Moscow Must Save Ethnic Russians in Baltic Countries from Their False Belief...
Paul Goble Staunton, March 10 – Many ethnic Russians in the Baltic countries think that they can function perfectly normally there because they speak the languages and get along with their...
View ArticleRussia Must Partition Ukraine to Ensure Its Own Security, Regnum Editor Says
Paul Goble Staunton, March 10 – To ensure its own security, Russia must partition Ukraine, a “Frankenstein-like” entity created by Lenin and Stalin, because unless and until it is split up,...
View ArticlePutin’s Failure to Institutionalize Meant His Earlier Stabilization Couldn’t...
Paul Goble Staunton, March 10 – Vladimir Putin deserves and takes credit for “’pulling’” Russia out the 1990s, Vladislav Inozemtsev says, but his failure to institutionalize the mechanisms...
View ArticleA Devil’s Dozen of Developments in Putin’s Russia
Paul Goble Staunton, March 11 -- Even though Vladimir Putin is extremely successful in managing the news about the big issues in Russian life, such as what he calls “the investigation”...
View ArticlePutin’s Vision Means New Cold War More Likely to Go Hot, Eidman Says
Paul Goble Staunton, March 11 – The new cold war that has begun in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine does not have the formal ideological shape of its predecessor, but Vladimir Putin...
View Article‘Kadyrov is Becoming the Beria of Today,’ Kashin Says
Paul Goble Staunton, March 11 – Ramzan Kadyrov has said he is prepared to give his life for Vladimir Putin, but the larger and more immediate question now, Oleg Kashin argues, is ‘where is...
View ArticleAs in Stalin’s Time, Russians are Again Denouncing Others for Personal Gain,...
Paul Goble Staunton, March 11 – As in Stalin’s time, Russians are now denouncing other Russians simply in order to get their apartments, their jobs or other benefits, a trend that reflects...
View ArticlePutin’s Anti-Maidan Movement Won’t Be Any More Capable of Blocking Change...
Paul Goble Staunton, March 11 – Vladimir Putin’s Anti-Maidan movement has received a great deal of media attention, but it will not be any more capable of stopping change and even...
View ArticleNew Russian Study Challenges Notion that Stalin was Necessary
Paul Goble Staunton, March 12 – It is an article of faith for Vladimir Putin and many Russians as well that, despite what he and they are sometimes willing to concede were Joseph Stalin’s...
View ArticlePutin’s Crimean Anschluss, Having Failed to Promote a New USSR, is Leading to...
Paul Goble Staunton, March 12 – When Vladimir Putin decided a year ago to annex Crimea, he and his supporters expected that this would be “the first event in a chain of unending victories...
View ArticleWhen Pro-Moscow Militants Return from Ukraine to Russia ...
Paul Goble Staunton, March 12 – Yesterday, Nikolay Patrushev, secretary of Putin’s Security Council, warned that Russia will face a serious terrorist threat if and when militants from...
View Article‘Conspiracy of Generals’ Could Lead to Putin’s Ouster, Illarionov Suggests
Paul Goble Staunton, March 12 – Andrey Illarionov, an economist who earlier served as an advisor to Vladimir Putin, says that future historians may describe what is happening in Moscow now...
View ArticleA New Breeding Ground for Terrorism in Central Asia – the Abandoned Families...
Paul Goble Staunton, March 12 – Because of widespread poverty, brittle authoritarian regimes, and the impact of developments in neighboring Afghanistan, the Central Asian countries have...
View ArticleInterregnum
Paul Goble Staunton, March 13 – Thirty-three years ago, Soviet commentator Fyodor Burlatsky published an article entitled “Interregnum” in “Novy Mir.” Ostensibly about what had taken place...
View ArticlePutin has Lost Monopoly on Use of Force and Balance among Force Structures
Paul Goble Staunton, March 13 – The Putin regime has lost two things on which any state depends: a monopoly on the legitimate use of force on its own territory and a balance among its own...
View ArticleUkraine Divided Less between East and West than between City and Village,...
Paul Goble Staunton, March 13 – Most discussions about divisions in Ukraine focus either on the differences of east and west or on those between Russian speakers and Ukrainian speakers, but...
View ArticleMoscow’s Efforts to Fix Identities to Manipulate the Population Inevitably...
Paul Goble Staunton, March 13 – Open societies allow their members to define their own identities and to have more than one as well as to shift them almost at will; closed societies, in...
View ArticleIslamization of Tajik Society has Domestic Roots, Experts Say
Paul Goble Staunton, March13 – Many are now concerned about the possible spread of Islamist radicalism from Afghanistan into neighboring Tajikistan, but the roots of the Islamization of...
View ArticleMoscow in a Time of Twitter
Paul Goble Staunton, March 14 – Rumors have always swirled around the Russian throne especially when anything happens or is thought to be happening or even is desired to happen. But the...
View ArticlePutin Like Khrushchev between Cuban Missile Crisis and 1964 Ouster,...
Paul Goble Staunton, March 14 – In the swirl of rumors reflecting the limited and only suggestive information anyone has about what is going on in the Kremlin right now, some of the most...
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