29/05/2021 | En Profundidad
OpEd - Sufism Offers Spirituality Traditional Muslim Trends Don’t And Keeps Young From Turning To Extremism
Sufism, the mystical trend in Islam, can be an ally of Muslim mullahs and imams and even the Russian state, by attracting young Russians to it and thus protecting them from the baleful influence of radical “pseudo-religious extremism,” Ildar Safargaleyev says.
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02/01/2019 | En Profundidad
Because Of Putin, 2019 Will Be A Repeat Of 1939 OpEd
No one should be confused by the calendar, Crimean Tatar commentator Ayder Muzhdabayev says. The coming year will be a reprise of the horrors of 1939 because Vladimir Putin will move to absorb Belarus, expand his war against Ukraine, and use terrorist acts to promote a Russian presence in the Baltic region.
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07/02/2018 | Economia y Finanzas
Moscow Driving Ever More Firms Into Shadow Economy Or Bankruptcy OpEd
The Russian government has been making promises of a tax holiday to tempt unregistered Russian firms to come out of the shadow economy and eventually pay taxes to the state, but Moscows track record as far as keeping its promises means that very few firms have taken up its offer, official statistics show.
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23/01/2018 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
OpEd - Expansion Of Russias Private Militaries Could Free Kremlins Hand For More Interventions Abroad
Many analysts have pointed out that governments which have professional armies rather than draft-based ones are typically less constrained in the use of force abroad than those that do because regimes have to worry about the kind of losses than can reduce the willingness of its people to serve in the military.
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22/01/2018 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Expansion Of Russias Private Militaries Could Free Kremlins Hand For More Interventions Abroad OpEd
Many analysts have pointed out that governments which have professional armies rather than draft-based ones are typically less constrained in the use of force abroad than those that do because regimes have to worry about the kind of losses than can reduce the willingness of its people to serve in the military.
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08/01/2018 | Frente Externo
Yet Another Country Lithuania Forced To Ask: Is This Stupidity Or Treason? OpEd
In mid-November 1916, Kadet leader Pavel Milyukov posed a question which is increasingly being heard in countries today. Confronted with government policies that represent a betrayal of national interests and even a surrender to enemies, Milyukov and those who follow him now asked is this stupidity or is this treason?
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10/12/2017 | Frente Externo
The Real Demographic Challenges In Baltic Countries Arent Ethnic OpEd
For most of the quarter century since Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania recovered their de facto independence, when Russian or Western analysts spoke about demographic problems in them, they focused almost entirely on the role of ethnic Russians and Russian speakers in their populations.
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10/12/2017 | En Parrilla
Putin Wants To Ban All Non-Russian Oil And Gas Shipping On Northern Sea Route OpEd
Vladimir Putin on Thursday told key ministers and business leaders that he wants Russian-flagged ships to have the exclusive right to move oil and gas across the Northern Sea Route and is prepared to consider extending a similar ban on non-Russian shipping to other sea routes of our country.
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16/11/2017 | Frente Externo
Russias Long-Haul Truckers Plan 10-Day Warning Strike In December And A Presidential Campaign OpEd
The Carriers Union says that Russian truckers will resume their strike in more than 50 federal subjects from December 15 to 25 to press their demands for an end to the Plato system they struck against earlier and are now preparing for their leader, Andrey Bazhutin, to be a candidate in the presidential elections next March.
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18/05/2017 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Containment In Todays Globalized World Wont Be Easy Or Even Enough OpEd
Ever more people are calling for the containment of Putins Russia and some are even celebrating that the West has already been taking the necessary first steps in that direction, but such appeals and even more such celebrations fail to recognize that in todays globalized world, containment wont be easy and almost certainly it wont be enough.
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13/10/2014 | Frente Externo
Moscows Mistreatment of Muslims Seen Triggering Violence Across Russia
The editors of Moscows Nezavisimaya Gazeta warn in a lead article October 6 that injustice toward [Muslim] believers could lead to violence in Moscow and other Russian cities as well, a conclusion that new research on the state of inter-ethnic relations in Russias regions confirms.
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07/04/2010 | Frente Externo
Muslims No Longer Demographic Reserve For Russia
Despite what many still believe, neither immigration from Muslim nations in Central Asia and the Caucasus nor birthrates among Russias own Muslim nations represents a demographic reserve for the country, and consequently, Moscow must move beyond its current pro-natalist policies if it hopes to stem Russias demographic decline.
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30/03/2009 | En Parrilla
Window on Eurasia: Pomors Invoke UN Rules to Defend Their Community Against Moscow
The Pomors, a small but distinctive Russian-speaking community that has lived for centuries on the shore of the White Sea, is invoking UN declarations on the rights of traditional fishermen to press Moscow to extend to them the treatment the Russian Constitution and Russian law mandate for the numerically small peoples of the North.
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