events and their successors, Riskin and Farutin argue, show that the country's much ballyhooed "vertical of power" does not "work" effectively either at the municipal level or "at its higher levels."
But the events in Kondopoga and their echoes elsewhere in the Russian Federation have highlighted an even greater failing on the part of the government, the two analysts suggest: the Putin regime lacks an institution to track and predict ethnic conflicts.
www.fsumonitor.com /stories/092506Russia.shtml   (575 words)

  
 Western Resistance: Chechen Warlord Threatens Russian Town, Locals Fear Second Beslan
The Islamic Chechen warlord, Ramzan Kadyrov, has threatened to punish the people of the north Russian town of Kondopoga with ``his own forces'' for their successful attempt to stand up to the Chechen mafia, report Russian media.
Kondopoga is a center of the lucrative pulp and paper business.
The sick irony is that the Kondopoga murders came on the eve of the grim second anniversary of the Beslan massacre when Chechen terrorists killed 360 hostages at a school in Russia's southern republic of North Ossetia, a Christian Orthodox region.
www.westernresistance.com /blog/archives/002889.html   (604 words)

  
 Saint Gregory's Foundation: Aid to Russia, Ukraine and Georgia   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The Friends of Kondopoga is a support group with a special interest in the socially active parish of the Assumption in Kondopoga, Karelia (North West Russia).
Thanks to generous donations from the Friends of Kondopoga all over the world, other members of St Gregory's, and to enormous efforts on the part of the parishioners to save what could be saved and help with the rebuilding, the building itself is now restored.
However, some Friends of Kondopoga were so moved to hear that the parishioners were not all able to worship together because they were bursting out of their church, that they gave private donations to help the parish build a new larger church.
www.stgregorysfoundation.org.uk /FoK.html   (1483 words)

  
 Guardian Unlimited | World Latest | Russian Nationalists Fight With Police   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Vekhorovsky said dozens of residents and right-wing nationalists descended on Kondopoga over the course of the week, and late Friday groups attacked the restaurant with metal bars and firebombs and fought with riot police.
Belov claimed that many Kondopoga residents considered the Chechens to be criminals and that the fight earlier this week at the restaurant was ``the straw that broke the camel's back.''
Thousands of residents rallying in a town square Saturday afternoon demanded that the goods bazaar be shut down and turned over to local residents, and that police expel or investigate the backgrounds of all immigrants for possible criminal ties, Russian news media reported.
www.guardian.co.uk /worldlatest/story/0,,-6054646,00.html   (546 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | Europe | Russian town hit by race violence
Kondopoga lies about 100km (60 miles) north of Petrozavodsk - the capital of Russia's republic of Karelia.
Reports from the town say members of far-right groups from across the country travelled to the town to join in the violence.
The authorities in Russia's southern republic of Chechnya have criticised Kondopoga officials for failing to maintain public order, and have sent a fact-finding mission to the town.
news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/europe/5312078.stm   (328 words)

  
 FIRE IN KONDOPOGA
The work of the Kondopoga parish has been seriously damaged by a fire which broke out a few days ago – an initial report is given below, together with details of how to contribute to the appeal.
The overwhelming majority, 94%, of Kondopoga’s approximately 40,000 inhabitants, are people forcibly deported or pushed out by starvation, former prisoners, former prison guards – and their descendants.
The parish house in Kondopoga has partly burnt down, with the fire breaking out just before the Vigil for the Feast of the Annunciation.
home.clara.net /sourozh/Kondopogafire.htm   (1193 words)

  
 Kondopoga Pulp & Paper Project [EBRD - Project Summary Document]
A US$ 60 million loan to Kondopoga Pulp and Paper Mill, located in the Karelian Republic, for the modernisation and expansion of news print and pulp production, including environmental enhancements.
Project objectives: The project will increase Kondopoga's news print production capacity, and will allow the company to reduce its production and use of sulphite pulp, replacing it with the production of more environmentally friendly thermo-mechanical pulp.
Kondopoga is a joint-stock company and the largest Russian producer and exporter of news print.
www.ebrd.com /projects/psd/psd1997/1796.htm   (553 words)

  
 Angry Mobs Take to Kondopoga's Streets   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The northwestern industrial town of Kondopoga was consumed by ethnic violence over the weekend, with angry and often drunken bands of Slavs waging an uncoordinated series of attacks on natives of the Caucasus.
Also on Sunday, Karelia's governor, Sergei Katanandov, weighed in on the ethnic violence, saying authorities were restoring order to Kondopoga and vowing to prosecute those who took part in the attacks.
The events in Kondopoga mark the first time an entire town has been deserted by natives of the Caucasus forced to flee for their lives, and it could trigger similar disturbances elsewhere, said Alexander Verkhovsky, director of the Sova think tank.
www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/1695005/posts   (1015 words)

