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MARCH 2013

Window on Eurasia: Without an Inspiring Project, Russia Will Disintegrate, Moscow Scholar Says

posted by eagle on March, 2013 as ANALYSIS / OPINION

THURSDAY, MARCH 14, 2013

Paul Goble

Staunton, March 14 – Unless Russia’s "ruling class” comes up with a sufficiently grandiose project capable to inspire the population and give it a new "passionate impulse,” there is little chance that the country will remain "a unified state,” according to a scholar at the Presidential Academy of Economics and State Service.

In an essay in "Yezhednevny zhurnal” yesterday, Ivan Starikov, an economics professor there, argues that Russia has lost its way and that it does not have a "well-thought-out project of it national-state future even for the middle term,” a lack that is leading its regions not to look to Moscow but to foreign states (ej.ru/?a=note&id=12741).

For the last "quarter of a century,” he continues, "Russian civilization has been living in a complex of national defeat and deepening depression.” And it won’t be rescued from that by any Olympic Games or any other international competition, however much PR experts will promote them.

Starikov points to five reasons for his conclusion: "the erosion of the central Russian ...

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Window on Eurasia: At Putin’s Order, FSB Now Using Social Networks to Target Opposition

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TUESDAY, MARCH 12, 2013

Window on Eurasia: At Putin’s Order, FSB Now Using Social Networks to Target Opposition

Paul Goble

Staunton, March 12 – At the direction of President Vladimir Putin, the FSB is not only monitoring social networks but using one of their features to create problems for those opponents of the regime who use them by posting statements on their sites and then invoking the appearance of those materials to intimidate or even bring charges against them.

This disturbing new development is documented by Irina Borogan, a researcher on Russia’s security services who writes for the Agentura.ru site. In an article last week entitled "Social Networks as a Field for Provocations,” she describes how FSB has begun to operate in this regard (agentura.ru/projects/identification/provocation/).

When Putin met with the FSB leadership a month ago, Borogan says, he called on the security service to act "decisively to block the attempts of radicals to use the possibilities of information technologies and he resources of the Internet and social networks for their propaganda (kremlin.ru/transcripts/17516).

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Window on Eurasia: Liberal, Soviet Approaches to Nationality Issues ‘Very Similar,’ Orthodox Activist Says

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TUESDAY, MARCH 12, 2013

Paul Goble

Staunton, March 12 – The current liberal approach to nationality issues is "very close” to the one the Soviet system promoted with its idea of the "Soviet people,” because like the Soviets, Russia’s liberals want to create a supra-ethnic community, the ‘Rossiyane,’ in which all ethnic distinctions including Russian will eventually dissolve, according to an Orthodox activist.

In both cases, Anatoly Stepanov, the editor of the "Russkaya Narodnaya Liniya” portal, argues in the course of an interview with Alesey Polubota of "Svobodnaya pressa,” these policies are directed in the first instance against the ethnic Russians and reflect the fear the bureaucracy feel about the Russian nation (svpressa.ru/society/article/65216/).

And Stepanov, whose portal pushes an Orthodox Russian nationalist agenda, argues that if the ruler of the country understands Russians correctly, as he believes President Vladimir Putin is beginning to, he will see that the nature of the Russian nation is intertwined with that of the Russian state as such and that the enemy of both ...

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Russian Urban Centers Might Be Target for Next Muslim Riots

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Russian Urban Centers Might Be Target for Next Muslim Riots

Publication: Eurasia Daily Monitor Volume: 10 Issue: 44

March 8, 2013 02:21 PM

By: Mairbek Vatchagaev

Police in Novokuznetsk prevent Russian nationalist clashes with Muslims, March 5 (Source: islamnews.ru)

On March 2, Federal Security Service (FSB) personnel in St. Petersburg arrested members of the Nurjular organization, which in 2008 was designated as an extremist group by the Russian Supreme Court and outlawed (http://ru.apa.az/news/242585). Five citizens of Russia, four citizens of Azerbaijan and one citizen of Turkmenistan were arrested in the special operation in the St. Petersburg region. According to government officials, Nurjular was financially supporting Chechen militants and maintained close connections to radical Islamists in Turkey (www.ntv.ru/novosti/500596/). This wording indicates that the government agencies behind the arrests did not bother to provide a plausible explanation for their actions and simply offered a random pretext. It is hard to imagine anyone from St. Petersburg being able to finance the Chechen rebels. This explanation was apparently meant for the majority of the Russian ...

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Window on Eurasia: 30 Years On, Reagan’s ‘Evil Empire’ Speech Still Relevant, Russians Say

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FRIDAY, MARCH 8, 2013

Window on Eurasia: 30 Years On, Reagan’s ‘Evil Empire’ Speech Still Relevant, Russians Say

Paul Goble

Staunton, March 8 – Thirty years ago today, President Ronald Reagan introduced the term, "evil empire,” to describe the nature of the USSR, a term that helped change the way people around the world saw that entity, contributed to its demise, but despite all these changes remains relevant to this day, according to Russian commentators.

On March 8, President Reagan delivered a speech to an Orlando, Florida, meeting of the National Association of Evangelicals in which he described the Soviet Union as an "empire of evil” and said the West’s struggle with it was a moral one rather than simply a military competition and that a country committed to the defeat of evil must continue.

In his memoirs, Reagan said that "for too long, our leaders were incapable of describing exactly what the Soviet Union was. People involved in our foreign policy, in other words, liberal experts, the State Department and ...

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