Prohibition in Republics Likely to Accelerate Russian Flight
Paul Goble Staunton, December 19 – Deputy Prime Minister Aleksandr Khloponin has responded favorably to requests from North Caucasian leaders to change Russian law so that they can limit or...
View ArticleNew Leadership of Yabloko Comes Not from Moscow but from Periphery
Paul Goble Staunton, December 20 – Perhaps the most important development in the history of the Yabloko Party and of Russian party politics in general is that the next generation of leaders...
View ArticleNear St. Petersburg, Another Nuclear Power Plant Accident Sparks Another Wave...
Paul Goble Staunton, December 20 – Russians may defer to the government under most conditions but when they believe their lives are at risk, they are more prepared to listen to those who say...
View ArticleThe Life and Approaching Death of First Russian Settlement in Tyva
Paul Goble Staunton, December 20 – The first Russian settlement in Tyva was established 130 years ago, but now, according to one Russian journalist who is a native of the town, Turan is not...
View ArticleAstana Must Prepare for Moscow to Redirect Information War from Ukraine and...
Paul Goble Staunton, December 20 – If a conflict arises between Kazakhstan and Russia, “one cannot exclude the possibility that those very same Russian media outlets which very actively...
View ArticlePutin Says West Supporting Ukraine to Block Restoration of USSR Even Though...
Paul Goble Staunton, December 20 – In an interview for a documentary film on Moscow’s Russia I channel, Vladimir Putin says that Western support for Ukraine “is connected not with the...
View ArticleThe Incredibly Shrinking Russian World in the Post-Soviet Space
Paul Goble Staunton, December 21 – Even as Vladimir Putin continues to talk about the Russian world and the importance of reuniting it after the demise of the Soviet Union, the number and...
View ArticleChina Moving Rapidly to Boost Ownership Stake in Russian Raw Materials Sector
Paul Goble Staunton, December 21 – Stories about the transfer of territory from Russia to China and the arrival of Chinese settlers in Siberia get far more press play, but far more important...
View ArticleSakha Follows Tatarstan in Denouncing Moscow’s Language Policies as Threat to...
Paul Goble Staunton, December 21 – As often happened at the end of Soviet times and the beginning of the 1990s, the Republic of Sakha has followed the position laid out first by the Republic...
View ArticleRussian Pressure on Circassians Intensifies as Turkish Crisis Deepens
Paul Goble Staunton, December 21 – The conflict between Russia and Turkey after the shooting down of a Russian aircraft that violated Turkish airspace has led to intensified pressure on...
View ArticlePeople Fleeing Donbas East or West Less for Political Reasons than for...
Paul Goble Staunton, December 21 – Many observers assume that those who fled the Donbas to the Russian Federation did so because they were pro-Russian while those who fled in the opposite...
View ArticleA Defining Factor of Protest in Russia -- Average Age There Twice That in...
Paul Goble Staunton, December 22 – “For mass repressions [in Russia], there are neither mechanisms, not resources, nor desire,” Yekaterina Schulmann says; but there may not need to be,...
View ArticleThree Out of Four Russians Now Blame West for Their Problems, Moscow...
Paul Goble Staunton, December 22 – More than 60 percent of Russians say they have noted a deterioration of their economic situation over the last year, but 75 percent of them blame the West...
View ArticleMoscow’s Library of Ukrainian Literature to Become Multi-Media Center of...
Paul Goble Staunton, December 22 – Just as the Russian authorities transformed a museum on the GULAG from one that commemorated the suffering of inmates into one that celebrates their...
View ArticlePutin has No Reason to Fight ISIS in a Serious Way, Eidman Says
Paul Goble Staunton, December 23 – The EU’s decision to extend sanctions on Russia shows that Vladimir Putin has been unsuccessful in selling the idea at least in Europe that what he is...
View ArticleTatarstan President Says Kazan Won’t Break Economic and Cultural Ties with...
Paul Goble Staunton, December 23 – Having already opposed Moscow on Russia’s language law and the elimination of the office of republic president, Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov has...
View ArticlePutin Again Uses a Film to Describe ‘World Order’ He Wants
Paul Goble Staunton, December 23 – For the third time, Vladimir Putin has used a documentary film to outline his ideas about Russia and the world, first in “Crimea. The Road Home,” then in “The...
View ArticleKPRF Opens Stalin Center; Opponents Launch Drive to Put Plaques at ‘Last...
Paul Goble Staunton, December 24 – The Penza Oblast Committee of the KPRF has opened a Stalin Center to popularize the ideas and practices of the Soviet dictator and suggest the ways in...
View ArticleArbitrary Sentencing Points to ‘Beginning of Repression’ in Russia, Experts Say
Paul Goble Staunton, December 24 – Crime, arrests, and convictions in Russia have all risen over the last year, reversing trends in recent years, but the most important development of the...
View ArticleBelarusians are Losing Their Sense of Fear, Aleksiyevich Says
Paul Goble Staunton, December 24 – There is a still “a conspiracy of silence” about her in Belarus, Nobel laureate Svetlana Aleksiyevich says, but “the feeling of fear” that had...
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