Moscow Meetings On Siberia ‘Talking Issue To Death’ Without Plans To Do Anything More – OpEd |
This week, Russian scholars met in Moscow to talk about Siberia; but talk is all they did, apparently committed to “talking this issue to death,” Dmitry Verkhoturov says, rather than actually doing something constructive like suggesting actual steps that could be taken.
Of course, for the participants in such meetings, which are baldly named after Siberian cities like Tobolsk in this case, the senior Siberian economics commentator says, meeting in Moscow is far more convenient, especially on the eve of the new year’s holidays, than travelling to distant parts of Russia east of the Urals (https://sibmix.com/?doc=19326).
He discusses several of the presentations – on the meeting itself,........