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JUNE 2013


Window on Eurasia: Deportation of Crimean Tatars Not Yet Part of Ukrainian Political Memory, Historian Says

posted by eagle on June, 2013 as ANALYSIS / OPINION


Wednesday, June 12, 2013

Window on Eurasia: Deportation of Crimean Tatars Not Yet Part of Ukrainian Political Memory, Historian Says


Paul Goble

            Staunton, June 12 – Stalin’s deportation of the Crimean Tatars in 1944 has not yet been integrated into the political memory of Ukrainians, a shortcoming that means many in that country do not view it as the crime that it was and thus continue to manifest xenophobic attitudes against that much-victimized group, according to a Ukrainian historian.

            In an article in the current issue of "Medina al-Islam,” Mikhail Yakubovich, who writes frequently on ethnic and religious issues in Ukraine, says that is a serious problem because it blocks the integration of the Crimean Tatars into Ukrainian national narratives and thus leaves their problems without clear solutions (idmedina.ru/medina/?5428).

            Some Ukrainian researchers, he says, are beginning to take up this issue as they wrestle with the more general problems of "the politics of memory.”  This term is relatively new, having emerged in Germany at the end of the 1980s, and refers ...

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Window on Eurasia: Russian Influence in Central Asia a Greater Threat than Chinese, Kazakh Nationalist Says

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Wednesday, June 12, 2013

Window on Eurasia: Russian Influence in Central Asia a Greater Threat than Chinese, Kazakh Nationalist Says


Paul Goble

            Staunton, June 12 – Despite the hysteria about it whipped up in Russian language outlets in Kazakhstan, one commentator says, the growth of Chinese influence in Kazakhstan is far less a threat to the survival of the Kazakh people than the past and present impact of Russian influence on that Central Asian nation.

            In a commentary this week, Askar Kymyran suggests that alarmist coverage in the Russian media are promoting a false sense of "sinophobia” in the mass consciousness of Kazakhs and causing them to ignore or at least downplay the more serious threats to their nation and state emanating from the Russian Federation (golosislama.ru/news.php?id=17568).

            "I too fear China,” Kymyran continues, observing that "a nation with an imperial consciousness is always directed at expansion and growth.” But he continues, "when speaking about longstanding problems with one power, [Kazakhs] forget about the misdeeds of another empire” in the recent ...

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Window on Eurasia: Moscow Must Teach Russian to Non-Russian Draftees, Duma Deputies Say

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Tuesday, June 11, 2013

Window on Eurasia: Moscow Must Teach Russian to Non-Russian Draftees, Duma Deputies Say


Paul Goble

            Staunton, June 11 – Reflecting the increasing share of non-Russians among draftees in the Russian army and the declining percentage of them who know the Russian language, Duma deputies are now calling for the Russian military to begin providing Russian-language training for soldiers in these groups.

            Yesterday, "Izvestiya” reported that members of the Duma education committee have concluded that the military must introduce course in the Russian language for draftees and said it would soon send a draft measure about that to the Ministry of Defense for its review (izvestia.ru/news/551689).

                Education committee staff told the Moscow daily that there has been a significant decline in the level of education among draftees in recent years and that many of the draftees, almost certainly those who come from the North Caucasus and other non-Russian regions of the country, do not speak Russian well enough to function as soldiers and sailors.

            If the Russian military ...

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Window on Eurasia: Karelians Look to Europe for Help to Stem Their Demographic Decline

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Saturday, June 8, 2013

Window on Eurasia: Karelians Look to Europe for Help to Stem Their Demographic Decline


Paul Goble

            Staunton, June 7 – Faced with declines in their overall numbers and in the use of their national language, the Karelians, the titular nationality of the Republic of Karelia, are increasingly looking to European institutions in general and Finnish ones in particular to help them combat assimilation and ensure their national survival.

            Olga Zharinova, the director of Karelia’s National Archive and the chairman of the plenipotentiary representatives of the Karelians for the past four years, told the Seventh Congress of Karels of the Republic of Karelia yesterday that unless certain trends are reversed, the prospects for the Karelians are bleak (finugor.ru/node/41386).

            According to the 2010 Russian Federation census, she said, there are now 60,815 Karelians living in the country as a whole, 30 percent fewer than there were only eight years earlier.  In Karelia itself, they number 45,570 or about 7.4 percent of the total population of the republic.

            Ever fewer of ...

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Window on Eurasia: FSB Officers ‘Openly and Boldly’ Follow Russian Opposition Figures in Lithuania

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Saturday, June 8, 2013

Window on Eurasia: FSB Officers ‘Openly and Boldly’ Follow Russian Opposition Figures in Lithuania


Paul Goble

            Staunton, June 8 – Officers of Russia’s FSB spy agency "openly and boldly” followed Russian opposition figures attending an international conference in Vilnius last week thus making them feel that there were in "a suburb of Moscow,” Lithuanian media report, the latest indication that Moscow is increasing its intelligence and influence operations in that Baltic republic.

            One Russian opposition leader, Vladimir Ryzhkov, said that "As we were walking down the street, they trailed along. When we were at the conference in the University, one of the security agents stood at the entrance, we believe that some of them were in the hall as well. We sat in a café, had lunch or breakfast, they also were sitting by two tables away from us” (lithuaniatribune.com/40656/russian-opposition-lithuania-is-full-of-russian-spies-201340656/).

"In Russia we got accustomed to being constantly followed and learned to distinguish them by the way they follow and hide from the photo cameras. However, ...

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