Window on Eurasia: Russia’s Ethnic Problems Reflect Moscow’s Loss of Both...
Paul Goble Staunton, August 7 – Russia’s inter-ethnic problems, which have put the country “at the brink of a social explosion,” are first and foremost the result of Russia’s still...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: ‘Melting of Permafrost is Converting Much of Russia into a...
Paul Goble Staunton, August 7 – Two-thirds of the territory of the Russian Federation is covered by permafrost, and the melting of this ice is rapidly “converting a large part of Russia...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: High Price of Domestic Flights Limiting Contacts among...
Paul Goble Staunton, August 7 – Because the Russian Federation is so large and because that country has such underdeveloped highway and rail networks, many Russians over the last half...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: 30 Border Conflicts Simmering Among Russia’s Federal Subjects
Paul Goble Staunton, August 8 – At the present time, there are approximately 30 territorial disputes among Russia’s federal subjects, a situation that makes changing borders anywhere a such...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: To Save Russia and Himself, Putin Must Become a National...
Paul Goble Staunton, August 8 – While he is unlikely to use the term itself, Vladimir Putin has little choice but to return to the ideas of National Bolshevism, an ideological trend from the...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: A Pastor Niemoller Moment for Russia -- and for the West
Paul Goble Staunton, August 8 – Perhaps the most widely cited cry of despair among those who suffered under Hitler’s fascist regime came from Lutheran Pastor Martin Niemoller who observed...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Sochi Countdown -- 26 Weeks to the Olympiad in the North...
Note: This is my 24th special Window on Eurasia about the meaning and impact of the planned Olympiad on the nations in the surrounding region. These WOEs, which will appear each Friday over the...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Five Days in 2008 that Shook the World But Didn’t Change It
Paul Goble Staunton, August 10 – Five years ago this week, Russian forces invaded Georgia after Tbilisi took actions that Moscow regarded as provocations, thus setting in train the first and...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Russian Nationalists, Lacking Charismatic Leader,...
Paul Goble Staunton, August 10 – The Russian media present a highly distorted image of Russian nationalism because it focuses on a few Moscow figures whose “influence in the nationalist...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Russia Will Disintegrate if Officials Continue to Treat...
Paul Goble Staunton, August 11 – Russia faces first pogroms and then disintegration if Russian officials and especially police officers continue to treat people not as citizens with equal...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Three Disturbing ‘Signs’ of Fascism in Russia
Paul Goble Staunton, August 11 – Moscow’s law against homosexual propaganda has led ever more people in Russia and the West to talk about the increasing threat of national socialism and...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Estonian Leader Draws Ten Lessons from the 2008...
Paul Goble Staunton, August 12 – Mart Laar, a former Estonian prime minister and defense minister, draws ten lessons from the August 2008 Russian-Georgian war, lessons that are applicable to...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Moscow Patriarchate Shifts from Inclusive to Exclusive on...
Paul Goble Staunton, August 12 – Moscow Patriarch Kirill has sought to present himself as a spokesman for conservative Christians not only in the former Soviet space but across Europe, but...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Moscow’s Extremist List Now Includes More than 2000 Items
Paul Goble Staunton, August 12 – On Friday, the Russian government’s list of extremist literature, begun in April 2004, broke through yet another notorious milestone: as of Friday, there are...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Moscow to Help Tehran Build More Nuclear Reactors
Paul Goble Staunton, August 13 – Moscow, having helped Iran to build its atomic power station at Bushehr over the last two decades, is now negotiating with Tehran to construct one or more...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: A Buryat’s Cri de Coeur about Those Who Want a Russia Only...
Paul Goble Staunton, August 13 – In a two minute 38 second video clip, Aleksandra Garmadzhapova, a journalist who works for Moscow’s “Novaya gazeta” issues an impassioned plea clearly direct...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: To Combat Ethnic Conflicts, Moscow Needs to Consider...
Paul Goble Staunton, August 13 – Even as Russians debate the value of the new system of special camps for illegal immigrants from abroad, a senior Duma deputy has called for consideration of...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: ‘How Many Icebreakers Does Russia Need?’
Paul Goble Staunton, August 13 – As the first Chinese merchant ship begins an unescorted voyage from Dalian to Rotterdam on the Northern Sea Route, Russian military officials are pondering...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Russia’s Wealthiest Selling Apartments in Moscow and...
Paul Goble Staunton, August 14 – Many in the Russian Federation and the West were shocked when European countries recently published figures showing that thousands of Russians are now...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Will Russia Soon Have More Orthodox Churches than Schools?
Paul Goble Staunton, August 14 – If current trends continue, the Russian Federation will have more Orthodox churches than public schools by 2016, a remarkable development given that at the...
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