Jamestown Foundation: The Russian Question And The Return Of Suicide Bombers In The North Caucasus
|
posted by eagle on July, 2010 as Imperialism
The Russian Question and the Return of Suicide Bombers in the North CaucasusPublication: North Caucasus Analysis July 16, 2010 06:14 PM
After a six-week lull, the Chechen capital Grozny has once again experienced another suicide bombing attack. On the evening of June 30, a suicide bomber attempted to enter the Grozny concert hall shortly before a performance. He was stopped, but managed to set off an explosive device. The first reports following the incident said that Ramzan Kadyrov, the Moscow-backed leader of Chechnya, was already inside the hall at the moment, although according to other versions, he arrived there only after the explosive had been detonated in an effort to downplay the importance of the incident (www.chechnya.kavkaz-uzel.ru, July 2). The blast killed the suicide bomber on the spot, a few meters away from the concert hall’s main entrance and in the immediate proximity of two police patrol cars, and took place ... >> full
comments (0)
Jamestown Foundation: Putin Promises Economic Overhaul Of North Caucasus
|
posted by eagle on as Imperialism
Putin Promises Economic Overhaul of North CaucasusPublication: North Caucasus Analysis July 16, 2010 06:09 PM
On July 6, Russian Prime Minister, Vladimir Putin, outlined the government’s plans for North Caucasus development at a United Russia party gathering in the Stavropol region (www.kavkaz-uzel.ru, July 6). However, the grandiose future projects that Putin described in his speech were accompanied by much more modest actual government money infusions pledged by United Russia functionaries. In his lengthy speech, Russia’s prime minister, who is widely assumed by both his own countrymen and foreigners to be still in charge of the country, praised massive plans to build ski resorts in five out of seven of the North Caucasian republics, including the Republic of Adygea, which is formally not part of the North Caucasian Federal District. According to Putin, the resorts are expected to create as many as 160,000 new jobs in this region of high unemployment, out of ... >> full
comments (0)
Window On Eurasia: ‘Siberia’s Status Within Russia Now Corresponds To Russia’s In The World,’ Economist Says
|
posted by eagle on as Imperialism
Paul Goble
Vienna, July 12 – Siberia increasingly is to Russia what Russia is to the world, a supplier of raw materials that those who are consuming them take without much thought to what is happening at their source economically or ecologically, a pattern that Siberians find increasingly unacceptable, according to a leading economist in that region.
At an academic conference last week in Ulan-Ude, Viktor Suslov, the deputy director of the Institute of Economics at the Siberian Division of the Russian Academy of Sciences, called for new laws that would require Moscow to pay rent for its exploitation of Siberian resources (www.copah.info/news/mnenie-ekonomista-kakova-sibir-v-rossii-takova-rossiya-v-mire).
Arguing that "the status of Siberia inside Russia at the present moment corresponds to the position of Russia in the world at large,” Suslov said that Siberia must develop "a powerful industrial ...
comments (0)
Window On Eurasia: Russia Today Lacks A State In the Usual Sense, Moscow Scholar Says
|
posted by eagle on as Imperialism
Paul Goble
Vienna, July 12 – What people call the state in Russia is not "a system of public institutions” as the state is in Western countrie but rather "a mechanism for the enrichment of the powers that be who control the excessively privatized substance called only by mistake is called the Russian Federation,” according to a leading Moscow political scientist.
In an interview posted on Kasparov.ru, Tatyana Vorozheykina, who teaches at the Moscow Higher School of Social and Economic Sciences, argues that the Russian state at the present time is "in fact a private corporation for the servicing of the private interests of a narrow group of people” (www.kasparov.ru/material.php?id=4C35C34EC2C52).
And what is more, Vorozheykina says, "everyone knows these people. They come from one city, from one agency, from one dacha cooperative” – an obvious reference ...
comments (0)
Window On Eurasia: Even Russia’s Cossacks Now Thinking About Separatism, Moscow Commentator Says
|
posted by eagle on as Imperialism
Paul Goble
Vienna, July 13 – Few things generated as much anger among Soviet commentators and as much merriment among the West’s anti-anti-communists then the reference in the Congressional Captive Nation Week Resolution, the 61st anniversary of which will be marked this month, than the references to the captive nation of "Cossackia.”
But now, nearly two decades after most but not all of the nations listed in that resolution have achieved their independence, there are growing indications that at least some Cossacks within the borders of the Russian Federation are again thinking about separatism or at least demanding radical autonomy.
In a commentary on the Evrazia.org site today, Andrey Kovalenko says that President Dmitry Medvedev’s policies of "political modernization” threaten to provoke separatism almost everywhere as evidenced by the fact that "even the Cossacks consider it necessary to ...
comments (0)
|
