"STRATEGY" THINK TANK: RUSSIA MUST BELONG TO RUSSIANS.

Reflecting the increasingly nationalist mood in Moscow evenamong reformers, the Strategy think tank, which enjoys a reputationas progressive institution, has released a 200-page study thatsays Russia should become a nation state in which Russians areofficially recognized as the dominant group, Segodnya reportedAugust 1. The study suggests that only such a patriotic ideologywill help Russia contain the spread of "criminal and aberrant"behavior among a population unaccustomed to freedom. And it describedthe Russian constitution’s formulation that the Russian Federationis the state of "a multiethnic people" as "terminologicalnonsense" reminiscent of Soviet times and a threat to theintegrity of the state. Among the signatories of this "Russiafor the Russians" document are former Yeltsin nationalitiesminister Valery Tishkov and once prominent politician GennadyBurbulis.

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