Window on Eurasia: Boston Bombers Reflect Specific Experiences of Some North...
Paul Goble Staunton, April 29 – The two brothers who carried out the horrific Boston bombing are not simply Muslims who were inspired by radical websites or Chechens who were continuing...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Even Russian Nationalists Now Reject Slogan ‘Russia for...
Paul Goble Staunton, April 9 – Dmitry Demushkin,, the leader of the “Russians” political movement, says that “even Russian nationalists do not support the slogan ‘Russia for the Russians’...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Draft Quota Changes Lead North Caucasians to Ask: ‘Do We...
Paul Goble Staunton, April 29 – Reductions in the number of men drafted from the North Caucasus supposedly to combat dedovshchina in the ranks and then Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu’s...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Few North Caucasians Rely on Internet to Support Their...
Paul Goble Staunton, April 30 – A new survey of sudents in the Kabardino-Balkarian capital of Nalchik on the nature, sources and support of their ethnic, civic, and religious identities...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Daghestanis Again Will Form Half of Russia’s Pilgrims to...
Paul Goble Staunton, April 30 – Even though Daghestan forms only two percent of the population of the Russian Federation and only 12 percent of that country’s historically Islamic nations,...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Moscow Patriarch Says His Church’s Canonical Territory...
Paul Goble Staunton, April 30 – Patriarch Kirill says that the Russian Orthodox Church’s canonical territory currently includes all the countries that had been part of the USSR plus China...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Russia Will Hit Bottom Because of Putin But Only After He...
Paul Goble Staunton, May 1 – Because of his approach to power, Vladimir Putin is leaving Russia “with a destroyed economy, without institutions, and with a morally degraded elite” and thus...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Putin Regime Transforming Apolitical Activists into Its...
Paul Goble Staunton, May 1 – Russians who seek to some immediate problem “as an alternative to full-blown opposition activity” are increasingly being forced into politics by the Russian...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Mufti Says Ethnic Russians Should Not Convert to Islam
Paul Goble Staunton, May 2 – Khaydar Khafizov, the mufti of the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous District, says that the conversion of ethnic Russians to Islam is “impermissible and a dangerous...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Tajik Embassy in Moscow Sets Up Unit to Help Tajiks...
Paul Goble Staunton, May 2 – Infuriated by what the Tajik government sees as increasing Russian mistreatment of Tajik gastarbeiters in major Russian cities, the embassy of Tajikistan in...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Sochi Countdown -- 40 Weeks to the Olympiad in the North...
Note: This is my 12th 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: With Stroke of a Pen, Daghestani City’s Tats Officially...
Paul Goble Staunton, May 3 – The mayor of has declared that since the majority of the Jews living in that city in southern Daghestan now identify themselves “not as Jewish Tats but as...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Ingushetia’s Bloggers Polled on Chechen Incursion,...
Paul Goble Staunton, May 3 – Forty-four bloggers in Ingushetia have expressed their views on the Chechen incursion into their national territory and other regions events in that North...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Russian Elite Has Come to Terms with Baltic Independence,...
Paul Goble Staunton, May 4 – The Russian elite has not “psychologically” accepted the independence of Ukraine, Belarus or Armenia, even though Moscow has diplomatic relations with all of...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Moscow Mosque Suspends Operation after Police Raid
Paul Goble Staunton, May 4 – Yesterday, the leadership of Moscow’s Darul-Arkam mosque announced that they were indefinitely suspending that religious center’s operation, exactly one week...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Daghestanis Want a Kadyrov-Type Leader for Their Republic,...
Paul Goble Staunton, May 5 – Daghestanis say that Chechnya’s Ramzan Kadyrov represents “the ideal ruler” that they would like to have in their own republic because such a leader through...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Circassians in North Caucasus Call on Putin to Recognize...
Paul Goble Staunton, May 5 – Circassian groups in Karachayevo-Cherkessia, Krasnodar kray, and Aygeya have called on Russian President Vladimir Putin to recognize the actions of the Russian...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Under Three Percent of Russians Attended Easter Services,...
Paul Goble Staunton, May 6 – Approximately four million Russians attended Orthodox Easter services yesterday held at slightly more than 10,200 Russian Orthodox churches, MVD statistics which...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Soviets Able to Suppress Popular Christianity Only After...
Paul Goble Staunton, May 6 – In a conclusion with obvious implications for the current situation not only for the Russian Orthodox but also for other faiths, a Moscow commentator argues that...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Ukrainians and Moldovans Working in Russia More Likely to...
Paul Goble Staunton, May 7 – Despite what most Russians appear to believe, there is a far higher percentage of illegal immigrants among Moldovans and Ukrainians working in the Russian...
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