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The people's anthem
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came onto this earth when the wolf cubs began to whine under the she-wolf’s feet.
Our names were picked for us at day-break while the lion roared.
Our gentle mothers nurtured us in our eagle nests.
And our fathers taught us to tame the oxen of the forests.
Our mothers dedicated us to our Nation and our Homeland.
And we shall rise up to the last one if our nation needs us.
We grew up free as the eagles, princes of the mountains.
There is no threshold from which we shall shy away.
Sooner shall cliffs of granite begin to melt like molten lead than any one of us shall lose in battle the honor of our noble nature.
Sooner shall the earth begin to crack in silence from the heat than we shall lie under the earth, having lost our honor.
Never to bow our heads to anyone, we give our sacred pledge.
To die or to live in freedom is our fate.
Our sisters heal our brothers’ bloody wounds with their songs.
Our loving women see us off on our campaigns.
If we shall be forced to starve from famine, we shall gnaw the roots of trees.
If we shall be deprived of water, we shall drink from the dew of the grass.
We came onto this earth when the wolf cubs began to whine under the she-wolf’s feet.
We pledge our lives to God, our Nation and our Homeland.
The methods that Russia has used to deal with the break-away Republic of Chechnya has caught the eye of the world media, and not without good cause. This dynamic portion of the former Soviet Union is seen as a predecessor of things to come from other pieces of the dead communist giant. So many different peoples and cultures were pulled into the grasp of Russia for economic or tactical reasons. Now that Russia is waning in power, these peoples may chose to seize the opportunity to regain their independence, hundreds of years lost in some cases, and reestablish their own ethnic identity.
As we will see, Chechnya’s history with Russia and the Soviet Union is a long and checkered past. The Chechen people suffered numerous degradations and humiliations at the hands of their conquerors. Throughout their history the Chechens have attempted in some form to resist the Russians, but time and time again, the Russians held them down to have access to what they perceived as a key piece of land. It would be absurd to say that the sol...
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...rude oil to be processed into fuels. Oil continually flowed in from Russia, allowing the Chechens to process it and usually turn around and sell it as their own. Whether oil was legally acquired or not, the Chechens had little difficulty selling it back to the Russians, proving that Russians had a hand in criminal activity in Chechnya as well.
Literally millions of tons of military grade firepower and ammunition, as well as tanks, planes, and other vehicles were hijacked from Russian trains during this time. What the press failed to point out at this time was that Yeltsin never rerouted the trains, and no investigation went into discovering how the information of train manifests and cargo was being released to the Chechens. The Chechen airport also operated without law at this time. Russia proclaims that planeloads of narcotics flew in and out of Groznyi each day, providing money to fuel other criminal operations.
This all went on for quite awhile, and while criminal activity was rampant in Chechnya, many say that it was no worse than in Russia herself. By the spring of 1994 though, Dudayev was being formally challenged for his power. Since one of the candidates against Dudayev wa
The Cherokee tribe has an interesting creation story. In “Native American Legends” animals came first, already living in the sky. They became curious with what was below and began to discover water and land. With in no specific series of events the Earth was formed. With the wings of a buzzard the mountains and valleys were formed. The animals also called for the sun because of the darkness. They lived in a world above earth and decided to occupy this new world.1
Religion often enlightens one with newfound reverence and respect. While caring for the wolf, the man finds both reverence and respect through a few spiritual encounters. As he is walking with the wolf, the man hears coyotes calling from the hills “above him where their cries [seem] to have no origin other than the night itself.” This represents the heavens calling out to the wolf to enter its gates. Once the man stops to build a fire, he seems to hold a ritual for the wolf. His shelter steamed “in the firelight like a burning scrim standing in a wilderness where celebrants of some sacred
Once upon a time, Coyote was hungry, as he always was, but didn't want to hunt for his own food. Instead, he decided to trick the five Wolf brothers
Located between the Moldovan-Ukrainian border and the River Dniester, the territory of Transnistria covers approximately 4160 km2 where over half million people live (Blakkisrud and Kolstø, 2013). In 1992, the civil conflict broke out in Transnistria (Cantir and Kennedy, 2015). When the former 14th Soviet Army interfered with the insurgent side, the Moldovans had to withdraw (Blackkisrud and Kolstø, 2013). It was thanks to Moscow that the attacks and fighting between Moldova and Transnistria were ended in July 1992 (Chamberlain-Creanga and Allin, 2010). Russia´s economic interest in Transnistria resulted in foreign direct investment from Kremlin and Russia also provided a huge financial aid to them. This was also the case of Moscow´s humanitarian
Ukraine has recently shaken the world with a phenomenon called Euromaidan, a collective name for some extraordinary events that took place on the main square of its capital. A dormant post-soviet country "somewhere by Russia" suddenly made it to the major media headlines and stayed there for three months straight. And it wasn't just a pretty picture of impressive crowds or transmundane tire-fires that captured the eye of the public. This uprising, that looked at first just like any other "color revolution", quickly escalated into a strong self-organized and structured movement, becoming a higher level of protest for Ukraine in particular and Europe in general. Caused by a number of political and social tensions, this national crisis still keeps developing even after the notorious president and his government are gone, inciting both an informational and an actual war between Ukraine and Russia.
