Emerging Russian Ideology Constrains and Ultimately Threatens Putin,...
Paul Goble Staunton, April 11 – “The further ideology spreads through the country, the weaker the institution of political leadership becomes,” according to Tatyana Stanovaya, who argues...
View ArticlePutinites Attack Urals University as ‘Center for Preparing Color Revolutions’
Paul Goble Staunton, April 11 – Pro-Putin activists have redirected their fire from people in Sverdlovsk oblast who are opposed to the war in Ukraine to faculty and staff of the Urals...
View ArticleAre Russia’s Failed Statelets in Eastern Ukraine Safe Havens for Terrorists?
Paul Goble Staunton, April 11 – A great deal of attention has been given to Chechens, Buryats and other non-Russians going to the Donbas to fight for the pro-Moscow “peoples republics”...
View ArticleMoscow at War with Ukraine Goes to Church on Russian Easter
Paul Goble Staunton, April 12 – According to the Russian interior ministry, 1.15 million Muscovites – approximately ten percent of the Russian capital’s population -- attended Easter...
View ArticleWorld War II Victory ‘New Civic Religion’ in Russia, Polish Commentator Says
Paul Goble Staunton, April 12 – Writing in Warsaw’s “Gazeta Wyborcza” a week ago, Wacław Radziwinowicz argued that Moscow’s victory in World War II has become „the new civic religion” in...
View ArticleUkraine has a Weak State but a Strong Society, Russia Just the Opposite,...
Paul Goble Staunton, April 12 – Russians laugh at any suggestion that the Ukrainian people came out to the Maidan to make history and insist that they were driven there by American...
View ArticleImprisoned Sochi Environmentalist Begins Hunger Strike
Paul Goble Staunton, April 12 – Yevgeny Vitishko, the environmental activist who is serving a three year sentence in a Russian penal colony for exposing official malfeasance in the run-up...
View ArticlePutin’s Five-Year Plan for Promoting Patriotism More Militaristic than Soviet...
Paul Goble Staunton, April 12 – Moscow’s new five-year plan for promoting patriotism among the young is not only better financed – spending will more than double – but far more militaristic...
View ArticleUkraine’s Domestic Problems Could Spark New Protests if War Ends, Kyiv...
Paul Goble Staunton, April 13 – As long as Russian aggression against Ukraine continues, patriotism is likely to trump concerns about domestic difficulties, according to Ella Libanova, a...
View ArticleMoscow Can’t and Won’t Forget or Forgive New Political Emigres
Paul Goble Staunton, April 13 – Political emigres have long played a much greater role in Russia and especially in Russian thinking than in other countries, the result among other things of...
View ArticlePutinism Not Nearly as Strong as It Appears, Kirillova Says
Paul Goble Staunton, April 13 – Vladimir Putin by his aggressiveness and bluster has convinced many in his country and elsewhere that he and his system are extremely strong, but in addition...
View ArticleDaghestan Now ‘Northern Front of Islamic State’
Paul Goble Staunton, April 13 – Statements by Russian security officials and actions by siloviki including declaring a new counter-terrorism operation against an area of 4500 square...
View ArticleMoscow’s Russification Policies Not Finnish Revanchism Behind Anger in Karelia
Paul Goble Staunton, April 12 – Karelian activists say that the recent suggestion by Russian National Security Council chief Nikolay Patrushev that Finnish “revanchism” is behind the...
View ArticlePutin Mistakenly Believes His Nuclear Threats Will Keep NATO from Defending...
Paul Goble Staunton, April 14 – Vladimir Putin believes that he can dominate the Baltic countries and destroy NATO not by a direct invasion which the Western alliance is prepared to counter...
View ArticlePutin’s Aggressiveness Alienating Central Asian Countries
Paul Goble Staunton, April 14 – Vladimir Putin’s increasingly aggressive stance toward Russia’s neighbors is alienating even those whom he had long counted as his allies, raising the...
View ArticleYoung North Caucasians Ever More Often Using Fire Arms to Settle Disputes,...
Paul Goble Staunton, April 14 – While Russians have been focusing on Ukraine, the situation in the North Caucasus has deteriorated in two important ways, according to Maya Astvatsaturova....
View ArticleAnother Sign Russia’s Matryoshka Autonomies are at Risk of Being Further...
Paul Goble Staunton, April 14 –Vladimir Putin’s press secretary says that no one from the Nenets Autonomous District in Arkhangelsk oblast or the Khanty-Mansiisk and Yamalo-Nenets ADs in...
View ArticleMulti-Culturalism When Present Promotes Development in Russia’s Regions,...
Paul Goble Staunton, April 14 – The more ethnically diverse a region in Russia is and the higher the level of tolerance for representatives of other cultures, the more positive are the...
View ArticleMoscow’s Medical ‘Optimization’ Program Pushing Up Russia’s Death Rate, Audit...
Paul Goble Staunton, April 15 – The Russian government’s plan to save money by consolidating hospitals and reducing staff has failed to meet almost all of its intended goals, but it has...
View ArticleBanning Alcohol Sales in Russian Supermarkets Will Lead to Unemployment and a...
Paul Goble Staunton, April 15 – In its continuing quest for ways to get Russians to stop drinking, the Russian health ministry has called for alcohol to be sold only in special stores...
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