Window on Eurasia: Turkey will ‘Always Stand with Crimean Tatars,’ Ankara Says
Paul Goble Staunton, July 8 – Turkish Foreign Minister Akhmet Davutoglu yesterday in Ankara received Mustafa Cemilev and Refat Chubarov, the two Crimean Tatar leaders the Russian occupation...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Will Ukraine, Moldova and Georgia Find Themselves Like...
Paul Goble Staunton, July 8 – Many in Ukraine, Moldova and Georgia see the association agreements they have now signed with the European Union as a step toward eventual EU membership, but...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Ukraine has Cost Putin Domestic Support But How Much and...
Paul Goble Staunton, July 9 – Recent events in Ukraine and especially the Kremlin’s decision not to intervene overtly in support of pro-Russian groups there has cost Vladimir Putin support...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: A Sunni-Shiia Clash in Azerbaijan
Paul Goble Staunton, July 9 – Five days ago, a group of Sunni Muslims, whom the Azerbaijani authorities describe as Wahhabis, attacked a group of Shiia Muslims following an iftar dinner at...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: IMO and ICAO Actions Impose Real Costs on Moscow for...
Paul Goble Staunton, July 9 – Kyiv would like to see the Crimean ports of Yevpatoria, Kerch, Feodosia, Yalta and Sevastopol closed to international shipping to put pressure on Moscow to end...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Lukashenka More Afraid of Russia than of the West,...
Paul Goble Staunton, July 9 – Even though the West has imposed sanctions and Russia has promoted ties, Alyaksandr Lukashenka “fears Russia more than he fears the West,” according to Andrey...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Russians Responding to End of Empire as to Any Other Loss,...
Paul Goble Staunton, July 9 – As they have struggled with the end of empire, Russians have been going through the stages of a process familiar to anyone who has lost something: denial,...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: A Kremlin ‘Reset’ – Putin from ‘Defender of the Russian...
Paul Goble Staunton, July 10 – Russian public opinion “is being prepared for a change in Kremlin policy” toward Ukraine, Moscow commentators say, with central government media now...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Moscow Patriarchate Wants Crimea to be ‘Precedent for...
Paul Goble Staunton, July 10 – Putin’s Anschluss of Crimea has already had a number of impacts on Russia, but some in the Moscow Patriarchate of the Russian Orthodox Church hope it will...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Ukrainian Events Could be Repeated in Central Asia,...
Paul Goble Staunton, July 10 – In an apparent confirmation of the adage that “when you are a hammer, everything looks like a nail,” a Moscow commentator is suggesting that what has taken...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Tatarstan Challenges Moscow on Dropping Presidential Title...
Paul Goble Staunton, July 10 – In a move that recalls Kazan’s behavior during the 1990s, Farid Mukhametshin, the chairman of Tatarstan’s State Council, has called for the retention of the...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Belarusian Wins Russian Language Olympiad by Talking about...
Paul Goble Staunton, July 10 – Yuliya Yemalyanovich, a Belarusian school girl from Baranovichi, has won an international Russian-language Olympiad in Moscow by talking about the Belarusian...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Two ‘Mutually Exclusive’ Tasks Face Ukrainian Orthodox...
Paul Goble Staunton, July 11 – As it chooses a successor to Metropolitan Vladimir, the Ukrainian Orthodox Church faces two “mutually exclusive tasks”-- survival as a church in an independent...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Russia’s 700,000 Buddhists Younger, More Tolerant than...
Paul Goble Staunton, July 11 – Two-thirds of Russia’s 715,000 Buddhists, most of whom live in Buryatia, Tyva, and Kalmykia, are younger than 45, a majority lives in rural areas, and one in...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Chinese Covertly Penetrating Kyrgyzstan Economy via Kyrgyz...
Paul Goble Staunton, July 11 – Eight out of ten firms involved in the mining sector in Kyrgyzstan are in fact Chinese enterprises even though they have Kyrgyz names and in nominal positions...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Crimean Resistance to Giving Up Ukrainian Citizenship Seen...
Paul Goble Staunton, July 11 – Moscow’s “Nezavisimaya gazeta” is reporting today that resistance among officials in Russian-occupied Crimea to giving up Ukrainian citizenship has led the...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Three-Child Russian Families Very Different from Average
Paul Goble Staunton, July 11 – In order to boost the birthrate, the Russian government would like to make the three-child family the norm, but at present, only eight percent of Russians are...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Putin Jokes Moving from Internet to Back the Streets,...
Paul Goble Staunton, July 12 – After a period in which most new anecdotes about Vladimir Putin, arose on the Internet, they are now appearing in Russian streets, a shift that is changing...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Ever More Extreme Nationalists and Fascists Emerging in...
Paul Goble Staunton, June 12 – A decade ago, right-wing ideologues like Dugin and Prokhanov were viewed as marginal figures. Now, they have become almost “the official ideologues of the...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Moscow Tops List of Regimes Damaging Religious Property
Paul Goble Staunton, July 12 – The Russian government topped the list of 34 regimes around the world which inflicted damage on the properties of religious organizations during 2012 (the...
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