Window on Eurasia: Muscovites Somewhat More Xenophobic than Russians...
Paul Goble Staunton, August 14 – Muscovites are more xenophobic than are Russians living elsewhere in the Russian Federation, a pattern that means that Sergey Sobyanin’s appeal to such...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Russian Federation Will Cease to Exist Within 20 Years,...
Paul Goble Staunton, August 14 – Viktor Suvorov, a GRU officer who defected to Great Britain in 1978 and who has attracted attention since for his books and articles about Moscow’s security...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: The Kyrgyz Remain on Afghanistan’s ‘Roof of the World’
Paul Goble Staunton, August 15 – The Wakhan Corridor, the isolated segment of Afghanistan linking that country to China but separating Tajikistan from Pakistan, is currently home to one of...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Moscow Said Preparing to Create Western Siberian Gubernia
Paul Goble Staunton, August 15 – Moscow is preparing to amalgamate the Tyumen Oblast, the Khanty-Mansiisk Autonomous District, and the Yamalo-Nenets AD into a single “West Siberian...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Sochi Countdown -- 25 Weeks to the Olympiad in the North...
Note: This is my 25th special Window on Eurasia about the meaning and impact of the planned Olympiad on the nations in the surrounding region. These WOEs, which will appear each Friday over the...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: On Their National Day, Tuvans Recall When They were...
Paul Goble Staunton, August 16 – Sholban Kara-ool, head of Tuva, said on the eve of his republic’s national day which was marked yesterday, that the independent Tuvan Peoples Republic that...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Slogan ‘Russia for the Russians’ Casts Doubt on Existence...
Paul Goble Staunton, August 16 – A Moscow commentator says that the increasing invocation of the slogan “Russia for the Russians” shows that many who call themselves Russians know little or...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: If Yeltsin Had Divided Russia into Seven Republics…
Paul Goble Staunton, August 17 – Had Boris Yeltsin implemented his plan to divide the Russian Republic into seven units, Russia would have overcome its imperial pretensions, its...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Outmigration from North Caucasus ‘Inevitable,’ Khloponin Says
Paul Goble Staunton, August 17 – Outmigration from the North Caucasus is “inevitable,” Russia’s presidential plenipotentiary there says. No “Chinese wall” is going to stop it, Aleksandr...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Moscow Nationalist Site Details ‘Russian Roots of German...
Paul Goble Staunton, August 17 – There are few more sensitive and even explosive issues among Russians than the ways in which the totalitarianism of the Soviet system and that of the...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: An Unintended Consequence of Making Russian Governors...
Paul Goble Staunton, August 18 – The Kremlin’s decision to hold governors responsible for ethnic peace on their territories is having an unintended consequence: some groups, including those...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Russian Law Must Ban Separatist AND Anti-Federalist...
Paul Goble Staunton, August 18 – Russian laws often are so poorly drafted that key terms are left undefined, allowing the authorities to bring charges against those who have not violated the...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: ‘There is No State in Russia,’ Gontmakher Says
Paul Goble Staunton, August 19 – “In place of a state as an institution,” the Russian Federation has “a gigantic and uncontrolled private structure which is successfully diverting profits to...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Empires Don’t Become Federations; They Only Collapse,...
Paul Goble Staunton, August 19 – Speaking to a Moscow conference on “What Kind of Federation Do We Need?” one of the Russia’s leading regionalists says the answer is “none at all” because...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Moscow Oblast Promises to Eliminate Unpaved Roads by 2018
Paul Goble Staunton, August 19 – Russian President Vladimir Putin attracted attention recently for his commitment to building a new high-speed ring road around Moscow, but another...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Navalny Seeks Votes from Non-Russian Diasporas in Moscow
Paul Goble Staunton, August 19 – Aleksey Navalny, despite his reputation for “politically incorrect” Russian nationalist statements, has now turned to Moscow’s non-Russian diasporas for a...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: ‘Flash-Pogrom’ – an Ugly New/Old Development in Russia
Paul Goble Staunton, August 20 – A decade ago, the term “flash mob” appeared in the United States to denote a group of people who come together suddenly in public place through the use of...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Nationalists Planning to Declare Stavropol an Ethnic...
Paul Goble Staunton, August 20 – Stavropol kray, which over the last month became less secure than Ingushetia, is set to become even more troubled in the coming weeks as nationalist...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Another Case of Anti-Communist Bolshevism
Paul Goble Staunton, August 20 – Russian Orthodox activists have announced plans to create a Center for the Struggle with Atheist Extremism, the latest example of one of the more troubling...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Secession in Saratov – the Balashov Case
Paul Goble Staunton, August 21 -- Although they rarely attract much attention from the national media, the predominantly ethnic Russian regions of Central Russia and the Middle Volga...
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