The Other Russia: Ilyumzhinov’s Game – For The Benefit Of The Elites
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posted by eagle on June, 2010 as ANALYSIS / OPINION
June 9th, 2010 • Related • Filed UnderWhile not commonly thought of as particularly controversial, the politics of world chess made international headlines late last month when a Kremlin aide hired a private security force to raid the offices of the Russian Chess Federation, evict its chairman, and seal off its accounting books. The move came a week after the Federation nominated chess grandmaster Anatoly Karpov, backed by opposition leader and longtime chess rival Garry Kasparov, as a candidate for the presidency of the World Chess Federation. The incumbent, Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, is the multi-millionaire president of Russia’s autonomous Republic of Kalmykia. Among other things, Ilyumzhinov is famous for declaring an "economic dictatorship” and claiming to have been visited by aliens. What exactly the stakes are in this unlikely scandal is the topic explored in this column written for Grani.ru by Russian political analyst Stanislav Belkovsky. The column is also available in Spanish.
Ilyumzhinov’s Game – For the Benefit of the Elites
By Stanislav Belkovsky
May 24, 2010
Grani.ru Another striking move was made the other day in ...
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Window On Eurasia: Ever More Russian Businessmen Choosing To Leave Russia Permanently
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posted by eagle on as ANALYSIS / OPINION
Paul Goble
Staunton, June 13 – Not only are ever more Russian businessmen sending their capital and their children abroad, but an increasing number are choosing to leave the Russian Federation themselves, a development that will add to Moscow’s current difficulties in overcoming the current economic crisis and promoting the development of the country.
Two weeks ago, an Internet user challenged President Dmitry Medvedev by saying that "85 percent of Russian businessmen are ‘sitting on their suitcases,’” a description that the Russian leader suggested was untrue but one that Moscow’s "New Times” decided to investigate (newtimes.ru/articles/detail/22536).
What the independent weekly found shows that if the situation is not as dire as the blogger suggested, it is far worse that Medvedev and the powers that be appear to believe and reflects the view of many working in Russian business that it is better to sell and leave than to deal with corruption and political controls.
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Window On Eurasia: Popular Backing Of ‘Primorsky Partisans’ Bears A Frightening Message For Moscow, Analysts Say
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posted by eagle on as ANALYSIS / OPINION
Paul Goble
Staunton, June 14 – The actions of the six men who have become known as "the Primorsky partisans” by themselves represented no real threat beyond their locality, but what popular reaction to them has been says about the current situation in the Russian Federation should be a matter of utmost concern.
Since the events in Primorsky kray at the end of May – for a chronology of them, see www.dpni.org/articles/lenta_novo/15891/ -- Russian commentators and officials both in the print and electronic media have been trying to make sense of them with descriptions ranging from an anomic outburst of violence to the beginning of a radical revolutionary movement.
But in the last two weeks, most mainstream writers have focused less on the actions of "the partisans” than on how people in the region and across Russia have reacted to them and have concluded that these reactions are far more ...
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The Fact About The Russian Occupation Of Circassia
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posted by eagle on as ANALYSIS / OPINION
The Fact About The Russian Occupation Of Circassia
Invading Russian troops came to occupy the Circassian land in beloved Caucasus, as if occupying a land without people, even with the encounter that there are people living there, which is not their right to live in the Caucasus and always according to the imperial logic! They've had to either die or live servile subjugated under the yoke of Russian colonial rule or leave compulsorily, that after homeland was destroyed through tampering its wreck havoc, the burning of villages, towns, farms, homes and their seizure, looting commodities and public and private properties, as the repressive authorities backed by barbaric forces created by the rape and occupation to try to erase history by committing acts of murder, ethnic cleansing and genocide by the regular soldiers of the Russian army in collaboration with the mercenaries, hired-individuals, and agents, and based on the orders issued by the command headquarters, commanders and the Russian officers.
Innocent citizens and peaceful population were displaced and put in ... >> full
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Window On Eurasia: Russia To Face ‘Cadres Hunger’ By 2025, New Study Concludes
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posted by eagle on as ANALYSIS / OPINION
Paul Goble
Vienna, June 6 – Even as President Dmitry Medvedev presented awards to women with large families and welcomed a small uptick in the birthrate, a major Moscow study has concluded that Russia’s demographic decline is having an increasing impact on its workforce and that by 2025, Moscow will have to find ways to cope with a serious case of "cadres hunger.”
According to research prepared by the business advisory group ANKOR, the population of Russia will decline by some 20 million people and as a result the country will suffer from "cadres hunger,” unable to fill not only basic workforce positions but key jobs needed to keep the economy operating (www.nr2.ru/rus/285938.html).
There is already a problem in this regard, ANKOR concludes, given that many employers need more highly qualified cadres than the higher educational institutions of Russia are currently producing, with the situation especially acute in outlying regions from which the ...
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