Window on Eurasia: Decline in Russian Oil Production Will Last Until At Least...
Paul Goble Staunton, September 11 – Moscow’s earnings from the export of oil and gas, a figure that reflects both world prices and domestic production, are likely to continue to decline...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Estonians Believe in Higher Powers but Not in God,...
Paul Goble Staunton, September 11 – Even as Russians are being offered the notion that Putin is God and some are telling jokes with the punchline that the difference between Putin and God...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Putin Now has Only Bad Options Remaining in Ukraine,...
Paul Goble Staunton, September 11 – Despite a hard-won and well-deserved reputation for being able to outsmart Western leaders in pursuit of his goals, Vladimir Putin, as a result of his...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Russia’s War Aims in Ukraine are Complete Control over...
Paul Goble Staunton, September 12 – Konstantin Zatulin, the director of the Russian Institute for CIS Countries, has bluntly described Moscow’s war aims in Ukraine as directed toward the...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Matvienko Wants a State Committee on Ethnic Relations
Paul Goble Staunton, September 12 – In the wake of Vladimir Putin’s dissolution of the regional affairs ministry and his distribution of its functions to various ministries, Federation...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Biographies of Russians Now Far Less Predictable,...
Paul Goble Staunton, September 12 – It is a commonplace to observe that Russia has been much changed over the last 50 years as a result of social and political convulsions, but two Moscow...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Despite Russian Pressure, Crimean Tatars Will Boycott...
Paul Goble Staunton, September 12 – More than 99 percent of Crimean Tatars boycotted the Moscow-orchestrated referendum on transferring Crimea to Russian control, Mustafa Cemilev says. Now,...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Most Belarusian Officers Ready to Take Orders from Moscow,...
Paul Goble Staunton, September 12 – Despite Alyaksandr Lukashenka’s statements against Russian actions in Ukraine and the support he may be winning in the Belarusian population as a result,...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Moscow Now ‘Largest Muslim City’ in Russia
Paul Goble Staunton, September 13 -- While Moscow may be a city which is “Russian by spirit, culture and language, the Russian capital with some 1.5 to 2 million followers of Islam is “at...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Kaliningraders’ Loyalty to Moscow 'Falling' as a Result of...
Paul Goble Staunton, September 13 – Officials in Moscow who “constantly fear mythical Kaliningrad separatism” are as a result “closing their eyes to all the remaining difficulties” there,...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Finno-Ugric Activists in Crimea Increase Contacts with...
Paul Goble Staunton, September 13 – The Parma Society, a group created in 2009 to help preserve and develop the cultures and languages of Finno-Ugric peoples living in Crimea, is moving to...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Moscow Won’t Succeed in Building Kerch Bridge to Crimea,...
Paul Goble Staunton, September 13 – Russia will not be able to build a bridge across the Kerch Strait to link occupied Crimea with the Russian Federation, according to a Ukrainian scholar....
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Shanghai Cooperation Council Now a ‘Military Union,’...
Paul Goble Staunton, September 13 – The Shanghai Cooperation Organization was not formed “as an analogue to the European Union or NATO,” according to a Russian commentary, but the increase...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: No Non-Military Solutions to Putin’s War in Ukraine Exist,...
Paul Goble Staunton, September 14 – It has become a mantra among Western leaders and commentators that the only solution to the fighting in Ukraine is a diplomatic one involving...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: More than Half of Iran’s Population is Azerbaijani, Baku...
Paul Goble Staunton, September 14 – Sabir Rustamkhaly, a deputy in the Azerbaijani parliament, said that ethnic Azerbaijanis now form 52 percent of the population of Iran and that Baku...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Russian Occupation Bringing Soviet Times Back to Crimea,...
Paul Goble Staunton, September 14 – The Russian occupation of Crimea has brought with it a return to “Soviet times in their most cynical manifestations,” one without freedom but with...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Moscow Patriarch has No Influence on Kremlin Policy,...
Paul Goble Staunton, September 14 – Patriarch Kirill of the Russian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate has “no influence on Russian President Vladimir Putin or on Kremlin policy,”...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Might Another ‘Stan’ Disappear from Central Asia?
Paul Goble Staunton, September 14 – Central Asians never have been happy that many in the outside world lump them altogether as “the stans” or under an even more disparaging rubric. Earlier...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: 3500 Russian Soldiers have Died in Putin’s War in Ukraine,...
Paul Goble Staunton, September 15 – More than 3500 Russian soldiers have died in Ukraine in the course of Vladimir Putin’s war against the Ukrainian people, according to Elena Vasilyeva of...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Russians Deny Separatism Exists in Kuban but Bring Charges...
Paul Goble Staunton, September 15 – The FSB has brought charges against four Russians in Krasnodar kray for promoting separatism there, the first such application in the country of the law...
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