Caucasus News Agency: Ustinov Yelling To Stop The Migration Of Russians From The Caucasus
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posted by eagle on June, 2009 as Imperialism
Ustinov
Yelling To Stop The Migration Of Russians From The Caucasus 
Moscow / Caucasus News Agency - The Special Representative of
the Russian Presidency in the Southern Federal districts Vladimir Ustinov had
requested from the Russian President Dmitry Medvedev to help to stop the increase
of migration of Russians from the North Caucasus.
Ustinov, speaking via satellite meeting was held
with Medvedev in the tenth of the current month of the problems of the North Caucasus region and in particular unemployment,
which he said had made the Russians to leave the area. The Russian
representative said that the problem reached critical proportions and in
particular in the Republics of Chechnya and Ingushetia, adding: "There is
a slight decline, but we have a problem in the national republics. Production
has declined, especially in the defense industry and the Russians in particular
are leaving their jobs. We are ...
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Telegraph.co.uk: Russia Shuts Out The International Community
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Russia shuts out the international communityThe Russian leadership’s actions have made it clear that it wants no international presence in Georgia’s occupied regions. That begs the question why this is the case, says Svante Cornell.
By Svante Cornell
Published: 7:32PM BST 16 Jun 2009 Comments 31 | This Monday, Russia vetoed the extension of the United Nations Observer Mission in Georgia. The move served to kill the last remaining international organization with a presence in Georgia’s conflict zones, which Moscow invaded and occupied last August. This will enable Russia to continue to stage provocations against its small neighbor with impunity. Moscow clearly feels it did not finish what it started last August; only continued Western resolve can deter it from trying to do so. Last August, Russia invaded Georgia and effectively annexed two of its provinces, Abkhazia and South Ossetia. This aggression sought not only to dismember Georgia and halt its NATO accession prospects, ...
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Window On Eurasia: Kremlin Assumes Control For Promoting Russia’s Image Abroad
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Paul Goble
Vienna, June 17 – At the end of May, “Nezavisimaya gazeta” reports today, President Dmitry Medvedev created a new structure in the Kremlin to promote a positive image of Russia abroad, a group that apparently will play a far larger and more pro-active role than the foreign ministry body it replaces.
In an article entitled “Russia in Search of an Image,” Svetlana Khod’ko says that the new structure will work under the direction of Sergey Naryshkin, the head of the Presidential Administration (PA), and will include Aleksey Gromov, the PA deputy head, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, and Sergey Prikhod’ko, assistant to the president for international affairs.
“The main task of the new structure,” Khod’ko writes, “is to correct the image mistakes committed” over the last year,” since Medvedev became president, including the failure of Moscow to persuade other ...
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Window On Eurasia: Moscow’s Anti-Extremism Effort Targeting Ever More Groups
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Paul Goble
Vienna, June 17 – Moscow has expanded the list of groups it is targeting in its anti-extremism campaign to include not only Islamists and religious “sectarians” as in the past but now also football fans, independent trade unions, and environmental activists, according to a Moscow expert on the Russian force structures.
In the latest of her series of articles in “Yezhednevny zhurnal” on the Russian government’s anti-extremist effort, Irina Borogan of Agentura.ru today discusses the original list of “extremists” the powers compiled and how that list has grown as the economic crisis in Russia has deepened (www.ej.ru/?a=note&id=9185).
On December 16, 2008, she reports, the Russian Procuracy General, the Federal Security Service (FSB), and the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MVD) issued a joint order “on improving work for preventing and interdicting the activity of social and religious groups disseminating ideas ...
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Window On Eurasia: Moscow’s Failings Transforming FSU From A ‘Post-Soviet’ To A ‘Post-Russian Space,’ Paper Says
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Paul Goble
Vienna, June 16 – Moscow’s failure to provide an attractive model for the former Soviet republics or to consider their distinct interests and its aggressive behavior toward many of them are transforming the Post-Soviet space into a “post-Russian” one, in which Russia will not be able to count a single state there as its reliable ally, according to a leading Moscow newspaper.
In a lead article published yesterday, the editors of “Gazeta” argue that “Russia is entering the stage of the final loss of influence in the post-Soviet space” because it has failed to take the interests of the other countries into account or offer them “attractive” economic and political projects (www.gazeta.ru/comments/2009/06/15_e_3210751.shtml).
What makes this editorial so intriguing is that it comes at a time when many Russian officials and commentators close to ...
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