  
 Laikraštinis popierius, prekyba popieriumi.
Tai didmeninė ir mažmeninė prekyba pasaulyje žinomo laikraštinio popieriaus „Kondopoga“ produkcija, bei įvairių rūšių ofsetiniu popieriumi.
Siūlome AB „Kondopoga“ gamybos aukštos kokybės laikraštinį popierių.
AB „Kondopoga“ - pripažintas lyderis, gerai žinomas visame pasaulyje.
www.lirsona.lt /popierius_knygoms_laikrasciams_spaudai_zurnalams_index.html   (66 words)

  
 Mass arrests after Russian revenge attacks | The Courier-Mail   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Hundreds of local residents took to the streets to protest yesterday in the northwestern town of Kondopoga near Russia's border with Finland after a bar fight between ethnic Caucasians and ethnic Russians killed two Russians on Tuesday, a police spokesman said.
Alexander Verkhovsky of the NGO Sova, which studies xenophobic crime, said that DNPI had sent a delegation from Moscow to Kondopoga, and accused them of using the incident to inflame ethnic hatred.
Sergei Katanandov, head of the Karelia region where Kondopoga is located, said in comments broadcast live on local television Sunday that the anger of local residents was justified.
www.news.com.au /sundaymail/story/0,,20346262-1702,00.html?from=rss   (515 words)

  
 Russia: Kondopoga Violence Continues Unabated - RADIO FREE EUROPE / RADIO LIBERTY
The incident was the latest in a string of attacks against ethnic Chechens and other ethnic minorities in Kondopoga that has prompted dozens of Chechen families to flee the city.
Rights activists sat this is the first time that natives of the Caucasus have been forced to flee a Russian town for their lives.
According to the head of Karelia, Sergei Katanandov, an unidentified group is using the Internet and mobile phones to incite young people to stage similar mob violence in the nearby city of Petrozavodsk.
www.rferl.org /featuresarticle/2006/09/6cc8626f-be02-4054-957b-d0872dc41157.html   (684 words)

  
 Right-wingers Clash With Police as Locals Call for Expulsion of Chechens in Northern Russia - NEWS - MOSNEWS.COM   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Police in the Karelia region, where Kondopoga is located, said there had been “small hooliganism” in the town.
A clerk at a store in Kondopoga who refused to give her name told AP by telephone that the clash occurred Wednesday and that “several” people were killed.
Belov claimed that many Kondopoga residents considered the Chechens to be criminals and that the fight earlier this week at the restaurant was “the straw that broke the camel’s back.” “Tonight, it’s very possible that we could see a repeat of what happened last night,” he told AP.
mosnews.com /news/2006/09/02/karelia.shtml   (748 words)

  
 Russia 4th Level 2001
Parusa - Metallurg 1:0 Kondopoga - SevMash 2:0 Round 5 [Jun 2-3] SKA - Metallurg 3:0 Lokomotiv - Priozyorsk 1:0 Pskov-2 - Raduga 0:1 Khimik - Kondopoga 0:2 SevMash - Ladoga +:- Round 6 [Jun 16-17] Ladoga - Khimik 1:1 Raduga - Kondopoga 1:1 Priozyorsk - SevMash 2:0 Pskov-2 - Al.
Parusa 1:0 Ladoga - SKA -:+ Kondopoga - Lokomotiv 3:1 Metallurg - Pskov-2 0:1 Khimik - SevMash 2:2 Round 15 [Aug 18-19] Lokomotiv - Ladoga +:- Khimik - Raduga 4:1 Metallurg - Al.
Parusa 3:1 SevMash - Kondopoga 0:1 [Sep 12] SKA - Priozyorsk 2:0 Round 16 [Aug 25-26] Priozyorsk - Lokomotiv 1:3 Raduga - Pskov-2 0:1 Kondopoga - Khimik 1:0 Ladoga - SevMash -:+ [Aug 29] Metallurg - SKA 1:0 Round 17 [Sep 1-2] Khimik - Ladoga +:- Kondopoga - Raduga 3:0 SevMash - Priozyorsk 0:2 Al.
www.angelfire.com /ks2/volga/russia2001.html   (984 words)

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