Because Putin’s Worst Nightmare is Compromise, Moscow Will ‘Tighten the...
Paul Goble Staunton, November 28 – In an unguarded interview this week, the Russian interior minister, Vladimir Kolokoltsev, said that the Russian authorities will continue to tighten the...
View ArticleRefugees Returning to Ukraine from Russia Will Deepen Divide between Two...
Paul Goble Staunton, November 28 – Moscow will be pushing out of Russia early next year all those who fled Ukraine. Their presence in Russia has deepened Russian suspicions about people from...
View ArticleWhy Don’t Russians Commemorate the Terror Famine?
Paul Goble Staunton, November 28 – Today Ukrainians around the world commemorated the Holodomor, the terror famine Stalin directed against the peasantry in the first instance in Ukraine....
View ArticleMoscow’s Campaign against Turkey Seen Alienating Turkic Republics Inside and...
Paul Goble Staunton, November 29 – Moscow’s war of words against Turkey and its insistence that the rest of the Turkic world break with Ankara over the shooting down of the Russian warplane...
View ArticleMore than Half of Young Daghestanis Want to Live in an Islamic State, Studies...
Paul Goble Staunton, November 29 – Just over half of all Daghestani university students would prefer to live in a theocratic Islamic state, and almost a third of them are ready to take to...
View ArticleWarsaw Pact a Model for Organization of Collective Security Treaty Countries,...
Paul Goble Staunton, November 29 – Aleksey Chichkin, an economist who specializes on military production issues, says that Moscow should revive the kind of cooperation among the...
View ArticleWest Needs to End Its Illusions about Putin’s Power, Shevtsova Says
Paul Goble Staunton, November 30 – Many in the West still view Vladimir Putin as a powerful miracle worker who never loses at home or abroad, a perspective increasingly at odds with the...
View ArticleWithin 15 Years, Kazakhstan will Be a Kazakh Country, Political Analyst Says
Paul Goble Staunton, November 30 – Ten to fifteen years from now, Kazakhstan will become a Kazakh country, Aydos Sarym says; but there will still be minorities, who over the next generation...
View ArticleFSB Tightens Control over Scholarly Community and Its Resources, Rostovtsev Says
Paul Goble Staunton, November 30 – Espionage charges against Russian scholars are the tip of the iceberg of a much larger problem, Andrey Rostovtsev says, that involves an effort by the FSB...
View ArticleRussian Soldiers Must Not Shed Their Blood for Putin, Asad, and Oil, Basanets...
Paul Goble Staunton, November 30 – Pavel Basanets, a retired intelligence officer who attracted attention in 2007 when he accused Vladimir Putin of violating his oath, is callling on Russian...
View ArticleMinsk Accords are Paper Equivalents of Putin’s ‘Little Green Men,’ Illarionov...
Paul Goble Staunton, November 30 – The Minsk Accords are the diplomatic equivalent of Vladimir Putin’s “little green men,” Andrey Illarionov says. Like the latter, these pieces of paper have...
View Article‘Russia’s Future Not Connected with Ukraine or Syria,’ Inozemtsev Says
Paul Goble Staunton, December 1 – Russians have been so focused on events in Ukraine and now Syria that they have forgotten the most important thing: their future and that of their country...
View ArticleWhy There are Muslim Crescents on Orthodox Crosses in Moscow but Not in Kyiv
Paul Goble Staunton, December 1 – Orthodox churches in Moscow built before 1700 feature crosses with a Muslim crescent moon on them, a feature not found on any Orthodox church in Kyiv and an...
View ArticleIf Belarusian Support for Moscow Policies Grows, Ukraine Could Face a New...
Paul Goble Staunton, December 1 – Ukrainians are fundamentally ignorant of the situation in neighboring Belarus and do not realize that “if the number of Belarusians supporting Russia’s...
View ArticlePutin Making Russia ‘an Orthodox Caliphate,’ Aleksievich Says
Paul Goble Staunton, December 2 – Russians are turning to the church now not as they did after Chernobyl or the fall of communism but as a result of propaganda that mixes politics and...
View ArticleSufi-Salafi War Breaking Out in North Caucasus
Paul Goble Staunton, December 2 – The desecration of two tombs which the Sufis of Chechnya and Daghestan have long venerated by activists for the Salafis, who call for “pure” Islam and see...
View Article‘Titular’ Nations in Non-Russian Republics Should Lose Special Privileges,...
Paul Goble Staunton, December 2 – Anastaya Mitrofanova, a specialist on church-state relations at Moscow’s Russian Orthodox University, is calling for legislation that would deprive...
View ArticleOne Russian in Four Will Support Any Moscow Military Campaign Abroad, Levada...
Paul Goble Staunton, December 2 – The Kremlin can use its control of the media to generate support for almost anything it wants to do abroad, but it starts with a base of approximately one...
View ArticleCould Post-1945 Famine Play the Role in Russia that the Holodomor Plays in...
Paul Goble Staunton, December 5 – Stalin’s terror famine in 1932-1933 plays a central role in defining what it means to be a Ukrainian and is likely soon to play a similar for Kazakhstan, a...
View ArticlePutin Worried about ‘Stab in the Back’ – His Own and at Home, Ukrainian...
Paul Goble Staunton, December 3 – Often the words someone uses in one context say more about what that individual is thinking about another context than he or she intends. Such it is, Roman...
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