Seventh Krymnash Myth -- that Annexation Was a Response to West’s Denigration...
Paul Goble Staunton, September 16 – The seventh “Krymnash” myth, one suggesting that Russia has not engaged in aggression in Crimea and the Donbas but rather responded in a “morally...
View ArticlePutin Model 3.1 – Stanovaya on the Kremlin Leader’s Modus Operandi after Crimea
Paul Goble Staunton, September 17 – When Vladimir Putin first appeared on the Russian political Olympus, people asked “Who is Mr. Putin?” In the years since that time, they have continued...
View ArticleMoldova – An Object Lesson of How Russia is Losing Influence across Former...
Paul Goble Staunton, September 17 – Russia is making the same mistake with the former Soviet republics that the West is making with Russia, according to the editors of “Nezavisimaya gazeta.”...
View Article‘Russia Becoming Even More Dangerous than It Appears,’ Rubtsov Says
Paul Goble Staunton, September 17 – At the end of Soviet times, some commentators suggested that the USSR was becoming like “Upper Volta with Missiles.” Now, a Russian commentator suggests...
View ArticleMoscow Wants to Make Karabakh a Donbas for Baku, Muradyan Says
Paul Goble Staunton, September 18 – Deteriorating relations between Azerbaijan and the West and warming relations between Baku and Moscow have sparked a flood of speculation that if...
View ArticleKyiv Urged to Defend Indigenous Peoples in Occupied Crimea and in Russian...
Paul Goble Staunton, September 18 – Kyiv must use all international mechanisms defend the indigenous peoples of the Russian Federation, not only to protect the Crimean Tatars and other in...
View ArticleA Baker’s Dozen of Neglected Russian Stories This Week – No. 2
Paul Goble Staunton, September 18 -- The flood of news stories from a country as large, diverse and often strange as the Russian Federation often appears to be is far too large for anyone to...
View ArticleKyrgyzstan Now has More Mosques than Schools
Paul Goble Staunton, September 18 – Kyrgyzstan’s prime minster, Temir Sariyev, says that his country now has more mosques than schools, something that he described as “a dangerous trend” for...
View ArticleWill Any of the 100,000 Circassians of Syria Join the 12,000 Syrian Refugees...
Paul Goble Staunton, September 18 – Russia’s Federal Migration Service says that there are now 12,000 refugees from Syria in the Russian Federation, of whom 2,000 have received residence...
View ArticlePutin Convinced That Whatever He Does, Obama Won’t Respond Militarily,...
Paul Goble Staunton, September 19 – Vladimir Putin is acting in Syria as he has in Ukraine on the basis of his conviction that no matter what Russia does, Barack Obama will not respond...
View ArticlePutin Likely to Move in Central Asia Next, Ukrainian Commentator Says
Paul Goble Staunton, September 19 – The focus of the international media has shifted from Ukraine to Syria, just as Vladimir Putin hoped because the West seems incapable of focusing on more...
View ArticleEthnic Russians in the North Drink the Most; Muslims in the Caucasus Drink...
Paul Goble Staunton, September 19 – A survey by “Komsomolskaya Pravda” confirms what most people have long believed: ethnic Russians in the northern portions of the Russian Federation drink...
View ArticleRussian Authorities Launch 21st Century Beylis Case in Yekaterinburg
Paul Goble Staunton, September 20 – Men are not pigs, Dostoyevsky famously observed: they can get used to anything. And so it is in Russia today, when official charges of extremism have...
View ArticleFor First Time, Moscow Says Some Lies are ‘More Valuable than Any Truth,’...
Paul Goble Staunton, September 20 – In the past, Russian regimes have insisted that they were telling the truth even when they were lying and everyone knew it, Sergey Mitrofanov says. But...
View ArticleIf One Russian Governor Led a Criminal Conspiracy, Then What about All the...
Paul Goble Staunton, September 20 – When Nikita Khrushchev denounced Stalin in 1956, stories circulated that someone in the audience of the 20th CPSU Congress shouted “where were you when...
View ArticlePutin is Turning Up the Heat in Syria to Cover Turning It Down in Ukraine,...
Paul Goble Staunton, September 20 – Faced with ever greater economic problems at home and isolation abroad, Vladimir Putin needs to freeze the conflict in the Donbas in such a way that...
View ArticleAvoiding World War III at Stake in Fight about Veto Powers in UN Security...
Paul Goble Staunton, September 20 – The United Nations was set up to prevent World War III, Elena Galkina writes. But with wars raging in Ukraine and Syria, it is clear that the UN is not...
View Article40 Percent of Russia’s Muslims Now ‘Infected with Radicalism,’ Grishin Says
Paul Goble Staunton, September 21 – Aleksey Grishin, head of the Religion and Society Center, says that 40 percent of all of Russia’s Muslims are “infected with radicalism” and that in some...
View ArticlePutin’s ‘Turn to East’ Exacerbates Rather than Solves Russia’s Problems,...
Paul Goble Staunton, September 21 – Vladimir Putin’s much-ballyhooed “turn to the east” will not solve Russia’s fundamental problems either at home or abroad, according to Yury Moskalenko, a...
View ArticleRussians’ Current Opposition to Imperial Annexations Simply ‘Another...
Paul Goble Staunton, September 21 – New polls showing that a majority of Russians do not want to absorb Abkhazia, South Osetia, Transdniestria or other breakaway parts of other post-Soviet...
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