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MARCH 2013

Window on Eurasia: Migration Flows Raise the Question: Who are the Indigenous Peoples of Russia?

posted by eagle on March, 2013 as ANALYSIS / OPINION

THURSDAY, MARCH 21, 2013

Window on Eurasia: Migration Flows Raise the Question: Who are the Indigenous Peoples of Russia?

Paul Goble

Staunton, March 21 – Sergey Sokolovsky, a senior scholar at the Moscow Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology, notes that the concept of "indigenous peoples” however strange it may seem entered into Russian anthropological discourse relatively recently and arose first in the sphere of law and administration.

Sokolovsky, who edits "Etnograficheskoye obozreniye,” says that "when we speak about statuses connected with the particular features of culture and language of communities … as indigenous peoples or national minorities, we inevitably land in [a complicated] inter-disciplinary situation,” where law, "powerful political influence, and everyday understandings” about indigenousness intersect (postnauka.ru/faq/10578).

"How are indigenous peoples distinguished from others?” the ethnographer asks. What does this term refer to? Is it just an updating of the now outdated Russian term "tuzemnost’” and what do suggested replacements like "autochthonian, aboriginal, or indigenous” add or contribute to our understanding?

These terms are synonyms "but not complete” ones, and that ...

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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 20, 2013

Window on Eurasia: Moscow Mufti Says Russia Could Have a Muslim President by 2050

Paul Goble

Staunton, March 20 – Damir Mukhetdinov, the first deputy chairman of the Union of Muftis of Russia, says that demographic trends mean that Russia could have its first Muslim president by mid-century, a reflection of demographic trends among Russia’s nationalities and the influx of Muslims from Central Asia and the Caucasus.

Mukhetdinov’s prediction, first aired on Golos Rossii last Friday and being repeated by many other sites yesterday and today, is certain to be disputed by both demographers and politicians, but it is sufficiently plausible to frighten Russians across the political spectrum and increase opposition to new mosques and support for a visa regime with Central Asia (nazaccent.ru/content/7174-zampred-soveta-muftiev-v-2050-godu.html).

Making demographic projections so far into the future is extremely difficult. Mukhetdinov’s notion certainly reflects his view that immigration from Central Asia and the Caucasus will continue and that non-Russian and predominantly Muslim groups will continue to grow faster than the Russian ...

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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 20, 2013

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Paul Goble

Staunton, March 20 – The Congress of Peoples of Udmurtia has called for the creation of republic-level Magnitsky-type list to prevent those in the Russian government who have violated its rights from entering that Middle Volga republic, an intriguing declaration that is unlikely to be adopted there but may prompt non-Russian groups elsewhere to demand the same thing.

Twelve days ago, the Congress of Peoples of Udmurtia came out in support of what many call "the Magnitsky List” compiled by Washington and including Russian officials involved in Magnitsky’s death and more generally in the violation of the human rights of people in the Russian Federation (udmcongress.blogspot.ru/2013/03/blog-post_8.html).

Similar actionshave been taken or promised by other countries, and the Congress says such "restrictions are undoubtedly necessary. It is an effective measure” and one that Udmurtia should support and extend by coming up with its own list of Russian officials who have violated the rights of Udmurt residents and thus should not be allowed to enter ...

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Window on Eurasia: Support Grows for Establishing a Third Russian Capital in Siberia

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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 20, 2013

Window on Eurasia: Support Grows for Establishing a Third Russian Capital in Siberia

Paul Goble

Staunton, March 20 – Ninety-five years ago this week, Vladimir Lenin shifted the Soviet capital from Petrograd to Moscow in order to protect his regime. In the last decade, Vladimir Putin has shifted certain central government functions back to Petersburg to reward his native city which has always defined itself as the country’s "northern capital.”

Now, an ever-growing chorus of Russian commentators and even politicians is suggesting that many of the Russian Federation’s current difficulties could more effectively addressed if the country were to create a third capital east of the Urals or at the very least transfer some functions currently being performed in Moscow.

Yesterday, the Rex news agency, which was created by Modest Kolerov, noted that "proposals about shifting the capital to Siberia or returning it to St. Petersburg, at least to disperse Moscow agencies beyond the ring road to several cities of Russia are constantly being made” in ...

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Window on Eurasia: ‘Rossiyane’ Strengthens Russian Nation; ‘Russia for the Russians’ Harms It, Goryanin Says

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MONDAY, MARCH 18, 2013

Window on Eurasia: ‘Rossiyane’ Strengthens Russian Nation; ‘Russia for the Russians’ Harms It, Goryanin Says

Paul Goble

Staunton, March 18 – The use of the term "Rossiyane” for all the citizens of the Russian Federation will strengthen the Russian nation while paradoxically, historian and liberal nationalist Aleksandr Goryanin argues, the promotion of the slogan "Russia for the Russians” will harm the nation and quite possibly destroy the country.

In an interview with Aleksey Polubota of "Svobodnaya pressa” that was posted online on Friday, Goryanin, who has sometimes described himself as "a paradoxical nationalist,” advances this and other arguments in support of his controversial contention that being a "liberal doesn’t mean [being] a Russophobe” as many Russian nationalists think (svpressa.ru/society/article/65509/).

Faced with an influx of migrants from Central Asia and the Caucasus, many Russians are attracted to the slogan "Russia for the Russians,” Goryanin says, but most of them do not mean that the country should be "exclusively for the [ethnic] Russians” but rather that Russians should ...

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