Muslims to Add Their Voice to Russia’s Hard-Pressed Environmental Defense...
Paul Goble Staunton, July 17 – Few groups have elicited as much popular support and as much government repression as Russia’s hard-pressed environmental defense movement, but now its members...
View ArticleErdogan has Done for Putin what Putin Did for Lukashenka, Babchenko Says
Paul Goble Staunton, July 19 – The failed Turkish coup and Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s response to it have “done for Putin the very same thing the annexation of Crimea did for Lukashenka,”...
View ArticleSoviet Sexual Repression Continues to Cast a Dark Shadow on Russia Today,...
Paul Goble Staunton, July 18 – Sexual repression, which was an inherent and inalienable part of the Soviet system of control, continues to cast a shadow on Russia today, according to Aleksey...
View ArticleSufism Better than State as Bulwark against Politicized Islam, Expert Says
Paul Goble Staunton, July 18 – Sufism by virtue of its syncretic nature and of its focus on things not of this world is far better suited than any government agency to provide a bulwark...
View ArticlePutin has Foreign Policy of Hitler and Domestic Policy of Mussolini,...
Paul Goble Staunton, July 18 – One of the sources of confusion about Russia today is that Vladimir Putin is pursuing a foreign policy much like Hitler’s while conducting a domestic policy...
View ArticleMosques in Tatarstan Now Will Use Only Tatar for Friday Services
Paul Goble Staunton, July 19 – The mosques of Tatarstan will from now on use only Tatar for Friday services, according to the republic’s mufti, Kamil Samigulin, who said that he was taking...
View ArticleRussia’s Major Parties Haven’t Kept Their Promises to Avoid Nationality Issues
Paul Goble Staunton, July 19 – Earlier this year, Russia’s major parties pledged not to exploit ethnic issues in their election campaigns, but a survey by Natalya Totskoynova and Ivan...
View ArticleRussia’s Problems Rooted in Its Continuing Attachment to Imperial Idea,...
Paul Goble Staunton, July 19 – Most of Russia’s political problems today arise because Vladimir Putin and a large part of the Russian population have not overcome the imperial complex of the...
View ArticlePutin Propaganda Based on Rejection of Possibility of Rational Thought,...
Paul Goble Staunton, July 19 – Vladimir Putin’s propaganda is intended to destroy “all the rules of rational thought” just as those who support pseudo-science do, Pavel Shekhtman argues on...
View ArticleMoscow Now Focused on Defending Its Right to Host 2016 World Cup, Russian...
Paul Goble Staunton, July 20 – Because of the doping scandal which is about the Russian state more than about Russian athletes, Moscow officials have concluded that it is unlikely that any...
View ArticlePopulation Growth in Non-Russian Republics Hiding Demographic Collapse of...
Paul Goble Staunton, July 20 – The Russian state statistical committee no longer publishes data on which nationalities are growing and which are declining in size: The political risks of...
View ArticleUkraine has Almost Exhausted ‘Anti-Russian Model’ of Behavior, Kyiv Analyst...
Paul Goble Staunton, July 20 – Russia’s aggression in Ukraine will make it difficult for Kyiv to find a modus vivendi with Moscow, Anatoly Oktsiyuk says; but “sooner or later,” Ukraine will...
View ArticleA Lesson for Putin: Hyper-Centralization Destroying Both EU and Its Member...
Paul Goble Staunton, July 20 – Britain’s vote to leave the European Union has pleased the Kremlin, Vadim Shtepa says, but the Russian government has failed to see that the same forces behind...
View ArticleNorth Caucasus-Style Disappearances Spreading Across Russia, Investigator Says
Paul Goble Staunton, July 20 – The phenomenon of “disappearnces” when individuals simply “disappear” from their daily existence as the result of the actions of the government or...
View Article‘Young Russians Will Be Poorer’ -- and Likely Angrier -- ‘than Their...
Paul Goble Staunton, July 21 – On top of the overall decline in Russian incomes which have dropped in each of the last 20 months from the month before, Russians are suffering from a...
View ArticleWhen It Comes to Russia, European Deputies Vote Their Nationality not Their...
Paul Goble Staunton, July 21 – Members of the European Parliament tend to vote on issues concerning Russia on the basis of the positions of countries from which they come and represent...
View ArticleAtamanshchina in the Donbass Both an Opportunity and a Threat to Kyiv
Paul Goble Staunton, July 21 – Three reports today – that people in the Donbass are protesting pro-Moscow forces there (charter97.org/be/news/2016/7/21/214562/), that desertions among those...
View ArticleAgin Buryats Say They Were Lied to about Regional Amalgamation
Paul Goble Staunton, July 20 – Seven residents of the former Agin Buryat District say that they and other residents of that former federal subject were lied to in the 2007 campaign to get...
View ArticleA Baker’s Dozen of Neglected Russian Stories – No. 41
Paul Goble Staunton, July 22 -- 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...
View ArticleAre 3500 ‘Afgantsy’ in Latvia a Threat to That NATO Country’s Security?
Paul Goble Staunton, July 22 – There are more than 3500 veterans of the Soviet war in Afghanistan – the so-called “Afgantsy” -- and some in Riga view them as a potential threat to the...
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