Post-Soviet Russian Empire Entering ‘Second Phase’ of Disintegration, Lukyanenko Says

Sunday, August 28, 2016

Post-Soviet Russian Empire Entering ‘Second Phase’ of Disintegration, Lukyanenko Says

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Cossack identity in the new Russia: Kuban Cossack revival and local politics

Pages 1057-1077 | Published online: 28 Nov 2006
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Cossack identity in the new Russia: Kuban Cossack revival and local politics

August 27. 2016

This article deals with the problem of contemporary Cossack identities, and discusses the question of popular support for the Kuban Cossack organisation in the southern Russian region, Krasnodar krai. In the early 1990s the Cossack movement gathered between 3.5 and 5 million people, and constituted a significant political movement in post-Soviet Russia. Today, the movement’s political force has weakened. In this article it is argued that one important reason for this is the tension between the urban based, official Cossack politics, and the constructions of Cossack identity in rural Cossack settlements (stanitsas). It is further argued that this tension is produced by the Cossacks’ historically changing relation towards the state.

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DEATHS OF JOURNALISTS IN RUSSIA – List 9

DEATHS OF JOURNALISTS IN RUSSIA

This database includes the violent, premature or unexplained deaths of journalists in Russia recorded by the country’s own media monitors since the early 1990s. Each entry (click on View in last column of Search Results) offers a narrative account of the journalist’s work and death based mainly on monitoring information gathered in Moscow by the Glasnost Defence Foundation and theCentre for Journalism in Extreme Situations.

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DEATHS OF JOURNALISTS IN RUSSIA

DEATHS OF JOURNALISTS IN RUSSIA

This database includes the violent, premature or unexplained deaths of journalists in Russia recorded by the country’s own media monitors since the early 1990s. Each entry (click on View in last column of Search Results) offers a narrative account of the journalist’s work and death based mainly on monitoring information gathered in Moscow by the Glasnost Defence Foundation and theCentre for Journalism in Extreme Situations. Read more

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موسكو تخشى فوز القوميين الشراكسة في جمهورية أديغيا، وهي تحضر لاستخدام المخابرات الروسية لوقفهم

الخميس 18 أغسطس/آب 2016

موسكو تخشى فوز القوميين الشراكسة في جمهورية أديغيا، وهي تحضر لاستخدام المخابرات الروسية لوقفهم

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Moscow Fears Circassian Nationalists Will Win in Adygeya, Prepared to Use FSB to Stop Them

Thursday, August 18, 2016

Moscow Fears Circassian Nationalists Will Win in Adygeya, Prepared to Use FSB to Stop Them

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Главе РФ: «В стране грубо игнорируются права и интересы черкесов-соотечественников»

Главе РФ: «В стране грубо игнорируются права и интересы черкесов-соотечественников»

Главе РФ: «В стране грубо игнорируются права и интересы черкесов-соотечественников»

16-08-2016

Обращение Кабардино-Балкарского регионального правозащитного центра к президенту РФ в связи с отказом во въезде в Россию представителям турецкой черкесской диаспоры для участия в траурных мероприятиях 21 мая, посвященным 152-й годовщине окончания Русско-Кавказской войны. Read more

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