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Window on Eurasia: Israeli Expert Proposes New Federal Districts for the North Caucasus

posted by eagle on March, 2013 as ANALYSIS / OPINION

MONDAY, MARCH 18, 2013

Window on Eurasia: Israeli Expert Proposes New Federal Districts for the North Caucasus

Paul Goble

Staunton, March 18 – No one is especially happy with the borders of Russia’s North Caucasus Federal District and at least one region, Stavropol, is currently seeking to leave it. No one in Moscow currently appears to have a plan for change, but an Israeli expert on the region is proposing what might be done to improve the situation.

Because Vladimir Putin has called for the amalgamation of Russia’s federal subjects and because the federal district in which the North Caucasus republics have been changed twice over the last decade, the atmosphere for such proposals, even from abroad, is more favorable than it was when the author of this note suggested border changes for the South Caucasus in 1992.

At the very least, the analysis behind this new proposal helps to clarify the nature of the problems in the region and the choices Moscow faces if it hopes to improve the ...

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Window on Eurasia: Stalin’s ‘Kurdish Project’ Recalled by Moscow Blogger

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SUNDAY, MARCH 17, 2013

Window on Eurasia: Few Russians Want to Identify as Putin Wants Them To, Survey Suggests

Paul Goble

Staunton, March 17 – More than 90 percent of ethnic Russians taking part in an online survey do not want to identify as "Rossiyane,” the non-ethnic civic identity President Vladimir Putin has been promoting as the primary self-designator for citizens of the Russian Federation, preferring instead to identify as ethnic Russians or members of other nationalities.

This survey does not necessarily reflect opinion in the country as a whole because only those who visited this site had a chance to participate and those who voted were self-selected, but it is an indication that the Kremlin faces an uphill fight in its efforts to get citizens of the Russian Federation to adopt a civic rather than an ethnic identity (nr2.ru/moskow/428755.html).

Between March 12 and March 14, visitors to the Novy Region site were asked where "you agree to become a ‘Rossiyanin’ [a non-ethnic designation for a citizen of the Russian ...

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Window on Eurasia: Stalin’s ‘Kurdish Project’ Recalled by Moscow Blogger

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SUNDAY, MARCH 17, 2013

Window on Eurasia: Stalin’s ‘Kurdish Project’ Recalled by Moscow Blogger

Paul Goble

Staunton, March 17 – As tensions rise concerning Syria, Iran and the Caucasus, a Moscow blogger has recalled the murky history of Stalin’s attempt to use the Kurds to promote Soviet geopolitical interests in the Middle East, an attempt that became one of the first flashpoints in the Cold War.

In a post on his new blog Yasen-Krasen.ru yesterday, the Moscow blogger, who has adopted the screen name "Azazel” provides a brief synopsis of Moscow’s Kurdish policy during the 1940s and early 1950s, the motivations behind this policy, and the reasons it ultimately failed (yasen-krasen.ru/Kurdskij_Proekt_Iosifa_Stalina.html).

Throughout World War II, the blogger points out, the USSR considered Turkey to be "a potential opponent” largely because Turkey signed a friendship and cooperation treaty with Nazi Germany four days before the latter attacked the Soviet Union. Soviet commanders at the time were convinced that Turkey might launch an attack in the Caucasus in support of Germany.

Moscow’s concerns ...

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Window on Eurasia: Russia’s Muslims Willy-Nilly Becoming International Actors, Lezgin Leader Says

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SUNDAY, MARCH 17, 2013

Window on Eurasia: Russia’s Muslims Willy-Nilly Becoming International Actors, Lezgin Leader Says

Paul Goble

Staunton, March 17 – Often despite their own desires, Russia’s Muslim nations are becoming international actors, the result of the impact of events in the Middle East and globalizing trends from the West and of their status as peoples who now find themselves divided by state borders, according to a leader of the Lezgin community of the Russian Federation.

Speaking last week to the Russian Council of Foreign and Defense Policy on the role of Muslims in Russian foreign policy, a session that attracted senior Russian diplomats, scholars, and activists, Ruslan Kurbanov, vice president of the Russian Federation of Lezgin National Autonomies, described this development (flnka.ru/main/1652-mid-svop-i-flnka.html).

The meeting of this influential non-governmental organization was in fact called, other speakers said, because "since the beginning of the 21^st century, the Muslim peoples of the world in all their ethnic and national multiplicity … are ever more becoming the subjects” of policy and not just ...

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Window on Eurasia: Circassians Unite in Defense of Their Language, Culture and Nation

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SATURDAY, MARCH 16, 2013

Window on Eurasia: Circassians Unite in Defense of Their Language, Culture and Nation

Paul Goble

Staunton, March 16 – Officials and activists from the three Circassian republics of the North Caucasus (Kabardino-Balkaria, Karachayevo-Cherkessia, and Adygeya) and representatives of the Circassian diaspora abroad have agreed on a set of measures to defend their common national language and culture.

That agreement, announced at the end of a meeting this week in the KBR capital of Nalchik, represents a major breakthrough for a community that has often been rent by political divisions, some from within and others promoted by outsiders, and could lead to broader agreement on other issues in the future.

To the extent that happens, the half-million Circassians within the Russian Federation, whom the Soviets divided into a series of nationalities including Adygs, Cherkess, Kabards and Shapsugs, would be able to draw on the influence of the more than five million Circassians living in Turkey, the Middle East and Europe and to challenge Moscow in a variety ...

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