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FEBRUARY 2010


Window On Eurasia: Moscow Fears Regional Officials Who Obey Law More Than Those Who Don’t, Russian Commentator Says

posted by eagle on February, 2010 as Imperialism


THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 2010

Window on Eurasia: Moscow Fears Regional Officials Who Obey Law More than Those Who Don’t, Russian Commentator Says

Paul Goble

Savannah, February 4 – The nature of the current Russian political system was shown by the response of the central government to the demonstrations in Kaliningrad, a Moscow commentator says. The powers that be at the center responded not when regional officials acted within the law but when they failed to violate it to suppress an anti-government demonstration.
In an article in today’s "Yezhednevny zhurnal,” Vladimir Nadein, who explicitly says that he does not like Putin, that the prime minister has done "enormous harm” to Russia, and that he should be removed tried for his crimes, argues that Moscow’s reaction to the events in Kaliningrad is itself an indictment of Putin’s system (ej.ru/?a=note&id=9854). 
"When people in Kaliningrad came out with signs reading ‘Down with Putin!’” he writes, "this was entirely legal. ...

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The Economist: Beyond The Kremlin's Reach

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Beyond the Kremlin's reach
Jan 28th 2010 
From The Economist print edition


Tatarstan is stable, but the republics of the north Caucasus are aflame. Why?


MINTIMER SHAIMIEV has ruled Tatarstan, a large Muslim republic in the heart of Russia, for two decades with a soft voice and a tight fist. He survived the disintegration of the Soviet empire in the 1990s and the centralisation of power in the 2000s. He pursued his own economic and political strategy, keeping Tatarstan firmly within Russia’s borders but out of the Kremlin’s reach. He is no more a democrat or an altruist than Russia’s prime minister, Vladimir Putin, but on his watch Tatarstan held together better and suffered fewer economic shocks than much of Russia.

On January 22nd the 73-year-old survivor said he would step down once his fourth term expires in two months’ time. Officially, the president of Tatarstan is appointed and removed by the Kremlin, like any ...


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