Anti-Regime Leaflets in Ashgabat Signals End of Stability in Turkmenistan
Paul Goble Staunton, April 15 – For most of the post-Soviet period, Turkmenistan has been one of the most stable countries in Central Asia, its stability purchased at the cost of a highly...
View Article‘Creative De-Sovietization’ Will Immunize People against Communism, Shtepa Says
Paul Goble Staunton, April 15 – Ukraine’s new legislation on de-sovietization is a necessary step toward restoring historic justice, Vadim Shtepa says. “Without the liquidation of the...
View ArticleUkrainians ‘Called Us Occupiers,’ Returning Russian Volunteers Tell Media
Paul Goble Staunton, April 15 – Many commentators have speculated that Moscow faces a potentially serious problem when those who have gone to fight in Ukraine return to Russia with their...
View ArticlePutin Selling Advanced Air Defense System to Iran to Destabilize Middle East...
Paul Goble Staunton, April 16 – Vladimir Putin says his decision to sell S-300 air defense missiles to Iran will stabilize the situation in the Middle East...
View ArticleRussia ‘De-Ukrainizing’ Population of Crimea, Occupation Census Shows
Paul Goble Staunton, April 16 – The number of people in Crimea identifying as ethnic Ukrainians has fallen by 232,000 between the 2001 census conducted by the Ukrainian government and the...
View ArticleTen Films Moscow Won’t Let Russians See – and Why Russians Will as a Result
Paul Goble Staunton, April 16 – Moscow’s decision to ban the film “Number 44” for its supposedly anti-Russian treatment of World War II is only one of the decisions the Russian authorities...
View ArticleWhen Moscow Doesn’t Like the Numbers, It Doesn’t Publish Them
Paul Goble Staunton, April 16 – For the last three months, the Russian population has been declining, and Moscow has coped with this by not publishing its usual monthly data collections or...
View ArticleSouthern Kazakhstan Rapidly ‘Becoming Mono-Lingual’ with Russian Speakers...
Paul Goble Staunton, April 16 – A generation ago, few ethnic Russians in Kazakhstan spoke Kazakh; now, their number is increasing “but very slowly” and “not thanks” to the efforts of the...
View ArticleWhere Putin’s Propaganda on Ukraine has Worked Even Better than in Russia:...
Paul Goble Staunton, April 17 – Vladimir Putin’s propaganda machine has been highly successful in defining the world for many Russians, but it may have been even more successful in defining...
View ArticlePutin’s Man in Siberia Blames Russian Opposition for Forest Fires
Paul Goble Staunton, April 17 – One of the most disturbing passages of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s story, “One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich,” comes when Ivan is told by a fellow GULAG...
View Article‘Putin isn’t an Imperialist; He’s a Nazi,’ Portnikov Says
Paul Goble Staunton, April 17 – Vladimir Putin’s statements about Ukraine in his “direct line” program yesterday look “moderate” but only in comparison with the militaristic declarations of...
View ArticleMoscow Wants to Deprive Russians of Right to More Kinds of Referendums
Paul Goble Staunton, April 17 – Despite Moscow’s demand that other countries conduct referendums on issues it considers important, the Russian government has introduced a draft bill in the...
View ArticleMuslims Must Focus on Their Dawning Status as the Dominant Group in Russia,...
Paul Goble Staunton, April 17 – Because of demographic trends, Muslims are on their way to becoming the dominant group in Russian life sometime within the next generation or so, and they...
View ArticleIs Russia Losing Its Nuclear Defense Capability?
Paul Goble Staunton, April 18 – There are many reasons why Vladimir Putin has been threatening the West with the possibility that he will use nuclear weapons against its allies, but one...
View ArticleAid Can’t Reach Siberian Fire Victims Because All Transport ‘Being Used for...
Paul Goble Staunton, April 18 – In a clearer indication of Moscow’s priorities than Vladimir Putin’s speeches and of Russia’s difficulties at home than Moscow TV, St. Petersburg activists...
View ArticleRussia’s Believers and Unbelievers Far Less Different in Their Views than...
Paul Goble Staunton, April 18 – In Soviet times when religious belief was persecuted, the differences between believers and unbelievers was enormous, so great indeed that many felt that the...
View ArticleTajiks Remember When They Forced Moscow to Change Border with Uzbekistan
Paul Goble Staunton, April 18 – An article about a Tajik protest in February 1925 that blocked the train of Soviet leader Mikhail Kalinin and forced Moscow to revise Tashkent’s approach to...
View ArticleEven Russians Old Enough to Remember Soviet Times Idealize Food Situation in...
Paul Goble Staunton, April 18 – Even as the diet of Russians deteriorates in quantity and quality as a result of the economic crisis (forum-msk.org/material/news/10787262.html), Russians,...
View Article25 Years Ago, Gorbachev’s Economic Blockade Failed to Keep Lithuania in the...
PaulGoble Staunton, April 19 – On April 18, 1990, Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev imposed an economic blockade on Lithuania, an action that harmed the USSR as much as it hurt Lithuania but...
View ArticleKremlin’s Five Top Lies Last Week about Ukraine
Paul Goble Staunton, April 19 – As it has taken to doing, Kyiv’s “Delovaya stolitsa” newspaper publishes today a list of “the top five propagandistic myths, fakes and stupidities of the...
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