Window on Eurasia: Ukrainian Children Now Playing War against Russians as...
Paul Goble Staunton, December 16 – Sometimes it is the small things that underline the most important changes in the world. One of those is suggested by Valery Solovey who noted during a...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: When a Future Pope Led a Future Belarusian President to...
Paul Goble Staunton, December 16 – Yesterday, Stanislau Shushkevich, the former Belarusian president who promoted democracy in his own country and the dissolution of the USSR, marked his...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Moscow’s Anti-American ‘Cultural Komintern’ Will Trump US...
Paul Goble Staunton, December 16 – A new article by Harvard’s Joseph Nye about the collapse of Russia’s “soft power”...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Moscow’s Relations with West will Recover if Russia...
Paul Goble Staunton, December 16 – Mikhail Budaragin, the editor of the pro-Kremlin United Russia Party’s official website, says that Moscow’s relations with the West “will not last...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Internet Use in Russia Reinforcing Nationalism as Well as...
Paul Goble Staunton, December 16 – Many in the West assume that Russians who turn to the Internet instead of government-controlled media will become more liberal as a result, but in fact, a...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Separatism in Karelia More Serious than Many Think,...
Paul Goble Staunton, December 17 -- Karelian nationalists who call for the independence of their republic and raise “unnecessary and harmful questions about additional state languages” there...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Six Bitter Russian Jokes about Russia’s Economic Collapse
Paul Goble Staunton, December 17 – Every political joke is a small revolution, Soviet dissidents often said, and consequently, the anecdotes Russians tell one another about the situations...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: A Russian Collapse Could Flood Ukraine with Refugees from...
Paul Goble Staunton, December 17 – For much of the past year, many commentators have focused on the flood of refugees from southeastern Ukraine into the Russian Federation, but now, given...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Russian Brutality Unites Circassians in the Homeland and...
Paul Goble Staunton, December 17 – The brutal treatment of a Circassian activist by Russian security officers in the capital of Kabardino-Balkaria has energized and united Circassians in...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Belarusian Orthodox Church Wants Autonomy from Moscow...
Paul Goble Staunton, December 17 – Metropolitan Pavel, the head of the Belarusian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate, has unexpectedly called for his church to be given the same...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Russian Video Game Requires Players to Kill Ukrainian...
Paul Goble Staunton, December 18 – Russian children are now playing a video game called “The Liberation War in Novorossiya” in which to win, they are required to kill “Ukrainians, soldiers,...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Extreme Russian Nationalism Widespread in Soviet Security...
Paul Goble Staunton, December 18 – The Soviet security agencies from Lenin on were infected by an often vicious Russian nationalism which led their officers to attack non-Russians far more...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: ‘Will Mongolia have the Courage to Scrap the Russian...
Paul Goble Staunton, December 18 – Mongols live in three states, Mongolia, Buryatia within the borders of the Russian Federation, and Inner Mongolia within the borders of the Peoples...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: ‘Putin in the End Isn’t Prepared to Die for Narva,’...
Staunton, December 18 – Two decades ago, two communist empires fell apart, the Yugoslav violently and the Russian peacefully. In both cases, almost the entire political spectrum agreed on...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: 2014 a ‘Turning Point for Russia’ Because of Putin’s KGB...
Paul Goble Staunton, December 18 – 2014 has been a real “turning point” in Russian history, one comparable to 1929 and marked by “the beginning of a confrontation of Russia with the West...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Putin Now Views West as an Enemy Not a Partner, Makarkin Says
Paul Goble Staunton, December 19 – While some in Moscow and the West hope for a restoration of an east-west partnership, Vladimir Putin made clear in his press conference yesterday that he...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Russians Don’t Feel Personally Responsible for Moscow’s...
Paul Goble Staunton, December 19 – Despite Krasnodar Governor Aleksandr Tkachev’s suggestion that Russians must share responsibility for the current crisis and President Vladimir Putin’s...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Russia’s Increasing Alienation from West ‘Only Partially’...
Paul Goble Staunton, December 19 – Many in Moscow and the West believe that Vladimir Putin bears complete responsibility for the breakdown in relations between Russia, on the one hand, and...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: All Repressed Peoples are Equal, Putin Says, But His...
Paul Goble Staunton, December 19 – At his press conference yesterday, Vladimir Putin said that Moscow is “developing a program under which all formerly repressed peoples, including the...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Russian Scoundrels Don’t Deserve Sympathy but Their...
Paul Goble Staunton, December 19 – Many Russians and their neighbors are suffering from the actions of Russian scoundrels at home and abroad , and the former deserve our sympathy even if...
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