Economic Crisis Accelerating Russian Flight from North Caucasus
Paul Goble Staunton, June 6 – The economic crisis is leading to the de-industrialization of parts of the North Caucasus and that in turn is contributing to the flight of ethnic Russians...
View ArticleKremlin’s Success in Blaming Foreign ‘Enemies’ for Domestic Problems Why No...
Paul Goble Staunton, June 6 – The Kremlin’s remarkable ability to blame foreign “enemies” for the problems is a major reason that no one should expect a Maidan in Russia anytime soon,...
View ArticleLienz at 70 – a Tragedy Neither Moscow Nor the West Wants to Acknowledge
Paul Goble Staunton, June 7 – In these days 70 years ago, British forces forcibly returned to Soviet control more than 30,000 Cossacks and other Russians at the Austrian city of Lienz. Many...
View ArticleWest, Fearful of Having to Defend the Baltics by Force, Resolves to Stop...
Paul Goble Staunton, June 7 – Fearful that a Russian victory in Ukraine would tempt Vladimir Putin to move against the Baltic countries whose defense would require the kind of military...
View ArticleCentral Asian Soldiers and Officers Seen Defecting to Islamic State at...
Paul Goble Staunton, June 7 – The defection of a senior Tajik colonel in April to the ranks of the Islamic State is not some isolated event but the first sign of what is likely to be a...
View ArticleThe Kremlin’s Top Five Propaganda Myths, Fakes and Stupidities about Ukraine...
Paul Goble Staunton, June 8 – This week’s list of the Kremlin’s Top Five Propaganda Myths, Fakes and Stupidities about Ukraine this week prepared by Dmitry Bukovsky of Kyiv’s “Delovaya...
View Article‘Krymnash’ Meme Part of Russian Society’s Return to Late Soviet Times,...
Paul Goble Staunton, June 8 – “Krymnash” [CrimeaOurs] arose as a serious meme in March 2014, an expression of the patriotic pleasure Russians felt in taking Crimea and demonstrating the...
View ArticleThree Things Muscovites Believe about Migrants Aren’t True, Study Concludes
Paul Goble Staunton, June 8 – Muscovites believe that migrants are taking away jobs from local people, that they are overburdening the health care system, and that they choose to remain...
View ArticleRussia has Betrayed Not Just Ukraine but the Entire Civilized World,...
Paul Goble Staunton, June 8 – This week’s meeting of the G-7 has been forced to focus not on the challenges posed by the Islamic State, Iran’s nuclear program, or Ebola but on the actions...
View Article‘Russians are No More Europeans than are the Tatars,’ Khakimov Says
Paul Goble Staunton, June 8 – European scholars now recognize that no one can understand the present without a thorough understanding of the Middle Ages, and they are beginning to include...
View ArticleRussia’s Geopolitical ‘Successes’ Rely on Ethnic Cleansing, Kyiv Commentator...
Paul Goble Staunton, June 9 – Russia has succeeded in holding its conquests only by conducting significant ethnic cleansing, according to Ukrainian commentator Petr Oleshchuk, who points to...
View ArticlePost-Soviet Russians Began Looking for Enemies Under Yeltsin
Paul Goble Staunton, June 9 – It has become almost a commonplace to assert that Russians under Boris Yeltsin had a positive view of the world and that they began their search for enemies...
View ArticleRegarding Ukraine, Putin’s Actions Undercut Putin’s Arguments, ‘Nezavisimaya...
Paul Goble Staunton, June 9 – Russian actions in Crimea and the Donbas “have weakened Russian arguments about the change of power in Kyiv” at the time of the Maidan and thus cost Moscow...
View Article‘Russian Imperial Nationalism’ has Few Prospects without State Support, Pain...
Paul Goble Staunton, June 9 – Emil Pain, perhaps Russia’s leading specialist on ethnic conflicts, says that “imperial Russian nationalism, directed toward territorial expansion and a harsh...
View ArticleSaakashvili’s Presence Makes Odessa Likely Target of Russian Provocations,...
Paul Goble Staunton, June 9 – Many have suggested that Moscow will move against Odessa or Kharkiv lest any effort to create a Russian land corridor to Crimea by attacking Mariupol spark new...
View Article‘Russians are the Soviet Slaves of Today,’ Panfilov Says
Paul Goble Staunton, June 10 – The Soviet system transformed the population of the USSR into slaves of a particular type, and “the present-day Russian slave is a direct descendent of the...
View ArticleThe Two Major Non-Moscow Ukrainian Orthodox Churches Move toward Unity
Paul Goble Staunton, June 10 – The Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church and the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Kyiv Patriarchate, two of the three largest Orthodox denominations in...
View ArticleMGIMO Rector Wants to Revive Soviet-Era Political Education Courses in Schools
Paul Goble Staunton, June 10 – Now that Moscow has approved new history textbooks, Anatoly Torkunov, the rector of the Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO), has added...
View ArticleChechens Should Return to the Arabic Script, Grozny Official Says
Paul Goble Staunton, June 10 – Islam Saidayev, an official of the Chechen education ministry, says that Chechens should return to the modified Arabic script their ancestors used rather than...
View ArticleRussian Blogger with Close Ties to FSB Says Russians Must Prepare for Major War
Paul Goble Staunton, June 10 –Picking up on the increasingly alarmist rhetoric of Kremlin outlets about the possibility of war, a Urals blogger who openly flaunts his ties with the FSB...
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