Window on Eurasia: Russians Moving from Imperial Messianism to Ethnic...
Paul Goble Staunton, April 18 – Russian anger at Central Asian and Caucasian gastarbeiters in Russian cities, calls for the introduction of a visa regime within the CIS, and opposition to...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Sochi Countdown -- 42 Weeks to the Olympiad in the North...
Note: This is my tenth 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: Boston Events Prove Putin ‘Absolutely Right,’ Moscow...
Paul Goble Staunton, April 19 – Even before the dust settles in Boston, a Moscow commentator who has frequently anticipated and then echoed the views of the Kremlin is seeking to make...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: To Retain Power, Russian Authorities ‘Cultivating’...
Paul Goble Staunton, April 20 – In order to strengthen the power vertical, Russian officials at various levels are “specially cultivating aggression and anger in society,” according to...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Russian Youth ‘Fears the Powers, Doesn’t Trust the...
Paul Goble Staunton, April 20 – Olga Kryshtanovskaya, Russia’s leading specialist on elites, has released a massive 16,000-word study of the attitudes of young people in 26 Russian cities...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Finno-Ugric Activism in Russia Seen Shifting from Politics...
Paul Goble Staunton, April 21 – Activism among the Finno-Ugric peoples of the Russian Federation – the Maris, the Mordvins, the Udmurts and others – has evolved over the last two decades...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Moscow Mufti Urges Revival of Sufism to Win Over Russia’s...
Paul Goble Staunton, April 21 – The head of the Muslim Spiritual Directorate (MSD) of Moscow, who is also a member of the Social Chamber of the Russian Federation, says that leaders of...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Ethnically-Based Force Structures Make Clashes between...
Paul Goble Staunton, April 22 – The clash between Chechnya and Ingushetia over the border between the two became possible and is more serious because the authorities in each, with Moscow’s...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Russia Must Be ‘for All Those Who Don’t View Its State...
Paul Goble Staunton, April 22 – Like many Russian nationalists, Egor Kholmogorov has struggled to define the slogan “Russia for the Russians” in a way that will not spark the disintegration...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Kremlin Policies Driving Some Young Russians Underground,...
Paul Goble Staunton, April 22 – “As many as 90 percent” of Russian young people do not see a place for themselves among the officially registered political parties, and consequently, some...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Creating a Civic Russian Nation Will Be as Difficult as...
Paul Goble Staunton, April 23 – Creating a civic Russian nation will be just as complicated and difficult was the creation of the Soviet people before 1991, according to a United Russia...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Russian Regions Increasingly Hollowing Out...
Paul Goble Staunton, April 23 – The demographic decline of the ethnic Russians is leading to a hollowing out of predominantly Russian regions, leaving many of them with only a few cities...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Russian Regions Must Meet Special Needs of Non-Russians in...
Paul Goble Staunton, April 23 – Having gained a greater share of the population in predominantly ethnic Russian oblasts and krays, non-Russians in them are demanding that the governments of...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Losing Siberia Would Hurt Russia Far More than Losing the...
Paul Goble Staunton, April 24 – Russians are making the mistake of focusing on the loss of dependent countries like those of Central Asia rather than on the possible loss of real colonies...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Daghestan a Failed State and Must Be ‘Built Anew,’...
Paul Goble Staunton, April 24 – The government of Daghestan “has been completely destroyed and must be build anew with the participation of various political forces” including the formation...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Sochi Countdown -- 41 Weeks to the Olympiad in the North...
Note: This is my 11th 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: Rural Culture Now Dominates Daghestan’s Urban Spaces,...
Paul Goble Staunton, April 27 – The exodus of ethnic Russians and young Daghestanis from the cities of that republic and their replacement by an influx of rural Daghestanis has created a...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: ‘Chechenization’ Has Produced a Unique State in North...
Paul Goble Staunton, April 27 – Ekaterina Sokiryanskaya, head of the Russian office of the International Crisis Group, says that “Chechenization” has led to a unique state in the North...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Without New Mosques, Muslim Immigrants to Russia Will Be...
Paul Goble Staunton, April 28 – If the Russian authorities not allow the construction of new mosques in cities where there are increasing numbers of followers of Islam, they will help create...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Navalny Again Calls for an End to Russian Federalism
Paul Goble Staunton, April 28 – Russian opposition leader Aleksey Navalny says that Russia does not need federalism and should become a unitary state in which cities rather than the current...
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