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'Window on Eurasia' Closing for the Time Being 16 Jun 2011 | 09:55 pm
Because of family medical matters, I am indefinitely suspending my production of Windows on Eurasia. Over the course of almost seven years, I have thoroughly enjoyed producing more than 5500 of them a...
Window on Eurasia: Arab Spring Leads Authoritarian Leaders in Post-Soviet Space to Look to Moscow for Support 9 Jun 2011 | 02:56 am
Paul Goble Staunton, June 8 – Even if conditions in post-Soviet Central Asia and the Caucasus are so different from those in the Arab world that a repetition of an Arab Spring there remains unlikely,...
Window on Eurasia: Russian Senator’s Proposal to Restore Katorga as a Punishment Criticized 7 Jun 2011 | 11:21 pm
Paul Goble Staunton, June 7 – A member of the Federation Council has called for the restoration of the tsarist-era system of katorga under which those guilty of especially serious crimes such a terro...
Window on Eurasia: Salafis Employ Flashmob Technique to Bring 5,000 Young Daghestanis into the Streets 7 Jun 2011 | 11:20 pm
Paul Goble Staunton, June 7 – In a startling demonstration of the spread of new technologies to the North Caucasus, the leaders of the Salafi trend in Islam in Daghestan, one at odds with the dominan...
Window on Eurasia: Non-Russians Winning ‘Memory Wars’ while Russians Still Losing Theirs, Bordyugov Says 7 Jun 2011 | 11:19 pm
Paul Goble Staunton, June 7 – The non-Russian countries in the post-Soviet space are more or less quickly “liberating themselves from the Soviet and Imperial past,” but the Russians have not found a ...
Window on Eurasia: Internet Changing Russian Political Humor and Russian Politics as Well, Commentator Says 6 Jun 2011 | 09:10 pm
Paul Goble Staunton, June 6 – Anecdotes about leaders and policies have long been an important part of Russian life, but the Internet is transforming its form and content because falling prices for c...
Window on Eurasia: Russians Now Feel They are Second Class Citizens in their Own Country, Moscow Writer Says 6 Jun 2011 | 09:08 pm
Paul Goble Staunton, June 6 – Six months after the clashes in Manezh Square, radical Russian nationalists groups are increasing their activity, supported by the increasing number of ethnic Russians w...
Window on Eurasia: Politicians Exploit, Exacerbate ‘Clash of Civilizations’ in Moldova 6 Jun 2011 | 09:07 pm
Paul Goble Staunton, June 6 – In the run-up to local elections in Moldova yesterday, some politicians sought to exploit Chisinau’s March 14th decision to register a Muslim group thereby making it app...
Window on Eurasia: Nations Far Beyond the North Caucasus May Seek Recognition of Genocides Conducted Against Them, Middle Volga Analyst Says 5 Jun 2011 | 12:18 am
Paul Goble Staunton, June 4 – In the wake of Georgia’s recognition of the Circassian genocide, the head of the Volga Center of Regional and Ethno-Religious Research says, “it cannot be excluded” that...
Window on Eurasia: ‘Nostalgia’ for Stalin among Young Reflects Moscow’s Failure to Offer a Concrete Alternative Vision, Scholars Says 4 Jun 2011 | 12:57 am
Paul Goble Staunton, June 3 – Young Russians increasingly deify Stalin not only because he represents a system radically different from that of Russia today but also because the contemporary Russian ...
