Window on Eurasia: End of Long-Wave Radio in Russia Hurts Kazan Tatars and...
Paul Goble Staunton, September 19 – Many people connected with international broadcasting have lamented the passing of shortwave broadcasting because it means that it is difficult if not...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: If Putin Isn’t Stopped in Ukraine, He Will Move against...
Paul Goble Staunton, September 20 – If the West does not stop Vladimir Putin’s campaign to subordinate Ukraine to Moscow, then the Kremlin leader will move against the Baltic countries even...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Putin Deputy Wants to End Russia’s Subordination to...
Paul Goble Staunton, September 20 – Yevgeny Fedorov, a member of the pro-Putin United Russia fraction in the Russian State Duma, is circulating a petition calling for a constitutional...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Putin has Called Core Myth of Russians into Question,...
Paul Goble Staunton, September 20 – By his incautious remarks about the absence of a state tradition in Kazakhstan and his invasion of Ukraine, Vladimir Putin has unintentionally called...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Gagauz Leaders More Russian than Gagauz, Komrat Editor Says
Paul Goble Staunton, September 20 – The Gagauz Autonomy was established in Moldova to protect and promote the Gagauz language, but according to Todur Zanet, editor of “Ana Sozu,” those who...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Putin has Made Terrorism an Integral Part of Russian State...
Paul Goble Staunton, September 20 – Leaders of various countries have exploited terrorist attacks against their countries for their own purposes, but Vladimir Putin has made terrorism an...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Putin Cleverly Exploits Three Weaknesses of the West
Staunton, September 21 – Vladimir Putin appears stronger than he is because he is exploiting three weaknesses of the West: confusion among journalists of balance and objectivity, a desire...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Western Leaders ‘Don’t Understand at All’ What is...
Paul Goble Staunton, September 21 – Aleksandr Sotnik, who has set up an independent television studio in Moscow, says that “unfortunately Western politicians absolutely do not understand...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Turkmenistan Said Ending Its International Isolation
Paul Goble September 21 – None of the former Soviet republics has isolated itself so thoroughly from the outside world as Turkmenistan, a policy that has reflected the calculation of...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Can a Pensioner Revive One of Russia’s Smallest Dying...
Paul Goble Staunton, September 21 – Many of the smaller languages in the Russian Federation are dying, with the United Nations and other institutions saying that they will die out in a...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Evangelical Protestants in Ukraine and Their Émigré...
Paul Goble Staunton, September 21 – Many Evangelical Protestants in Ukraine and who emigrated to the United States at the end of the Soviet period are critical of the aspirations of most...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: How Putin Broke the Overton Window in Russia and Made the...
Paul Goble Staunton, September 22 – In every country at all times, there is a range of views which are considered politically acceptable and ones which are beyond that range. American...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: West’s Realpolitik has Convinced Putin He Can Do What He...
Paul Goble Staunton, September 22 – The West bears part of the blame for the crisis in Ukraine, Mikhail Khodorkovsky says, because its pursuit of “so-called ‘Realpolitik’” has convinced...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Moscow Blocks Numerically Small Peoples from Attending UN...
Paul Goble Staunton, September 22 – In a break with recent practice but a return to harsher Soviet traditions, Moscow has blocked several representatives of its numerically small...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Iran’s Water Shortages have Domestic and Foreign Policy...
Paul Goble Staunton, September 22 – Iran is now facing such severe water shortages in the capital city that it has been forced to raise prices and limit the use of water by industries, thus...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Kaliningrad Separatism Now a Foreign Policy and Domestic...
Paul Goble Staunton, September 22 – Statements by Lithuanian and Polish commentators about Kaliningrad and actions by the Russian authorities against activists in that non-contiguous...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: What Putin Intends to Provoke in the Baltic Countries
Paul Goble Staunton, September 23 – Just as the purpose of terror is to terrorize, the purpose of provocation is to provoke – and if the targets of a provocation understand what the one...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Can Moscow Avoid ‘Losing’ Siberia to China as Ukraine is...
Paul Goble Staunton, September 23 – Sometimes the fact that someone is asking a question at all is more important than the answer he or she offers. That is almost certainly the case with a...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Clericalization of Schools Said Undermining Russia’s...
Paul Goble Staunton, September 23 – Pressured by the Russian Orthodox Church, the Russian education ministry is preparing to dramatically expand the number of hours school children spend...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: ‘There Was No March But the Traitors Were Found’ – How...
Paul Goble Staunton, September 23 – In an article bearing the title “There was No March But the Traitors were Found,” Anatoly Tsygankov, “the chief political observer of Karelia,” according...
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