‘Geopolitical Conquests will Not Save National Pride’ of Russians, Moscow...
Paul Goble Staunton, May 15 – The pride the people feel in their country consists of two elements: a cognitively processed one in which individuals assess the actual past and present of...
View ArticleTurkmenistan Desperately Trying to Put Its Military Forces in Order
Paul Goble Staunton, May 16 – Faced with growing threats from neighboring Afghanistan and religious militants within its own population and having an army that is rated the least...
View ArticlePutin’s Federal Districts in Their Current Form Have Outlived Their...
Paul Goble Staunton, May 16 – Vladimir Putin’s creation of federal districts 15 years ago at the start of his first presidential term may have been useful to him and the Russian Federation...
View ArticleEven if Putin is Tried in the Hague as He Should Be, Russia will Remain a...
Paul Goble Staunton, May 16 – Vladimir Putin should be arrested for war crimes and tried by an international tribunal in the Hague, Sergey Grigoryants says; but even if that happens, Russia...
View ArticleNew Moscow Textbooks Must Stress Existence of ‘Great Russian Aryan Race,’...
Paul Goble Staunton, May 17 – Debates about how close Vladimir Putin’s regime approximates fascism or Nazism are intensifying, with some pointing to the enormous similarities between his...
View Article‘The Chief Distinction of Traditional Islam is Loyalty to the Russian State,’...
Paul Goble Staunton, May 17 – Russian ideologues have often celebrated and called for the promotion of what they call “traditional” Islam as against other trends within the faith, but they...
View ArticleInternet Ushering In a New Middle Ages in Russia and Elsewhere, Klishin Says
Paul Goble Staunton, May 17 – It is comforting for many in the West to assume that what is taking place in Russia is something unique and far from them, but in fact, Ilya Klishin, the...
View ArticleOn This May 18, We Must All Become Crimean Tatars
Paul Goble Staunton, May 18 – Adolf Hitler reportedly was confident he’d get away with killing the Jews because “no one talks about the Armenians anymore.” Tragically, Vladimir Putin now...
View ArticleProtestant Sects Preparing New Color Revolutions in Post-Soviet States,...
Paul Goble Staunton, May 18 – The authorities in the post-Soviet states have long recognized the role of Western-backed NGOs in promoting disruptive change and even color revolutions,...
View ArticleThe Top Five Russian Lies about Ukraine This Week – and Growing Challenges...
Paul Goble Staunton, May 18 – As he has done each week in recent times, Dmitry Bukovsky of Kyiv’s “Delovaya stolitsa” provides a useful checklist of the top five “propaganda myths, fakes...
View ArticleStarovoitova and Novodvorskaya Embodied Russian Liberalism after Sakharov,...
Paul Goble Staunton, May 19 – Valeriya Novodvorskaya and Galina Starovoitova, the symbols of Russian liberalism after the death of Academician Andrey Sakharov, would have been 65 and 69...
View ArticlePutin has Imposed His Values on Russian Society without Changing Himself,...
Paul Goble Staunton, May 19 – Vladimir Putin has fundamentally transformed Russian society by imposing his own personal convictions on the country and convincing large numbers of Russians...
View ArticleRussian Occupation Alienating Even Crimean Tatars Ready to Cooperate with...
Paul Goble Staunton, May 19 – The Russian occupation authorities are now alienating even those few Crimean Tatars who had been ready to cooperate, an indictment of Moscow and the Sevastopol...
View ArticleUkraine Must Follow Western Rather than Russian Approach to Islam, Yakubovich...
Paul Goble Staunton, May 20 – Ukraine is still living with the Muslim Spiritual Directorate (MSD) system the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union imposed on the faithful, but if Ukraine’s...
View Article‘Putin, Kadyrov and Co.’ Now Can Kill Anyone and Hide Their Role, Eidman Says
Paul Goble Staunton, May 20 – The investigation of the murder of Boris Nemtsov shows that the first-ever “killer agency” capable of handling the entire course of a killing, from the...
View ArticlePutin Launches Broad New Attack against Non-Russian Languages
Paul Goble Staunton, May 20 – Vladimir Putin wants to make the number of hours of Russian-language instruction in Russian schools inviolable, something that will mean non-Russian parents...
View Article151 Years after the Genocide and One Year after Sochi, the Circassian Issue...
Paul Goble Staunton, May 21 – No nation more skillfully used an international event than did the Circassians during the Sochi Olympiad to call attention to the Russian-orchestrated genocide...
View ArticleNo ‘Frozen Conflicts’ Will Be Resolved While Russia has Veto in UN Security...
Paul Goble Staunton, May 21 – Vaira Vike-Freiberga, the former president of Latvia, points to an inconvenient truth that few want to recognize: no frozen conflicts in the former Soviet...
View ArticleForced Marriage Sets the Stage for a New and More Fateful Chechen War,...
Paul Goble Staunton, May 21 – Many in Russia and elsewhere have been horrified by personal tragedy of the forced marriage of a young girl to a 57-year-old Chechen that Ramzan Kadyrov and...
View ArticleOccupied Crimea Shows How Moscow Plans to Destroy Non-Russian Languages...
Paul Goble Staunton, May 22 – Vladimir Putin has made much of the fact that Russia declared that there are to be three “state languages” in occupied Crimea – Russian, Ukrainian and Crimean...
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