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f uzbekistan has often been profoundly affected by us russian relations consequently the nezavismaya gazeta writer suggests he may seek to try to restore ties with russia in order to reinsure his regime that is all the more so because the us is likely to pull its forces out of afghanistan in the medium term and thus be less interested or willing to support karimov s regime moscow thus could be an increasingly important prop but moscow other analysts say will want a demonstration of loyalty including the flow of gas northward to russia rather than to asia many commentaries have speculated about the possible spread of the arab spring to the authoritarian states of the post soviet region but it may be the case in many of these countries that the fears of the incumbent elites about such a political development will play a more important role in the geopolitics of the area than will any disorders that may arise indeed the fears of elites in these countries about challenges from below may drive them into the hands of russia or open a new set of opportunities for china given that neither moscow nor beijing will put as high a value on human rights as the west and that geopolitical opportunity is likely to be at the center of discussions in those two capitals as well posted by paul goble at 9 56 am no comments tuesday june 7 2011 window on eurasia russian senator s proposal to restore katorga as a punishment criticized paul goble staunton june 7 a member of the federation council has called for the restoration of the tsarist era system of katorga under which those guilty of especially serious crimes such a terrorism drug dealing or child murders would be sentenced to harsh physical labor without the possibility of commutation of sentence or the right of correspondence aleksey aleksandrov chairman of the federation council s committee on constitutional law speaking at a congress of jurists at moscow state university this past week called for the introduction of the legal category of evil doer and the use of the katorga system as punishment for such criminals svpressa ru society article 44173 but russian legal specialists are appalled by this idea lyudmila alpern the deputy head of the center for the support of the reform of criminal justice for example told andrey polunin of svobodnaya pressa that our senators do not have a good idea of what katorga involved in tsarist times or how it might be applied now in tsarist times alpern pointed out there were various categories of katorga some of which involved servitude of up to 20 years and some less with individuals convicted of certain crimes able to earn their way out of katorga while others were not thus the notion of permanent katorga would be an innovation during the soviet period katorga did not exist instead we had corrective labor camps of course they were connected with a form of punishment which existed in tsarist times this was group punishment a form which europe dispensed with in the middle of the nineteenth century katorga punishment was and is amoral alpern said the soviet era gulag was much worse than katorga as it did not make allowances for prisoners to have their families with them of course for families it was a terrible test children sometimes died and women had great difficulties but a fact remains a fact toward the katorga inmate the authorities acted in a human way the gulag system destroyed this and that was why it was so different from katorga in the soviet gulag an individual was connected to no one he was completely deprived of social possibilities and he was made into an absolute slave something that had not been true of those sentenced to katorga alpern said that despite the call for the restoration of katorga the russian penitentiary system is very different now compared to tsarist times the main reason is ideological in tsarist times the authorities did not try to reeducate or reform anyone demanding only work and then leaving prisoners more or less on their own in the barracks in those barracks the tsarist era prisoners set their own rules were visited and sent food and even clothes and money by russians beyond the walls because people at that time understood that everyone could become a katorga inmate and thus called those arrested sufferers or unfortunates today alpern continued other norms govern the situation jails attempt to reeducate people but those outside the prison walls are not so inclined to view them as people much like themselves instead assuming that they are hardened criminals who deserve whatever punishment they are given conditions in russian prisons have improved since the 1990s when such institutions were inadequately funded prisoners forced to wear their own clothes and disease rampant but alpern said russia still has a long way to go to come up to the standards of the european penal model although it has made progress talk about restoring katorga does nothing to promote this process but it may create another real problem for moscow some siberians are worried that their land could against be the place for katorga something that will make their situation even more a genuine katorga than it already is www baikal24 ru page php action showitem type news id 58783 posted by paul goble at 6 21 am no comments window on eurasia salafis employ flashmob technique to bring 5 000 young daghestanis into the streets paul goble staunton june 7 in a startling demonstration of the spread of new technologies to the north caucasus the leaders of the salafi trend in islam in daghestan one at odds with the dominant sufi trend there and often associated with political radicalism used the flashmob technique to bring 5 000 young people into the streets of makhachaka last week in reporting on this event which was staged in order to demonstrate to visitors from moscow that people in that republic are not going to sit still for the current situation there much longer the islamic civilization web portal said that this islamist flashmob can be called an historic event for daghestan http www islamcivil ru article php aid 647 for the first time the portal said muslim youth have expressed their unambiguous protest to that disorder which characterizes the republic regarding human rights and civic freedoms and their support for the salafis who stand against the dominant sufi trend of islam in daghestan according to the organizers the site continued they did not have any certainty that even 1 000 people would come when they issued their flashmob call but no fewer than 5 000 did an outcome which shows the flashmob technique works even in relatively backward daghestan and that salafi islam can assemble more than trade unions united russia or other groups this is such a breakthrough event that it is worth recounting in some detail during the morning of june 1 young people began to assemble on makhachkala s rodop boulevard many people were out because it was the day of the defense of children but the salafi youth decided the portal says to stage a certain flashmob among the people were not evident followers of the other bloc tariqat islam an indication that this was a salafi enterprise when about 3 000 had assembled the crowd moved up gamzatov prospect toward the national library where the russian president s council on the development of civil society and human rights was meeting according to daghestani officials the salafis who had assembled at the national library did not have the