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Staunton, December 8 – Vladimir Putin’s declaration to visiting French President Francois Hollande that he supports the territorial integrity of Ukraine is just as hypocritical and fraudulent as his past remarks about the country he has subverted and invaded. In fact, he supports this idea in exactly the same way that a rope “supports” a hanging man.
Moscow commentator Igor Eidman points out that some see Putin’s latest words as “a certain step” toward an agreement and “a sign of the softening” of the Kremlin’s position, but in fact, those who are drawing such conclusions do not understand Putin’s policies in the Donbass or in Ukraine as a whole.
Putin, the commentator argues, has never been interested in the Donbass in and of itself but rather as “a bomb inserted under Ukraine.” He wants to control that region even while he is prepared to “formally” consider it part of Ukrainian territory. Such a tactic is useful to Putin for three reasons.
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Window on Eurasia: Russian Commanders Said Forcing Draftees to Sign Up for Longer Termsby paul goble (noreply@blogger.com)
Paul Goble
Staunton, December 8 – Reflecting Moscow’s difficulties in finding enough men to serve in the military because of Russia’s demographic decline, difficulties exacerbated by Vladimir Putin’s aggression in Ukraine, commanders are exploiting the ignorance of many draftees and forcing them to agree to sign on for longer terms of service as “professional soldiers.”
This violation of Russian law has been going on at least since last April, the Nizhny Novgorod Committee of Soldiers’ Mothers says, noting that 23 draftees had turned to it for help in demobilizing from the Russian army on schedule (niann.ru/?id=465398&query_id=877735 andnr2.com.ua/News/world_and_russia/V-Nizhnem-Novgorode-soldatam-otkazyvayut-v-demobilizacii-86208.html).
The committee said the 23 included Nizhny Novgorod natives now serving in Chita, Nizhny Novgorod oblast, Leningrad oblast, and other parts of the Russian Federation, evidence that this is now a widespread problem. Some of the soldiers, it said, are desperate because they do not know their legal rights and officers are not inclined to tell them what they are.
Some of the soldiers who are being intimidated into signing agreements extending their service directly connect this pressure with what is going on in Ukraine, the committee continued, and they have not been told that under a 2012 Russian law, individual commanders are prohibited from pushing draftees to agree to become professional soldiers.
If the draftees do sign the agreements their commanders are seeking to have them do, they must serve at a minimum two additional years.
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Staunton, December 8 – Vladimir Putin’s declaration to visiting French President Francois Hollande that he supports the territorial integrity of Ukraine is just as hypocritical and fraudulent as his past remarks about the country he has subverted and invaded. In fact, he supports this idea in exactly the same way that a rope “supports” a hanging man.
Moscow commentator Igor Eidman points out that some see Putin’s latest words as “a certain step” toward an agreement and “a sign of the softening” of the Kremlin’s position, but in fact, those who are drawing such conclusions do not understand Putin’s policies in the Donbass or in Ukraine as a whole.
Putin, the commentator argues, has never been interested in the Donbass in and of itself but rather as “a bomb inserted under Ukraine.” He wants to control that region even while he is prepared to “formally” consider it part of Ukrainian territory. Such a tactic is useful to Putin for three reasons.
First, Eidman says, it forces Kyiv to bear the social welfare costs of this region and gives Moscow a propaganda theme if the central Ukrainian government doesn’t do so. That means Putin gets control without having to pay for it.
Second, by making this declaration, Putin “deprives Ukraine of the formal basis to tightly control the border with these [breakaway] territories” and restricts “the movement of people and goods from there.” That opens the way for Moscow to send even more forces into the Donbass and thus continue with his plans to destabilize Ukraine as a whole.
And third – and some in the West are more than ready to fall for this – Putin’s declaration allows him to adopt the pose of “a peacemaker” and “a civilized politician” and thus put additional pressure on Western governments to reduce or even eliminate sanctions.
Ukraine cannot possibly take this declaration seriously except as a the latest example of Putin’s lies, and neither should anyone else.
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Window on Eurasia: Exodus of Russian Citizens from Russia, Already Massive, Likely to Growby paul goble (noreply@blogger.com)
Paul Goble
Staunton, December 8 – The decisions by high profile Russians to go into exile because of what is happening to their country under Vladimir Putin continue to attract media attention in Moscow and the West, but such coverage often has the effect of obscuring rather than highlighting the dimensions of this term.
