Paul A. Goble
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Paul Goble is a longtime specialist on ethnic and religious questions in Eurasia. He has served as director of research and publications at the Azerbaijan Diplomatic Academy, vice dean for the social sciences and humanities at Audentes University in Tallinn, and a senior research associate at the EuroCollege of the University of Tartu in Estonia. Earlier he has served in various capacities in the U.S. State Department, the Central Intelligence Agency and the International Broadcasting Bureau as well as at the Voice of America and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Euromaidan Press republishes the work of Paul Goble with permission from his blog Windows on Eurasia.
Moscow’s greatest fear about Orthodox Church in Belarus may be about to come true
The first two of these fears – see Moscow worried about possible moves to Orthodox autocephaly in Belarus…
Russia’s many non-Russian nations no longer have any authors under 35 writing in their languages – Tatar scholar
A recently held roundtable on the census in the Tatarstan capital that attracted experts from across the Russian…
Kremlin has made defending Moscow Patriarchate key part of Russian foreign policy, Russian expert says
The revised Foreign Policy Concept paper the Kremlin released this week has declared that the defense of the…
Moscow demonized Ukrainians exploiting ethnic discord it promoted in Russia, activist from Kamchatka says
The activist from Kamchatka who now lives as a political exile in Norway says that discrimination against national…
Risks from Russia falling apart far less than risks from it remaining in one piece, Russian commentator says
That is a clear mistake, as Prague-based Russian commentator Vitaly Ginzburg observes in a comment on a recent…
Moscow promoting ever more military programs for ever younger school-age groups
In a sign that the Putin regime is preparing for the militarization of Russian society over the long…
Getting rid of dictatorship in Russia may not stop war against Ukraine, Pastukhov says
Many analysts are inclined to explain the vitality of Putinism and Russian support for his war in Ukraine…
Moscow sending women prisoners to fill depleted ranks of Russian forces in Ukraine, ‘Russia behind bars’ says
Olga Romanova, head of the Russia Behind Bars organization, confirms what Ukrainian military sources have been reporting since…
What Putin wants to do in Ukraine, Belarus and Moldova, he is already implementing in non-Russia’s non-Russian republics, Portnikov says
Anyone who wants to know what Putin’s future plans are for Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova, and all the other…
Western leaders want Ukraine to win but Russia not to suffer defeat, two desires that can’t be squared, Skobov says
Over the last year, Western leaders have had to give up on many of their assumptions about Ukraine…
Putin’s ‘anti-imperialism’ trope also taken from Nazi playbook, Zizek says
Many in the West believe, as Putin intends them to that his talk about fighting imperialism precludes the…
Mass street protests by themselves won’t bring regime change in Russia, as Belarus and Venezuela showed, Golosov says
The political scientist at St. Petersburg’s European University argues that this is the lesson of the events in…
Putin has deeply embedded cult of death and notion of ‘cleansing apocalypse’ in Russia today, Khapayeva says
They reflect the revival in Russia today of the “simple and barbaric” medieval notion that human life is…
Demise of Russia likely to be more prolonged, violent, and more supported by the West: Opinion
[editorial]Putin’s disastrous war in Ukraine signifies that Russia’s disintegration will be more prolonged, more violent, and approached by…
Moscow Patriarchate says it has churches in 19 African countries, angering Orthodox world but giving FSB expanded possibilities
[editorial] In response to the Patriarch of Alexandria’s recognition of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church’s autocephaly, the Russian Orthodox…
Three signs of enormous tectonic shifts in Ukraine since Russia invaded
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has brought many changes in the latter, some of which are at risk of…
New US-Ukrainian network to promote awareness of Russian colonialism’s crimes past and present
The US National Endowment for Democracy, Ukrainian journalist Maksym Eristavi, and Kyiv’s independent Zaborona news agency have created…
As newly mobilized arrive in Ukraine, more Russians want to find out how to surrender
The editors of Vyorstka say that between November 28 and December 4, the most recent week for which…
Dispute between Moscow and Kyiv about Soviet property abroad heating up
[editorial]The Russia-Ukraine dispute over Soviet debts and overseas property is heating up. Some Western governments are prepared to…
Russia’s Erzya national movement recognizes Holodomor as genocide of Ukrainians
[editorial]The Erzyan national movement recognized the Soviet artificial famine of 1932-1933 as an act of genocide against the…