RFE/RL: Ethnic factor in reform considered

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RFE/RL: Ethnic factor in reform considered


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RFE/RL Russian Federation Report
Vol. 2, No. 18, 17 May 2000

A Survey of Developments in the Regions Outside Moscow Prepared by the
Staff of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty

******************Note to Readers*****************
A weekly supplement to "RFE/RL Newsline," the "RFE/RL Russian
Federation Report" features news about the Russian Federation outside
Moscow and the North Caucasus. Those interested in Russia's regions
might also want to look at Russian-language transcripts of RFE/RL's
weekly "Korrespondentskii Chas" at http://www.svoboda.org/programs/.
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HEADLINES

-- PUTIN MOVES TO REIN IN REGIONS

-- MORE UNUSUAL DEVELOPMENTS IN VLADIVOSTOK MAYORAL RACE

-- THE NEW GANG OF SEVEN?
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ETHNIC FACTOR IN REFORM CONSIDERED. Regional leaders expressed mostly
support for the introduction of the seven administrative districts,
but other voices in the regions--particularly in the "ethnic
republics" and not from among official ranks--have expressed fears
that the reform will eventually do away with territorial divisions
based on nationality. For example, a historian in Tatarstan told local
television there that "it seems to me that these structures are aimed
at the creation of so-called 'non-national' territorial entities in
Russia," RFE/RL's Tatar-Bashkir service reported. Kremlin officials
have not yet reacted to this charge, but one strong Putin supporter in
the regions, Novgorod Governor Mikhail Prusak, commenting on the
decree, said on 16 May that "there cannot be such a situation in the
country where Tatars in Tatarstan have more rights than Tatars in
Novgorod," Interfax reported. "Nezavisimaya gazeta," which is financed
by Boris Berezovskii's LogoVAZ group, concluded that Putin's decree
altered the "character" of the federation. The daily suggested that
the president's decree, along with recent discussion of changing the
nature of the Federation Council, indicates that Russia is in the
midst of a transformation from a federative to a unitary government.
JAC


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