Moscow Expands Attack on Independent Cossacks with Confiscation of...
Paul Goble Staunton, May 5 – At a time when the Kremlin is providing ever more support to Cossacks it controls, the Russian government is making ever more moves against those it does not, a pattern...
View Article50 Percent of Russians Expect Positive Changes when War Ends, 30 Percent...
Paul Goble Staunton, May 5 – A social psychologist surveyed Russians in a large city in the Transbaikal about their expectations of what will happen with the war in Ukraine ends, talk about killing...
View ArticlePutin will Declare Any Outcome in Ukraine a Victory and His Alone, Gallyamov...
Paul Goble Staunton, May 5 – Putin said recently that he has never regrated becoming Russian president, a reflection of his effort to present himself to the Russian population as “a superman” who is...
View ArticleKremlin Mulls Making Zhirinovsky’s LDPR the ‘Russian Party’ for 2026 Duma...
Paul Goble Staunton, May 5 – In many earlier elections, the Kremlin has selected one party to attract Russian nationalists lest they fuse with the KPRF. For the 2026 Duma vote, Vyorstka...
View ArticleRussian Health Ministry Wants to Levy Enormous Fines on Med School Graduates...
Paul Goble Staunton, May 4 – In Soviet times, the government ordered university graduates where they had to work for the first several years after graduation, a way to ensure that the state’s needs...
View ArticleRussia’s Elderly Mostly Women Living Alone with Less Medical and Other...
Paul Goble Staunton, May 5 – Last month, the Russian government adopted a new strategy for addressing the problems of the country’s pensioners in place of the document adopted in 2016...
View ArticleRussians Now Dying in Numbers Nearly Equal to Those Reached During Covid...
Paul Goble Staunton, May 7 – Last month, independent Russian demographer Aleksey Raksha says, data from registration offices in 13 federal subjects suggests the number of Russians who died in the...
View ArticleProblems in North Caucasus So Complicated that Moscow has Handed the Region...
Paul Goble Staunton, May 7 – The North Caucasus is so complicated and its problems so numerous that Moscow has decided to hand over the region to Russian siloviki and just wait for better days and...
View ArticleDemographic Losses in RSFSR Hit Far Beyond the Front Lines, Statistics Show
Paul Goble Staunton, May 7 – When people talk about the demographic losses the peoples of the Soviet Union suffered during World War II, they focus almost exclusively on the losses of the Soviet...
View ArticleRussian Officialdom Revives Soviet-Era Urban Legends about Threats and...
Paul Goble Staunton, May 7 – In Soviet times, officials in 1952 spread rumors that the Jews were poisoning Russians; in 1956, they put out the word that Western intelligence services were preparing...
View ArticleFew World War II Veterans in Post-Soviet Countries Remain Alive Now and...
Paul Goble Staunton, May 7 – In the Russian Federation, approximately 7,000 veterans of the USSR’s armed forces remain alive. The youngest are in their 90s. In most of the former Soviet states,...
View ArticleDisintegration of Russian Federation after Loss in Ukraine ‘Defeat for...
Paul Goble Staunton, May 10 – Zbigniew Brzezinski’s observation that “Russia can be an empire or it can be a democracy but it can’t be both at the same time” remains true to this day and should be...
View ArticleKremlin Using Russian Community to ‘Manage Popular Anger’ but will Limit Its...
Paul Goble Staunton, May 10 – Aleksandr Bastrykhin, head of the Investigative Committee and a longtime friend of Vladimir Putin’s is “the unofficial patron” of the Russian Community organization,...
View ArticleA Second Airport in Russia Becomes a Source of Tension Not Because of Its...
Paul Goble Staunton, May 10 – Moscow’s decision to rename Volgograd’s airport “Stalingrad,” the name the city bore in Stalin’s time and during the second world war, has attracted international...
View ArticleRussian Diplomat Changes Date of VE Commemoration on Svalbard but Not...
Paul Goble Staunton, May 9 – Andrey Chemerilo, Russian consul general on Norway’s Svalbard, marked VE Day on May 8 with a speech and two small gatherings, as Western countries do, rather than on May...
View ArticlePetersburg Writers Resist Efforts to Force Them into Medinsky’s Organization
Paul Goble Staunton, May 10 – Since 1991, there have been two writers organizations in the northern capital, the independent Union of Writers of St. Petersburg, headed by Valery Popov and the St....
View ArticleDespite Drone Attacks, Russian Officials Still Classifying Locations of Bomb...
Paul Goble Staunton, May 9 – In any country, one can find absurdities which often say a lot about what a particular country is like. Russia is no exception: One of its most absurd features is that...
View ArticleIranian Vice President's Statement that Iran and Tajikistan are ‘Second...
Paul Goble Staunton, May 11 -- Mohammad Reza Aref, Iran’s first vice president, says that Iran and Tajikistan are “second homes for each other” because of their “broadening of economic and energy...
View ArticleNumerically Small Peoples of Russian North and Siberia have Suffered Vastly...
Paul Goble Staunton, May 11 -- It is widely recognized that non-Russian peoples have suffered more combat losses in Ukraine relative to population than have Russians, but an Arktida portal survey...
View ArticleFew Russian Couples Now Living Together Plan to Get Married Anytime Soon or...
Paul Goble Staunton, May 11 – Only 22 percent of Russian couples now living together plan to get married in the next year with more than a third of these saying that they do not plan to marry at any...
View ArticleTeaching Immigrant Children Russian Not the Panacea the Kremlin Believes,...
Paul Goble Staunton, May 11 -- A recent spate of violent crimes by the almost 800,000 minor children of migrant workers in the Russian Federation is sparking demands in some quarters that Moscow ban...
View ArticleTatar Youth Organization Formed in Orenburg Last Year Increasingly Active
Paul Goble Staunton, May 12 – Berge, Tatar for “Together,” is a Tatar youth organization in Orenburg, the land bridge between Bashkortostan and the nations of the Middle Volga, on the one hand, and...
View ArticleMoscow Readying New Moves to Further Restrict Ethnic Diasporas
Paul Goble Staunton, May 12 – At the end of last month, Russia's Federal Agency for Nationality Affairs submitted draft legislation that would significantly restrict the ability of diaspora...
View ArticleArctic Council Must Include Russian Indigenous Leaders Now in Exile or It...
Paul Goble Staunton, May 11 – As the chairmanship of the Arctic Council passes from Norway to Denmark, leaders of the numerically small peoples of the Russian North who’ve been forced into exile,...
View ArticleIn Another Blow to Russia, Finland Planning to Change Its Railways to...
Paul Goble Staunton, May 13 – Lulu Ranne, Finland’s transportation minister says Helsinki will work with its NATO to transform its railways from the Russian gauge (1520 mm) to the narrower...
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