Window on Eurasia: Soviet-Style May Day Celebrations Making a Comeback under...
Paul Goble Staunton, May 1 – Today, for the first time since the end of the Soviet Union and reflecting what Russian commentators say is a patriotic “wave” and “nostalgia” for the USSR, a...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: In Pursuit of Stability, Putin is Turning Against Private...
Paul Goble Staunton, May 1 – Vladimir Putin is taking care of his basic electorate, pensioners and government employees, at the expense of the private sector, Yevgeny Gontmakher says. And...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Crimean Tatars an Inspiration and Model for Non-Russians...
Paul Goble Staunton, May 2—The Crimean Tatars today are an inspiration and model for the non-Russians of the Russian Federation because they simultaneously defend the fundamental rights of...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Some Karakalpaks Now Seeking Independence from Uzbekistan
Paul Goble Staunton, May 2 – A group of Karakalpaks, members of an ethnic group living in the western portion of Uzbekistan, distributed leaflets in a market there this week asserting that...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Russian Officials Persecuting Christians as Well as...
Paul Goble Staunton, May 2 – The persecution of Muslims in occupied Crimea and threats to Jews in those parts o eastern Ukraine where pro-Russia groups have seized power have received a...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: By Portraying Russian Radicals in Ukraine as Heroes,...
Paul GobleStaunton, May 2 – Moscow is threatening its own country even more than it is threatening Ukraine by presenting those now in revolt against Kyiv as heroes, a portrayal that could lead to an...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Does a 2006 Russian Novel Provide Clues to Putin’s Next Move?
Paul Goble Staunton, May 2 – Two months ago, Mariya Snegova, a Russian sociologist at Columbia University, suggested that Vladimir Putin was drawing on Mikhail Yuryev’s 2006 novel, “The...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: A ‘Culture of Poverty’ has Not Yet Taken Shape in Russia,...
Paul Goble Staunton, May 3 – Despite the explosive growth in income inequality in Russia since 1991, the views of the Russian rich and Russian poor there are far less different and...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Customs Union has Not Boosted Cross-Border Ties in Ways...
Paul Goble Staunton, May 3 – Despite Moscow’s promises and expectations, its Customs Union is “clearly insufficient for stimulating cooperation in the Russian-Kazakhstan border regions,”...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: ‘Putin is a Fascist’ Heading toward War, Feltshtinsky Says
Paul Goble Staunton, May 3 – Only those who are in complete denial can fail to see that Vladimir Putin is a fascist, émigré Russian historian Yuri Felshtinsky says, given that “this analogy...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Putin Faces Dangers If He Attacks in Ukraine or If He Doesn’t
Paul Goble Staunton, May 4 – Because Vladimir Putin did not stop after the Crimean Anschluss, the Kremlin leader now faces a Hobson’s choice of his own making: if he expands his aggression...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Putin as a Fascist Leader Bears Total Responsibility for...
Paul Goble Staunton, May 4 – Had Vladimir Putin accepted the Maidan’s ouster of discredited Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovich and agreed to accept the results of the upcoming elections,...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Crimean Schools Shifting from Ukrainian to Russian as...
Paul Goble Staunton, May 5 – Ostensibly at the insistence of parental demands and despite Russian President Vladimir Putin’s declaration that there are three official languages on the...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Crimea More Likely to Become a ‘Second Daghestan’ rather...
Paul Goble Staunton, May 5 – By annexing Ukraine’s Crimea peninsula, Moscow appears more likely to have acquired “a second Daghestan,” the most unstable republic in the North Caucasus, than...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Internet Helping to Save Non-Russian Languages but Hurting...
Paul Goble Staunton, May 5 – Because Russian is the Russian Federation’s state language, because educational examinations are given only in Russian, and because Russian is the most widely...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Despite Promises, Putin has Done Little for Ethnic Russian...
Paul Goble Staunton, May 5 – Despite his promotion of himself as “the ingather of the Russian lands” and “the defender of ethnic Russians” wherever they live, Vladimir Putin has failed to...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Ukrainian Events a Delayed Reaction to USSR’s Peaceful...
Paul Goble Staunton, May 5 – Commentators have long celebrated the fact that the USSR broke up with little violence in 1991 – the conflicts in Abkhazia, Tajikistan, Nagorno-Karabakh,...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: University Students in Karelia to Be Paid Supplements to...
Paul Goble Staunton, May 6 – In what is simultaneously a measure of fears that the minority languages of Karelia may die out and an indication of the commitment of republic officials to...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Putin has Set Off a Conflagration in Ukraine that Will...
Paul Goble Staunton, May 6 – Vladimir Putin, who very much wants to go down in history as “the ingatherer of Russian lands,” is far more likely to be recorded as the man who has set Russians...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Has Putin Delayed Eurasian Union by Pushing Too Hard and...
Paul Goble Staunton, May 6 – When Ukraine and Moldova declared their intention to sign association agreements with the European Union, Vladimir Putin reacted by speeding up his timetable for...
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