Who Blew Up the Russian Plane Over Sinai? ISIS or Someone Else?
Paul Goble Staunton, November 8 – Now that most experts have concluded that Flight A321 was brought down as the result of a bomb explosion, Andrey Illarionov says, it is time to ask two more...
View ArticleRural Russians Far More Trusting than Muscovites Are, Surveys Show
Paul Goble Staunton, November 8 – Russians have significantly lower levels of trust than do other nations, especially in the major cities like Moscow where “only about one percent” trust...
View ArticleTo Protect Itself, Kremlin has Seized Control of Debates about Stalin,...
Paul Goble Staunton, November 8 – The Kremlin has taken control not only of public discussions about memory of the repressed and not only about any criticism of Stalin but also “criticism of...
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Russian Economy Set to Take Another Hit – A Much Smaller Labor Force in the...
Paul Goble Staunton, November 8 – To the extent that falling prices for natural resources will force Moscow to rely on the development of other sectors, the Russian economy faces another and...
View ArticleKremlin’s Campaign against Russophobia Threatens both Russia and the West,...
Paul Goble Staunton, November 11 – The Kremlin’s revival of a campaign against what it calls “Russophobia” constitutes a threat not only to Western countries but to Russia’s future as well,...
View ArticleRussia and Other Post-Soviet States Supplying Twenty Percent of Foreigners...
Paul Goble Staunton, November 11 – The post-Soviet states are currently supplying 7,000 of the 30,000 foreigners who have gone to Syria to fight for ISIS, according to Yevgeny Sysoyev, the...
View Article‘Star Wars Redux’ – Putin’s Fear of Losing Nuclear ‘Club’ Works to Ukraine’s...
Paul Goble Staunton, November 11 – Vladimir Putin’s declaration that Moscow will create a nuclear strike force capable of overcoming any anti-ballistic missile system works to Ukraine’s...
View ArticleMost Russians Indifferent to Politics – and They Have Their Reasons
Paul Goble Staunton, November 11 – Sixty percent of Russians say they are indifferent to politics in their country, and they appear to have good reason: not only do their views have no...
View ArticleRussians Consuming Far More Alcohol than OECD and WHO Say, Russian Expert Says
Paul Goble Staunton, November 12 – Kremlin-controlled media have been celebrating the fact that according to the OECD and WHO, Russians consume less alcohol per capita than do residents of...
View ArticleFrom NIMBY to Nationalism?
Paul Goble Staunton, November 12 – Most opposition to the construction of Russian Orthodox Churches in cities in the Russian Federation falls under the NIMBY -- “not in my back yard” --...
View ArticleUkrainian Parliament Declares 1944 Soviet Deportation of Crimean Tatars Act...
Paul Goble Staunton, November 12 – Ukraine’s Verkhovna Rada today declared the Soviet deportation of the Crimean Tatars an act of genocide and announced that henceforth Ukrainians will mark...
View ArticleEthnic Russians and Moscow Propaganda Less a Threat to National Security in...
Paul GobleStaunton, November 12 – It is “a serious exaggeration” to suggest ethnic Russians living in the Baltic countries are a threat to the national security of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania or that...
View ArticleSome Russians Petition Putin to Launch Nuclear Strike at US But Most Oppose...
Paul Goble Staunton, November 12 – The URA.ru news agency publishes today a screenshot of a page on the Russian “Petitions to the President” which shows one written by a certain Artem...
View ArticleA Baker’s Dozen of Neglected Russian Stories – No. 10
Paul GobleStaunton, November 13 -- 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...
View ArticleTruckers’ Protest Succeeded But Few Russians are Likely to Copy It
Paul Goble Staunton, November 13 – Some Moscow commentators and opposition politicians are expressing hope that the successor of Russia’s longhaul truckers in forcing the government to...
View ArticlePutin’s New Cold War Different and Far More Dangerous than Its Namesake, Kyiv...
Paul Goble Staunton, November 13 – Vladimir Putin has chosen a military strategy which makes the new cold war he has started not only different but also far more dangerous than its namesake...
View ArticleMoscow Intends to Attack Ukraine via Europe with New Disinformation Campaign
Paul Goble Staunton, November 13 – Moscow is preparing to mark the second anniversary of the EuroMaidan in Kyiv “in its own way,” by unleashing a new disinformation campaign against Ukraine...
View ArticleRussia’s Accelerating Return to Soviet Past – Key Dates under Vladimir Putin
Paul Goble Staunton, November 13 – Vladimir Putin’s restoration of many aspects of Soviet life is not only obvious but accelerating, as is clearly shown by a calendar of some but far from...
View ArticlePutin Moving Step by Step toward a New 1937, Ponomaryev Warns
Paul Goble Staunton, November 14 – The Kremlin’s recent moves against the Ukrainian library in Moscow, Petr Pavlensky, Memorial, and the Ingush Human Rights Center represent “a transition of...
View ArticlePutin Creating ‘Anti-Globalist International’ in Europe, Pastukhov Says
Paul Goble Staunton, November 14 – Vladimir Putin is creating “an anti-globalist international” of those who see no good future for themselves in the new world and thus hope to guarantee...
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