The Daily Record: It Is Imperative For U.S. To Understand Russia
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posted by eagle on February, 2011 as Imperialism
It is imperative for U.S. to understand Russia
By STEVE HUSZAI Staff Writer
WOOSTER -- The College of Wooster's Great Decisions lecture and discussion series continued Tuesday with its focus on understanding Russia, viewed as the chief rival to the United States for the latter half of the 20th century. Peter Baker, a White House correspondent for the New York Times and contributing writer for New York Times Magazine, spent nearly four years living and working in Russia as a correspondent for the Washington Post with his wife, Susan Glasser. They also wrote a book about Russia, focusing on the rule of Vladimir Putin in the early 21st century. Baker described the various freedoms Russian citizens have gained since the fall of the Soviet Union nearly 20 years ago. But he juxtaposed those freedoms with serious issues facing Russia and the day-to-day lives of citizens if they fall out of line. "To be clear, it's not the ... >> full
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Window On Eurasia: Is Putin Planning To Give New Content To ‘Traditional Islam’ In Russia?
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Window on Eurasia: Is Putin Planning to Give New Content to ‘Traditional Islam’ in Russia?Paul Goble
Vienna, February 1 – Just as he has after every major terrorist act, Vladimir Putin has expressed his support for "traditional Islam,” an invocation that most analysts have seen as the Russian leader’s backing for the hyper-loyal leaders of Russia’s Muslim establishment and opposition to any versions of Islam, in particular fundamentalist ones, imported from abroad.
And to the extent that these analysts have discussed the term at all, they have seen it as a reflection of a desire by Moscow in Soviet times and since to make Islam inside Russia into faith with much the same hierarchy, loyalty and control over congregants that the Russian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate displays.
But a new analysis of the term itself and Putin’s own comments in support of particular Islamic traditions suggests that he ...
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Window On Eurasia: Multi-National State Inherited from Soviet Past Precludes Democracy, Moscow Analyst Says
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Window on Eurasia: Multi-National State Inherited from Soviet Past Precludes Democracy, Moscow Analyst SaysPaul Goble
Vienna, February 3 - Moscow’s approach to the nationality question is based on "a set of prejudices inherited from Soviet times,” prejudices that by themselves have been exploited by some of the powers that be to build a power vertical and that thus have the effect of precluding the development of democracy in the Russian Federation, according to a Moscow analyst.
In an essay on the APN.ru site yesterday, Mikhail Remizov says that the Russian ruling elite does not have a serious conception of nationality policy but rather operates according to prejudices inherited from Soviet times which are inconsistent with other aspects of post-Soviet realities (www.apn.ru/publications/article23602.htm).
Remizov names what he calls "the two basic contradictions of Soviet and Russian nationality policy. On the one hand, there is "the contradiction between a single political nation and ...
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Russian Imperialism And Media
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Russian Imperialism And Media
In principle and throughout the years media and its enormous audio,
written and visual tools had always been and still an essential factor of
addressing individuals, societies and nations in order to tackle and/or deliver
a message that the originator is intending to convey, for the purpose of
reflecting ideas or facts on the ground. Unfortunately good and bad intents and
purposes might be mixed together once
deception is the greatest concern of the opportunist side when
an evil element that intends to acquire the tools and opportunities
to pass their wicked agenda through lying, hypocrisy, duplicity, and circulate,
and to distribute their malicious and destructive
conceptions in order to show their injustice and
aggression in a completely different template, regardless of the harm
effects they create to justice, truth, rights and human suffering.
However, integrity and commitment
oblige the fairness of those analysts, human rights activists and NGO’s who
analyze, publish and make public any
outcome that ... >> full
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