National self-determination: how does Kosovo differ from Crimea?

National self-determination: how does Kosovo differ from Crimea?

In the UN Charter, the principle of equal rights and self-determination of peoples is enshrined as a generally recognized norm of international law. The science of international law does not yet give an unequivocal answer to the question how to ensure the harmonious unity of the implementation of the principle of self-determination of peoples and the principle of the states territorial integrity? On this basis, acute conflict situations arise.

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“The planned resettlement”

“The planned resettlement”

I read on one of the progressive national-democratic sites a project for the development of a national republic after the disintegration of the Russian Federation. Here we are talking about the language (I quote in the original form), “Russians who do not want to study and use the national language of the republic will be exchanged by ethnic Chuvash/Tatars, etc. Each one to his own republic, so to speak.

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What’s wrong with the Russian liberal’s decolonization recipe

What’s wrong with the Russian liberal’s decolonization recipe

The video of the famous Russian publicist Mikhail Pozharskiy about decolonization can be regarded as a means to start a public discussion on this topic, but if the Russians may like Pozharskiy’s theses, then representatives of the indigenous peoples of the current Russian Federation have something to say about this.

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Give alms for war, Muslims: Tatarstan Spiritual Muslim Board raised 1.8 million rubles in support of participants in the war with Ukraine

Give alms for war, Muslims: Tatarstan Spiritual Muslim Board raised 1.8 million rubles in support of participants in the war with Ukraine

Zakat, the Charitable Foundation of the Spiritual Muslim Board of Tatarstan  collected 1.8 million rubles during the action to support mobilized Tatarstan residents. First of all, they plan to use the collected money to buy warm clothes, first aid kits, and halal products. Fundraising continues. Boxes for donations are set up in rural shops and they explain to fellow villagers the importance of supporting  soldiers fellow believers whom Putin sent for a slaughter in a foreign country. However, earlier the Spiritual Muslim Board of Tatarstan stated that Ukraine is in the hands of “neo-Nazis”, so there is no need to be surprised here. As well as how freely pro-Kremlin muftis interpret Islam.

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“Ukrainian russophobia has absolutely no boundaries and limits”: a monument to the Chuvash communist poet Mikhail Sespel was demolished in Chernihiv region, which agitated the occupation authorities in Chuvashia

“Ukrainian russophobia has absolutely no boundaries and limits”: a monument to the Chuvash communist poet Mikhail Sespel was demolished in Chernihiv region, which agitated the occupation authorities in Chuvashia

With the big war against Ukraine, the Kremlin only spurred the processes of both de-communisation and decolonisation (demoscovitisation, de-russification, de-russianisation – whatever you call it) of this country.

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Grimaces of patriotism

Grimaces of patriotism

In the Soviet Union, the popular science magazine Vokrug Sveta was published, in which there was a heading Сlorful World, which ridiculed the “grimaces of capitalism.” Articles about stupid bourgeois laws were often published there. For example, “There is a law in Wisconsin that prohibits opening umbrellas near horse-drawn carriages!” “Ha ha ha! Those silly Americans!”

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