Prague Watchdog: Let's Combat Tolerance And Mutual Understanding - With A Motor Cavalcade!
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posted by eagle on April, 2009 as ANALYSIS / OPINION
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Let's combat tolerance and mutual understanding - with a motor cavalcade!By German Sadulayev, special to Prague Watchdog St. Petersburg Why? I wondered, after reading several reports in the press about a “Vainakh motor cavalcade” in Moscow, and its natural finale at a police station. The organizers are complaining that a few unruly participants staged a race and a shooting match, disrupting the event and ruining a good idea. I'm puzzled: so why was the idea a good one? Why was it needed at all, this cavalcade? Whose bright idea was it to bring a procession of cars into the centre of Moscow? Judging by the photographs, the cars were elegant and pretentious, as if to announce to the public: here come the Chechens and the Ingush! Mere wealth makes no man either famous (apart from a bit of glamour and popularity) or devout. True glory and commendation come from the putting to good use of the riches that have been given to ... |
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Window On Eurasia: Lenin Should Be Celebrated As Founder Of The Russian Federation, Ufa Scholar Says
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Paul Goble
Vienna, April 28 – Vladimir Lenin, the Bolshevik leader who seized power in Russia in 1917 has been praised and condemned for many things, but now a Bashkir scholar has celebrated him for a role few have yet acknowledged: Lenin, Rustem Vakhitov argues, deserves recognition and honor for his role as the founder of the Russian Federation.
In a 4,000-word essay posted online this week, Vakhitov, an Ufa-based academic who writes frequently on contemporary affairs, saysthat that Lenin’s importance for Russians today lies in his role as the creator of the Russian Federated Soviet Socialist Republic, the predecessor of the Russian Federation (contrtv.ru/common/3111/).
Arguing that “the cult of Lenin” in Soviet times was not only something the man himself did not want but also has gotten in the way of focusing on what Lenin actually did, Vakhitov says that the best way to begin is by asking the ...
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Moscow Times: State Demography Policy Won't Work, UN Warns
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posted by eagle on as ANALYSIS / OPINION
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
Updated at 28 April 2009 0:38 Moscow Time.
The Moscow Times
State Demography Policy Won't Work, UN Warns27 April 2009By Jessica Bachman / The Moscow TimesThe United Nations cautioned Friday that the government's demographic policy would fall far short of its goal of stabilizing a rapid decrease in the country's population, which could contract by 10 million to 20 million people over the next 16 years.
Presenting the results of the 2008 United Nations Human Development Report for Russia, the report's authors said the government needed to take more than just fertility into account if it wanted to mitigate the effects of a demographic crisis.
"We need to overcome the widely held and simple idea that fertility rates are easy to control and will change according to the amount of social investment put into the promotion of birth," said Sergei Zakharov, deputy director of the Institute of Demography at the High School of Economics.
Central to Russia's demographic policy, which was adopted in 2007, are "family capital" ...
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Moscow Times: Survey: People Doubt Medvedev Is the Boss
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posted by eagle on as ANALYSIS / OPINION
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
Updated at 28 April 2009 0:38 Moscow Time |
The Moscow Times
Survey: People Doubt Medvedev Is the Boss23 April 2009By Nikolaus von Twickel / The Moscow TimesAs Dmitry Medvedev ends his first year in the Kremlin, many Russians are doubtful about how much political clout he wields as president, according to a survey released Wednesday.
Just 15 percent of the population believes that Medvedev holds the real power, while 27 percent say Prime Minister Vladimir Putin is pulling the strings, according to the survey conducted by Canadian polling firm GlobeScan for the BBC's Russian service.
The most common opinion, however, is that power is shared equally between the two, a view held by 41 percent of respondents.
The poll also found that most Russians expect that Putin will return to the Kremlin: 57 percent said they expect him to be the next president, while just 24 percent disagreed, GlobeScan said in a statement.
Speculation has been rife that Putin, who gave up the presidency in 2008 after serving ... |
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Moscow Times: Averting The Caucasus Jihad
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posted by eagle on as ANALYSIS / OPINION
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
Updated at 28 April 2009 0:38 Moscow Time.
Averting the Caucasus Jihad27 April 2009By Gordon M. Hahn
Nuclear disarmament has emerged as the first issue to reset U.S.-Russian relations in 2009. Both sides have expressed a willingness to negotiate a new strategic arms reduction treaty to replace the START I treaty that is set to expire in December. Although this is one of the most urgent items on the agenda, it is not the most important.
For the foreseeable future, a nuclear attack by a rogue state or Islamic terrorist group will be the gravest threat to the United States, its allies and partners like Russia. Thus, nonproliferation and the war against the global jihad movement should be a top priority on the U.S.-Russia security agenda.
Russia is the only country besides Pakistan (and perhaps India) that has both a viable jihad movement and stockpiles of chemical, biological and nuclear materials and weapons. Russia's jihad movement is something the West should not ignore.
In November 2007, the ... |
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