Moscow’s Control of Russia’s Regions ‘Eroding,’ Kyiv Analyst Says
Paul Goble Staunton, July 16 – As long as Moscow had money coming in from the sale of oil abroad, it was able to buy off regional elites and the Russian people, Anatoly Vasilyev says; but...
View Article‘Absurdity’ of Campaign against ‘Foreign Agents’ Hurting Moscow’s Image at...
Paul Goble Staunton, July 16 – The Russian government’s campaign to register various groups as “foreign agents” is so legally problematic, deeply flawed, and internally inconsistent as to be...
View ArticlePutin’s Downing of Malaysian Jet Analogous to Bolsheviks’ Murder of Imperial...
Paul Goble Staunton, July 17 – Today marks the first anniversary of the shooting down of the Malaysian jet by Russian forces under the control of Vladimir Putin and the 97th anniversary of...
View Article‘Uravnilovka’ – The Return of a Soviet Value that Threatens Putinism
Paul Goble Staunton, July 17 – Most analysts assume that Vladimir Putin and his system are strengthened by every recrudescence of Soviet values, but that may not be true, according to the...
View ArticleObama has Sold Out Ukraine to Get Deal with Iran, Illarionov Says
Paul Goble Staunton, July 17 – President Barack Obama has sold out Ukraine in order to get Vladimir Putin’s support for a nuclear deal with Iran, according to Andrey Illarionov. Other...
View ArticleRussian Naval Activities Seen Polluting Caspian, Threatening Livelihood of...
Paul Goble Staunton, July 17 – While most officials are unwilling to say so lest they incur the wrath of the Russian government, the mass die off of fish on the Caspian Sea in recent months...
View ArticleMoscow’s ‘Putin’s Militant Buryats’ Video Clip for Ukrainians Backfires in...
Paul Goble Staunton, July 17 – Buryats in Buryatia laughed when the first reports came in that Buryats were fighting for Moscow in Ukraine. They cried when the first bodies and injured...
View ArticlePope Francis Opens the Way for Beatification of Churchman who Backed...
Paul Goble Staunton, July 18 – Pope Francis has issued a decree opening the process for the beatification of Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky (1865-1944) who led the Ukrainian Greek Catholic...
View ArticleCivil Society has Made Ukraine Stronger Today than It was a Year Ago, Kyiv...
Paul Goble Staunton, July 18 – Ukraine does not have the time for modernization of the kind Western societies went through or the kind of strong state that modernized some Eastern ones,...
View ArticleConstitutional Change in Ukraine Gives Putin Three Victories, Illarionov Says
Paul Goble Staunton, July 18 – By including in the Ukrainian constitutional provision specifying that Kyiv will come up with a new law governing certain portions of Donetsk and Luhansk...
View ArticleRussia Wouldn’t Have a Nationality Agency If There Weren’t Problems, New Head...
Paul Goble Staunton, July 18 – Igor Barinov, the head of the newly-created Federal Agency for Nationality Affairs, says that the Russian government would not have set up such an institution...
View ArticleMoscow’s Terrorist Organization List Arbitrary and Incomplete, Russian...
Paul Goble Staunton, July 18 – For the last 12 years, the FSB has maintained a list of those organizations which Russian courts have identified as terrorist. There are now 23 on the list...
View ArticleWill Chuvashia Become Fourth Republic to Have Nationality Insert in Russian...
Paul Goble Staunton, July 19 – Ever since Moscow banned the “nationality line” in internal Russian Federation passports, the notorious “paragraph five” of Soviet passports, some non-Russians...
View ArticleIn Russia, ‘Lost Generation’ Being Supplanted by ‘Generation without a...
Paul Goble Staunton, July 19 – As in many countries, generations and the change from the dominance of one generation to another have played a key role in Russian history. Now, picking up on...
View ArticlePutin, Obama Now Together ‘Without Ukraine’ and Even 'Against Ukraine,'...
Paul Goble Staunton, July 19 – The trade-off US President Barack Obama made with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin to get a deal on Iran “is acquiring new and, in our time, somewhat...
View ArticleRussian Orthodox Activists Increasingly Engage in Pogrom-Like Violence,...
Paul Goble Staunton, July 19 – An article in the current issue of “Sovershenno Sekretno” asks whether there is a line between Russian Orthodox Church activists and those who engage in...
View ArticleDushanbe Angered by Hate Killings of Tajik Gastarbeiters in Russia
Paul Goble Staunton, July 19 – This past week, Tajikistan’s ambassador to Moscow Imomuddin Sattorov took “under personal control” the investigation of the deaths of five Tajik gastarbeiters...
View ArticleLukashenka’s Belarus on the Brink of an Explosion, Warsaw Paper Says
Paul Goble Staunton, July 20 – Probably no Western country pays more attention to Belarus than Poland, and consequently, it is worth noting when a leading Warsaw newspaper says that the...
View Article‘There is No Racism in Russia Just as There was No Sex in the USSR’
Paul Goble Staunton, July 20 – Xenophobia has long been characteristic of Russia, Leonid Storch says, but Russians when accused of racism get angry and say that they have a positive attitude...
View ArticleTen Top Absurdities of Russian Public Policy This Week
Paul Goble Staunton, July 20 – Some weeks bring more, some less, but every week produces a rich harvest of manifestations of “official insanity” in Russia, according to Vera Yurchenko of...
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