Putin’s Unrealizable Dream versus His All Too Real Nightmare
Paul Goble Staunton, June 15 – That Vladimir Putin lives in a different reality than do other world leaders is now more or less common ground. Now, two commentators have described...
View Article‘And Russia was Once Called Holy…”
Paul Goble Staunton, June 15 – Every nation chooses for itself its own epithet, an American poet wrote just after the end of World War II. England, he said, was “merry old.” France was “la...
View ArticleBy Supporting Chechen across Russia, Grozny Challenges Moscow’s Language...
Paul Goble Staunton, June 15 – Chechnya under Ramzan Kadyrov has challenged Moscow in many ways, but now it has taken on a new one. The center has discouraged the non-Russian republics from...
View ArticleMilitant Buddhism and Shamanism Could Threaten Russian Control of Tuva,...
Paul Goble Staunton, June 15 – The potential for ethnic conflicts in Tuva is relatively low, according to Vladimir Datsyshen, but if economic problems, Russian flight, and increasing...
View ArticleWar in Ukraine Changing Nuclear Balance in the World, SIPRI Report Says
Paul Goble Staunton, June 16 – The war in Ukraine is changing the nuclear balance in the world in three ways: it is leading Russia and the US to slow their cutbacks in the number of war...
View ArticleBeijing Wants Moscow to Agree to Massive Chinese Settlement in the Transbaikal
Paul Goble Staunton, June 16 – Transbaikal officials are working on a deal with China that would allow Chinese firms to rent more than 300,000 acres of land in that Russian region, but a...
View ArticleRussians’ Social Bonds Increasing, Giving Them Resource for Protest,...
Paul Goble Staunton, June 16 – Social networks among Russians have grown and deepened over the last two years, according to a poll conducted by the Russian Academy of Economics and State...
View ArticleRussia Becoming a ‘Cultural Desert’ Thus Putting Its Survival in Doubt, Pain...
Paul Goble Staunton, June 16 – “There is nothing predetermined in the history of the development of humanity,” Emil Pain says, and consequently, “the fate of Russia is not doomed.” But the...
View ArticleUnder Russians, Crimean Tatar Language Official ‘Only on Paper,’ Turkish...
Paul Goble Staunton, June 16 – A report by an group of Turkish human rights activists about the situation in occupied Crimea and given to Vladimir Putin by Turkish President Recep Tayyip...
View ArticleMoscow’s Intervention in Ukraine Dividing Ukrainian Baptists from Russian...
Paul Goble Staunton, June 17 – Moscow’s annexation of Crimea and intervention in Ukraine’s Donbas has left many Ukrainian Baptist communities in a difficult state because the occupation...
View ArticleSeven Goals of Russian Domestic Propaganda Have Laid a Trap for the Kremlin,...
Paul Goble Staunton, June 17 – As a result of its propaganda effort at home, one that has seven main goals, Kseniya Kirillova says, the Kremlin has trapped itself in a situation in which...
View ArticleChallenging Moscow, Circassians Seek to Overcome Alphabet Divide
Paul Goble Staunton, June 17 – The Soviet regime’s divide and rule approach to the Circassian nation not only left them divided among four subjects of the Russian Federation but also gave...
View ArticleWhy Russians are Dying Says a Lot about Russia and its Regime
Paul Goble Staunton, June 17 – Even before the increase in mortality rates among Russians in the first quarter of this year, Russians were dying in ways that highlight serious problems with...
View ArticleWhy is Belarus Conducting Military Exercises on the Ukrainian Border?
Paul Goble Staunton, June 17 – Two days ago, the Belarusian armed forces began a command staff exercise in Gomel oblast with the territorial forces of that region to perfect tactics to...
View ArticleMore than Two-Thirds of Daghestani Muslim Organizations Not Registered with...
Paul Goble Staunton, June 18 – Only 804 of the 2552 religious organizations in Daghestan are registered with the state, or only 31.5 percent. These are overwhelmingly Muslim groups, and...
View Article‘Russia’s Future Depends on Its Past,’ Moscow Museum Official Says
Paul Goble Staunton, June 18 – Russians “poorly understand” that “their future depends on the past,” not so much in terms of scholarship, the specific evaluation of this or that leader, or...
View Article‘Absurd’ Application of Extremism Laws in Russia Today Threatens Everyone,...
Paul Goble Staunton, June 18 – Aleksandr Verkhovsky of the SOVA human rights monitoring organization says that the Ukrainian crisis and competition among Russian siloviki to distinguish...
View ArticlePutin’s Sabre Rattling Threatens Russia’s Neighbors, the World, and Russia...
Paul Goble Staunton, June 18 – Vladimir Putin’s increasingly belligerent stance and his announcement yesterday that Moscow will put in place 40 additional nuclear weapons not only...
View ArticleRussian Economy Will Stagnate After Recovery Unless Kremlin Changes Course,...
Paul Goble Staunton, June 15 – Even when the Russian economy recovers from its current recession in a year or so, economist Yakov Papp argues, it will remain in recession unless and until...
View ArticleGenetic Testing Proves Putin is Wrong about Crimea and Crimean Tatars
Paul Goble Staunton, June 19 – Historians, including Russian ones, have pointed out that Vladimir Putin’s claims that Crimea has been Russian from time immemorial are simply wrong, but...
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