Window on Eurasia: Ukraine’s Greatest Challenge – Continuing the Revolution...
Paul Goble Staunton, June 15 – Russia’s intervention in Ukraine has “frozen the development of the Ukrainian revolution,” but it has not eliminated the need for that revolution to go forward...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Moscow Mobilizing Moldova’s Minorities and Political...
Paul Goble Staunton, June 15 – At a secret meeting ten days ago, representatives of the Gagauz, Ukrainian and Bulgarian minorities of Moldova as well as leaders of opposition political...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Putin’s War in Ukraine Marks Rebirth of Stalinism in...
Paul Goble Staunton, June 16 – The Russian authorities have unleashed and are conducting a war in Ukraine, “a new type of war without declaration or a front line” and one that is...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Will Russian Extremists Target Chinese Replacements for...
Paul Goble Staunton, June 16 – Attacks in Russia on gastarbeiters from Central Asia and the Caucasus are a major reason for a 20 percent decline in the number of such immigrants over the...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Moscow’s Push for Federalization of Non-Russian Countries...
Paul Goble Staunton, June 16 – Moscow’s calls for the federalization of Ukraine and Moldova have attracted widespread attention as an all-too-obvious tactic intended to dismember those...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: New Website Documents that Soviets Forcibly Re-identified...
Paul Goble Staunton, June 16 – The Yerevan Center for Contemporary Experimental Art on Saturday launched a new website to document the repressions that the Soviet government visited upon...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Fifty-Eight Percent of Russians Oppose Russian Nationalist...
Paul Goble Staunton, June 16 – In what might seem counter-intuitive but which in fact underscores the way Moscow media coverage of one thing may cause Russians to draw conclusions about...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Daghestan Launches Gun Buy Back Campaign
Paul Goble Staunton, June 17 – Given how heavily armed the population of Daghestan remains, the authorities in that North Caucasus republic have launched a gun buy back program in which...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: ‘No Russian is Surprised KGB Archives More Open in Belarus...
Paul Goble Staunton, June 17 – No Russian is surprised to learn that Soviet-era archives are more accessible in Belarus, which the West routinely calls “the last dictatorship in Europe,”...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Ukraine’s Muslims Resemble Their Co-Religionists in Europe...
Paul Goble Staunton, June 17 – Just as Ukrainians as a nation are already more European than are the Russians, so too Ukraine’s Muslims today are more like their fellow Muslims in Europe...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: KGB’s Successors Can’t De-Sovietize Russia Any More than...
Paul GobleStaunton, June 17 – In the course of an interview conducted by Ani Ayvazyan, Aleksandr Genis, who has become prominent as a Russian émigré writer and commentator for some Moscow outlets,...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Moscow Wouldn’t Have Annexed Crimea Had Other Separatists...
Paul Goble Staunton, June 17 – In the corridors of the Russian foreign ministry, commentator Ruslan Gorevoy says, people are saying that Moscow would hardly have annexed Crimea if other...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: All Demographic Projections Show Each Russian Worker...
Paul Goble Staunton, June 18 – Depending on the assumptions made, projections of Russia’s population growth over the next two generations range from a small amount of growth to a significant...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Ukraine Shows Liberal Project in Russia in Even Worse...
Paul Goble Staunton, June 18 – Responding to suggestions that the possibilities for the promotion of an “enlightened” Russian nationalism” have been undermined by Vladimir Putin’s policies...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Kremlin’s Spending on Crimea Exacerbating Tensions Between...
Paul Goble Staunton, June 18 – The money the Kremlin is spending on Crimea and Ukraine more generally is exacerbating tensions between Moscow and hard-pressed regions, worsening the divide...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Rumor Mill Integral Part of Moscow’s War Against Ukraine,...
Paul Goble Staunton, June 18 – Many people have focused on the ways in which Moscow television’s distorted, tendentious, and openly false broadcasts have affected Russian speakers in...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Can the Most Important Cold War Alliance Be Restored?
Paul Goble Staunton, June 20 – Even as Moscow and its defenders talk about the threat of “a new cold war” – an impossibility the suggestion of which reflects the calculations of some and the...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Putin’s Actions in Ukraine Following Script by Russian...
Paul Goble Staunton, June 20 – The strategy and tactics Vladimir Putin has been employing in Ukraine represent an amazingly precise implementation of ideas outlined and published by General...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Moscow Officials in North Caucasus Already Outnumber Local...
Paul Goble Staunton, June 20 – Even before Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev this week signed off on the creation of a ministry for North Caucasus affairs, the number of officials in...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Ukraine’s Orthodox Leader Calls on Russian Patriarch to...
Paul Goble Staunton, June 20 – Patriarch Filaret, the head of the Orthodox Church of the Kyiv Patriarchate, has reacted strongly and angrily to suggestions by Patriarch Kirill of the Moscow...
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