PEACEMAKING VIA REBRANDING

PEACEMAKING  VIA  REBRANDING

Press release 128 E

1. The Alyoshin’s suggestion to make peace via rebranding of the Krasnodar Territory has been adopted by the Krasnodar Civil Forum.

2. On 16.11.2013 the Civil Forum of Krasnodar (with the participance of the Krasnodar Territory and Krasnodar city civil committees of the “Civil Platform” political party; of the Krasnodar Territory Electoral Commission; of the “Voice” organization – in Rus. “Golos”, it defends the electoral rights of the citizens, it is supported with the “Moscow Helsinki Group”; of the “Public Commission to watch the situation in prisons” and of the independent intellectuals and human rights activists) was listening to the report of professor N. E. Alyoshin (watch photo: isaurian.blogspot.com, 22.11.2013).

3. The program “West Caucasus Modernization” was reported (watch: isaurian.blogspot.com, 22.02.2012 – the text in Russian, which is followed with full text in English). The axis of this program is the demand to rebrand the Krasnodar Territory.

4. Today the official brand (slogan, motto) of the Krasnodar Territory (Krasnodar Krai; before 1917 – Kuban area – after the name of the main local river Kuban) is “Kuban is the Cossack Territory” (in Rus.: “Kuban – Kazachiy Krai”).

It is brutally discriminating and insulting 99,9 % of the Territory population (5,5 million), which includes non-Cossack Russians, Ukrainians, Armenians, Greeks, Adygs, Jews, Germans, Turks, Kurds, etc., etc. The official brand is the source of the endless interethnic and interconfessional conflicts. The official motto is the threat of war for all the Caucasus.

5. The N. E. Alyoshin’s program suggests to substitute the xenophobic official motto with the peacemaking one, namely: “Kuban is the Caucasus true daughter, the pearl of Russia”; in Rus.: “Kuban – Kavkaza istinnaya doch, zhemchuzhina Rossii”).

6. During the forum discussion G. G. Davitlidze (Ph.D. in history, the full-right member of the Krasnodar Territory Electoral Commission) declared: “To substitute the xenophobic official slogan with the peacemaking motto, suggested by professor Alyoshin, is the best public political initiative, which I have heard for the last five years!”

N. S. Bokancha (the Krasnodar city civil committee chairman, having the University diplomas in theoretical physics and the orthodox theology) said: “The “West Caucasus Modernization” program is the product of the genial mind”.

7. As the result, the forum unanimously decided to adopt the program, to propagate and spread widely the idea of the new motto for Krasnodar Territory, as the powerful peacemaking act; to oblige the Krasnodar delegates to propose these suggestions to the All-Russia Civil Forum (Moscow, 23.11.2013; more, than 1 000 human rights and civil activists, supported by such known public figures, as Prokhorov, Kudrin, Alexeeva, etc.).

8. The new motto for Krasnodar Territory is the powerful instrument of peacemaking, indeed.

We call all the people of good will, seeking the peace on earth (Luke, 2:14): “Support the substitution of the xenophobic Krasnodar Territory slogan with the peacemaking motto! Rebrand the Kuban!”

9. Peace unto you! (John, 20:19)

Professor           Nicholas  E.  Alyoshin

(Aleshin Nikolay Evgenievich,

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