“Pomeranian hysteria”: when will Norway “negotiate with the Pomors” and not with Russia in the Russian Arctic?
A new stage in the creation of the ethnos "Pomory" began after the opening in Arkhangelsk as part of the Northern (Arctic) Federal University (NArFU), the so-called "Pomor Institute of Indigenous and Minority Peoples of the North" (PIKiMNS). Activists of the “Pomeranian Renaissance” got at their complete disposal not only a new structural component, but also the opportunity to promote Pomeranian nationalism to university students in classrooms. The idea of creating the "Pomor Institute" in the structure of the Russian Federal University originally belonged to the Norwegians. For the first time, she received publicity during the visit of the former Norwegian Foreign Minister Thurvald Stoltenberg to Arkhangelsk in February 2011. It is known that NAFTU rector Elena Kudryashova created the “Pomeranian Institute” directly in accordance with the interests of her Norwegian partners.We note in this connection an important circumstance: the Ministry of Regional Development of the Russian Federation does not quite recognize "the Pomors" as an indigenous and small nation of the North. In April 2011, the civil division of the Arkhangelsk Regional Court satisfied the claims of the Regional Department of the Ministry of Justice of Russia on the liquidation of the Arkhangelsk Regional Territorial-Neighborhood Community of the Pomors. In connection with this circumstance, the actions of the Rector of NArFU, E. Kudryashova, are going contrary to the interests of the Russian people and the Russian statehood. Stimulating E.Kudryashova of the Pomorian ethnoseparatism in the Russian North is a direct continuation of the work of another rector in Arkhangelsk - the creator of the “Pomor myth” prof. Vladimir Bulatov.
When creating the Pomor Institute, the Norwegians pursued several goals. One of them is in sight - it is to give a high public status to the local leaders of the Pomor movement. It is obvious that the leaders of the Pomeranian movement are the human material that was formed by a quarter of a century of our newest Russian Troubles. This is an eternal activist, a person who is useless for any creative activity, far from true professionalism, fussy and noisy, a “civil organization” publicist who loves the loud mot. In this respect, the fate of the main leader of the "Pomeranian Revival" in Arkhangelsk, Ivan Moseev, a failed physician and business journalist, and now a "scientist," is very characteristic. Now, thanks to the Norwegian patronage, he proudly calls himself the director of the institute of the federal university. The main Arkhangelsk "pomor" I. Moseev entered the new role so quickly that even now scientists from the Russian Academy of Sciences began calling for "colleagues". The trick of the Norwegians is clear, now any complaints to the Russian authorities, all kinds of complaints from the Pomor people, including to international agencies, look more weighty, since they come from the university unit.
And since the newly-minted director of the “Pomeranian Institute” I.Moseyev is a man infinitely far from any scientific activity and without practical experience in higher education, he needs a reliable and knowledgeable assistant in the newly created SAFU. Now Professor Andrey Repnevsky is acting as such. Immediately note the fact that prof. A. Repnevsky does not have a basic university education of the historian. Like prof. V. Bulatov, he graduated from the Faculty of History and Philology of the Arkhangelsk Pedagogical Institute with a teacher’s diploma stories, social studies and English. In this regard, it is only natural that during the year 33 of his research and teaching career A.Repnevsky became the author of a single monograph. On closer examination, this book is the text of his doctoral dissertation "USSR - Norway: Economic Relations of the Interwar Twentieth Year", defended in 1998 at the IVI RAS at the Academician. Alexander Chubaryan. It is indicative that A.Repnevsky published his monograph in a small print run at his own expense in Arkhangelsk. This book has never been officially sold. Now A. Repnevsky is listed as a "Scandinavianist". However, his historical research in the peripheral area of the national science did not interest even his colleagues from Norway, and any monographs by A. Repnevsky, translated into Norwegian or Swedish, have not yet been published. A.Repnevsky became a "Scandinavist" after 1992, at a time when it suddenly turned out to be financially advantageous. The active grant policy of the Norwegian Barents Secretariat in the field of education and culture created over the course of a decade in the provincial Arkhangelsk a whole pleiad of various kinds of "Scandinavians." Even the rector of the Pomor University, Irina Lugovskaya, turned out to be involved in Scandinavism. The case has already taken such a turn that dynasties of researchers began to emerge in this attractive, in terms of receiving foreign grants and opportunities for "scientific tourism" direction. In particular, the son of prof. A. Repnevsky - Vitaly Repnevsky.
