Posts Tagged
post-Soviet space

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  2019/04/30 - 12:19 • More, Op-ed

  Russia didn’t ‘feed’ the USSR: the entire USSR ‘fed’ the nomenklatura, Mirovich...

  One of the most widespread myths in Russia today is that in Soviet times, Russia took care of everyone, Maxim Mirovich says; but in fact, Moscow didn’t “feed” anyone. Instead, “the entire country worked for the Soviet...

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  2019/02/17 - 12:26 • International, More

  In post-Soviet countries, ethnic Russians are assimilating to titular nationalities, Kozlov says

  Something unprecedented is happening to ethnic Russians in many post-Soviet states, Vladimir Kozlov of Moscow’s Higher School of Economics says. As a result of intermarriage with members of the titular nationalities, ethnic Russians...

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  2018/11/11 - 19:34 • International, More

  When wars end without recognized victors and vanquished

  How wars end is at least as important as how they begin, although that aspect of conflict seldom attracts as much attention. When there is a clearly defined and recognized victor and an equally clearly defined vanquished, peace is...

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  2018/04/06 - 14:46 • International

  Ukraine less westernized than Baltic States, Moldova, Georgia – research

  Ukraine ranks 6th among 14 former Soviet republics by its level of integration into the western political, economic, and cultural space. The first annual «Westernization Index 2018» was released by the StrategEast in collaboration with...

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  2017/06/17 - 20:26 • International, More

  Profound contraction of ethnic Russians in former Soviet republics since 1989

  The number of ethnic Russians in what were the non-Russian republics of the former Soviet Union has fallen from 25 million in 1989 to 14 million today, but only 6.5 million of that decline consists of Russians who returned to the Russian...

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  2017/05/26 - 19:50 • International, More

  Bleak future for Belarus seen if Europe follows US and ends backing...

  US President Donald Trump has proposed cutting all assistance to the democratic opposition in Belarus, a move that if copied by European countries which currently provide far more aid, could make the future of Belarus ever bleaker,...

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  2017/05/16 - 11:07 • International, More

  Putin’s failure to attract CIS leaders to Victory parade marks shift from...

  Only one leader of another former Soviet republic, Moldova’s Igor Dodon, joined Vladimir Putin for Moscow’s Victory Day parade, a development that “may not have been planned but that certainly should have been foreseen,” marking as...

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  2017/04/28 - 10:56 • International, More

  Russia must decentralize or it will stagnate and then disappear, Pastukhov says

  The new Russian revolution, Vladimir Pastukhov says, is today “only a question of time” but will provide “a final answer to the question as to whether Russia will disappear altogether” or will prove capable of “transforming what...

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  2017/04/10 - 08:09 • International, More

  Russia and Belarus protests – ‘part of general crisis in post-Soviet space,’...

  The anti-corruption protests in Russia and the anti-vagrants tax ones in Belarus are “the direct result of the end of the social contract” between the regimes and the population, itself the result of “a general crisis in the...

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  2017/01/10 - 09:49 • Featured, Science and Innovation, Ukraine

  Dnipro will not let Ukraine’s space glory be forgotten

  The city of Dnipro is located on the banks of the Dnipro river, and seems to be an ordinary large city with a concentration of metallurgical industry. However, the difference from other industrial cities is huge. Dnipro used to be a...

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