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Thursday, July 30, 2020

Kochesokov, the Golunov of the North Caucasus, Facing Ten Years Behind Bars

Paul Goble

            Staunton, July 28 – Martin Kochesokov, the Circassian activist who was arrested on the same day as Moscow journalist Ivan Golunov now faces up to ten years in prison because the authorities planted drugs on him just as they did on Golunov but the powers that be do not face the united opposition of his colleagues that forced them to drop charges and release Golunov.

            In an interview yesterday, Kochesokov says that his tragedy and that of the Circassians is that Russian officials appointed by Moscow to run their affairs have gotten used to the idea that they can do anything they want, including make people simply disappear; and they are less responsive than officials in Moscow (meduza.io/feature/2020/07/27/esli-ne-sbavlyu-aktivnost-menya-voobsche-ne-naydut). Read more →

الثلاثاء 28 أبريل/نيسان 2020

يقول الخبراء إنه لا توجد قوى شرعية في شمال القوقاز تطالب بالاستقلال لكن المشاكل تزداد حدة

بول غوبل (Paul Goble)

ترجمة: عادل بشقوي

2 مايو/أيار 2020

ستاونتون، 26 أبريل/نيسان — في نهاية شهر مارس/آذار، أجرت وكالة أنباء كفكاز-أوزيل مؤتمرا عبر الإنترنت بين خبراء في الإقليم وموسكو حول ”شمال القوقاز: صراعات جديدة أو خطوط توتر“. قدمت الآن نعيمة نفلياشيفا ملخصًا لمداولاتها (kavkaz–uzel.eu/blogs/1927/posts/42924). Read more →

Tuesday, April 28, 2020

No Legal Forces in North Caucasus Calling for Independence but Problems are Intensifying, Experts Say

Paul Goble

            Staunton, April 26 – At the end of March, the Kavkaz-Uzel news agency conducted an online conference among regional and Moscow experts on “The North Caucasus: New Conflicts or Lines of Tension.” Naima Neflyasheva has now presented a summary of their deliberations (kavkaz-uzel.eu/blogs/1927/posts/42924). Read more →

Paul Gobles 42 Windows on Eurasia for April 7-12, 2020    

 

1.      Is Moscow Sending More Troops to the North Caucasus and Paying Them Five Times as Much? 

windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2020/04/is-moscow-sending-more-troops-to-north.html

 

2.      Russian Official Sociology with Its Presidential Ratings Another Casualty of Pandemic, Davydov Says 

windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2020/04/russian-official-sociology-with-its.html

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  The Following are Mr. Paul Goble’s Latest 42 Windows on Eurasia for April 1-6, 2020

فيما يلي أحدث 42 نافذة على أوراسيا لـلسيد بول غوبل للمدة من 1 إلى 6 أبريل/نيسان 2020

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1.      Ingush Civil Society Groups Buy Masks for Hospitals, Food and Medicine for the Needy 

windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2020/04/ingush-civil-society-groups-buy-masks.html

2.      Economic ‘End of History’ Now Even More Consequential than Political One Fukuyama Spoke of 30 Years Ago, Inozemtsev Says 

windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2020/04/economic-end-of-history-now-even-more.html

3.      Putin Now Faces Plethora of Problems He Can’t Solve with His Accustomed Means, Krasheninnikov Says 

windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2020/04/putin-now-faces-plethora-of-problems-he.html   Read more →

Russian-Murid War 1834-1859

DAGESTAN Northern and eastern Caucasus, approaching the central western Caspian coast. The Murid Imams of the 19th century were the source of considerable resistence to Russian advances in the region, and succeeded in gaining independence from Russian occupation for a time after 1834. Read more →

Tuesday, September 24, 2019

For Russia Now, There are Two North Caucasuses Not One

Paul Goble

            Staunton, September 20 – Many Russians as well as outside observers routinely speak of the North Caucasus as if it were a unified whole when in fact there is a deep divide between its eastern portion which was Islamicized far earlier and remains more Islamic to this day and the western part which has had a different history.

            Indeed, one is almost justified in speaking of two North Caucasuses not one at least in terms of the Russian presence and control and of the nature of national movements and challenges to Moscow. Read more →