Putin Thinks Only Spiritual Bonds Can Keep Russia from Falling Apart as the...
Paul Goble Staunton, June 1 – Vladimir Putin’s almost obsessive focus on promoting the spiritual “bonds” that supposedly hold the Russian people together reflects his conviction that the...
View ArticleRussia Becoming a Country with 15 Megalopolises Surrounded by Empty Land,...
Paul Goble Staunton, June 2 – Russians for decades have focused on the death of the country’s villages, but they and the government should now focus on the demise of smaller and mid-sized...
View ArticleRemembering the Lienz Tragedy
Paul Goble Staunton, June 2 – Yesterday was the 71st anniversary of the Lienz tragedy when British military forcibly handed over to the Soviets 30,000 Cossacks and their families, almost all...
View ArticleMoscow Guts GULAG Museum While Kyiv Gets Ready to Open One
Paul Goble Staunton, June 2 – Those who forget the past are condemned to repeat it, the philosopher said, while those who remember it can perhaps draw lessons from it and avoid tragedies in...
View ArticleMore Practicing Muslims in St. Petersburg than Practicing Orthodox But Former...
Paul Goble Staunton, June 2 – Even Russian Orthodox leaders acknowledge that in Russia’s northern capital, there are more practicing Muslims than there are practicing Orthodox Christians,...
View ArticleIs Moscow About to Be Offered a Way Out of Isolation on the West’s Terms?
Paul Goble Staunton, June 3 – Russian commentator Lilia Shevtsova argues that Moscow is about to be offered a way out of isolation but on the West’s terms rather than its own, an argument...
View ArticlePro-Muslim Party in Daghestan Seen Doing More than Taking Votes from United...
Paul Goble Staunton, June 3 – The emergence of a political party in Daghestan with close ties to the Muslim Spiritual Directorate (MSD) of that republic is overturning the applecart there:...
View ArticleRussian Prisons Again Churning Out Revolutionaries
Paul Goble Staunton, June 3 – Prior to the 1917 revolution, the Bolsheviks often referred to prisonsas “our universities,” places where activists could grow in their revolutionary beliefs...
View ArticleA Baker’s Dozen of Neglected Russian Stories – No. 34
Paul Goble Staunton, June 3 -- 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 ArticleDoes the Kremlin Fear Repeats of 1962 Novocherkassk Events – and Would It...
Paul Goble Staunton, June 4 – Reports that Russian police are training to suppress working class risings (politsovet.ru/51980-policiya-uchitsya-razgonyat-protesty-uralskih-rabochih.html)...
View ArticleWith Crimean Anschluss, Putin Made Emergence of ‘Russian Civic Nation’...
Paul Goble Staunton, June 5 – Vladimir Putin’s authoritarianism made the possibility of a civic as opposed to ethnic Russian nation far more difficult, Pavel Luzin says; but the Kremlin...
View Article‘Who are the Anonymous People Terrorizing Those who Criticize Putin?’
Paul Goble Staunton, June 5 – As disturbing as the Putin regime’s abuse of the Russian legal system to go after its online critics, even more frightening is the rise of what might be called...
View ArticleKremlin has Plenty of Money for Making War but Not for Helping People,...
Paul Goble Staunton, June 5 – Russian officials from Dmitry Medvedev on down who say that Moscow does not have enough money to index pensions and provide social welfare to the Russian people...
View ArticleMoscow Can’t Sit By When Ethnic Russians are ‘Oppressed and Persecuted’ in...
Paul Goble Staunton, June 5 – Speaking in Russian-occupied Crimea, Federation Council Speaker Valentina Matvienko on Friday gave the clearest sign yet that the Kremlin plans to expand its...
View ArticleOne Book Putin Could Have Written and Three That He Did
Paul Goble Staunton, June 5 – One Russian publishing house has just released a translation of a Norwegian book that Vladimir Putin could have written himself, and another Moscow publisher...
View ArticleAs Economy Falls, Putin Moves to Build Soviet-Like KGB or Ministry of State...
Paul Goble Staunton, June 5 – It is almost a law of Russian reality that when the economic situation of the country deteriorates, the first thing the Kremlin thinks about is re-arranging the...
View ArticleKyiv Shouldn’t Have Taken Part in Minsk Talks and Should Renounce Them ASAP,...
Paul Goble Staunton, June 5 – The Ukrainian government should not have been drawn into the Minsk talks, and its “inexperienced” diplomats should never have agreed to include political...
View ArticleUS Sending the Wrong Signals to Peoples of Russia by Not Sending Them at All
Paul Goble Staunton, June 7 – At a time when Vladimir Putin is suppressing media freedom across his country and Russianizing the media space in the non-Russian portions of his country, the...
View ArticleKremlin Said Thinking about World War But Russians May Not Be Ready to Fight...
Paul Goble Staunton, June 7 – “Judging by everything,” Yevgeny Kiselyov says, “the Kremlin is seriously considering the scenario of a military conflict with the West, and with a high degree...
View ArticleRussian Elite Not Only Believes Its Own Propaganda But is Basing Its Actions...
Paul Goble Staunton, June 7 – The Moscow Council on Foreign and Defense Policy released at the end of May a document describing Russian foreign policy for the remainder of this decade. It is...
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