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, RSFSR, USSR) is a Russian public and political figure, political scientist, journalist, expert on the North Caucasus and Islam, a specialist in training personal and professional growth for employees of public organizations and the media. Director of the Foundation for the Support of Humanitarian Initiatives "Altair", Senior Research Fellow.
Biography
Born in 1976 in with. Kurakh, Kurakhsky district (modern Russia). Graduated from Dagestan State University with a degree in World Economy, defended his thesis in political science at St. Petersburg State University.
He taught a course on adapting them to returning home for more effective and correct spiritual enlightenment for Russian students in Syria. He also worked as an expert, lecturer, teacher in the US and UK.
Supervises the work of the Altair Foundation for the Support of Humanitarian Initiatives. In 2011, Ruslan founded the School of Muslim Journalism in Moscow.
He improved his qualifications at the Russian Academy of Civil Service with a degree in Security of Interfaith and Interethnic Relations.
In 2014, Ruslan Kurbanov was nominated for a competition for the selection of members of the Public Chamber of the Russian Federation from all-Russian public associations and other non-profit organizations. 5 hours before the end of the Internet voting, Ruslan Kurbanov (about 30 thousand votes) and Aliy Totorkulov (about 40 thousand votes), who were in the lead at that time, were removed from the elections. The official reason for the removal of candidates from the finish line of the race is "vote cheating by bots." Kurbanov was nominated in the direction of "Development of the information society, media and mass communications".
Participates as an expert on the Middle East in television programs of Russian television.
Until October 2015, he served as Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Russian Congress of the Peoples of the Caucasus.
Ruslana Kurbanov is one of the leaders of the Expert Council under the Council of Muftis of Russia, as well as a member of the working group on interfaith relations under the Government of Moscow. Editor of the policy department of the magazine "Sense". Representative of the public wing of the Council of Muftis of Russia, editor-in-chief of the portal "Caucasian Politics", chief researcher of the Center for the Study of Central Asia, the Caucasus and the Ural-Volga region.
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While the father was explaining himself to his son, an equally important explanation was taking place between the mother and her daughter. Natasha, excited, ran to her mother.- Mom! ... Mom! ... he made me ...
- What did you do?
- Made an offer. Mum! Mum! she shouted. The Countess could not believe her ears. Denisov made an offer. To whom? This tiny girl Natasha, who until recently played with dolls and now still took lessons.
- Natasha, full of nonsense! she said, still hoping it was a joke.
- Well, nonsense! “I’m talking to you,” Natasha said angrily. - I came to ask what to do, and you tell me: "nonsense" ...
The countess shrugged.
- If it is true that Monsieur Denisov proposed to you, then tell him that he is a fool, that's all.
“No, he’s not a fool,” Natasha said offendedly and seriously.
- Well, what do you want? You are all in love these days. Well, in love, so marry him! said the Countess, laughing angrily. - With God!
“No, mother, I am not in love with him, I must not be in love with him.
“Well, just tell him that.
- Mom, are you angry? Don't be angry, my dear, what am I to blame for?
“No, what is it, my friend? If you want, I'll go and tell him, - said the countess, smiling.
- No, I myself, just teach. Everything is easy for you,” she added, answering her smile. “And if you saw how he told me this!” After all, I know that he did not want to say this, but he accidentally said it.
- Well, you still have to refuse.
- No, you don't have to. I feel so sorry for him! He is so cute.
Well, take the offer. And then it’s time to get married, ”the mother said angrily and mockingly.
“No, Mom, I feel so sorry for him. I don't know how I will say.
“Yes, you don’t have anything to say, I’ll say it myself,” said the countess, indignant at the fact that they dared to look at this little Natasha as a big one.
“No, no way, I’m on my own, and you listen at the door,” and Natasha ran through the living room into the hall, where Denisov was sitting on the same chair, at the clavichord, covering his face with his hands. He jumped up at the sound of her light footsteps.
- Natalie, - he said, approaching her with quick steps, - decide my fate. She is in your hands!
"Vasily Dmitritch, I'm so sorry for you!... No, but you're so nice... but don't... it's... but I'll always love you like that."
