Window on Eurasia: Nearly One Russian in Four Now Wants to Move Abroad,...
Paul Goble Staunton, June 7 – Twenty-two percent of Russians say they would like to move to a foreign country to live and work, up from only 13 percent in 2009, and an indication that the...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: FSB Officers ‘Openly and Boldly’ Follow Russian Opposition...
Paul Goble Staunton, June 8 – Officers of Russia’s FSB spy agency “openly and boldly” followed Russian opposition figures attending an international conference in Vilnius last week thus...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Karelians Look to Europe for Help to Stem Their...
Paul Goble Staunton, June 7 – Faced with declines in their overall numbers and in the use of their national language, the Karelians, the titular nationality of the Republic of Karelia, are...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: ‘De-Russification’ of Tatarstan Said Threatening Moscow’s...
Paul Goble Staunton, June 9 – Ethnic Russians form a declining share of the population of Tatarstan and of officialdom in that Middle Volga republic, developments that some Russians say...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Russian Fascists in 1930s Were First to Use ‘Rossiyane’ as...
Paul Goble Staunton, June 9 – Russian fascists in Harbin in the 1930s were the first to use “Rossiyane” as the Russian government now does to designate the entire population of Russia,...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Moscow No Longer Views Clans as Stabilizing Force in North...
Paul Goble Staunton, June 10 – Having long viewed clans in the North Caucasus republics as “a powerful stabilizing factor” and the basis of “authoritarian power ‘in the localities,’” Moscow...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: ‘Islamic Factor’ Already Looms Large in Upcoming Moscow...
Paul Goble Staunton, June 10 – Even though Muscovites will cast their votes for mayor only three months from now, Sergey Sobyanin and other aspirants are already playing the Muslim card to...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: ‘Who is Killing the Policemen of Novocherkassk?’
Paul Goble Staunton, June 10 – The failure of the Russian authorities to bring to justice those responsible for a series of murders of policemen in the southern Russian city of Novocherkassk...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Russia Needs Domestic Air Routes More than New Railways,...
Paul Goble Staunton, June 11 – To link the country together in the 21st century, the Russian Federation should be promoting the development of domestic air routes instead of building new...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Moscow’s Policies Could Make the Russian Far East a Muslim...
Paul Goble Staunton, June 11 – Moscow’s plans to attract millions of gastarbeiters to construction and extraction sites in the Russian Far East could easily transform that enormous but...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Moscow Must Teach Russian to Non-Russian Draftees, Duma...
Paul Goble Staunton, June 11 – Reflecting the increasing share of non-Russians among draftees in the Russian army and the declining percentage of them who know the Russian language, Duma...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Russian Influence in Central Asia a Greater Threat than...
Paul Goble Staunton, June 12 – Despite the hysteria about it whipped up in Russian language outlets in Kazakhstan, one commentator says, the growth of Chinese influence in Kazakhstan is far...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Astrakhan is Not an Islamist Bridge Between the North...
Paul Goble Staunton, June 12 – Following the publication last month of “A Map of Ethno-Religious Threats” by the Moscow Institute of National Strategy, there has been much speculation that...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Deportation of Crimean Tatars Not Yet Part of Ukrainian...
Paul Goble Staunton, June 12 – Stalin’s deportation of the Crimean Tatars in 1944 has not yet been integrated into the political memory of Ukrainians, a shortcoming that means many in that...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Georgians Far Less Worried about Territorial Integrity...
Paul Goble Staunton, June 13 – Despite the de facto independence of Abkhazia and South Ossetia since 2008 and more recent turmoil in their country, Georgians are far less likely to say they...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Three Bellwethers of Russia’s Future
Paul Goble Staunton, June 13 – Three reports over the last few days – a shift in the language used in mosques near Moscow, appeals by Tuvin officials to students to avoid angering ethnic...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Russia’s Muslims Happier, More Observant, but Less...
Paul Goble Staunton, June 13 – Muslims in the Russian Federation tend to be happier than their Christian counterparts, more observant of the requirements of their religion, but less trusting...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Sochi Countdown -- 34 Weeks to the Olympiad in the North...
Note: This is my 16th special Window on Eurasia about the meaning and impact of the planned Olympiad on the nations in the surrounding region. These WOEs, which will appear each Friday over the...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Some Surprising Answers on Who Goes to Church in Moscow...
Paul Goble Staunton, June 14 – An admittedly unrepresentative poll of Russians attending Orthodox services on Palm Sunday conducted by the Sreda Sociological Service, the results of which...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: The Death of the Aral Sea is Dividing Central Asia, Uzbek...
Paul Goble Staunton, June 14 – “Today, the Aral does not exist as a sea” because it has “lost is economic, ecological and natural significance,” an Uzbek commentator says, and that sets the...
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