Tolerance for Evil and Permanent Fear Block Development of Russian Society,...
Paul Goble Staunton, April 28 – Russia is unlikely to develop into a fundamentalist country like Iran with Orthodox radicals playing the role of mullahs, but “the moral permissiveness...
View ArticleMoscow Failed to Learn from Perestroika and Keeps Repeating Its Mistakes,...
Paul Goble Staunton, April 28 – Perestroika, begun 30 years ago, “became an irreversible process,” one that “destroyed both the communist system and the Soviet empire, Vladislav Inozemtsev...
View ArticlePutin’s ‘Kadyrov Problem’ Coming to a Head at Home and Abroad
Paul Goble Staunton, April 28 – Vladimir Putin’s use of Ramzan Kadyrov brought a kind of stability in the North Caucasus – professions of loyalty by the latter to the former and an...
View ArticlePutin ‘Repeating All Mistakes’ of 2000 Amnesty and Making New Ones as Well,...
Paul Goble Staunton, April 28 – The Victory Day amnesty Vladimir Putin has promised “repeats all the mistakes of an analogous measure of 15 years ago, when the godfathers of organized crime...
View ArticleDaghestan Leader Lines Up with Chechnya’s Kadyrov against Russian Interior...
Paul Goble Staunton, April 29 – Vladimir Putin’s “Kadyrov problem” just got a lot larger, so large in fact that it may ultimately cost Moscow control of the North Caucasus: Yesterday,...
View ArticleA Vicious Circle: The More Aggressive Putin Is, the More Russians Love Him
Paul Goble Staunton, April 29 – Russian polls, admittedly not the most reliable source, suggest that the more aggressive Vladimir Putin is, the more Russians love and support him regardless...
View ArticlePutin’s Personality Cult Exceeds Stalin’s ‘by Every Measure,’ Kantor Says
Paul Goble Staunton, April 29 – Although few want to recognize that this is the case, the personality cult surrounding Vladimir Putin far exceeds the one that surrounded Stalin “by all...
View ArticleGiving National Law Priority over International Law Would End Human Rights in...
Paul Goble Staunton, April 29 – Aleksandr Bastrykin’s proposal to amend the Russian constitution so that Russian national law would take priority over international law is in fact another...
View ArticlePutin Isn’t Going to Start a Nuclear War but May Destroy Russia, Former KGB...
Paul Goble Staunton, April 29 – Despite threatening language, Vladimir Putin is not going to start a nuclear war, according to Yury Shvets, who studied along with him at the KGB’s Andropov...
View ArticleRussia Has No Allies in Kyiv Now and Won’t Have Any in the Future, Kazarin Says
Paul Goble Staunton, April 30 – “When Vladimir Putin or Sergey Lavrov talk about Ukraine,” Pavel Kazarin says, one has the impression that they think there is a pro-Moscow faction in Kyiv...
View ArticleEconomics and Education have Replaced Ethnicity as Main Reasons for...
Paul Goble Staunton, April 30 – Between 1994 and 2003, ethnicity was the most important factor involved in decisions by residents of the Russian Federation to emigrate, according to Mikhail...
View ArticleRussophobia Doesn’t Exist But Fear and Hatred of Putin’s Regime Do, Ikhlov says
Paul Goble Staunton, April 30 – Vladimir Putin and his supporters have made the struggle against what they see as Russophobia a cornerstone of their ideology, Yevgeny Ikhlov says; but if...
View ArticleConflicts in Russia, Post-Soviet Countries Result of Stalin’s Actions...
Paul Goble Staunton, April 30 – The conflicts within the Russian Federation and across the entire post-Soviet space are occurring because of the decisions Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin made...
View ArticlePutin and Kadyrov have a Shared Interest in Avoiding a Break but May Not Be...
Paul Goble Staunton, April 30 – Both Vladimir Putin and Ramzan Kadyrov have a deep interest in avoiding a complete break, the former because a new Chechen war would be “a moral catastrophe”...
View ArticleNOTE TO VISITORS TO WINDOWS ON EURASIA BLOG
Because of health issues, I am suspending my preparation of Windows as of May 1. Over the last 11 years, first by email, then on the original Windows site and more recently on the new series site, I...
View ArticleAs in 1939, Kremlin Said Mulling ‘Preventive Occupation’ of the Baltic States
Paul Goble Staunton, May 12 – People of decency and good will around the world have been horrified by Vladimir Putin’s defense this week of the 1939 Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact which made...
View ArticleAndizhan Massacre a Decade Later – A Tragedy that Continues to Metastisize
Paul Goble Staunton, May 13 – Ten years ago today, the Uzbek security services opened fire with automatic weapons on a demonstration in Andizhan, killing more than 500, arresting more than...
View ArticleArmenia Creates a Muslim Muftiate and Names Imam Trained in Iran to Head It
Paul Goble Staunton, May 14 – In a step that might seem absurd given the composition of Armenia’s population but that appears likely to send shockwaves through the Caucasus and perhaps...
View ArticleWhy Do Samara Activists Really Want to Ban Production of ‘The Producers’?
Paul Goble Staunton, May 15 – Russian activists in Samara are seeking to have the authorities there ban a production of Mel Brooks’ satire “The Producers” because it contains within it what...
View ArticleRussian Government Confirms Degradation of Russian Health Care Since Putin...
Paul Goble Staunton, May 15 – When Russians complain that their health care has deteriorated in recent years, the defenders of Vladimir Putin east and west typically dismiss such cries of...
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