Window on Eurasia: Putin Regime has No Challengers but is ‘Liquidating’...
Paul Goble Staunton, July 4 – Vladimir Putin has eliminated challengers to his regime by integrating some within it and repressing those beyond it, but despite that achievement, his “regime...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Crimean Tatar Leader Appeals to Azerbaijan and Turkey for...
Paul Goble Staunton, July 4 – If Azerbaijan and Turkey, two Turkic countries, adopt a principled position of support for the Crimean Tatars, Moscow will have to change its current approach...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Firebombing of Muslim Prayer Room in Buddhist Kalmykia...
Paul Goble Staunton, July 4 – Much of the world has been shocked by the violent clashes between Buddhists and Muslims in Burma, clashes that have claimed many lives and destabilized that...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Moscow’s Concessions Mean Beijing Could Play a ‘Crimean...
Paul Goble Staunton, July 4 – Moscow’s readiness to allow more Chinese firms to locate in Siberia and the Russian Far East and to allow more Chinese to come to Russia to operate them,...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Russians Failing to Notice Ways Their Country Becoming...
Paul Goble Staunton, July 5 – “Putin’s Russia has already long been a Reich” much like Hitler’s Germany, but ordinary Russians now, like ordinary Germans 75 years ago, have not taken note of...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Putin Lives in an Alternative Universe and Expects...
Paul Goble Staunton, July 5 – The best way to understand what Vladimir Putin is doing, most recently in his speech to Russian diplomats, Aleksandr Golts says in a commentary in “Yezhednevny...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Russia Faces Five Socio-Cultural Crises Simultaneously,...
Paul Goble Staunton, July 5 – Russia currently is confronted by five socio-cultural crises at one and the same time, and any effort to solve them quickly by force will lead to the...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Blaming Regions, Moscow Cuts Transfer Payments to Some of...
Paul Goble Staunton, July 5 – It is a longstanding observation that the power to tax is the power to destroy, but a corollary of this is now on display in the Russian Federation, where...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Turkey Puts Real Teeth in Its Non-Recognition of Russian...
Paul Goble Staunton, July 5 – The 27 major Turkish ports that normally handle international shipping will not allow any ship to dock if it carries papers declaring that its home port in...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Non-Russians Should Study Russian More; Russians Should...
Paul Goble Staunton, July 6 – In a declaration that may play to the current nationalist upsurge among Russians and appears to enjoy the backing of Vladimir Putin but seriously threatens...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Rural Russia Not Being Swept Along by Kremlin Patriotism,...
Paul Goble Staunton, July 6 – An article of faith among many commentators on Russia since the Crimean Anschluss is that the patriotic wave the Kremlin has promoted has swept across the...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Russian Occupiers Block Another Crimean Tatar Leader from...
Paul Goble Staunton, July 6 – Yesterday, the Russian occupation authorities in Crimea blocked Refat Chubarov, head of the Crimean Tatar Mejlis, from returning to his homeland from Kherson...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Moscow Wants a Population ‘National in Form but Russian in...
Paul Goble Staunton, July 7 – In Soviet times, Moscow’s nationality policy was based on the idea that the non-Russian nations should be “national in form but Soviet in content,” a goal...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: West Must Accept Crimean Anschluss Because of Putin’s...
Paul Goble Staunton, July 7 – What may become a central plank in Moscow’s propaganda about and policy toward Ukraine has now emerged with a Russian analyst arguing that the West should...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Ukrainian Crisis Far From Over Because Fates of Putin and...
Paul Goble Staunton, July 7 – The victorious advance of the Ukrainian military against the pro-Russian secessionists and the cries of despair from the latter are leading some to conclude...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Kyiv Churchman’s Death Highlights Moscow Patriarch’s...
Paul Goble Staunton, July 7 – The death on Saturday of Metropolitan Vladimir, the longtime head of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate, simultaneously highlights the...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Is the Izborsky Club Losing Its Clout?
Paul Goble Staunton, July 7 – The Izborsky Club, a group of intellectuals and writers put together by Aleksandr Prokhanov to promote Russian nationalist and traditionalist views, clearly has...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: The Three Departures of Eduard Shevardnadze
Paul Goble Staunton, July 8 – The death of Eduard Shevardnadze yesterday has sparked an outpouring of memoirs and praise about his contributions to ending the cold war and to helping...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: High Mortality Rates Killing Off Russia, Aganbegyan Says
Paul GobleStaunton, July 8 – Unless Moscow addresses and overcomes “super-high mortality rates” among young people and working-age Russians, the country will face population decline even if the Russian...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Having Failed to Stage ‘Short Victorious War’ in Ukraine,...
Paul Goble Staunton, July 8 – Both those Russians who continue to press Vladimir Putin to intervene militarily in eastern Ukraine and those who say that his policies in Ukraine have been a...
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