The pup gives a small howl and instantly memories of the past begin to flow through Torak. At a very young age, Torak’s mother died and his father placed him in a wolf den for three months. The wolves took him in and raised him as one of their own. While in the den, Torak formed a strong bond with the wolves and learned how to communicate with them. Back at the den, the pup begins to howl, and Torak joins in.
The same argument on the abundance of the ideological undertones and selective approach regarding the time period and sources can also be applied to George Hewitt’s work Discordant Neighbours: A Reassessment of the Georgian-Abkhazian and Georgian-South Ossetian Conflicts. The author mentions the neighboring region to Abkhazia, Megrelia, and argues that “every attempt should be made to encourage” Megrelians to “regain their self-awareness” as a distinct ethnic group since the Georgian identity has been forced on them in 1930s. In fact, a clear majority of Megrelians have never considered themselves as anyone other than Georgians and no evidence has been discovered so far that claimed the opposite. Also, for a scholar examining the Abkhaz-Georgian
The Web. 5 May 2015. Franklin, Simon and Emma Widdis, eds. National Identity in Russian Culture: An Introduction.
According to Gorenburg (2003), Bashkortostan was the first autonomous republic which the Communist government created to prevent the dominancy of a Tatar-Turkic republic. Thereafter, Bashkir and many other ethnic groups and Turkic languages have been under the influence of Russian for over a century. This Russification process has ceased after the Soviet Union dissolution on the whole. But, accordingly, in some regions resolute tendency of ethnic language revitalization has become prevailing in the present Russian Federation Republics.
Larsen, Susan. "National Identity, Cultural Authority, and the Post-Soviet Blockbuster: Nikita Mikhalkov and." Slavic Revie (2003): 491-511.
Tens of thousands years ago, before the internet and before the Industrial Revolution early humans formed an unlikely partnership with another animal the grey wolf. The fates of our two species became braided together. The wolves changed in body and temperament. Their skulls, teeth, and paws shrank. Their ears flopped; they gained
“How Stories came to Earth” is a anthropomorphism tale about a spider named Anansi, he wanted to collect stories told by the Sky-God. The Sky-God conducted Anansi to collect the following things, python, leopard, hornets, and a fairy. In “How Stories Came to Earth” and “Coyote Steals Fire”, both Coyote and Anansi
The conflict between the Ukraine and Russia is the Ukraine's most long-standing and deadly crisis; since its post-Soviet independence began as a protest against the government dropping plans to forge closer trade ties with the European Union. The conflict between Russia and the Ukraine stems from more than twenty years of weak governance, the government’s inability to promote a coherent executive branch policy, an economy dominated by oligarchs and rife with corruption, heavy reliance on Russia, and distinct differences between Ukraine's population from both Eastern and Western regions in terms of linguistics, religion and ethnicity (Lucas 2009).
them when intruders were a threat. After a long period of time, the wolves gradually