Window on Eurasia: Putin’s System is the ‘Negative Convergence’ of Worst of...
Paul Goble Staunton, May 12 – Vladimir Putin’s system represents a combination of “all the worst features of capitalism and socialism,” a fusion that represents “’negative convergence’ and...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Putin Centralizes Moscow’s Administration of North Caucasus
Paul Goble Staunton, May 12 –Vladimir Putin has replaced Aleksandr Khloponin as presidential plenipotentiary for the North Caucasus with Sergey Melikov, commander of internal...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: The Armenian-Azerbaijani Ceasefire at 20
Paul Goble Staunton, May 12 – Twenty years ago today, the Bishkek Protocol went into effect and established a ceasefire between Armenian and Azerbaijani forces and led to the formation of...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Putin Names Army General as Presidential Plenipotentiary...
Paul Goble Staunton, May 13 – Vladimir Putin’s decision to name an MVD general as his plenipotentiary representative to the North Caucasus came as no surprise given that that federal...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Putin’s War in Ukraine Last Gasp Effort to Save Russian...
Paul Goble Staunton, May 13 – Vladimir Putin’s war in Ukraine which to so many appears only as an act of aggression is in back “profoundly defensive,” an effort to stop the disintegration of...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Ten Ways the Crimean Anschluss is Imposing Costs on Russia
Paul Goble Staunton, May 13 – Even as Moscow continues to celebrate the annexation of Crimea and some Russians push for the absorption of even more Ukrainian territory, ever more...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Crimean Anschluss Hasn’t Made Russia a Great Power, Moscow...
Paul Goble Staunton, May 14 – Polls show that many Russians now view their country as once again a great power as a result of the Crimean Anschluss, but that immediate emotional response...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Defining Novel about the Crimean Tatars Appears in Ukrainian
Paul Goble Staunton, May 14 – More than most people suspect, memoirs, novels and films about a nation’s struggles often play a defining, even revolutionary role not only in uniting its...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Karelians Seek International Recognition of Russia’s...
Paul Goble Staunton, May 14 – In another case of blowback from Moscow’s actions in Ukraine, activists in Karelia are seeking international recognition of the occupation of their republic and...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Moscow Conducting ‘War of a New Type’ Against Ukraine,...
Paul Goble Staunton, May 14 – “Russia is conducting against Ukraine a war of a new type,” one that is so different from military campaigns in the past that it is obvious that Moscow has been...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Putin has Erected a New Kind of ‘Propaganda State,’...
Paul Goble Staunton, May 14 – Vladimir Putin has created “a new model” of rule, one in which “propaganda ceases to be propaganda in the normal sense of the word” and becomes instead “a means...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Kaliningrad’s Drift toward Europe Shows What Happens to...
Paul Goble Staunton, May 15 – Separatist and pro-German sentiment among ethnic Russians in Kaliningrad reflects not only German revanchist efforts but the threat of “the alienation of young...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Russian Analyst Calls for Dividing Up Romania Following...
Paul Goble Staunton, May 15 – Russian commentators have talked openly about dividing up Ukraine and Moldova in order to support ethnic Russian communities there and weaken these two...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Moscow Faces Problems in Absorbing Crimea into Russian...
Paul Goble Staunton, May 15 – Having annexed Ukraine’s Crimea, Moscow is now finding it difficult to bring that region into the common Russian legal space. The situation there is now one of...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Donets a Distillation of the Worst of Soviet and Imperial...
Paul Goble Staunton, May 15 – Just as Transdniestria has sometimes been described as the Soviet Union frozen in time, so too, the writers of the Rufabula.com portal say, “the so-called...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: OSCE Plan a ‘Face Saving’ Cover for West’s Retreat on...
Paul Goble Staunton, May 15 – A survey of Russian parliamentarians present and past shows that they are nearly unanimous in believing that the OSCE proposal about Ukraine shows that “the...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Russian Speakers Abroad ‘Not a Community, Not a Diaspora,...
Paul Goble Staunton, May 16 – Vladimir Putin routinely asserts that Russian speakers abroad, a category which includes both those of ethnic Russian background and others who use Russian in...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Circassians Block Road to Protest Killing of One of Their Own
Paul Goble Staunton, May 16 – Reflecting tensions between the Circassians and the Russian authorities in the run up to the commemoration later this month of the 150th anniversary of the...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Infantilism on the Rise among Russians, ‘Nezavisimaya...
Paul Goble Staunton, May 16 – Recent shifts in public opinion in the Russian Federation concerning the country’s political system are “testimony to social-political infantilism” among...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Ukrainian Davids will Defeat Russian Goliath-Putin,...
Paul Goble Staunton, May 16 – Russia has a great deal of boldness and nuclear weapons, but it doesn’t have a Peter the Great, Valeriya Novodvorskaya says. Instead, it has Vladimir Putin who...
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