Putin Condemns ‘Hebdo Charlie’ Attack but His Ideological Allies Support It
Paul Goble Staunton, December 8 – Vladimir Putin followed the path of other world leaders and dutifully condemned the Islamist attack on the French journal “Charlie Hebdo.” But in the...
View Article‘Putin Isn’t a Politician; He’s a Spy and a Provocateur,’ Ukrainian Blogger Says
Paul Goble Staunton, January 8 – Russia, the nineteenth century Russian poet Fyodor Tyutchev reminded the world, cannot be measured by “an ordinary yardstick.” The same thing is true of its...
View ArticleEstonian President Condemns Moscow for Moves Against Finno-Ugric Nations...
Paul Goble Staunton, January 8 – Estonian President Toomas Hendrik Ilves sharply criticized the Russian government yesterday for destroying the villages of the Vod, a numerically small...
View ArticleTens of Thousands of Russian Women Said Pressured to have Abortions to Save...
Paul Goble Staunton, January 8 – Approximately one in four of the more than 800,000 women in Russia who undergo abortions each year do so on the recommendations of their doctors, many of...
View ArticleNorth Caucasus Again on the Brink of Explosion, Experts Say
Paul Goble Staunton, January 8 – The situation in the North Caucasus which had stabilized in recent months is again on the brink of an explosion as a result of the return of militants from...
View ArticleMoscow Must Convert Muslims to Orthodoxy if ‘Russian World’ is to Prosper,...
Paul Goble Staunton, January 9 – If Moscow is going to ensure the construction of a “Russian world,” a pro-Russian ethnic Kazakh commentator says, it will have to rely on more than ethnic...
View ArticlePutin Shifted Resources from Fighting Terrorism to Fighting the Opposition,...
Paul Goble Staunton, January 9 – While Kremlin loyalists are lecturing Paris about failing to struggle together with Russia against the common threat of terrorism, a Russian rights activist...
View ArticleGastarbeiter Exodus Said a Threat to Both Russia and Central Asia
Paul Goble Staunton, January 9 – The mass departure from Russian cities of migrant workers from Central Asia, an exodus occasioned both by the economic crisis and by Moscow’s tightening of...
View ArticleCentral Asian Countries Divided in Their Responses to Threats from Afghanistan
Paul Goble Staunton, January 9 – Two of the three Central Asian states adjoining Afghanistan – Tajikistanand Uzbekistan – have recently increased their border defenses, while the third –...
View ArticleMoscow Must Redraw Its Military Districts to Respond to New Challenges,...
Paul Goble Staunton, January 9 – If Russia is to respond to the new challenges it faces, Moscow must scrap the existing military districts (MDs) introduced by former defense minister...
View ArticlePolarized Russian Society Incapable of Consolidating as France Has, Stanovaya...
Paul Goble Staunton, January 10 – Triumphs and tragedies tend to unite societies, but which ones have that effect, the way they do so, and the limits to that process vary widely from one...
View ArticlePutin Seeks ‘Breathing Space’ But Has No Plans to Change Aggressive Course,...
Paul Goble Staunton, January 10 – Faced with mounting problems at home and abroad, Vladimir Putin seeks “a breathing space,” one he believes he can obtain now in the same way he has in the...
View ArticleWhy Russians Support Putin and Why They Might Not – Kirillova Offers a Typology
Paul Goble Staunton, January 10 – Most analysts have treated reports that 80 percent or more Russians support Vladimir Putin and his war in Ukraine either as fraudulent, an indication of...
View ArticleMoscow Analyst Invokes Distinction Between 'Historical' and 'History-Less'...
Paul Goble Staunton, January 10 – The notion that Ukraine is not a nation put about by Moscow propagandists has roots in German philosophy and Marxism, and now one Russian commentator has...
View ArticleShiropayev Calls for Reformation of Orthodox Church in Russia
Paul Goble Staunton, January 10 – The Russian Orthodox Church must undergo “a reformation” not only for the sake of the spiritual life of its followers but also to advance “the liberation...
View ArticlePutin Became a Fascist-Style Leader in Mid-2014, Eidman Says
Paul Goble Staunton, January 11 – Some object to the application of the term “fascist” to Vladimir Putin and his regime because he was not the leader of a mass movement, something...
View ArticleUkrainian Government to Encourage Dismantling of Soviet Memorials
Paul Goble Staunton, January 11 – The Ukrainian government will “encourage any public initiatives connected with cleansing Ukraine from monuments” to officials and others from the communist...
View ArticleUkrainian President Backs Russian-Language TV Channel in Europe to Counter...
Paul Goble Staunton, January 11 – Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko told visiting Latvian Foreign Minister Edgars Rinkevics that Kyiv supports the idea of creating a Europe-based...
View ArticleIn Only Ten Months, Moscow has Transformed Crimea into … Belarus, Recent...
Paul Goble Staunton, January 11 – Ten months after the Anschluss, the Russian occupation authorities have succeeded in changing that Ukrainian peninsula to such an extent that Crimea now...
View ArticleGorbachev’s Call for ‘Perestroika’ of International Relations His Latest...
Paul Goble Staunton, January 11 – Mikhail Gorbachev’s current call for the “perestroika” of the international system is just as much a “cynical political scam” as was his original one,...
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