Al-Hayat: Thinking About Military Occupations
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posted by FerrasB on March, 2006 as Imperialism
Thinking About Military Occupations Roger Owen Al-Hayat - 14/03/06// One of the most significant features of the contemporary world is the institution of military occupations by powerful industrialized countries over much weaker nations such as Chechnya, Palestine and Iraq. Some of the issues this raises, including the central characteristics of such occupations themselves, was the subject of a recent workshop organized at Harvard by a group of programmes and centres including the Center for Middle Eastern Studies. The use of a comparative perspective greatly facilitated discussion of the structure and processes involved in occupation beginning with how they differ from those imagined by the drafters of the Hague Convention of 1907. As far as the latter were concerned, occupations were supposed to be temporary, and so distinct from acts of annexation or colonialisation, no were they supposed to disturb or restructure what the Convention terms the local 'vie publique'. The Convention also insisted on ... >> full
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IMPERIAL CONCEPT 14-MAR-2006 Senior Research Fellow of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences and Ph.D in History, Mikhail Roshin in his exclusive interview with "Caucasus Times" and was published in 10, March, 2006 had stated that "Rise of extremism in the Southern Russia stems from the fact that North Caucasus proved to be inside the sphere of globalization of Muslim fundamentalism"! The nations of the North Caucasus and all other Russian colonized nations and regions are not all Muslims, and the fact is that the North Caucasus region was occupied militarily through series of invasions and military colonial wars by the Russian Imperial State which was out of the scope and the core of the whole interview. Playing with words and statements by describing what went on and still as a wide globalization of Muslim fundamentalism is totally out of the question and completely false information which was ... >> full
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Country Studies: Minority Peoples And Their Territories
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Minority Peoples and Their Territories Russia Table of Contents With a few changes in status in the post-World War II period, the autonomous republics, autonomous oblasts, and autonomous regions of the Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic retained the classifications assigned to them in the 1920s or 1930s. In all cases, the postcommunist Russian government officially changed the term "autonomous republic" to "republic" in 1992. According to the 1989 Soviet census, in only fifteen of the thirty-one ethnically designated republics and autonomous regions were the "indigenous" people the largest group. Of the twenty-one republics existing in Russia in the mid-1990s, nine fell into this category, with the smallest percentages of Russians in Chechnya, Dagestan, Ingushetia, and North Ossetia. Each region designated by ethnic group is home to the majority of Russia's population of that group (see table 9, Appendix). The border-drawing process that occurred in tsarist times and in the first decades of Soviet ... >> full
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AFP: US ‘Buildup’ In Caspian Alarms Russia
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posted by FerrasB on as Imperialism
US ‘buildup’ in Caspian alarms Russia MOSCOW, March 14: Russia cautioned the United States on Tuesday against raising its military presence in the strategic Caspian Sea region bordering Iran, saying buildup of forces from ‘outside would destabilise the region. Russia ‘is opposed to the presence of third-party military forces on the Caspian, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said at the start of a meeting among representatives of the five countries that border the sea: Russia, Iran, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan. His comments were seen as directed at the United States, which has stationed military advisers in Azerbaijan and is helping that country upgrade its naval forces and two powerful radar stations. The ITAR-TASS news agency also quoted Mr Lavrov as saying that Russia was not calling for withdrawal of all military forces from the Caspian Sea region, which is known to hold vast oil and gas resources. “Demilitarisation of the Caspian does not correspond to the ... >> full
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Country Studies: Minority Peoples And Their Territories
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posted by FerrasB on as Imperialism
Minority Peoples and Their Territories Russia Table of Contents With a few changes in status in the post-World War II period, the autonomous republics, autonomous oblasts, and autonomous regions of the Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic retained the classifications assigned to them in the 1920s or 1930s. In all cases, the postcommunist Russian government officially changed the term "autonomous republic" to "republic" in 1992. According to the 1989 Soviet census, in only fifteen of the thirty-one ethnically designated republics and autonomous regions were the "indigenous" people the largest group. Of the twenty-one republics existing in Russia in the mid-1990s, nine fell into this category, with the smallest percentages of Russians in Chechnya, Dagestan, Ingushetia, and North Ossetia. Each region designated by ethnic group is home to the majority of Russia's population of that group (see table 9, Appendix). The border-drawing process that occurred in tsarist times and in the first decades of Soviet ... >> full
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