Russia Has No Special Minority Rights Claim Moscow's Efforts to Protect Ethnic Russian Minorities Ignore the Human Rights of Millions of Non-Russians in Former Soviet Republics

Bohdan Pyskir. Bohdan Pyskir is a research fellow at Harvard University's Ukrainian Research Institute., The Christian Science Monitor

ALTHOUGH Moscow is losing its ability to govern Russia, it is nevertheless trying to extend its control over neighboring states. Citing Russia's "vital interests" and "special responsibilities" Boris Yeltsin recently asked the world community to deputize Russia so it can start policing what used to be the Soviet Union. On Feb. 28, in a speech to the Civic Union (an ad-hoc coalition of former Communist Party apparatchiks and managers of state enterprises), the Russian president indicated that "the time ha s come for distinguished international organizations, including the UN, to grant Russia special powers of a guarantor of peace and stability in regions of the former …

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Publication information: Article title: Russia Has No Special Minority Rights Claim Moscow's Efforts to Protect Ethnic Russian Minorities Ignore the Human Rights of Millions of Non-Russians in Former Soviet Republics. Contributors: Bohdan Pyskir. Bohdan Pyskir is a research fellow at Harvard University's Ukrainian Research Institute. - Author. Newspaper title: The Christian Science Monitor. Publication date: April 14, 1993. Page number: 19. © 2009 The Christian Science Publishing Society. Provided by ProQuest LLC. All Rights Reserved.

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