Even people who accept that the North Caucasus is a Russian colony often argue that the republics of that region would be incapable of living on their own. But Avraam Shmulyevich says that history shows they could and that both they and...
The number of ethnic Russians in what were the non-Russian republics of the former Soviet Union has fallen from 25 million in 1989 to 14 million today, but only 6.5 million of that decline consists of Russians who returned to the Russian...
Long-haul truck drivers from Daghestan, Ryazan, Saratov, Orenburg and St. Petersburg converged on Moscow over the weekend only to be blocked near the Russian capital by the police and OMON forces, charged with failing to obey traffic...
Parliamentarians of the North Caucasus Republic of Daghestan, which has been the center of the long-haul truckers strike, plan to call on the Russian State Duma to repeal the Plato transportation toll system that the drivers oppose,...
The long-haul truckers strike in Russia is beginning to have an impact on Russian politics. Those governors who have been unable to find a common language with the strikers are among those who have seen their rating by the Petersburg...
As the long-haul truckers’ strike in Russia enters its second month, some of the striking truckers have reached agreements with the KPRF and Just Russia Party to organize join marches on May Day, and some regional governments have begun...
Government-controlled media in Moscow continue to ignore the long-haul drivers’ strike on its 30th day, and regional outlets report variously that some trucker encampments are growing while others are declining in size. But activists say...
While some drivers are going home briefly to plant their gardens and while officials are claiming that the strike is collapsing, striking drivers in Daghestan today issued an appeal to Vladimir Putin detailing their grievances. Arguing...
Last week, Muslim morals police began patrolling the streets of Moscow to warn the faithful against violating the norms of their religion, just one of the ways in which “Islam is changing Russia” rapidly and radically. In an essay for...
Vladimir Putin’s “Kadyrov problem” just got a lot larger, so large in fact that it may ultimately cost Moscow control of the North Caucasus: Yesterday, Ramazan Abdulatipov, the Putin-appointed head of Daghestan, said that he supports...
Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia Van Voren: Of course, you have a number of Lithuanians who managed quite cleverly to gather wealth and become the upper layer in society. But the extremes you see in Ukraine or Russia is something that didn’t...
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