Recovery Track 2

Q&A People of Russia would most like our world to help answer
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posted by macrae.nets @ 3:07 AM

2 Comments:
At 1:54 AM, Irina Ignatova said...
First of all my huge thanks to Chris for initiating this blog. I will try to make regular posts and will try to involve more Russian people in discussing the major causes of poverty in Russia, potential solutions and how Russian people would like to co-operate with other nations of the world to make this happen. One of the most discussed issues of the time is perhaps on the political / constitutional model of the future development of Russia. Specifically after September 2004 Beslan attacks, there has been a lot of talk about the fact that to provide security in the futuere a lot of tightening of political control in the country as well as, particularly over the "break-away" regions, would be needed. And the first real steps towards it have been taken: there were proposals that the government now appoint its owm governors in the troubled Southern Russian regions rather than for such gubernatorial elections to take place. The question naturally is: how far should the government control main political processes in the country and where is the guarantee that there will be no abuse of such control? If this is the wrong way forward, then what is the right one? Are there any ways that the Russian government can keep all the freedoms achieved since the break-up of the Soviet Union and at the same time guarantee the security of the Russian people from terrorist attacks? In this sense, one question arises. Many people in the west believe that Russia, historically, needs a tsar. Is that right or wrong? I personally think this is one of the major pre-conceptions that still exist in western people's minds, and I would ideally like to see it changed among the western population. How the government will treat the security threats is also likely to have a serious effect on other political processes in general. Perhaps the best way to solve the problem of "terrorism" is to analyse its root causes and try to be pro-active in solving them rather than re-active? It has been recently openly admitted by President Putin that poverty, alongside many other reasons, is probably one of the main reasons for terrorism in Chechnya. At least it has been finally admited. Irina
At 3:35 AM, macrae.nets said...
Vital questions Irina. I so wish that Western Centres such as the EU would invite Putin to cosy fireside chats far away from mass media to see if anyone has some clues (it is time the West welcomed Russia in from the cold). Equally, it would help a lot more if the West wasn't so big headed and ruled by people who dont see what assumptions are buried in misleading numbers. The West's models of big corporations, media communications and superpower government terrify me more than Bin Laden in the sense that 99.9999% of people can see him as a Pied Piper taking the world on a disaster course of utter hopelessness, but probably the same per cent cannot see what's systemically wrong with big Westerns organisations. This in spite of surveys and testimonies showing people's trust in organisational power and relationships of emotional wellbeing has been plumetting in a vicious and escalating manner. This is a controversial topic wherever people breathe. I have tried to make a first attempt at putting this monster puzzle in a Russian setting, but I beg as many locals as possible to pick up editors' pens in this timeless interactive medium of all the people's power to connect...