Zwei Beamte aus NÖ sollen im Polizeicomputer Ekis (Elektronisches Polizeiliches Informationssystem) Abfragen für die kasachische Regierung vorgenommen haben.
Sie wurden suspendiert. Einer der Polizisten ein ehemaliger Angehöriger des Büros für interne Angelegenheiten war, welches für die Korruptionsbekämpfung innerhalb der Polizei zuständig.
Представители властей Австрии подтвердили, что два офицера местной полиции привлекаются к ответственности по подозрению в шионаже против Рахата Алиева
Как сообщило радио Азаттык, пресс-секретарь министерства внутренних дел Австрии Рудольф Голлиа подтвердил, что два офицера австрийской полиции отстранены от своих должностей. Они подозреваются в шпионаже в пользу казахстанской спецслужбы. (more…)

JETZT mit DEUTSCHE ÜBERSETZUNG!
Reading through “Gulag Archipelago” by Nobel prize author Alexander Solzhenitsyn, I ponder again why elimination of millions took place and how such mass eradication was possible to maintain at all, not only in Soviet Union, but also in other countries of the world, including fascist Germany.
Author writes, that organs used to hire so-called informers among ordinary people, whose secret occupation was to make a report on commonplace events and talks of their neighbors, colleagues and acquaintances, and on the base of such flimsy information people were arrested afterward, send to prisons and camps, tortured and killed.
Some of informers did such work from fear of possible arrest, some – from pure enthusiasm.
Coming back to now, I contemplate, what motivates people to advance in certain professions, joining military troops in Iraq, becoming policemen, subordinate in penitentiary or executing controlling functions in unemployment institution. What drives them, what are their moral rewards?
We often read and talk about violation of human rights somewhere – on the other side of globe, about murders of journalists and activists, who dared to reveal the truth, about wars, corruption and overall decrease of life value there. (more…)

Kyrgyzstan says its decision to close a US base that serves as a vital supply route for US and Nato operations in Afghanistan is “final”.
It contradicts US statements that talks are ongoing about the base’s future.
Manas, just outside the capital Bishkek, is the only US base in Central Asia and is a vital transit point for Nato and US operations in Afghanistan – an hour-and-a-half’s flight away.
The base is used to refuel Afghan-bound planes, and is the first point of stop for the majority of coalition troops on their way in and out of Afghanistan.
The closure announcement came after Russia promised Kyrgyzstan $2bn (£1.4bn) in aid. However, Kyrgyzstan says the moves are not linked. (more…)

JETZT mit DEUTSCHE ÜBERSETZUNG

There are 580 entries for ‘escort agency’ in Vienna yellow pages
There are more than 1.506 registered prostitutes in Austrian capital.
There is no data how many prostitutes work in Vienna illegally, at least 3.000.
(Prostitution in Österreich, Wien, 2008, Bundeskanzleramt)
In Österreich sind nach Schätzungen von NGOs etwa 5.000 bis 7.000 Frauen in der Prostitution tätig. Der Großteil sind Migrantinnen (Sexworkers News)

AMS (Austrian work market service)
Early in the morning I arrived at AMS for routine checkup as one of 287.150 Austrian unemployed. There was already a queue by the door. Jobless stood by the wall with air of hopelessness and anxiety expecting their names to be called out. Their faces kept traces of adjustment to existing order of things and their cloth – traces of long-time scarcity, when bright yellow shirt with writing “boss”, perhaps gained at charity, shone defiantly in dim light of corridor beside velvet shabby designer suit and hiking jacket, that saw better times decades ago. I already knew that such appointments scarcely bring good news or worthy job offer, but may change my life to the worse. Unemployed may be send as herd of sheep to variety of mandatory courses, distinguished by formality and coercive discipline, which is based at threat of allowance abort. Nervousness of others infected me, I felt sweat pouring down my back, and my knees trembled. As if escalating tension of situation, man in yellow shirt started to hiccup loudly, and others stood around and looked in the space numbly. Then Tanya appeared. (more…)