Window on Eurasia: Circassians Following in the Footsteps of the Crimean...
Paul Goble Staunton, June 15 – The Circassians up to now have followed the same script that the Crimean Tatars have, albeit with a delay of almost a generation, according to a Russian...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Ukrainian Nationalists Planning to Train Russian...
Paul Goble Staunton, June 15 – Radical Ukrainian nationalists, some of whom fought against Moscow in Chechnya and others who have been involved in demonstrations in Stavropol kray, say that...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Russian Nationalists Obsessed with Islamic Extremism are...
Paul Goble Staunton, June 16 – Russian nationalists obsessed with the supposed spread of Islamist extremism across the Russian Federation represent a real “fifth column,” whose works can...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Putin’s Unfunded Mandates Costing Moscow Support East of...
Paul Goble Staunton, June 17 – Siberia and the Russian Far East are supposed to come up with the money to pay for Vladimir Putin’s promise to develop those regions, an arrangement officials...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Moscow’s Harassment of North Peoples Continues --This Time...
Paul Goble Staunton, June 16 – Moscow’s harassment of activists among the numerically small peoples of the North continues, but the latest instance of this – Moscow’s demand for the...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Three Re-Interpretations of the Soviet Past and Russia’s...
Paul Goble Staunton, June 18 –Three new re-interpretations of the Soviet past –one that argues Stalin’s greatest mistake was annexing Western Ukraine, a second that asserts the communist...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: MGIMO Analyst Sees Border Changes Ahead for Central Asia
Paul Goble Staunton, June 18 – Andrey Kazantsev, the director of the Analytic Center of the Russian Foreign Ministry’s Moscow Institute for the Study of International Relations (MGIMO), says...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Russians’ Lack of Trust Explains Their Xenophobia and...
Paul Goble Staunton, June 19 – Strikingly low levels of inter-personal trust among Russians, the result of the experiences of Soviet times, explain both their xenophobic reactions to...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Do the ‘Arab Spring’ and ‘Turkish Summer’ Point to a...
Paul Goble Staunton, June 19 – The presidential election campaign in Tajikistan has not yet begun, but already those surround President Emomali Rahmon are “in a panic” that “the Arab Spring”...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Demographic Shifts Undermining Stability in Northwestern...
Paul Goble Staunton, June 20 – The ethnic and religious structure of the populations of the republics of the Northwestern Caucasus have been dramatically changed over the last two decades by...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Tuvans Create Buddhist-Orthodox Council, Reflecting Wishes...
Paul Goble Staunton, June 20 – Religious leaders from the Kyzyl bishopric of the Russian Orthodox Church and from the Union of Buddhists of Tuva, with the enthusiastic backing of the...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Clans in Daghestan Not Like Those in Moscow, Abdulatipov Says
Paul Goble Staunton, June 20 – Daghestan does not have clans and clannishness in the sense in which people talk about it in Moscow, according to acting republic head Ramzan Abdulatipov, but...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Sochi Countdown -- 33 Weeks to the Olympiad in the North...
Note: This is my 17th special Window on Eurasia about the meaning and impact of the planned Olympiad on the nations in the surrounding region. These WOEs, which will appear each Friday over the...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Russia and Belarus Facing Demographic Disasters, Experts Say
Paul Goble Staunton, June 21 – The Russian Federation has only five years take steps to prevent “a demographic catastrophe” there, according to a group of the government’s own expert...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Central Asian Voting in Local Russian Elections...
Paul Goble Staunton, June 22 – Citizens of Kyrgyzsan, Turkmennistan, Tajikistan and Belarus who have residence permits in the Russian Federation have the right to vote and be elected as...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Bashkir Imam Says No One Now Safe from Provocations
Paul Goble Staunton, June 22 – “No one is safe from provocations,” an imam in Bashkortostan says, adding that in this regard this situation for Muslims there today is even worse than it was...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Polluted Volga an Ecological Disaster for 60 Million Russians
Paul Goble Staunton, June 24 – The increasingly polluted Volga River is creating ahealth crisis for the 60 million Russian citizens who live in its enormous and economically important basin,...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Half of Capital Flight from Russia Leaving via Customs...
Paul Goble Staunton, June 24 – Russians have long been upset by the influx of Central Asia and Caucasian gastarbeiters, but now they have an additional reason to be worried about the impact...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Russia’s Liberals Share Blame for Survival of Moscow’s...
Paul Goble Staunton, June 24 – Russia’s liberals played a key role in pushing through the economic reforms which made a return to communism impossible, but they failed to help the country to...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Ecological Protests Again Basis for Broader Political...
Paul Goble Staunton, June 25 – The ecological protests in Voronezh oblasts in the course of which a geologists’ camp was burned can become just as environmental activism in 1988 did the...
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