RP: Russia Profile Weekly Experts Panel: Are The Moscow Riots Symptoms Of Larger Political Trouble?
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posted by eagle on December, 2010 as Imperialism
December 24, 2010
Russia Profile Weekly Experts Panel: Are the Moscow Riots Symptoms of Larger Political Trouble?
Introduced by Vladimir Frolov
Russia Profile
Contributors: Vladimir Belaeff, Sergei Roy, Alexandre Strokanov and Vitaly Strokanov Moscow has seen its worst week of ethnic tensions in decades, culminating in mass rioting by soccer fans and Russian nationalists in central Moscow just yards away from the Red Square. Longstanding tensions between ethnic Russian nationalists and minorities from the North Caucasus had escalated after the fatal shooting of a Moscow soccer fan during a street fight earlier this month with members of an ethnic Caucasus group. Are the ethnic clashes a symptom of larger political trouble in Russia in the near future?
The riots on December 11 were spurred by the release of all the detained suspects in the case, in what appeared to be a corrupt police act facilitated by bribes from the local Caucasian community. Then, on December 15, more than 1,000 people ...
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Protest In Istanbul Against Fascism
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Window On Eurasia: Russian Separatism Now ‘Main Threat’ To Russia’s Territorial Integrity, Markedonov Says
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Window on Eurasia: Russian Separatism Now ‘Main Threat’ to Russia’s Territorial Integrity, Markedonov SaysPaul Goble
Staunton, December 20 – The "main threat” to the territorial integrity of Russia at present does not come from "separatist and particularist attitudes of ‘the borderlands’” but from "the movement of the ethnic majority” -- the Russians -- according to one of Moscow’s most thoughtful commentators on ethnicity and ethnic conflicts.
In an essay posted online last week, Sergey Markedonov says that it is time to carefully "analyze ‘the Manezh phenomenon,” given that such "mass pogrom actions” and the reactions of experts and officials to them highlights the emergence of "a new social-political force,” which one can call "’Russian separatism’” (www.politcom.ru/print.php?id=11193).
While this force is growing, he says, it has "still not become institutionalized. It does not have its own parties,” but "sympathy for Russian separatism exists in the ranks of the law enforcement structures, ...
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Window On Eurasia: How Moscow Might Re-Divide The North Caucasus Before Letting Part Of It Go
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Window on Eurasia: How Moscow Might Re-Divide the North Caucasus Before Letting Part of It GoPaul Goble
Staunton, December 20 – Even Russians who are now talking about the need to let the North Caucasus go are suggesting that the borders of some or all of the existing non-Russian republics need to be changed to protect the ethnic Russian communities who still live there, but few have provided details on what a map of a "post-Russian” North Caucasus might look like.
Today, however, a Russian blogger has offered just such a map, one that in place of the "complex mosaic” of federation subjects would have two krays (with capitals in Krasnodar and Pyatigorsk) and three independent states, Alaniya, a Confederation of Chechnya and Ingushetia, and a Daghestani Federation (hiker1.livejournal.com/51068.html).
While most Russian commentators say allowing any part of the North Caucasus to become independent would threaten the territorial integrity of ...
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Jamestown Foundation: Nationalist Uprising In Moscow Has Serious Implications For The North Caucasus
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Nationalist Uprising in Moscow has Serious Implications for the North CaucasusPublication: North Caucasus Analysis December 15, 2010 03:29 PM
On December 11, the largest ever Russian nationalist riots in modern Russia broke out in Moscow. The protesters, consisting of about 5,000 soccer fans and members of several Russian nationalist organizations, gathered at Manezh Square, which is adjacent to the Kremlin and Red Square. They shouted "Russia for Russians,” "Moscow for Muscovites,” and expletive-filled anti-Caucasian slogans, and attacked passersby who were assumed to be from the Caucasus or of Asian origin. Moscow’s police chief, Vladimir Kolokoltsev, arrived at the scene and tried to calm the crowd down, with partial success. The protesters eventually clashed with police, who pressed them out of the square into the Moscow metro, where the rioters continued to attack those they deemed non-Russians, specifically those with darker facial features and of Asian appearance, accompanying their assaults with shouts ... >> full
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