SEPTEMBER 2013

By Backing Those Who Make Nationalist Appeals, Russia’s Liberals are Destroying Themselves, Petersburg Student Says

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Stalin’s Ethnic Executions During the Great Terror Detailed

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Soviets Sowed Seeds of Today’s Religious Radicalism – Muslim and Christian – in Central Asia

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Putin Draws ‘Red Lines’ Within Russia

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Sochi Countdown – 20 Weeks to the Olympiad in the North Caucasus

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Moscow’s Failure to Support Ethnic Identities Provides an Opening for Islamism and Disintegration, Daghestani Scholar Says

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Russians Deeply Conflicted on Ethnic Issues, Poll Shows

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Chechnya has Become De Facto an Islamic State, Analyst Says

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Declining Voter Participation, Not Rising Support for Opposition, Greater Threat to the Kremlin, Moscow Analyst Suggests

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Russia’s Ban on Hijabs in Schools Having Some Disturbing Consequences

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Baltics a Model for Catalonia and Catalonia a Model for Others

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Chechnya’s Kadyrov Triggers Monument War and Highlights Russian Insecurities

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When Hitler and Stalin Were Allies

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Russian Nationalists Want North Caucasians to Have Visas for Travel in Russia

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Unexpected Opposition Win in Petrozavodsk Reflects Complex Politics of Karelia

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A de Gaulle for Tatarstan?

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Russians More Hostile to North Caucasians than to Central Asians, Drobizheva Says

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To Defend Their Rights, Ethnic Russians Must Act Like an Ethnic Minority or Restructure the State, Moscow Lawyer Says

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Moscow Admits Those Identifying as Siberians were Counted as Russians in Census

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Kremlin Doesn’t Understand Russia’s Future Depends on Academy of Sciences

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Is Holding on to Siberia Holding Russia Back?

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Moscow is Closing Its Western Borders While Keeping Its Eastern Ones Open, Making Russia Ever More Asiatic, Experts Say

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Young Daghestanis Overwhelmingly Fundamentalist, But Few are Militants

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Defending Academic Freedom in an Increasingly Unfree Russia

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Russian Candidates Playing to and Making Worse Anti-Migrant Attitudes

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‘Why Shouldn’t a Mosque Be Russia’s Symbol?” Moscow Commentator Asks

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Ukrainians in Kyiv Calls for Re-Uniting Kuban with Ukraine

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Defending Academic Freedom in an Increasingly Unfree Russia

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Russian Candidates Playing to and Making Worse Anti-Migrant Attitudes

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‘Why Shouldn’t a Mosque Be Russia’s Symbol?” Moscow Commentator Asks

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Ukrainians in Kyiv Calls for Re-Uniting Kuban with Ukraine

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Putin Provoking Homophobia Rather than Reflecting Intensely-Held Russian Attitudes, Moscow Blogger Says

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Russian Who Called for Moscow to Occupy Baltics If US Attacks Syria Repeats and Extends His Argument

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Gazprom Losing Its Markets and Its Clout in Europe and CIS

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Baikal Gubernatorial Candidates Differ on China – Just One of the Elections Outside Moscow Worth Watching

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Tajiks in Moscow Now Resemble Their Tatar Predecessors a Century Ago, Commentator Says

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