Window On Eurasia: Assassination Attempt In Ingushetia Threatens Medvedev’s Broader Policies
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posted by eagle on June, 2009 as Imperialism
Paul Goble
Vienna, June 23 – The assassination attempt against Ingush President Yunus-Bek Yevkurov, an action that Russian President Dmitry Medvedev views as a direct challenge to his own cadres policy, has prompted him to change course in ways that point to more violence, instability, and human rights violations in the North Caucasus.
As Moscow commentator Tatyana Stanovaya pointed out today, it is “obvious” that Medvedev views the attempt as an attack on his policies, given that the Russian president had insisted on Yevkurov’s appointment despite opposition from Vladimir Putin who was reluctant to oust his unpopular chekist predecessor (www.politcom.ru/8379.html).
Not only did Medvedev devote almost his entire working day yesterday to the Yevkurov case – summoning top security officials, ordering a harsh response to the perpetrators, and visiting the Ingush leader in a Moscow hospital – but the Russian ...
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Window On Eurasia: Assassination Attempt In Ingushetia Threatens Medvedev’s Broader Policies
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posted by eagle on as Imperialism
Paul Goble
Vienna, June 23 – The assassination attempt against Ingush President Yunus-Bek Yevkurov, an action that Russian President Dmitry Medvedev views as a direct challenge to his own cadres policy, has prompted him to change course in ways that point to more violence, instability, and human rights violations in the North Caucasus.
As Moscow commentator Tatyana Stanovaya pointed out today, it is “obvious” that Medvedev views the attempt as an attack on his policies, given that the Russian president had insisted on Yevkurov’s appointment despite opposition from Vladimir Putin who was reluctant to oust his unpopular chekist predecessor (www.politcom.ru/8379.html).
Not only did Medvedev devote almost his entire working day yesterday to the Yevkurov case – summoning top security officials, ordering a harsh response to the perpetrators, and visiting the Ingush leader in a Moscow hospital – but the Russian ...
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Window On Eurasia: Medvedev Tells Arabs Russia Is An ‘Organic Part’ Of Muslim World
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posted by eagle on as Imperialism
Paul Goble
Vienna, June 24 – In what many are certain to view as his response to US President Barak Obama’s Cairo address earlier this month, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev told a meeting of the Arab League there yesterday that Russia is “an organic part” of the Muslim world and opposes Western efforts to promote democratic change in the Middle East.
“Islam,” Medvedev told his audience, “is an inalienable part of Russian history and culture, given that more than 20 million Russian citizens are among the faithful. Consequently, he said, “Russia does not need to seek friendship with the Muslim world: Our country is an organic part of this world” (www.i-r-p.ru/page/stream-event/index-23456.html).
But two other of the Russian leader’s comments were likely to be even more welcome by members of the Arab League. On the one hand, he ...
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Window On Eurasia: Rakhimov Remains -- And Thus So Too Does His Challenge to Moscow
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Paul Goble
Vienna, June 22 – After making the most withering critique of Moscow’s approach ever offered by an incumbent leader of a subject of the Russian Federation, Bashkortostan President Murtaza Rakhimov not only has extracted a promise from the center that he will remain in office until the end of his term in 2011 but also has left on the table all the criticisms he made.
And while “Vremya novostei’s” Kseniya Veretennikova is correct that, after some initially heated words, the central government and the party of power did not address Rakhimov’s critique, both his critique and perhaps even more the manner of his survival are certain to resonate with other regional leaders (www.vremya.ru/2009/107/4/231650.html).
Indeed, at least some of the latter are likely to assume that in the current economic environment, they may be able ...
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Window On Eurasia: Fearful Superiors Won’t Back Them Up, Some Moscow Militiamen Refuse To Suppress Ethnic Clashes
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posted by eagle on as Imperialism
Paul Goble
Vienna, June 20 – In what one Moscow news outlet says is “a new fashion in Russia,” some rank-and-file militiamen in Moscow are refusing to obey orders to leave their stations and suppress inter-ethnic clashes, fearful that their superiors will fail to back them up, either because of pressure from well-connected ethnic diasporas or a desire to be politically correct.
How widespread this phenomenon is and how justified the militiamen involved are in such feelings – militiamen are notorious for attacking minorities – is unknown, but any such refusal to obey orders at a time of growing tensions represents a serious threat not only to public order but, if it becomes widely known, political stability.
In the current issue of “Russky reporter,” Dmitry Vinogradov describes what he says is “the latest corporative ...
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