Independent experts have pointed out
that Russia (a country with a population of about 142 million) is about
to face an imminent system collapse which can occur at any moment. The
country’s economic ruin coupled with the moral degeneration of the
society is making it an impossible task to hold the Russian Federation
together.
The devastation of Russia's economy in
1998 wreaked the kind of human misery that America experienced in the
Great Depression. Millions of ordinary men and women who had deposited
their money in Russian banks lost everything and Russia has still not
recovered from the crash that occurred then. Automotive, electronics
and aircraft industries have been almost completely destroyed and many
others are in decline.
In the days of the coming large scale
crisis, the North Caucasus regions such as Chechnya, Ingushetia, Ossetia
and Dagestan will declare independence, followed by Tatarstan,
Bashkhortostan and Karelia.
Statistical data testify that Russia’s
educational system and skilled labour is continuing to decline at a
monstrous pace. Out of the 31 million children, 5 million are homeless, 1
million are drug addicts, 2 million are illiterate, 3.5 million are
disabled and to add this there are 750,000 orphans in the country.
Seven million couples have no children
but still 10,000 abortions are conducted every day. About 30,000
Russians are killed in road traffic accidents a year, and more than
100,000 Russians die each year from drug overdoses. More than 80,000
murders are committed throughout the country every year. With over 2
million Russians dying each year, the total decline in population
amounts to 900,000 a year. Cemeteries in Moscow and many other cities
have no room to bury the dead.
More than 1 million Russians are
imprisoned or remain in various forms of incarceration and prison
authorities are struggling to mange inmates into various such
facilities. There are 4 million homeless adult citizens, 3 million
beggars and 6 million suffer from mental disorders.
There are more than 3 million
prostitutes in Russia, and hundreds of thousands of Russian whores work
in brothels around the world. More than 6 million Russians suffer from
AIDS and 5 million adults with drugs problem roam on the streets.
In a system where rich becomes richer
and poor becomes poorer the unemployment is at a record high. The
current unemployment rate stands at around 10 percent and more than
600,000 people lose their jobs each month.
According to Federal Statistics Service
(FSS) the number of officials in the country has been doubled over the
past decade and their number now exceeds 130,000. These officials often
demand money for almost anything to get done, and about US $ 33.5
billion are spent annually to bribe them.
In 1991, Chechnya lead by Dzhokhar
Dudayev declared independence from the Soviet Union. Three years later,
in December 1994, the newly formed Russian Federation began bombing
Grozny destroying the Chechen Air Force. In response Chechnya declared
war on Russia and mobilised its armed forces. When the Russian ground
troops began to invade Grozny, Dudayev abandoned the presidential palace
and moved with his forces to a secret location near Vedeno.
Throughout 1995 and until April 1996,
Dudayev continued to lead the war and a jihad was declared on Russia by
the Chechen Mufti Akhmad Kadyrov, and foreign Muslim volunteers began to
pour into Chechnya from the North Caucasus regions such as Dagestan.
Dudayev was lured to a satellite phone
by a liberal member of Duma in Moscow, his location was detected by
Russian reconnaissance aircraft and two laser guided missiles were fired
killing him. Exact details of this operation were never disclosed by
the Russian government and it was widely believed that US National
Security Agency provided the technological know-how to assassinate
Dudayev.
The Russian imposed war on Chechnya
known as the First Chechen War came to an end in 1996 when demoralised
Russian forces were forced to withdraw from the area and sign a peace
treaty with Chechen resistant fighters lead by Aslan Maskhadov. In
October 1999, almost three years later, another brutal onslaught was
launched against Chechnya called the Second Chechen War. This time
Russia was able to install a puppet regime in the Chechen capital Grozny
and succeeded in killing the most prominent Chechen leaders fighting
for independence, including Aslan Maskhadov and Shamil Basayev. Even
after Russia declared that combat operations were over and the bulk of
its army withdrawn, sporadic fighting still continues in the mountains
and southern regions of Chechnya. There has been a media blackout to
conceal what goes on between imperial Moscow and many autonomous
republics within the Russian Federation.
Apart from Chechnya, many other regions
including Siberia (a vast area with immense natural resources) are
considering to breakaway from the Russian Federation. Siberians are
unhappy about President Dmitry Medvedev’s continued treatment of the
region as a colony, and for this reason a Siberian separatism may emerge soon.
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In the picture:
Bird's eye view of Moscow Kremlin, a
historic fortified complex at the heart of Moscow, overlooking the Red
Square to the east. It includes four palaces four cathedrals, the
enclosing Kremlin Wall and the complex serves as the official residence
of the President of Russia.
________________________________________________________Written by: Ibrahim Nazim
12 January 2011, Wednesday
8 Safar 1432
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