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Window on Eurasia: Russians Want Stability Even If Things Are Not Going Well, Polls Show

posted by eagle on April, 2013 as ANALYSIS / OPINION

Monday, April 15, 2013

Window on Eurasia: Russians Want Stability Even If Things Are Not Going Well, Polls Show

Paul Goble

Staunton, April 15 – In January 1917, Lenin thought that he and members of the older generation of revolutionaries might not live to see a revolution but by the end of that year, he and the Bolsheviks were in power in Petrograd. Now, the Russian opposition believes that there must be radical change, but polls suggest that most Russians don’t agree with them.

Instead, Gennady Gudkov, an opposition figure himself, argues in today’s "Moskovsky komsomolets,” the Russian people want stability and continuity even if the trends are bad, a pattern that explains the Kremlin’s optimism about its ability to survive for many years to come and requires that the optimism revise its optimism and timetable for change.

"For all thinking people in Russia it is clear that the need for change in the country’s leadership is becoming the main social trend,” Gudkov observes, but polls show that there is ...

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Window on Eurasia: What Public Activism Looks Like Outside of Moscow – the Urals Federal District

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Monday, April 15, 2013

Window on Eurasia: What Public Activism Looks Like Outside of Moscow – the Urals Federal District

Paul Goble

Staunton, April 15 – During the last week alone, workers at a Sverdlovsk factory have organized a hunger strike, citizens of one city are locked in conflict with their mayor, Tyumen officials have attacked company administrators, and local communists have become concerned with air defense, according to a survey of events in the Urals Federal District.

This list, prepared by the UralPolit.ru new agency, is presented with additional details on public activism in the Urals region in what that media outlet describes as its "Map of Conflicts of the Urals Federal District” (uralpolit.ru/news/conflict_map/investigations/1366031975-karta-konfliktov-urfo-novye-golodovki-na-srednem-urale-chelyabinskie-dorozhnye-voiny).

What makes this compilation of seven cases of public activism outside of the Russian capital especially useful is that the news agency presents each case according to a common format, defining the sides involved in the particular dispute, the conflict itself, and the assessment of local experts. Three of these cases are especially noteworthy.

The first ...

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Window on Eurasia: Russian Translations of Koran Continue to Play a Large Role in Former Soviet Space

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Monday, April 15, 2013

Window on Eurasia: Russian Translations of Koran Continue to Play a Large Role in Former Soviet Space

Paul Goble

Staunton, April 15 – Because more than a quarter of the 300 million people who speak Russian as first or second language are Muslims, Russian-language translations play an enormous role in the religious life of the faithful not only in the Russian Federation but across the former Soviet space.

In the new issue of "Medina al-Islam,” Mikhail Yakubovich, who himself has done a translation of the Koran, begins by pointing to the continuing impact of the Russian-language translation of the Koran prepared by Ignaty Krachkovsky in 1963, an edition that has since gone through more than 37 editions totaling at least two million copies (idmedina.ru/medina/?5341).

Krachkovsky’s was neither the first nor the last such publication in Russia and its neighbors. There were five Russian-language editions of the Koran issued before the Bolshevik revolution, and there have been 14 since that time, one in Gorbachev’s time and 13 since ...

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Window on Eurasia: Moscow Steps Up Efforts to Reclaim Russian Church Property Abroad

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Saturday, April 13, 2013

Window on Eurasia: Moscow Steps Up Efforts to Reclaim Russian Church Property Abroad

Paul Goble

Staunton, April 13 –Russian Orthodox churches constructed abroad before 1917 belonged to the Russian state, lawyers say, and consequently, as a recent French decision about the Orthodox Cathedral in Nice confirms, the Russian government has every right to reclaim all of them as its state property, a Russian activist in France argues.

Such an expansive reading of the Nice decision suggests that some in Russian church and political circles believe they can increase their efforts to gain control of these churches, efforts that would further weaken independent Russian Orthodox congregations abroad and give Moscow control of some extremely valuable real estate in key cities around the world.

On Wednesday, a French appeals court ruled in favor of the Russian government’s claim that it and not the Orthodox congregation at Nice is the legal owner of the St. Nicholas Cathedral in that southern French city, thus apparently ending a decade of controversy ...

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Window on Eurasia: Putin Promises to Support Russia’s Buddhists ‘100 Percent’

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Friday, April 12, 2013

Window on Eurasia: Putin Promises to Support Russia’s Buddhists ‘100 Percent’

Paul Goble

Staunton, April 12 – Saying that he was proud that Russia is the only country in Europe where Buddhism is officially recognized as a traditional religion, President Vladimir Putin told the leaders of the two million followers of that tradition yesterday that he and the Russian government will back that community "100 percent.”

During his tour of the Trans-Baikal region, Putin visited the Ivolgin datsan, the seat of the Buddhist Spiritual Directorate the Soviets in 1946 to represent the Buddhists of Buryatia, Kalmykia, and Tuva as well as other regions and met with Damba Ayushev, who serves as the head of that body (sangharussia.ru/news/detail.php?ID=11251).

The Russian president praised Russia’s Buddhists for helping others in both their "grief and joy,” noting that it was "well known how Buddhists helped during the First and Second World Wars,” and he expressed regret that they suffered in Soviet times "just as other confessions did but always remained ...

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