Denisov bent over her hand, and she heard strange sounds, incomprehensible to her. She kissed him on his black, matted, curly head. At that moment, the hasty noise of the countess's dress was heard. She approached them.
“Vasily Dmitritch, I thank you for the honor,” said the countess in an embarrassed voice, but which seemed strict to Denisov, “but my daughter is so young, and I thought that you, as a friend of my son, would first turn to me. In that case, you would not put me in the need for a refusal.
“Mr. Athena,” Denisov said with downcast eyes and a guilty look, he wanted to say something else and stumbled.
Natasha could not calmly see him so miserable. She began to sob loudly.
“Mr. Athena, I am guilty before you,” Denisov continued in a broken voice, “but know that I idolize your daughter and your entire family so much that I will give two lives ...” He looked at the countess and, noticing her stern face ... “Well, goodbye, Mrs. Athena,” he said, kissed her hand and, without looking at Natasha, left the room with quick, decisive steps.
The next day, Rostov saw off Denisov, who did not want to stay in Moscow for another day. Denisov was seen off at the gypsies by all his Moscow friends, and he did not remember how he was put into the sledge and how the first three stations were taken.
After Denisov's departure, Rostov, waiting for the money that the old count could not suddenly collect, spent another two weeks in Moscow, without leaving home, and mainly in the young ladies' room.
Sonya was more tender and devoted to him than before. She seemed to want to show him that his loss was a feat for which she now loves him all the more; but Nicholas now considered himself unworthy of her.
He filled the girls' albums with poems and notes, and without saying goodbye to any of his acquaintances, finally sending all 43 thousand and receiving Dolokhov's receipt, he left at the end of November to catch up with the regiment, which was already in Poland.
After his explanation with his wife, Pierre went to Petersburg. There were no horses at the station in Torzhok, or the caretaker did not want them. Pierre had to wait. Without undressing, he lay down on a leather sofa in front of a round table, put his big feet in warm boots on this table and thought.
- Will you order the suitcases to be brought in? Make a bed, would you like some tea? the valet asked.
Pierre did not answer, because he did not hear or see anything. He had been thinking at the last station and still kept thinking about the same thing - about such an important thing that he did not pay any attention to what was going on around him. He was not only not interested in the fact that he would arrive later or earlier in Petersburg, or whether he would or would not have a place to rest at this station, but all the same, in comparison with the thoughts that occupied him now, whether he would stay for a few hours or a lifetime at that station.
The caretaker, caretaker, valet, a woman with Torzhkov sewing came into the room, offering their services. Pierre, without changing his position of his raised legs, looked at them through his glasses, and did not understand what they might need and how they could all live without resolving the issues that occupied him. And he was always occupied with the same questions from the very day he returned from Sokolniki after the duel and spent the first, painful, sleepless night; only now, in the solitude of the journey, they took possession of it with particular force. Whatever he began to think about, he returned to the same questions that he could not solve, and could not stop asking himself. It was as if the main screw on which his whole life rested was curled up in his head. The screw did not go further in, did not go out, but spun, without grabbing anything, all on the same groove, and it was impossible to stop turning it.
A meeting of a political scientist with the Dagestan youth of the capital took place in Moscow
This month, Ruslan Kurbanov, Vice-President of the FLNKA, Senior Researcher at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences and Researcher at the University of Brussels, met with the Dagestan youth of the capital at the Moscow House of Nationalities.
The meeting was organized by the Youth Association of Dagestan with the assistance of the Altair Foundation. On the day of the meeting, the hall of the Moscow House of Nationalities was overflowing with those wishing to listen and ask questions to the political scientist.
At the same time, not only Dagestanis came to the meeting, but also representatives of other republics of the North Caucasus - Chechnya, Ingushetia, Ossetia, Kabardino-Balkaria and even the republics of Central Asia.
Taking the floor for greetings, Ruslan Kurbanov expressed his sincere gratitude to the Dagestani youth for the invitation to this meeting, as well as for all that social work with their fellow countrymen in the Russian capital.
Highlander's life path
In the initial part of the meeting, the young participants asked Ruslan Kurbanov to tell a little about himself, about his small homeland and about the cost of moving up the professional ladder.
