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Window on Eurasia: Russia at Risk of ‘Losing Siberia’ Not to China but to Islamists, Moscow Journalist Says

posted by eagle on May, 2013 as ANALYSIS / OPINION

Tuesday, May 14, 2013

Window on Eurasia: Russia at Risk of ‘Losing Siberia’ Not to China but to Islamists, Moscow Journalist Says

Paul Goble

Staunton, May 14 – Because the population of Siberia is so small and the influx of Central Asian and Caucasian workers there for the extraction industries so large, a Moscow commentator suggests, Russia is at risk of "losing Siberia” not to China as many Russian nationalists have long feared but to Islamist groups instead.

And while outcomes are highly improbable – Chinese citizens now form fewer than five percent of the population of the Russian Federation of the Urals, and Muslims from Central Asia and the Caucasus likely form an even smaller share – they are exactly the kind of apocalypticism which increasingly infects the Russian media and Russian society.

In a commentary on KM.ru yesterday, Aleksandr Romanov says that recent events in Surgut are neither normal everyday conflicts or "inter-ethnic” clashes but quite possibly an effort by "radical Islamists” to make Siberia into "a base” ...

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Window on Eurasia: Russia Again Risks Producing Its Own ‘Muslim “Harlem,”’ Mufti Says

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Tuesday, May 14, 2013

Window on Eurasia: Russia Again Risks Producing Its Own ‘Muslim "Harlem,”’ Mufti Says

Paul Goble

Staunton, May 14 – By "restraining the intellectual and social development of [its] Muslim community” through bans on theological literature and new mosques, Russia risks producing "its own Muslim ‘Harlem,’ a generation with a marginal and enclave mentality who are indifferent to all-Russian values” and thus a real rather than mythical threat to the country.

Moreover, Damir-Kharat Mukhetdinov argues in a commentary posted online today, Russia and Russians should recognize the dangers of such self-fulfilling prophecies because their tsarist predecessors did much the same thing on the basis of equally distorted understandings of the nature of the Muslim community at that time (damir-hazrat.livejournal.com/97614.html).

The tsarist government believed that it was being challenged by pan-Islamism and pan-Turkism, despite all the evidence to the contrary, and took actions against these "mythical” threats that had the effect of driving a deep wedge between the Russian Orthodox majority and the growing Muslim minority at that ...

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Window on Eurasia: Russia at Risk of ‘Losing Siberia’ Not to China but to Islamists, Moscow Journalist Says

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Tuesday, May 14, 2013

Window on Eurasia: Russia at Risk of ‘Losing Siberia’ Not to China but to Islamists, Moscow Journalist Says

Paul Goble

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Window on Eurasia: Putin Law Likely to Kill Off 70 Percent of Russia’s Indigenous Languages

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Saturday, May 11, 2013

Window on Eurasia: Putin Law Likely to Kill Off 70 Percent of Russia’s Indigenous Languages

Paul Goble

Staunton, May 11 – Seventy of the 100 smaller indigenous languages of the Russian Federation are likely to die in the coming years in large measure as a result of the provision of President Vladimir Putin’s law that says no non-Russian language should be taught if doing so might haves a negative impact on competence in Russian.

According to the law, which Putin signed on New Year’s eve, supporters of the minority languages say, "teaching of non-Russian languages should not be promoted or implemented if this damages the teaching of the Russian language” (nrk.no/kanal/nrk_sapmi/1.10859792 and barentsobserver.com/en/society/2013/01/new-law-discriminates-indigenous-languages-03-01).

Anja Salo, one of those activists, says that it is uncertain just how the new law, scheduled to go into effect on September 1, will be applied, but its provisions "are "a matter of deep concern because they "could be a real setback for the revitalization of indigenous peoples’ culture and the languages of the ...

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Window on Eurasia: Ecology Movement Re-Emerges as Political Actor in Bashkortostan

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Saturday, May 11, 2013

Window on Eurasia: Ecology Movement Re-Emerges as Political Actor in Bashkortostan

Paul Goble

Staunton, May 11 – The environmental protection movement, which played a great role in the rise of broader nationalist movements in the final years of the Soviet Union, has re-emerged in Bashkortostan, where its activists are now involved in a far more complicated political game.

Like other ethnic communities in the USSR, the Bashkirs were able to talk about their distinct national interests by getting involved in the superficially non-political effort to protect their territory from the impact of rapid and uncontrolled industrialization with its resulting pollution.

But unlike many of them, the Bashkortostan effort has been studied in some detail. (For a survey of its history, see R.R. Shilimova, "The Ecological Movement as an Institution of Civicl Society in the Regions of Contemporary Russia (on the example of the Republic of Bashkortostan,” (in Russian), a thesis, Ufa, 2012).

After the collapse of Soviet power, the ecological movement in Bashkortostan ceded its place in ...

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