Moscow Preparing to Destabilize Belarus if Lukashenka Refuses to Allow a...
Paul Goble Staunton, September 4 – Alyaksandr Lukashenka has so far refused Moscow’s demand for the establishment of a Russian military base in Belarus, two senior Belarusian analysts say,...
View ArticleMoscow Creating ‘New Komintern’ in Europe Based on Dugin’s Ideas, Prague Says
Paul Goble Staunton, September 5 – “Russia is creating in Europe an ideological structure” that resembles “the Komintern created and directed by the Soviet Union” between 1919 and 1943,...
View ArticleAn Earlier Russian ‘Turn to the East’ Didn’t Work Out So Well for Moscow or...
Paul Goble Staunton, September 5 – Ninety-five years ago this week, after suffering a crushing defeat in its invasion of Poland, Moscow “turned to the east” by convening the Fist Congress of...
View ArticlePopov Demolishes Krymnash Myth of ‘Fascist Euro-Maidan’
Paul Goble Staunton, September 5 – Moscow historian Arkady Popov continues his examination of the eight myths propagated by Russia’s Krymnash notions with a devastating demolition of Russian...
View ArticleRussian Occupiers Cut Classes and Schools in Crimean Tatar and Ukrainian
Paul Goble Staunton, September 5 – Despite Russian laws specifying that Crimean Tatar and Ukrainian are state languages in Crimea alongside Russian, the Russian occupiers have used various...
View ArticleRussian Media Outlet Falsifies History to Try to Link Karelian Regionalist to...
Paul Goble Staunton, August 5 – The extent to which Russian propagandists are prepared to go to try to discredit regionalism is on full view in Karelia this week where a quasi-official news...
View ArticleUkrainian and Belarusian Football Fans Unite ‘For Your Freedom and Ours’
Paul Goble Staunton, September 6 – Few events are more likely to divide people along national or ethnic lines than international football matches, and that makes what happened in Lviv...
View ArticleRussian Experts Sharply Divided over Putin’s Decriminalization Plan
Paul Goble Staunton, September 6 – Vladimir Putin’s plan to change the criminal code so that those guilty of minor violations will be subject to administrative sanctions rather than...
View ArticleCould Ukrainian War Do to Russia What Afghan War did to the USSR?
Paul Goble Staunton, September 6 – Yury Butusov, a protege of Ukrainian national security council secretary Aleksandr Turchinov, says the Ukrainian army need not attack but simply keep up...
View ArticleRail Baltica Project Directed against Russia’s Security, Pavlovsky Says
Paul Goble Staunton, September 6 – The Rail Baltica project, eventually intended to link Berlin with Helsinki via Poland and the three Baltic countries is “extremely doubtful from an...
View ArticleAgain and Again, Moscow ‘Systematically Destroys’ Those It Promises to...
Paul Goble Staunton, September 6 – “Russia in Besland and in Tskhinvali and in the Donbas systematically destroys those it has promised to defend and then afterwards says ‘forgive me, the...
View Article‘Moscow Preparing for Victory in Nuclear War,’ ‘Nezavisimaya Gazeta’ Says
Paul Goble Staunton, September 7 – Over the last week, the editors of Moscow’s “Nezavisimaya gazeta” point out in an editorial today, the Russian Strategic Rocket Forces have conducted “two...
View ArticleUkrainian President Says Russia Should Lose Its UN Security Council Veto
Paul Goble Staunton, September 7 – President Petro Poroshenko said in a Voice of America interview on Friday that Russia should lose its veto power in the UN Security Council because of its...
View ArticleRussians Not Traveling Abroad – or to Moscow Either
Paul Goble Staunton, September 7 – As a result of the economic crisis, Russians are not traveling abroad in anything like the numbers they did only two years ago, thus losing the chance to...
View ArticleRussification of Moscow’s History Angers Capital’s Muslims
Paul Goble Staunton, September 7 – The celebration of the Day of Moscow was supposed to promote unity in the Russian capital, but the ways in which both Russian officials and Russian media...
View ArticleRussia Now has More HIV/AIDS Cases than All Countries of Europe Taken Together
Paul Goble Staunton, September 7 – Despite the fact that the population of European countries outnumbers that of Russia by more than four to one, Russia now has more HIV-infected people than...
View ArticleDoes Putin have ‘Secret Plan’ to Return Karabakh to Azerbaijan?
Paul Goble Staunton, September 8 – An Armenian journalist says Vladimir Putin has “a secret plan” to bypass the Minsk Group and return control of Nagorno-Karabakh to Azerbaijan, but it is...
View ArticleMoscow Seeking to Create ‘Illusory Maidan’ in Mensk to Set Stage for Russian...
Paul Goble Staunton, September 8 – Russia is currently seeking to raise the prospect of an “illusory” Maidan in Belarus to set the stage for Russia to intervene militarily in that country,...
View ArticleRodina’s Lyubomirsky Calls for New Ultra-Right International ‘from Chile to...
Paul Goble Staunton, September 8 – The SOVA human rights monitoring group has obtained a letter dated July 27, 2015, from Yury Lyubomirsky, the Rodina Party leader who organized the forum of...
View ArticleTajikistan’s Uzbeks ‘Vanishing’ – Thanks to Dushanbe’s Statistical Sleight of...
Paul Goble Staunton, September 8 – Throughout the Soviet period, Uzbeks made up from 21 to 23 percent of the population of Tajikistan; but since independence, their share of the...
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