Window on Eurasia: Moscow Patriarchate Official Says Russia as a State and...
Paul Goble Staunton, January 30 – Russia has only “a half century left” as a people and a state if it is unable to overcome its currently rapid demographic decline, according to...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Struggle over Arctic Not as Imminent as Many Imagine,...
Paul Goble Staunton, January 28 – Claims by Russia, Denmark and Norway to portions of the Arctic Ocean and its mineral-rich seabed have sparked concerns about possible economic and even...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Sochi Countdown – One Week to the Olympiad in the North...
Note: This is my 49th 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: Ukrainians Less Divided Between East and West than Between...
Paul Goble Staunton, February 1 – Despite the expectations of some and the fears of others, the real dividing line among Ukrainians is not between the western, central and eastern parts...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Ukrainian Activism Highlights Russian Submissiveness and...
Paul Goble Staunton, February 2 – “Nothing so infuriates a Russian as does indisputable evidence of his own slavish submissiveness both in the east of Ukraine and in the post-Soviet state as...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Moscow Using Harsher Laws to Suppress Demonstrations,...
Paul Goble Staunton, February 2 – By increasing the penalties for participation in protests, the Russian government has been able to reduce the number of people taking part, even though...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Growing Inequality among Russia’s Regions Undermines Power...
Paul Goble Staunton, February 2 – Growing inequality in the economic performance of Russia’s regions requires that the regions be given more authority to make decisions, a grant that many in...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Russian Analyst Says ‘Islamist’ Crimean Tatars Supporting...
Paul Goble February 3 – In order to drive a wedge between the Ukrainian national movement and the Crimean Tatars and to lay the groundwork for a Russian thrust into Crimea, a Russian analyst...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: In Leningrad Affair, Stalin Repressed 32,000 Ethnic...
Paul Goble Staunton, February 3 – During the last eight years of his life, Stalin organized attacks not only on ethnic groups on the periphery but on two major communities at the center of...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Name Changes Show National Self-Consciousness on the Rise...
Paul Goble Staunton, February 3 – Ever more members of the Sakha nation are de-russianizing their names, a step that suggests they have concluded that they can display their national...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Expulsion and Deaths of Circassians in 1864 a Tragedy but...
Paul Goble Staunton, February 4 – Three days before the opening of the Winter Olympiad at the site of the expulsion and death of Circassians 150 years ago, Russia’s senior ethnographer...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Was Gagauz Referendum a Trial Run of Moscow’s Plans for...
Paul Goble Staunton, February 4 – The Sunday referendum in Gagauzia which showed that residents of that Turkic but Orthodox Christian region in Moldova are overwhelmingly opposed to being...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Moscow Tightens Controls over Internet, But Those Affected...
Paul Goble Staunton, February 4 – The Russian authorities are putting ever more pressure on the Internet in the hopes of imposing Kremlin control on the last relatively free segment of the...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Borders of Post-Soviet States Should Be Changed, Moscow...
Paul Goble Staunton, February 5 – Moscow’s acceptance of the transformation of internal administrative borders into international ones at the time of the collapse of the USSR was a...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Putin Doesn’t Want to Be a Stalin But He May End a...
Paul Goble Staunton, February 5 – Russian President Vladimir Putin does not aspire to become a new Stalin as long as he is able to maintain power and profitability without the use of the...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: ‘Ukraine is Not Russia and Russia is Not the USSR,’...
Paul Goble Staunton, February 5 – Ukraine has more in common with the other non-Russian countries who achieved or recovered their independence with the breakup of the Soviet Union than it...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Ukraine’s Orthodox Christians Less Concerned than...
Paul Goble Staunton, February 6 – Ukraine’s Orthodox Christians care far less about the divisions between the church hierarchies descending from Kyiv or Moscow than do politicians and...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Crimean Tatars are Helping to Keep Crimea in Ukraine,...
Paul Goble Staunton, February 6 – If it weren’t for the presence of the Crimean Tatar minority on the Crimean peninsula which is acting as “a restraining factor,” according to a former...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: ‘Eastern’ Globalization a Response to ‘Western’...
Paul Goble Staunton, February 6 – Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, the peoples in that region have faced many challenges, globalization in particular, but while much attention has...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Sochi Countdown – The Olympiad in the North Caucasus Begins
Note: This is my 50th -- and last -- special Window on Eurasia about the meaning and impact of the Sochi Olympiad. I want to thank all of you who have provided me with citations, who have offered...
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