RFE/RL Russian Federation Report, Vol. 3, No. 16: excerpts

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RADIO FREE EUROPE/RADIO LIBERTY, PRAGUE, CZECH REPUBLIC
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RFE/RL Russian Federation Report
Vol. 3, No. 16, 3 May 2001
 
A Survey of Developments in the Regions Outside Moscow Prepared by the
Staff of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty

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BASHKORTOSTAN

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.AS RUSSIAN COMMUNITY CRITICAL OF REPUBLIC'S NONCOMPLIANCE WITH
FEDERAL LAWS. The leader of a moderate Tatar nationalist group in Ufa,
Ayrat Giniyatullin, head of the Tatar Public Center, told RFE/RL on 27
April that the lack of a Tatar newspaper in the region is a "major
problem" for Tatars living in Bashkortostan, but a new newspaper has
now emerged. That newspaper, with a print run of 50,000, is printed in
Chelyabinsk in place of the closed Idel-Ural newspaper that had been
subjected to pressure from local authorities. Meanwhile, an
independent Russian newspaper in Ufa, "Otechestvo," criticized local
Bashkortostan authorities' failure to harmonize its law with federal
laws as a "threat to Russia's integrity," RFE/RL's Ufa correspondent
reported. JAC

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SAKHALIN
 
ETHNIC KOREANS LEAVE FOR KOREA. A group of ethnic Korean residents of
Sakhalin Oblast, who were brought to the island by the Japanese
military in the 1930s and 1940s, have returned to the Republic of
Korea, "Nezavisimaya gazeta" reported on 29 April. According to the
daily, almost 1,200 ethnic Koreans have left Sakhalin and have been
supplied with apartments and cash subsidies by the Korean government.
In April and May of this year another 77 families of some 154 people
are also planning to return. Some 2,000 Koreans total have expressed a
desire to emigrate to Korea, according to the daily. JAC

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