Window on Eurasia: ‘Putin Doesn’t Know Kazakh History,’ Olzhas Suleymenov Says
Paul Goble Staunton, September 23 – Olzhas Suleymenov, Kazakhstan’s most internationally prominent intellectual and author of the controversial Soviet-era study “Az i Ya” about the Mongol...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Russians’ Greatest Fears Coming True, Undermining...
Paul Goble Staunton, September 24 – The eight developments Russians identified as of their greatest fears are all coming true, and that pattern regardless of what else happens undermines...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Crimean Tatars Must Prepare for New Deportation, Expert Warns
Paul Goble Staunton, September 24 – Igor Semivolos, director of the Kyiv Center for Near Eastern Research, says that the Crimean Tatars must prepare themselves for what had been unthinkable...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Minority Nations in Russia Unite and Denounce Putin’s...
Paul Goble Staunton, September 24 – Like its Soviet predecessors, the Putin regime has adopted three strategies in dealing with the non-Russian quarter of the population: increasing...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Russian Military Activities on Wrangel Island Threaten...
Paul Goble Staunton, September 24 – Moscow’s decision to conduct a military exercise on Wrangel Island and its dispatch there of soldiers from the Eastern Military District threatens the...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Russian Economic Problems Hitting Central Asia Hard,...
Paul Goble Staunton, September 24 – The economic problems of the Russian Federation, some of which have been exacerbated by the sanctions and counter-sanctions regime, are now spreading to...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: How a Russian Émigré in China Created the Idea of the...
Paul Goble Staunton, September 25 – Many in Russia and the West have been struck or even confused by the tendency of Russian scholars, commentators, and activists especially since the end...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Zhirinovsky’s Plan for Ukraine’s Destruction Must Be Taken...
Paul Goble Staunton, September 25 – At a time when Vladimir Putin has made what was earlier unthinkable into reality, it would be a major mistake to ignore a recent statement by Vladimir...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: West Won’t Challenge Lukashenka Regime Because It Wants...
Paul Goble Staunton, September 25 – Western leaders may still refer to Belarusian leader Alyaksandr Lukashenka as “the last dictator in Europe,” but in the wake of the events in Ukraine,...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Kremlin Using Katyn Strategy in Ukraine to Cover Its Own...
Paul Goble Staunton, September 25 – Just as the Soviet government sought to evade its responsibility for the murder of Polish officers during World War II by blaming the Germans, so too the...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Putin War Budget Gives Less to Health, Education,...
Paul Goble Staunton, September 25 – According to experts surveyed by “Novyye izvestiya” concerning changing budgetary priorities of the Russian government, “2015 promises to be the last...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: ‘Novorossiya’ is where a National Socialist Future for...
Paul Goble Staunton, September 26 – The pro-Moscow militants in Ukraine’s Donbas backed by Russian forces represent a threat not only to the territorial integrity of Ukraine but to the...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Russian Occupiers in Crimea Shut and then Reopen...
Paul Goble Staunton, September 25 – Four days after the Russian occupation authorities closed down the Gasprinsky Library in Simferopol as part of their effort to rein in the Crimean...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Russian Duma Deputy Wants California and Alaska Back
Paul Goble Staunton, September 26 – Mikhail Degtyarev, a LDPR Duma deputy, has asked the Russian foreign ministry to clarify the status of land that had belonged to Russia in what is now...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Donbas Violence Producing as Many IDPs within Ukraine as...
Paul Goble Staunton, September 26 – Nearly one million people have fled from the Donbas into other parts of Ukraine as a result of the violence there, according to the United Nations...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Putin’s ‘Russian World’ Death Knell for Civic Russian...
Paul Goble Staunton, September 26 – Rashit Akhmetov, the editor of the Kazan weekly “Zvezda Povolzhya,” says that Vladimir Putin’s promotion of the idea of a “Russian world” is the death...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: To Avoid Disaster, Russia Needs a New Federation Treaty,...
Paul Goble Staunton, September 27 – Russia does not face any prospect of disintegrating in the way that the Soviet Union did – Moscow has changed the situation too much for that to happen –...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: ‘No One in Baltic Countries Can Sleep Peacefully,’...
Paul Goble Staunton, September 27 – No one in Estonia, Latvia or Lithuania should be sleeping peacefully given the threat that Vladimir Putin poses to all three and the failure of the West...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Dugin’s Influence in the Kremlin on the Wane, Abarinov Says
Paul Goble Staunton, September 27 – Aleksandr Dugin, the source of Vladimir Putin’s notions about “Novorossiya,” is rapidly losing his influence in the Kremlin because of his misreading of...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Putin’s Tragedy is Power without Purpose, Stanovya Says
Paul Goble Staunton, September 27 – Vladimir Putin has accumulated all the power he could possibly need to move in almost any direction, but despite that, “it is impossible to define with...
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