Window on Eurasia: Putin has Repeated Andropov’s Mistakes but Doesn’t Have...
Paul Goble Staunton, July 23 – Vladimir Putin has repeated the two chief mistakes of Yury Andropov – invading a neighboring country and shooting down a civilian aircraft – but he doesn’t...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Belarusians Challenge Russian National Narrative and Some...
Paul Goble Staunton, July 24 – The central Russian narrative on the emergence of the three modern nations of Russians, Ukrainians and Belarusians, a narrative on which Vladimir Putin...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Putin Now Down to One Ally – Moscow Television
Paul Goble Staunton, July 24 – Tsar Aleksandr III famously said that Russia has only two allies – its army and its fleet – but now, according to Rashit Akhmetov, the editor of “Zvezda...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Will Putin Move Against Kyrgyzstan Next?
Paul Goble Staunton, July 24 – The looming defeat of Vladimir Putin’s plans in southeastern Ukraine makes it more likely rather than less that he will seek to project Moscow’s power...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: West Won’t Impose Serious Sanctions or Back Russian...
Paul Goble Staunton, July 24 – The West won’t impose serious sanctions on Vladimir Putin for his actions in Ukraine or provide support for his opponents inside Russia because Western...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Moscow Patriarchate has No Future in Ukraine and a Lesser...
Paul Goble Staunton, July 24 – Bishop Grigory Lyurye, a leading specialist on Orthodoxy who is affiliated with the Russian Orthodox Autonomous Church, says that the Moscow Patriarchate has...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: When Russia was a Democracy – Novgorod Before the...
Paul Goble Staunton, July 25 – Vladimir Putin’s increasing authoritarianism has sparked a new round of suggestions in Russia and elsewhere that “Russians are organically incapable of...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: ‘Stalin was a Greater Fascist than Bandera or Mussolini,’...
Paul Goble Staunton, July 25 – The way in which many in Russia and elsewhere view Stepan Bandera and his anti-Soviet movement during World War II is “an example of the big lie of the Soviet...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Russians, Not Ukrainians, Likely to Become Greatest...
Paul Goble Staunton, July 25 – Despite the horrors Vladimir Putin’s regime continues to inflict on Ukraine, increasingly frequent calls in Moscow for the Kremlin leader to conduct a...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Russian Prisons Persecuting Muslim Prisoners During...
Paul Goble Staunton, July 25 – Russian prison officials are marking Ramadan in their own distinctive way by intensifying their longstanding discrimination against and active persecution of...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Moscow Works to Transform Circassians ‘from a Problem to...
Paul Goble Staunton, July 25 – Angered by the success Circassians had at the time of the Sochi Olympics in focusing international attention on the Russian genocide of their ancestors in...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Call for Russians to Boycott American Products...
Paul Goble Staunton, July 26 – Individual Russians can “struggle against the US” by boycotting American products, a Russian site says; but its appeal highlights not only the high level of...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Russian History Provides Five Lessons for Liberals in...
Paul Goble Staunton, July 26 – Russian liberals have lived through many periods of illiberal governance in the past, have devised various strategies to cope because the repressive regimes...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Chuvash Prosecutors Go After Re-Publisher of ‘We're Tatars...
Paul Goble Staunton, July 26 – Investigators in Chuvashia have opened a criminal case against the editor of a local paper who republished Fauziya Bayramova’s much-reposted 2011 article...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Putin is Waging War While the West is Talking Sanctions
Paul Goble Staunton, July 27 – Having taken the measure of the West and found it wanting, Vladimir Putin has expanded his aggression from the military occupation of Crimea to the...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Many Siberians, No Longer Identifying as Russians, Seek...
Paul Goble Staunton, July 27 – Residents of the Russian Federation are increasingly identifying not as Russians but as Siberians not only because they feel themselves different than ethnic...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Armenian Film Director Denounces Armenians Who Promote...
Paul Goble Staunton, July 27 – In a Facebook post that has been picked up by various Armenian outlets, Tigran Khemalyan, a noted filmmaker, sharply criticizes those ethnic Armenians who...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Russian Actions in Ukraine have Deeply Divided...
Paul Goble Staunton, July 28 – In part because they can get news not just from Moscow but from Ukraine and in part because they have close ties to both Russians and Ukrainians, Belarusians...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Putin Now Insuring Himself against Nationalists Returning...
Paul Goble Staunton, July 28 – Vladimir Putin is ensuring himself ideologically against a nationalist challenge to himself if Russian militants fighting in Ukraine are forced to return to...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Russian Businesses Aren’t Working with Russian...
Paul Goble Staunton, July 28 – Russian businesses have little interest in working with Russian researchers in universities and institutes, an attitude that precludes “the innovative...
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