Window on Eurasia: Putin Now Faces ‘Existential’ Choice -- War Abroad or...
Paul Goble Staunton, July 19 – Vladimir Putin now faces “an existential choice” between a war with the West and a civil war at home with radical nationalists who have been inspired by the...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Scholars to Discuss Emergence of Siberian Nation and...
Paul Goble Staunton, July 19 – Tomsk State University has announced the program for an academic conference to be held in October 2014 on ethnic identity. Eleven speakers are addressing...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Moscow to Conduct New Census to Reduce Status of...
Paul Goble Staunton, July 19 – Soviet and Russian censuses have always been used for political purposes even if that has required massive falsification. Stalin scrapped the 1937 enumeration...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Russia’s Reaction to Airliner Downing Even More Dangerous...
Paul Goble Staunton, July 20 – Russia’s reaction to the Malaysian airliner tragedy represents a more serious threat to the future of the world than does the mistake of shooting it down...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Eurasianism Rapidly Evolving into Russian Fascism, Kantor...
Paul Goble Staunton, July 20 – Eurasianism, which has acquired enormous influence in the Kremlin, is playing “a destructive role” in relation to Russian society and its real culture and on...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Belief in Unchanging Russian National Character a...
Paul Goble Staunton, July 20 – Russian national character like that of any other people changes over time, and those who insist otherwise, including some in Moscow, are engaging in a...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: ‘The West Intends to Destroy Russia So Russia Must Put Its...
Paul Goble Staunton, July 20 – The “Bereg Rus” portal, a major Russian nationalist site, after declaring that Ukraine shot down the Malaysian airliner, says that “the West intends to...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Putin Never Backs Down Even When He Would Benefit, Moscow...
Paul Goble Staunton, July 20 – In his almost 15 years in power, Vladimir Putin has “never admitted a single error” and “never made a single step backward” even when it would have been...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Many Ethnic Russians in Ukraine Identify as Ukrainians to...
Paul Goble Staunton, July 21 – “Many ethnic Russians both in Ukraine and in Russia itself are ready to declare themselves Ukrainians” or indeed anything else “if only to break out of ‘the...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Moscow’s Support for Non-Russians Isn’t Determined by...
Paul Goble Staunton, July 21 – Russian officials have often argued that the amount of government support for the titular nationalities of the non-Russian republics of the Russian Federation...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Moscow Must Abolish Oblasts and Republics, LDPR Duma...
Paul Goble Staunton, July 21 – Mikhail Degtaryev, an LDPR Duma deputy, is preparing legislation to replace the current administrative-territorial division of the Russian Federation in...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: As in 1914, Russia Again Isn’t Ready for War, Kalashnikov...
Paul Goble Staunton, July 21 – A century ago, Russians cheered the entrance of their country into World War I, but the country wasn’t prepared and as a result, it suffered military defeat,...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Putin is Ushering Russia into Final Stages of Imperial...
Paul Goble Staunton, July 22 – Like his various predecessors over the last century, Russian President Vladimir Putin is leading his country into yet another period of imperial collapse...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Convinced of His Own Exceptionalism, Putin is Both ‘a...
Paul Goble Staunton, July 22 – In a commentary entitled “Forewarned and Armed,” Ilya Milshtein argues that tragically “there are no particular reasons to hope that Putin will change his...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: High Unemployment among Young Men in Rural Daghestan...
Paul Goble Staunton, July 22 – More than two out of every three Daghestani men between the ages of 20 and 24 living in rural areas of that North Caucasus republic are unemployed, a...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Taxes Needed for Re-Armament Seen Lowering Russian...
Paul Goble Staunton, July 22 – Although Russians now say they support Vladimir Putin’s assertive foreign policy, their attitude may change if Moscow introduces new taxes and improving its...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Russia Too Dependent on West to Be Independent Superpower...
Paul Goble Staunton, July 22 – Provoking a further deterioration in relations with the West will have “catastrophic” consequences “not for those who take these decisions but for the Russian...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: To Maintain Himself in Power, Putin Will Continue to...
Paul Goble Staunton, July 23 -- To the dismay of some and the surprise of others, Vladimir Putin used the Russian Security Council meeting yesterday to signal that he has no intention of...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Russia’s Elite Must Confront Putin on Ukraine, Albats Says
Paul Goble Staunton, July 23 – Those with access to Putin’s ear must convince him to change course now, before he crosses a line from which there is no return, because if such people who...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: ‘Hot Heads’ Who Shot Down Malaysian Plane Could Lead...
Paul Goble Staunton, July 23 – Europe will do everything it can to avoid taking a hard line against Vladimir Putin even after the shooting down of the Malaysian airliner lest that lead to a...
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