Window on Eurasia: Nationality Issue Destroying Russia Just as It Destroyed...
Paul Goble Staunton, November 15 – The nationality issue together with “the crisis in the political economy of socialism” destroyed the Soviet Union a generation ago. “Today in Russia, we...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: A Real Internet Threat to Russia – Social Networks for...
Paul Goble Staunton, November 15 – Russian drinkers looking for a second or a third to share a bottle of vodka have long been a feature of public life in their country. Now, the Internet is...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Russian Draftees Refuse Military’s Plans to Send Them to...
Paul Goble Staunton, November 15 – Some 250 Russian draftees at a military base in Rostov oblast have rejected the appeals of their commanders to sign up as contract soldiers, a step that...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: One Tajik Migrant Worker in Five in Russia Ready to...
Paul Goble Staunton, November 15 – Nearly one Tajik migrant worker in five now in Russia – 18 percent -- is ready to support a jihad financially or in other ways, a reflection of the fact...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Local Studies -- A Geographic Interest the Kremlin Doesn’t...
Paul Goble Staunton, November 15 – Despite Vladimir Putin’s recent statements that Russians should more actively focus on geography, there is one kind of attention to that subject which...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Putin has Left Russians with No Options but Submission or...
Paul Goble Staunton, November 16 – By creating a dictatorship, Vladimir Putin has left Russians without any choice except submission, possibly with the appearance of a struggle against him,...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Russian Penal System Unwittingly Helping to Spread Radical...
Paul Goble Staunton, November 16 – Prisons in many countries have often become seedbeds for radicalism, but rarely have those in charge done more to make that so that the Russian Federal...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Toward an International of Resistance to Russian Occupations
Paul Goble Staunton, November 16 – Demonstrations in Tbilisi and Kyiv yesterday are the latest and most public indication of a development that not only challenges Vladimir Putin’s seizure...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Forces Transforming Nation States Increasingly Threaten...
Paul Goble Staunton, November 16 – Nation states are increasingly joining together to form supra-national organizations even as they have been forced to recognize the vitality of...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Tatarstan Gets Its Own Domain Extension, DOT TATAR
Paul Goble Staunton, November 16 – Moscow’s effort to strip Tatarstan of the office of president has received more attention, but the Russian government has made a concession which in...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Moscow Patriarchate’s Orthodoxy isn’t Christianity, Kokh Says
Paul Goble Staunton, November 17 – Many have been troubled by policies of the Moscow Patriarchate that are inconsistent with the Christian tradition, but now Alfred Kokh, a former Russian...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: An Ethnic Russian Nation Does Not Exist, Russian...
Paul Goble Staunton, November 17 – Russian nationalists have long insisted that a supra-national non-ethnic Russian identity not only doesn’t exist but undermines Russian identity, but now...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: G-20 Summit’s Treatment of Putin Recalls Reagan’s ‘Evil...
Paul Goble Staunton, November 17 – The treatment the leaders of the G-20 countries meted out to Vladimir Putin suggests that they have finally decided that they cannot and must not deal...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Moscow’s Talk about ‘Fifth Column’ Leading Directly to...
Paul Goble Staunton, November 17 – Anti-Semitism has a long and horrific history in Russia, Olga Irisova writes, and every time Moscow has “tightened the screws” and focused as now on the...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Unsolved Fire Bombings of Mosques in Occupied Crimea...
Paul Goble Staunton, November 17 – Fire bombings of Crimean Tatar mosques, the latest case of which occurred in Kos last week, have sparked fears that they are part of a broader effort by...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: For Putin, Ukraine is All about Maintaining His Own Power,...
Paul Goble Staunton, November 18 – Vladimir Putin’s actions in Ukraine are not part of a broader imperial program but rather a tactical move on the part of the Kremlin leader to shore up...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Moscow Risks Radicalizing Muslims in Crimea by Its Harsh...
Paul Goble Staunton, November 18 – Islam in Crimea traces its history back to the time of the Prophet and for most of that time, its followers have been moderate, even progressive in their...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Putin, Now Marginalized Internationally, May Become Even...
Paul Goble Staunton, November 18 – The G-20 meeting in Brisbane demonstrated that “the marginalization of Putin is a fait accompli,” that he has failed to split the West, and that its...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Russians Beginning to Laugh at Putin
Paul Goble Staunton, November 18 – A leader, someone has said, can tolerate almost any attack, but he needs to worry if people begin to laugh at him. Russians have a long history of telling...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Moscow has Effectively Ceded Central Asia to China, Tajik...
Paul Goble Staunton, November 18 – Articles predicting in apocalyptic terms that Vladimir Putin’s deals with China will lead to Russia’s loss of Siberia and the Far East are now a regular...
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