Tag: Aleksandr Khudilaynen

Ethnicity Plays a Lesser Role in Regionalism in Russia than Many Assume, Shtepa Says

November 10, 2015

Window on Eurasia

Staunton, November 9 – Most people who predict the disintegration of the Russian Federation focus on ethnicity, but in fact, as the situation in Karelia shows, ethnicity plays a much smaller role in mobilizing the population to defend itself against Moscow than do competitive elections, Vadim Shtepa says. “Real regionalism,” the Karelian activist and commentator […]

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Russian Citizens Find a Substitute for Elections: Protests Demanding Ouster of Incumbents

April 19, 2015

Window on Eurasia

Staunton, April 19 – Vladimir Putin’s efforts to exclude the people of the Russian Federation from voting on the heads of federal subjects may be backfiring because it is leading some citizens there to take to the streets to demand that their current regional rulers be ousted and gaining confidence in their power, a development […]

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