Moscow Now Emphasizing Subversion over Direct Aggression in Ukraine, Kyiv...
Paul Goble Staunton, September 29 – No one should conclude that the current lull in the fighting in the Donbas marks the end of Moscow’s aggression in Ukraine, according to Valentin Badrak,...
View ArticleTotalitarian Survivals Explain Support for Putin But Suggest His Successors...
Paul Goble Staunton, September 29 – The high level of popular support for Vladimir Putin despite increasing impoverishment and income differentiation reflects the survival of “not a few...
View ArticleWorld’s Response to Putin: More than 100 Countries Now Seek Limits on Veto...
Paul Goble Staunton, September 30 – Two weeks ago, 67 countries said they favored limiting the veto powers of permanent members of the UN Security Council; now, more than 100 do, perhaps the...
View ArticleActions in Support of Repatriation of Circassians from Syria Intensify, Spread
Paul Goble Staunton, September 30 – The murder by sniper fire of an 11-year-old Circassian girl in Damascus has touched the hearts of her co-ethnics in the North Caucasus and sparked an...
View ArticlePopov Demolishes Last Krymnash Myth -- that Crimean Anschluss Hasn’t Cost...
Paul Goble Staunton, September 30 – This week, Moscow historian Arkady Popov completes his demolition of what he calls the eight myths of the Krymnash movement with an essay in “Yezhednevny...
View ArticleChildren of Russian Entrepreneurs Not Planning to Pursue Business Careers,...
Paul Goble Staunton, September 30 – Russian business has another problem, one that is not uncommon in other countries: most of the children of successful Russian business people show little...
View ArticleIs Greenland about to Be Invoked as a Precedent for Gagauzia -- or Even the...
Paul Goble Staunton, September 30 – Moscow may hope to block Moldova and Ukraine from joining the European Union, but some there and among pro-Moscow groups in both countries are considering...
View Article‘Putin will Never Leave Ukraine in Peace,’ Commentators Say
Paul Goble Staunton, October 1 – Vladimir Putin’s new war in Syria has driven Ukraine off the front pages of the world’s press, and his decision to extend the current lull in the fighting in...
View ArticlePutin Can’t Win in Syria with Airstrikes Alone But If He Sends Ground Troops,...
Paul Goble Staunton, October 1 – Vladimir Putin has adopted a very risk approach in Syria: One misstep there and he will alienate most of the Muslim world, and the possibility he may...
View ArticlePutin and Obama Agreed on Far More about Ukraine and Syria than They’ve...
Paul Goble Staunton, October 1 – Neither the Russian nor the American side put out an official statement about the meeting of the two presidents in New York, but the comments by Vladimir...
View ArticleEver More Russians Affected by Crisis and Angered by It, Russian Academy of...
Paul Goble Staunton, October 1 – The Russian Academy of Economy and State Service has released a 108-page report showing that ever more Russians are being hurt by the economic crisis, that...
View ArticlePutin and the Bitkovs: Justice Denied as a Kremlin Tactic
Paul Goble Staunton, October 1 – Vladimir Putin counts on many things to achieve his criminal ends: the short memories of his various audiences, his ability to shift the narrative seemingly...
View ArticlePopulation Growth in Muslim North Caucasus Matches Population Decline in...
Paul Goble Staunton, October 2 – In the first eight months of 2015, there were 52,000 more births than deaths in the predominantly Muslim North Caucasus, almost exactly compensating for the...
View Article‘The Normandy Four’ has Dissolved into Three Plus One, Portnikov Says
Paul Goble Staunton, October 2 – The Normandy Four in which Moscow has placed so much faith as a way of advancing its interests and splitting off Europe from the United States over Ukraine...
View ArticlePutin’s Increasingly Xenophobic Propaganda Now Attacking Whole Peoples and...
Paul Goble Staunton, October 2 – As Vladimir Putin gets his country involved in ever more wars, a subtle but significant change has come over Kremlin propaganda: Russian-government media are...
View ArticleA Baker’s Dozen of Neglected Russian Stories This Week – No. 4
Paul GobleStaunton, October 2 -- 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 keep up with....
View ArticleWill Moscow Make Karelia Russia’s Catalonia?
Paul Goble Staunton, October 2 – Last Sunday, two Catalan parties that back independence for their land won a majority in the regional parliament, a decisive step toward independence within...
View ArticlePutin’s First Undeserved Victory in Syria – West Caving on Crimea
Paul Goble Staunton, October 3 – Yesterday, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said in Paris that “when Ukraine restores its sovereignty not over Crimea but over another part of the country,...
View ArticleIt’s Time to Recall Kennan’s Long Telegram and Forget His Later Optimism...
Paul Goble Staunton, October 3 – George Kennan’s famous “long telegram” of February 1946 was written to explain to Western leaders something they found difficult to understand: how Moscow...
View ArticleFour Reasons Why Ukraine Could Eventually Fall Back under Moscow’s Control
Paul Goble Staunton, October 3 – Anatoly Oktisyuk, a Kyiv analyst, says there are four reasons why, however much optimism about the future Ukrainians now have, their country could ultimately...
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