High-Rise ‘Sleeping Districts’ in Russian Cities Keeping Soviet Values Alive,...
Paul Goble Staunton, May 22 – People are always profoundly affected by their physical environment, and now a Moscow architect is arguing that the creation of high-rise “sleeping districts”...
View ArticleRussia’s Muslims Failed to Fill Haj Quota Last Year But Plan to Ask for More...
Paul Goble Staunton, May 22 – Last year, for the first time, the Muslims of Russia failed to fill all the haj slots allotted to them by the Saudis, sending only 12,000 Muslims and not the...
View ArticleLike Stalin's Moves Against Trotskyites, United Russia Primaries Point to...
Paul Goble Staunton, May 23 – The Kremlin has suggested and some observers believe that the primary elections involving Russia’s ruling party United Russia represent another step toward the...
View ArticleOnly 55 Percent of Russians Who Say They’re Orthodox Believe in God, Surveys...
Paul Goble Staunton, May 23 – Russian Orthodoxy is more an ethnic marker than a faith for many Russians, given that only 55 percent of those who identify as Orthodox say they believe in God...
View ArticleNo One Should Be Surprised by Gorbachev’s Support for Putin’s Crimean...
Paul Goble Staunton, May 23 – Given his own willingness to use violence against people in Kazakhstan, Georgia, Lithuania, Latvia and elsewhere, no one should be surprised that the first and...
View ArticleDoping Scandal May Cost Moscow Right to Host 2018 World Cup, Analysts Say
Paul Goble Staunton, May 23 – If as a result of the dopining scandal, the International Olympic Committee votes to prevent Russian athletes from taking part in the Rio Games, then FIFA, the...
View ArticleDegradation of Russian Elites Underlies Russia’s Decline, Pastukhov Says
Paul Goble Staunton, May 24 – “The thinning out of the Russian ‘cultural stratum’ and, as a result, the degradation of elites who have turned out to be incapable of responding to new...
View Article‘Lake Baikal May Die as Aral Sea Already Has,’ Russian Energy Ministry Says
Paul Goble Staunton, May 24 – If Mongolia goes ahead with plans to build three hydro-electric dams on the Selenga river which 80 provides percent of the water flowing into Lake Baikal, that...
View ArticleEconomic Crisis Making Military Service and Careers More Attractive to Russians
Paul Goble Staunton, May 24 – The negative impacts of economic crises attract more attention, but when a country suffers such problems, there are always some sectors that benefit. In Russia...
View Article‘Reintegration of Donbass Will Be Impossible After Five Years,’ Senior Kyiv...
Paul Goble Staunton, May 24 – Ukraine must move quickly to promote the reintegration of the Donbass because “five years from now,” Georgy Tuka, the deputy head of the Kyiv ministry...
View ArticleMoscow May Pre-Emptively Decide to Boycott Rio Olympiad, Inozemtsev Says
Paul Goble Staunton, May 25 – Much attention has been devoted to the possibility that the doping scandal that has engulfed Russian sports will lead the International Olympic Committee to ban...
View ArticlePutin’s ‘Traditional Values’ are Neither Traditional Nor Values, Moscow...
Paul Goble Staunton, May 25 – “So-called Traditional Values’” now being used by the Kremlin to justify all kinds of repressions are neither traditional nor values and have no fixed meaning,...
View ArticleMoscow to Launch Campaign to Get 15,000 Russian Scholars to Return Home
Paul Goble Staunton, May 25 – Hoping to reverse the brain drain that has cost Russia tens of thousands of scholars in a wide variety of areas, a group of scholars working for the...
View ArticleMoscow Must Stop Understating Islamist Threat inside Russia, RISI Expert Says
Paul Goble Staunton, May 25 – Russian officials, who often describe what are obviously ethnic and religious conflicts as “criminal” or “domestic” disputes in order to protect their own...
View ArticleNew Orthodox Military-Patriotic Group Armed and Quite Possibly Dangerous,...
Paul Goble Staunton, May 26 – The new Union of Orthodox Military-Patriotic and Sports Organizations, Nikolay Mitrokhin says, is “a classic Russian club combining the interests of the special...
View ArticleNow that Nadya is Back, Some Worry Ukrainians Will Soon Forget Her and the...
Paul Goble Staunton, May 26 – A day after Nadya Savchenko returned to a hero’s welcome in Ukraine and when many are predicting she will re-energize Ukrainian political life and even...
View ArticleFusion of Crime and Political Power was Also a Hallmark of Early Soviet...
Paul Goble Staunton, May 26 – Many people have bemoaned the fusion of the criminal world and the Russian state since the end of the Soviet Union, but a new study points out something that...
View ArticleRussian Pressure Leading More North Caucasians to Fear War and Think about...
Paul Goble Staunton, May 26 – Moscow’s imperialist, centralist and assimilationist policies are leading ever more people in the North Caucasus to think about and even prepare for a new war...
View ArticleA Baker’s Dozen of Neglected Russian Stories – No. 33
Paul Goble Staunton, May 27 -- 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 ArticleA Real ‘War of Civilizations’ Breaking Out in Russian Far North over God’s Lake
Paul Goble Staunton, May 27 – “In the depths of the Siberian taiga, a war between two civilizations has broken out. Blood has flowed. And its course involves both cleverness and big money,”...
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