Putin is Not a Rational Actor and Will Continue the War Despite His Interests...
Paul Goble Staunton, January 28 – Many Western policies are based on the notion that Vladimir Putin will change course once he sees that the costs of his invasion of Ukraine far exceed any...
View ArticleUkraine Increasingly Not Just about Ukraine and Thus Western Aid Ever More...
Paul Goble Staunton, January 28 – With each passing day, it is becoming more critical that the US and the EU increase their assistance to Ukraine not only because Russian aggression there...
View ArticleWestern Leaders Must Make Putin Lose Face Not Help Him Save It, Skobov Says
Paul Goble Staunton, January 28 – Vladimir Putin is very much afraid of losing face, and some in the West are trying to figure out how to resolve the situation in Ukraine without his doing...
View ArticleWhy Does the Kremlin, Living in Its Own Alternative Reality, Still Use Spies?
Paul Goble Staunton, January 29 – The arrest of three Russian spies in New York has prompted Kseniya Kirillova to ask a question that may have been in the minds of many but that no one had...
View ArticleKremlin Fears Shortages of Critical Medicines Could Spark More Unrest than...
Paul Goble Staunton, January 29 – Russians already suffering from cutbacks in medical services and the importation of many drugs Russian firms have never produced now face what may be an...
View ArticleRussians Say International Isolation Fine But Lower Incomes and Loss of...
Paul Goble Staunton, January 29 – According to a new study conducted by the Institute of Sociology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Russians are “prepared for economic isolation from the...
View ArticleHow Russian Trolls are Recruited, Trained and Deployed
Paul Goble Staunton, January 29 – Wikipedia defines a troll as Internet slang for “a person who sows discord on the Internet by starting arguments or upsetting people, by posting...
View ArticleRussia’s Turn to Fascism Should Not Surprise Anyone, Yampolsky Says
Paul Goble Staunton, January 29 – No one should be surprised that Russia is rapidly turning to fascism, according to Mikhail Yampolsky. It is simply “the delayed reaction to the...
View Article‘Hybrid Truth’ as Putin’s New Reality
Paul Goble Staunton, January 30 – Yesterday, in “Der Spiegel,” that German publication’s Moscow correspondent Benjamin Bidder asked the question: “Does Putin Believe His Own Propaganda?”...
View ArticleMost Russians ‘Too Lazy to Hate Anyone for Very Long,’ Moscow Ethnographer Says
Paul Goble Staunton, January 30 – Russians like other people are “too lazy to hate anyone for very long,” according to Moscow ethnographer Igor Savin. Instead, “after a few months,” they...
View ArticlePro-Moscow Groups Launch Websites for ‘Peoples Republics’ in Latvia and...
Paul Goble Staunton, January 30 – Pro-Moscow groups have launched websites for a so-called Latgale Peoples Republic in southeastern Latvia and a so-called Vilnius Peoples Republic around...
View ArticlePutin Calls on Russian Regions to ‘Independently’ Struggle with Crisis
Paul Goble Staunton, January 30 – In a move that recalls Mikhail Gorbachev’s times and that the current Kremlin leader may come to regret, Vladimir Putin has called on Russia’s regions to...
View ArticlePutin’s ‘Conservative Revolutionaries’ Dreaming of National Socialist Utopia,...
Paul Goble Staunton, January 30 – The old left-right continuum in Russian politics with its differences between conservatives and reformers ceased to be relevant as the basis for analysis...
View ArticlePutin Adopting Gorbachev’s Last Line of Defense -- and It’s Working, Ogryzko...
Paul Goble Staunton, January 31 – In 1991, when the Soviet Union was living out its last days, a cartoon appeared in an American newspaper which perfectly captured the spirit of what was...
View ArticleHalf of All Russians under Arrest Tortured Before Trial, Petersburg...
Paul Goble Staunton, January 31 – Between 40 and 60 percent of Russians under arrest are tortured by their jailors before they are convicted, according to St. Petersburg criminologist Yakov...
View ArticleRussian Occupiers Making Crimean Tatars Feel as Jews Did in Nazi Germany,...
Paul Goble Staunton, January 31 – The Russian occupation authorities are treating the Crimean Tatars in a manner which fully corresponds to “the Nazi spirit” because the authorities define...
View ArticleRadical Islamists Seeking to Join and Use Tajikistan Communist Party
Paul Goble Staunton, January 31 – Shodi Shabdonolov, the head of the Communist Party of Tajikistan, says that followers of the Salafi trend of radical Islam have been trying to join his...
View ArticlePutin’s War in Ukraine Opening the Way to Fascism, Shlosberg Says
Paul Goble Staunton, January 31 – The war Vladimir Putin is conducting in Ukraine is leading not just to the economic destruction of Russia but to its moral destruction as well, and that in...
View ArticleKremlin Think Tank Confirms Close Links with Kremlin and with New Greek Premier
Paul Goble Staunton, February 1 – There are denials, “non-denial denials,” and then denials that have the effect of confirming exactly what those doing the denying are seeking to disown and...
View Article‘What Can Ukraine Expect from the West Now?’ Former GULAG Inmate Asks Bitterly
Paul Goble Staunton, February 1 – Myroslav Marynovich, a member of the Ukrainian Helsinki Group who spend a decade in the Soviet GULAG and currently vice rector of the Ukrainian Catholic...
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