Kamchatka Struggles to Keep Traditions
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posted by zaina19 on July, 2007 as Imperialism
Kamchatka Struggles to Keep Traditions By Olesya Dmitracova Reuters Olesya Dmitracova / Reuters Folk performer Lidia Chechulina in the forest near her village, Pimchakh, in July. PIMCHAKH, Russia — Listening to enigmatic Koryak-language songs and eating traditional salmon soup and cutlets in this village, it is easy to imagine that indigenous cultures still thrive on Russia’s Kamchatka peninsula. In fact it is only the sheer tenacity of local Koryaks, Itelmens, Evens and other aborigines, that keep centuries-old customs and languages from dying out in Russia’s wild Far East after much was eroded by Soviet rule. “Native people must live on. Without them this land will be poor and it will be impossible to bring meaning to this land,” said Vera Koveinik, who heads the ethnic community of Pimchakh, 40 kilometers from regional capital Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky. When Russians began settling in Kamchatka — a volcanic region 12,000 kilometers and nine time zones east of Moscow — in the second half ... >> full
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From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 7/20/2007 3:43 AM © RIA NOVOSTI Russia’s New Black Sea Base Complete by 2012 13/07/2007 NOVOROSSIISK (RIA Novosti) - The construction of a new base for the Russian Black Sea Fleet in the port of Novorossiisk will be completed by 2012, the Navy Commander said Wednesday. President Vladimir Putin signed a decree in 2003 setting up an alternative naval base for the Black Sea Fleet in Novorossiisk after Ukraine demanded the base in Sevastopol be withdrawn by 2017. "In five years, we will finish the construction of breakwaters and piers," Russian Navy Commander Admiral Vladimir Masorin said. "As a result, the base will be able to accommodate up to 100 ships of the Black Sea Fleet." Russia has allocated 12.3 billion rubles (about $480 million) for the construction of the new base between 2007 and 2012 under a targeted federal program. Masorin said three piers had been constructed and the work was ... >> full
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West To Seek Kosovo Solution Outside UN
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From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 7/21/2007 1:24 AM Friday, July 20, 2007 West To Seek Kosovo Solution Outside UN Serbia -- Kosovo (Kosova), undated (RFE/RL) July 20, 2007 -- The United States and European powers say it has proven impossible to move forward with a UN Security Council resolution on Kosovo's final status due to Russia's threat of a veto. Speaking at a briefing today, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, Zalmay Khalilzad, said the six-nation Contact Group (Britain, France, Italy, Germany, Russia, and the United States) should work toward a solution. Khalilzad, said that if Russia stays "with the point that they have said before, which is that this [plan] is unacceptable, then the Contact Group, the sponsoring nations have come to an agreement to move outside the [UN Security] Council and for the Contact Group to take the lead in a new process to move forward." France's UN ambassador, Jean-Marc De La Sabliere, likewise ... >> full
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Russians seek return to Chechnya
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From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 7/28/2007 1:03 AM Window on Eurasia: Russia’s Muslims Upset by Moscow's Opposition to Kosovo Independence Paul Goble Vienna, July 23 – Russia’s Muslims strongly back independence for Kosovo, according to a leading Moscow analyst, and many of its members see Moscow’s opposition to that development not only as ineffective but a slur on their status as full-fledged citizens of the Russian Federation. Although polls suggest that most Russians support the Kremlin’s opposition to Western plans for the independence of Kosovo – see the latest Levada Center sampling at http://www.levada.ru/press/2007072301.htm -- Russia’s more than 20 million Muslims reportedly have a quite different opinion. In an interview posted online today, Ruslan Saidov, who is both a Muslim and a Russian political scientist, argues that Moscow’s opposition to the independence of Kosovo is a mistake on two grounds. On the one hand, he says, “the independence of Kosovo from Serbia is inevitable ... >> full
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Window on Eurasia: Russia’s Muslims Upset by Moscow's Opposition to Kosovo Independence
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From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 7/28/2007 1:03 AM Window on Eurasia: Russia’s Muslims Upset by Moscow's Opposition to Kosovo Independence Paul Goble Vienna, July 23 – Russia’s Muslims strongly back independence for Kosovo, according to a leading Moscow analyst, and many of its members see Moscow’s opposition to that development not only as ineffective but a slur on their status as full-fledged citizens of the Russian Federation. Although polls suggest that most Russians support the Kremlin’s opposition to Western plans for the independence of Kosovo – see the latest Levada Center sampling at http://www.levada.ru/press/2007072301.htm -- Russia’s more than 20 million Muslims reportedly have a quite different opinion. In an interview posted online today, Ruslan Saidov, who is both a Muslim and a Russian political scientist, argues that Moscow’s opposition to the independence of Kosovo is a mistake on two grounds. On the one hand, he says, “the independence of Kosovo from Serbia is inevitable ... >> full
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