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Vladimir Putin

Russia’s Prime Minister warned on Wednesday in a discussion with young Russians of the party he represents that it was very dangerous to consider the re-division of the borders of the constituent parts of Russian Federation. Putin said that such an idea would trigger a chain reaction in the country, and since Russia has almost 2,000 inner territorial disputes, starting this process would be dangerous because, once started, it could never be stopped.
Putin gave as example the situation in the North Caucasian republics, where borders create disputes even between people that share the same ethnic background.
On this topic Ria Novosti published a few months ago a discussion between Vladimir Ryzhkov, professor at Moscow Higher School of Economics, and Yevgeny Shestakov, host of media joint project.
Ryzhakov said back then that Boris Yeltsin’s exhortation to the regional leaders to grab as much sovereignty as they can was misinterpreted during the first decade of the Russian Federation as almost an advice to secede, when it actually was no more than an invitation to assume responsibility at a regional level for the economic and social development.
The professor says that unlike Yeltsin Vladimir Putin was the support of centralization, reducing the importance of the regional leaders in favor of the decision-making prerogative granted to the federal government in Kremlin.
When asked if the autonomy could lead regional republics to militate for secession, the Moscow professor said that the question of secession from Russian Federation has been dealt with by the provisions on state and federalism of the 1993 Constitution, which stipulates that no constituent of the Russian Federation has the right to secede.
Ryzhakov said that the centralization only creates the path toward disintegration of the states, and offered as example the Russian Empire and Sudan.
According to this interview, Russia is facing three state patterns: the “Reich,” the “Byzantium-like” state, and the Federation.
The Reich would lead to creating a Russia for Russians, a state based only on one ethnic group, which would leave out almost two thirds of the Russian territory. The Reich idea would practically destroy Russia in a few years.
The “Byzantium” pattern is, in Shestakov’s opinion, the way Russia is practically managed now, with Moscow dictating the provinces what to do.
Unless the Federation pattern is accepted the way it functions in other federal countries, the secession of some parts of the current state cannot be avoided the two analysts believe, adding that the 21st century will know twice as many states on the map, given that nationalism is not going to die in a globalist world. Au contraire.

Administrative Map of Russian Federation

So, Putin was right even though mainly he was wrong: though his vision of centralization is already deemed as “absurd,” bringing the question of administrative division of the territory of the federation would create endless problems, to say the least.
The same theme of reorganizing the territory of the country created an enormous scandal in Romania, a country in the Eastern Europe, where a president that fancies himself as a local Putin had the opposite idea of dissolving the country’s districts into eight mega-districts that were not going to take into account any historical and economic reason. When confronted with a powerful opposition from the population, the opposition parties, and even some of the parties of the coalition in power in Bucharest, the Romanian “Putin” promised that he would bring the question back into discussion on autumn, after the parliamentary holiday, setting the stage for another round of scandals on the political landscape of this country.
While speaking in front of the youth group Nashi (“Ours”) of the party that is likely to promote him as a candidate for the next presidential elections next year, Putin couldn’t help it addressing the most pressing economic matter in the world at this time: the situation in the United States of America.
He labeled the American economy as “parasite,” saying that the Americans consume much more than they produce and that they throw a part of their economic burden on the shoulders of the other nations.
The fact that the dollar exercises a global hegemony will, in the opinion of the Russian Prime Minister, affect all the countries, if something goes wrong with the United States.

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