Exposure of Corruption More Often Helps Rather than Hurts Kremlin, Kirillova...
Paul Goble Staunton, September 21 – Many Russian opposition figures and commentators have long assumed that the exposure of the corrupt nature of the Putin regime will cost it support in the...
View ArticleMoscow Supports Separatism Almost Everywhere Except at Home
Paul Goble Staunton, September 21 – Yesterday in Moscow at an event paid organized by the Anti-Globalist Movement of Russia but paid for by the Kremlin, leaders of separatist movements from...
View ArticleThe Dog that Hasn't Barked – Russian Nationalism Since Crimea
Paul Goble Staunton, September 22 – As Sherlock Holmes reminded everyone, the key to understanding often lies not in specifying what has occurred but rather in what has not happened....
View ArticleEthnic Factor Played Key Role in United Russia’s Failure to Win in First...
Paul Goble Staunton, September 22 – In yet another unintended consequence of Vladimir Putin’s regional amalgamation program, Buryat districts he arranged to be included in Irkutsk oblast...
View ArticleMoscow Pushing Mensk Around on Air Base, Belarusian Security Experts Say
Paul Goble Staunton, September 22 – The Mensk Center for Strategic and Foreign Policy Research says that Moscow has not succeeded in gaining the agreement of the Belarusian side to the...
View ArticleRussian Brain Drain Threatens Russian Military-Industrial Complex
Paul Goble Staunton, September 22 – Just as in the years following the Bolshevik revolution, the best minds of Russia are leaving to live and work abroad, a trend that undermines the...
View ArticleSyrian Adventure Makes Humanitarian Catastrophe in Russia ‘Inevitable,’...
Paul Goble Staunton, September 22 – Russia faces a humanitarian catastrophe of extraordinary proportions this winter, Konstantin Borovoy says, with many Russians now not simply below the...
View ArticlePutin Reprising in Belarus Stalin’s Tactics in the Baltic Countries in...
Paul Goble Staunton, September 23 – In the wake of the August 1939 Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact which gave him a free hand in the Baltic countries, Stalin first demanded that Estonia, Latvia, and...
View Article‘Don’t Mention Crimean Tatar Mejlis Because We Say It Doesn’t Exist,’ Russian...
Paul Goble Staunton, September 23 – Russian occupation officials have sent a letter to Crimean and Sevastopol media outlets suggesting that they not mention the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar...
View ArticleNewly-Reopened Mosque Anchor for Moscow’s 2.5 Million Muslims
Paul Goble Staunton, September 23 – Vladimir Putin and other dignitaries attended the re-opening of the Cathedral Mosque in Moscow today. Russian media celebrated this as the largest mosque...
View ArticleRussia at Increasing Risk of Muslim-on-Muslim Violence
Paul Goble Staunton, September 23 – Statements by Russian officials and pro-Kremlin commentators that Salafi Islam spreading in Russia and now threatens “traditional” Russian Islam are by...
View ArticleOnly 7 of 2175 Apartments on One Sochi Street Built for Putin Olympics Now...
Paul Goble Staunton, September 23 – In the run-up to the Sochi Olympiad in February 2014, many people pointed to the massive diversion of Russian taxpayer money into the hand of corrupt...
View ArticleUpcoming Obama-Putin Meeting at UN Part of a New ‘Munich,’ Illarionov Says
Paul Goble Staunton, September 24 – The apparent agreement of US President Barack Obama to meet his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin next week in New York to discuss Syrian affairs...
View ArticleStalin’s Deportation of Crimean Tatars ‘Justified’ and ‘Humane,’ Russian...
Paul Goble Staunton, September 24 – The great Russian memoirist Nadezhda Mandelshtam once observed that “happy is that country in which the despicable will at least be despised.” On that...
View ArticleRussia’s Propaganda Efforts May Mean It is ‘Too Late’ to Save Belarus,...
Paul Goble Staunton, September 24 – Russia’s propaganda effort in Ukraine and now in Belarus and especially the overwhelming dominance of Russian media outlets in the latter give rise to...
View ArticleRussian Assembly to Fight ‘Germanization’ of Kaliningrad
Paul Goble Staunton, September 24 – The Russian Assembly of Kaliningrad has announced plans to begin a campaign against what it says is the already “far-reaching Germanization” of that...
View ArticlePutin Pushing New Social Contract Based on Fighting Corruption Rather than...
Paul Goble Staunton, September 24 – The recent arrests of governors is part of a broader effort by Vladimir Putin to create a new social contract with the population, Nikolay Petrov says. In...
View ArticleGiving Syria’s Circassians Russian ‘Compatriot’ Status Would Lead to Influx...
Paul Goble Staunton, September 25 – Valery Tishkov, former head of the Moscow Institute of Ethnology, says that Moscow should not grant “compatriot” status to ethnic Circassians now in...
View ArticleBelarusians Must Challenge Totalitarian Regime ‘Because Tanks are...
Paul Goble Staunton, September 25 – Zygimaitas Pavilionis, the Lithuanian diplomat responsible for Vilnius’ relations with the EU Eastern Partnership program, says that Belarusians must not...
View ArticleThe Bitkov ‘Case’ – a Continuing Putin Crime that Must Not Be Forgotten
Paul Goble Staunton, September 25 – Even more than his easily exposed bald-faced lies, Vladimir Putin relies for the success he often enjoys at home and abroad on the increasingly short...
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