Agency Caucasus: Federation Council Of Russia Delays Recognition For Abkhazia...
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posted by FerrasB on April, 2008 as Imperialism
Moscow/Agency Caucasus - After Security Council of the United Nations (UN) was called on to act as a referee between the administrations of Tbilisi and Moscow over the shooting down of a Georgian spy plane, the Federation Council of Russian postponed its plans to deal with a plea from both Abkhazia and South Ossetia for their recognition. Aleksandr Torshin, Deputy President of the Federation Council, upper chamber of the Russian parliament, said on Wednesday that neither at today's general assembly nor at the commission meeting over North Caucasus would the issue of Abkhazia and South Ossetia and their will to recognition be dealt with. "For the time being, it was agreed that this issue should be analyzed only further," said Torshin. After Kosovo declared its independence, both parliaments of Abkhazia and South Ossetia issued a joint call on the Russian administration to recognize them. The Duma, lower chamber of the Russian parliament, granted ... >> full
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Agency Caucasus: Ivanov, Of Russian Origin, Is Now Speaker Of Adygeian Parliamen
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posted by FerrasB on as Imperialism
Maykop/Agency Caucasus - Months of a heated debate about whether successive speakers of the Adygeian Parliament should come only from Adgyeia reached its resolution after Anatoli Ivanov, who is of Russian origin, took over the post last week. Ivanov was the Deputy Speaker of the Adygeian Parliament before he was elected the Speaker by winning 37 of the 51 votes cast at an emergency session of the Parliament last week. He was nominated for the post as a member of the United Russian Party. Until December 2, 2007, the Speaker of the Adygeian Parliament was Ruslan Haceniyekov. After he was elected to the Duma, one nomination came from Anatoli Ivanov and another from Vyacheslav Sapiyev, a businessman-member of the parliament of Adygeian origin, to replace him. Only Ivanov won the nomination from the representatives of the parliamentary committees in early 2008. However, when some members of the parliament insisted that successive speakers ... >> full
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Agency Caucasus: Georgia's Arguments Receive Support From NATO Representative
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posted by FerrasB on as Imperialism
Russia's President Vladimir Putin was protested in Tbilisi for his plans to improve his country's relations with Abkhazia and South Ossetia Tbilisi - The arguments that Georgia developed against Russia after it spy plane was shot down while it was flying over Abkhazia received solid support from Robert Simmons, Special Representative of the Secretary General of the NATO, or North Atlantic Treaty Organization, for the Central Asia and the South Caucasus. Simmons met in Tbilisi, capital of Georgia, with Temur Yakobashvili, a senior Georgian official ministering a governmental unit that had been established shortly before Georgia made it public that it would regain its control over Abkhazia and South Ossetia. "However provocative Russia might be, Georgia should retain its peaceful approach," Simmons told reporters. Simmons accorded special emphasis to the proposal from Georgia's President Mikheil Saakashvili to offer Abkhazia and South Ossetia, two 'de facto' independent countries that seek true, international recognition of ... >> full
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Window On Eurasia: Moscow Risks ‘Catastrophe’ In Sakha If It Appoints Outsider
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posted by FerrasB on as Imperialism
Sunday, April 27, 2008 Window on Eurasia: Moscow Risks ‘Catastrophe’ in Sakha if It Appoints Outsider Paul Goble Vienna, April 27 – Sakha, the vast and resource-rich republic in the Russian Far East, could become the next “hot spot” if the Kremlin follows its current approach and appoints an outsider to be that region’s next leader rather than promoting someone from within, according to a Russian analyst who specializes on regional and ethnic issues. In an analysis posted online on Friday, Dmitry Verkhoturov describes Moscow’s policy of appointing an outsider to be the leaders of regional governments, discusses why that approach has generally worked to the central government’s advantage and then outlined why it would almost certainly backfire in Sakha (www.apn.ru/opinions/article19824.htm). Since President Vladimir Putin made regional heads appointed positions, he has generally named people from distant regions to take the top job. That has been the case, for example, in Buryatia, Arkhangelsk, Kostroma, Amur, ... >> full
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WOE: Tatarstan Seeks Larger Nationality Component For Non-Russian Schools
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Sunday, April 27, 2008 Window on Eurasia: Tatarstan Seeks Larger Nationality Component for Non-Russian Schools Paul Goble Baku, April 27 – The State Council of Tatarstan at the end of last week submitted a legislative initiative to the Duma calling on Moscow to live up to the provisions of the federal constitution and allow the non-Russian republics a greater say over the regional component of educational programs in their schools. Ravil Valeyev, who heads the State Council’s Committee on Culture, Science, Education and Nationality Questions, said that Tatarstan’s submission would introduce changes in the Russian Federation law on education in order to “guarantee” the regions the right to determine the size and content of the regional component of educational programs. When that law was being discussed in Moscow, 21 republics and regions, including Tatarstan, protested its content. But this latest action by Kazan raises the stakes because the Russian legislature will have to respond, even ... >> full
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