Window On Eurasia: Moscow’s Pro-Natalist Policies Are Working In Chechnya
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posted by eagle on April, 2009 as CHECHNYA
Paul Goble
Vienna, April 14 – Moscow’s pro-natalist policies, including subsidies and offers of housing to those who have more children, are proving highly effective in Chechnya, leading even more couples there to get married and have children, thus boosting still further the already high birthrate in that Muslim republic.
There were 16,200 marriages in the Chechen Republic in 2008, 26 percent more than the year before and an increase that officials there say is the result of the Russian government’s effort to boost the birthrate by offering financial and housing incentives to women who have more than one child (www.regnum.ru/news/fd-south/chechnya/1150008.html).
This result highlights yet another difficulty many governments experience with pro-natalist policies: They often tend to boost birthrates in places where they are already high far more than they increase the number of births elsewhere among groups where fertility rates ...
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RFE/RL: Moscow's Tactics In Chechnya Draw On Stalinist Legacy
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Moscow's Tactics In Chechnya Draw On Stalinist Legacy
Ramzan Kadyrov's image is omnipresent in ChechnyaApril 13, 2009
By Aslan Doukaev Josef Stalin is dead, but there are some places where you would be forgiven for doubting it. Consider, for example, Chechnya, one of Russia's most unstable republics.
The press releases which flood out from the spin center of Ramzan Kadyrov, the region's Moscow-backed strongman, are so steeped in Bolshevik hyperbole that at times, halfway through some particularly egregious passage, you almost expect the mustachioed specter of Stalin to appear and sternly wag its finger at you.
Then again, the Soviet dictator, were he to come back from whichever circle of hell he is in now, would have a hard time competing for the limelight with Chechnya's young and adulation-hungry leader.
Since he became the de facto leader of Chechnya five years ago, Kadyrov has been busily promoting his own cult of personality, and, unlike some Hollywood stars, ...>> full
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PWD/Human Rights Watch: Another Year Of Ramzan Kadyrov
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Another year of Ramzan KadyrovTanya Lokshina
Human Rights Watch
28 March 2009 At the entrance to Grozny, a monument-sized globe stands in splendor with giant red letters running around it: “GROZNY – THE CENTER OF THE WORLD”. This Grozny has nothing in common with its pre-war incarnation or with the horrifying ruins that strangely became so familiar during the long years of war. The new Grozny is bright and flashy: at least its center dazzles with a mishmash of tacky signs and billboards. There are new apartment buildings, fresh paint everywhere, renamed streets, well-swept boulevards, and a pizzeria on every corner. The city’s main attraction is a giant new mosque, built by a Turkish firm, modeled on the old mosques of Istanbul. Its tall minarets pierce the sky, and bright light from street lamps is everywhere. Where on earth could I be? Ramzan Kadyrov ... |
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Prague Watchdog: Bloody Nonsense
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Bloody nonsenseBy German Sadulayev, special to Prague Watchdog St. Petersburg
The custom of blood vengeance is not an invention or characteristic that is peculiar to the Chechens and other Caucasian peoples. Almost all the world’s nations were familiar with this custom during the tribal era, when state power was weak or absent. Blood feuds existed among the Slavs, the Gauls, the Franks, the Britons and the Papuans. There is mention of them in the Russkaya Pravda (the legal code of Kievan Rus), and in the Hebrew Torah. It is obvious that in the days when there were no courts of law this could not be otherwise. The threat of blood vengeance discouraged one’s fellow tribesmen from unnecessary slaughter. But when state power began to gain momentum in society, it inevitably founded its monopoly on punishment, and blood vengeance survived only for a time, as a relic of the tribal ... |
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Window on Eurasia: Kadyrov Adopts Tactical Approach toward Independence of Chechnya
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Paul Goble
Vienna, April 7 – While Ramzan Kadyrov’s flamboyant remarks in an interview published today about Boris Berezovsky’s guilt for the demise of the Soviet Union and his own advocacy of polygamy are already grabbing headlines, the Chechen president’s tactical approach to the question of independence for his republic is certain to be far more disturbing to Moscow.
Not only did Kadyrov insist that he was neither for or against federal forces but rather always sought to reflect the position of his people, but he added that he was a supporter of Chechen independence leader Dzhokhar Dudayev and now opposes the independence of his republic because it is too small to stand on its own and will ultimately run out of oil.
Moreover, his enthusiastic voice of support for Vladimir Putin – “if it weren’t for Putin, then Chechnya ...
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