Window on Eurasia: New Film Documents that 10 Percent of Russian Troops in...
Paul Goble Staunton, August 26 – A new documentary film, “Unnoticed Heroes of a Not Well-Known War,” released in Moscow as part of Days of Culture of the Republic of Tatarstan, calls...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Moscow Propaganda Pushed Federalization of Ukraine and...
Paul Goble Staunton, August 26 – Russian government media outlets pushed demands for the federalization of Ukraine after the Kremlin indicated that was what Vladimir Putin wanted and then...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Five Questions Western Leaders Should Be Asking Themselves...
Paul Goble Staunton, August 26 – The leaders of major Western countries declare that they are seeking to find an answer to the crisis in Ukraine, but in order to find an answer, it is...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: For Ordinary Russians, Moscow’s Use of Regular Army in...
Paul Goble Staunton, August 27 – While Russia’s involvement in the fighting in southeastern Ukraine has been obvious for a long time, Moscow’s decision to send regular military units and...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Putin May Not Get His Single History Textbook
Paul Goble Staunton, August 27 – Vladimir Putin’s April 2013 call for the creation of a single school history textbook lest variations lead to “the violation of the humanitarian space of...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Moscow ‘Evacuates’ Factory from Ukraine to Chuvashia
Paul Goble Staunton, August 27 – The Russian Spring portal has proudly declared that “the Luhansk machine-building factory is being evacuated to Russian Chuvashia,” an operation it said was...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Moscow Patriarchate’s Position Crumbling in Ukraine
Paul Goble Staunton, August 27 -- Seventy of the 125 members of the clergy of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate say that the Ukrainian Orthodox Church should separate...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: After Crimea, West Now Believes Russia is Capable of...
Paul Goble Staunton, August 27 – After 20 years of assuming that Russia wanted to join the rest of the world and play by the rules, an assumption that was not without its problems, many in...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Putin Can Deny But No Longer Conceal He’s Invaded Ukraine
Paul Goble Staunton, August 28 – Vladimir Putin can continue to lie and deny that Russian forces have invaded Ukraine, but he can no longer conceal that from Russians, Ukrainians or the...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Russia’s Military Mobilization System ‘Just as Ineffective...
Paul Goble Staunton, August 28 – Now that the Russian military has invaded Ukraine and has engaged in combat with Ukrainian forces, it is time to assess the ability of each country to...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: West’s ‘Chamberlains of Today’ Will Soon Face a Larger War...
Paul Goble Staunton, August 28 – The war Vladimir Putin has launched against Ukraine will not be limited to that country, a reality that “the banal Chamberlains” of the West today have...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Uyghurs Fleeing Xinjiang for Kazakhstan
Paul Goble Staunton, August 28 – As a result of China’s crackdown in Xinjiang, Uyghurs are fleeing to Kazakhstan and even re-identifying as ethnic Kazakhs once they get there, according to...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Buddhist Cossacks to Restore Tsarist-Era Unit to Fight in...
Paul Goble Staunton, August 28 – The traditionally Buddhist Kalmyks and ethnic Russians living among them have already sent numerous volunteers to fight for pro-Moscow groups in Ukraine,...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: North Caucasian Nation Increasing in Number Even Though...
Paul Goble Staunton, August 29 – For many peoples, the death of their languages marks the beginning of the end of their national existences. But for others, the death of the one does not...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Russian Invasion Underscores Putin’s Failure in Ukraine,...
Paul Goble Staunton, August 29 – Russia’s invasion of Ukraine highlights a reality many do not want to talk about: Vladimir Putin failed to be able to deal with Ukraine “via softer...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Russia Lacks Resources for Occupation of Eastern Ukraine,...
Paul Goble Staunton, August 29 – The Russian military has the ability to seize Donetsk and Luhansk if no one provides assistance to Ukraine, Russian military affairs specialist Aleksandr...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Putin Commits Himself to ‘Novorossiya’
Paul Goble Staunton, August 29 – Given how often Vladimir Putin lies, it may be a mistake to make too much of any of his statements as an indication of where he is heading. But his use of...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Moscow Military Review Lists Seven ‘Probable’ Targets in...
Paul Goble Staunton, August 29 – “Voyennoye obozreniye,” an online Moscow journal directed at the Russian military and military analysts, has published today list of seven targets Russian...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Putin’s Suppression of Tatarstan Sovereignty has Cost...
Paul Goble Staunton, August 30 – Vladimir Putin’s gutting of Tatarstan’s 1990 sovereignty declaration has cost every resident of that Middle Volga republic not only his or her rights and...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Putin Adopts Hitler’s ‘Stab in the Back’ Theory for Defeat...
Paul Goble Staunton, August 30 – Speaking in at the Seliger youth forum yesterday, Vladimir Putin said that today as during World War I there are people inside Russia who are seeking its...
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