Window on Eurasia: Russians Must Take Seriously Stalin’s Warning about...
Paul Goble Staunton, July 13 – In the summer of 1942, during the height of fighting on the eastern front, Soviet writer Ilya Ehrenburg issued a series of attacks on German soldiers that...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: The ‘Immigrant Threat’ Theme Returns to Russian Media
Paul Goble Staunton, July 13 – For most of the last six months, the Moscow media have talked about little else than Ukraine, thus shifting the concerns of many Russians away from the issue...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Novodvorskaya Wouldn’t Let Anyone Forget the Soviet Threat...
Paul Goble Staunton, July 13 – The premature death of Valeriya Novodvorskaya at 64 has brought an outpouring of regret about the passing of rights activist and commentator. But Aleksandr...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Russia Becoming ‘Land of Obscurantism in Age of...
Paul Goble Staunton, July 13 – Despite the trappings of modernity, Russia is rapidly moving toward an obscurantist medievalism much Afghanistan under the Taliban and Iran under the...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Ukraine Could Recover Crimea Only If Russia Were Seriously...
Paul Goble Staunton, July 14 – The Ukrainian government lacks the resources to recover Crimea, according to a Moscow military analyst, and could do so only if Russia were to “weaken to the...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Outrageous Duma Bans Actually Help Putin, Belkovsky Says
Paul Goble Staunton, July 14 – Many Russians and even more people in the West view the series of laws the Duma has passed over the last year banning one or another activity as an...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Putin’s ‘Conservatism’ is Totalitarian Not Conservative,...
Paul Goble Staunton, July 14 – Vladimir Putin has positioned himself as a defender of conservative values and won enormous support from many in Russia and the West who identify as...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: 500 Donetsk-Type Militants Could End Latvia’s Existence as...
Paul Goble Staunton, July 15 – Andrey Neronsky, the director of the Moscow Center of Russian Culture in Latvia, says that a Ukrainian scenario is completely possible in that Baltic country...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Putin’s Failure in Ukraine Will Cost Him His High Ratings...
Paul Goble Staunton, July 15 – Vladimir Putin’s failure to carry out the policies in Ukraine that Moscow’s “hysterical anti-Ukrainian propaganda” had seemed to promise and require are...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Russians and Ukrainians Becoming Like Serbs and Croatians,...
Paul Goble Staunton, July 16 – The conflict in southeastern Ukraine is becoming like the Yugoslav war with the Russians and Ukrainians becoming like the Serbs and Croatians, developments...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: West Must Adopt a Serious Non-Recognition Policy on...
Paul Goble Staunton, July 16 – Western countries need to adopt a serious non-recognition policy concerning Russia’s illegal occupation of Crimea, including imposing real restrictions on...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Putin is ‘Last Soldier’ of a Dying Empire, Pastukhov Says
Paul Goble Staunton, July 16 – Because Vladimir Putin has chosen to turn toward the past rather than the future as shown most recently by his “having unleashed a war in Ukraine,” the Kremlin...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Ukrainian Events Providing Cover for Moscow to Take...
Paul Goble Staunton, July 17 – Moscow’s actions in Ukraine not only have pushed Vladimir Putin’s approval ratings among Russians into the stratosphere but also have provided Moscow with the...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Ukrainian Events Have Deeply Split Russian Nationalists
Paul Goble Staunton, July 17 – Vladimir Putin’s intervention in Ukraine appears to have united most Russians, but it has introduced or at least highlighted a deep split among Russian...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: West Won’t Provide Real Help to Ukraine Barring a...
Paul Goble Staunton, July 17 – Andrey Illarionov says that unless and until Russian openly invades Ukraine and a full-scale war between the two countries breaks out, “the West will not move...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Ukraine isn’t Fighting with Russia but with Putin’s...
Paul Goble Staunton, July 18 – As the horrific events of the last 24 hours confirm, “Ukraine is not fighting with Russia but with a much worse enemy, the Lubyanka Peoples Republic headed by...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Only One Russian Firm in16 is Committed to Long-Term...
Paul Goble Staunton, July 18 – Moscow leaders often talk about the need for Russian firms to innovate in order to grow and become competitive domestically and internationally, but only one...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Malaysian Plane Shoot Down Shows How Far and How Fast...
Paul Goble Staunton, July 18 – The shooting down of the Malaysian plane yesterday became practically inevitable, Vitaly Portnikov says, when Vladimir Putin gave the pro-Moscow secessionists...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Russian Regime ‘More Dangerous than the Soviet,' Eidman Says
Paul Goble Staunton, July 18 – Those guilty of shooting down the Malaysian airline include “not only the [pro-Russian] militants but above all those who sent them to kill, who armed them...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Plane Shoot Down Has Inflicted a ‘Destructive Hit’ on...
Paul Goble Staunton, July 18 – Whatever the investigation determines is “the level of direct or indirect responsibility” for the shooting down of the Malaysian airline, Tatyana Stanovaya...
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