Young Caucasians were interested in what difficulties the political scientist and journalist who became famous throughout the Caucasus, who was born in a mountainous Lezgi village, had to face when trying to break through in his life.
Since almost the entire meeting with young people was recorded on video, we invite our reader to get acquainted with Ruslan Kurbanov's narrations and answers to questions from the audience in order to be able to feel the energy of the meeting and the protracted conversation between young people and the guest.
Clan struggle in Dagestan
Huge interest on the part of young people was shown in the tense clan struggle, which is going on almost non-stop in their native republic between key national-political groups.
In the opinion of Ruslan Kurbanov, representatives of political clans that formed in the dashing 90s have been in power for too long in the republic. That does not give any possibility of self-realization within the republic of Dagestan youth.
According to him, a large number of young people have to leave Dagestan for the cities of Central Russia in order to receive a quality education and grow professionally. However, their knowledge and skills cannot be realized in today's Dagestan due to the rigid clan system of personnel selection.
Middle East and Syria
For obvious reasons, Dagestani and Caucasian youth were interested in the true causes of protracted political instability, military incursions and civil war in the Middle East.
Because thousands of their young fellow countrymen and even relatives were involved in the bloody maelstrom of civil war in this unstable region. That is why the guest dwelled in detail on exactly what causes blew up the Muslim world.
Ruslan Kurbanov is an Azerbaijani footballer of Russian origin who currently plays for the Gabala club. He is only 25 years old, so his career is still in its prime. Ruslan Kurbanov plays the position of a drawn forward, however, he can play both a central forward and a playmaker.
Carier start
Ruslan Kurbanov was born on September 12, 1991 in Stavropol to an Azerbaijani family. He started playing football in his hometown at an early age. Already at school, he showed impressive results, and representatives of the Stavropol Dynamo noticed him. In 1998, Ruslan Kurbanov joined the Dynamo football academy, and five years later he went through a review at Rostov, where he was accepted. There he worked his way through all the youth squads before signing a professional contract with the club in 2008 and going on field trials to a lower division club. Ruslan spent half a year in "Nika" from Krasny Sulin - there he played nine matches, and then added another 11 matches for "Taganrog", where he spent another six months. When he returned to his native club, it turned out that his results were not good enough, so he was sent to the double. Naturally, this did not suit him, so after a while the footballer terminated the contract with the club and decided to return to his historical homeland in Azerbaijan.
Transfer to Neftchi
In the winter of 2011, the 20-year-old striker signed a contract with Neftchi - from that moment on, Ruslan Kurbanov's biography became a little more positive. The actions of "Rostov" in relation to him left an unpleasant mark, but Ruslan gradually recovered from this. In his first six months at the new club, Kurbanov was able to enter the field only seven times, so he was sent on loan to Sumgayit in the summer. There he spent a whole year, playing 16 matches and scoring two goals, and then another year, which turned out to be even more successful - 24 matches and six goals. When he returned to Neftchi, the management decided to send him on loan again, so as not to force Ruslan to sit talent on the bench. The six months he spent at Sumgayit were no longer so successful - he entered the field 14 times, but did not score a single goal.
However, the biography of Ruslan Kurbanov is not so sad - when he returned to Neftchi, they began to give him playing time. For six months, he played 19 matches and scored four goals. Kurbanov began the next season at Neftchi, entering the field 16 times and scoring four more goals, but in the winter of 2015 he was sent on loan for another six months, this time to the Croatian Hajduk. There he entered the field only seven times, he was not remembered for anything, so he was returned to Neftchi in the summer. Season 2015/16 became the only full-fledged player of all time in the Azerbaijani club - Kurbanov was a base player and scored 18 goals in 39 matches. Naturally, such a performance could not fail to attract attention. Therefore, in the summer of 2016, after long negotiations, on the last day of the transfer window, Kurbanov was sold to Gabala for a little over 50 thousand euros. Prior to this summer, he managed to play 7 more matches for Neftchi, scoring his last goal for the club.
