Time Working Against Him, Putin Will Launch New Attacks in Ukraine Now,...
Paul Goble Staunton, August 14 – Time is working against Moscow in Ukraine, and consequently, Vladimir Putin will launch more and broader attacks there now and in the coming weeks in an...
View ArticleCrimean Anschluss is the Berlin Wall of 21st Century, Ikhlov Says
Paul Goble Staunton, August 14 – Fifty-four years ago this week, the East German government began building the Berlin Wall to stem the tide of people fleeing that regime’s oppression for the...
View ArticleRussian Economy Approaching ‘Perfect Storm’ -- Oil at 25 Dollars a Barrel,...
Paul Goble Staunton, August 14 – Vladislav Zhukovsky, an economist known for predicting disasters in the Russian economy and for then turning out to be right, says that the situation is more...
View ArticleMany Central Asian Gastarbeiters Return from Russia with HIV/AIDS, Sparking...
Paul Goble Staunton, August 14 – Central Asian gastarbeiters are helping to keep the economies of their homelands afloat with still-massive cash transfers from their workplaces in Russia,...
View ArticleCurrent Crisis in Ukraine has Its Roots in Stalin’s Terror Famine and Ethnic...
Paul Goble Staunton, August 15—The current crisis in Ukraine has its roots in Stalin’s terror famine in the 1930s because the Soviet government in an act of genocide exploited its...
View ArticlePutin Will Launch New Attacks as Ukrainian Independence Day Approaches,...
Paul Goble Staunton, August 15 – Nine days from now Ukrainians will mark their Independence Day, and during that period, Vladimir Putin is certain to be especially aggressive in their...
View ArticleSoviets Only Censored Reality; Putin Creates an Alternative One, Ikhlov Says
Paul Goble Staunton, August 15 – Many people assume that Vladimir Putin is simply restoring the Soviet propaganda system, but that is not the case, Yevgeny Ikhlov argues. Instead, and in...
View ArticleLoyalty of Russian Bureaucracy to Moscow Wearing Thin
Paul Goble Staunton, August 15 – The reaction of officials in Tyumen’s far north highlights just how much Moscow must pay to buy the loyalty of the bureaucracy and how rapidly that loyalty...
View ArticleRussian Women Increasingly Marrying Chinese Men, Hong Kong Paper Says
Paul Goble Staunton, August 15 – Vladimir Putin’s “turn to Asia” is taking on an unexpected and for some in his country an unwelcome aspect: Ever more Russian women are marrying Chinese men,...
View ArticlePutin Isn’t Afraid of Problems He Faces -- and West Should Be Worried about...
Paul Goble Staunton, August 16 – Those who think Vladimir Putin is afraid because of the problems he now faces are profoundly mistaken because regimes of his kind, which “act as the...
View ArticleTwo-Thirds of Ukrainians Want to Join NATO and Be Inside ‘Borders of...
Paul Goble Staunton, August 16 – Sixty-four percent of Ukrainians say they want to join the Western alliance, according to a new poll conducted by the Kucheriv Democratic Initiative and the...
View ArticleAnother ‘Echo of the 1990s’ – Russia’s Demographic Collapse Resumes
Paul Goble Staunton, August 16 – Despite some progress in reducing infant mortality, Russia’s demographic crisis so clearly on display in the 1990s is resuming not only because of rising...
View ArticlePutin Represents Only a Single Russian Tradition, One Too Dangerous to Allow...
Paul Goble Staunton, August 16 – Many in both Russia and the West have convinced themselves that Vladimir Putin is the only kind of ruler Russia can have given its traditions, but that...
View ArticlePutin's Russia is ‘Deeply Ill Country Which Can’t Realize Its Imperial...
Paul Goble Staunton, August 16 – Russia under Vladimir Putin is “a deeply ill country which does not have the chance to realize its imperial ambitions,” according to Andrey Zubov. But...
View ArticleThe United States Saved Georgia in 2008 and Can Save Ukraine Now, Shishkin Says
Paul Goble Staunton, August 17 – The United States saved Georgia from destruction when Russia attacked that country in 2008, and it can do the same for Ukraine now that Moscow has launched...
View ArticleLike Gorbachev, Putin Said Ready to Violate Ethnic Quota System in...
Paul Goble Staunton, August 17 – A few months before he became the leader of the USSR, Mikhail Gorbachev declared that competence rather than ethnicity should be the basis of all...
View ArticleSeventeen Years On, ‘Shadow of Default’ Still Hangs over Russia
Paul Goble Staunton, August 17 – Seventeen years ago today, on August 17, 1998, Russia defaulted on its international payment obligations, an event many Russians view as emblematic of what...
View ArticlePutin Alienating Kremlin Elites with His Nuclear Blackmail Threats, Borovoy Says
Paul Goble Staunton, August 17 – Many have suggested that many in Vladimir Putin’s entourage are upset with him because his policies have sparked Western sanctions that have reduced their...
View ArticleFive Years Ago, Russians Said They Were For Democracy, Something They...
Paul Goble Staunton, August 17 – Many people assume that the high levels of support that Russians express for the Putin regime now shows them to be by nature authoritarian. Others, citing...
View ArticleRussian Regions Can’t Afford Ballot Boxes or Even Ballots
Paul Goble Staunton, August 18 – At the end of Soviet times, a bitter joke circulated in Moscow. A Russian visited one store and there was no toilet paper, he visited a second and there was...
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