Is Ukraine 2015 Going to Be a Repetition of Hungary 1956?
Paul Goble Staunton, April 3 – Moscow’s actions in Ukraine now “strikingly recall the behavior of the Soviet Union” during the Cold War which “put down with blood any manifestations of...
View ArticlePutin’s New Nationalities Chief Says His Job is to ‘Prevent Pogroms in...
Paul Goble Staunton, April 3 – Vladimir Putin has chosen a Duma deputy from Sverdlovsk with an FSB background and service in the notorious Alpha Group during his Chechen wars to be the head...
View ArticleDespite Lukashenka’s Claims, Belarusian Language is Under Threat, Monitoring...
Paul Goble Staunton, April 3 – Despite Alyaksandr Lukashenka’s tilt away from Moscow and even his own use of his country’s national language on occasion, the situation of the Belarusian...
View ArticleFSB’s Continuing Conflict with Kadyrov Reflects and Highlights Putin’s...
Paul Goble Staunton, April 4 – The conflict between the FSB and Ramzan Kadyrov over who is to be held responsible for the murder of Boris Nemtsov is intensifying and increasingly affects...
View ArticleKremlin’s Nepotism ‘No Anomaly’ and a Problem for Regime, Baranov Says
Paul Goble Staunton, April 4 – When a leader or his spokesman has to deny the obvious, that is a good indication that the obvious has become a problem. And that appears to be what is...
View ArticleNovorossiya Will Never Be Part of Ukraine Again, Kremlin Advisor Says
Paul Goble Staunton, April 4 – Leonid Reshetnikov, a retired SVR general, director of the Russian Institute for Strategic Studies (RISI), and an advisor to Vladimir Putin, says that there...
View Article‘Traditional’ Islam in Russia Increasingly Means Islam with No Foreign Roots...
Paul Goble Staunton, April 4 – Most Muslims see the basic division in Islam as being between the Sunnis who form approximately 90 percent of the umma and the Shiia who form much of the...
View ArticleTen Reasons Why Ukraine’s Donbas is Not and Will Not Become a Northern Ireland
Paul Goble Staunton, April 4 – At a time when many commentators are seeking to explain what is going on in Ukraine by searching for analogies with other places and events, it is useful to...
View ArticleHow the Internet has Changed Karelia Since First Dial-Ups in 1997
Paul Goble Staunton, April 5 – Thanks to the help of Finnish friends, Petrozavodsk, the capital of Karelia, got dial up Internet service in 1997, even before Moscow did; and the links it...
View ArticleRussians Fail to Note Putin is Treating Crimean Tatars the Same Way Hitler...
Paul Goble Staunton, April 5 – For more than a year, Russians have failed to take note of and react to the fact that “their government is dealing with the Crimean Tatars in the same way...
View ArticlePutin Regime Abusing Psychology the Way Soviets Did Psychiatry, Russian...
Paul Goble Staunton, April 5 – One of the most notorious practices of the Soviet system in its last decades was the incarceration of perfectly health dissidents in psychiatric prisons under...
View ArticleTwo Turkic Nations Stalin Divided and Deported Come Together in Central Asian...
Paul Goble Staunton, April 5 – The Karachays and Balkars, two closely related Turkic speaking peoples whom Stalin worked hard to separate and deported to Central Asia at the end of World...
View ArticlePutin Eliminating Rights of Russians ‘Step by Step,’ New Report Shows
Paul Goble Staunton, April 5 -- A new study by a group of Moscow activists on the state of freedom of assembly in Russia concludes that Vladimir Putin has been first limiting and then...
View Article18 of 20 Ukraine’s Ministers Now Speak English Up from Two in Yanukovich Regime
Paul Goble Staunton, April 6 – Sometimes a simple statistic can highlight a fundamental change, and that is true of one from Ukraine. At present, 18 of 20 of the ministers in the Ukrainian...
View ArticleTajikistan and Daghestan May Increase Islamist Threat by How They are...
Paul Goble Staunton, April 6 – Tajikistan is being pressured to shut down the Islamic Rebirth Party, something that will drive its members into the underground and make the Islamist threat...
View ArticleFive Moscow Lies Suggest What Putin is Likely to Do Next in Ukraine
Paul Goble Staunton, April 6 – Lies are not only a moral failing but ultimately a political one as well because they typically are unmasked and the liar held responsible and because,...
View ArticleRussian Occupiers Close 11 of 12 Crimean Tatar Media Outlets and 2700 of...
Paul Goble Staunton, April 6 – Of the slightly more 3,000 media outlets in Crimea before the Anschluss, the Russian occupation authorities have reregistered and therefore allowed to...
View ArticleMore than 2500 Novosibirsk Residents Demand Moscow Reverse Its Obscurantist...
Paul Goble Staunton, April 6 – Between 2500 and 5,000 residents of Novosibirsk staged a demonstration yesterday to demand that Moscow follow the principles of the Russian Constitution and...
View ArticleWhen a Preposition is Predetermination – Putin Began His Attack on Ukrainian...
Paul Goble Staunton, April 7 – Vladimir Putin stopped using the preposition “v” or “in” Ukraine in 2004, reverting to the older form “na” or “on,” in official government documents, an...
View ArticlePutin Conducting ‘Hybrid Genocide’ Against Crimean Tatars, Muzhdabayev Says
Paul Goble Staunton, April 7 – Moscow officials are asserting and some in the West are accepting the notion that local officials in Crimea are to blame for any problems with the...
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