Window On Eurasia: Putin’s Repressive Policies Leading Russia Toward ‘Big Blood,’ Opposition Leaders Say
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posted by eagle on January, 2011 as Imperialism
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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CK: Medvedev: Sochi Shall Become World-Class Resort
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Medvedev: Sochi shall become world-class resortFour out of 14 sporting objects built for the 2014 Winter Olympic Games in Sochi will be moved to other cities, two will be re-profiled and eight will retain their functionality and, along with new transportation and engineering facilities, are intended to transform Sochi into a world-class resort. This was stated by Russian President Dmitri Medvedev at a sitting dedicated to preparation for the Olympics. The "Caucasian Knot" has reported that the training centre for figure skating will be moved from Sochi to Stavropol; the ice arena for curling - to Rostov-on-Don; the small Olympic ice arena - to Vladikavkaz; and the training arena for hockey will go to Astrakhan. "In fact, preparation for the Olympic Games has entered its final phase," said Mr Medvedev on January 4 at a sitting held in a ski resort "Roza Khutor" in the Krasnodar Territory. "For us, it is equally important, ...
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Window On Eurasia: ‘Yugoslav Variant’ Threatens Russian Federation, Khalidov Says
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Window on Eurasia: ‘Yugoslav Variant’ Threatens Russian Federation, Khalidov SaysPaul Goble
Staunton, January 8 – The Soviet Union disintegrated remarkably peacefully largely because the Russian nation and its leaders did not behave in the way that the Serbs and their leaders did in the former Yugoslavia, despite the fears of many at the time that what took place in Yugoslavia would presage what would occur in the USSR.
But now, given the intensification of Russian nationalism and the willingness of some Russian leaders to play to that, a "Yugoslav variant” could threaten a disintegrating Russian Federation, the mere prospect of which should cause everyone to stop and think where their actions and statements may lead, according to an activist from the North Caucasus.
In an article on the SKNews.ru portal, Denga Khalidov, vice president of the Russian Congress of Peoples of the Caucasus and of the Academy of Geopolitical Problems, ...
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Window On Eurasia: Sudanese Referendum Echoes In Russia
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Window on Eurasia: Sudanese Referendum Echoes in RussiaPaul Goble
Staunton, January 11 – The referendum on independence for Southern Sudan has prompted some Russians to complain that Moscow is more interested in the self-determination of people there than of Russians in the former Soviet republics, just one of the ways in which such issues anywhere in the world quickly acquire a Eurasian dimension. .
In a comment today, Modest Kolerov, the chief editor of the Regnum.ru news agency, complains that "the right of one of the peoples of Sudan for self-determination turns out to be more important for Russia than the right of the entire people of Transdniestria for independence” (www.regnum.ru/news/polit/1362872.html).
"Ever more often,” the nationalist editor continues, Russian diplomacy follows the West – in this case to the point of raising the level of "the representative of the mythical interests of Russia in Sudan to the level of a ...
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Window On Eurasia: Simultaneous Opposition Arrests In Three Slavic States Point To Their Possible Re-Integration, Commentator Says
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Window on Eurasia: Simultaneous Opposition Arrests in Three Slavic States Point to Their Possible Re-Integration, Commentator SaysPaul Goble
Staunton, January 9 – The almost simultaneous arrests of opposition figures in Russia, Belarus, and Ukraine – the same three republics which signed the death warrant of the USSR 19 years ago – points to their isolation from Europe and hence re-integration under Russian rule, according to a Moscow commentator.
On his Ekho Moskvy blog today, Yuri Magarshak, the president of the International Committee for Intellectual Cooperation, calls attention to "the striking synchronicity” of the arrests of the leaders of opposition groups in the three Slavic states and discusses the possible meaning of this pattern (echo.msk.ru/blog/ym4/740351-echo/).
Magarshak points to the arrest and detention for 15 days of a former vice prime minister of Vladimir Putin, the arrest of leaders of the opposition in Belarus, including defeated presidential candidates, and the arrest of ...
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