Window on Eurasia: Ukrainian Events ‘Belarusianizing’ Belarus, Kyiv...
Paul Goble Staunton, October 21 – As a result of events in Ukraine, a Kyiv commentator says, “a large number” of Belarusians has “suddenly come to understand that to be a Russian speaker...
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Window on Eurasia: 70 Percent of Ukrainians but Only 26 Percent of Russians...
Paul Goble Staunton, October 22 – Seventy percent of Ukrainians say that there is a war going on between Russia and Ukraine, while only 26 percent of Russians agree with that, a remarkable...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Russians Need a History of the Russian People and Not Just...
Paul Goble Staunton, October 22 – From the oldest manuscripts to the latest textbooks, “the entire history of Russia has been invariably presented as the history of the state” rather than...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Russia Today Lacks Resources to Use ‘Crimean Scenario’...
Paul Goble Staunton, October, 22 – The scenario Moscow used in Crimea “could be repeated in various places in the post-Soviet space,” Russian analysts say, but at present, Moscow lacks the...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Russian Government Destroying Moscow’s Medical System in...
Paul Goble Staunton, October 22 – Perhaps the most notorious comment by a US commander in Vietnam was his suggestion that his units had to “destroy the village in order to save it.” Now, a...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: New Kyiv Center Aims to Consolidate Pro-Ukrainian Muslims...
Paul Goble Staunton, October 22 – A new group appeared in Ukraine’s already complicated religious environment this week: the Ukrainian Muslim Center which its organizers say will link...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: If Moscow Returned Crimea to Ukraine, What Else Might It...
Paul Goble Staunton, October 23 – In the course of a discussion of why he argues Moscow will have to reverse the Anschluss of Crimea at the end of Russia’s war with Ukraine, Andrey...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: 5,000 Yanukovich Supporters Who Fled with Him to Russia...
Paul Goble Staunton, October 23 – Most people in Ukraine and elsewhere have focused either on the flight of former president Viktor Yanukovich or on the flow of hundreds of thousands of...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Will Kremlin’s Next Wave of ‘Little Green Men’ be...
Paul Goble Staunton, October 23 – Yesterday, Just Russia Duma deputies tabled a draft bill that would allow private firms to create under license from the FSB their own military units,...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: New Russian Film about Northern Peoples’ Rising against...
Paul Goble Staunton, October 23 – Aleksey Fedorchenko, a Yekaterinburg director, was awarded the Marcus Aurelius of the Future prize by the Rome Film Festival today for his new move,...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Putin’s Next Moves in Ukraine Won’t Be Pretty
Paul Goble Staunton, October 28 – Having failed to disrupt the Ukrainian elections, to gain support for pro-Russian candidates, or to provoke Ukrainians into voting for national extremists...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: China Could Suffer Same Fate as USSR, Uyghur Leader Says
Paul Goble Staunton, October 28 – The people of Hong Kong, together with the peoples of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Republic and Tibet, are fighting for their independence, Rabiya Kadir,...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Sixty Percent of Russians Today Live or Have Lived in...
Paul Goble Staunton, October 28 – Sixty percent of the population of the Russian Federation is either poor now or has had experience with living in poverty in the past, a figure that is no...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Putin’s New Pact with Russians Requires US be ‘Main...
Paul Goble Staunton, October 28 – Moscow political commentator Stanislav Belkovsky says that Vladimir Putin has changed the nature of his “pact” with the majority of the Russian population...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Latinization of Russian Street Signs Leading to Confusion...
Paul Goble Staunton, October 28 – Russian officials are beginning to implement a law requiring that street signs be written in Latin script as well as Cyrillic by 2018, and the results...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Anti-Semitism Re-Emerging in Russia, Moscow Jewish Writer...
Paul Goble Staunton, October 29 – A Moscow Jewish writer who attracted international attention three years ago for a column which declared that anti-Semitism no longer was a problem in the...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Putin’s Nuclear Bluster Shows He Doesn’t Understand World...
Paul Goble Staunton, October 29 – Vladimir Putin’s nuclear bluster reflects his conviction that the world is still as it was before he annexed Crimea: that Western governments will tolerate...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: A ‘Hybrid Islam’ is Emerging in Russia, Malashenko Says
Paul Goble Staunton, October 29 – “Traditional” Islam in Russia is losing ground to its ‘non-traditional” competitor, especially among the young, but the division between the two is not...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Crimean Tatars have Great Expectations from New Ukrainian...
Paul Goble Staunton, October 29 – Even though only 12-15,000 Crimean Tatars were able to participate in the Ukrainian parliamentary elections and as a result only one of their number,...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Daghestani Languages at Risk of Becoming ‘Illegal’
Paul Goble Staunton, October 29 – Officials in Daghestan, the most linguistically diverse republic in the Russian Federation, are preparing a new language law that calls for official...
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