Anti-Russian Attitudes on the Rise in Crimea, Pro-Moscow Official Says
Paul Goble Staunton, July 20 – Anti-Russian attitudes are growing in Crimea, according to Leonid Grach, the former head of the Verkhovna Rada of Crimea and first secretary of the Crimean...
View ArticleRussian Attitudes and Policies behind Rise in Mongolia’s Influence in Buryatia
Paul Goble Staunton, July 20 – The influence of Mongolia on Buryatia has increased dramatically, according to a Moscow historian who visited Ulan-Ude after a gap of just over seven years, a...
View ArticleUkrainians Reject Federalization of Their Country by More than Two to One,...
Paul Goble Staunton, July 21 – Even if such steps would bring peace, Ukrainians oppose giving special status to the Russian-controlled Donbas 56.1 percent to 26.4 percent and transforming...
View ArticleTo Save Russian in North Caucasus, Draftees from There May Again Be Sent to...
Paul Goble Staunton, July 21 – The state of Russian language knowledge in the North Caucasus is now so dire – the rector of Moscow State University says that linguistically, “we are losing...
View ArticleCrimea Braces for Another Russian Invasion – ‘Commissars from Moscow’
Paul Goble Staunton, July 21 – Moscow has disbanded two of the agencies it created to integrate occupied Crimea – the Ministry for Crimean Affairs and the Commission for the Social-Economic...
View ArticleAs Olympic Infrastructure Falls Apart, Sochi Residents Erect Monument to...
Paul Goble Staunton, July 21 – If Russians knew how much of the 50 billion US dollars Vladimir Putin wasted in Sochi, they wouldn’t envy the city’s residents, Aleksandr Valov says, given...
View ArticleInfrastructure Shortcomings Dividing Countries in Russia and Other...
Paul Goble Staunton, July 21 – Statistics about the size of the highway or rail networks in Russia and the other post-Soviet states fail to capture the extent to which these links are so few...
View ArticleNazi Sympathizer Stripped of ‘Miss Charm’ Title by Russian Football League
Paul Goble Staunton, July 22 – Moscow often can count on receiving enormous credit when it stops doing something horrific, with many Western officials and commentators insisting that the...
View Article‘Donbas Should Become a Second Belarus,’ Moscow Commentator Says
Paul Goble Staunton, July 22 – Vladimir Putin would like to see the Donbas remain part of Ukraine so as to have leverage over Kyiv, but the Western tilt of Ukrainian opinion, Valery...
View ArticleSerbs Continuing Former Yugoslavia’s Wars in Eastern Ukraine
Paul Goble Staunton, July 22 – Many in the West feared that the disintegration of the USSR would lead to a “Yugoslavia with nukes.” Their fears were misplaced, but in a disturbing echo, the...
View ArticleActivists in Daghestan Seek to End Linguistic Turkification Tsars and...
Paul Goble Staunton, July 22 – Activists among the various nationalities of Daghestan are seeking to “cleanse” their languages by getting rid of the Turkic lexical and grammatical borrowings...
View ArticleUkrainians as ‘Fraternal People’ a Soviet Invention, Oleshchuk Says
Paul Goble Staunton, July 22 – The notion that Ukrainians are “a fraternal people” to the Russians, something that Russian leaders from Vladimir Putin on down have insisted upon and that all...
View ArticleAnnexations Real and Imaginary
Paul Goble Staunton, July 23 – Seventy-five years ago today, Acting US Secretary of State Sumner Wells declared that the United States would not recognize as legitimate the forcible...
View ArticleMoscow’s Ukrainian War Again Filling Russian Streets with Invalids
Paul Goble Staunton, July 23 – Moscow may be able to disown two of its soldiers who fought in its war in Ukraine, and it may even be able to convince many Russians and the gullible in the...
View ArticleTo Save Their Own Country, Russians Must ‘Forget Ukraine,’ Inozemtsev Says
Paul Goble Staunton, July 23 – Vladimir Putin has successfully counted on the war he launched in Ukraine to distract the attention of Russians from their problems at home, but if Russians...
View ArticleHaving Launched a ‘Hybrid’ War, Russia Now has a ‘Hybrid’ Army, Babchenko Says
Paul Goble Staunton, July 23 – Having launched a “hybrid” war giving it plausible deniability for many, Russia now has a “hybrid” army, a development that Moscow may not understand the full...
View ArticleBuryats Invoke UN Declaration on Indigenous Peoples to Block Monument...
Paul Goble Staunton, July 23 – Efforts by the ethnic Russian mayor of Ulan-Ude to erect a monument in honor of the Cossacks have been blocked by the objections of Buryat activists who have...
View ArticleIslamic State Ready to Fight Putin in North Caucasus with Putin's Methods,...
Paul Goble Staunton, July 24 – ISIS is “not the disorganized Ukrainian army of the time of the annexation of Crimea,” Vitaly Portnikov says. Rather, “it is a strong group of fanatics who are...
View ArticleRussia’s Company Town Problem Returns with a Vengeance – and Even Putin Can’t...
Paul Goble Staunton, July 24 – Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev’s acknowledgement that there isn’t enough money to handle even those company towns (“monogorody”) which Moscow rates as in...
View ArticleRadical Russian Nationalists Shift from Street Actions to Paramilitary...
Paul Goble Staunton, July 24 – In its new report on “Xenophobia and Radical Nationalism” in Russia during the first six months of 2015, the SOVA Analytic Center says that public actions and...
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