Window on Eurasia: Russian Neo-Nazis Fighting for Moscow in Ukraine,...
Paul Goble Staunton, August 30 – Iosif Zisels, the head of Vaad Ukrainy, the Association of Jewish Organizations and Communities of Ukraine, says that neo-Nazi organizations from Russia”...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Putin Needs ‘Not Victory but War Itself,’ Kruglyakovsky Says
Paul Goble Staunton, August 30 – Vladimir Putin’s decision to move toward a full-scale invasion of Ukraine shows that he “has no other levers and resources” to achieve his will than to send...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Putin Accepts Only ‘Imperial-Militarist’ Component of...
Paul Goble Staunton, August 30 – Vladimir Putin is often accused of wanting to restore the Soviet system or at least its core values, but in fact, the Kremlin leader is interested in...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Moscow Views Donetsk and Luhansk as Surety Against Ukraine...
Paul Goble Staunton, August 31 – Vladimir Lukin, former Russian ambassador to the United States and human rights ombudsman, says that Vladimir Putin will use the amount of force necessary...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Nazarbayev Says Kazakhstan Could Leave Putin’s Eurasian Union
Paul Goble Staunton, August 31 – Alarmed by Vladimir Putin’s dismissive comments about his country and by Vladimir Zhirinovsky’s suggestion that Moscow will annex part of Kazakhstan after...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: ‘Russia Stands at the Brink of Catastrophe,’ Russian...
Paul Goble Staunton, August 31 – The organizing committee of the Russian Anti-War Movement says that “Russian stands at the brink of catastrophe” following Putin’s introduction of regular...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Belarus has a Name and It Isn’t Belorussia, Russian Court...
Paul Goble Staunton, August 31 – A man from the Belarusian city of Bobruisk has filed suit in a Moscow court against three Russian news agencies seeking compensation for their use of the...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: After Crimea, Russian Germans Press for Restoration of...
Paul Goble Staunton, August 31 – Seventy three years after their republic was disbanded by Stalin and 24 years after the two Germanies were reunited, some of Russia’s remaining Germans have...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Moscow to Help Iran Escape Western Boycott
Paul Goble Staunton, September 1 – Russia will help Iran do an end run around Western sanctions, something that Western realists can be counted on to blame on the West’s support for Ukraine...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: On 75th Anniversary of Start of World War II, Putin has...
Paul Goble Staunton, September 1 – Seventy-five years after Hitler began World War II in Europe with his invasion of Poland, Vladimir Putin has begun another war in Europe with his invasion...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Ukraine Leads Russians to View Putin’s Past Actions More...
Paul Goble Staunton, September 1 – Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine is having an impact on how people view his past actions, leading more Russians to approve of his actions at Beslan a...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Crimea’s Russians want Soviet Past Not Russian Present,...
Paul Goble Staunton, September 1 – “Crimea never was pro-Russian – it did not know and could not know post-Soviet Russia,” Pavel Kazarin says. “Instead, over the course of the last quarter...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Even if Kyiv Agrees to Moscow’s Federalization Plan,...
Paul Goble Staunton, September 1 – Even if Ukrainian President Petr Poroshenko agrees to federalize Ukraine as a result of Russian military action and Western and especially German...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Russian Officials Move to Expel Siberian Rabbi
Paul Goble Staunton, September 2 – The Federal Migration Service has stripped Osher Krichevsky, Omsk’s chief rabbi, of his residence permit nominally on the basis of a charge of illegal...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Are Russia’s Smallest Nationalities Now to Be Left to the...
Paul Goble Staunton, September 2 – Members of the smallest nationalities of the Russian Federation have always looked to Moscow for what defense they can largely because the heads of the...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Homo Crimeacus a Doomed Effort to Restore Homo Sovieticus,...
Paul Goble Staunton, September 2 – With the Crimean Anschluss, a new “cultural type” has emerged, “Homo Crimeacus,” people who think “fundamentally differently than “’post-communist’...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Putin’s War in Ukraine Saves Tatarstan’s Special Status...
Paul Goble Staunton, September 2 – Vladimir Putin’s war in Ukraine has “unexpectedly” allowed Tatarstan to retain its presidency and thus “again confirm its status as a special region...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: As Russians' Enthusiasm for Crimea’s Annexation Wanes,...
Paul Goble Staunton, September 2 – Russians are less enthralled about the annexation of Crimea than they were a few months ago, according to a Levada Center poll, an apparent result of...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: The US-Baltic Alliance at75
Paul Goble Staunton, September 3 -- US President Barack Obama’s visit to Tallinn today comes almost exactly 75 years after the United States and the three Baltic countries formed one of...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: The Death of Pskov Oblast
Paul Goble Staunton, September 3 – Pskov Oblast, the region of the Russian Federation along that country’s borders with Estonia and Latvia, seldom attracts much attention from outsiders. It...
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