Peoples Russians Assimilated in the Past Now Recovering Their Earlier...
Paul Goble Staunton, March 6 – The disappearance of non-Russian cultures as a result of Moscow’s assimilationist policies continue to attract attention, but there is another trend which may...
View ArticleMoscow Closed GULAG Museum Because It Doesn’t Want a ‘Territory of Freedom,’...
Paul Goble Staunton, March 6 – Sergey Kovalev, a human rights activist who was once an inmate in the Perm camp memorialized by the only museum in Russia that had been devoted to GULAG...
View ArticleLike Stalin and Mao, Putin Needs ‘Enemies of the People’ to Keep Power,...
Paul Goble Staunton, March 6 – To survive, Putin needs to corrupt the Russian people by promoting the idea that “enemies of the people” are to blame for any shortcomings, Lev Shlosberg...
View ArticleNemtsov – a Russian Liberal Whose Liberalism Didn’t End at Ukraine
Paul Goble Staunton, March 7 – Boris Nemtsov, who was murdered last week in the shadow of the Kremlin, was an exception to the rule that Russian liberalism ends with Ukraine, according to...
View ArticleWhat’s in a Name? For Many Non-Russians, Everything
Paul Goble Staunton, March 7 – Many non-Russians would like to go back to the names and endings of names that were traditional in their national pasts, but at the same time, they encounter...
View ArticleMoscow’s Plan to Organize Russian Émigré Groups into EU Parties Seen Backfiring
Paul Goble Staunton, March 7 – In addition to firming up its links to left-wing parties in EU countries and developing relations with right-wing nationalist parties there, Moscow must...
View ArticleMost Russians Think a Security Service Killed Nemtsov; They Divide on Whose,...
Paul Goble Staunton, March 7 – Two-thirds of Russians taking part in an internet poll conducted say they are sure they know who killed Boris Nemtsov. A majority says that this crime was the...
View ArticleViolence against Women a Major Problem in the South Caucasus
Paul Goble Staunton, March 7 – One of the most positive aspects of the enormous number of holidays post-Soviet states have is that in advance of them journalists often focus on important...
View ArticleWhy Putin Says ‘Glory to Ukraine’ – and Other Russian Anecdotes
Paul Goble Staunton, March 8 – Few nations in the world are more given to and gifted in the use of anecdotes about many things including their leaders, than the Russians. Sometimes that is...
View ArticleInterest in a Palace Coup against Putin Said Growing among Russian Elites
Paul Goble Staunton, March 8 – Despite his efforts, Vladimir Putin is not a remake of Stalin and thus could be overthrown in a coup because he has not only violated the social contract he...
View ArticleMoscow Using Lithuanian Media against Lithuania, Vilnius Editor Says
Paul Goble Staunton, March 8 – Moscow trolls have become much more active in Lithuanian media outlets in recent days, a “cynical” exploitation of the free media in that country against its...
View ArticleMoscow Peoples Republic Announced in Russian Capital
Paul Goble Staunton, March 8 – Yury Batishchev, who styles himself as the leader of the Moscow liberation movement, Rusinsky kray, has announced the formation on the territory of Moscow and...
View ArticleBalkars Mark 71st Anniversary of Their Deportation with Important New Book
Paul Goble Staunton, March 8 – Seventy-one years ago today, Stalin deported 37,103 Balkars, more than half of whom were children, to Central Asia, from which they were permitted to return...
View ArticlePutin’s Admission on Crimea Gives West ‘Unique’ Chance to Force Change,...
Paul Goble Staunton, March 9 – Vladimir Putin’s acknowledgement that he personally decided upon and conducted a special operation to seize Crimea “opens a unique and limited-time window of...
View ArticlePutin’s Regional Amalgamation Plan Faces Court Challenge
Paul Goble Staunton, March 9 – Vladimir Putin’s plans to amalgamate smaller non-Russian federal subjects with larger and predominantly ethnic Russian regions, plans that have been on hold...
View ArticleMurderers of Opposition Figures in Russia Rarely Caught and Those Behind Them...
Paul Goble Staunton, March 9 – In the increasingly Orwellian world that is Vladimir Putin’s Russia, one in which the lie is the truth, it is important to remember that “with rare...
View ArticleLukashenka Now a ‘Lesser Evil’ for Belarusians than Putin, Popular Front...
Paul Goble Staunton, March 9 – It is a measure of just what a threat Vladimir Putin represents to neighboring countries that Aleksey Yanukevich, the leader of the Belarusian Popular Front...
View ArticleMoscow Using Russian Organizations to Destabilize Latvia, Riga Officials Say
Paul Goble Staunton, March 9 -- Solvita Āboltiņa, chairman of the Latvian parliament’s security committee, says that the 100 NGOs in Latvia receiving money from Moscow are not...
View ArticleThe New Face of Appeasement
Paul Goble Staunton, March 10 – It is time to give Nevil Chamberlain a rest as the sole poster child for appeasement. Yes, he appeased Hitler in a hopeless quest to avoid war. He...
View ArticleNo Thinking Person Can Believe Chechens Killed Nemtsov, Zakayev Says
Paul Goble Staunton, March 10 – Akhmed Zakayev, who was a close aide to Dzhokhar Dudayev and who leads the anti-Moscow Chechens from London, says that Moscow’s suggestion that Chechens were...
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