Director of the Institute of Socio-Humanitarian and Political Sciences (ISGiPN) newly created at NArFU, prof. A. Repnevsky began to focus on the external activities of his institution towards Norway. In this administrative position, he is an active lobbyist for the Norwegian cultural and educational policy at the Russian Federal University. In this regard, it is significant that the Pomor Institute, advanced to Russia by the Norwegians, also came under its direct control. Organizationally, the Pomor Institute is now included in the headed by prof. A. Repnevskiy ISGiPN NArFU. From these two institutions “one in one” (ISGiPN-PIKiMNS) it turns out a peculiar Pomeranian-Norwegian matryoshka. It must be assumed that when the “Pomeranian Institute” gets to its feet, it will be separated from the ISGiPN. Now A. Repnevsky with his university organizational experience contributes to its formation and daily bureaucratic support. The "scientific" plans of the institute of I.Moseyev are included in the plans of the institute of A.Repnevsky. "Pomor Institute", as a structural unit of ISGiPN, prof. A. Repnevskiy, since the Norwegian and American grants will go under it. It is indicative: the first thing that I.Moseev did after the creation of the Pomor Institute at NArFU was to go to Norway for the Pomor festival there and signed with the Norwegian Pomors documents on cooperation projects on the Pomor theme. About scientific principles, as in the case of Arkhangelsk "Scandinavism", in such a situation can not speak.
Let's not forget that initially the "Pomeranian Institute" in the structure of NArFU is a purely political event. A.Repnevsky himself - to the delight of the Norwegian companions - declares: “The interests of indigenous peoples should be observed. In practice, people who live there since ancient times are often forgotten. It is necessary to study their culture, to negotiate with them, this issue, for example, the Norwegians. " In the case of the “Pomors”, the head of the AIDP SAFU does not want to notice that this “indigenous and small ethnic group” and the related “national question” are now artificially created out of nothing in Arkhangelsk, and he himself, prof. A. Repnevsky, is already actively involved in this.
Now in the Barents region created by them, the Norwegians demonstrate a strong desire to “be friends” not with the “Russians”, but with the “Pomors”. To this end, they even began to remake their own history under the Bulatovskaya falsified concept of pomerania. In particular, in Norwegian sources of the XVIII-XIX centuries. in the episodes related to the valid historical pomors, the latter are called Russian. Also in the case of bargaining in Northern Norway, it is about the “Russian trade”. Modern Norwegian historians in their latest studies on Pomeranian scenes demonstrate the persistent desire of "russen handel" to rename "pomoren handel", and Russian - in the Pomor. There is a real substitution of concepts in the writings of modern Norwegian historians.
So, the Norwegians perelitsevuyut history of Russian-Norwegian relations under the "Pomeranian vector." For what purpose? Leading expert on the regional policy of the Barents region, Norwegian Remi Strand, at the last meeting of the coast, held in Arkhangelsk, frankly stated: "The main goal today should be to use the history of the coast, so that in the future we can organize a" win-win lottery "for us." In order to make up for this obvious mistake of his "good friend", the honorary Norwegian consul in Arkhangelsk A. Shalev later offered another version of the translation of this phrase: "Today we have to use the Pomor history so that in the future we have a mutually beneficial relationship." That, however, does not fundamentally change the meaning of what was said by the Norwegian. After all, in the latter case it is a question of a mutually beneficial connection between "Russian" and "Norwegian coast-dwellers". Is not it? Next, Remi Strand links, in fact, the falsified history of the Pomors to the problem of the territories: "The territory of the Pomors is divided by the border between Norway and Russia. The history of the Pomors, however, the community across the frontiers ... We must add knowledge for future players in the study of Pomors ( marines) ... There is a need for new cross-border solutions in the Pomor region to solve the problems of tomorrow. This applies, among other things, to traders (businessmen). "
Thus, the interest in the “pomors” with their “pseudo-history” is closely linked with the interest of the Norwegians in the cross-border area of the Barents region. R. Strand continues: "Educational institutions must take the initiative and create the opportunity to study the subjects of the Pomor region in all faculties ... The Federal University in Arkhangelsk is a pioneer in this area. A structural unit called the Pomor Institute of Indigenous and Minority Nations of the North has been created. We We are pleased with this initiative and we hope that this will accelerate development in the study of the coast of the Pomor and outside Arkhangelsk. " Thus, the “Pomor Institute”, in the opinion of the Norwegians sponsoring it, should in fact not be engaged in any “Pomor culture”, but in “Pomor territory”. And behind the Norwegian attention to the “Pomeranian Territory”, in fact, there is an interest in the resources located on this territory, mainly in oil and gas.
