Window on Eurasia: Iran’s Influence in Middle Volga Very Limited, Suleymanov...
Paul Goble Staunton, August 21 – Rais Suleymanov, a Kazan-based specialist on Islamist politics who writes about the spread of radical Islam in the Middle Volga region and has been...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Massive Flooding Highlights Moscow’s Failure to Invest in...
Paul Goble Staunton, August 21 – The Russian government’s failure to maintain the infrastructure that existed at the end of Soviet times is one of the primary reasons why this year’s...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Russians Must Take Nationalism Away from the Nationalists,...
Paul Goble Staunton, August 22 – Like Americans, most Russians view nationalism in a negative way, according to a Russian Jewish émigré living in New York, but they will not be able to...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Russia’s ‘Creative Class’ Ignoring Human Rights Appeal...
Paul Goble Staunton, August 22 – Yesterday, five of Russia’s most senior human rights campaigners issued an appeal to the country’s intelligentsia to do everything its members could to...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Siberia Can Do Very Well without Russia, Separatist Says
Paul GobleStaunton, August 22 – Mikhail Kulekhov, a defender of Lake Baikal and a leading advocate of an independent Siberia, addresses many of the issues such an agenda raises in a highly unusual and...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Sochi Countdown -- 24 Weeks to the Olympiad in the North...
Note: This is my 26th special Window on Eurasia about the meaning and impact of the planned Olympiad on the nations in the surrounding region. These WOEs, which will appear each Friday over the...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Moscow Must Treat Its Two Different Internal Colonies...
Paul Goble Staunton, August 24 – Because of its history, Russia currently has a center and two very distinct “colonies,” but Moscow today is failing to recognize these differences and...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Would a Stavropol Russian Republic Unite Russia or Destroy...
Paul GobleStaunton, August 24 – In an article on KM.ru, Aleksandr Romanov says that the influx of North Caucasians into Stavropol has forced residents in that south Russian kray to consider “radical...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: 1953 Says More about Future of Russia than Does 1991,...
Paul Goble Staunton, August 25 – Most people in Moscow and the West see Russia’s current political problems as a working out of the events of 1991, a view that very much defines what they...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Remembering Seven Who ‘Saved the Honor and Future’ of Russia
Paul Goble Staunton, August 25 – Forty-five years ago today, seven brave Soviet citizens staged a demonstration in Moscow’s Red Square against the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, an...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: An Independent Siberia Must be a Confederation, Kulekhov Says
Paul Goble Staunton, August 26 – As it moves toward independence, Siberia should not seek a centralized state which could reproduce on its territory all the problems of “the...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Sochi Olympiad has Kept Moscow from Addressing North...
Paul Goble Staunton, August 26 – The run up to the Sochi Olympics, scheduled for next February, has kept Moscow from addressing the problems of the North Caucasus in a new way and thus...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Moscow to Spend Far Less on National Unity than Regional...
Paul Goble Staunton, August 26 – The Russian government has approved spending 6.8 billion rubles (230 million US dollars) over the next seven years on programs to “strengthen the unity of...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Muscovy Must Become a New Republic in Russia, Lazarenko Says
Paul Goble Staunton, August 27 – The city of Moscow and the surrounding Moscow Oblast must unite to become the Republic of Muscovy, and the capital of the Russian Federation must be shifted...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Russia’s Single Power Vertical Dividing at the Top,...
Paul Goble Staunton, August 27—What Vladislav Surkov described as “sovereign democracy” now lacks a single “sovereign” because the power vertical Vladimir Putin so carefully constructed no...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Russian Law on ‘Religious Extremism’ Contributing to...
Paul Goble Staunton, August 27 – Russia’s law on countering “religious extremism,” because it does not define that term with precision, has become the basis for increasing repression against...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: If US Attacks Syria, Russia Should Send Troops into Baltic...
Paul Goble Staunton, August 27 – A Moscow specialist on the CIS, who a year ago said Russia should “restore its military control” over the South Caucasus, yesterday said that because the...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Ethnic Russians Become Muslims for Political Not Religious...
Paul Goble Staunton, August 28 – The number of ethnic Russians who have converted to Islam is not large, but the existence of such converts is profoundly disturbing to many Russians both...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Two of Our Nuclear Generators are Missing, Russian...
Paul GobleStaunton, August 28 – In words that recall the exchange between the US national security advisor and the Soviet ambassador at the end of the Tom Clancy movie, “The Hunt for Red October,”...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Kremlin Now Views Elections as Way to Distract and Divide...
Paul Goble Staunton, August 28 – The statement by Vyacheslav Volodin, first deputy chief of Presidential Administration, that Moscow won’t block opposition candidates is just for show,...
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