Civil Georgia: Georgia to Russia: 'Stop State-Sponsored Terror Campaign'
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posted by eagle on June, 2011 as Imperialism
Georgia to Russia: 'Stop State-Sponsored Terror Campaign'
Civil Georgia, Tbilisi / 9 Jun.'11 / 12:18
Georgia will have to "reconsider” its stance towards Geneva talks, if Russia continues "state-sponsored terrorism campaign”, the Georgian Foreign Ministry said in a written statement after the sixteenth round of Geneva talks. "Terrorism can not be negotiated with, or appeased,” it said on June 8. "The Georgian side does not intend to discuss the security, or humanitarian issues related topics with Russia in Geneva, or elsewhere, while Moscow continues to mastermind terrorist attacks on the territory of Georgia.” "If this organized terror campaign continues Georgian side will have no other choice but to reconsider its attitude towards the Geneva Discussions. By the same token, we would like to urge the international community to take up the issue of terrorist acts with the Russian Government at all levels.” The Georgian Interior Ministry said that it had foiled two terrorism attempts in June ...
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Window On Eurasia: Regional Paper Considers Impact Of Russia’s Possible Disintegration On Samara Oblast
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posted by eagle on April, 2011 as Imperialism
Window on Eurasia: Regional Paper Considers Impact of Russia’s Possible Disintegration on Samara OblastPaul Goble
Staunton, April 28 – Many analysts in Moscow and the West have talked in general terms about what they see as the probable disintegration of the Russian Federation into a number of independent states, but a Samara paper this week has taken the next step and discussed what independence would mean for that oblast.
And while this article’s prognostications are no more certain of coming true than those who discuss this possibility in more general terms, they are interesting and important for what they say about how ordinary people are thinking about such outcomes and what their views say about their current expectations and fears.
In an essay in the Tol’yatti paper "Ponedel’nik,” Aleksandr Gremin says that he is not calling for the disintegration of Russia – that is a criminal offense – but only ...
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Window On Eurasia: Young Russians Hate Bureaucrats More Than They Hate North Caucasians, Poll Finds
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Window on Eurasia: Young Russians Hate Bureaucrats More than They Hate North Caucasians, Poll FindsPaul Goble
Staunton, April 22 – A poll of 1600 young Russians in six major cities found that as much as they dislike migrants from the North Caucasus and support nationalist groups like those who took part in the Manezh Square protests last December, they dislike bureaucrats "even more,” a pattern that may portend even larger and more violent clashes.
Yesterday, the Moscow newspaper "Kommersant” reported about a poll conducted for the Social Chamber which showed that "young [Russians] hate bureaucrats more than they hate people from the Caucasus and give preference to nationalist organizations such as the Nashi movement and Molodaya gvardiya” (www.kommersant.ru/doc/1625661?isSearch=True).
The telephone poll, conducted by the Politex Social Technologies Agency with the support of the Moscow Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology, involved 1600 respondents aged 15 to 30 in Moscow, St. Petersburg, ...
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Message From The President Of The Russian Federation B. N. Yeltsin To The Peoples Of The Caucasus
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Message from the President of the Russian Federation B N Yeltsin to the peoples of the Caucasus
Distributed by the Presidential Press Service of the Russian Federation May 18, 1994.
Text of ITAR-TASS
Dear compatriots!
Events more than a century ago brings us back to distant years, when the struggle for the Caucasus faced the interests of the Russian Empire, Britain, France, Iran and Turkey. All these states have their share of responsibility for the suffering the fate of the mountain peoples.
Echoes of the Caucasian war, which had brought more casualties and material losses, still a pain in the hearts of many Russians. May God rest in peace those who have fallen on the battlefield, lost his life on the atrocities of war and those who, being forced to leave the Fatherland, died in exile, experiencing grief country. Let the memory of those long tragic events are kept in the hearts of children and serves as a warning ...>> full
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Window On Eurasia: Moscow Patriarchate Official Says Muslim Crescents Could Be Put On Coats Of Arms Of Russia’s Muslim Regions And Republics
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Window on Eurasia: Moscow Patriarchate Official Says Muslim Crescents Could be Put on Coats of Arms of Russia’s Muslim Regions and RepublicsPaul Goble
Staunton, April 15 – Religious leaders, heraldry experts, and other commentators have rejected Mufti Talgat Tajuddin’s call for putting a cresent on the coat of arms of Russia, but a senior official in the Moscow Patriarchate has opened the way for more controversy by suggesting a Muslim crescent could be put on the coats of arms of Muslim republics and regions.
That is because the suggestion of Archpriest Vsevolod Chaplin, the head of the Patriarchate’s Department for Relations between Church and Society, could open the floodgates by demands from Muslims in various parts of Russia for just such representation and create a checkerboard of Muslim regions as opposed to non-Muslim ones.
And the symbolism of such an obvious division – and it would certainly change over time ...
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