Pomeranian activists, in their turn, also speak about the “territory”: “The Arctic territory today is an attractive zone for world powers: forty countries of the world claim their own piece of the Arctic with its hydrocarbon and polymetallic reserves. Recognition of Pomorians by the indigenous small people will only confirm the right our state to own and use these territories. " The argument about recognizing Arkhangelsk "Pomors" as "indigenous and small in number" to confirm Russia's rights to the Arctic territories is actually a false ploy, if only because it is based on a falsified history, and this falsification can be easily exposed by Russia's rivals in the Arctic . However, further attention should be paid to the following thesis stubbornly repeated by Pomeranian activists: "Long before the formation of most of the Arctic states, it was the Pomors who were the pioneers and the first owners of the maritime Arctic" (in fact, the first mention of the Pomors in historical sources dates back to 1526). So, the “Pomors”, in their opinion, have preferential rights to the territory, as the “indigenous” population living on it in relation to certain “Arctic states”. How? Obviously, in relation to Russia.
Recall that the concept of prof. V. Bulatova, adopted by the activists of the "Pomeranian Renaissance", the Russian North - "Pomorie" is a territory conquered by Muscovy. It is a colony operated by the Russians, inhabited by the oppressed Finno-Ugric ethnos “Pomors”. This concept is also adhered to by the director of the Pomor Institute of NArFU I.Moseev. It is it that is shared by the "friendly" Pomors by the Finno-Ugric "Pomors" the Norwegians, and after them the director of ISGiPN NArFU prof. A. Repnevsky. In October, an agreement was signed with the Norwegians on scientific cooperation in ethnocultural and ethnosocial research in Norway, the Kvens, and in the Pomor region in October at the head of his institution. The Norwegian hint of the Finno-Ugric basis of both peoples is obvious here. The initiators of the agreement from the Norwegian side were professors of the University of Tromso David George Anderson and Ivar Bjorklund. From the Russian - it was signed, which is indicative, the director of the “Pomor Institute” “Pomor” I.Moseyev and the director of the scientific-educational center “Ethnocultural and Humanitarian Geography of the Arctic” prof. Nikolay Terebihin. The latter is known in Arkhangelsk as an employee of prof. V. Bulatov in the creation of the Pomor historical myth. But the Norwegian professors did not confine themselves to the A.Repnevsky Institute alone. They went further to the NArFU Institute of Management and Regionology, where they discussed the possibilities of scientific cooperation with its director, a well-known regional leader and creator of the idea of the "Pomeranian Republic", prof. Yuri Lukin. During the meeting with Y.Lukin, the Norwegians talked about the implementation of joint educational programs aimed at creating a "positive northern identity" (!) And improving the "ethnocultural competencies" of Russians. By "positive northern identity", the Norwegian professors obviously understand the same "Norwegian-Russian pomerania", regarding which modern and historical Russian identity is, it must be understood, "negative."
What are the scientific interests of these Norwegian scientists in the Russian North? These are applied studies of the lifestyle of "northern communities", their value system, ethnic identity and the influence of multiculturalism on them. Norwegian scientists, therefore, are looking for opportunities to weaken and destroy the ethnic consciousness of Russians. And tomorrow, they will lead with specially created and trained new "masters of the Russian Arctic" - "Pomors" - negotiations on the fate of its resources, to which Russia and the Russians will try to prevent, and if they allow, as "non-indigenous", always obliged to "indigenous pomors" - Norwegian and Archangelogorod.
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