Window on Eurasia: A Majority of Russians Say Putin ‘Most Democratic Ruler...
Paul Goble Staunton, October 9 -- A majority of Russians consider that Russia is living through “the most democratic period in its history” and that “Vladimir Putin is the most democratic...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Bad Roads – a Domestic Russian Problem So Bad Putin Can’t...
Paul Goble Staunton, October 10 – The state of Russia’s road system, which now ranks 136th out of 144 countries evaluated, is so bad that even Vladimir Putin, who recently has been given to...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Ukrainian Crisis has Killed Constructive Russian...
Paul Goble Staunton, October 10 – In 2011-2012, Emil Pain says, “a new elite Russian nationalism” concerned about the promotion of civil values and democracy emerged, but this “new...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: ‘Russia Doesn’t Have a Majority in the CIS on Ukraine,’...
Paul Goble Staunton, October 10 – While the Commonwealth of Independent States has never been a democratic union of equals, it is nonetheless true that “the CIS is not just Russia,” as...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Older Tatars in Moscow Forming Prayer Rooms to Avoid...
Paul Goble Staunton, October 10 – Older Tatars, who until two decades ago, were the defining face of Islam in Moscow are now retreating to self-organized prayer rooms to avoid having to...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Russians Look to China, Not CIS, in Time of Need
Paul Goble Staunton, October 10 – Despite Vladimir Putin’s repeated insistence that the former Soviet republics are the focus of Russian foreign policy, when things get tough for the...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Kremlin Attack on Memorial Part of a Desire to Restore...
Paul Goble Staunton, October 11 – The legal theory underlying the Russian justice ministry’s suit to shut down the Memorial Human Rights Society is taken not from any law but rather from...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Including the Crimean Tatars in Russia ‘Changes Russia’s...
Paul Goble Staunton, October 11 – Vladimir Putin’s Anschluss of Crimea has had many unintended consequences but one that may ultimately prove to be especially important is the way in which...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: 1600 Russian Soldiers Have Died in Ukraine since Mensk...
Paul Goble Staunton, October 11 – In yet another indication that there has not been a ceasefire in Ukraine and that Russian forces are actively involved there, Elena Vasilyeva, a Russian...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Ufa Blocks Bashkir Demonstration on Basis of...
Paul Goble Staunton, October 11 – In what appears to be part of a new trend in the Russian Federation, officials in Ufa have denied a group that wanted to hold a demonstration on the...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Russian Provocations in Ukraine Follow Classic Soviet Model
Paul Goble Staunton, October 11 – Yesterday, the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Kyiv Patriarchate said that Russian special services are planning provocations against that denomination on...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Russian Officials from Sochi Olympiad Transit Now Working...
Paul Goble Staunton, October 12 – In a development that some will see as encouraging but most as an indication of more troubles ahead, the officials who handled the development of the...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Belarusian Economy Not Ready to Integrate with East or...
Paul Goble Staunton, October 12 – Most discussions of the prospects for the integration of post-Soviet states in Vladimir Putin’s Eurasian Economic Union or alternatively the EU are based...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Disconnect between Russia’s Economic Problems and Support...
Paul Goble Staunton, October 12 – All major economic indicators in Russia have been in negative territory this year but popular support for Vladimir Putin remains at an all-time high, a...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: If Kyiv Created a‘Ukrainian Crimea’ in Kherson, Might...
Paul Goble Staunton, October 12 – Mustafa Cemilev, the longtime leader of the Crimean Tatars, has proposed transferring part of the territory of Kherson Oblast to the Autonomous Republic of...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Now News from Russia’s Federal Districts
Paul Goble Staunton, October 12 – Many American newspapers now feature sections devoted to the top story in individual states or regions of the country on a weekly or even daily basis, but...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Not by Propaganda Alone – the Birth of a [Russian] Nation
Paul Goble Staunton, October 13 – Most commentaries on Russian attitudes since the Crimean Anschluss have focused on the role of the Kremlin’s propaganda apparatus in creating a new sense...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: New Regionalist Party in Ukraine Can Show the Way Forward...
Paul Goble Staunton, October 13 – Vadim Shtepa, perhaps Russia’s leading advocate of regionalism and federalism, says that the new Mutual Assistance Party led by Lviv Mayor Andrey Sadovy...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Ukrainian War Radicalizing Russian Extreme Right,...
Paul Goble Staunton, October 13 – Members of the Russian extreme right are taking part in the fighting in Ukraine on both sides, and they are returning from that conflict with increasingly...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Moscow Effort to Hijack Heritage of Crimean Tatar...
Paul Goble Staunton, October 13 – An exhibit at the Oriental Museum in Moscow designed to show that the great Crimean Tatar enlightenment leader Ismail Gasprinski “did everything so that...
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