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Window on Eurasia: Not All of Russia’s Nationalities View Victory Day the Same Way

posted by eagle on May, 2013 as ANALYSIS / OPINION

Thursday, May 9, 2013

Window on Eurasia: Not All of Russia’s Nationalities View Victory Day the Same Way

Paul Goble

Staunton, May 9 – Even as Moscow promotes Victory Day as a demonstration of the unity of the people of the Russian Federation, activists in non-Russian areas remain very much divided on what that holiday means, with some, in the words of one writer, counting their medals and others their losses during World War II.

The media of almost all nationalities in the Russian Federation from the predominant Russians to the smallest communities having their own media have published materials on the contribution of their groups to the Soviet war effort and on the impact of the conflict on their national fates.

In an article on Nazaccent.ru today, journalist Elena Meygun surveys some of this commentary and argues that while some ethnic activists are "trying to divide the victory in the Great Fatherland War along ethnic lines,” most Russian Federation citizens still view the victory as their common property (nazaccent.ru/content/7736-odna-na-vseh.html).

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Window on Eurasia: Moscow’s ‘Pyrrhic Victory’ in 1945 Led to Soviet Collapse in 1991, Russian Writer Says

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Thursday, May 9, 2013

Window on Eurasia: Moscow’s ‘Pyrrhic Victory’ in 1945 Led to Soviet Collapse in 1991, Russian Writer Says

Paul Goble

Staunton, May 9 – The "chief cause” of the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 was Stalin’s occupation of the Baltic countries, Western Ukraine, Western Belarus and Bessarabia, thus making what the Russian Federation celebrates today as a resounding triumph into "a Pyrrhic victory” for the country, according to a Russian blogger.

In a blog post reposted on the Ekho Moskvy portal, Russian businessman Aleksey Blindul says that "the chief cause which destroyed the Soviet empire was the occupation” or, as some call it, the "’liberation’” of these border areas (ablindul.livejournal.com/67788.htmrepeated at echo.msk.ru/blog/ablindul/1070390-echo/).

As one of the winners in World War II, the USSR insisted on retaining not only the territories it had occupied earlier during that conflict, including Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, portions of Poland, and part of Finland but also the northern portion of East Prussia which it renamed Kaliningrad.

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Window on Eurasia: Sochi Countdown -- 40 Weeks to the Olympiad in the North Caucasus

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Friday, May 3, 2013

Window on Eurasia: Sochi Countdown -- 40 Weeks to the Olympiad in the North Caucasus

Note: This is my 12th special Window on Eurasia about the meaning and impact of the planned Olympiad on the nations in the surrounding region. These WOEs, which will appear each Friday over the coming year, will not aim at being comprehensive but rather will consist of a series bullet points about such developments. I would like to invite anyone with special knowledge or information about this subject to send me references to the materials involved. My email address is paul.goble@gmail.com Allow me to express my thanks to all those who already have. Paul Goble

Circassians in Jordan Call for Boycott of Sochi Games. The Circassian community of Jordan says in an open letter to the US president that "holding the Sochi Winter Olympic Games 2014 over occupied Circassian territory by Russia is a violation of the international Olympic Charter” and that the games should be moved or boycotted (jaccf.org/?p=1398).

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Window on Eurasia: Ingushetia’s Bloggers Polled on Chechen Incursion, Republic Leadership

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Friday, May 3, 2013

Window on Eurasia: Ingushetia’s Bloggers Polled on Chechen Incursion, Republic Leadership

Paul Goble

Staunton, May 3 – Forty-four bloggers in Ingushetia have expressed their views on the Chechen incursion into their national territory and other regions events in that North Caucasus republic, an intriguing measure of the views of a group that not only reflects public opinion but is increasingly helping to shape opinion there.

Two weeks ago, one of their number asked the bloggers of Ingushetia to weigh in on a questions that he and clearly they feel are important (niysa.livejournal.com/64959.html). Forty-four of them responded. Their answers and their LiveJournal URLs have now been posted at

niysa.livejournal.com/66502.html ).

According to this compilation, 89 percent of the bloggers "extremely negatively” and nine percent "negatively” condemned the incursion of 300 Chechen siloviki into Ingush territory, equal to the 84 percent who "extremely negatively” and 14 percent "negatively” assessed Chechen claims against their republic.

With regard to the actions of their own republic leaders, 42 percent of the bloggers had a ...

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Window on Eurasia: Putin Regime Transforming Apolitical Activists into Its Opponents, Moscow Commentator Says

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Wednesday, May 1, 2013

Window on Eurasia: Putin Regime Transforming Apolitical Activists into Its Opponents, Moscow Commentator Says

Paul Goble

Staunton, May 1 – Russians who seek to some immediate problem "as an alternative to full-blown opposition activity” are increasingly being forced into politics by the Russian government itself because of the regime’s ever harsher response to any independent social activity, according to a Moscow commentator.

In an essay on the "Osobaya bukhva” portal this week, Mariya Ponomaryeva says that the widely accepted "theory of small things is only a theory” in today’s Russia because "in fact, any social work in Russia inevitably leads to politics however much those involved say otherwise” (specletter.com/obcshestvo/2013-04-29/teorija-malyh-del-apolitichna-tolko-v-teorii.html).

"Social and charitable organizations in the West rarely get involved in political activity,” she writes, and many Russians have assumed that they can do the same. "’I do not want to get involved in politics,’” such people say; "’but I want to help people.’” But unfortunately, the Russian authorities won’t let them stay out of politics if they ...

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