Window On Eurasia: Moscow Institute With Links To Medvedev Calls For Ending Putin’s Regional Amalgamation Plan
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posted by eagle on April, 2010 as Imperialism
Paul Goble
Dayton, April 7 – The Institute of Contemporary Development, whose patrons include Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, says that the regional amalgamation effort current Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has been associated with has proved more problematic than useful and recommends that Moscow drop plans for any further combination of federal subjects.
Prepared under the direction of Yevgeny Gontmakher, noted for his discussion of Russia’s company town problem, the 175-page report both examines the consequences of those regional amalgamations that have already taken place and evaluates projects for further "unifications” in the future (www.gazeta.ru/politics/2010/04/06_a_3348056.shtml).
One of the report’s authors, Aleksandr Kynyev, who heads regional programs at the Moscow Foundation for the Development of Information Systems, stressed that there was no special reason the report was being released just now, pointing out that most of the ...
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NatPress: Moscow Institute Calls For Ending Putin’s Regional Amalgamation Plan
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Moscow Institute Calls for Ending Putin’s Regional Amalgamation Plan
10 April 2010 – 10:12 – NatPress
Source: Window on EurAsia – Paul Goble
The Institute of Contemporary Development, whose patrons include Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, says that the regional amalgamation effort current Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has been associated with has proved more problematic than useful and recommends that Moscow drop plans for any further combination of federal subjects. Prepared under the direction of Yevgeny Gontmakher, noted for his discussion of Russia’s company town problem, the 175-page report both examines the consequences of those regional amalgamations that have already taken place and evaluates projects for further "unifications” in the future (www.gazeta.ru/politics/2010/04/06_a_3348056.shtml). One of the report’s authors, Aleksandr Kynyev, who heads regional programs at the Moscow Foundation for the Development of Information Systems, stressed that there was no special reason the report was being released just now, pointing out that most of the text had been completed last year. As the report notes, the program ...
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Jamestown Foundation: Chechnya’s Parliament Criticizes Russian Presidential Envoy In The North Caucasus
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Chechnya’s Parliament Criticizes Russian Presidential Envoy in the North CaucasusPublication: Eurasia Daily Monitor April 8, 2010 04:18 PM
 Russian Presidential envoy to the North Caucasus Alexander Khloponin
On March 31, Chechnya’s parliament issued a statement expressing its disapproval of the presidential envoy to the North Caucasus, Alexander Khloponin. According to the Chechen parliament, delays in changes in the socio-economic development of the region were disappointing and could potentially damage President Dmitry Medvedev’s reputation and create apathy among the population of the region. The parliamentarians said Chechnya did not receive enough attention from the North Caucasus Federal District and the district bureaucracy did not succeed in building a suitable work team (www.hechnyatoday.com, April 1).
Chechnya’s parliament is widely known for its complete allegiance to the republic’s president, Ramzan Kadyrov. Therefore, the statement became the latest and the clearest sign of a rift between Kadyrov and Alexander Khloponin. In January 2010, President Medvedev created the ... >> full
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Window On Eurasia: ‘Mass Exodus’ Of Russians From North Caucasus ‘Threatens Russian Federation’s Existence,’ Scholar Says
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Paul Goble
Vienna, April 5 – The "mass exodus” of the ethnic Russian population from the North Caucasus, a flow that began in the late Soviet period, expanded after the demise of the USSR, and shows no sign of diminishing in the future "threatens the very existence of the Russian Federation,” according to a Russian specialist at the Southern Federal University in Rostov.
Edvard Popov, who teaches there, says that conditions in the North Caucasus, including poverty, unemployment, xenophobia and violence help to explain two migration flows: the outflow of ethnic Russians which reverses the earlier "Russian colonization” of the region and the outflow of non-Russians which can be called "the internal colonization of Russia” by them.
The second has created many problems in Russia’s cities, he acknowledges, but "the mass departure of the Russian ...
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Window On Eurasia: Russia Still Isn’t Connected By Road from Kaliningrad To Vladivostok
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Paul Goble
Vienna, April 5 – Moscow has a transportation ministry and a highway administration but it "does not have a road which reliably connects the East and West of the country,” a lack that Russian officials from Vladimir Putin on down have tried to conceal but one that has profound consequences for how that country is ruled and its ability to function as a single state.
In an article in today’s "Novaya gazeta” entitled "A United Russia from Kaliningrad to Chita,” Aleksey Tarasov calls attention to one of the least well-kept secrets in the Russian Federation: the inability Russians to drive from one part of their country to another because of the lack of highways (novayagazeta.ru/data/2010/035/21.html).
The term "united Russia,” the paper’s Krasnoyarsk correspondent says, "has meaning only during the wintertime.” When temperatures rise above freezing, many ...
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