RFE/RL Russian Federation Report, No. 43: excerpts
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RFE/RL Russian Federation Report, No. 43: excerpts
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RFE/RL Russian Federation Report
Vol. 2, No. 43, 22 November 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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PRESIDENTIAL ADVISOR CALLS ETHNIC REPUBLICS ETHNOCENTRIC. In an
interview on 15 November with the website www.strana.ru, launched by
his group, the Fund for Effective Politics, fund head and unofficial
presidential advisor Gleb Pavlovskii, praised President Putin's
earlier presidential decree establishing the seven federal districts
and presidential envoys to them. According to Pavlovskii, the decree
set ups "constitutional aslyums" under the auspices of the federal
districts in which citizens can oppose the "unconstitutional regimes
that have formed in the regions." He noted that "in many cases we have
local regimes or quasi-dictatorships controlled by groups espousing
ethnocentric views. It is not nationalism but ethnocracy that
constitutes the dominant mood in a number of republican staffs. In
effect, citizens of Russia are subjected to segregation along ethnic
lines in the Volga-area republics, Adygei, and other places." On the
issue of the new presidential envoys, Pavlovskii states that they were
created as a tool against local oligarchic elites: "They are no
angels, but at least they are not corrupt." JAC
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