Despite Moscow’s Charges, Muslims in Ukraine Fighting for Ukraine, Not for ISIS
Paul Goble Staunton, December 3 – Russian propaganda has sought to link any group Moscow doesn’t like with ISIS as a way of justifying its own position. Thus it has called the moderate Sunni...
View ArticleCrimean Tatars Form New Organization to Press for Restoration of Autonomy...
Paul Goble Staunton, December 3 – Discouraged by what they see as Kyiv’s indifference to their plight and failure to come up with an action plan to end the occupation of their homeland,...
View ArticleRussian-Turkish Crisis Hits Orthodox World
Paul Goble Staunton, December 3 – That the current crisis in relations between Russia and Turkey should affect Muslim states in Eurasia and Muslims within the Russian Federation is no...
View ArticleRussians Project on West Shortcomings They Intuitively Feel In Themselves,...
Paul Goble Staunton, December 3 – “In order to weaken the internal discomfort and sense of national incompleteness” they feel at an unconscious level, Russians “project on the West all the...
View ArticleA Baker’s Dozen of Neglected Russian Stories – No. 13
Paul GobleStaunton, December 4 -- The flood of news stories from a country as large, diverse and strange as the Russian Federation often appears to be is far too large for anyone to keep up with. But...
View ArticleMany Russians Believe There is a Plan to Dramatically Reduce Their Numbers
Paul Goble Staunton, December 4 – Since the mid-1990s, Russians have told sociologists that they believe there is a plan, sometimes coming from the West and sometimes from their own leaders...
View ArticleRegional Identities Strengthening Faster than All-Russian One, Petrozavodsk...
Paul Goble Staunton, December 4 – Vladimir Putin has signaled over the last several years that “all-Russian identity must be formed as ‘a puzzle’ consisting of 85 regional pieces,” Elena...
View ArticleMoscow to Permanently Redirect Transit Cargo Away from Ports in Baltic Countries
Paul Goble Staunton, December 4 – In his speech to the Federal Assembly, Vladimir Putin called for developing Russian ports in the Baltic, an indication, Aleksandr Nosovich says, that “the...
View ArticleSpeaking to Russian Parliament, Putin Sends Five Messages to Ukraine,...
Paul Goble Staunton, December 4 – In his speech to the Russian parliament, Vladimir Putin outlined a vision for Russia’s future as a major combatant in the Middle East and “a besieged...
View ArticleIn Putin’s Russia, Ever More Attitudes and Actions Constitute ‘Anti-State...
Paul Goble Staunton, December 5 – One of the most powerful and disturbing images in all of cinematography comes at the end of Costa-Gavras’ 1969 film, “Z.” First the screen goes black when...
View ArticleUkraine Must Have Army with Modern Weapons Because Budapest Signatories...
Paul Goble Staunton, December 5 – The actions of three signatories of the Budapest Memorandum, Russia by invading Ukraine and the US and UK by failing to come to its defense, means that...
View ArticleMoscow’s Refusal to Help Syria's Circassians Shows Russian Nationalist Nature...
Paul Goble Staunton, December 5 – The Russian foreign ministry’s declaration that it will not provide any special assistance to Syria’s Circassians who are seeking repatriation to their...
View ArticleMuslim Spiritual Directorates Can’t Reach New Generation of Russia’s Muslims,...
Paul Goble Staunton, December 5 – The Russian authorities do not understand that the Muslim Spiritual Directorates (MSDs) they have created not only are not part of the Islamic tradition but...
View ArticleWest Using Islamism against Russia Just as It Did Nazism against the USSR,...
Paul Goble Staunton, December 5 – In response to Vladimir Putin’s address and the arrest of Karelian regionalist writer Vadim Shtepa, Karelian head Aleksandr Khudilaynen says that the West...
View ArticlePutin’s Actions Increasingly Recall 1905 at Home and 1914 in Foreign Affairs,...
Paul Goble Staunton, December 6 – Vladimir Putin’s childish and thoughtless actions recall the last years of Imperial Russia with the worsening situation at home opening the way to a new...
View ArticleWith Turkey, Moscow Must Choose Between ‘Bad’ and ‘Very Bad’ Outcomes,...
Paul Goble Staunton, December 6 – Moscow faces a Hobson’s choice in dealing with Turkey: If it ultimately backs down, it will lose face at home and abroad; but if it doesn’t, it will likely...
View ArticleIs Putin about to Annex South Osetia?
Paul Goble Staunton, December 6 – By his actions, Vladimir Putin has diverted the world’s attention away not only from the Ukrainian crisis he created but also from an earlier one – his...
View ArticleAre Mosques in North Caucasus a Source of Radicalization or a Defense Against...
Paul Goble Staunton, December 6 – The debate between those who believe that mosques are a source of radicalization and that Russian society is better off without them and those who think...
View ArticleMost Russians Won’t Defend Environment Unless State Gives the Order, Semenov...
Paul Goble Staunton, December 6 – In Western countries, environmentalism is so popular that businessmen and politicians compete with each other to see who can be “the most green.” But in...
View ArticleRussians Going to Syria Not to Join Something but to Escape Something,...
Paul Goble Staunton, December 7 – Many Muslims in the Russian Federation are going to Syria to fight in the ranks of ISIS because they find its ideas attractive, but ethnic Russians who are...
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