NOVEMBER 2006

06 11 2006


06 11 2006

State of Hate. The country goes on a neonationalist binge,
apparently with the Kremlin's blessing. The question is, why?




Denis Sinyakov / AFP-Getty Images

Party people: Pro-Putin youth celebrate on Red Square

By Owen Matthews and Anna Nemtsova

Newsweek International

Nov. 6, 2006 issue - Russia is becoming an increasingly scary place.
Ask Marat Gelman, whose gallery made the mistake of hosting a
show by a Georgian artist at a time when Georgians are the subject
of official disapproval. Last week the gallery was wrecked by 10
masked men-"not vandals, nor hooligans from the street, but highly
professional and experienced militants who came to do their job,"
says Gelman, who was badly beaten. Or ask art historian and
curator Aleksandr Panov, attacked (but not robbed) by thugs days
after he publicly condemned the attack on Gelman. Or ask ordinary
Georgians who, increasingly, have been the victims of police
extortion and skinhead attacks, among them 24-year-old carwash
supervisor Irakly Bukiya. "We immigrants have always been
second-class people in Russia," says Bukiya, who knew better than
to call the police last week ...
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From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng  (Original Message)    Sent: 11/6/2006 7:01 AM
26.10.2006 13:53 MSK
Union of Right Forces Condemns Draft Law on Self-Governance
RUSSIA, Moscow. “The United Russia faction has introduced a draft law into the State Duma to give regional authorities the right to annul local self-governance in cities that are capitals of subjects of the federation… They want to maintain the power of the current bureaucrats at any cost,” reads a statement issued by the Union of Right Forces on October 23.

”For that purpose, they are prepared to deprive the citizens of the Russia Federation of one of their last possibilities to choose their own leaders,” the statement by the URF federal political council presidium continues.

URF noted that the true motives of the authors of the draft law are especially obvious considering the recent defeat of the incumbent United Russia mayoral candidate in Samara.

URF declared that the passage of the law would be a gross violation of the civil right to local self-governance, which is guaranteed by the ...
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From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng  (Original Message)    Sent: 11/8/2006 12:40 AM
'We live in dangerous times, and that is not changing'
 
Nov 8 2006
 
Rin Simpson, Western Mail
 

VETERAN war correspondent Jeremy Bowen has painted a bleak picture of the future, saying the 21st century could be every bit as bloody as the 20th was.

In the week in which Saddam Hussein was sentenced to hang over the killing of 148 Iraqis in the early '80s, the Cardiff-born BBC reporter spoke about his fears.

He said, "I don't think we're heading down the plug hole but I would say we live in a very dangerous time and there's nothing to me to suggest that it's going to get less dangerous.

"It's a dangerous period we are in, no question about it, and I fear somewhat for the future.

"The 20th century was the most violent century in human history and we have seen nothing to ...
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From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng  (Original Message)    Sent: 11/15/2006 12:46 PM

Families And Marriages Disgusted By Russians
Publication time: 15 November 2006, 08:47

Recent studies indicate that 50% of Russians opt to live alone to avoid the responsibility of caring for dependents. Russians are expected to be a minority in the near future because of a continually shrinking population.

According to a report prepared by a Russian researcc center, nearly 50 percent of females of marrying age live alone for various reasons.  Out of 1,000, 175 Russian females of marrying age never got married and 180 were divorced, with 110 divorce suits in progress. In Russia, where the male population is 20 percent less than the female population, the case is almost the same.

Experts note that the situation is worsening and asserted that the advancing marriage age is the primary factor behind the declining population. Average marrying age which was 21 in the 1990s has over time increased to 25.

Only 12 percent of the entire community favored a traditional family structure ...
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From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng  (Original Message)    Sent: 11/15/2006 12:46 PM
Most Russians Enjoy Totalitarism And Slavery
Publication time: 14 November 2006, 16:39

Most Russians consider the Communist  terror in a positive light, according to a poll by the Moscow Yury Levada Analytical Center. 30 per cent of respondents think the so-called 1917 October Revolution opened a "new era" in the history of their country, while 28 per cent believe it fostered economic and social development.

Only 10 per cent of respondents think the revolution became a catastrophe for the people of Russia, and 16 per cent say it actually slowed down economic and social development, the Angus Reid reported.

KC

http://www.kavkazcenter.com/eng/content/2006/11/14/6411.shtml