Putin’s Regional Amalgamation Plan Faces Court Challenge

Paul Goble

 Staunton, March 9 – Vladimir Putin’s plans to amalgamate smaller non-Russian federal subjects with larger and predominantly ethnic Russian regions, plans that have been on hold since 2008, is being challenged by a Perm activist who wants the Russian Supreme Court to overturn the inclusion of Komi-Permyak Autonomous Oblast into the new Perm kray.

Maria Sidelnikova: Man shall not live by bread alone

Editor-in-chief of Vestnik Kavkaza Maria Sidelnikova

It was stated at the recently-finished Krasnoyarsk Economic Forum, which is one of the largest negotiating platforms in Russia to discuss socio-economic and socio-political issues, that in Russia alone, import substitution will affect 18 industries. The federal government has already prepared 1665 projects that will allow us to to be independent of imports in most directions.

Over 100 million rubles to be allocated for sowing in Kabardino-Balkaria

This year in Kabardino-Balkaria more than 100 million rubles will be directed toward subsidizing the spring sowing campaign.