Window on Eurasia: Moscow Can’t Count on ‘Fifth Column’ in Belarus, Analyst...
Paul Goble Staunton, February 28 – Despite the sometimes prickly relations between Moscow and Mensk, the Russian government can live with Alyaksandr Lukashenka and his dictatorial regime....
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Putin’s Plan for Taking Crimea Away from Ukraine...
Paul Goble Staunton, February 28 – Despite discussions in Moscow, Kyiv and the West about what the Kremlin plans to do in Crime, Vladimir Putin’s plans for “separating Crimea from Ukraine”...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: The US is Betraying Its Founding Principles in Ukraine,...
Paul Goble Staunton, February 28 – If anyone reads the opening words of the American Declaration of Independence, a Russian opposition commentator says, he or she will immediately see that...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Putin Seeks to Provoke ‘Full-Scale Civil War’ in Ukraine,...
Paul Goble Staunton, February 28 – Russian President Vladimir Putin’s goal, as shown by the various provocations he has arranged in recent days, is not to seize Crimea right now but rather...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Russia Again Living by Lies, Ukrainian Philosopher Says
Paul Goble Staunton, March 1 – Vladimir Putin is again teaching Russia to live by lies, 40 years after Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn warned Russians of the dangers to themselves and others of doing...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Proposed Law to Allow Russia to Expand Could Lead to Its...
Paul Goble Staunton, March 1 – A bill being pushed in the Russian Duma to allow Russia to “absorb and form new subjects,” one that promotes the idea that local referenda can trump...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Russians Must Become a Nation Before They Can Become a...
Paul Goble Staunton, March 13 – Ethnic Russians must become a nation before they can become a democracy, and because that outcome would threaten the ruling oligarchy, the Kremlin is doing...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Two-Thirds of Russians View Eastern Ukraine as ‘Russian...
Paul Goble Staunton, March 13 – Two out of every three Russians now consider Eastern Ukraine to be “Russian territory” and back Moscow’s use of force to “defend” the population of that...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: The Crimea is Putin’s Reichstag Fire, Pastukhov Says
Paul Goble Staunton, March 13 – By his intervention in Ukraine, an event that represents the equivalent of “a Crimean Reichstag fire,” Vladimir Putin has begun a revolutionary process in...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Putin Tries But Fails to Neutralize Crimean Tatars
Paul Goble Staunton, March 14 – In yet another indication that the worst is still ahead in Crimea, Russian President Vladimir Putin unsuccessfully sought to neutralize the Crimean Tatars in...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Moscow Moves against Lithuania
Paul Goble Staunton, March 14 – While most of the world’s attention has been focused on Crimea and in a reminder that Vladimir Putin does not see the NATO membership of the Baltic countries...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Fewer than One Russian in Five has a Computer at Home
Paul Goble Staunton, March 14 – Only 19 percent of Russians have a computer at home, according to a new study conducted by the Institute of Sociology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, a...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Seventy Percent of Ukraine’s Ethnic Russians Oppose Giving...
Paul Goble Staunton, March 14 – Approximately 70 percent of Ukraine’s ethnic Russians oppose handing over Crimea or the Donbass to the Russian Federation, an only slightly lower percentage...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Putin’s Crimea Policies Reflect His Fear of Revolutionary...
Paul Goble Staunton, March 15 – What Vladimir Putin is doing in Crimea has less to do with the defense of Russia’s foreign policy interests there than with the defense of the Kremlin...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: In Putin’s Russia, No Money for Nursery Schools or...
Paul Goble Staunton, March 15 – Given the unfunded mandates Moscow has imposed on the regions and the shortage of money available, Russian regional governments are having to cut back in many...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: A War with Ukraine would be ‘Beginning of the End of...
Paul Goble Staunton, March 15—Mustafa Cemilev, the spiritual leader of the Crimean Tatars, yesterday told Alexander Vershbow, the deputy secretary general of NATO, that if Moscow launches a...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Putin’s Entourage Could Turn on Him over Crimea, Bukovsky...
Paul Goble Staunton, March 15 – By his invasion of Crimea, Vladimir Putin has not only unified Ukraine as a nation but is provoking the West into taking the kind of steps that will not only...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Is Karakalpakistan about to Become the Next Crimea?
Paul Goble Staunton, March 16 – Many commentators have suggested that Moscow has its eyes on Moldova’s Transdniestria or even on the northern portion of Kazakhstan as its next move after...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Kremlin Propaganda on Ukraine Likely to Backfire on Putin,...
Paul Goble Staunton, March 16 – Kremlin-orchestrated propaganda about Ukraine and Crimea remains “absolutely effective” for the moment, Russia’s leading independent pollster says, but it is...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Ukrainian ‘Younger Brothers’ Proving More Mature than...
Paul Goble Staunton, March 16 – Russians who have been accustomed since Soviet times to referring dismissively to Ukrainians as their “young brothers” must now face up to the reality that...
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