Moscow Helsinki Group at 40 – Human Rights Activism under Brezhnev and under...
Paul Goble Staunton, May 12 – This week marks the 40th anniversary of the Moscow Helsinki Group, a human rights group that arose as a result of the Helsinki Accords, an east-west agreement...
View Article‘If Zhirinovsky Didn’t Exist, He’d Have to Have Been Created’
Paul Goble Staunton, May 112 – People have made fun of Vladimir Zhirinovsky for so long that they have failed to see both his personal strengths and the way in which he opened the way for...
View ArticleMedia Coverage of Governors More about Their Management of the Media than...
Paul Goble Staunton, May 12 – Those who follow the media in Russia’s regions know that some governors are routinely attacked by media in their federal subjects while others are never...
View ArticleA Baker’s Dozen of Neglected Russian Stories – No. 31
Paul Goble Staunton, May 13 -- 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....
View ArticleReturn of Climate of Fear Makes Russian Polls Ever Less Reliable, Sociologist...
Paul Goble Staunton, May 13 – One of the few Russian sociologists who predicted the mass protests against the Putin regime in 2011-2012 says that the attitudes behind those protests are...
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Russian Strategy and Tactics Give Moscow ‘the Edge’ over NATO, Moscow Analyst...
Paul Goble Staunton, May 13 – The Russian way of war is very different from the American way, Yevgeny Krutikov says. In the past, the weaknesses of one side were balanced by those of the...
View ArticlePutin Government Now Behaves Like ‘Any Other Occupation Regime,’ Roshchin Says
Paul Goble Staunton, May 13 – With its plans to reintroduce the Soviet tax on parasites and to restrict travel abroad, the Putin regime is “conducting itself like an ordinary...
View ArticleYesterday was Putin’s Kristallnacht, Kurnosova Says
Paul Goble Staunton, May 14 – Friday May 13thhas “every chance to go down in contemporary Russian history as one of the darkest pages … on the path to the final imposition of fascism on...
View ArticleRacist Russian Sports Fans Pose an Even Bigger Problem than Doping
Paul Goble Staunton, May 14 – The exposure of how Putin’s FSB helped Russian athletes to take performance-enhancing drugs at the Sochi Olympiad is sparking calls to ban them from the Rio...
View ArticleRussians Face Sustained Declines in Standard of Living for the Foreseeable...
Paul Goble Staunton, May 14 – Dmitry Prokofyev, a St. Petersburg economist, says that barring an unexpected shock, Russia faces declines of its GDP of 1.0 - 1.5 percent a year for the...
View ArticleUnder Putin, Circassians and Crimean Tatars at Greatest Risk of Repression –...
Paul Goble Staunton, May 14 – For most of Soviet times, Western commentators, to the extent they dealt with the issue at all, assumed that those ethnic communities inside the USSR which the...
View ArticleAnother Reason to Strip Russia of 2018 World Cup – Region Said Forced to Cut...
Paul Goble Staunton, May 15 – In addition to state-organized doping of athletes and the racism of many Russian soccer fans, there is another reason that has now surfaced for stripping Russia...
View ArticleRussian Coverage of Jamala’s Victory Descends to the Level of Old Soviet...
Paul Goble Staunton, May 15 – The Russian media which had predicted the victory of the Russian competitor in this year’s Eurovision song competition, something that would have given Moscow a...
View ArticlePutin’s Call to Overcome Red-White Divide about Reviving Imperialism not...
Paul Goble Staunton, May 14 – Many have welcomed Vladimir Putin’s call to overcome the “red-white” division of Russians that has existed since the Civil War as a step toward the rise of a...
View ArticleWhen Ukrainians Came to the Aid of Finland against USSR Recalled and Celebrated
Paul Goble Staunton, May 15 – No one who has spent time in Estonia or Finland will have failed to take note of what is one of the most remarkable demonstrations of cooperation of...
View ArticleMoscow Using Occupied Crimea as Testing Lab for Repressive Measures to Be...
Paul Goble Staunton, May 16 – Moscow’s illegal occupation of Crimea is an even greater threat to the world and to Russia itself than many imagine because, as political commentator Sergey...
View ArticleA Flourishing Ukraine Won’t By Itself Ensure Return of Occupied Territories,...
Paul Goble Staunton, May 16 – One of the most frequently heard arguments offered both by Western countries and some Ukrainians is that the best way for Ukraine to get the occupied...
View ArticleA Real Bellwether of Russian Attitudes and Kremlin Fears: Zhirinovsky’s Party...
Paul Goble Staunton, May 16 – For obvious reasons, polls of Russian attitudes are anything but a good indicator of where Russians are heading; but there is a more reliable bellwether: the...
View ArticleMoscow and the Islamist Challenge: Three Disturbing Developments
Paul Goble Staunton, May 17 – Three developments over the last few days – a clash in Daghestan that ISIS has taken responsibility for, Russian interest in an alliance with the Afghan...
View ArticleKremlin Reads the West Wrong but the West is Beginning to Read Russia Right,...
Paul Goble Staunton, May 17 – The Kremlin’s aggression in Ukraine and its challenging actions toward NATO ships and plane are based on its “conclusion that the era of the West has ended” and...
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