Window On Eurasia: Moscow’s New Agglomeration Plan Threatens Non-Russian Republics
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posted by eagle on November, 2010 as Imperialism
Window on Eurasia: Moscow’s New Agglomeration Plan Threatens Non-Russian RepublicsPaul Goble
Vienna, November 17 – Officials in the Kremlin and the Russian government are preparing to seek the transformation of the map of Russia, creating 20 giant super-regions centered on major urban agglomerations on top or or in place of the 83 existing federal subjects, in response to demographic and economic problems and to promote modernization.
But the grandiose nature of the plan, which some experts have already dismissed as a campaign stunt by President Dmitry Medvedev intended to show that the country is not moving toward a new period of stagnation, is certain to provoke a political firestorm if the powers that be at the center try to introduce it quickly.
On the one hand, this project would cost many officials their jobs, challenge the territorial arrangements of Russian life, and introduce disorder into both economic relationships and political ...
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Jamestown Foundation: Dagestan Leader Follows Steps Of Kadyrov
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Dagestan Leader Follows Steps of KadyrovPublication: Eurasia Daily Monitor November 11, 2010 11:20 AM
 Magomedsalam Magomedov, President of Dagestan. (ITAR-TASS)
Actions taken recently by the local leadership in Dagestan have become increasingly reminiscent of the policy carried out by Ramzan Kadyrov, the pro-Russian leader of Chechnya. Shortly after an all-Chechen congress was held in the Chechen capital of Grozny from October 13-14, the Dagestani authorities promptly started preparations for a congress of peoples of Dagestan. Similar to the practice in the former Soviet Union, the purpose of the event is to demonstrate the unanimous support for the leadership of the republic headed by Magomedsalam Magomedov. Although pre-staged well in advance, the congress would have enormous importance for the Dagestani leader, who has been openly criticized by the Kremlin for his ineptitude and indolence. This week, Russian President, Dmitry Medvedev, once again issued harsh rebukes against the Dagestani leadership.
The Russian president asked his ... >> full
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Circassians Eligible To Restore Legitimate Rights
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Circassians Eligible to Restore Legitimate Rights Circassia had been officially occupied and colonized by the Russian state since the 21st of May, 1864, which declared that Circassia officially had lost the war against the Russian occupying forces after entire occupation that inflicted killings and destruction with no pity or mercy. The occupation had dragged its feet in solving the Circassian issues throughout the past decades, with no sign of any Russian solution in the horizon for hopes and wishes, while the Circassian homeland contains and hosts only 10% of world’s total Circassians, which is still divided and fragmented, so that part of it includes three Circassian and other minorities republics in addition to inhabitants from different origins and races such as the Russians and Cossacks that were brought by the colonizers to settle instead of the Circassians who were either massacred, displaced or deported. The Russian corruption is inevitably linked to the occupation of the colonized Circassian and the North ... >> full
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Window On Eurasia: Governors Ignoring Numerically Small Peoples, Medvedev Told
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Window on Eurasia: Governors Ignoring Numerically Small Peoples, Medvedev ToldPaul Goble
Staunton, November 7 – The Russian Federation Social Chamber has sent an appeal to President Dmitry Medvedev detailing violations of the rights of numerically small peoples in the regions and seeking a meeting to talk about the neglect some but not all governors show toward these indigenous nationalities.
Pavel Sulyandziga, a member of the Chamber and head of its working group for the development of Siberia and the Far East, noted in this message to Medvedev that "in the Russian state there exists a kind of present-day serfdom in relation to the indigenous peoples when there hunting and fishing areas are handed over to commercial companies.”
In addition the appeal to the Russian president specified that "bureaucrats from the Ministry of Regional Affairs are not able to influence this [process of destroying the livelihoods of these traditional peoples’ because ...
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Window On Eurasia: Moscow Should Rely On Cossacks In North Caucasus, Khloponin Says
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Window on Eurasia: Moscow Should Rely on Cossacks in North Caucasus, Khloponin SaysPaul Goble
Staunton, November 4 – Aleksandr Khloponin, the Presidential Plenipotentiary for the North Caucasus Federal District, said last week that his "first task” must be to support and rely on the Cossack revival as part of Moscow’s effort to return ethnic Russians to that troubled part of the country.
And while, as Sergey Markedonov makes clear in a new analysis, the Cossack movement of today is best described as "neo-Cossackry,” the history of tensions between the indigenous peoples of that region and the Cossacks who were the shock troops of Russian expansion there makes this a problematic, even dangerous tactic (www.politcom.ru/10977.html).
Khloponin’s plans make Markedonov’s analysis especially timely given that the neo-Cossacks he described are more Russian nationalist and likely to prove more hostile to the non-Russian nationalities of the North Caucasus than were the Cossacks who ...
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