RFE's Luke Allnutt In 'Christian Science Monitor'
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posted by eagle on November, 2010 as ANALYSIS / OPINION
RFE's Luke Allnutt In 'Christian Science Monitor'November 08, 2010 RFE's Luke Allnutt takes a look at Russia' burgeoning internet revolution, and casts doubt on the Kremlin's endorsement of 'direct democracy.' RFE's Luke Allnutt takes a look at Russia' burgeoning internet revolution, and casts doubt on the Kremlin's endorsement of 'direct democracy' through online participation. Read the original at "The Christian Science Monitor." "Russia's 'YouTube Democracy' Is A Sham" Luke Allnutt | The Christian Science Monitor November 5, 2010
PRAGUE, Czech Republic -- With Russians up in arms about police corruption after a series of high-profile scandals, the Kremlin decided it had to do something. So it drafted a new police law and posted the bill on the Internet. The response was overwhelming: more than 20,000 Russians commented on the law, many of them offering detailed suggestions for changes.
This, according to the Kremlin, is the future of governance in Russia. Speaking in May, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said, "I am absolutely confident that there will come an epoch of return from representative democracy to direct democracy with ...
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Window On Eurasia: Russia’s Social Fabric Is Disintegrating, Narochnitskaya Warns
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Window on Eurasia: Russia’s Social Fabric is Disintegrating, Narochnitskaya WarnsPaul Goble
Staunton, November 6 – Russians outside the major cities are undergoing a process of lumpenization, of the loss of all social ties, that is as serious as the destruction of the peasantry of the 1930s and threatens the country’s future development, according to Natalya Narotchnitskaya, head of the Moscow-supported Institute of Democracy and Cooperation in Paris.
In an interview in "Komsomolskaya Pravda,” Narochnitskaya painted a picture of Russia in tones that are even darker than those employed by people she routinely denounces as Russophobes in order to warn her readers that "Russia simply will not survive another revolution” (kp.ru/daily/24583.4/752496/).
Narochnitskaya begins by arguing that it is a mistake to think of Russia as a single homogenous space. "Siberia, the Kuban, Moscow and the Caucasus,” she says, "are different epochs, different cultures, and even different civilizations! We are living at one and the same time in the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries.”
Moreover, she continues, Russians ...
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Zaman: The South Caucasus - in need of new ideas
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posted by circassiankama on as ANALYSIS / OPINION
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The South Caucasus is an unstable and unpredictable hotbed of problems: closed borders, unresolved conflicts, acrimonious neighbors, trafficking and a lack of democratic governance. Unfortunately, it has been given limited attention by the international community and rather too much attention from some others. A decade ago this could have been blamed on a lack of knowledge of the region. Nowadays, it’s more a case of lack of interest, with many in the West not viewing the region as a security threat. They see the continuation of the status quo as acceptable in the complacent belief that it will hold forever. It’s time to wake up because it will not. Lessons that should have been learned from the 2008 war between Georgia and Russia have not hit home. Back then the ... | >> full
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KC: In Case Of Military Unrests, Putin's KGB Regime Would Collapse Like A House Of Cards
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In case of military unrests, Putin's KGB regime would collapse like a house of cardsPublication time: 5 November 2010, 23:13
A Russian Orthodox opposition portal, 3rmInfo, published an interview with a prominent member of the Orthodox community in Moscow, Alexei Dobychın. The Christian activist said: "General Vladislav Achalov and his colleagues gave the oath of loyalty to the People and Fatherland, not to the Communist Party or Democrats, not to the president or the parliament. They vowed to protect the Nation. Vladislav Achalov is a war general who went through several wars and could be killed, probably not once. On what "nodes" is a so-called democratic government based today? In Tsar's Russia there were men faithful to God and the Tsar, but today, fully corrupt servants of Mammon have been appointed in Moscow and provinces. They took power not to serve People and Fatherland, and even Yeltsin, Putin or Medvedev. They came to serve themselves, to fill their pockets and belly. They are highly unreliable. Each of these bloodsuckers would not want not to sacrifice his life for the ...
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CONF./CFP- SOAS Postgrad. Symp. on Central Asia, Caucasus and Eurasia, Feb. 26
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posted by circassiankama on as ANALYSIS / OPINION
CONF./CFP- SOAS Postgrad. Symp. on Central Asia, Caucasus and Eurasia, Feb. 26
Posted by: Sevket Chevy Akyildiz <108857@soas.ac.uk>
School of Oriental and African Studies
2011 Postgraduate Symposium on Central Asia, the Caucasus and Eurasia:
Identity and Economic Development
Call For Papers
Saturday, 26 February 2011 (Room B104. Brunei Gallery, SOAS, Russell
Square, London 10am - 4pm)
The expansive region of Central Asia, the Caucasus and Eurasia allows
for a broad spectrum of topics. This symposium is organized around two
broad themes concerning identity and the economy, with a special focus
on energy.
Speakers are invited to SOAS to speak for approximately 20 minutes on
the themes below and then answer questions.
Identity:
1. People-building, nation-state building studies
2. Ethnic minorities, human rights, citizenship and communities under
Soviet and post-Soviet rule
3. Cultural and socialization topics: media, sport, the arts and folk culture
Economy themes:
1. Natural resources and energy issues
2. International interests in the region's natural resources
3. Business and market operations
Submission deadline: Dec 25, 2010
Please include the following information with all submissions: ... >> full
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