Putin's War in Ukraine 'Metasticizing' in Russia as Weapons Come in Through...
Paul Goble Staunton, July 29 – Russia’s war in Ukraine is metasticizing in Russia itself, with ever more people bringing ever more heavy weaponry back from the front into Russia’s regions, a...
View ArticleTo Escape Putinism, Russia Must Expunge Muscovy as Germany Did Prussia,...
Paul Goble Staunton, July 29 – Many commentators suggest that the way to move beyond the Putin regime involves economic growth, de-militarization, and re-entering the international...
View ArticleMoscow Tries Everything in Unsuccessful Bid to Stop World Crimean Tatar...
Paul Goble Staunton, July 29 – The Russian authorities are doing everything they can -- from threatening Crimean Tatars living in occupied Crimea to setting up a pocket organization of...
View ArticleUnlike Putin, Russian People Think that a Malaysian Plane Tribunal Would Hold...
Paul Goble Staunton, July 29 – The Russian government is totally opposed to the creation of an international tribunal to investigate the downing of the Malaysian airliner a year ago and will...
View ArticlePutin Regime Gives Every Sign of ‘Running Amok,’ Yakovenko Says
Paul Goble Staunton, July 29 – A number of events in recent days, Moscow commentator Igor Yakovenko says, suggest that the Putin regime is now running “amok,” a state the American...
View ArticleKovalyev Forced to Use ‘Russian-English Samizdat’ to Speak Truths Unwelcome...
Paul Goble Staunton, July 30 – Sergey Kovalyev, a political prisoner in Soviet times and founder of the Memorial human rights group, says that an essay he wrote a year ago about some truths...
View Article‘In Crimea, Only the Tanks are Comfortable’
Paul GobleNB: As readers of Windows on Eurasia know, I highly value and admire the work of Kseniya Kirillova. I have translated more than 50 of her articles into Windows over the past year alone. In...
View ArticleEconomic Crisis, Uncertainty about the Future Pushing Russian Birthrate Down
Paul Goble Staunton, July 30 – The Russian statistics agency reported yesterday that the birthrate in the Russian Federation had fallen to 12.6 children per 1000 population, lower than it...
View ArticleWest Responding to Russia’s Hybrid War in Ukraine with a Hybrid One of Its...
Paul Goble Staunton, July 30 – Many view Kyiv’s grant of special constitutional status to Donetsk and Luhansk as a concession to Vladimir Putin because of the weakness of the West as far as...
View ArticleFSB Helps Islamists from Russia Go to Syria, Only Worried When They Come...
Paul Goble Staunton, July 30 – “The Russian special services have controlled” the flow of Islamist radicals from Russia to Syria “from the very beginning,” according to Elena Milashina of...
View ArticleIdiots ‘Useful’ and Otherwise on the Rise in Russia and the West
Paul Goble Staunton, July 31 – Idiotism is on the rise in both Russia and the West, with its spread in Russia having transformed that country from “a land of liars to one of idiots,”...
View ArticleOnly in Fantasies of Putin’s Party is the CIA Behind Troubles in Karelian...
Paul Goble Staunton, July 31 – Embattled Karelian Governor Aleksandr Khudilaynen says that Western intelligence agencies are “interested in destabilizing the social-political situation”...
View ArticleNew Putin Law Eliminates Environmental Protections on Bridge to Crimea,...
Paul Goble Staunton, July 31 – Vladimir Putin has just signed legislation which “radically simplifies” provisions in existing Russian law governing environmental protection for the planned...
View ArticleNorth Caucasus about to Explode Again, Kabardino-Balkaria Official Says
Paul Goble Staunton, July 31 – The recent decline in the activity of the Islamist underground in the North Caucasus has led some in Moscow and the region to conclude that this time, the...
View ArticleUkraine Mustn't Count on Changes in Russia Soon but Instead Be Prepared to...
Paul Goble Staunton, July 31 – Konstantin Borovoy, an outspoken Russian opposition politician and commentator, says Ukrainians are making a big mistake if they assume there is going to be...
View ArticleUkraine Will Never Accept Violations of Crimean Tatar Rights, Poroshenko Says
Paul Goble Staunton, August 1 – In a message to the Second World Congress of Crimean Tatars now meeting in Ankara, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said today that “Ukraine will never in...
View ArticleEndel Lippmaa, an Estonian Leader without Portfolio, Dies at 84
Paul Goble Staunton, August 1 – Endel Lippmaa, Estonia’s greatest nuclear physicist but even more important, one of its political leaders “without portfolio” in several Talllinn governments,...
View ArticleIf Putin Remains in Power, Russia Will Become ‘North Korea 2.0,’ Gudkov Says
Paul Goble Staunton, August 1 – Kremlin claims notwithstanding, Russia has not reached “the bottom” of its current crisis because that crisis is systemic and not just the result of the...
View ArticleMoscow Now Seeking to Ban Means Russians Use to Get Around Its Blocking of...
Paul Goble Staunton, August 1 – Because Russians have learned the various techniques they can employ to get around Moscow’s blocking of web sites they want to visit, the Russian government...
View ArticleMany Ethnic Russians Want to Leave Kazakhstan but Not All Those Who Do Want...
Paul GobleStaunton, August 1 – According to a survey conducted by Kazan scholars in 2012 but whose complete results have been released only now, a significant share of the ethnic Russian community in...
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