Window on Eurasia: Putin Won’t Make Any Further Concessions on Ukraine, Two...
Paul Goble Staunton, June10 – Over the last several days, many in the West have professed to see Moscow pulling back from its subversive aggression against Ukraine and expressed confidence...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: ‘Worker Wreckers’ Return to Putin’s Russia
Paul Goble Staunton, June 11 – Not long ago, Vladimir Putin and his regime revived the Stalin-era term “national traitors” to describe any Russian who opposes the policies of the Kremlin as...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: As Putin Pursues Imperial Goals, Fewer Russians Regret End...
Paul Goble Staunton, June 11 – Even as Vladimir Putin pursues what many see as an effort to restore an empire centered on Moscow, polls show that ever fewer Russians regret the end of the...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Ukraine’s Donbas is Becoming a Northern Ireland, Kazarin Says
Paul Goble Staunton, June 11 – Even as political leaders talk about a solution to the troubles in southeastern Ukraine, a Moscow analyst suggests that Vladimir Putin’s subversive policies...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Russophobia Could Trigger Third World War, Putin Envoy...
Paul Goble Staunton, June 11 – Sergey Markov, co-chair of Russia’s National Strategy Council and President Vladimir Putin’s personal representative, has told a Helsinki newspaper that...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Soviet Imperialism, Not Russian Nationalism, Animating...
Paul Goble Staunton, June 11 – Unlike Spain which turned to economic modernization only seven years after the beginning of political modernization, a pattern that prevented the recrudescent...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: ‘Zelenyi Klin’ isn’t Only Ukrainian ‘Wedge’ in Russia, and...
Paul Goble Staunton, June 12 – Russian writers occasionally refer to the existence of the “Zelenyi klin” in the Russian Far East as an historical oddity, but now in the midst of the...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Lithuania Could Become Putin’s Danzig Corridor, Portnikov...
Paul Goble Staunton, June 12 – Many commentators have pointed out that Russia’s strategy and tactics in Ukraine are a more or less complete copy of the ones Hitler used against Poland and...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Journalists in Russia’s Regions Limited in Covering Their...
Paul Goble Staunton, June 12 – In another recrudescence of a Soviet-era pattern, journalists working in Russian regions and republics are being restricted by local leaders from covering...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Crimean Muftiate Speaks Out as Russian Occupiers Ignore...
Paul Goble Staunton, June 12 – As the Russian occupation authorities in Crimea continue to force out Crimean Tatars from positions of responsibility and exclude them from policy discussions,...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Oligarchic Capitalism Blamed for Loss of Russia’s Position...
Paul Goble Staunton, June 12 – The Russian Federation, by focusing on the construction of “oligarchic capitalism,” essentially “threw all the union republics” to their own fates, and as a...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Even in Death, Muscovites Increasingly Divided Ethnically...
Paul Goble Staunton, June 13 – In Soviet times, Muscovites were buried in cemeteries without regard of either their nationality or religious faith, but now, ever more cemeteries in the...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Russian National Security Undermined by Alienation between...
Paul Goble Staunton, June 13 – Russia has a sufficiently strong army to “put any country in its place,” Bogdan Bezpalko, the head of the Federation of National Cultural Autonomies of...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Tashkent Cracks Down on Separatist Movement It Says...
Paul Goble Staunton, June 13 – The government of Uzbekistan has denied that there is any separatist movement in Karakalpakia, but despite those denials, Tashkent has tightened security...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Under Russian Occupation, Crimea’s Ports Now ‘Danger Zone’...
Paul Goble Staunton, June 13 – Under international maritime law and given insurance rules, ship owners may soon find it more risky to send their vessels into the ports of Russian-occupied...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Illarionov’s Ten Theses on Putin’s Aggression in Ukraine
Paul Goble Staunton, June 13 – Andrey Illarionov delivered an address to a May 31st Vilnius meeting of the Committee on Economics and Security of NATO’s Parliamentary Assembly in which he...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Putin Remains the Enemy of Contemporary Russian...
Paul Goble Staunton, June 14 -- By his instrumental use of nationalist slogans in the current “chauvinistic storm” about Ukraine, Vladimir Putin has blocked the growth of a genuinely...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Regional Separatism Threatens Russia Itself If Moscow...
Paul Goble Staunton, June 14 – If Moscow does not win out in Ukraine, Maksim Kalashnikov argues, the Russian Federation will suffer its very own “’Ukrainian crisis,’” with “’true Russian...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: St. Petersburg Imam Moves to Crimea to Push Moscow’s Agenda
Paul Goble Staunton, June 14 – The lack of local support in Crimea for the Russian occupation and the resistance of the Crimean Tatars to that occupation has prompted an imam from St....
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: The Three Faces of Putin’s Aggression in Ukraine
Paul Goble Staunton, June 15 – In Ukraine, Vladimir Putin’s Russia is acting either as a failed state that cannot control the movement of heavy military equipment by independent groups...
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