Window on Eurasia: Moscow Renews Push toward a Single Muslim ‘Patriarchate’
Paul Goble Staunton, December 9 – The Russian government has never been pleased by the fact that it must now deal with more than 80 Muslim spiritual directorates (MSDs) rather than a single...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Moscow Ends Train Service to Many Neighboring Countries...
Paul Goble Staunton, December 12 – Because of declining demand and profitability, Russian Railways says it will suspend passenger train routes beginning on December 14th between the...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Decentralization of Ukraine ‘Impossible’ at Present,...
Paul Goble Staunton, December 9 – Despite Vladimir Putin’s call for the federalization of Ukraine and Petro Poroshenko’s suggestion that he is prepared to oversee steps toward the...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Chuvash Linking Turkic and Finno-Ugric Peoples Together to...
Paul Goble Staunton, December 9 – The Chuvash, a Christian Turkic nation which has its own republic in the Middle Volga, are, by virtue of their activism on behalf of their own language and...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Putin Wants a ‘New Munich’ on Ukraine But May Not Get It,...
Paul Goble Staunton, December 9 – The Munich agreement between Adolf Hitler and Neville Chamberlain, as some have forgotten, was a compromise between what the Nazi leader wanted and the...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Will Russia Follow the USSR into the Dustbin of History --...
Paul Goble Staunton, December 13 – Four Russian analysts suggest that the six causes they identify as being behind the collapse of the USSR are again to varying degrees present in Russia...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Central Asian Gastarbeiters Guided by Middle Eastern...
Paul Goble Staunton, December 13 – Russians have been long accustomed to thinking that the North Caucasus is the main source of a terrorist threat to their country, but the situation has...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Kremlin Worried about Nationality Problems Boosts Training...
Paul Goble Staunton, November 13 – The Kremlin has announced plans to make “ethno-politics” a course of study in three leading Russian universities and to quadruple the number of stipends...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Russia’s Cities Becoming Less Moscow- and Russia-Centric,...
Paul Goble Staunton, December 13 – Two studies about how residents of Russia’s cities feel about where they live and identify themselves suggest that the residents of Russian cities away...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Hyper-Centralization Born of the Chechen War Now Threatens...
Paul Goble Staunton, December 13 – Russia has always been a centralized state, but the current wave of hyper-centralization, itself the direct result of Moscow’s misreading of the Chechen...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Double Standards as a Double Cross on Ukraine
Paul Goble Staunton, December 14 -- In five key areas, many commentators in the West are holding Ukraine to a very different and much higher standard than Russia, an example of the double...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Is Moscow Setting the Stage for Using Tactical Nuclear...
Paul Goble Staunton, December 14 – One of the most accurate leading indicators of what Moscow is planning to do in Ukraine are the charges it makes that the West is about to do the same...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Moscow is the Largest Muslim City in Europe, Russian...
Paul Goble Staunton, December 14 – Vyacheslav Nikonov, chairman of the Russian Duma education committee and head of the Russian World Foundation, told a Muslim forum in the Russian capital...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: A Federation that Ceases to Be One Puts Itself at Risk,...
Paul Goble Staunton, December 14 – A country or group of countries which declares itself to be a federation but does not give that term real content is at risk of falling apart, while one...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Is ё the ‘Most Russian’ Letter of the Alphabet?
Paul Goble Staunton, December 14 – Even though its inventor Princess Ekaterina Dashkova may have taken the ё from the spelling of the French champagne Moёt et Chandon as a replacement for...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Russia’s Economic Problems Exacerbating Moscow’s Relations...
Paul Goble Staunton, December 15 – Russia’s economic problems combined with Moscow’s insistence on extracting just as much money from the regions as it did before is exacerbating relations...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Putin Making Belarus into Base for Attacking Kyiv, Mensk...
Paul Goble Staunton, December 15 – Even as Moscow appears to be reducing its military actions in southeastern Ukraine, a “reduction” that is at least in part a disinformation campaign...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Beneath Anger at West, Russia’s Orthodox Christians and...
Paul Goble Staunton, December 15 – Many have seen the statements of the leaders of the Russian Orthodox Church and the official hierarchies of that country’s Muslim community as an...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: To the Changing of Names, There is No End in Kyrgyzstan
Paul Goble Staunton, December 15 – During the first decade of independence, many people in Kyrgyzstan like those in other Central Asian countries nationalized their names by dropping the...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Are Kadyrov’s Days as Head of Chechnya Numbered?
Paul Goble Staunton, December 15 – Ramzan Kadyrov’s ouster as head of Chechnya has been rumored so often that it has become something “expected” by some, but if he goes, that is likely to...
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