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Window on Eurasia: Russia Must Be ‘for All Those Who Don’t View Its State Interests as Alien,’ Kholmogorov Says

posted by eagle on April, 2013 as ANALYSIS / OPINION

Monday, April 22, 2013

Window on Eurasia: Russia Must Be ‘for All Those Who Don’t View Its State Interests as Alien,’ Kholmogorov Says

Paul Goble

Staunton, April 22 – Like many Russian nationalists, Egor Kholmogorov has struggled to define the slogan "Russia for the Russians” in a way that will not spark the disintegration of the Russian Federation by alienating non-Russian groups, and he has now offered one: Russia must be a country "for all those who do not view the interests of the Russian state as alien.”

In an interview conducted by Aleksey Polubota for "Svobodnaya pressa, Kholmogorov, who edits the "Russky obozrevatel’” portal, Kholmogorov argues that the slogan, "Russia for the Russians,” is neither extremist nor insulting to non-Russians if it is understood correctly (svpressa.ru/politic/article/67026/).

The slogan does not exclude the Tatars. For them and for all the other non-Russian peoples, "Russia is for everyone who does not view the interests of the Russian state as alien” to themselves but who understand that "Russia is a state which ...

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Window on Eurasia: Boston Events Prove Putin ‘Absolutely Right,’ Moscow Commentator Says

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Friday, April 19, 2013

Window on Eurasia: Boston Events Prove Putin ‘Absolutely Right,’ Moscow Commentator Says

Paul Goble

Staunton, April 19 – Even before the dust settles in Boston, a Moscow commentator who has frequently anticipated and then echoed the views of the Kremlin is seeking to make political capital out of this horrific event by insisting that it shows that "Putin has been absolutely right” in his criticism of the West’s positions on the North Caucasus and the Middle East.

In a post picked up by the Ekho Moskvy site, Sergey Markov, a member of Russia’s Social Chamber, said that if current reports about Boston are correct then they are "clear evidence” Vladimir Putin has been "absolutely right about the impermissibility of supporting terrorist groupings when it suits Washington” (echo.msk.ru/blog/sergei_markov/1057010-echo/).

According to Markov, such terrorist groups, having learned from their American supporters then turn their fire on the United States. "The US actively supported Al-Qaeda in the struggle against the USSR, and then Ben Ladin began to kill Americans; it ...

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

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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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