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Russia Not Prepared to Keep Ethnic Minorities
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Foreign Broadcast Information Service, January 27, 1992
Germany: Russia 'Not Prepared' To Keep Ethnic Minorities
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<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]
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<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]
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<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]
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<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]
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