Window on Eurasia: Russia at Risk of ‘Losing Siberia’ Not to China but to...
Paul Goble Staunton, May 14 – Because the population of Siberia is so small and the influx of Central Asian and Caucasian workers there for the extraction industries so large, a Moscow...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Moscow’s Failure to Defend Russians in Post-Soviet States...
Paul Goble Staunton, May 15 – No great power can base its policies toward is neighbors “exclusively” on the basis of how they treat its co-ethnics, a Russian analyst says, but Moscow’s...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Conflict within Russian Elite Shifting from Horizontal to...
Paul Goble Staunton, May 15 – The conflict within the Russian elite is no longer primarily a “horizontal” one among various clans but rather a “vertical” one between the pinacle of the elite...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Russia Threatened by Hidden Disintegration in North...
Paul Goble Staunton, May 15 – Because of the disintegration of the USSR and the two post-Soviet Chechen wars, Russians are especially sensitive to anything resembling separatism, but they...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Russia Should Become Neither European nor Asian but...
Paul Goble Staunton, May 16 – In thinking about Russia’s future, most of the country’s opposition figures remain trapped in the old debate about whether Russia is fundamentally European or...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Kyrgyzstan Latest Central Asian State to Seek to Leave...
Paul Goble Staunton, May 16 – The Kyrgyzstan parliament has passed a law imposing fines on those who use of Russian in state institutions, thus becoming the latest Central Asian government...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Putin’s Regime Resembles Brezhnev’s but Russian Society...
Paul Goble Staunton, May 16 – The way in which media controlled by the Russian government have played up the recent spy case makes one feel that the country has “returned to the 1980s model...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Sochi Countdown -- 38 Weeks to the Olympiad in the North...
Note: This is my 14th special Window on Eurasia about the meaning and impact of the planned Olympiad on the nations in the surrounding region. These WOEs, which will appear each Friday over the...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: ‘It’s Hard to Be a Circassian’ -- and Moscow is Making It...
Paul Goble May 21 – On the 149thanniversary of the genocide of the Circassians in the Russian Empire tomorrow, their descendants both inside the borders of the Russian Federation and beyond...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Sochi Countdown -- 37 Weeks to the Olympiad in the North...
Note: This is my 15th special Window on Eurasia about the meaning and impact of the planned Olympiad on the nations in the surrounding region. These WOEs, which will appear each Friday over the...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Sochi Countdown -- 36 Weeks to the Olympiad in the North...
Note: This is my 16th special Window on Eurasia about the meaning and impact of the planned Olympiad on the nations in the surrounding region. These WOEs, which will appear each Friday over the...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Tatars Can and Must Make a National Revolution, Kazan...
Paul Goble Staunton, June 4 – Lenin famously observed a century ago that with an organization of revolutionaries, he could overturn Russia. Now, Rashit Akhmetov, editor of Kazan’s “Zvezda...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Russia’s Future Belongs Not to the Opposition but to the...
Paul Goble Staunton, June 5 – The supporters of Stalin and those who want to continue his political approach have in fact “triumphed” in today’s Russia, and these people consist not of the...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: RISI Scholar Says Anti-Islamic Hysteria in the Media...
Paul Goble Staunton, June 5 – An expert at the Russian Institute for Strategic Studies (RISI), a frequent source of anti-Muslim commentaries in the Russian media, warns that “anti-Islamic...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Moscow’s Approach to Russian Far East Driving That Region...
Paul Goble Staunton, June 5 – Instead of recognizing that the Russian Far East is a key region of the country, Moscow elites are pursuing policies there designed to enrich themselves rather...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Tatar Scholar’s Call for Islamic Reformation Sparks Sharp...
Paul Goble Staunton, June 6 – Rafael Khakimov, the director of the Kazan Institute of History and the former advisor to the first president of Tatarstan, has renewed his call for an Islamic...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Moscow at a Chechnya-Style Crossroads in Daghestan, ICG...
Paul Goble Staunton, June 6 – The arrest of the mayor of Makhachkala means that Moscow is at a crossroads in Daghestan, according to the head of the Russian office of the International...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Russians Must Again Be ‘Elder Brothers’ to Non-Russians,...
Paul Goble Staunton, June 6 – To prevent the loss of the North Caucasus and the further disintegration of the Russian Federation, Russians have “only one bloodless way out: to become...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Sochi Countdown -- 35 Weeks to the Olympiad in the North...
Note: This is my 15th special Window on Eurasia about the meaning and impact of the planned Olympiad on the nations in the surrounding region. These WOEs, which will appear each Friday over the...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Demographic Problems Forcing Moscow to Consider Drafting...
Paul Goble Staunton, June 7 – Because the number of draft-age men in the Russian Federation is now too small to meet draft quotas and is expected to fall even further in the future, Moscow...
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