Should Ethnic Russians have the Right to Act Like a National Minority in Russia?
Paul Goble Staunton, April 4 – No one doubts that for the Russian Federation as a whole, ethnic Russians for the present constitute a majority of the population; but in various parts of the...
View ArticleOnly Beneficiary of Karabakh Fighting is Putin, Piontkovsky Says
Paul Goble Staunton, April 4 – Vladimir Putin is the only beneficiary of the renewed fighting in Karabakh, Andrey Piontkovsky says; and to the extent that is so, Azerbaijan, Armenia and...
View ArticleWith Archives Move, Putin Makes an Unforced Error
Paul Goble Staunton, April 4 – Vladimir Putin has committed many crimes, but his political tactics at least from his own point of view have been brilliant, keeping his opponents off balance...
View ArticleMoscow Faces Its Own Muslim-Buddhist Clash in Kalmykia
Paul Goble Staunton, April 4 – Russians like many other people around the world were horrified by Taliban destruction of Buddhist shrines in Afghanistan. Now, Russians are having to cope...
View ArticleTalysh Movement Resurfaces in Azerbaijan
Paul Goble Staunton, April 4 – One of the most important trends in the south Caucasus over the last 25 years has been the emergence of almost completely mono-ethnic states in that region. As...
View Article‘Putinophobia’ Increasing Infects Western Media, Peskov Says
Paul Goble Staunton, April 6 – Russian officials and commentators and their supporters in the West have long complained that criticism of Moscow and its policies reflects not honest and...
View ArticleNeo-Pagan and Orthodox Militants ‘Dividing Up’ Russian Capital
Paul Goble Staunton, April 6 – The Russian Orthodox Church’s promotion of patriotic youth groups has met its match in analogous groups that have been organized by neo-pagan organizations....
View ArticleMilkmaids Returning to Regional Legislative Assemblies in Russia
Paul Goble Staunton, April 6 – In yet another reflection of the declining importance of regional legislative assemblies and of the ruling United Russia party’s desire to control their work,...
View ArticleMoscow Now Worried about Possible Emergence of a Very Different Kind of...
Paul Goble Staunton, April 6 – Since 1991, the Kremlin and the Moscow Patriarchate have been worried about the emergence of a Ukrainian Orthodox Church independent from Moscow, the...
View ArticleNational Bolsheviks Mark Day of the Russian Nation
Paul Goble Staunton, April 6 – Russia’s National Bolsheviks yesterday marked the Day of the Russian Nation with meetings and demonstrations in Moscow, Krasnoyarsk, Sarov, Rostov-na-Donu, and...
View ArticleRussia’s Inability to Deal with Its Past Imperils Its Future, Inozemtsev Says
Paul Goble Staunton, April 7 – Russians love to compare themselves and their country with others and especially with the United States and to ask why others have done better than they have,...
View ArticleMoscow Pursuing ‘Hybrid Surrender’ of Far East to Chinese, Radzikhovsky Says
Paul Goble Staunton, April 7 – Many Russian commentators have reacted with anger to Moscow’s agreement to allow China to open more businesses in the Russian Far East, a development they say...
View ArticleWest Did Not Want USSR to Disintegrate, Moscow Scholar Says
Paul Goble Staunton, April 7 – Despite the Kremlin’s constant claims that the West was behind the destruction of the USSR, Aleksey Portansky says, the facts are that Western countries did...
View ArticlePutin’s Decision to Put Interior Ministry in Charge of Migrants Seen Sparking...
Paul GobleStaunton, April 7 – Vladimir Putin’s decision to eliminate the Federal Migration Service and to transfer its functions and most of its staff to the interior ministry may save the Kremlin...
View ArticleA Baker’s Dozen of Neglected Russian Stories – No. 26
Paul GobleStaunton, April 8 -- 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 ArticleMoscow’s Approach to Resolution of Conflicts is to Freeze Them and Wait,...
Paul Goble Staunton, April 8 – Moscow has adopted an extremely successful approach to many of the conflicts in the post-Soviet space: it “freezes” them and then sits back and “waits” while...
View ArticleNorth-South Rail Corridor Linking Russia and Iran via Azerbaijan Set to Open
Paul Goble Staunton, April 8 – Less than two weeks from now, a rail bridge linking Azerbaijan and Iran is set to open, the next step toward the establishment of a North-South trade corridor...
View Article‘Patriotic Ecologists’ Will Promote Russian Economic Development, Pro-Kremlin...
Paul Goble Staunton, April 9 – International environmental groups like the World Wildlife Fund and Greenpeace get in the way of Russia’s economic development and must be replaced by “truly...
View ArticleRussia, Iran Again Discussing Construction of Canal from Caspian to Persian...
Paul Goble Staunton, April 9 – Now that Russia and Iran are close to opening a rail link between the two countries...
View ArticleRussians Struggling to Come Up with Rules on Their Own Concernig Desecration...
Paul Goble Staunton, April 9 – Two folklorists at the Academy of Economics and State Service say Russians in the absence of clear rules on how they should treat photographs of Vladimir Putin...
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