right to meet and hence to speak and display placards the crowd remained largely silent at the urging of their leader abbas kebedov the leader of the salafii organization aklu s sunna val jamaa who asked that they not give in to provocations at that time a column of interior ministry omon troops from the urals approached some in the salafi crowd then shouted allah akbar and the militia formed a defense line apparently fearful of what might happen if anyone had shot at that moment there could have been a disaster but what happened instead was this the militia asked the crowd to move away from the national library and the salafi leaders led the group to the salafi mosque on kotrov street the crowd moved toward the mosque gathering others on the way with some taking pictures of the march on their mobile telephones after prayers at the mosque kebedov arrived along with other salafi activists he called on the young people to preserve their peaceful approach to remain in the mosque and not in any case to go to the forum at the library building given that the omon had brought up armored vehicles the daghestani authorities kebedov told the crowd do not want a resolution to the difficult situation which exists in the republic the only hope therefore is on delegates from moscow but he continued this is our victory today we have been able to do this his speech was accompanied by shouts of allah akbar the visitors from moscow did not come to the mosque as had been decided earlier insteadof this five representatives of the salafi community were delegated to meet with them the salafi representatives were chosen and accompanied kebedov and others to the forum according to the islamic civilization report there took place a sharp and open conversation today the salafi representatives said five thousand people assembled today they stood peacefully tomorrow if nothing is done to stop the situation in daghestan with kidnappings and murders of innocent people nothing will stop these young men according to the portal this monologue it was clear had an impact on the guests posted by paul goble at 6 20 am no comments window on eurasia non russians winning memory wars while russians still losing theirs bordyugov says paul goble staunton june 7 the non russian countries in the post soviet space are more or less quickly liberating themselves from the soviet and imperial past but the russians have not found a way or do not want to find one to do the same thing according to a leading moscow specialist on contemporary history in yesterday s novaya gazeta gennady bordyugov a member of the ria novosti council of experts sums up the findings of his latest book memory wars on the post soviet space in russian moscow 2011 by noting that history is again playing a mean joke with russia in this regard www novayagazeta ru data 2011 060 18 html russia s inability or unwillingness to make progress in this regard he says helps to explain why many russians have reacted so angrily to what is taking place in the cis countries and the baltics in recent years a reaction that many observers since 2005 have characterized as wars over memory such observers bordyugov continues in recent times have argued that these wars are calming down pointing to the march 2008 appeal of memorial for peaceful dialogue about the common past and to the decision of most but of course not all post soviet states to mark victory day arguably the most important civic holiday in russia but in fact the historican says russia will continue to face memory wars for some time to come perhaps less often in the realm of foreign relations than within the country itself deep disagreements over stalin the lenin mausoleum the approaching 400th anniversary of the romanovs the centenary of world war i and the revolution all guarantee that in each of these cases and in others as well he points out the essence of the divide will be over how to say farewell to the soviet and imperial pasts or face their re animation in new forms and all of those debates will be conditioned by the process of re stalinization or de stalinization now taking place the commission formed by the kremlin to oppose the falsification of history will defend soviet traditional assessments of most historical events but that commission s approach will be opposed by another kremlin body the council of human rights which has proposed a broad program of de stalinization indeed bordyugov argues the methods of these two groups regarding historical memory are remarkably similar representatives of both sides presuppose the continued politicization of history the suppression of those who think differently a unification of approaches to the past and so on first in the schools and then more generally another reason for that assumption bordyugov suggests is that de stalinization is a reflection of the new ideological course of medvedev a course that ensures that russians are on the eve of a new outbreak of memory wars this time as so often in the past one subordinate to the struggle for power there is a way out of all this the historian says it requires an end to the politicization of the soviet past and to the use of discussions about that past as part of electoral struggles in fact there should be a temporary moratorium on themes that call forth a split in society as so many of these issues do a wise policy on history could allow for filling the great and tragic soviet epoch with a human context in the contexts of which memory wars would become senseless bordyugov argues something that must be approached with care because the transition from soviet to russian is far from completion another means of reducing the intensity of memory wars he says is the inclusion of national histories within the broader space of the past that too will be hard because our current political and simply human culture to put it mildly is far from perfection and thus there will always be a temptation to fight about the past but while the obstacles to moving beyond memory wars are clear bordyugov says their recollection should not become a reason for not trying to overcome them moving beyond them is a precondition for achieving a humane view of the past a view which unlike many positions now on offer avoids both demonization and panegyrics posted by paul goble at 6 19 am no comments monday june 6 2011 window on eurasia internet changing russian political humor and russian politics as well commentator says paul goble staunton june 6 anecdotes about leaders and policies have long been an important part of russian life but the internet is transforming its form and content because falling prices for connectivity are increasing the number of users and rising download speeds are making video clips more widely accessible according to a moscow commentator on the russky zhurnal portal aleksandr chausov argues that at present russians are observing an evolution of the form of jokes about politicians and politics as a whole with the transition from television to the web and the development of internet technology being decisive events in this process www russ ru pole o politike s yumorom as a result of the spread of the internet he says russians can now watch video clips and look at thousands of images rather than relying primarily on text alone and the video clip is understood by an individual much easier than the typical text however brilliantly it may be written as a result chausov continues humor is increasingly taking a visual form in addition...