Window on Eurasia: Kremlin Fights Separatism to Suppress Freedoms Russians...
Paul Goble Staunton, November 16 – The current hysteria in Moscow about separatism is just “the latest link in a chain” of events intended to allow the Kremlin to have a free hand in...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: In Russia Today, Torture has Become ‘Routine,’ Rights...
Paul Goble Staunton, November 16 -- Torture has become “a routine practice” in today’s Russia, according to a detailed 69-page report prepared jointly by the French Christian Association for...
View Articleindow on Eurasia: Rogozin’s Call for Renaming Russian Far East Won’t Make It...
Paul Goble Staunton, November 17 – A millennium ago, Erik the Red decided to call the icy island he had found Greenland in the hopes that such a name would attract more settlers. Now,...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: ‘If Russia Disappeared Tomorrow,’ Belarusians Say They...
Paul Goble Staunton, November 17 – Many in both Moscow and the West assume that Russia and Belarus are “practically a single country” and that their populations are so similar as to make...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Moscow’s Anti-Separatist Effort Linked to Plans for New...
Paul Goble Staunton, November 18 – The Kremlin is playing the anti-separatist card to set the stage for the promulgation of a new authoritarian constitution by simultaneously promoting the...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Changing the Russian Constitution Fraught with Dangers,...
Paul Goble Staunton, November 18 – The Moscow media are full of stories that President Vladimir Putin plans to propose changes in the 1993 Russian Constitution in a message to the Federal...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Moscow Wins UN Support on Okhotsk Sea Claims But Lacks...
Paul Goble Staunton, November 18 – A sub-commission of the United Nations has recognized the central portion of the Okhotsk Sea between the Kamchatka peninsula and the Russian Far East...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Russia Can Escape Crisis Only by Ending...
Paul Goble Staunton, November 19 – Russia’s regions are overwhelmingly in a deep crisis, the result of a confluence of factors that can be overcome only by ending “hyper-centralization,”...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: KPRF Says Separatism Must Be Punished Because Liberals are...
Paul Goble Staunton, November 19 – Although a Duma committee has now rejected a United Russia proposal to impose criminal penalties on any calls for separatism, the Communist Party of the...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Russia’s Problems Reflect that It is Still an Empire,...
Paul Goble Staunton, November 19 – Russia’s “fatal” level of inter-ethnic tensions reflect the fact that despite its formal name, the Russian Federation “in fact was and remains an empire,”...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Three Small Moves with Big Consequences on Russia’s...
Paul Goble Staunton, November 20 – Three small developments on Russia’s nationality front this week – resistance by a small ethnos to a oil giant, the Moscow Patriarchate’s hiring of Central...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Russian-Language Media in Baltic Countries No Longer...
Paul Goble Staunton, November 20 – Many continue to assume that the Russian-language media in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania is invariably pro-Russian and pro-Moscow, but Moscow experts say...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Putin’s Common History Textbook Won’t Promote Patriotism,...
Paul Goble Staunton, November 20 – Putin’s efforts to create a common history textbook have not answered the most important question: on what basis should the events of the Soviet and...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Word ‘Russky’ Now Irreversibly Ethnicized, Scholar Says
Paul Goble Staunton, November 21 – Both because of the rise of ethnic sensitivities in the Russian Federation and Moscow’s promotion of “rossiysky” as a term to describe people and things...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Baku and Kyiv Seek to Have Turkey Join GUAM
Paul Goble Staunton, November 21 – All eyes are now on the EU Vilnius Summit and on whether Ukraine and some of her neighbors will sign association agreements with the European Union, a step...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Russian Authoritarianism Degrading into Despotism,...
Paul Goble Staunton, November 21 – Observers who are worried about a crisis in something that never existed – liberal democracy in Russia – are missing something more significant: “the...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Sochi Countdown – 11 Weeks to the Olympiad in the North...
Note: This is my 39th special Window on Eurasia about the meaning and impact of the planned Olympiad on the nations in the surrounding region. These WOEs, which will appear each Friday over the...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Russia ‘Doesn’t Deserve Putin,’ Moscow Columnist Says
Paul Goble Staunton, November 25 – Despite the view many have that Russia and Putin are a good fit, a Moscow columnist argues that Russians “do not deserve” to have Vladimir Putin as their...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Will Dividing Daghestan Administratively Save It or...
Paul Goble Staunton, November 25 –Ranzan Abdulatipov, the head of Daghestan, announced last week his plan to divide his North Caucasus republic into four administrative districts headed by...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Half of Moscow Residents Were Born Elsewhere and That...
Paul Goble Staunton, November 25 – Moscow residents have been obsessed in recent months with the number of gastarbeiters who have moved into their city, but a new poll shows that many who...
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