Even if Moscow’s Meddling is Minimal, Decentralization of Ukraine Seen...
Paul Goble Staunton, September 12 – Many Ukrainians in the regions fear that decentralization will allow oligarchic clans to take control in some places and that the passivity of Ukrainians...
View ArticlePutin’s Actions Regarding Ukraine Costing Russia Its Remaining Allies,...
Paul Goble Staunton, September 13 – By turning on Ukraine which he had earlier presented as Russia’s closest partner, Vladimir Putin has sent a message to all of Russia’s remaining allies...
View ArticleDNR Poll Finds Population Doesn’t Support Pro-Moscow Militias or Russia
Paul Goble Staunton, September 13 – “Moskovsky komsomolets” yesterday published the results of a poll conducted by pro-Moscow sociologists in the Donetsk Peoples Republic, results that the...
View ArticleDeclared Support for Putin Not a Measure of Support for Regime, Milov Says
Paul Goble Staunton, September 13 – Russians continue to support Vladimir Putin as a kind of “distant ‘ambassador of Russia to the world’ who somewhere defends [their] ‘interests,’” but “the...
View ArticleMoscow Propaganda Works By Confusing Fact and Fiction and Providing Emotional...
Paul Goble Staunton, September 13 – Peter Pomerantsev, the Kyiv-born author of “Nothing is True and Everything is Possible,” says that Moscow propaganda works because it breaks down the...
View ArticlePutin’s ‘Fatal Mistake’ Lies in His Pursuit of ‘Russian World,’ Piontkovsky Says
Paul Goble Staunton, September 13 – Personal dictatorships can survive for a long time as long as they don’t suffer a loss abroad, Andrey Piontkovsky says; and that is why Vladimir Putin’s...
View ArticlePutin Changing Tactics in Ukraine But Not Strategy, Shevtsova Says
Paul Goble Staunton, September 14 – The current lull in the fighting in the Donbas is “one of the tactical elements in the Kremlin’s efforts to get out of open confrontation with the West...
View ArticleAnnexing Donbas Would Fully Compensate Russia for Ethnic Russian Losses in...
Paul Goble Staunton, September 14 – The continuing de-Russification of Russia, caused by the influx of migrants from Central Asia and the Caucasus and the higher birthrates of non-Russian...
View ArticleCould Linguistic Triage Save Daghestan from Russification?
Paul Goble Staunton, September 14 – The enormous linguistic diversity of Daghestan means that young people increasingly are using Russian rather than their native languages, thus threatening...
View ArticleNew Belarusian Study Highlights Six Aspects of Moscow’s New Geopolitical...
Paul Goble Staunton, September 14 – A study by two Belarusian scholars entitled “The New Geo-Strategy of Russia: Consequences and Challenges for the Architecture of International Security”...
View ArticleRussian Regionalism ‘a Cultural Revolution’ from Which Political Change Will...
Paul Goble Staunton, September 14 – “Regionalism in the first instance is a cultural revolution which changes consciousness;” and politics, when it eventually reemerges in Russia, will be...
View ArticleRussian Invasion has Made IDP Situation in Ukraine ‘Worse than After Chernobyl’
Paul Goble Staunton, September 15 – Pavel Rozenko, Ukraine’s social policy minister, says that the number of internally displaced Ukrainians as a result of Russian aggression in Crimea and...
View ArticleKazakhs Should Be Allowed to Declare Clan Identities in Passports, Legal...
Paul Goble Staunton, September 15 – Most people believe that there are only two choices people in the post-Soviet states have as far as identity is concerned: a civic identity based on their...
View ArticleUnited Russia Loses Ground ‘on the Periphery’ of the Country
Paul Goble Staunton, September 15 – Nearly a half century ago, Jerome Gilison analyzed soviet elections as a measure of dissent by looking at “the missing one percent,” the tiny share of...
View ArticleCould the Moscow Patriarchate Establish an ‘Orthodox Vatican’ in Crimea?
Paul Goble Staunton, September 15 – Stanislav Stremidlovsky, a commentator for the Regnum news agency which often floats Kremlin ideas to test reaction to them, says that the Moscow...
View ArticleWill Anyone Be Left to Defend Russians Persecuted by the Authorities?
Paul Goble Staunton, September 15 – As the Russian authorities make ever more absurd charges against ever more individuals and groups and routinely fail in their responsibilities to defend...
View Article67 Countries Now Back Limiting Russia’s Veto Powers in UN Security Council,...
Paul Goble Staunton, September 16 – Sixty-seven countries, including two permanent members of the UN Security Council (Britain and France), now support the idea that Russia should lose its...
View Article‘Support Ukraine and You’ll Go to Jail,’ Kremlin Tells Russians
Paul Goble Staunton, September 16 – A Russian court has sentenced Rafis Kashapov of the Tatar Social Center to three years imprisonment for his support of the Crimean Tatars and of Ukraine...
View ArticleIs Russia’s Patriotic Wave Ebbing?
Paul Goble Staunton, September 16 – Two analyses published today, one about last Sunday’s regional elections and another about postings on the Internet, suggest that the wave of Russian...
View ArticleKremlin a ‘Psychopathic Power with Dangerous Illusions,’ Vike-Freiberga Says
Paul Goble Staunton, September 16 – Many foreign leaders have offered diagnoses of Vladimir Putin and his regime – Germany’s Angela Merkel has suggested he is living in an alternative...
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