Window on Eurasia: Young Muscovites Far More Xenophobic than Other Russian...
Paul Goble Staunton, July 3 – Young Muscovites are far more likely to be xenophobic than are their counterparts in other Russian cities and in rural areas, according to a recent paper by...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Ethnic Identity No Longer Primary One for Russians,...
Paul Goble Staunton, July 4 – Russians increasingly identify themselves not in ethnic terms but in others, a development that the director of the Moscow Institute of Ethnology and...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Umarov’s Threat to Sochi Will Lead Moscow to ‘Tighten the...
Paul Goble Staunton, July 4 – Doku Umarov’s threat to stage a terrorist attack against the Sochi Olympiad next year is likely to become the occasion for more “tightening of the screws” in...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Sochi Countdown -- 31 Weeks to the Olympiad in the North...
Note: This is my 19th special Window on Eurasia about the meaning and impact of the planned Olympiad on the nations in the surrounding region. These WOEs, which will appear each Friday over the...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Self-Proclaimed ‘Russian Empire’ Wants to Give Snowden a...
Paul Goble Staunton, July 5 – While the media is focusing on the possibility Edward Snowden will get Russian citizenship by accepting the marriage proposal of Russian spy Anna Chapman, the...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: 40 Percent of Those Attending Mosques in Russia are...
Paul Goble Staunton, July 6 – Forty percent of those attending mosques today in the Russian Federation are Wahhabis, according to a mufti who has often expressed views held by Moscow...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Collateral Damage from Three New Russian Laws
Paul Goble Staunton, July 6 – Three new pieces of Russian legislation appear likely to inflict serious collateral damage on that country, eliminating a defender of Lake Baikal against...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Anti-Gay Hysteria in Russia ‘Analogous’ to Anti-Jewish...
Paul Goble Staunton, July 7 – “Hysteria around the propaganda of homosexuality [in the Russian Federation today] has become an analogue to the hysteria about the Jewish question in Nazi...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Russia’s Two Million Buddhists Mark Dalai Lama’s Birthday
Paul Goble Staunton, July 7 – Buddhists in the traditionally Buddhist republics of Buryatia, Kalmykia and Tuva and Buddhist communities in Moscow, St. Petersburg and other major Russian...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Rising Ethnic Tensions in Afghanistan Exacerbating...
Paul Goble Staunton, July 8 – Clashes between Tajik and Uzbek groups in northern Afghanistan are likely to lead Dushanbe and Tashkent to provide more assistance to their co-ethnics there,...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Tatarstan is the Lithuania of the Russian Federation,...
Paul Goble Staunton, June 8 – “Tatarstan is something like Lithuania in the USSR,” the editor of the independent Tatarstan weekly, “Zvezda Povolzhya,” says, “and just as it is impossible to...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: 58 Percent of Russians Now Say Kremlin Using Repression
Paul Goble Staunton, July 8 – Ever more Russians tell pollsters the Kremlin is repressing its political opponents, a reflection of their own anger about declines in their standard of living...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Criminalization of Russian Life Reflected in Russian...
Paul Goble Staunton, June 9 – The increasing criminalization of Russian consciousness is not only reflected in the Russian language, and that linguistic change opens the way for “the...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Russian Census Should Have ‘Mixed Nationality’ Category,...
Paul Goble Staunton, July 9 – Academician Valery Tishkov, the director of the Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology, says that he has been pushing for the Russian census to include the...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Feelings of Aggressiveness Higher Among Russians Now than...
Paul Goble Staunton, July 9 – Never over the last decade have Moscow sociologists found such a high level of aggressiveness in Russian society as they do today, according to a new study, a...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Inter-Ethnic Conflicts in Russia Reflect the Erosion of...
Paul Goble Staunton, July 10 – Russian officials have long sought to dismiss ethnic conflicts as being product of the everyday disputes people have rather than clashes between two...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: North Caucasus Independence Would Mean End of Putinism,...
Paul Goble Staunton, July 10 – Allowing the North Caucasus to become independent -- a move that a majority of ethnic Russians now support -- would mean the end of the Putin system in Russia...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Had USSR Not Disintegrated, Ethnic Russians Would Be in a...
Paul Goble Staunton, July 10 – Russian nationalists often bewail the demise of the Soviet Union, but a close examination of the demographic situation across Eurasia shows, a Russian...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Russians Mistakenly Believe in ‘Land for Peace’ Inside...
Paul Goble Staunton, July 11 – Russians are far less afraid of giving up one or another part of their country in order to solve problems within it, but this faith in “land for peace”...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Most Ingushes Think North Caucasus Will Gain Independence,...
Paul Goble Staunton, July 11 – Although fewer than one percent of Ingushes are now involved with the underground militants, approximately half of all Ingushes are certain that their republic...
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