Last week, for example, the media gave extensive coverage to the decision of Moscow gallery owner Marat Gelman’s decision to leave (nvua.net/opinion/gelman/pochemu-ya-uezzhayu-iz-rossii--23789.html)but devoted less attention to the size of the flow to places like Turkey and the likelihood that the 650,000 Russians with dual citizenship will make use of that.
And those trends help explain why some in the Russian Duma and commentariat are now calling for additional restrictions on foreign travel, recognizing that those who go abroad nominally for business or vacations, may take advantage of the opportunities that presents for remaining beyond the Kremlin’s reach.
According to a Muslim from the Middle Volga now living in Turkey, there are approximately a million Russians living in Turkey now. Most of them are not Muslims, but many are, and they often have chosen to go there because they can no longer tolerate the way in which Russian officials are treating Muslims at home (islamnews.ru/news-443176.html).
According to Abud Amir, the overwhelming majority of Russians now living in Turkey are women who have chosen to marry Turks, middle class people who have visited Turkey on holiday and like what they saw, and others who find the balance between tradition and modernity in Turkey more comfortable than that on offer in Europe or in the Arab world.
Moreover, going to Turkey is easy, he continues. No visa -- and especially no Shengen visa -- is necessary.
Many people from Russia have found it easy to adapt and do not suffer from any nostalgia for their native country. Among Muslims, some would like to go back if conditions improve, he says, but at present, they feel threatened by slogans like “Russia for the Russians” and “Moscow for the Muscovites.” Such ideas are “fatal for Russia,” he says.
Asked whether it is correct to say that “those who can are leaving while those who cannot are remaining,” Abud Amir says that he would put it the other way: Those who “cannot live in Russia are leaving,” while those who can still tolerate conditions there are the ones who remain whether they can leave or not.
The number thinking about leaving is certainly large if polls are to be believed, and they are disproportionately concentrated among the most educated and well-off members of Russian society, people that no country interested in modernization can easily afford to lose. Their loss is thus an indictment of the regime.
Such people, of course, are more likely than others to have dual citizenship, and the announcement last week by the Federal Migration Service that at least 650,000 Russians have a second passport means that if they can get out of Russia as some may want to do, they will have a place to go to, making emigration more likely rather than less (kommersant.ru/doc/2625937).
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Power Cut, 'Bomb Threat' Disrupt Khodorkovsky Speechby Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
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Supporters of Mikhail Khodorkovsky and his pro-reform Open Russia project held a conference in St. Petersburg on December 7, where the prominent Kremlin critic delivered a speech by video link....
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Widely known as the “father of video games” Baer, a lifelong inventor and innovator, was instrumental in the design of the Magnavox Odyssey, the first ever commercial digital games console. With its futuristic looks, electronic game cards and strange analogue controller, it introduced consumers to the concept of interacting with games on their television sets. Released in the US in August 1972, it pre-dated Atari’s Pong arcade cabinet by several months.
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The 10 best films of 2014: No 5 – Leviathan by Catherine Shoard
Our countdown heats up with this booze-fuelled Russian epic, which warmed the hearts of critics at Cannes – and had officials at the Kremlin steaming
• Peter Bradshaw on Leviathan: ‘A new Russian masterpiece’
• Interview: Andrei Zvyagintsev
• Nominate your choice in our form at the bottom of the article
• Interview: Andrei Zvyagintsev
• Nominate your choice in our form at the bottom of the article
Has 2014 given us any more full-blooded a film than Leviathan? Even the best of the rest feel watery lined up beside the 70% proof sucker-punch of this. Andrei Zvyagintsev’s contemporary Russian epic is a one-stop shop for those in search of love, sex, adultery, an exploration of the role of the man in the state, of faith and freedom, institutional corruption and insidious patriotism. And a lot of vodka.
The story, given the whopping sources (The Book of Job, the work of Thomas Hobbes, etc) is actually quite a lean beast: Nikolay (Aleksei Serebryakov) lives with his second wife, Lilya (Elena Lyadova from Zvyagintsev’s Elena), and moody teenage son in a modest villa overlooking a lake. It was built by his ancestors, on a site coveted by the local mayor, Roma (Sergey Pokhodaev), who wants to slap his own grotesque palace there instead. Roma fixes the court, and the family face eviction, eased by derisory compensation. Nikolay enlists the help of an old school friend, Dmitriy (Vladimir Vdovichenkov), now a hot-shot lawyer in Moscow. So sets the stage for a battle which, if you’re familiar with Job’s lot, was never likely to deliver the happiest of endings.
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