Game for "Gabala"
Ruslan Kurbanov, the biography was replenished with positive moments, he began to speak for the new club quite actively. This season, he has already played in 27 matches, scoring seven goals and giving six assists. His contract with the club runs until 2018, however, if he continues to perform at such a high level, the club may extend the contract in advance this summer. Quite possibly, Kurbanov will be able to have an even better season than the previous one, however, it took him some time to adapt, so the result is still far from last year.
Performances for the youth team
Ruslan Kurbanov, whose nationality is in doubt among many football fans, plays for the Azerbaijani national team, although he was born in Russia. He was called up to the youth team of Azerbaijan for the first time in September 2010 - and within two years the footballer played seven matches for it, without noting any productive actions.
Azerbaijan national team
As for the main team, the striker first received a call there in September 2013 for a qualifying match against the Israeli national team, but spent all 90 minutes on the bench. The next time he was called only a year and a half later, in March 2015. Then he went to the base for the qualifying match against Malta. Kurbanov scored his first goal pass in September of the same year in the return match against the Malta national team, and scored his first goal only in September 2016 in a duel against the San Marino national team - this turned out to be the only goal in the match, so Ruslan brought victory to his team and three points. In total, he has made 13 appearances for the national team to date, scoring one goal and scoring two assists. At the moment, he is in the application for the next matches of the national team.
The assassination of Dagestan presidential press officer Garun Kurbanov during a major economic forum, which authorities in both Makhachkala and Moscow say is key to Dagestan's development prospects, is causing experts to ponder the federal center's policy in the North Caucasus.
Radio Liberty's questions were answered by a senior researcher at the Moscow Institute of Oriental Studies Ruslan Kurbanov:
- The situation in Dagestan is complicated when compared with other republics of the Caucasus. And it will not be possible to stabilize it by any economic forums or large economic investment projects that are being implemented today by the government of Dagestan, the apparatus of the North Caucasian Federal District or the government of Russia. In order to solve problems in Dagestan, completely different methods are needed. The authorities, after a series of monstrous mistakes that they made in the republic, also made a completely wrong diagnosis of the state in which the society fell. By creating problems, making the wrong diagnosis and using the wrong methods of treatment, the situation cannot be corrected. First, the authorities need to admit their own mistakes.
What mistakes are you talking about?
– The most important one is that Dagestan is not only the most multinational region of the Caucasus and Russia. But each nationality has its own experience of political life and political history. Part of the peoples of Dagestan lived under the rule of khans and princes, part - free republics, not recognizing anyone's power. Therefore, among the militants today we have a large number of people from those areas that have never been subject to the power of the khans, where people are used to solving their problems themselves.
There has never been one dominant version of Islam in Dagestan. At the time of the October Revolution, there were at least four different versions of Islam - Sufism, Salafism, the school of Shafi jurists and Islamic reformism. All these four versions of Islam were traditional for the republic. But after the collapse of the Soviet Union, the authorities relied on only one of the directions of Islam and gave the followers of this version of Islam the opportunity to accuse all other groups and communities of extremism and radicalism. Moreover, the bet was made on a very specific, narrow version. The fact is that each people of Dagestan has its own understanding of Sufism and its leader. In this extremely complex society, in no case was it possible to give state support to only one community, and in no case was it possible for the state to enter into religious, theological discussions and with all the weight of the law enforcement system to tumble into this very subtle, specific theological dispute. In fact, punitive measures were taken against anyone who did not agree with the position of the official religious authorities.
- Does this mean that in order to try to change the situation in Dagestan, it is necessary to conduct a more differentiated and more subtle policy, with a different toolkit?
– Power must completely withdraw from the field of theological discussion. It should stop pointing out to believers which version of Islam is traditional for Dagestan and which is not. The authorities themselves must now contribute to the fact that the theological discussion goes in a legal legal field. If it has broken the woods, then now it is necessary to find courage in order to create optimal conditions under which the religious and political discussion could move from the plane of conflict into the plane of negotiation and discussion. This is the first and main step that the authorities must take.
- Do you think the new North Caucasian authorities - the apparatus of Plenipotentiary Alexander Khloponin - understand the depth of the tasks facing them?
