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Russia’s Restless Muslim Republics
spiegel.de — Although Russia is celebrating the independence of Abkhazia and South Ossetia, it still has its own problems in the region as its Muslim republics are drifting toward a partisan war.
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- ramiro, on 09/08/2008, -2/+7Russia is a moribund nation. They can't even reproduce in numbers high enough to maintain their population. That is the communism's deadly touch.
They are being encroached by muslim on the Caucasus and by the Chinese on the eastern parts of the country, both in much higher reproduction rate.
And yet, those idiots such as Putin think that the West is the greatest threat. Russia will likely become one or more split-ethnicity muslim nations until the end of this century.- ventsi, on 09/08/2008, -2/+1or the muslims there will disapear
- sultanknish, on 09/08/2008, -1/+5one Russian newspaper was projecting Islam as a majority religion in Russia by 2040
- BabyWookie, on 09/11/2008, -0/+1It was probably some very sensationalist Russian newspaper.
- BabyWookie, on 09/11/2008, -0/+1The living conditions in Russia keep improving every year, causing a reduction in the morbidity and increasing the birth-rates. At this rate, the population decrease trend will be reversed in 2011.
- ventsi, on 09/08/2008, -2/+1or the muslims there will disapear
- chicofaraby, on 09/08/2008, -2/+3"South Ossetia" isn't independent. It's a part of Georgia currently illegally occupied by Russia.
- BabyWookie, on 09/11/2008, -0/+1Georgia is not independent. It's a part of the Russian Empire, currently illegally occupied by the neocons.
- whoreable, on 09/09/2008, -0/+1Restless Muslims? No way! For real?
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