Window on Eurasia: Proper Response to Kremlin is to Make Ukraine a NATO...
Paul Goble Staunton, November 19 – Dmitry Peskov, Vladimir Putin’s press secretary, says that Russian wants to receive “a 100 percent guarantee” that “no one will think about Ukraine...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Putin May ‘Freeze’ Ukrainian Conflict but ‘Save Face’ by...
Paul Goble Staunton, November 19 – Faced with a united front in the West, Andrey Piontkovsky says, Putin may seek “to freeze the Ukrainian conflict and then to save face as a patriot of...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Kremlin Divided Only on When to Begin Full-Scale War with...
Paul Goble Staunton, November 19 – There are “no influential forces in the Kremlin now” calling for peace in Ukraine or with Russia’s other neighbors, independent Belarusian journalist...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Crimean Tatars Launch Online Petition for Recognition as...
Paul Goble Staunton, November 19 – The Crimean Tatar Resistance Organization has launched an online petition drive to gain international recognition as the indigenous people of the...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Muslims’ Ignorance of Islam Leading to Radicalization,...
Paul Goble Staunton, November 19 – The extremely low level of knowledge about traditional Islam among immigrants to Russia from Central Asia is leading to the growth of radicalism in...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: West has Means Short of War to Stop Putin in Ukraine,...
Paul Goble Staunton, November 20 – Sectoral sanctions are not enough to stop Vladimir Putin’s aggression in Ukraine, and no one in the West wants to fight a war against Russia. But because...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Civic and Ethnic Identities Can Co-Exist as Long as Times...
Paul Goble Staunton, November 20 – Russian civic identity “does not contradict” ethnic identities either of ethnic Russians or non-Russians, Leokadiya Drobizheva says, as long as economic...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Urals Club Extremely Influential in Moscow Circles
Paul Goble Staunton, November 20 – Given the low level of formal institutionalization of Russian social and political life, those who seek to understand it regularly discuss it in terms of...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Ending Gubernatorial Elections Seen Weakening Ethnic...
Paul Goble Staunton, November 20 – Legislators in the two autonomous districts in Tyumen oblast and the one in Arkhangelsk oblast, the three remaining “matryoshka” federal subjects, this...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Occupation Officials in Full Denial about Human Rights...
Paul Goble Staunton, November 20 – Human Rights Watch has released an eight-page report on “Rights in Retreat” in Crimea since the Anschluss, and the occupation authorities have gone into...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Defend Ukraine from Russian Aggression First; Then, Insist...
Paul Goble Staunton, November 21 – “September 3, 1939 –...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Putin Needs the Volga Tatars, Giving Kazan Real Leverage,...
Paul Goble Staunton, November 21 – Vladimir Putin rarely has been willing to retreat from any of his decisions even when they have clearly been shown to be wrong, but he has done so in the...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Peskov Says Ethnic Russians in Latvia Would Revolt if...
Paul Goble Staunton, November 21 – In the BBC interview in which he said Moscow wants “a 100 percent guarantee” that Ukraine will not become a member of NATO, Vladimir Putin’s press...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Putin Lost Ukraine Even Before the Maidan, Portnikov Says
Paul Goble Staunton, November 21 – On the first anniversary of the beginning of the Maidan demonstrations, Vitaly Portnikov says, it is important to understand that “Putin lost Ukraine even...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Ignoring Aksyonov, US Moves to Adopt Non-Recognition Law...
Paul Goble Staunton, November 21 – Sergey Aksyonov, head of the Russian occupation administration in Crimea, says that the international community will recognize Crimea as part of the...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: ‘Americans are Prepared to Die for Latvia,’ Nuland Says
Paul Goble Staunton, November 22 – When the Ukrainian crisis began, some commentators in the West suggested that NATO would not in the end fight to defend the Baltic countries even though...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Putin Senses Approach of a Revolution in Russia, Polish...
Paul Goble Staunton, November 22 – Faced with record capital flight and the worsening of economic conditions in Russia, Vladimir Putin senses that a color revolution is approaching in...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Russian Defense Ministry Says Red Star a Symbol of Fight...
Paul Goble Staunton, November 22 – The Russian defense ministry has rejected an appeal by Vladimir Zhirinovsky, the head of the LDPR, to do away with the five-pointed star because of its...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Russian Nationalism from the Outset is Anti-Liberal,...
Paul Goble Staunton, November 22 – Contemporary Russian nationalism, in marked contrast to the nationalisms of many other peoples now and in the past, is by definition anti-liberal because...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Putin’s Four Goals in Ukraine Point to ‘Agony’ Ahead for...
Paul Goble Staunton, November 22 – Vladimir Putin has four specific goals in Ukraine, according to Stanislav Belkovsky, and the pursuit of them will leave Ukraine fragmented, isolated from...
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