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NOVEMBER 2010


Window On Eurasia: Greatest Threats To Russian National Security Are Domestic Not Foreign, Academy Of Sciences Says

posted by eagle on November, 2010 as ANALYSIS / OPINION


TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Window on Eurasia: Greatest Threats to Russian National Security are Domestic Not Foreign, Academy of Sciences Says

Paul Goble

Staunton, November 29 – Corruption in the bureaucracy, the exhaustion of industrial plant, demographic decline, and the preservation of the raw materials export model of development are "the basic threats” to the national security of the Russian Federation, according to a survey of experts conducted by the Institute of Sociology of the Academy of Sciences.
Together with the Friedrich Ebert Foundation in Russia, specialists at the Moscow institute queried 131 scholars, public figures, and officials of national security agencies concerning their views about the national security threats Russia now faces. In the report, they are called "theoreticians, social figures, and government employees.”
While they were asked to rate the current level of security, the ability of the government to deal with particular threats, and the prospects for improving the situation, few of the experts, Alfia Yenikeyeva reports on STRF.ru concluded that the situation was either "good” or ...

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Window On Eurasia: Stavropol Clash Shows Russians Can No Longer Depend On Officials To Protect Them, Nationalists Say

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TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Window on Eurasia: Stavropol Clash Shows Russians Can No Longer Depend on Officials to Protect Them, Nationalists Say

Paul Goble

Staunton, November 29 – The violent clash between Chechens and Cossacks in Zelenokumsk in Stavropol over the weekend, a fight set off by an attempted rape and one that involved wounds from an exchange of gunfire, has further exacerbated tensions between ethnic Russians and "persons of Caucasus nationality” across the Russian Federation.
On the one hand, it has led many to conclude that "a second Kondopoga” – a reference to the clashes in Karelia four years ago – is possible in any region of Russia where there are Caucasus migrant workers and their families (www.kavkaz-uzel.ru/articles/177700/ and ruskline.ru/news_rl/2010/11/29/komu_zahochetsya_imet_u_sebya_v_regione_vtoruyu_kondopogu/).
And on the other, and far more seriously, it has led an increasing number of anti-immigrant Russian nationalist groups like the Movement Against Illegal Immigration (DPNI) to declare that officials can no longer be trusted to control the situation and that Russians must take things into their own hands ...

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Moscow Times: 5 Reasons Why Russia Will Never Join NATO

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5 Reasons Why Russia Will Never Join NATO


On Sept. 22 in New York, the NATO-Russia Council met for the first time after ties were severed in the aftermath of the Russia-Georgia war of 2008. On the eve of the meeting, Ivo Daalder, U.S. ambassador to NATO, dropped a hint about future NATO membership for Russia. While referring to Article 10 of the alliance’s charter, which says NATO membership is open to any European country, he stressed that this article certainly applies to Russia — as long as it meets the alliance’s requirements. Former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, head of a panel working on a new mission statement for NATO, and former NATO Secretary-General George Robertson have also supported the idea of working toward NATO membership for Russia. In addition, Igor Yurgens, head of the liberal Institute for Contemporary Development think tank, has said repeatedly that NATO membership is in Russia’s best interests.

Unfortunately, this is all wishful thinking. There are five main ...


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Moscow Times: Government Brushes Off U.S. Leaks

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Government Brushes Off U.S. Leaks



Christian Charisius / Reuters

A customer buying Der Spiegel at a kiosk Monday in Hamburg, Germany.

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The government on Monday shrugged off embarrassing details about how U.S. officials described Russia's leaders in secret diplomatic cables published by the WikiLeaks whistle-blowing web site together with select media outlets.

"We found nothing interesting or deserving comment in the material," Kremlin spokeswoman Natalya Timakova told reporters, adding that "fictional Hollywood heroes hardly need comment."

In one cable, which was only quoted by news agencies including Reuters, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin is dubbed the country's "alpha-dog" ruler, while President Dmitry Medvedev is belittled as "playing Robin to Putin's Batman," in a reference to the superheroes from the legendary U.S. comic book series.

Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov called the documents "entertaining trash" but denied that they posed a threat to relations with Washington. "Regarding real politics we prefer to go by our partners' concrete deeds," Lavrov told reporters in Delhi, Interfax reported.

Earlier, news agencies citied a Foreign Ministry source as saying ...


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RFE/RL: Abkhaz, South Ossetian Officials Dismiss Georgian President's Assurances

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Abkhaz, South Ossetian Officials Dismiss Georgian President's Assurances

Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili told the European Parliament in Strasbourg he was prepared for direct talks with the Kremlin.

Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili told the European Parliament in Strasbourg he was prepared for direct talks with the Kremlin.

November 28, 2010
Senior officials in the breakaway regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia have reacted with skepticism to Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili's November 23 pledge not to resort to military force to bring those regions back under the control of the Georgian central government.

The Russian Foreign Ministry has said it will give credence to Saakashvili's assurances only after they are committed to paper and thus acquire legal force. Meanwhile, the Abkhaz authorities have launched an apparent new bid to reassure and win the trust of the breakaway region's Georgian community.

Commenting on Saakashvili's speech to the European Parliament, de facto Abkhaz Foreign Minister Maksim Gvinjia recalled that "over the past 18 years Georgia has never once demonstrated positive intentions with regard to Abkhazia." For that reason, Gvinjia said, "for us, Saakashvili's statement does not constitute a ...

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