Russia and Russian Nation Owe Their Existence to the Mongols, Kalmyk Émigré...
Paul Goble Staunton, April 7 – Eurasianism by definition is diverse because it argues that Russia to one degree or another has roots in both Europe and Asia, with some of its advocates...
View ArticleA Potentially Dangerous Situation: Russians Want Regime to Take Care of Them...
Paul Goble Staunton, April 7 – Russians want their government to take care of them and ensure a high standard of living, surveys routinely show, but they “do not believe in the possibility...
View ArticleFew in the Russian Intelligentsia Oppose Putin Even if They Don’t Support...
Paul Goble Staunton, April 7 – Many members of the Russian intelligentsia do not support Vladimir Putin and his repression at home and aggression abroad, but a significant and surprising...
View ArticleRussia Cannot Become a Democracy in Its Current Borders, Walesa Says
Paul Goble Staunton, April 8 – Just as the notion of a liberal Soviet Union proved to be a contradiction in terms, so too the Russian Federation in its current borders cannot become a...
View ArticleMoscow Wants Crimean Tatars to Forget Deportation; Kyiv Wants Ukrainians to...
Paul Goble Staunton, April 8 – There are many significant differences between Moscow and Kyiv but perhaps none is more indicative of the kind of countries they are the capitals of than...
View ArticleTo End Massive Evasion, Moscow Wants to Make Participation in the Census...
Paul Goble Staunton, April 8 – In the course of the last Russian census in 2010, an estimated 3.5 million residents of the Russian Federation avoided taking part, a shortfall that reduced the value of...
View Article‘Irreplaceable Leaders in Post-Soviet States Depriving Their Countries of a...
Paul Goble Staunton, April 8 – The recent re-elections of Islam Karimov as Uzbekistan’s president and Nursultan Nazarbayev as Kazakhstan’s, two leaders who have held office since Soviet...
View ArticleTo Moscow’s Making of Republics inside Ukraine, There is Apparently No End
Paul Goble Staunton, April 8 – During the first years of Soviet power, a Moscow newspaper published an article telling its readers how easy and potentially profitable it would be for them...
View ArticleNew Russian Attack on Ukraine Likely as a Frozen Conflict Threatens Putin’s...
Paul Goble Staunton, April 9 – Vladimir Putin’s goal in Ukraine remains regime change in Kyiv, something he had hoped his intervention in Crimea and Donbas would force the Ukrainians to do...
View ArticleBelarus Must Vote This Year to Join Russia or Face ‘Liquidation,’ Moscow...
Paul Goble Staunton, April 9 – In what appears to be a response to Alyaksandr Lukashenka’s recent declaration that Belarus will never become the northwestern part of the Russian Federation,...
View ArticleRussian Interior Ministry Forces Prepare to Counter Maidans across Russia and...
Paul Goble Staunton, April 9 – Russian internal troops are currently conducting exercises in six of the countries federal districts – the North-West, Central, Volga, North Caucasus, South,...
View Article‘Perfect Storm’ over Land May Push the North Caucasus into Chaos, Sokolov Says
Paul Goble Staunton, April 9 – The “Kavkazskaya politika” portal has launched a new series of articles that pose the question as to what “”a perfect storm’” that would overthrow the...
View ArticlePatriarchate Aide Pushing Émigré Solonevich’s Ideas about ‘a Peoples Monarchy’
Paul Goble Staunton, April 9 – Archpriest Vsevolod Chaplin, a close aide to Patriarch Kirill and the head of the Synod’s Department for Relations between the Church and Society, is pushing...
View ArticleTo Counter NATO in Baltic, Moscow Ready to Use Nuclear Weapons, Regnum Writer...
Paul Goble Staunton, April 10 – Faced with superior NATO forces in the larger Baltic Sea region and the threat they pose in the first instance to the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad, Leonid...
View ArticleRussia May Soon Have ‘More Blocked Websites than Working Ones,’ Legal Expert...
Paul Goble Staunton, April 10 – It is a measure of how Moscow has tightened the screws on the media that Russia will “soon become a country in which there will be more blocked websites than...
View ArticleRussian National Culture Matters But Less than Many Think, Pain Says
Paul Goble Staunton, April 10 – Russian national culture is not the determinant of the country’s development that many now believe it to be, according to Emil Pain, a leading Moscow expert...
View ArticleNew Laws on Archives and Names Show Ukraine ‘Increasingly Diverging’ from...
Paul Goble Staunton, April 10 – “The mental gap between Ukraine and Russia is growing, and the trajectories of the two country are ever more strongly diverging,” according to Maksim...
View ArticleMoscow Muslims Venerate Tatar Woman Who Helped Keep Islam Alive in Soviet...
Paul Goble Staunton, April 10 – Every year in the spring, groups of Muslims at the behest of the Council of Muftis of Russia (SMR) and the Muslim Spiritual Directorate (MSD) of Moscow...
View ArticleMoscow Can’t Afford Having Donbas Become a Frozen Conflict, Felgengauer Says
Paul Goble Staunton, April 11 – Moscow can’t afford having the Donbas become a frozen conflict with an unrecognized state like Transdniestria or Nagorno-Karabakh: its economy cannot exist...
View ArticleIs the Russian Army about to Get a Central Asian Face?
Paul Goble Staunton, April 11 – Moscow’s proposals to create a Russian foreign legion and to allow Tajikistan citizens to serve in the ranks of the Russian Army are “extremely timely”...
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