Window on Eurasia: Separatist Talk Works for Kremlin Tactically But Not...
Paul Goble Staunton, November 26 – The recent explosion of talk about the possible disintegration of the Russian Federation works for the Kremlin at a tactical level by allowing the...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: With Exit of Soviet-Trained, Russia Faces ‘Total...
Paul Goble Staunton, November 26 – With the retirement or death of “the last generations who received technical education in the USSR,” the Russian Federation now faces an increasingly...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Russians Back Moscow’s Repressive Laws, Polls Show
Paul Goble Staunton, November 26 – A majority of Russians supports or is at most indifferent to recently-adopted Moscow laws directed against gays, immigrants and media freedom but does back...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Tatars – Crimean and Kazan – Back European Choice for Ukraine
Paul Goble Staunton, November 27 – The Tatars, both Crimean and Kazan, are two of the small group of nations on the territory of the former Soviet space that is actively committed to the...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Moscow Drafts More Dagestanis But Fewer than Makahchkala...
Paul GobleStaunton, November 27 – The Russian military authorities say they will draft 1335 Daghestanis during the fall campaign, twice as many as during the spring cycle and seven times as many during...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Moscow’s Bullying of Ukraine Undermines Putin’s...
Paul GobleStaunton, November 27 – By bullying Kyiv to put off signing an EU association agreement, Russian President Vladimir Putin may have won a battle but he has lost the war, commentators say,...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Sochi Countdown – 10 Weeks to the Olympiad in the North...
Note: This is my 40th 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: Russian Nationalism Can and Must Be Democratic, Krylov Says
Paul Goble Staunton, November 29 – If Russians regain their confidence in the future, one that involves more than sitting at home and watching television as the Putin regime wants them to,...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Russia’s Penal Institutions Said Breeding Grounds for...
Paul Goble Staunton, November 30 – Only 1100 of the 560,000 inmates of Russia’s prison camps are serving time for Islamist extremism, but increasingly this small group along with Islamists...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Up to Four Percent of Novosibirsk Residents Said HIV Infected
Paul Goble Staunton, November 30 – As many as four percent of the residents of Novosibirsk Oblast are estimated to be HIV infected and thus likely to develop AIDS, a rate approaching those...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Balkar Land Seizures Threaten to Split Two North Caucasian...
Paul Goble Staunton, November 30 – Illegal seizures of land by Balkar activists in Khasanya and Belaya Rechka threatens the existence of both Kabardino-Balkaria (KBR) and...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: New Districts in Daghestan Threaten Republic’s Delicate...
Paul Goble Staunton, December 1 – Ramazan Abdulatipov’s plan to create four districts overlaying the complex administrative map of Daghestan in order to improve central oversight and the...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Regions ‘Quietly Sabotaging’ Moscow’s Nationality Policy,...
Paul Goble Staunton, December 1 – Even as the Russian government takes the first steps to shift responsibility for inter-ethnic peace onto the leaderships of the federal subjects, a Russian...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Scholars Find Five ‘Community Clusters’ around Moscow’s...
Paul Goble Staunton, December 1 – Moscow’s ethnic cafes have long been recognized as centers of community life for the gastarbeiters in the Russian capital, but now two sociologists have...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: By Dashing Their Hopes, Yanukovich has United Ukrainians,...
Paul Goble Staunton, December 2 – By his actions over the past two weeks, Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovich has done something many in Ukraine thought impossible and many in Russia...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Minority Languages in Russia Not Dying Out, Tishkov Says
Paul Goble Staunton, December 2 – Despite UNESCO’s listing of languages under threat of disappearance and complaints from non-Russians about threats to their languages, Valery Tishkov,...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Media Stories on Possible Russian Disintegration Double...
Paul Goble Staunton, December 2 – The Russian media are featuring stories about the possibility of the disintegration of the Russian Federation twice as often now as they did three years...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Few Ethnic Russians Remain in North Caucasian Administrations
Paul Goble Staunton, December 3 – Russian flight from the North Caucasus has long been a matter of concern for Russians, but a new study confirms something that is likely to be even more...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Russians Asking Themselves Why They Can’t Act Like Ukrainians
Paul Goble Staunton, December 3 – Even as Russian commentators blame Vladimir Putin for creating “a revolutionary situation” in Ukraine (ej.ru/?a=note&id=23865), many more Russians are...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Who is Trying to Destabilize Tatarstan and Why?
Paul Goble Staunton, December 3 – Developments in Tatarstan and the way they are being reported in the Russian media raise the most troubling of questions: Who is trying to destabilize that...
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