Window on Eurasia: Russia Video Game Made in China Calling for Killing...
Paul Goble Staunton, January 4 – There was an old Soviet joke about the definition of socialist internationalism. One of its numerous ugly versions had it that this was shown when a...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Rights Activists in Russia Being Forced to Work as They...
Paul Goble Staunton, January 4 – Lyudmila Alekseyeva, the founder of the Moscow Helsinki Group in Soviet times, says that the current Russian government is creating such impossible...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Seven False Fears Putin Uses to Keep Russians behind Him
Paul Goble Staunton, January 4 – Many commentators have suggested that Vladimir Putin’s high ratings are the result of the climate of fear his authoritarian regime has imposed the Russian...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Like Americans, Russians are Prisoners of the Maps They Use
Paul Goble Staunton, January 4 – Americans, it has sometimes been said, are prisoners of the Mercator projection because that widely-used map, which shows the US in the middle of the world...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: New Evidence of Ukraine as a Political Nation – Ukrainians...
Paul Goble Staunton, January 4 – A staple of Vladimir Putin’s propaganda has been that Ukrainians want to wipe out the use of the Russian language and hence of the Russian people in their...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Anti-Semitism to be Found More Easily in Russia than in...
Paul Goble Staunton, January 5 – Following Vladimir Putin who suggested Viktor Yanukovich was o overthrown by a clutch of “nationalists, neo-Nazis, Russophobes, and anti-Semites,”...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Russia Seen Expanding Active Measures and Media Campaign...
Paul Goble Staunton, January 5 – Riga faces a dramatically expanded Russian media campaign to discredit it in the eyes of Latvians and the West and an increase in the activity of Russian...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Any Russian Protests Ahead Likely to Be About Economic...
Paul Goble Staunton, January 5 – Three Russian experts with whom Russkaya planeta spoke say that while declines in the standard of living of many Russians in the coming year as a result of...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Russia’s Non-Russians Adding Ethnic Elements to Their...
Paul Goble Staunton, January 5 – Many Russians have been alarmed by the increasing use of the hijab by their fellow citizens who are Muslims, but they may soon face a larger, albeit for the...
View ArticleMoscow’s Propaganda Fails Because It Assumes the Fundamental Antagonisms in...
Paul Goble Staunton, January 5 – Ukrainians and others have been talking so long about the supposed successes of Moscow’s propaganda effort that they have ignored that in many cases it is...
View ArticleIn New Estonian Board Game, Players Must Expel ‘Conqueror Comrade Pu’
Paul Goble Staunton, January 6 – An Estonian firm has put on sale a new board game called “Comrade Pu Conquers Estonia,” in which someone drawn to look like Vladimir Putin leads Russian...
View ArticleUkrainian Crisis Disappears from Western News Giving Putin a Victory
Paul Goble Staunton, January 6 – Vladimir Putin’s aggression in Ukraine has largely disappeared from the front pages of Western newspapers and the lead stories of Western news broadcasts, a...
View ArticleMuslims in the North Caucasus Now have Five Times as Many Mosques Per Capita...
Paul Goble Staunton, January 6 – There are now five times as many mosques for every 1000 Muslims in the North Caucasus as there are churches for every 1000 Russian Orthodox, the result of...
View ArticlePursuing PR Victories, FSB Part of Russian Intelligence Failure in Ukraine,...
Paul Goble Staunton, January 6 – Despite its much ballyhooed success in preventing any attack on the Sochi Olympics, the FSB has not had a good year in Ukraine, where its military...
View ArticleTo Save Money, Moscow Putting Lives of People in Chernobyl Zone at Risk
Paul Goble Staunton, January 6 – In order to save money, Moscow is using scientifically dubious measures to justify cutting assistance to 31,700 people living in what had been designated as...
View Article‘Cyborg,’ Not ‘Annexation,’ Word of the Year in Ukraine
Paul Goble Staunton, January 7 – During 2014, “Cyborg” was used more often in the Ukrainian portion of the Internet than any other word, including some like “annexation” and “war” which...
View ArticleDespite Public Displays of Piety, ‘Orthodox Atheism’ Spreading in Russia,...
Staunton, January 7 – Despite Vladimir Putin’s very public invocation of religion and his tight embrace of Patriarch Kirill, the influence of the Russian Orthodox Church has fallen over the...
View ArticleRussia Won't Change Its Approach to Ukraine Until It Changes Itself, Kyiv...
Paul Goble Staunton, January 7 – Ukrainians and others increasingly recognize that Russia will change its approach to Ukraine only when Russia itself changes, a conclusion that has led many...
View ArticleThree Troubling but Illuminating Statistics from Eurasia
Paul Goble Staunton, January 7 – The long New Year’s holiday in the Russian Federation and its former Soviet neighbors has often been a period when officials or others release statistics...
View ArticleMoscow Media Exacerbating Ethnic Conflicts in Russia, Experts Say
Paul Goble Staunton, January 7 – By its failure to pay attention to ethnic and regional issues until there are clashes, by its effort to keep the media from one region from developing...
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