Window on Eurasia: Radical Islamists Promote Use of Russian in Mosques,...
Paul Goble Staunton, June 25 – Radical Islamist groups as part of their drive to create a single, united Muslim community are behind a current push for the use of the Russian language in...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Non-Russian Regions Suffering from Putin’s Amalgamation Plan
Paul Goble Staunton, June 25 – Even as Russian officials once again have begun talking about re-starting Vladimir Putin’s push for regional amalgamation, representatives of two non-Russian...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Russia Unlike Other Republics Still ‘a Product of Soviet...
Paul Goble Staunton, June 26 – The non-Russian republics of the former Soviet Union “to one degree or another have entered the modern world” and become nation states, but the Russian...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Shift to Kazakh in Kazakhstan Mosques Driving...
Paul Goble Staunton, June 26 – If the shift from Tatar to Russian in the mosques of the Russian Federation is driving some Muslims into the hands of extremist groups, the situation in...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Russians a ‘Disappearing Nation’ Even in Belarus
Paul Goble Staunton, June 26 – Ethnic Russians have “no problems” in Belarus – their language is an official one and dominates the public sphere, and there is no tradition of Russophobia...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Only Civic Nationalism Can Save Russia, Pain Says
Paul Goble Staunton, June 27 – Emil Pain, perhaps Russia’s leading specialist on inter-ethnic relations, says that only the transformation of ethnic Russian nationalism can save Russia, a...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Generational Renewal of Tatar National Movement Taking...
Paul Goble Staunton, June 27 – The Tatar national movement, which had been dominated by people born before 1960, is increasingly being taken over by those born after 1985 rather than by...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Russia Will Not Survive in Its Current Borders, Russian...
Paul Goble Staunton, June 27 – A St. Petersburg regionalist argues in a new book, “Global Separatism as a Means of Overcoming ‘The End of History’,” that Russia is unlikely to survive in its...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Sochi Countdown -- 32 Weeks to the Olympiad in the North...
Note: This is my 18th 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: Moscow Now Arming Both Sides in Yet Another Post-Soviet...
Paul Goble Staunton, June 29 – Moscow’s decision to sell arms to Azerbaijan while continuing to be the main weapons supplier to Armenia has attracted widespread attention given the potential...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Fewer than Half of RF Citizens See Themselves as ‘Civic’...
Paul Goble Staunton, June 29 – Only 45 percent of the citizens of the Russian Federation currently view themselves as members of a civic Russian nation, a poll finding that has forced Moscow...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Moscow’s Effort to Divide Kazan Tatars Suffers Another Defeat
Paul Goble Staunton, June 30 – Over the last decade, Russian nationalist activists and officials have sought to boost the Kryashens, a small community consisting of Russian Orthodox Tatars,...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Turkmenistan’s Authoritarianism Leading to Rise of...
Paul Goble Staunton, June 30 – The harsh authoritarian regime of Turkmenistan President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov has erected a façade of stability and well-being that conceals the extent to...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Kremlin Making Russia into a Potemkin Village for the...
Paul Goble Staunton, July 1 – The Kremlin is building yet another “Potemkin Village,” this time not limited to a few rural spots or erected to impress its own ruler but instead covering the...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Moscow behind New Gagauz Independence Drive, Chisinau Says
Paul Goble Staunton, July 1 – Moldovan President Nicolae Timofti says a new effort by Gagauz activists to gain independence for their Turkic region via referendum is the work of those who...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: One Russian in Eight No Longer Views Chechnya as Part of...
Paul Goble Staunton, July 1 – Twelve percent of Russians say Chechnya is already independent, 24 percent say they would welcome that outcome, and 27 percent more suggest they’d be...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Islamist Militants in North Caucasus More Often from...
Paul Goble Staunton, July 2 – Young people who have joined the Islamist underground in the North Caucasus more often come from families of committed atheists than from those who kept Islam...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Beijing’s ‘Carrots and Sticks’ Keep Xinjiang from Being a...
Paul Goble Staunton, July 2 – China’s massive investments in Xinjiang combined with its willingness to repress quickly any challenges to its rule there is keeping that still 50 percent...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Non-Russians in Saratov City Plan to Set Up Cossack-Style...
Paul Goble Staunton, July 3 – Now that Cossacks have their own patrols in many Russian Federation locales, non-Russians in the Saratov oblast city of Volsk say they plan to set up...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Moscow Tells Regional Officials Not to Draft North...
Paul Goble Staunton, July 3 – Moscow has ordered regional officials not to draft North Caucasians or Muscovites, according to military commissar of Raduzhny in the Khanty-Mansiisk Autonomous...
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