Window On Eurasia: Medvedev’s Words Point Either toward A Russian Federation With Russian Autonomies Or Toward A Russian National State, Analyst Says
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posted by eagle on January, 2011 as Imperialism
Window on Eurasia: Medvedev’s Words Point Either toward a Russian Federation with Russian Autonomies or toward a Russian National State, Analyst SaysPaul Goble
Vienna, January 19 – President Dmitry Medvedev’s words about Russians this week recognize the difference between the ethnic and non-ethnic definition of Russians and point toward either the formation of ethnic Russian autonomies within the Russian Federation or the transformation of that country into a Russian national state, according to a Moscow analyst.
But whatever Medvedev’s intentions, Sergey Kornyev argues, his words highlight "a well-known algorithm of contemporary feudal statehood: the rights of each social group are recognized to the degree it manifests force and brutality,” a reference to the Manezh violence but also an indication of what may happen next (www.inright.ru/blogs/id_4/post_6296/).
And consequently, Kornyev’s logic suggests, Medvedev and the Russian state will be forced in one or another direction depending on whether there are more radical ...
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Window On Eurasia: Russia Moving toward A ‘Proto-Fascist Regime,’ Moscow Scholar Warns
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Window on Eurasia: Russia Moving toward a ‘Proto-Fascist Regime,’ Moscow Scholar WarnsPaul Goble
Vienna, January 20 – The Moscow Patriarchate’s advocacy of a dress code for all Russians is at one level simply an absurdity, but at another it is evidence of "a very strong tendency” in Russia "toward the establishment of a proto-fascist regime masked under the name of sovereign democracy,” according to a senior Moscow scholar.
Indeed, Sergey Arutyunov, a specialist on the North Caucasus, argues, Russia is moving toward a system "in essence no less totalitarian than Mussolini’s regime in Italy or with certain qualifications (let us say, without anti-Semitism or perhaps even with a revived anti-Semitism) Hitler’s regime in Germany (grani.ru/blogs/free/entries/185488.html).
That trend is "natural,” he argues, because "the situation in [Russia] recalls that in the Weimar Republic on the eve of the fascists’ coming to power. The very same factors, the very same attitudes in ...
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Window On Eurasia: Moscow Has Fewer Levers In Post-Soviet Space Than Many Assume, Analyst Says
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Window on Eurasia: Moscow Has Fewer Levers in Post-Soviet Space than Many Assume, Analyst SaysPaul Goble
Staunton, January 21 – While Russia’s influence as a country on Belarus, Ukraine and Moldova is very large, Moscow as a government has far fewer levers to influence the situation in these countries than many assume, an imbalance that helps to explain the often internally inconsisten pattern of relations between the former imperial center and these new states.
In an analysis of the relations between Moscow and what he calls "Easternmost Europe,” Valery Bondarenko argues that "Russia and the Kremlin are hardly one and the same thing.” Instead, he suggests, Russia write large has great influence, but Moscow lacks many of the levers on the regimes there that others have (www.imperiya.by/authorsanalytics19-9073.html).
Easternmost Europe, Bondarenko argues, is characterized by a number of special features. Its main distinguishing factor is the "very high degree of dependence” ...
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Window On Eurasia: Putin’s Repressive Policies Leading Russia toward ‘Big Blood,’ Opposition Leaders Say
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Window on Eurasia: Putin’s Repressive Policies Leading Russia toward ‘Big Blood,’ Opposition Leaders SayPaul Goble
Staunton, January 18 – Vladimir Putin has "chosen the Belarusian path of dictatorship and repression,” opposition figures, who were released this weekend after being detained in a sanctioned protest action on December 3, told the media yesterday, and the Russian leader has opened the way to future clashes and violence of the kind many call "big blood.”
Three leading opposition figures, Eduard Limonov, the head of the banned National Bolshevik Party, Boris Nemtsov, a leader of Solidarity, and Ilya Yashin, a leader of Solidarity’s youth wing, whom Amnesty International had identified as "prisoners of conscience” spoke at a Moscow press conference (www.nr2.ru/moskow/316481.html).
In the past, Limonov said, the powers had come after him for organizing "unsanctioned meetings,” something he never denied. But now officials appear to have decided on the use of "demonstrative force” and ...
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KC: Chief Russian Dissident: Russia Is A Large Concentration Camp That Should Be Surrounded By A Cordon Sanitaire
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Chief Russian dissident: Russia is a large concentration camp that should be surrounded by a cordon sanitairePublication time: Today at 13:05 Emirate time
The chief Russian dissident Vladimir Bukovsky told about the situation in the KGB Russia on eve of its collapse:
"On 11 December, the Kremlin's directors showed us at the Manezh Square in Moscow another horror story designed to scare us and make them more acceptable for us - as the only "defenders" from the "wild" people.
It's time to get used to such performances. I'm not talking about the Pamyat society that played the same role at the dawn of Perestroika, or the "lawyer's son" Edelstein (Zhirinovsky). (When asked about his ethnic origín, the KGB officer "Zhirinovsky" replied that is a "lawyer's son" - KC)- Some eleven years ago, the same farce was played by our KGB masters with the apartment bombings in Moscow and the start of a new Chechen war. Everybody was scared, forgetting that "the hand of strong government" will ...
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