Residents of Isolated Villages Some of Freest People in Russia, Sociologist Says
Paul Goble Staunton, April 10 – The absence of roads and the collapse of civil aviation in many rural areas of Russia has created a new class of “absolutely free” people, Artemy Pozanenko...
View ArticleWhat’s a Statue of Joseph Conrad Doing in Vologda? Residents Want to Know
Paul Goble Staunton, April 10 – More than half of Vologda residents say they have no idea who Joseph Conrad was and only four percent have read the works of the great Polish-English writer,...
View ArticleWill Putin’s New National Guard Rein In Kadyrov?
Paul Goble Staunton, April 10 – Most commentaries about Vladimir Putin’s decision to create a special national guard have suggested that this move reflects the Kremlin leader’s fears that he...
View ArticleIn Advance of Elections, Putin Preparing to Move Against Oligarchs, Martynov...
Paul Goble Staunton, April 10 – Having already torn up the social contract between the regime and the population, Putin is now about to destroy the contract between the Kremlin and big...
View ArticleFewer than 10 Percent of CIS Agreements Being Implemented, Zharikhin Says
Paul Goble Staunton, April 11 – Every 18 months to two years, Russian media outlets fill up with commentaries suggesting that the Commonwealth of Independent States is about to disappear...
View ArticleHalf of All Crimes in Russia Not Being Solved at Present Time
Paul Goble Staunton, April 11 – Not only high profile political crimes remain unresolved in Russia, experts say. At least half of all crimes are not solved, and the figure may be even worse...
View ArticleEastern Religions Now Seen Threatening Orthodox Russia Even More than...
Paul Goble Staunton, April 11 – The explosive growth of Protestant congregations in post-Soviet Russia has worried many Russian Orthodox and Russian nationalist observers, but now some of...
View ArticleYoung Russians Turn to Radical Islam Because It isn’t Tied to Corrupt...
Paul Goble Staunton, April 12 – Just as many young Soviet citizens turned to the Russian Orthodox Church in the 1970s and 1980s because of its presumed independence from the corrupt Soviet...
View ArticleKyiv Must Counter Russian Disinformation about Sanctions Impact, Inozemtsev Says
Paul Goble Staunton, April 12 – As the Dutch referendum results show, many Europeans are now want to focus on their own problems rather than broaden the EU and are convinced that “they are...
View ArticleNew Book Details How Moscow has Built Its Influence Network in France
Paul Goble Staunton, April 12 – A new book by French scholar Cecile Vaissie of the University of Rennes-2 describes the ways Moscow has used the media, political lobbying and hidden...
View ArticlePosters Become New Form of Protest in Russia, Other Post-Soviet States
Paul Goble Staunton, April 12 – As demonstrating has become more difficult and even dangerous in Russia, some who want to push a political agenda are using posters instead, something that...
View ArticleMany Potential Donbas-Like Field Commanders Across Former Soviet Space, Study...
Paul Goble Staunton, April 12 – A new sociological study of the field commanders in the Donbas says that most are middle-aged males with diplomas from second-tier higher educational...
View ArticleYoung Russians Leave Smaller Cities for Education, Better Lives and Work in...
Paul Goble Staunton, April 13 – Russians who graduate from secondary schools are overwhelmingly choosing to leave them permanently or at least for a long time to secure higher educations and...
View ArticleHas Tatarstan Found a Way to Promote Latin and Arabic Scripts in Place of...
Paul Goble Staunton, April 13 – Tatarstan may have found a way around Moscow’s 2002 ban on the use of any script except Cyrillic for non-Russian languages in the Russian Federation by...
View ArticleKremlin Said Organizing Secret Military Units in Germany, Other Western...
Paul Goble Staunton, April 12 – Germany’s “Bild” has published excerpts from a new book by Boris Reitschuster entitled “Putin’s Secret War” that suggests that Moscow is organizing special...
View ArticleMoscow Isn’t Building Domestic Rail Infrastructure for Either East-West or...
Paul Goble Staunton, April 13 – Despite the Russian government’s claims that it is on track to open east-west and north-south corridors that will change international geo-economics to...
View ArticleHyper-Centralization, the Basis of Russian Identity, Blocks Growth in...
Paul Goble Staunton, April 14 – Throughout its history, Russia has been a country whose population has “exceptionally highly valued centralization and the power of the state,” a reflection...
View ArticleKarelia More Interested in Political Freedom than Most Regions of Russia,...
Paul Goble Staunton, April 14 – Karelia is more interested in the development of political freedom than are most other regions of Russia, according to Rostislav Turovsky, an interest that...
View ArticleRussia’s Disintegration Won’t Follow Existing Republic and Oblast Borders,...
Paul Goble Staunton, April 14 – Just as some old generals assume that future wars will be just like past ones, so too many analysts who predict the coming disintegration of the Russian...
View ArticleMoscow Seen Losing Influence in Central Asia as Older Generation Passes from...
Paul Goble Staunton, April 14 – Russia is losing influence in Central Asia not only because of the actions of the governments there and of other outside actors but also because of the...
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