Putin on Minority Rights

 

On February 4th, 2013, Vladimir Putin, the Russian president, addressed the Duma, (Russian Parliament), and gave a speech about the tensions with minorities in Russia:

 "In Russia live Russians. Any minority, from anywhere, if it wants to live  in Russia, to work and eat in Russia, should speak Russian, and should respect the Russian laws. If they prefer Sharia Law, then we advise them to go to those places where that's the state law. Russia does not need  minorities. Minorities need Russia, and we will not grant them special privileges, or try to change our laws to fit their desires, no matter how loud they yell 'discrimination'. We better learn from the suicides of America, England, Holland and France, if we are to survive as a nation. The Russian customs and traditions are not compatible with the lack of culture or the primitive ways of most minorities. When this honorable legislative body thinks of creating new laws, it should have in mind the national interest first, observing that the minorities are not Russians."

The politicians in the Duma gave Putin a five minute standing ovation. 

 

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In the Name of Islam..!

Don’t miss Sky’s vedio, below..

http://news.sky.com/home/world-news/article/16083656

Mr Kadyrov had built a replica of Sh Zayed Rd of Dubai

Paid Vanessa Mae 300,000 pounds to perform..

When asked about source of money; said from Allah..

He had closed the lavish celebrations, chanting: Allahu Akbar..!

8:51am UK, Thursday October 06, 2011
Amanda Walker, Sky Russia correspondent

Ramzan Kadyrov, the self-styled warrior king of Chechnya, has enjoyed multimillion-pound birthday celebrations complete with Hollywood actors and superstar musicians.
The lavish party also marked 193 years since the founding of the Russian republic's capital, Grozny, which was ravaged by two wars with Russia.

Mr Kadyrov, a devout Muslim, counts former boxing champion Mike Tyson and Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin as friends and is an admirer of sports cars and gold-plated weapons.
No expense was spared as he relished the opportunity to show the world how far his republic has come since its war-torn days or, more pertinently, since he took charge.
A bizarre mix of Hollywood stars added glitz to the ritzy celebrations.
After strutting his stuff on stage, actor Jean-Claude Van Damme made his feelings for the Chechen warlord clear: "I love you Mr Kadyrov, I love you all in my heart."

Oscar-winner Hilary Swank gushed further tributes: "This is my first time in Grozny. I love to travel, I love to see the world, I love to see different cultures, so really, truly from me, this is a great honour to learn more about you and your country and what you're building. And happy birthday Mr President."
Violinist Vanessa Mae reportedly received £320,000 for her performance at the event.
Mr Kadyrov's men had touted Shakira as a potential performer but he then said human rights groups changed her mind.

The provocative singer was perhaps an odd choice for a leader who praises men for attacking women who do not wear headscarves.
Shocking mobile phone footage from 2010 showed Chechen men shooting women with paintball guns as they walked down the street for not wearing traditional dress.
Instead of condemning the attacks, Mr Kadyrov hailed them.
The Kremlin-backed leader of the Russian republic has a fearsome reputation. His personal militia of thousands permeates Chechen society with fear.

More mobile phone footage from 2006, passed around by the perpetrators, showed suspected adulterer Malika Soltayeva having her head and eyebrows shaved before being forced to strip and then beaten.
She was then seen being kicked around in the street and made to dance - not by a local gang, but by policemen.
A glossy veneer of fireworks and laser displays during the celebrations was supposed to show how far Chechnya has come but, for many, the war has not truly ended.
Ekaterina Sokiryanskaya, from the Russian human rights group Memorial, said: "The Chechnya conflict has not been resolved, it has been suppressed.

"We think that, instead of making these very expensive and grandiose shows in order to improve its image, it would be much better to restore the rule of law."
Mr Kadyrov said the money to stage such an event comes from Allah - in reality it comes from the Kremlin.
The cash is clearly abundant enough for Hollywood endorsements, which many feel are the last things this still troubled region needs.

Dark Prince of the Kremlin

The speeches and essays of Vladislav Surkov – half-Chechen, one-time aide to Khodorkovsky, sometime novelist and current-day political technician – reveal a scary self-awareness.
by Richard Sakwa
12 April 2011
Texts 1997- 2010, by Vladislav Surkov. Moscow, Europe Publishing House, 2010. 144 pages.

".... With Dmitry Medvedev’s accession to the presidency, on 8 May 2008 Surkov was promoted to become first deputy chief of staff of the Presidential Administration. This indicated that democracy in Russia would continue to be “managed.” His main vehicle for this was the creation and sponsoring of United Russia as the regime’s pedestal party. He was also involved in the creation of Just Russia as a center-left social democratic alternative to the center-right United Russia, but it is clear that his heart was not in this particular project. Surkov’s philosophy from the first was that there is no real freedom in the world, and that all democracies are managed democracies, so the key to success is to influence people, to give them the illusion that they are free whereas in fact they are managed. The only freedom in his view is “artistic freedom.”

In an interview in January 1997, reproduced in this volume, Surkov enunciated a thoroughly statist perspective. Asked about the chances of economic growth, he insisted that “if genuine state management of the economy does not appear, there will be no economic growth.” He insisted that, as in war, national priorities should be established, and then it was matter of will to see them implemented. The spirit of Surkov’s thinking was unmistakable, and it would lead him to be one of the most eloquent defenders of Putin’s consolidation of the state and the leading advocate of the notion of “sovereign democracy.” Surkov can be defined as a “democratic statist,” and is thus not part of the “siloviki” faction, those associated with the security forces who advocate some sort of “iron hand.”

Even though Surkov may have conducted his period of military service with military intelligence, he is not one of the siloviki, but neither is he wholeheartedly one of the civiliki, the technocratic liberal faction which exercises a strong influence in shaping Russia’s economic policy. Instead, as a democratic statist Surkov is one of the main ideologists of the notion of sovereign democracy, the position stressing the society-forming and leadership role of the state while not adjuring the formal commitment to democracy. As a result, the regime under Putin was able to achieve the “nationalization of the elites” and the marginalization of what Surkov called the “offshore aristocracy....”

Richard Sakwa is professor of Russian and European politics at the University of Kent, England.
This article is published by Richard Sakwa and openDemocracy.net under a Creative Commons license.

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