Window On Eurasia: 1944 Deportations Continue To Echo Across North Caucasus, Russian Federation
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posted by eagle on February, 2009 as ANALYSIS / OPINION
Paul Goble
Vienna, February 23 – Today, when Russian officials are celebrating Fatherland Defender Day, most Chechens and Ingush, many other North Caucasians, and a significant share of Muslims elsewhere in the Russian Federation are marking with prayers and other actions the 65th anniversary of the Soviet deportation of the Chechens and Ingush.
Not only has this commemoration called new attention to the brutality of that action and the criminality of the regime that carried it out, but it appears set to deepen existing divisions between the North Caucasians and Russia’s Muslims more generally, on the one hand, and the increasingly repressive Russian government, on the other.
On February 23, 1944, Stalin’s security forces began to deport the entire population of the Chechen-Ingush Autonomous Republic, roughly half a million people, to Central Asia on the pretext that Chechen and Ingush soldiers had deserted in massive numbers and prepared armed uprisings ... >> full
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Itar-Tass: Ingushetia Mourning For 65th Anniversary Of Deportation.
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Ingushetia mourning for 65th anniversary of deportation.
23.02.2009, 07.48
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NAZRAN, February 23 (Itar-Tass) -- Ingushetia is holding mourning events dedicated to the tragic date – the 65th anniversary of the deportation of the peoples of Ingushetia and Chechnya.
The Ingush Scientific Research institute of Humanities named after Chakha Akhriyev held a scientific and practical conference devoted to the tragedy, the chief of the organizing committee for preparations and holding commemoration events, Magomed-Sali Aushev told Itar-Tass on Sunday. The replenished expositions entitled “Harsh February” opened at the memorial complex of the victims of political repressions and the republican local history museum in Nazran. The exhibitions dwelt on the horrible years of expulsion and those hardships, which Ingush and Chechen families were facing after the forced resettlement in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan. The Ingush national republican library opened an exposition of books telling about this tragic ... | >> full
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Window On Eurasia: Glossy New Women’s Magazine Highlights Rise Of Muslim Media In Russia
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Paul Goble
Vienna, February 21 – Despite earlier failures and tough economic times, a group of Muslim entrepreneurs this week launched a glossy new journal for Muslim women in Russia that one Moscow commentator has called “the Muslim variant of Cosmopolitan” and that at the very least reflects the rise of media outlets directed at that country’s Islamic community..
Yesterday, Chaskor.ru’s Anatasiya Alekseyeva said that the 54-page magazine, “Musulmanka” (“The Muslim Woman’) (musulmanka.ru/), comes on the heels of “Golobushka” (www.media-atlas.ru/news/?id=25925), a journal directed at the same audience which closed after only one issue (www.chaskor.ru/p.php?id=3705).
The new magazine, which costs 100 rubles (2.80 US dollars) per issue, went on sale in Moscow last Sunday, but its organizers plan to distribute it to Muslim communities in Tatarstan, Bashkortostan, Daghestan, Belarus, Azerbaijan and Ukraine, thus suggesting it may have a better business plan than did “Golobushka.”
The first issue as summarized ... >> full
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Window On Eurasia: Glossy New Women’s Magazine Highlights Rise Of Muslim Media In Russia
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posted by eagle on as ANALYSIS / OPINION
Paul Goble
Vienna, February 21 – Despite earlier failures and tough economic times, a group of Muslim entrepreneurs this week launched a glossy new journal for Muslim women in Russia that one Moscow commentator has called “the Muslim variant of Cosmopolitan” and that at the very least reflects the rise of media outlets directed at that country’s Islamic community..
Yesterday, Chaskor.ru’s Anatasiya Alekseyeva said that the 54-page magazine, “Musulmanka” (“The Muslim Woman’) (musulmanka.ru/), comes on the heels of “Golobushka” (www.media-atlas.ru/news/?id=25925), a journal directed at the same audience which closed after only one issue (www.chaskor.ru/p.php?id=3705).
The new magazine, which costs 100 rubles (2.80 US dollars) per issue, went on sale in Moscow last Sunday, but its organizers plan to distribute it to Muslim communities in Tatarstan, Bashkortostan, Daghestan, Belarus, Azerbaijan and Ukraine, thus suggesting it may have a better business plan than did “Golobushka.”
The first issue as summarized ... >> full
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RFE/RL: Was Pasternak's Path To The Nobel Prize Paved By The CIA?
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Was Pasternak's Path To The Nobel Prize Paved By The CIA?
Novelist and poet Boris Pasternak, pictured in 1948
February 20, 2009
Did the CIA fund a Russian-language publication of Boris Pasternak's "Doctor Zhivago" in order to help the dissident author win the Nobel Prize? Ivan Tolstoi, a literary historian and correspondent with RFE/RL's Russian Service, has spent the better part of two decades trying to find out. Tolstoi's research has resulted in a book, "The Laundered Novel: Doctor Zhivago, Between the KGB and the CIA,” which was recently published in Russia. In this first-person account, Tolstoi describes his pursuit of the truth behind "Zhivago's" first appearance in Russian.
By Ivan Tolstoi
On October 23, 1958, Boris Pasternak was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for his "important achievement both in contemporary lyrical poetry and in the field of the great Russian epic tradition."
The latter clause referred to a controversial novel, banned in the Soviet Union, smuggled out ... >> full
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