Prague Watchdog: A project For The Manager From Krasnoyarsk
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posted by eagle on January, 2010 as Imperialism
A project for the manager from Krasnoyarsk
By Vadim Borshchev, special to Prague Watchdog
The grouping of the problematic regions of the North Caucasus into a separate okrug seems a reasonable and logical step. In the republics that have received the new administrative-territorial status there are three types of problems. The first and most obviously important for the federal centre is linked to the threat of the further spread of terrorism. It presumably did not escape the notice of Russia’s leaders that this summer the strategy of the armed underground in the Caucasus was radically restructured. The concept of armed resistance is now characterized by full-blown extremism. Among the major changes that have been made to it are the inclusion of civilian objectives as permitted targets, after a long period when they were excluded. According to the Caucasus Emirate’s Islamist leader (“Amir”) Dokka Umarov this ... |
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Window On Eurasia: Moscow’s New Man In The North Caucasus Seen Ready To Change Borders There
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Paul Goble
Vienna, January 26 – Aleksandr Khloponin, Moscow’s newly appointed head of the North Caucasus Federal District, has experience with amalgamating regions in the past and thus may be inclined to combine or otherwise change the borders among the republics of that region, according to a leading Russian analyst.
In an article posted online today, Eduard Popov, the head of the Black Sea-Caspian Center of the Russian Institute of Strategic Studies in Rostov-na-Donu, notes that Khloponin, in his capacity of Krasnoyarsk governor, organized the unification of the Taymyr (Dolgano-Nenets) and Evenk autonomous districts with that kray (geopolitica.ru/Articles/872/).
And consequently, that 2005 experience, along with the new talk about amalgamation following the recent declarations of Duma Speaker Boris Gryzlov, suggests, Popov continues, that Moscow may be ready to change borders in the Caucasus despite what ...
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NatPress: Gryzlov Suggested Depriving Donated Regions Of Russian Federative Subject’s Status
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Gryzlov suggested depriving donated regions of Russian federative subject’s status
1/21/2010 - 7:20 pm - NatPress Source: newsru.com The Chairman of the State Duma and the co-chairman of the Supreme council of the party "United Russia" Boris Gryzlov considered that the status of the subject of Federation should belong to a region which could provide itself economically; therefore the donated regions should be deprived with their federative independence. "The subject of Federation is a high rank. The subject of Federation should correspond this rank. In my opinion, there should not be non-self-sufficient subjects of Russian Federation", - RIA "News" quoted Gryzlov. "We should change our approaches to work in such subject of Russian Federation, or unite it with another subject to make that territory self-sufficient in the economic sphere. There is the land, the minerals, there are working hands. I can not understand, why the subject cannot be self-sufficient in this situation", - Gryzlov said. In his opinion, the only exception could be ... >> full
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Prague Watchdog: A project For The Manager From Krasnoyarsk
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posted by eagle on as Imperialism
A project for the manager from KrasnoyarskBy Vadim Borshchev, special to Prague Watchdog 
The grouping of the problematic regions of the North Caucasus into a separateokrug seems a reasonable and logical step. In the republics that have received the new administrative-territorial status there are three types of problems. The first and most obviously important for the federal centre is linked to the threat of the further spread of terrorism. It presumably did not escape the notice of Russia’s leaders that this summer the strategy of the armed underground in the Caucasus was radically restructured. The concept of armed resistance is now characterized by full-blown extremism. Among the major changes that have been made to it are the inclusion of civilian objectives as permitted targets, after a long period when they were excluded. According to the Caucasus Emirate’s Islamist leader (“Amir”) Dokka Umarov this ... |
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Jamestown Foundation: North Ossetian-born General Appointed To Head North Caucasus Military District
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North Ossetian-born General Appointed to Head North Caucasus Military DistrictPublication: Eurasia Daily Monitor January 22, 2010 11:04 AM 
Lieutenant General Aleksandr Galkin In continuation of our last article on Russia that summed up the year 2009 in the North Caucasus (www.jamestown.org/single/?no_cache=1&tx_ttnews[tt_news]=35895), it is worth mentioning that Dmitry Medvedev has drawn his own conclusions as well. Russia’s president ordered purges in the top military command, firing two high-ranking generals: General Vladimir Boldyrev, commander of Russia’s ground forces, and Colonel General Sergei Makarov, commander of the North Caucasus Military District. They were replaced, respectively, by Colonel General Aleksandr Postnikov and Lieutenant General Aleksandr Galkin (http://newsru.com/russia/13jan2010/generaly.html). The deputy chairman of the State Duma’s Defense Committee, Mikhail Babich, believes that this move is designed to remove those Russian generals who opposed the implementation of reforms in their military units (Interfax, January 14).
No matter how one looks at the situation it appears to be more than just ... >> full
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