Tag: Duma

Putin’s Only Way Out of Ukrainian Problems is a Purge at Home, Dzhemal Says

May 12, 2014

Staunton, May 11 – Vladimir Putin faces a terrible choice in Ukraine, Geydar Dzhemal says. If he sends in Russian forces, he will revive NATO and isolate Moscow internationally as the West and its allies in Russia would like, but if he doesn’t, he will stand accused by nationalists of betraying Russians abroad. “The only […]

Russian Textbooks Must Be Common for All ‘Except the Retarded,’ Duma Deputy Says

April 14, 2014

Staunton, April 13 – Irina Yarovaya, the chairman of the Duma Security Committee, says that “the task of the state is to ensure unity of education … and [thus] a single cultural space,” with “variations” allowed only for those children who are mentally handicapped, an attitude that threatens the development of Russians and non-Russians alike. […]