He was the last important commentator on the Algerian crisis to accept the inevitability of independence.
Another Russian daily, Novyye Izvestiya , describes the Algerian hostage crisis as the biggest since the 2004 "Beslan tragedy".
It had been scheduled for last Friday in the Netherlands, but was postponed because of the Algerian hostage crisis.
The UK Foreign Office has confirmed that some British nationals caught up in the Algerian hostage crisis returned home overnight.
Cameron was due to give the speech on Europe last week but had to postpone its delivery because of the Algerian hostage crisis.
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More likely, the Algerian hostage crisis signals that Islamist extremists and dangerous gangs are gaining ascendancy in that part of the world, a region that is remote but crucial.
What was particularly striking about the prime minister's statement on the Algerian hostage crisis was not what he said about it but what he said about the wider threat posed by terrorism across north Africa.
On Monday , MPs convene at 2.30pm for an hour of Education questions, and, assuming no ministerial statements or urgent questions - and an update on the Algerian hostage crisis must be likely - they then turn to the committee of the whole house and third reading of the Welfare Benefits Uprating Bill.
French President Francois Hollande defended the Algerian response to the crisis as being "the most suitable".
Mr MacAskill said it was not the right time to comment on how the Algerian authorities had handled the crisis.
Prime Minister David Cameron has been told in a phone call from his Algerian counterpart that the hostage crisis has been ended, Downing Street has said.
Did Charles de Gaulle, summoned back in 1958 to meet France's constitutional crisis and end the Algerian war, realise all this?
Cameron praised Algerian forces for their work in ending the crisis, despite concerns from some nations earlier that the Algerians had unnecessarily put hostages at greater risk.
Cameron also praised Algerian forces for their work in ending the crisis, and said they have no responsibility for the deaths that occurred as forces tried to regain control of the plant.
The prime minister and his Algerian counterpart will pay their respects to those who died in the hostage crisis in the desert.
We believe that this doctrine, developed by a high-level panel cochaired by Gareth Evans (the president of the International Crisis Group, where John works) and Mohamed Sahnoun (former Algerian diplomat and UN special advisor) commits us all, as individuals and nations, to do our part to fulfill that responsibility.
"Algerian Chronicles" is a collection of journalistic writings published in 1958, when the crisis in Algeria posed a persistent threat to the government of France.
Several Algerian commentators stress their country's vulnerability to attack in the wake of the Malian crisis.
So far, the crisis is viewed as an "internal situation for Algeria, " said the official, who emphasized that Algerian security forces have successfully handled internal threats.
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With those words David Cameron heralded his arrival in Algeria - the first Western leader to visit this country since the hostage crisis which left 38 foreigners dead and the first British prime minister to visit in half a century of Algerian independence.
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