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- Russia Not Prepared to Keep Ethnic Minorities
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- <hdr>
- Foreign Broadcast Information Service, January 27, 1992
- Germany: Russia 'Not Prepared' To Keep Ethnic Minorities
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p>[Report by "R.O.": "Does Russia Not Want To Keep Its Germans in
- the Country?" Frankfurt/Main FRANKFURTER ALLGEMEINE in German
- 25 Jan 92 pp 1-2]
- </p>
- <p> [Excerpts] Frankfurt, 24 January--Contrary to statements
- made to German politicians, the Russian Government is
- apparently not prepared to keep the German minority in its
- country. The Russian German autonomy movement "Rebirth" in
- Moscow has obtained a copy of a draft motion of First Deputy
- Prime Minister Gennadiy Burbulis to the Russian parliament that
- says that "it is too early" to pass the "law on the
- rehabilitation of the suppressed peoples" that has already been
- approved. Burbulis, a close aide of President Yeltsin, suggests
- in this motion that parliament should not enact the law but
- should discuss parts of it again. This is what a Russian German
- writer, Waldemar Weber, who is one of the advisers of Chairman
- Groth of "Rebirth," told this newspaper on 24 January. [passage
- omitted]
- </p>
- <p> According to Weber, Burbulis addressed his message to the
- Russian parliament on 19 December, prior to Yeltsin's trip to
- Saratov where he made his statement before outraged Russians
- who demonstrated against the reestablishment of a German Volga
- republic--a statement that was also heard with astonishment
- in Bonn. [passage omitted]
- </p>
- <p> Weber said that "Rebirth" is sticking to its decision to
- call upon its compatriots to resettle in Germany and other
- Western countries because the Russian leadership failed to
- restore the German autonomous republic on the Volga by 31
- December 1991, as it had promised. In this connection, a meeting
- between "Rebirth" Chairman Groth and a California businessman,
- Michael Kennedy, will be held on 27 January. According to Weber,
- Kennedy will negotiate--on behalf of Californian authorities--on the settling of Russian Germans in the west of the United
- States. In addition, "Rebirth" has carefully noted that South
- American countries like Brazil and Argentina, where there are
- major "German, particularly Russian German, colonies," have
- stated their interest to Bonn in taking in "several hundred
- thousand Germans from the countries of the former Soviet Union."
- [passage omitted]
- </p>
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- </article>
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