Kremlin Censorship Means Russians Increasingly Can’t Talk about Their...
Paul Goble Staunton, July 4 – The increasingly tight censorship of the Russian media, the editors of “Vedomosti” say, “does not dictate so much what one can say as what one cannot” and that...
View ArticleMoscow Brings Its Traditional Divide-and-Rule Approach Back to the Three...
Paul Goble Staunton, July 4 – A call by some Duma members for the Russian government to review and declare illegal the Soviet government’s recognition of Baltic independence in September...
View Article‘Khokhol’ Offensive to Ukrainians and Should Not Be Used in Public, Moscow...
Paul Goble Staunton, July 4 – The word “khokhol” must not be used “in official or public speech,” Aleksandra Olkhovskaya of Moscow’s Pushkin Russian Language Institute says, because it...
View ArticleTo Save Their Threatened Languages, Non-Russian Governments Call for Changing...
Paul Goble Staunton, July 4 – Many languages in the Russian Federation are “disappearing,” something that won’t be reversed simply by articulating a new language policy, according to Mikhail...
View ArticleAltay Nations Struggle to Unite Against Kremlin-Appointed Governor
Paul Goble Staunton, July 5 – Since the peoples of Altay learned that the elections staged to ratify the Kremlin’s choice of their governor showed that he failed to win in electoral...
View Article‘Putin has Barricaded Himself in the Dead End He has Created,’ Illarionov Says
Paul Goble Staunton, July 5 – “Putin has finally decided” to block all of the ways out from “the dead end into which he has driven himself and Russia,” Andrey Illarionov says, prompting the...
View ArticleFSB and Police Informers in Russia Now to Get Pensions
Paul Goble Staunton, July 5 – Those who serve as informers for the Russian secret police will now receive pensions, according to a new law. By this action, Vladimir Putin simultaneously...
View ArticleIranian Deputy Says Pollution from Armenia Threatens Those along Arax River
Paul Goble Staunton, July 5 – Kemaleddin Pirmuezin, chairman of the Iranian parliament’s environmental protection committee, says that waste from the Armenian atomic energy station and an...
View ArticleWill a Finnish-Language Journal Survive in Karelia?
Paul Goble Staunton, July 5 – The future of Karelia’s only Finnish-language literary magazine has long been in doubt: the number of Finnish speakers there has declined to fewer than 9,000,...
View ArticleOverwhelming Support for Putin among Russian Intelligentsia has Three...
Paul Goble Staunton, July 6 – There are three reasons why support for Vladimir Putin is so high even among educated Russians: fear that their country might descend into chaos without him,...
View ArticleRussia has Reached Its Own Very Different ‘End of History’ and West has...
Paul GobleNB: As longtime readers of Windows on Eurasia know, there is no commentator on Russian politics for which I have greater respect than historian Irina Pavlova. Her 70 essays written between...
View ArticleNo One is a Greater Russophobe than Putin, Kazarin Says
Paul Goble Staunton, July 6 – Vladimir Putin’s statements about the need of the Russian state to come to the aid of ethnic Russians and Russian speakers outside the Russian Federation shows...
View ArticleOblast Centers Now Joining Russian Villages as Places ‘Without Prospects’
Paul Goble Staunton, July 7 – At the end of the 20th century, Russians began to speak about villages as places “without prospects.” During the first decade of the 21st, some of them added to...
View ArticleLocal Elections in Ukraine Could Work to Moscow’s Advantage and Undermine...
Paul Goble Staunton, July 7 – Many analysts have warned that local referenda on autonomy in the Donbas could lead to “a parade of sovereignties” in Ukraine, threatening its survival...
View ArticleEven the Kremlin Doesn’t Believe Its Own Poll Numbers, ‘Nezavisimaya gazeta’...
Paul GobleStaunton, July 7 – The Kremlin it appears “does not believe the ratings” it routinely distributes about the support the Russian people are showing for Vladimir Putin and his regime if one...
View ArticleIncreasingly Identifying as a Nation, Some Cossacks Want Their Own Republic...
Paul Goble Staunton, July 7 – The Cossacks, traditionally classified as a sub-ethnos within the Russian nation, are rapidly taking on the characteristics of an ethnic group, according to a...
View ArticlePutin Benefits from Myth that He Doesn’t Control Radical Nationalists,...
Paul Goble Staunton, July 7 – Many people in Russia and the West are inclined to support Vladimir Putin and his policies however much they disagree with them because they believe that he is...
View ArticleMoscow Patriarchate Building Churches the Same Way Bolsheviks Destroyed Them...
Paul Goble Staunton, July 8 – Many Russians view the current campaign of the Russian Orthodox Church to build new churches as the mirror image of the earlier campaign of the Bolsheviks to...
View ArticleRussia Can No Longer Afford to Be the Militarist and Expansionist Power It...
Paul Goble Staunton, July 8 – After a brief attempt to escape from its past in the 1990s, Russia under Vladimir Putin is “again returning to militarism … the model of existence in which...
View ArticleWest Can Have a Dialogue with Russia Only If It Doesn’t ‘Indulge Moscow’s...
Paul Goble Staunton, July 8 – Dialogue with Russia is possible only if the West approaches it as “a normal country” and refuses to “indulge [Moscow’s] madness” that Russia must have a veto...
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