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Window on Eurasia: 70 Major Russian Company Towns Dying, Moscow Experts Say

posted by eagle on April, 2013 as ANALYSIS / OPINION

Monday, April 8, 2013

Window on Eurasia: 70 Major Russian Company Towns Dying, Moscow Experts Say

Paul Goble

Staunton, April 8 – Nearly one in every three Russians– some 24.5 million people—lives in a company town facing serious economic and demographic decline, with 68 of these 799 places rated as being high risk of complete depopulation unless a new five-year government program can reverse that trend, something that most Moscow specialists judge unlikely.

In an article on the "Svobodnaya pressa” portal yesterday, Vitaly Slovetsky says that Moscow has divided these company towns, known in Russian as "monogorody” into three categories: red for the most endangers, yellow, and green. Sixty-eight of them fall into the highest risk group (svpressa.ru/society/article/66459/).

He cites the findings of the Moscow Center for Problem Analysis and State-Administration Projections (rusrand.ru/mission/result/result_806.html) that unemployment in many of these places is about 30 percent, four times the level of the country as a whole, a reflection of the general "economic degradation of contemporary Russia.”

In some of these company towns, unemployment is much ...

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Window on Eurasia: Moscow Must Prepare for Syria-Type War in the North Caucasus, Former MVD Officer Says

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Wednesday, April 3, 2013

Window on Eurasia: Moscow Must Prepare for Syria-Type War in the North Caucasus, Former MVD Officer Says

Paul Goble

Staunton, April 3 – Moscow has finally recognized that "the seizure of power in Syria by radical Islamic groups inevitably will lead to the growth of tensions in the North Caucasus” and the exacerbation of conflicts there because of the number of North Caucasians who are fighting with the Syrian opposition, according to a former Russian interior ministry officer.

Evidence gathered by the Izborsky Club during its visit to Damascus last month shows, Oleg Ivannikov, now a leader of the Russian Public Foundation for the Support of Law and Order, that North Caucasians now in Syria, in the event of victory there, will make their homeland their next "target” (ostkraft.ru/ru/articles/480).

Indeed, the former MVD official says, the graffiti these fighters have written on the walls of Syrian buildings leaves no doubt that their "main motivation for participating in the Syrian events” is to gain experience and support ...

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Window on Eurasia: Yevkurov Creates Systems to Help Ingush Adapt to Russian Army and Russian Cities

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Wednesday, April 3, 2013

Window on Eurasia: Yevkurov Creates Systems to Help Ingush Adapt to Russian Army and Russian Cities

Paul Goble

Staunton, April 3 – Ingushetia President Yunus-Bek Yevkurov is quietly setting up committees of soldiers’ fathers to help Ingush draftees cope with the rigors of the Russian military and a network of republic representations to smooth relations between Ingushetianss working in Russian cities and regions.

In a 4500-word interview posted online yesterday and more likely to attract attention for his remarks about possible links between his officials and militant groups, Yevkurov elaborates about these two new sets of arrangements that, if successful, are likely to be copied by other North Caucaus leaders (scienceport.ru/news/Intervyu-prezidenta-respubliki-Ingushetiya-YUnus-Beka-Evkurova-korrespondentu-portala-Nauka-i-obrazovanie-protiv-terrora-7764.html).

Like his counterparts, the Ingushetia president has been pushing hard for the Russian army to re-open its ranks to more men from his republic despite opposition of Russian commanders because of the reputation that North Caucasians currently have for causing problems there.

Yevkurov said that he had met with the chief of the Russian General Staff in ...

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Window on Eurasia: Ethnic Russians in Uzbekistan Under Pressure to Leave

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Wednesday, April 3, 2013

Window on Eurasia: Ethnic Russians in Uzbekistan Under Pressure to Leave

Paul Goble

Staunton, April 3 – The approximately 900,000 ethnic Russians still living in Uzbekistan feel themselves to be "second or even third-class” residents of that Central Asian country and thus under increasing pressure to leave, according to new journalistic investigations reported in the Moscow media this week.

In an article posted on the "Svobodnaya pressa” site yesterday under the title "Who Will Save the Uzbek Russians?” Vitaly Slovetsky suggests that most of the Russians in Uzbekistan are now in such a desperate situation that they dream only of the day when they will be able to return to the Russian Federation (svpressa.ru/society/article/66300/).

They increasingly are fired without cause or explanation, lose their apartments, and face prison if they make any "attempt to raise the issue about the status of ethnic Russians” in that Central Asian state, the Moscow journalist says. Many left for political reasons after 1991 and for economic reasons later, but now ...

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Window on Eurasia: ‘Aggressive Clerical Groups’ Seen Replacing ‘Nashi’ as Kremlin’s Preferred Youth Arm

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MONDAY, APRIL 1, 2013

Window on Eurasia: ‘Aggressive Clerical Groups’ Seen Replacing ‘Nashi’ as Kremlin’s Preferred Youth Arm

Paul Goble

Staunton, April 1 – As the Putin regime has evolved toward "a more harsh authoritarianism,” the Kremlin is preparing to downgrade the role of the "Nashi” youth movement in favor of "more ideological and aggressive” Orthodox groups that will oppose both liberals and the extra-systemic opposition, according to a Moscow commentator.

In an article posted on the Voice of Russia website on Saturday, Tatyana Stanovaya traces the history of the notorious Nashi organization and its relations with the Kremlin and suggests that while Vladimir Putin may keep that group in reserve, he and his supporters are now looking elsewhere (ehorussia.ru/new/node/7493).

The Nashi organization was established in 2005 in order to "oppose a hypothetical ‘color revolution’ in Russia,” something the Kremlin at the time very much feared because of the developments in Georgia and Ukraine. It was "generously financed,” mostly out of the pockets of oligarch, and quickly rose to prominence.

"Many ...

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