Window on Eurasia: Does Putin Plan to Form a Military Bloc With All...
Paul Goble Staunton, September 7 – Moscow plans to sign a new security agreement with Abkhazia and South Osetia by the end of this month, Russian news outlets report, because opposition...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Karelian Head Betrays His Own Democratic Past, Shtepa Says
Paul Goble Staunton, September 7 – Sergey Katanandov, the head of the Republic of Karelia, was an active supporter of Russian democracy and Boris Yeltsin against the August 1991 coup but...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Moscow Commentators Begin Talking about a Federalized...
Paul Goble Staunton, September 7 – In yet another indication that Vladimir Putin plans to pocket what he has already seized and then move on to take more, Moscow commentators are beginning...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Moscow Engaging in Ethnic Cleansing in Crimea, Latvian...
Paul Goble Staunton, September 8 – The Russian occupation authorities in Crimea are engaging in ethnic cleansing on the Ukrainian peninsula, something that the international community must...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Alekseyeva Denounces Those Who Put Out False Report that...
Paul Goble Staunton, September 8 – In the worst traditions of the Soviet past, Russian media outlets at the end of last week put out what they said was an interview with Lyudmila Alekseyeva...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: The Russian-Ukrainian War in 10 Questions and Answers
Paul Goble Staunton, September 8 – The current ceasefire ends one phase of the war between Russia and Ukraine making this a good time to consider the impact of the conflict in the broadest...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Putin’s Russia Becoming Fascist ‘at a Gallop,’ Shiropayev...
Paul Goble Staunton, September 8 – Russia has been transformed by the war in Ukraine, with some calling this a restoration of the past and others a new turn to “Russianness,” but Aleksey...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Meanwhile in Russia, Spontaneous Worker Unrest is Spreading
Paul Goble Staunton, September 8 – Anyone watching Moscow television would conclude that “there is no more important news than the situation in Ukraine and the intrigues of NATO,” Olga...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: ‘When They Came for the Ukrainians …’ a Kazakh Updates...
Paul Goble Staunton, September 9 – Nurlan Turekhanov, a Kazakh designer, has updated German Pastor Martin Niemoeller’s explanation for why Hitler was able to pick off one group after...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Russia will Need ‘Generations’ to Recover from Moscow’s...
Paul Goble Staunton, September 9 – As a result of Moscow’s intervention in Ukraine, Russia faces three large sets of problems with the outside world, with Ukraine, and with itself that will...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: ‘No Regions, No Problems’ – Putin Downgrades Regional and...
Paul Goble Staunton, September 9 – In his latest update on Stalinism as “effective management,” Vladimir Putin has disbanded Russia’s regional affairs ministry, yet another sign of his...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: A Million Belarusians Ready to Fight Putin If He Invades,...
Paul Goble Staunton, September 9 – Although many analysts are now suggesting that Vladimir Putin is preparing for the Anschluss of Belarus, a new poll finds than one in seven Belarusians is...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Putin is Statist Not Soviet on Economic Policy,...
Paul Goble Staunton, September 9 – Moscow’s economic policy now is completely dependent on “the personal views of Vladimir Putin” and thus an examination of his thinking in this area is...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Is Strelkov the Ernst Rohm of Putin’s Russia?
Paul Goble Staunton, September 10 – Igor Strelkov, the former defense minister of the self-proclaimed “Donetsk Peoples Republic” and the ideological hero of many Russian nationalists, has...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Dalai Lama’s Attack on Putin Creates Problems for...
Paul Goble Staunton, September 10 – On Monday, “Die Welt” published an interview with the Dalai Lama, the spiritual leader of the world’s Buddhists, in which he sharply criticized Vladimir...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Is Tuva a Precedent for Putin’s Handling of the...
Paul Goble Staunton, September 10 – This week, the Republic of Tuva or Tyva as it is also known marked the 100th anniversary of “the union of the republic with Russia,” an event that...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Iran Becoming Russia’s ‘Most Reliable Partner’ in Greater...
Paul Goble Staunton, September 10 – Because both Russia and Iran are the object of sanctions by the West, Tehran is becoming Moscow’s “most reliable partner in the greater Middle East,”...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: OMON Troops Bulldoze Roma Community in Perm
Paul Goble Staunton, September 10 – Following a decision of a Perm court, OMON troops yesterday bulldozed 22 of the 40 homes occupied by members of the Roma community, an action whose...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Russians Must Recognize Circassians as ‘Rossiyane’ or Face...
Paul Goble Staunton, September 11 – “’Rossiyane’ is a much broader category than ethnic Russians, and our compatriots,” Sergey Arutyunov says, are not only Russians in Canada or Argentina...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Putin Wants to Impose North Korean-Style Control over the...
Paul Goble Staunton, September 11 – Vladimir Putin wants to impose a North Korean-type of control over the Internet, according to Russian blogger Anton Nosik; but the costs such closure...
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