Caucasian Knot: Ecologists Ask To Change The Agenda Of UNESCO Mission To...
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posted by FerrasB on April, 2008 as Imperialism
CAUCASIAN KNOT / NEWS 18/4/2008 Ecologists ask to change the agenda of UNESCO mission to Krasnodar Territory and Adygea Local ecologists think that the agenda of the Mission of the UNESCO's Centre of World Heritage and International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN) in Krasnodar Territory and Adygea should be amended. In this context, they sent letters to the Mission and the Ministry of Natural Resources of Russia. "At the first stage, the Mission should work in Sochi and deal mainly with threats to World Nature Heritage from the plans to erect Olympic objects," said Andrei Rudomakha, head of the Ecological Watch for Northern Caucasus. "The main of them are the erection by Gazprom of the Reception House for Official Delegations and the 'Laura' cottage district in the valley of the Achipse River, as well as deforestation by the same Gazprom at construction of a mountain-skiing complex on the Psekhako Ridge." At ... >> full
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Agency Caucasus: Putin Orders Relations To Be Improved With Abkhazia & South...
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Putin orders relations to be improved with Abkhazia and South Ossetia Moscow - Only weeks before his farewell to presidency, Russia's President Vladimir Putin ordered the Russian government to improve its relations with both Abkhazia and South Ossetia in the fields of commerce, economy, society and science. The improvement will begin with Russia's recognition of the legal institutions that exist in Abkhazia and South Ossetia. If the Russian Foreign Ministry deems it necessary, it will set up consulates in both countries. Both Abkhazia and South Ossetia are 'de facto' independent countries. After Kosovo declared its unilateral independence, the two countries sought support from the Russian president for their efforts to get recognized internationally independent. The Russian Foreign Ministry issued a statement that said Russia's approach to Abkhazia and South Ossetia was not to be taken as a movement against Georgia. Russia was unable to prevent Kosovo's declaration of independence, whereas it said it would ... >> full
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Brussels-Moscow/Agency Caucasus - Russia's President Vladimir Putin's decision to improve his country's relations with Abkhazia and South Ossetia has put the Western bloc at unease. The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), the European Union (EU) and the United States of America (USA) harshly criticized Russia before they urged Putin to give up his decision. Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, Secretary General of the NATO, called on the Russian administration to call off its decision, and he stressed the NATO support for Georgia's territorial integrity. "Russia undermines the sovereignty of Georgia. We call on Russia to drop its decision and to take a moderate attitude towards Georgia." Sean McCormack, spokesperson for the US Department of State, said that the American administration kept supporting Georgia. "The territorial integrity of Georgia is unshakable. Russia seems to create confusion about the current situation. Doing so is a political mischief." Javier Solana, High Representative for the Common ... >> full
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W On Eurasia: Two Personnel Moves In Tatarstan Point To Trouble Ahead For Moscow
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Friday, April 18, 2008 Window on Eurasia: Two Personnel Moves in Tatarstan Point to Trouble Ahead for Moscow Paul Goble Vienna, April 18 – The continuing fallout from the dismissal of the political advisor to the president of Tatarstan and yesterday’s suspension of the deputy mufti there for urging Muslims to burn books Moscow has declared extremist point to an upsurge in political and religious radicalism in a region Russians have long viewed as stable. This week, Rafael Khakimov, the advocate of genuine federalism and moderate EuroIslam who was fired at the Kremlin’s assistance after 18 years as political advisor to Tatarstan’s President Mintimir Shaimiyev, gave an interview and published an article in Moscow, neither of whose contents can be welcome to the Russian government. In his interview, Khakimov made it clear that Moscow continues to manifest what he called its “imperial instinct” while republics like Tatarstan have created systems that protect the rights of ... >> full
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Window On Eurasia: Amalgamation Of Russia’s Regions Set To Cross Two Rubicons
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Thursday, April 17, 2008 Window on Eurasia: Amalgamation of Russia’s Regions Set to Cross Two Rubicons Paul Goble Vienna, April 16 – After a pause for the parliamentary and presidential elections, Russian President Vladimir Putin’s plan to reduce the number of federal subjects by amalgamation appears set to resume, possibly crossing two red lines that many, including Putin himself, have said may cause serious problems for the country. On the one hand, St. Petersburg governor Valentina Matvienko has stepped up her push to combine her city, -- which is a federation subject -- with Leningrad oblast, a move that if achieved could open the way to the combination of Russian oblasts and not just non-Russian autonomies with surrounding and predominantly Russian ones. And on the other, analysts in the Russian capital and many in Mari El say that Moscow and the local Russian leadership are conspiring behind the scenes to combine that Finno-Ugric republic with ... >> full
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