Window On Eurasia: Muslims No Longer a ‘Demographic Reserve’ For Russia, Experts Say
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posted by eagle on April, 2010 as ANALYSIS / OPINION
Paul Goble
Vienna, April 6 – Despite what many still believe, neither immigration from Muslim nations in Central Asia and the Caucasus nor birthrates among Russia’s own Muslim nations represents a "demographic reserve” for the country, and consequently, Moscow must move beyond its current pro-natalist policies if it hopes to stem Russia’s demographic decline.
At a press conference last week devoted to the release of a UN Population Fund study on Russia, Natalya Zubarevich of the Moscow Independent Institute of Social Policy said the notion that Muslim regions within and outside Russia provide the country with a demographic reserve was "an illusion” (slon.ru/articles/344224/).
Even in Daghestan, the most Muslim of all North Caucasian republics, birthrates are declining and converging on all-Russian ones that are insufficient to maintain the population at the current level. And "already in the next generation,” Zubarevich said, "we will see how those residents of the Caucasus who have resettled ...
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Window On Eurasia: One Russian In Four Now Goes Online Daily Prompting Moscow To Consider Draconian Restrictions
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posted by eagle on as ANALYSIS / OPINION
Paul Goble
Vienna, April 6 – Nearly one Russian in four now goes online on a daily basis, and almost half of those who do use the Internet to get their news, a challenge to the Kremlin’s control of much of the electronic media and a development that is prompting some of the powers that be to look at the way in which Belarus and Turkmenistan are trying to control the web.
Today, the All-Russian Center for the Study of Public Opinion (VTsIOM) released the results of its latest poll on Russian use of the Internet. According to the firm, 46 percent of Russians now have a personal computer, and 40 percent of the population uses them to connect to the Internet (wciom.ru/novosti/press-vypuski/press-vypusk/single/13386.html).
More than four out of five of those going online do so at home rather than at work, thus limiting the ability of employers to control ...
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Jamestown Foundation: Medvedev Seeks Balance Between Fighting Islamists And Stemming Rising Xenophobia
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posted by eagle on as ANALYSIS / OPINION
Medvedev Seeks Balance Between Fighting Islamists and Stemming Rising XenophobiaPublication: Eurasia Daily Monitor April 2, 2010 02:29 PM On April 1, President Dmitry Medvedev paid an unexpected visit to Dagestan, where he presided over a meeting of the National Counterterrorism Committee (NAK) in the republic’s capital, Makhachkala. The visit was dedicated to fighting terrorism following the twin suicide bomb attack in the northern Dagestani town of Kizlyar on March 31, which claimed 14 lives, including 9 policemen. The attack in Kizlyar came only two days after the two suicide bombings that hit the Moscow metro on March 29, killing 39 people (www.riadagestan.ru, April 1).
Medvedev demanded that the NAK develop a public warning system with a differentiated scale indicating the danger of a terrorist attack (RIA Novosti, April 1). According to many reports, the authorities had prior knowledge of possible attacks in Moscow, but chose not to alert the public, instead trying to prevent the operation by stepping up security. The government may have been embarrassed to ... >> full
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NY Times: Editorial: The Moscow Bombings
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posted by circassiankama on as ANALYSIS / OPINION
Editorial
The Moscow Bombings
Published: March 30, 2010
Russians, and all of the world, were reminded
again of the cruelty and senselessness of terrorism on Monday morning
after two rush-hour bombings on the Moscow subway killed 39 people and
injured more than 70 ... >> full
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RIA: Georgia, former republics to discuss non-agression pact
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posted by circassiankama on as ANALYSIS / OPINION
04:1730/03/2010 Non-aggression
guarantees between Georgia and its former republics of Abkhazia and
South Ossetia will be discussed on Tuesday during the regular round of
Geneva consultations on South Caucasus.
The format of the discussions on security and stability in the South
Caucasus was established after the five-day war between Georgia and
Russia in August 2008.
Delegations from Abkhazia, Georgia, Russia, the United States and
South Ossetia participate in the Geneva meetings on an equal footing.
Representatives of the European Union, the United Nations and the
Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe also attend.
Boris Chochiyev, who represents South Ossetia at the talks, said his
country would "put forward other proposals" if Georgia again refuses to
provide detailed answers on the terms and date of a legally binding
non-aggression treaty.
He gave no details on what "proposals" his country had prepared.
Chochiyev said that South Ossetia would also raise the issue of a recent bogus TV ... >> full
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