– Alexander Khloponin is a completely new person in the region, who thinks in completely different categories. He is a manager, manager. For him, only topics related to the investment of funds, with the profitable management of some assets, have real meaning. But when it comes to subtle religious matters - the establishment of relations between different ethnic groups, the search for various models of national reconciliation, then for him these are phrases from a completely different area. This is a person who did not have time to fully understand the complex ethno-political situation in the Caucasus, the role of Islam, the complex history of the Caucasus itself. Attempts to simply flood the Caucasus with financial injections cannot lead to a solution to the most complex tangle of problems in the region.
Well, really, well, what kind of conspirators and terrorists can be from the Anglo-Saxons? They are Gentlemen! They are nowhere and never!... So, everything that you have already read in the article The Empire Strikes Back and everything that you read below, of course, it can never be, because it can never be...
The liberation of eastern Aleppo provoked a NATO military response, which for the first time was so clearly expressed by the United Kingdom. Contrary to the ban of the British Parliament on participation in the ground operation, the British Ministry of Defense sent 20 military advisers to the province of Idlib under the cover of special forces. The official motivation is to reform the Free Syrian Army, which was announced back in October. In reality, however, the British will be dealing with a whole confederation of terrorists released from eastern Aleppo.
It is known that a brigadier general is in charge of the British mission in Idlib. According to British Defense Secretary Michael Fallon, British advisers are called upon to train "rebels" of the Free Syrian Army to fight IS * ("Islamic State" - a terrorist group banned in the Russian Federation) in the Raqqa region. Initially, the skills of combined arms combat, combat engineering and military field medicine were declared in the curriculum for recruits. However, after a brutal defeat in eastern Aleppo, the situation changed.
Alexander Zhilin, a military expert from the Center for the Study of Applied Problems of National Security, revealed the reasons for the open arrival of the British in Syria in an interview with Politekspert. In his opinion, the West, represented by the commander-in-chief of global capital - the British crown - is challenging Russia to force us to withdraw from the eastern Mediterranean: ...
Britain sent its representatives to stake the place. We need to keep what we control at least. The space around our military bases. We need them in order to have influence in the Mediterranean, because long ago NATO made this water area the main springboard for strikes with nuclear cruise missiles on our territory. Plus the Suez Canal and the Black Sea straits, where the branch of the Great Silk Road will go. The goal is to give us such a headache to force us to build up forces and get bogged down in Syria.
Now the main task of British instructors is to consolidate the demoralized and disparate militant groups, as well as restore their combat capability to continue the war against Assad. The fall of Aleppo showed the aggravation of civil strife between various terrorist groups in the face of the threat of capture and destruction. However, in Idlib, the situation of the militants is aggravated by the fact that there are even more of them than there were in eastern Aleppo.
According to various sources, there are between 30,000 and 40,000 militants in the province of Idlib. 15,000 of them were delivered from Aleppo the day before, and about 4,000 more people had previously been taken out of the Damascus suburb of Daraya. Taking them into account, the total number of terrorists reaches 50 thousand people. The terrorist coalition of eastern Aleppo included the main terrorist groups: al-Nusra Front, Ahrar al-Sham, Jaysh al-Islam, Jaysh al-Fatah and others...
The latter is a coalition of 12 militant groups created in March 2015, centered in Idlib. Its basis is formed by the Qatari group Ahrar al-Sham and the Syrian Jabhat al-Nusra. This terrorist coalition was created by the Turkish foreign intelligence service MIT at the expense of Qatar and Saudi Arabia. It is significant that Turkish officers, according to data from social networks, are also working to unite the bloodless groups, negotiating with the leaders of the "rebels". Turkey has also prepared a base for the rehabilitation of militants - a new refugee camp for 10,000 people, 6 km from the border.
Thus, the original terrorist cesspool in Idlib is now being transformed into a new militant capital under the guise of the Free Syrian Army. The operational base for the regrouping of forces and replenishment of material and technical reserves was not chosen by chance in the north-west of the country in the immediate vicinity of Latakia. It will likely be used to try to recapture Aleppo from the Syrian forces. However, experts do not exclude that Idlib may be conceived as a base for the implementation of the Afghan scenario in Syria....
And indeed, what does "our Western partners" have to do with it?