Window On Eurasia: Is Putin Planning To Give New Content To ‘Traditional Islam’ In Russia?
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posted by eagle on February, 2011 as Imperialism
Window on Eurasia: Is Putin Planning to Give New Content to ‘Traditional Islam’ in Russia?Paul Goble
Vienna, February 1 – Just as he has after every major terrorist act, Vladimir Putin has expressed his support for "traditional Islam,” an invocation that most analysts have seen as the Russian leader’s backing for the hyper-loyal leaders of Russia’s Muslim establishment and opposition to any versions of Islam, in particular fundamentalist ones, imported from abroad.
And to the extent that these analysts have discussed the term at all, they have seen it as a reflection of a desire by Moscow in Soviet times and since to make Islam inside Russia into faith with much the same hierarchy, loyalty and control over congregants that the Russian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate displays.
But a new analysis of the term itself and Putin’s own comments in support of particular Islamic traditions suggests that he ...
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Window On Eurasia: Multi-National State Inherited from Soviet Past Precludes Democracy, Moscow Analyst Says
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Window on Eurasia: Multi-National State Inherited from Soviet Past Precludes Democracy, Moscow Analyst SaysPaul Goble
Vienna, February 3 - Moscow’s approach to the nationality question is based on "a set of prejudices inherited from Soviet times,” prejudices that by themselves have been exploited by some of the powers that be to build a power vertical and that thus have the effect of precluding the development of democracy in the Russian Federation, according to a Moscow analyst.
In an essay on the APN.ru site yesterday, Mikhail Remizov says that the Russian ruling elite does not have a serious conception of nationality policy but rather operates according to prejudices inherited from Soviet times which are inconsistent with other aspects of post-Soviet realities (www.apn.ru/publications/article23602.htm).
Remizov names what he calls "the two basic contradictions of Soviet and Russian nationality policy. On the one hand, there is "the contradiction between a single political nation and ...
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Russian Imperialism And Media
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Russian Imperialism And Media
In principle and throughout the years media and its enormous audio,
written and visual tools had always been and still an essential factor of
addressing individuals, societies and nations in order to tackle and/or deliver
a message that the originator is intending to convey, for the purpose of
reflecting ideas or facts on the ground. Unfortunately good and bad intents and
purposes might be mixed together once
deception is the greatest concern of the opportunist side when
an evil element that intends to acquire the tools and opportunities
to pass their wicked agenda through lying, hypocrisy, duplicity, and circulate,
and to distribute their malicious and destructive
conceptions in order to show their injustice and
aggression in a completely different template, regardless of the harm
effects they create to justice, truth, rights and human suffering.
However, integrity and commitment
oblige the fairness of those analysts, human rights activists and NGO’s who
analyze, publish and make public any
outcome that ... >> full
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Window On Eurasia: Soviet-Style ‘Permitted Humor’ Returns To Russia, Moscow Writer Says
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posted by eagle on January, 2011 as Imperialism
Window on Eurasia: Soviet-Style ‘Permitted Humor’ Returns to Russia, Moscow Writer SaysPaul Goble
Staunton, January 15 – Just like their Soviet predecessors, today’s Russian rulers recognize they need "the imitation of a critical attitude toward reality” of the kind humor can often provide, but also just like their predecessors, they have set clear rules for what humor is "permitted” and what is not, at least in the mass media, according to a Moscow commentator.
In an article in "Novaya gazeta” this week, Andrey Arkhangelsky describes how this system came into being, how it operates now in comparison with the Soviet past, and, what is particularly intriguing, the set of rules about what the powers that be will permit and what they won’t in today’s Russia (www.novayagazeta.ru/data/2011/001/25.html).
"In Russia,” Arkhangelsky argues, "it has always been necessary to get permission for a joke, and this phenomenon has distorted the genetics of our ...
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Window On Eurasia: Russia’s Federal Districts Aren’t Working In Current Form, Daghestani Says
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Window on Eurasia: Russia’s Federal Districts Aren’t Working in Current Form, Daghestani SaysPaul Goble
Staunton, January 17 – Russia’s system of federal districts, which stand between Moscow and the subjects of the federation, needs to be fundamentally revised if it is to be effective and more than home for politicians who have failed elsewhere or the locus for the further growth of the bureaucracy, according to a Daghestani commentator.
In an article on the first anniversary of the creation of the North Caucasus Federal District, Albert Esedov says that many Daghestanis had great expectations for the new entity all the more so because President Dmitry Medvedev unlike his predecessor Vladimir Putin stressed the economic role of this institution (gazeta-nv.ru/content/view/5269/109/).
And in the past year, there have been "several positive moves forward” – of "at the very least, a number of investment programs and plans have been adopted.” But there have ...
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