the impact of chechen war on the life of russia
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The Chechen war in the past decade had totally impacted profoundly on Russia’s life. The direct consequences are; thousands of victims died, the expenditure of materials enormously that when counted can result to millions of rubles and the Chechen Republic being devastated. The indirect impacts though not noticeable as such but also not very serious.TRANSCRIPT
The Impact of Chechen War on the Life of Russia
The Chechen war in the past decade had totally impacted profoundly on Russia’s life.
The direct consequences are; thousands of victims died, the expenditure of materials enormously
that when counted can result to millions of rubles and the Chechen Republic being devastated.
The indirect impacts though not noticeable as such but also not very serious.
Due to the war, there was unprecedented xenophobia surge in Russia. Since 1994, the
anti-Chechen sentiment has been on the growth. Most Russian ethnic expresses the feelings of
resentments towards the Chechens. Most Russians believe that the only people who understand
the force language are the Chechens and any trial of establishing a conversation with them on the
conditions that are ‘equal’ is looked upon as the signal of being weak. Furthermore, it is
perceived that the Chechens generation that is coming is more hostile towards Russian as
compared to the current one. Russians have a fear of being the terrorist victims due to Chechens
militants in the future prophecy. Hence in the minds of Russians that are average this fear drives
a demonization.
The main political mobilizing issue in Russia is the war in Chechnya. This gives an
explanation as to way president Putin continuously focuses on it. The study of sociology
conducted latest shows that the periods in which the ratings of the president coincide at the
highest point the times that political mobilization is great within Russia. Every moment was
connected to Chechen’s war for example the speech of Putin’s speech on October 1999in the
aftermath terrorist’s deed in the cities of Russia. The only current action in September 2004 in
Beslan that didn’t raise the ratings of the president, however on the other side to his passion it
dealt a blow that was vicious.
Anther impact is the emergence of regional administration reform project by Putin. Some
sort of legitimacy has been given by the conflict to this project by providing as its foundation of
the separatism and terrorism fighting rationale. Currently there exists two counterterrorist
maneuvers in progress in Russia. One across the federation of Russia while the other in
Chechnya. It is not the coincident that the new regional administrations that Putin created that is
Federal districts were rooted on the former military district boarders. In addition, among the
seven original plenipotentiary, the representative of the president in the formations were
universal. The two that were participants in the Chechen war, are the Victor Kazantsev and
Konstantin Pulikovsky.
This comprises an example that the war is used as a tool to raise the general’s effect and
the officials in the high ranks from Army, Internal affairs ministry and the political life security
service of the country in comparison with the Yeltsin times. The current number of scientists in
the structures of the government has gone down three time while the military number has gone
up. The changes of this kind in the structures of elites show a change in attitude and disposition
within the society as a whole.
More than other factors the war in Chechen has resulted to the rise of traditionalist and
the attitudes that are centered to the state in the society of Russia, and the increase in “strong
arm” popular hope. From 1990s end, the orientations that are based on the value which are the
distinctive empire features have emerged to be prevalent in Russia. The popular respect is only
enjoyed by the three institutions namely; ruler not as the presidency institution but
manifestation,, the Armed force and the church, plus the Federal Security Service. In addition
these attitudes are themselves presenting popular distrusts that are overwhelming for the
executive, legislature and the judiciary, political parties let alone.
The National Territorial Issues Which Instigated Instability
The Chechnya’s description in the rubric of the “terrorism war” has resulted to the
conflicts multiplication, in the manner that it is no longer Chechnya’s boarder’s circumscription
but currently it includes the whole Federation of Russia. The mindset of the imperial that
expanded out of this development is already being seen in the incompetently appointment of
leaders of regions other than through elections. At least the degree of penetration of terrorisms
into Ingushetia was invested under the elected president of the republic Ruslan Aushevthan
during the region of appointed Murat Ziyazikov. Currently, Chechens are not the only ones but
plus the Ingush who are slowly by slowly being acquitted by the militants expertise.
The war on terrorism didn’t create the national order in the area of making reforms of the
state. In fact, the process contradicted the traditions of the nation. As a result the individuals
living in the Northern part of Caucasus, the election is a representative of the social attributes of
the tradition and an integral part of day to day life. on almost every occasion the elections are
held ranging from selecting tamada at the dinning table or the elder of the village to the election
of cleric of Muslims to the head of jamaat that is local, extending to the president appointment of
viceroy always representing only the dimensions of Russian authority that is visible while these
authorities elected locally and informal means given the real powers; the wider the gap between
the authorities that are formal and informal, the higher the chances of a divide in the
administration.
For example the event that took place in August at Dagestan, mayor Khasavyurtin
publicly made a challenge to the president who is in power just because of the support from the
Kremlin. The current president of M. Batdye can not be referred to as the as the popular leader
who was elected but just a member of the party that is in power. It looks as if Kremlin made a
decision for not a leader that is authoritarian who may lead to inconveniency as he places
incompetent leaders who are obedient to him. On the other hand, leaders of such kinds are not
able to assure political stability in the country that they control. The sequence of events that has
occurred in Ingushetia, Dagestan among other places proves this point. During the investigations
these events some prosecutors were dismissed.
The other point is the presence of ethno-political connections. The stability that is
considered under this environment is a representative of a change from one form of instability to
the other. The ethno-political actions in the early 1990s were the domination of the minority
ethnics which were led by the national movement leaders in the republic of Russia. By the late
1990s, the representation of Russian majority emerged. These groups that support the philosophy
of “Russia for Russians” have really increased in number for the past few years. This chauvinist
motto has varying intensity degree of support. This is just a shift in the concentration within the
ethno-politics of Russian from the minority ethnicity to majority ethnicity that determines the
presence of stability in large proportion. There is truth that the “home-grown” extremists of
Russia have never received the acknowledgements like that as these who are popular and in
authority have a preference of not noticing them. Currently a number of publications argue that
the phenomenon of skinhead is a notion that is fictional brought up by the activists of human
rights with the guidance from the west and support of finance.
Another factor is the orientation of national movement. Earlier on the orientation was
political not ethnically. The leaders of these groups used to air their objections to the central
government and not to the fellow individuals. Currently no longer the central government is the
enemy but the fellow people. Most people in the majority feel that other people who living it
Russia’s territory posses a threat to the security of the nation. The polarization of the ethnicity
allows the penetration of problems that are social and political. This lope is maximally being
utilized by the authorities particularly in some regions and districts in the southern Russia where
nationalists’ mottos from such hateful organs like the National Unity of Russians are being
adopted by the politicians. Having the support these groups they work hard to cover up the
mistakes they make and to move the public concentration in the direction of minority ethnics
internally and the international terrorists and the western that are outside Russia as enemies.