Tag: Bashkiria

Ethnic Russians Displacing Representatives of Titular Nationalities in Non-Russian Republic Governments 2016-03-03 20:16:41 Staunton, VA, February 14, 2016 — Moscow’s moves against non-Russian language education and the prerogatives of non-Russian republics have generated a great deal of anger among non-Russians and attracted widespread attention. But the center’s effort to install ethnic Russians in government positions that […]

Staunton, October 11 – In what appears to be part of a new trend in the Russian Federation, officials in Ufa denied a group that wanted to hold a demonstration on the republic’s Day of the [Bashkir] Republic on the basis of technicalities which earlier these same officials had been willing to overlook. By adopting […]

Staunton, May 21 – As Harvard historian Richard Pipes documented a half century ago, Stalin’s first great act of ethno-political engineering was the division of the Tatars and Bashkirs of the Middle Volga as part of a broader effort to weaken Kazan’s influence and that of the Muslim national communists led by Sultan-Galiyev. Now, that […]