Window on Eurasia: A Russian Maidan Could Take Place Outside of Moscow
Paul Goble Staunton, November 11 – The Russian political system is so hyper-centralized and Russian political culture is so Moscow-centric that almost all discussions about radical change...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Putin, Not Poroshenko, has Destroyed Future of the Russian...
Paul Goble Staunton, November 11 – Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko criticized by some for saying that Russia will never have the status of a state language in in his country is doing...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Turkey Reaffirms Its Support for Crimean Tatars and will...
Paul Goble Staunton, November 11 – Even as Moscow and the Russian occupation authorities continue their efforts to disorder and oppress the Crimean Tatars, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlyut...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: To Challenge Putin, Russian Opposition Must Oppose Him on...
Paul Goble Staunton, November 11 – Failure to challenge Vladimir Putin about the Crimean Anschluss, “the cornerstone of today’s ‘Putin consensus,’” works to the benefit of the Kremlin...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Putin Asks Russians to Feel His Pain over Lack of Respect,...
Paul Goble Staunton, November 11 – A remarkable change has come over Vladimir Putin in recent months, one that few anticipated but that carries with it some serious risks. He is no longer...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Russians in Regions View Impact of Sanctions on Muscovites...
Paul Goble Staunton, November 12 – Russians beyond the ring road see the negative impact of sanctions on Muscovites and Petersburgers as simple justice because they think that people in the...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Geopolitics Now Dominates Moscow’s Approach to Regions,...
Paul Goble Staunton, November 12 – Moscow no longer has the funds or access to foreign investment to promote either growth or equalization in Russia’s regions and instead has opted for a...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Putin Said Organizing ‘Separatist International’ Against...
Paul Goble Staunton, November 12 – Vladimir Putin is organizing a “separatist international” against European countries, thus combining two of his more widely recognized policies: promoting...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Russia Needs Not Just a Nationalities Ministry but a...
Paul Goble Staunton, November 12 – Because of the problems the Russian Federation faces with ethnic issues in the wake of the Crimean annexation, Gugo Vormsbekher, a Russian German...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Why Some Russians Call Americans ‘Pindoses’ – the...
Paul Goble Staunton, November 12 – Most ethnic slurs are so obviously derived from the names or stereotypes of another ethnic group that one need devote little time to where they come from,...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Putin Proposing Molotov-Ribbentrop-Style Grand Bargain to...
Paul Goble Staunton, November 13 – Vladimir Putin is proposing the kind of grand bargain to Barack Obama that Hitler proposed to Neville Chamberlain and then to Joseph Stalin, in which the...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Focusing on Russian Nation, Patriarch Kirill Never...
Paul Goble Staunton, November 13 – Many have noted that the current Moscow patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church is more a politician than a religious figure, but such comments are often...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Moscow’s Moves in Georgia Intended to Cut off Central Asia...
Paul Goble Staunton, November 13 – “The victory of pro-Russian forces in Georgia would be a catastrophe not only for Georgia,” Gela Vasadze, the head of the “Svobodnaya zona” portal, says,...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Russian Minister’s Chukchi Joke No Laughing Matter for...
Paul Goble Staunton, November 13 – Ethnic jokes by political figures misfire in most countries, and a Chukchi joke by Russian Economic Development Minister Aleksey Ulyukayev has now sparked...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Could People of Mixed Nationality Determine the Fate of...
Paul Goble Staunton, November 13 – As many as 40 million residents of the Russian Federation – almost 30 percent of the total -- are people of mixed ethnicity, either because they are the...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Moscow May No Longer Have the Money to Prop Up Lukashenka,...
Paul Goble Staunton, November 14 – As a result of its economic crisis which has been exacerbated by Western sanctions and Moscow’s own counter-sanctions, the Russian government no longer...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Patriarch’s Definition of ‘Russianness’ Will Alienate All...
Paul Goble Staunton, November 14 – The World Russian Popular Assembly under the chairmanship of Patriach Kirill of the Russian Orthodox Church adopted “a declaration on Russian identity”...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Calls for Latinization of Ukrainian Alphabet on...
Paul Goble Staunton, November 14 – Renewed calls by some Ukrainians to shift the alphabet of their national language from one based on Cyrillic characters to a Latin-based script in order...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Fall of Berlin Wall Did Not End East-West Divide, Sukhov Says
Paul Goble Staunton, November 14 – The fall of the Berlin Wall 25 years ago did not end the division between East and West as some imagine. Instead, that division, although it now runs...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Behind the Scenes in the Kremlin: Toward a Dictatorship or...
Paul Goble Staunton, November 14 – Some Moscow commentators say that sanctions and the worsening condition of the Russian economy is creating a Hobbesian world within the Russian elites...
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