Window On Eurasia: Only Real Federalism Can Save Russia But Even That Won’t Hold North Caucasus, New Russian Political Movement Says
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posted by eagle on November, 2010 as Imperialism
Window on Eurasia: Only Real Federalism Can Save Russia But Even That Won’t Hold North Caucasus, New Russian Political Movement SaysPaul Goble
Staunton, November 28 – The Russian Civic Union, an umbrella organization uniting groups like the Movement Against Illegal Immigration, the National Democratic Alliance, and the Russian Popular Democratic Union, has declared that only a return to genuine federalism can keep Russia intact but that even that step won’t prevent the independence of the North Caucasus.
The new group, which has published a manifesto (www.apn.ru/special/article23357.htm), held a founding conference (www.apn.ru/news/article23358.htm), and led to the formation of branches in the regions (www.ingria.info/?lenta&news_action=show_news&news_id=5197) over the past ten days, has taken positions on many issues.
But perhaps its most important positions concern Russian federalism or more precisely the ways in which Vladimir Putin, first as president and then as prime minister, has undermined or even destroyed that system. And now, one of ...
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Window On Eurasia: Official Use Of Russian Nationalist Groups To Maintain Order Worries Many
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Window on Eurasia: Official Use of Russian Nationalist Groups to Maintain Order Worries ManyPaul Goble
Staunton, November 23 – A significant part of the voluntary popular ‘druzhinniki’ that regional officials in Russia are recruiting to supplement the professional militia consist of Cossacks or members of nationalist groups, a pattern that is raising concerns among many Russians about whether such people will act on their impulses or be used by the powers that be.
Among the places where such units have been introduced is Tyumen, Olesya Lobanova reports in today’s "Nezavisimaya gazeta.” And there, she notes, "society is concerned how [these units] will look after the legal order in the oblast center” and whether they will "defend citizens regardless of their nationality” (www.ng.ru/regions/2010-11-23/5_tyumen.html).
In order to take part in the druzhinniki, Lobanova reports, young nationalists join Cossack voluntary formations, a move that is made easier by the fact that on their ...
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Window On Eurasia: ‘A Caucasus Without Russians Means A Russia Without The Caucasus,’ Moscow Commentator Says
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Window on Eurasia: ‘A Caucasus without Russians Means a Russia without the Caucasus,’ Moscow Commentator SaysPaul Goble
Staunton, November 22 – Unless something is done to reverse the flight of ethnic Russians from the republics of the North Caucasus, a commentator in one Moscow newspaper says, that region will ultimately be lost to Russia because "a Caucasus without ethnic Russians can mean only one thing: a Russia without the Caucasus.”
In Friday’s "Segodnya,” Aleksey Sidorenko argues that Russian outmigration from the region reflects the coming together of the impact of Soviet policy on the region, the failure of Russian government policy there, and the intensifying crisis of Russian national identity (segodnia.ru/index.php?spos=1&spor=1&rst=0&srch=&srchtp=0&pgid=2&cldday=&srv=segodnia.ru&partid=10&newsid=12932&snewsid=0&gallery_id=0&imgnum=1).
The 1917 revolution and the ensuing civil war "almost led to the final destruction of Russian statehood and the loss of the Caucasus, he begins. These events led to the disappearance of many of "the socio-cultural achievements” of earlier ...
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Window On Eurasia: ‘Don’t Russians Need All Of Their Country?” Moscow Journalist Asks
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Window on Eurasia: ‘Don’t Russians Need All of Their Country?” Moscow Journalist AsksPaul Goble
Staunton, November 22 – There are certain questions the mere posing of which often becomes more important than the answers anyone will give to them. Precisely such question was raised by a writer on a Moscow news portal at the end of last week who asked his readers to reflect on whether Russians in fact need all the space Russia now occupies.
That question is provoked, Kirill Govorov asks in KM.ru, by the plan the regional development ministry has come up with that calls for Moscow to focus its attention on 20 major urban agglomerations and largely neglect the rest of the country, an approach that will exacerbate existing regional differences (news.km.ru/nam_ne_nuzhno_vse_prostranstvo_r).
In fact, Govorov argues, the plan, if realized, will in a short time "convert almost all the territory of Russia into a vacant human ...
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Window On Eurasia: Russians View Spy Scandals As Proof Their Country Is Still A Superpower, Soldatov Says
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Window on Eurasia: Russians View Spy Scandals as Proof Their Country is Still a Superpower, Soldatov SaysPaul Goble
Vienna, November 17 – Because Moscow has in the best traditions of Soviet times played up the notion that all recent failures in Russia’s espionage activities are the result of traitors, the powers that be have reinforced the notion among most Russians that their country is still a superpower which can compete as equals with the United States, Soldatov Says.
Andrey Soldatov, the editor of Agentura.ru and one of Moscow’s leading independent specialists on intelligence operations suggests that the case of the two intelligence officers, Shcherbakov and Poteyev, that has attracted so much attention provides a key insight into how Russians view espionage and how Moscow plays on that view.
In an article in today’s "Yezhednevny zhurnal” entitled "Heroes and Traitors for Internal Use,” Soldatov argues that the recent story has "from ...
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