Russia’s Muslims Can Live without MSDs, Yevkurov Says
Paul Goble Staunton, April 14 -- An apparently off-the-cuff remark by Yunuz-bek Yevkurov, the head of Ingushetia, may prove to be the death knell for the Muslim Spiritual Directorates,...
View ArticleA Baker’s Dozen of Neglected Russian Stories – No. 27
Paul GobleStaunton, April 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...
View ArticleKremlin Directing Its Info War Against Poland’s Extreme Right and Extreme...
Paul Goble Staunton, April 15 – Warsaw’s Akademia Europejska-Krzyżowa says that Moscow is directing its propaganda effort in Poland against marginal groups on the extreme right and extreme...
View ArticleNow Even the Dead in Russia Likely to Be Segregated by Class, Religion and...
Paul Goble Staunton, April 15 – After two years of work, the Russian construction ministry has prepared draft legislation that will allow for the establishment of private cemeteries,...
View ArticleRussian Scholars Divided on Whether Urbanization Reduces or Intensifies...
Paul Goble Staunton, April 15 – Like their counterparts in Western countries, Russian scholars are very much divided on whether rapid urbanization leads to the loss of traditional ethnic...
View ArticleBy Bringing Charges, FSB is Energizing and Politicizing Pan-Mongolism among...
Paul Goble Staunton, April 16 – By charging a Buryat with pan-Mongolism and thus threatening the territorial integrity of the Russian Federation, the FSB risks producing what it claims to be...
View ArticleRussia’s Jewish Leaders Complain about United Russia Candidate’s Anti-Semitic...
Paul Goble Staunton, April 16 – Berl Lazar, the chief rabbi of Russia, has appealed to Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev as head of the ruling United Russia party to take action against a...
View ArticleMarkov Implies Kremin May Initiate Show Trials against Russian Elites,...
Paul Goble Staunton, April 16 – The Putin regime, like the Stalin regime before it, Irina Pavlova says, rarely provides advance information about what it plans to do, thus opening the way...
View ArticleIs Russia Too Dependent on Leadership Intervention – Or Should There be More...
Paul Goble Staunton, April 16 – Many Russians are struck by the fact that often nothing gets done unless the president intervenes personally, a pattern that some think reflects a failure in...
View ArticleRussian Experts Split on Whether Putin Will Annex South Osetia
Paul Goble Staunton, April 16 – Vladimir Putin’s response to a question about Russia’s possible annexation of South Osetia has divided Russian experts about this possibility, with some...
View ArticlePutin’s Military Expansion ‘Only Beginning,’ Felshtinsky Says
Paul Goble Staunton, April 17 – Diplomats, commentators, and the public typically focus on a particular action rather than on the context within which it takes place or the extent to which...
View ArticleLike Sochi Olympiad, Kerch Bridge Emblematic of New Russian Imperialism,...
Paul Goble Staunton, April 17 – Even though Moscow is facing difficulties financial as well as technical building its bridge to occupied Crimea, there can be little doubt that it will...
View ArticleAdministrative-Territorial Divisions of Russia Limiting Modernization,...
Paul Goble Staunton, April 17 – Even if one ignores the non-Russian federal subjects, Simon Kordonsky says, the administrative-territorial division of the Russian Federation inherited from...
View ArticleMoscow Enjoying Great Success with Far Left Parties in Europe, New Study Finds
Paul Goble Staunton, April 17 – Vladimir Putin has achieved major success in reaching out to far right parties in Europe, a development that has attracted particular attention because of its...
View ArticleThose Convicted in Russian Courts Find Appeals Process Stacked Against Them,...
Paul Goble Staunton, April 18 – Many Russians hoped that the introduction of an appeals process in the courts of their country in 2013 would improve the administration of justice there, but...
View ArticleRussia’s Demographic Problems Limit Its Potential for Development, Analysts Say
Paul Goble Staunton, April 18 – Many reports from Russia lead one to recall the question Groucho Marx often posed – “who are you going to believe, your own eyes or what I tell you?” So it...
View ArticleHistory, Popular Attitudes Combine to Limit Effective Local Government in...
Paul Goble Staunton, April 18 – Because of their history, Russians view local self-government simultaneously as a way of running their own affairs and as an extension of the central...
View Article15 Characteristics of Russian Propaganda
Paul Goble Staunton, April 18 – Russian propaganda makes use of so many techniques to succeed that Moscow novelist and commentator Elizaveta Aleksandrova-Zorina performs a useful service...
View ArticlePutin is No Longer Traveling Abroad, Reflecting His Own Isolation, Panfilov Says
Paul Goble Staunton, April 19 – Vladimir Putin has not gone abroad since November 2015, except for a brief visit to Belarus which he does not consider a separate country, and thereby has...
View ArticleWhat Moscow Did to Kaliningrad, It Will Try to Do to Crimea
Paul Goble Staunton, April 19 – Moscow’s destructive approach to its exclave of Kaliningrad over the last 70 years suggests what the Russian state will try to do to Crimea in the future:...
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