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

posted by eagle on April, 2013 as ANALYSIS / OPINION

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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Window on Eurasia: Putin’s Popular Front has East German Roots, Analyst Suggests

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SUNDAY, MARCH 31, 2013

Window on Eurasia: Putin’s Popular Front has East German Roots, Analyst Suggests

Paul Goble

Staunton, March 31 – Some Russian commentators suggest that the Popular Front Vladimir Putin addressed last week will replace the increasingly unpopular United Russia as the party of power. Others argue it will usher in a new era of Russian politics. And one says its format reflects Putin’s attachment to what he saw while a KGB officer in East Germany.

The debate on this is just beginning, and it is far from clear who is right or whether any final decision has been made about how the Russian president may use the Popular Front format in the future. But two surveys, one in Kavkaz-Uzel.ru, and a second, on KM.ru, provide some initial food for thought (kavkaz-uzel.ru/articles/222157/ and km.ru/v-rossii/2013/03/30/707290-narodnyi-front-eto-imitatsiya-obnovleniya-vlasti).

Mariya Lippman of the Moscow Carnegie Center, told Kavkaz-uzel that given the declining popularity of United Russia, the All-Russian Popular Front "could replace ‘United Russia’ as the ruling force,” with its currently "amorphous organization” becoming "a ...

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Window on Eurasia: Corruption is the Communism of Today, Russian Analyst Says

posted by eagle on March, 2013 as ANALYSIS / OPINION

TUESDAY, MARCH 26, 2013

Window on Eurasia: Corruption is the Communism of Today, Russian Analyst Says

Paul Goble

Staunton, March 26 – For Vladimir Putin’s Russia, corruption is the communism of today, Stanislav Belkovsky argues, and the struggle against it is like the struggle against the CPSU a quarter of a century ago, a battle that will lead to "Perestroika Version Two” and a series of events resembling those that lead to the unraveling of the Soviet Union in 1991.

In an interview posted on the "Osobaya bukhva” portal yesterday, the Moscow commentator argues that "the situation in Russia is repeating the situation of the USSR in 1991,” when because of Vilnius, the closing of a popular television show and "odious cadre changes,” "all expected the triumph of reaction.” But in fact, the outcome was just the reverse (specletter.com/politika/2013-03-25/esli-seichas-my-pereshli-v-pessimisticheskuju-stadiju-perestroiki-znachit-razvjazka-blizka.html).

Many opposition figures today who are extremely pessimistic about the direction Russia is taking under Putin, Belkovsky says, forget "there was exactly the same trend at the end of the 1980s” and ...

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Window on Eurasia: Putin’s Call for a Single History Textbook Recreates Another Soviet Problem, Orthodox Commentator Says

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TUESDAY, MARCH 26, 2013

Window on Eurasia: Putin’s Call for a Single History Textbook Recreates Another Soviet Problem, Orthodox Commentator Says

Paul Goble

Staunton, March 26 –President Vladimir Putin’s call for a single Russian history textbook will inevitably mean that children will hear different versions of the past from the schools than they will hear from their parents, a problem familiar to those who lived under Soviet power but one that few in the Russian Federation have had to worry about.

In a commentary in "Novy sad,” Vladimir Berkhin, who earlier taught history but now heads the Orthodox Predaniye Foundation, raises for the first time in many years the old Soviet-era question: "What is to be done, if parents and the school teach something different” (nsad.ru/articles/edinyj-uchebnik-istorii-chto-delat-esli-roditeli-i-shkola-uchat-raznomu).

Berkhin says that he does not see "anything terrible” in the Kremlin’s plans to introduce a single textbook with a single point of view. Indeed, he says, this is "a manifestation of good sense” on the part of the government because "in order to ...

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