Moscow Officials Say Non-Russian Language Education Now a ‘Luxury’ Russia...
Paul Goble Staunton, June 1 – Vladimir Putin’s much-ballyhooed program for the optimization of the Russian education system is supposed to solve “two major tasks” – reducing the amount of...
View ArticleMoscow’s Top Five Myths, Fakes and Stupidities about Ukraine This Week
Paul Goble Staunton, June 1 – As he does each week, Dmitry Bukovsky of Kyiv’s “Delovaya Stolitsa” surveys Russian propaganda concerning Ukraine and picks out what he identifies as “the top...
View ArticleMoscow’s Actions Mean There Will Soon Be No Crimea to Return to Ukraine...
Paul Goble Staunton, June 1 – Many Ukrainians and their supporters abroad talk about the possibility of the peaceful return of Crimea to Ukrainian control at some point in the future, but...
View ArticleNew Regional Policy Draft Pushing Russia toward Hyper-Centralized...
Paul Goble Staunton, June 1 – Vladimir Putin is launching a new regional policy, one so deeply centralist that “the regions will in fact lose their title of subjects of the Federation and...
View ArticleNew Media in Russian Regions Often as Tightly Controlled as are Traditional...
Paul Goble Staunton, June 2 – Internet publications, blogs and social media in general, the new media many have expected to transform Russia’s media and public space, are in fact...
View ArticleWest Still Approaching Conflict in Ukraine Tactically Rather than...
Paul Goble Staunton, June 2 – The West has been far more united and tougher about Russia’s intervention in Ukraine than anyone would have expected only a year ago, but “one must understand...
View ArticleTuvans Protest Plan to Make Their Native Tongue ‘Second Foreign Language’ in...
Paul Goble Staunton, June 2 – Sixty-seven leading Tuvin intellectuals have signed an open letter protesting plans to reduce their national language to the status of “a second foreign...
View Article‘When They Came for the Jews’ … in a Russian City … This Week
Paul Goble Staunton, June 3 – Ever more frequently those writing about the Russia of Vladimir Putin have recalled the chilling words of German Pastor Martin Niemoller about the way in which...
View ArticleDespite Ukraine, Obama Normalizing Moscow Ties to Boost Hillary Clinton’s...
Paul Goble Staunton, June 3 – Yesterday, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said that Russia and the United States, despite their continuing differences over Ukraine and other matters,...
View ArticleFor Moscow, Russia’s ‘Most Dangerous Opponent’ in Europe is Poland and ‘Most...
Paul Goble Staunton, June 3 – Moscow’s “black list” of European political figures who now will be denied entrance to the Russian Federation suggests that in the view of the Kremlin, Poland...
View ArticleFor Russians, the 20th Century with Its Historical Shortcomings Hasn’t Ended,...
Paul Goble Staunton, June 3 – Centuries do not always correspond to the period between years ending in 00. Most historians argue that the nineteenth century, for example, lasted from 1815...
View ArticleAcross Russia, Political Battles between Governors and Mayors Intensify
Paul Goble Staunton, June 3 – Today, the unpopular appointed governor of Karelia orchestrated a vote by the Petrozavodsk city council against that city’s popular elected mayor, the latest...
View ArticleRussian Occupiers Use Longstanding Moscow Method to Undercount Crimean Tatars
Paul Goble Staunton, June 4 – Having driven out or denied reentry to many Crimean Tatars, the Russian occupation forces have now employed another longstanding Moscow method of “reducing”...
View ArticleDespite Contradictory Messages, Putin Remains Committed to War, Kirillova Says
Paul Goble Staunton, June 4 – Never before have the messages coming out of Moscow about the future of relations between Russia and the West been so contradictory, with some of them...
View ArticleThanks to Moscow's Actions, ‘Russia Could Become an Islamic State in 10 to 15...
Paul Goble Staunton, June 4 – Many analysts have looked at demographic trends and concluded that sometime toward the middle this century, Muslims will outnumber Russians on the territory of...
View ArticleMcDonald’s Big Macs Helping Not Hurting Russia, Moscow Journalist Says
Paul Goble Staunton, June 4 – There are few things more certain to provoke outrage among Russia’s “’kvas patriots’” than McDonald’s and its Big Macs, a Moscow journalist says; but such...
View ArticleNo Referendum is Going to Resolve the Crimean Issue, Illarionov Says
Paul Goble Staunton, June 4 – Russian opposition leader Aleksey Navalny, like many others in Russia and abroad, says that referenda both past and future are the only basis for resolving the...
View ArticleEthnic Intermarriage Declining in Non-Russian Republics of Russian Federation
Paul Goble Staunton, June 5 – Approximately one in four marriages in the Russian Federation involves people of different nationalities, but the number of ethnically mixed marriages varies...
View ArticleKremlin’s Support for Refugees from Ukraine but not for Circassians from...
Paul Goble Staunton, June 5 – The contrast between the support Russian officials are giving to refugees from Ukraine and the complete absence of such support for Circassians fleeing from...
View ArticleThree Reasons Why Russia Should Be Stripped of 2018 World Cup
Paul Goble Staunton, June 5 – Even before the upcoming trials of former FIFA staffers confirm as seems likely that Moscow corruptly secured the hosting of the 2018 World Cup, a finding that...
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