Window on Eurasia: Orthodoxy Formed Russia Just as Protestantism Formed US,...
Paul Goble Staunton, November 23 – There are Russians who are Muslims and Russians who are Jews, but they like Russians who are Orthodox recognize that “Orthodoxy formed Russia just as...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: De-Stalinization Hasn’t Been Completed in Russia, Lukin Says
Paul Goble Staunton, November 23 – De-Stalinization will have occurred not when everyone denounces Stalin in a chorus at the direction of the state but rather when each person can assess...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Putin Prepared to Start Nuclear War to Keep Power and...
Paul Goble Staunton, November 23 – Sergey Kolesnikov, who earlier attracted attention for an article entitled “Putin Forever!” (vedomosti.ru/opinion/news/1526746/putin_navsegda), now says...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Moscow’s Moves in Ukraine Limit Its Ability to Back...
Paul Goble Staunton, November 23 – Moscow’s intervention in Ukraine, undertaken in the name of defending ethnic Russians, has had the unintended consequence of making it more rather than...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Another Regional Ministry – This Time for the Arctic –...
Paul Goble Staunton, November 23 – “Kommersant” reported last week that Moscow is planning to create a Ministry for Arctic Affairs (kommersant.ru/doc/2614533) on the pattern of the other...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Putin’s Loose Talk about Nuclear Weapons Threatens Russia...
Paul Goble Staunton, November 24 – Loose talk by Vladimir Putin and others in Moscow about using nuclear weapons not only has united the West in ways that nothing else, including Russian...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Putinism a Cult With the Pluses and Minuses Thereof,...
Paul Goble Staunton, November 24 – Putinism is “a pseudo-religious and quasi-political cult” which has arisen over the course of the last year and which has “consolidated society around...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Putin has Made the Unthinkable Almost Unnoticed,...
Paul Goble Staunton, November 24 – One of the most dangerous developments for which Vladimir Putin is responsible is that the lies he and his regime regularly employ and the actions they...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Western Sanctions Hurt Russia But Saved Putin, Kashin Says
Paul Goble Staunton, November 24 – No one can deny that Western sanctions and the declining price of oil have had a negative impact on Russia, but few recognize the other side of the coin:...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Failures of Russian Law Enforcement Leading More Russians...
Paul Goble Staunton, November 24 – Russians increasingly want to have the right to carry guns for the same reason many people in the United States say they do – their conviction that police...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Circassians, Crimean Tatars Linking Up to Oppose Moscow,...
Paul Goble Staunton, November 25 – The Circassians and Crimean Tatars are linking up as part of a broader plan orchestrated by Turkey and the West to undermine Russian influence in the...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Russian-Ukrainian War Could Have Begun in 1991, Ikhlov Says
Paul Goble Staunton, November 25 – The Russian-Ukrainian war now going on could have begun in 1991when the Soviet Union collapsed, and the fact that it didn’t says a great deal about the...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Russian Environmentalist Continues to Fight for Ecology...
Paul Goble Staunton, November 25 – Yevgeny Vitishko, who is currently serving a three-year sentence in the Russian camps for exposing Moscow’s destruction of the environment around Sochi in...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Putin’s Russia is a Country Without a Present or Future,...
Paul Goble Staunton, November 25 – The unwillingness of Russians to make a sharp break with the Soviet past and accept that Russia today is “a new independent state” and the efforts of...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Russian Soldiers Said Injuring Themselves to Avoid Being...
Paul Goble Staunton, November 25 – Some draftees in the Russian army are inflicting injuries on themselves in order to avoid being sent to the fighting in southeastern Ukraine, an...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Racism in Russia a Tragic and Daily Reality, SOVA Expert Says
Paul Goble Staunton, November 26 – Given the tragic events in Ferguson, Missouri, in the United States, the Russian media, in the worst traditions of their Soviet predecessors, have gone to...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Russia has Only Itself to Blame for Break with Ukraine,...
Paul Goble Staunton, November 26 – Ukrainians taking part in the Maidan last year wanted to overthrow a corrupt president and move toward Europe; they were not focused on breaking with...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Crimea Needs New Channels to Counter Russian Propaganda,...
Paul Goble Staunton, November 26 – Mustafa Cemilev, the longtime leader of the Crimean Tatars, says that he is part of an effort to create a new information network in Crimea and to have...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Russia Now the Homeland of Double Standards, Polls Show
Paul Goble Staunton, November 26 – One of the sadder aspects in Russia today is that Vladimir Putin and his regime routinely criticize others for what Moscow has in fact done or is planning...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Ukraine Seen Forming New Military ‘Troika’ with Lithuania...
Paul Goble Staunton, November 26 – Having reluctantly concluded that it will not get the assistance it needs from NATO as a whole, the Ukrainian government is seeking to obtain it by...
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