1990s Should Be Remembered as Russia’s Second NEP, Vishnevsky Says
Paul Goble Staunton, January 10 – Many look back at the 1990s as a horrific time, but in fact, demographer Anatoly Vishnevsky says, there were a great many positive developments at “a time...
View ArticleRussians Must ‘Re-Ideologize’ to Overcome ‘Criminalization’ of Their Society,...
Paul Goble Staunton, January 10 – “The criminalization of the Russian world is the direct result of its de-ideologization,” Vladimir Pastukhov says, because without an ideological framework,...
View ArticleBy Discrediting Local Traditions, Kadyrov Opening Way for Islamic Conflicts,...
Paul Goble Staunton, January 11 – North Caucasians have long relied on informal family-based systems for resolving disputes, but by attempting to exploit these systems to punish his enemies,...
View ArticlePutin’s Real Abuse of Polling Not in Reported Results, Volkov Says
Paul Goble Staunton, January 11 – Many have cast doubt on the accuracy of a New Year’s poll in Crimea suggesting that people there are prepared to live without electricity in order to be...
View ArticleTwo Putinist ‘Totalitarian Sects’ May Prove Anything But Harmless, Yakovenko...
Paul Goble Staunton, January 11 – A basis feature of Vladimir Putin’s regime is the rise of “a quasi-civil society, in which various patriotic totalitarian sets are sprouting like...
View ArticlePutin’s New National Security Doctrine Fails to List Domestic Threats, Regnum...
Paul Goble Staunton, January 11 – Russia’s new National Security Doctrine Vladimir Putin signed on December 31 lists numerous values that the government pledges to defend; but it only...
View ArticleRussian Industry Wearing Out and Falling Ever Further Behind Rest of World,...
Paul Goble Staunton, January 11 – Unlike in 1991, 1998, and 2008, Russia today lacks the industrial capacity left over from Soviet times that it would need to engage in import substitution...
View ArticleAltay Artist Who Sought Independence for Siberia’s Turkic Peoples Celebrated...
Paul Goble Staunton, January 12 – Today, in Gorno-Altaysk, the capital of the Altay Republic, more than 300 people assembled to honor the memory of Grigory Choros-Gurkin, an artist who...
View ArticleUnited Russia Doesn’t Have Program for the Future, But Non-Russian Groups Do
Paul Goble Staunton, January 12 – There are many parallels between Russia today and Russia in the past. One of the most intriguing is that now, as in 1990-1991, politicians in Moscow are...
View ArticlePutin’s Power Failure: He's had Time and Resources to Transform Russia but...
Paul Goble Staunton, January 12 – Vladimir Putin has had the time and resources “to transform Russia if not into the next China then into a new Emirates by laying the foundations for...
View ArticleOver Long Winter Vacation This Year, Russians Stayed Home and Drank Less, But...
Paul Goble Staunton, January 12 – Over the long Russian winter break which is about to end, ever fewer Russians travelled especially abroad, 40 percent of them drank less, and in general...
View ArticleVilnius at 25 – What the West and the Russians Have Forgotten
Paul Goble Staunton, January 13 – Today, Lithuanians and all those who love freedom around the world are remembering what happened in Vilnius a quarter of a century ago – the brutal killing...
View Article12 More Lithuanians to Be Remembered
Paul Goble Staunton, January 13 – Many are remembering today the 13 Lithuanians Soviet forces shot and killed at the television tower in Vilnius. They made the ultimate sacrifice, and they...
View ArticleMoscow Begins Deporting Circassians Who Returned to Homeland from Turkey
Paul Goble Staunton, January 13 – Russia’s Federal Migration Service has been sending letters to Circassians who had been allowed to return from exile in Turkey to their homeland in the...
View ArticleMoscow’s Plans for Three New Divisions Will Degrade Russia’s Defense...
Paul Goble Staunton, January 13 – Russian defense minister Sergey Shoygu has announced plans to form three new divisions in the western part of the country, an announcement clearly intended...
View ArticleAre Russians Really ‘Becoming Accustomed to Poverty’?
Paul Goble Staunton, January 13 – Some Russian experts say that new polls suggesting that Russians expect their own economic situation to deteriorate further suggest that they are “becoming...
View ArticleMore Russian Soldiers are Deserting Even Though Crime in Military has...
Paul Goble Staunton, January 14 – The number of cases of Russian soldiers going AWOL or deserting has increased over the last several years even though crime in the military has fallen, a...
View ArticleToward a New ‘Parade of Sovereignties’ – Chuvash Want ‘State’ Back in...
Paul Goble Staunton, January 14 – The Chuvash Ireklekh Society for National-Cultural Rebirth has appealed to speaker of the republic’s parliament to restore the word “state” as a description...
View ArticlePutin May Use ‘Limited Nuclear War’ to Impose Martial Law and Cancel...
Paul Goble Staunton, January 14 – As Russia’s economic situation deteriorates and threats to Vladimir Putin’s power increase, the Kremlin leader is likely considering ways including even the...
View ArticleA Baker’s Dozen of Neglected Russian Stories – No. 19
Paul GobleStaunton, January 15 -- 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...
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