Nearly a Million Ethnic Kazakhs have Returned to Kazakhstan Since 1991
Paul Goble Staunton, July 24 – Nearly a million ethnic Kazakhs have returned to Kazakhstan since 1991 where they now make up ten percent of the total population and have contributed to the...
View ArticleApocalyptic Russian Nationalist Utopias of Today Closely Resemble Pre-1917...
Paul Goble Staunton, July 24 – In the last years of the Russian Empire, Russian conservatives composed numerous utopias in which “the Russian World defeated the West by establishing ‘Russian...
View ArticleCrimean Residents Find Quiet Ways to Protest Russian Occupation and Display...
Paul Goble Staunton, July 25 – Despite the repressive measures of the Russian occupiers, Crimeans of all ethnic groups have found various ways to quietly express their continuing identity...
View ArticlePutin Regime in Paranoid Fashion Increasingly Projects Its Own Failings on...
Paul Goble Staunton, July 25 – By projecting its own failings on others, the Putin regime confuses cause and effect and convinces both itself and some others that “the entire world is...
View ArticleKarachayevo-Cherkessia Head ‘Doesn’t Have the Right to Forget’ He’s a...
Paul Goble Staunton, July 25 – In another indication that tensions are heating up in one of the remaining binational republics in the North Caucasus, a leader of the Turkic Karachay nation...
View ArticlePreparing for a War in 2025, Putin Wants New Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact to...
Paul Goble Staunton, July 26 – Vladimir Putin changed his public assessment of the 1939 Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact which opened the way to World War II because he wants a new Molotov-Ribbentrop...
View ArticleJewish Scholar Fleeing ‘Nazi-Like Atmosphere’ of Putin's Russia
Paul Goble Staunton, July 26 – Ilya Frank, a Jewish linguist whose approach has defined how Russians study foreign languages for more than a decade, has decided he and his family must leave...
View ArticlePutin’s Backing of Radical Russian Nationalists May Haunt Him, Kyiv...
Paul Goble Staunton, July 26 – Vladimir Putin may have cause to regret his promotion of right radical Russian nationalists because some of them reject one or another of his policies and many...
View ArticleCenter-Periphery Politics, Not Budget Shortfalls behind Demise of Moscow’s...
Paul Goble Staunton, July 26 – Given Moscow’s budgetary difficulties, funds were not flowing to Crimea via the Russian Ministry for Crimean Affairs at anything like the volume officials on...
View ArticleWhy Tatarstan Gets More from Moscow than Russian Regions Do
Paul Goble Staunton, July 26 – Many assume that Tatarstan gets more assistance from Moscow than neighboring Russian regions do because Kazan can play the ethnic card, arguing that unless it...
View ArticleKremlin Gets Only Half a Loaf from Russian People on Malaysian Plane Downing
Paul Goble Staunton, July 27 – Often people in the West and in Russia as well assume that the Russian people march in lockstep with Vladimir Putin, but a new poll shows that Russians are...
View ArticleMoscow Patriarch Blames Uniatism, Not Ukrainian Orthodoxy, for Ukrainian Crisis
Paul Goble Staunton, July 27 – Moscow Patriarch Kirill says that “the danger hanging over Ukraine now” is the produce of the Union of Brest in 1596 which he says was “always directed at the...
View ArticleSouth Osetia Suffering Demographic Collapse since Russia Prised It from Georgia
Paul Goble Staunton, July 27 – While most of the neighboring republics of the North Caucasus have high birthrates and falling death rates, leading to rapid growth, the situation in South...
View ArticleLike Milosevic, Putin may Destroy His Country and End in the Hague, Shtepa...
Paul Goble Staunton, July 27 – In a comment for Kasparov.ru, Vadim Shtepa suggests that there are obvious “parallels” between Slobodan Milosevic and Vladimir Putin. Both sought to destroy...
View Article‘Anti-Russian,’ a Dangerously Unconstitutional Update of ‘Anti-Soviet,’...
Paul Goble Staunton, July 27 -- A group of Duma deputies want to make “anti-Russian” statements and actions a crime analogous to “anti-Soviet” ones in the time of the USSR, lawyer Genri...
View ArticleMight Some of Russia’s Regions Again Combine on Their Own against Moscow?
Paul Goble Staunton, July 28 – With regard to Russia’s regions, there is only one thing the Kremlin fears more than their pursuit of independence or rejection of its plans to amalgamate them...
View ArticleWest Must Offer Russians and East Europeans an Alternative Worldview Not Just...
Paul Goble Staunton, July 28 – Those in the West thinking about launching a Russian-language television station to counter Moscow’s lies need to reflect on the fact that “Kremlin propaganda...
View ArticleNone of Eight Myths in Putin’s ‘Crimea is Ours’ Ideology Stands Up to Close...
Paul Goble Staunton, July 28 – “’Krimnashizm’” – as the ideologem “Crimea is Ours” is spelled in Russian – consists of a complex of eight myths that are intended to justify Vladimir Putin’s...
View ArticleNominal Believers in Russia Less Likely to Take Part in Politics but Active...
Paul Goble Staunton, July 28 – Those in Russia who identify with a religion because of their ethnic ties – such as Islam among Tatars or Orthodoxy among Russians – but are not involved in...
View ArticleThe Methods Moscow has Chosen to Fight Economic Crisis Will Only Deepen It,...
Paul Goble Staunton, July 28 – Because Moscow cannot cut spending on oil and gas as that sector is too closely tied to Putin, cannot cut spending on defense because of the military buildup,...
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