Window on Eurasia: Putin’s Latest Declaration about Ukraine Meaningless...
Paul Goble Staunton, June 25 – Vladimir Putin’s call for the Russian parliament to repeal its authorization for the use of military force in Ukraine is meaningless not only because the...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Kaliningrad Siloviki Banned from Leaving Enclave by Land
Paul Goble Staunton, June 25 – Moscow has already imposed restrictions on Russian security service personnel from travelling abroad, but now interior officials in Kaliningrad are...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Kremlin’s Sham Democracy – Opposition Candidates Allowed...
Paul Goble Staunton, June 25 – United Russia, the party of power, is supporting the candidacies of some opposition figures in municipal and other local races but only where the latter have...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Fewer than Two Percent of Crimean Tatars Apply for Russian...
Paul Goble Staunton, June 26 – Only 5,000 of the 300,000 Crimean Tatars living in the Russian-occupied peninsula have applied for Russian passports over the last ten days, according to the...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Putin’s Failure to Develop Industry Limiting Russia’s...
Paul Goble Staunton, June 26 – Because of Vladimir Putin’s neglect of Russia’s machine tool sector and his failure to develop domestic producers of machinery needed for the operation of...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Putin Admits to Aggression in Ukraine but Leaves Loopholes...
Paul Goble Staunton, June 26 – Even as Vladimir Putin is being praised by some for having the Russian parliament rescind its authorization for the use of force in Ukraine, the Kremlin leader...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Putin Won’t Be Able to Mobilize Russians Much Longer by...
Paul Goble Staunton, June 26 – By the middle of August, Boris Pastukhov says, “the Ukrainian conflict will have exhausted itself as a mobilization tool” for the Kremlin, one that gives “the...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: ‘Traditional Islam’ Now has Four Distinct Meanings in CIS...
Paul Goble Staunton, June 26 – The neologism “traditional Islam” was introduced by Ufa Mufti Talgat Tajuddin in the early 1990s to differentiate Muslim beliefs in the post-Soviet world from...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Russians Suffer from Three Misconceptions about Western...
Paul Goble Staunton, June 27 – Russians must recognize that sanctions are “the new economic and political reality” in which they live and overcome three widespread and government-promoted...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Kyrgyz Migrant Workers in Moscow Very Nationalistic and...
Paul Goble Staunton, June 27 – Kyrgyz migrant workers now in the Russian capital are very nationalistic in their assessments of themselves and others, have little interest in integrating...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Russian Army Won’t Be Ready to Intervene in Ukraine Before...
Paul Goble Staunton, June 27 – The Russian military was ready to invade Ukraine in April but stopped short of doing so, Pavel Felgengauer, a leading independent military analyst in Moscow,...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Russians have Lost a Sense of Direction, Emil Pain Says
Paul Goble Staunton, June 27 – Life expectancy is a demographic category that is most comparable across countries, and Russia now ranks 129th in the world in that regard, behind not just...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Kremlin Re-Imposing Soviet Myth about Voluntary 'Joining'...
Paul Goble Staunton, June 27 – Moscow is forcibly re-imposing the Soviet-era mythology that the Buryats and other non-Russians joined Russia voluntarily and now live happily as part of the...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Ukraine Takes Another Step on Western Path It Chose 800...
Paul Goble Staunton, June 28 – Yesterday, Kyiv took another big step on the road to the West by signing an association agreement with the European Union, and Moscow not unexpectedly...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Soviets Destroyed or Hid 95 Percent of Graves of Russian...
Paul Goble Staunton, June 28 – No more than one in 20 of the graves of Russian soldiers who died in World War I remains undisturbed to this day, the result of a Soviet policy intended to...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: 60 Years Ago This Week, Ukrainians Rose Up Against the...
Paul Goble Staunton, June 28 – Sixty years ago this week, non-Russian prisoners rose up in Kengir against their Soviet GULAG jailors. They were crushed by Soviet tanks, with at least 600...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Are Russian Attitudes on Ukraine Shifting Away from War...
Paul Goble Staunton, June 29 – Russian attitudes toward Ukraine are appear to be shifting in response both to changes in the Kremlin’s approach and to changes in the coverage Moscow...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Moscow Appears Ready to Play Armenian Ethnic Card against...
Paul Goble Staunton, June 29 – After Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine signed association agreements with the European Union on Friday, Kremlin officials said that Moscow would take measures in...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Ukraine, Georgia and Moldova Now on ‘Baltic Path’ to the...
Paul Goble Staunton, June 29 – Like most Westerners, Russians have always made a distinction between the three Baltic countries and the former Soviet republics, but now a Russian analyst...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Putin’s Russia Displays ‘Psychology of a Primitive Group,’...
Paul Goble Staunton, June 30 – The psychology of primitive groups, elaborated by Viktor Droganov and others, explains the behavior of Russians today, Andrey Movchan says, and without an...
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