Window on Eurasia: Sochi Countdown -- 30 Weeks to the Olympiad in the North...
Note: This is my 20th special Window on Eurasia about the meaning and impact of the planned Olympiad on the nations in the surrounding region. These WOEs, which will appear each Friday over the...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Regions Now ‘Center of Gravity’ of Russian Protests,...
Paul Goble Staunton, July 13 – The events in Pugachev and elsewhere show that the “center of gravity” of Russian dissatisfaction with the Putin regime has shifted from Moscow to oblast...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Moscow’s Effort to Create a Single Civic Nation Itself...
Paul Goble Staunton, July 13 – Moscow’s effort to create a unified civic Russian nation at a time when ethnic Russian national identity is weakening and the national identities of many...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Russia Faces Authoritarian or Democratic Disintegration,...
Paul Goble Staunton, July 14 – The Pugachev events like “a magic crystal” allow one to look into Russia’s future, a future that will involve either an authoritarian disintegration resembling...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Regional Myths Now ‘Inalienable’ Part of Russian Political...
Paul Goble Staunton, July 15 – With the collapse of Soviet identity and the failure of an equally strong Russian identity to put in its pllace, regional identities and the myths on which...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Moscow Views Ethnic Ukrainian NGOs in Russia as Continuing...
Paul Goble Staunton, July 15 – Even though the Russian government routinely insists that it has the right to defend and back the activities of ethnic Russian groups in Ukraine, Moscow has...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: But for the August Coup, Tatarstan Would Have Gained...
Paul Goble Staunton, July 15 – Those in Moscow who are talking about amalgamating Tatarstan into some larger and predominantly Russian region should remember that had it not been for the...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Ukraine Even Under Yanukovich Shifting Its Focus from...
Paul Goble Staunton, July 16 – A close analysis by a group of Kremlin advisors of a message to the Verkhovna Rada by Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovich in whom Moscow has placed so much...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Pugachev Presages New Crackdown against North Caucasian...
Paul Goble Staunton, July 16 – The clashes in Pugachev, along with the beating of a Makhachkala deputy, are going to serve as “a pretext” for a new and far broader “government campaign aimed...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Social Networks Surpass Radio as Source for News in...
Paul Goble Staunton, July 16 – While Muscovites still overwhelmingly rely on television for their daily news, residents of the Russian capital now turn to social networks and the Internet...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Russia Stands before Abyss of a New Totalitarianism,...
Paul Goble Staunton, July 17 – Vladimir Putin’s “restorationist policy” is rapidly leading Russia to the abyss of a new totalitarianism, one in which political repression will spread across...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Russians View Opposition Not as Alternative but as...
Paul Goble Staunton, July 17 – Russians do not view the opposition as an alternative to those in power but rather as “an additional” but very weak “channel of communication” between...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Not all Skinheads in Russia are Ethnic Russians
Paul Goble Staunton, July 18 – Ethnic Russians form the majority of skinheads in the Russian Federation, but they are not the only nationality involved in such groupings there, a discovery...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Crackdown on Moderate Salafis in Daghestan Driving Them...
Paul Goble Staunton, July 18 – Daghestan leader Ramazan Abdulatipov’s campaign against even moderate Salafi Muslims is driving them underground and into the ranks of the extremists, thus...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Russian Census Should Have ‘Mixed Nationality’ Category,...
Paul Goble Staunton, July 9 – Academician Valery Tishkov, the director of the Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology, says that he has been pushing for the Russian census to include the...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Feelings of Aggressiveness Higher Among Russians Now than...
Paul Goble Staunton, July 9 – Never over the last decade have Moscow sociologists found such a high level of aggressiveness in Russian society as they do today, according to a new study, a...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Inter-Ethnic Conflicts in Russia Reflect the Erosion of...
Paul Goble Staunton, July 10 – Russian officials have long sought to dismiss ethnic conflicts as being product of the everyday disputes people have rather than clashes between two...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: North Caucasus Independence Would Mean End of Putinism,...
Paul Goble Staunton, July 10 – Allowing the North Caucasus to become independent -- a move that a majority of ethnic Russians now support -- would mean the end of the Putin system in Russia...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Had USSR Not Disintegrated, Ethnic Russians Would Be in a...
Paul Goble Staunton, July 10 – Russian nationalists often bewail the demise of the Soviet Union, but a close examination of the demographic situation across Eurasia shows, a Russian...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Russians Mistakenly Believe in ‘Land for Peace’ Inside...
Paul Goble Staunton, July 11 – Russians are far less afraid of giving up one or another part of their country in order to solve problems within it, but this faith in “land for peace”...
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