Moscow Must Act Before NATO Uses Baltic Countries as Base to Attack Russia,...
Paul Goble Staunton, January 15 – Russian propagandists often accuse the West of doing or planning to do what in fact Moscow has done or plans to do. Consequently, when they declare as now...
View ArticleRussians Support Stalin, Burn Books, and Would Approve a New GULAG,...
Paul Goble Staunton, January 15 – Many in Moscow and the West operate under the assumption that all that is necessary to solve Russia’s problems with itself and with the rest of the world is...
View ArticleMoscow’s Promotion of Russian-Ukrainian ‘Brotherhood’ Now Won’t Succeed...
Paul Goble Staunton, January 15 -- In recent days, Moscow has renewed its effort to promote the idea of “Russian-Ukrainian brotherhood” and the notion that the two form a single nation, an...
View ArticleProtests Especially Likely in Moscow, Kazan and Ufa, Sociologist Says
Paul Goble Staunton, January 15 – The economic crisis is likely to spark protests across Russia this year, but such actions are most likely in Moscow, Kazan and Ufa, three regions that have...
View ArticlePutin Successful Because His Rule Reflects Russian Civilizational Code,...
Paul Goble Staunton, January 16 – The secret of Vladimir Putin’s power and effectiveness is that his style of rule is so deeply rooted in the national consciousness that even those most...
View ArticleMoscow Patriarchate Sets Up New Staff to Destabilize Inter-Church Relations...
Paul Goble Staunton, January 16 – The Moscow Patriarchate of the Russian Orthodox Church has set up a new staff in the synod department of external church affairs to blacken the reputation...
View ArticleMoscow Renews Push to Have EU Make Russian an Official Language in Europe
Paul Goble Staunton, January 16 – For more than two decades, Russian officials have called for making Russian an official language of the European Union, nominally to improve relations...
View ArticleKadyrov Ally Calls for Shutting Down Ekho Moskvy and Dozhd Television
Paul Goble Staunton, January 16 – In the clearest indication yet that Ramzan Kadyrov has no plans to back down from his calls to treat Vladimir Putin’s opponents as “enemies of the people”...
View ArticleMoscow Disinformation Spreading from Mass Media to Academic Output
Paul Goble Staunton, January 17 – When most people think about Russian disinformation now, they think almost exclusively about stories directed to a mass audience, be it via the print media...
View ArticleHow and Why an Extreme Russian Nationalist Became a Pro-Western Democrat
Paul Goble Staunton, January 17 – The Russian intellectual pantheon is filled with people who used to be liberals and now have become committed nationalists and imperialists. That makes it...
View ArticleMoscow May Have to Open ‘Third Front’ in Central Asia to Prevent Refugee...
Paul Goble Staunton, January 17 – Moscow may be forced to dispatch as many as seven army divisions to Central Asia lest the destabilization of that region by ISIS and its allies spark a...
View ArticleIf Putin Sacks Kadyrov, He Could Lose the North Caucasus; If He Doesn’t, He...
Paul Goble Staunton, January 19 – Ramzan Kadyrov’s increasingly outrageous statements confront Vladimir Putin with what for him is a Hobson’s choice: if he sacks Kadyrov, he will undermine...
View Article80 Percent of Tajiks Fighting for ISIS Recruited While in Russia, Dushanbe Says
Paul Goble Staunton, January 19 – Dushanbe says that most of its citizens who are joining ISIS were recruited while working as gastarbeiters in Russia. Moscow denies this and points to...
View ArticlePutin Gets His Wish: Moscow Now Talking with US Alone about Fate of Ukraine
Paul Goble Staunton, January 19 – One of the aspects of the latest upsurge in US-Russian diplomatic exchanges about Ukraine that has not attracted much attention as it should but that may...
View ArticleCrimea Annexation Restored Ethnic Russian Share of Country’s Population to...
Paul Goble Staunton, January 19 – In an interview in which he declares that “if the 20th century was the century of minorities, the 21st will be the century of majorities,” Valery Tishkov,...
View ArticleTen Books Putin Loyalists Should Burn – According to ‘Maxim’
Paul Goble Staunton, January 19 – If Russians are going to go in for book burning, the editors of “Maxim” say, there are some books they as Putin loyalists should consider setting fire to...
View ArticleTwo Anniversaries of Soviet State Terrorism Must Not Be Forgotten
Paul Goble Staunton, January 20 – Twenty-five years ago today, Soviet forces carried out an act of state terrorism in the Latvian capital of Riga, randomly firing into a crowd of...
View ArticlePutin’s Spokesman Defends What Kadyrov has Said about the Opposition
Paul Goble Staunton, January 20 – In the first Kremlin reaction to Ramzan Kadyrov’s suggestions that the Russian opposition is “a fifth column” consisting of “enemies of the people,” Dmitry...
View ArticleUS Appears to Have Accepted ‘Donbas Model’ Not Only for Ukraine but for Other...
Paul Goble Staunton, January 20 – Petr Iskenderov, a researcher at the Moscow Institute of Slavic Studies and a commentator for Russia Today, says that it now appears the US has accepted...
View ArticleChuvashia Follows Tatarstan and Sakha in Denouncing Moscow’s Russian Language...
Paul Goble Staunton, January 20 – In another indication of how upset non-Russian republics are a bout Moscow’s new concept paper on Russian language instruction and of how powerful a lead...
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