Window on Eurasia: China’s ‘Strategic Border’ Already Well Inside Russia’s...
Paul Goble Staunton, August 12 – Under conditions of globalization, political and geographical borders “are losing their importance,” a Buryat anthropologist says, and “strategic borders,”...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: In Russia, Iron Curtain Falls Not at the End of the Play...
Paul Goble Staunton, August 12 – Aleksey Levinson, a Levada Center sociologist, says that iron curtains like the one now being erected around Russia are a political strategy that reflects...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: For Second Time in a Century, Russia has Decided to Go...
Paul Goble Staunton, August 12 – Russia’s misfortune lies not in that it is defending what it perceives as its interests but that “it is doing so by attempting to realize the latest Russian...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: ‘Siberian Federalization’ Idea Spreads to Kaliningrad and...
Paul Goble Staunton, August 13 – Despite Moscow’s apparently successful efforts to block a march in Novosibirsk this Sunday, the Russian authorities have failed to prevent the ideas behind...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Russian Occupation Authorities in Crimea to ‘Protect’...
Paul Goble Staunton, August 13 – In yet another throwback to Soviet days designed to distract attention from what it is doing to other groups, Moscow has announced that it has taken under...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Putin Seeking to Downgrade or Even Displace Minsk Group
Paul Goble Staunton, August 13 – Vladimir Putin’s Sochi meeting with the presidents of Armenia and Azerbaijan did not bring about any breakthrough toward a resolution of the Karabakh...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Moscow Hopes to Use Soft Power to Influence Intellectuals...
Paul Goble Staunton, August 13 – The Soviet government benefited from the fact that many African, Asian and Latin American leaders received educations in the USSR, and the Putin regime...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Putin of the 2000 Kursk Disaster is the Putin of Today
Paul Goble Staunton, August 13 – A leader’s response to a crisis early in his time in office is an instructive if sometimes overlooked indication of he will continue to behave. Such it was...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Russians Moving Back to Private Plots While Alive and...
Paul Goble Staunton, August 14 – Ever more Russians are relying on private plots at their dachas or on farms for food as the sanctions regime tightens, an indication of when social clashes...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Water Dispute between Azerbaijan and Daghestan Taking On...
Paul Goble Staunton, August 14 – Hot weather in the Caucasus which has reduced the flows of river water and increased demands for its use has triggered a dispute between Azerbaijanis and...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Putin’s Visit Seeks to Legitimate Russia’s Illegal...
Paul Goble Staunton, August 14 – Vladimir Putin’s current visit to occupied Crimea, his second, may not lead to dramatic declaration of his plans many expect, a Ukrainian political...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Putin has Replaced ‘Old Institutionalist Consensus’ with...
Paul Goble Staunton, August 14 – Many of Vladimir Putin’s actions have been constant since his rise to power, but over the last two years, he has carried out a revolution from above,...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Kadyrov Demands Moscow Draft Chechens into Russian Army
Paul Goble Staunton, August 14 – Ramzan Kadyrov, the head of Chechens, says that the Russian armed services must resume drafting young Chechens to serve in their ranks, an appeal that...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Putin Regime Reviving Soviet-Style Anti-Semitism
Paul Goble Staunton, August 17 – An instructor at the Russian foreign ministry’s training academy told participants at a government-sponsored youth camp that “Zionism is a movement for the...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: ‘Hybrid Regimes’ Simulate Not only Democracy but...
Paul Goble Staunton, August 17 – Most Western commentators focus on the absence of genuine democracy in the so-called “hybrid” regimes but fail to notice that such regimes are...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Moscow’s Pyrrhic Victory in Ukrainian Church Vote Weakens...
Paul Goble Staunton, August 17 – The pro-Russia faction of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate succeeded in electing Metropolitan Onufriy to be its new head, but that...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Putin Police Block Siberian March but Spread Siberian Message
Paul Goble Staunton, August 18 – Yesterday, Russian police blocked the march in Novosibirsk calling for Moscow to live up to the constitution and observe the rights of the country’s federal...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Russia Moves From 'Evil Empire' to 'Empire of Hatred,'...
Paul Goble Staunton, August 18 – Unless it discriminates against non-Russian peoples on the basis of cultivating hatred against them, an empire like Russia remains cannot survive and will...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Russia Becoming a Dangerous Nation of Zhirinovskys,...
Paul Goble Staunton, August 19 – Vladimir Zhirinovsky has become notorious for saying what must not be said and doing what must not be done, but now his approach has spread to the Russian...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Russians Must Start Thinking about a Post-Putin Russia,...
Paul Goble Staunton, August 19 – Ever more number of Russians, horrified by what Vladimir Putin is doing and convinced that reforming his regime is impossible, are beginning to think about...
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