Paul Goble
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Ukraine Is ‘Russia’s Last Peasant War’ – OpEd
The key to understanding Putin’s war in Ukraine lies in the demography of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Pastukhov says. It is “Russia’s last peasant war,” the last in which approximately a quart… → Read More
Ukraine War’s Impact Helps Keep Russia’s Unemployment Numbers Low – OpEd
Moscow has always reported lower unemployment in Russia than do other governments for their countries, both by outright falsification of the data and by not counting many people who are kept on the… → Read More
No One Can Whitewash Stalin Except By Ignoring Russia’s Spiritual Traditions – OpEd
Those who today seek to rehabilitate and even deify Stalin and condemn de-Stalinization are able to do so only by ignoring Russia’s spiritual traditions and reducing Russian history to the Soviet p… → Read More
Raising Retirement Ages Likely To Make Russia’s Demographic Problems Even Worse – OpEd
Declining birthrates mean fewer Russians are entering the workforce, rising educational attainment means many young people aren’t contributing to the pension fund, and the growing size of the army … → Read More
Putin Regime Arose Because Russian Democrats In 1990s Betrayed The People – OpEd
“The key mistake of the Russian democratic movement of the early 1990s was its betrayal of the people in the name of its own interests, Vasily Zharkov says, a betrayal that happened then as before … → Read More
Charging Putin With War Crimes Now Could Eventually Affect Russians – OpEd
At present, roughly 70 percent of Russians say that they support the war in Ukraine although 50 percent indicate that they would like to see it come to an end, figures, sociologist Lev Gudkov says,… → Read More
Putin’s War In Ukraine Hitting Russia’s Numerically Smallest Nations Hardest – Analysis
The disproportionate use of soldiers from the primarily non-ethnic Russian republics in the North Caucasus, Middle Volga and Far Eastern regions in President Vladimir Putin’s war against Ukraine ha… → Read More
Moscow Sees No Chance For Introduction Of EU Or UN Peacekeepers In Karabakh – OpEd
Russian officials and Russian commentators see no chance for the introduction of EU or UN peacekeepers into Karabakh. They are unanimous that Moscow will use its veto in the UN Security Council to … → Read More
Putin’s Russia Now More Repressive Than Brezhnev’s Soviet Union Was – OpEd
Russia is “catching up and in many cases surpassing the level of political repressions” that characterized the later years of Leonid Brezhnev, Azamat Ismailov, a pseudonymous Russian journalist, dr… → Read More
Russia’s Influence On South Caucasus Declining Toward ‘Point Of No Return’ – OpEd
Sergey Melkonyan and Leonid Nersisyan, two scholars at Yerevan’s Applied Policy Research Institute, says that the Ukrainian conflict has shown Moscow that “the best guarantee of maintaining its inf… → Read More
Half Of Putin’s Decrees Since Start Of War In Ukraine Made In Secret – OpEd
One of the anomalies of Kremlin administrative practice is that all of Vladimir Putin’s degrees are numbered, but many of these are never released, allowing researchers to count just how many of hi… → Read More
Attack On Azerbaijani Embassy In Iran Further Divides The World – Analysis
After an armed gunman broke into the Azerbaijani embassy in Tehran on January 27, killing a security officer and wounding two others, Baku suspended diplomatic activity at the embassy and pulled it… → Read More
Russia On Course To Lose Its War In Ukraine – OpEd
A year ago, few could imagine that if Russia invaded Ukraine, it would leave with anything less than a military victory although even then some did point out that such a victory would be Pyrrhic be… → Read More
Russia: Buddhism Becoming ‘a Protest Religion’ And Kremlin Is Worried – OpEd
The forcing out of the leader of the Buddhist community of Kalmykia had more to do with Moscow’s wanting to show deference to Beijing by getting rid of someone closely linked to the Dalai Lama and … → Read More
Belarusians ‘Disappearing’ More In Russian Census Than In Reality – Analysis
The number of Belarusians living within the Russian Federation fell from 521,000 in 2010 to only 208,000 in 2021, according to newly released official Russian census data. This represents a decline… → Read More
Former Putin Speechwriter Says A Military Coup ‘Can’t Be Excluded’ – OpEd
Fifty years ago, a group of Portuguese officers fed up with Lisbon’s “unending colonial wars” staged a coup and overthrew the regime of Antonio Salazar, Abbas Gallyamov recalls, adding that “it can… → Read More
40,000 Of 50,000 Russian Criminals Wagner PMC Has Recruited Have Died Or Deserted – OpEd
Eighty percent of the 50,000 Russian prisoners the Wagner PMC recruited to fight in Ukraine with promises that they would have their sentences commuted have died or deserted, the Olga Romanova of t… → Read More
Debate Intensifies On Status Of Crimea After Russian Occupation Ends – OpEd
The long-running debate about what the status of Crimea should be is intensifying now that there are real prospects that the Ukrainian military will drive out the Russian occupiers, a debate in whi… → Read More
Neither The Kremlin Nor The Population Focusing On Russia’s Demographic Collapse – OpEd
At a time when the Russian population is declining by more than a million a year and when deaths exceed births in more than half of the federal subjects by as much as three times, neither the Kreml… → Read More
Mordvin Means Cannibal And Moscow’s Continuing Use Of It An Insult – OpEd
Mordvinia, a Finno-Ugric republic in the Middle Volga seldom gets much attention except when people recall Soviet and more recently Russian prison camps there and when Moscow leaders make the mista… → Read More