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Window On Eurasia: National Republics Resist Moscow On Dropping References To Sovereignty

posted by eagle on June, 2009 as Imperialism

SATURDAY, JUNE 20, 2009

Window on Eurasia: National Republics Resist Moscow on Dropping References to Sovereignty

Paul Goble

Vienna, June 19 – Three of the four national republics the Russian Supreme Court earlier this month ordered to drop references in their constitutions to republic sovereignty and citizenship are dragging their feet, an indication of both the importance of these terms to many non-Russians and a calculation that resistance to the center could have dividends.
While the Sakha parliament on Wednesday approved a law making the changes Moscow wants (www.rian.ru/politics/20090617/174600061.html), the governments of Tyva, Tatarstan and Bashkortostan have not taken this step and, in at least the cases of Kazan and Ufa, do not appear to be planning to do so in the immediate future.
In Tyva, deputies in the Grand Khural, as the republic parliament is known, this week voted down legislation that would have created a constitutional commission to consider the changes. But officials ...

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The Other Russia: Golts On Russia’s ‘Milk War’ With Belarus

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Golts on Russia’s ‘Milk War’ With Belarus

June 17th, 2009

UPDATE: Russia has lifted the ban on Belarusian milk products. Shipments should resume on June 18, 2009.

A milk war is brewing. After Russia banned the import of milk products from Belarus on June 6th, relations between the two countries have become increasingly strained. The situation escalated when Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko withdrew from attending a meeting of the Collective Security Treaty Organization on Sunday, a group idealized by Russia as a counterweight to NATO.

Defense expert Aleksandr Golts examines the conflict, delving into its roots and questioning Russia’s intentions and need for a regional alliance like the CSTO. The article first ran in the Yezhednevny Zhurnal online newspaper.

A Meat and Milk Defense
Aleksandr Golts
June 15, 2009
Yezhednevny Zhurnal

Do you remember the old joke, how in the Red Square, after the intercontinental rockets, a column of people with deer-skin hats and briefcases in their hands march out, walking in step. ...

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RFE/RL: Russian Region Removes 'Sovereignty' From Constitution

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June 18, 2009

Russian Region Removes 'Sovereignty' From Constitution

KAZAN, Tatarstan -- The far eastern Russian republic of Sakha (formerly Yakutia) has passed an amendment that removes the word "sovereignty" from its constitution, RFE/RL's Tatar-Bashkir Service reports.

Sakha President Vyacheslav Shtyrov and parliament speaker Vitaly Basygysov drafted the amendment, which says that "subjects of the Russian Federation are not eligible to have sovereignty, since the federation as a whole has it."

The Russian Constitutional Court issued an order on June 9 directing 11 of its "ethnic republics" to eliminate all references in their constitutions to "sovereignty."

The court published its decision in an attempt to urge 10 other entities of the Russian Federation -- including the republics of Tatarstan, Bashkortostan, and Buryatia -- to also change their constitutions so that the word "sovereignty" is removed.

Bashkortostan's President Murtaza Rakhimov said last week that the laws regarding Bashkortostan's sovereignty might be changed.

Officials in Tatarstan have yet to ...

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Window On Eurasia: Moscow Discovers It Has No One To Discover New Oil And Gas Fields

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THURSDAY, JUNE 18, 2009

Window on Eurasia: Moscow Discovers It Has No One to Discover New Oil and Gas Fields

Paul Goble

New York, June 18 – Despite the importance of oil and gas for the Russian economy, Moscow has done little to prevent the collapse of geological exploration and now finds itself forced to launch yet another campaign to create a petroleum prospecting service, according to a group of Siberian analysts.
That is the real explanation for Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s call this week to create “a centralized and vertically integrated system” to discover and monitor new mineral resource locations in general and oil and gas fields in particular, according to experts at the Babr.ru Analytic Center in Irkutsk (news.babr.ru/?IDE=78532).
As “Kommersant” reported yesterday, Putin was disturbed to discover that there was no one place where he and other Russian officials could get information on mineral deposits and no country-wide network of experts looking ...

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Window on Eurasia: Moscow Wants to Unite Muslims of the Post-Soviet Space

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THURSDAY, JUNE 18, 2009

Window on Eurasia: Moscow Wants to Unite Muslims of the Post-Soviet Space

Paul Goble

New York, June 18 – For the first time since the end of the Soviet Union, Moscow this week is hosting senior Muslim leaders from eight post-Soviet states to discuss the formation of a coordinating council among them, a step Russian government officials said would “correspond” to Moscow’s foreign policy goals.
Yesterday, 40 Muslim leaders from eight of the CIS countries, the leaders of the other “traditional” confessions of Russia and senior Muslim leaders from the “far abroad” participated in a scientific-practical conference in the Russian capital entitled “The Muslims in the CIS for Inter-Confessional and Inter-National Accord.”
The meeting, the possibility of which has long been discussed, was organized at the Initiative of the of the Muslim Spiritual Directorate (MSD) of the Caucasus and the International Islamic Mission, with the backing of the Russian government Foundation ...

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